Active Raid

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>>13838157

Not a lot of action, but next episode preview has robots.

Madoka BET GIRL

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>>13838240

Obviously a budget saving episode. The poker didn't even have the usual psychology game to make it engaging.

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>>13838276
Like someone on /a/ said, it feels like it was written by someone who doesn't really understand how card games work. They keep getting these obscenely lucky hands over and over, and act like it's based on player skill. I still like it for fleshing out Madoka a little.

>>13838303
It was amusing enough with all their quips and word play around the game, but yeah. It was Hollywood poker, not the real thing. The bluffing was okay though.

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>>13838260
What a cutie

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>>13838157
This episode (5) of Active Raid was written by Toshiki Inoue instead of Arakawa

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>>13838396
What is it with Inoue and gambling?

>>13838396
Wait, Toshiki "into the river it goes" Inoue?

>>13838417
Yeah

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>>13838238
>that second robot

>>13838396
So all of this was Takumi's fault?

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>>13838406
>>13838445

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Will Wear when?

>>13838157
This is silly.

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>>13838441
Nah

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>mfw best girl was right under our noses the entire time

>>13838396
>Inoue
Oh, that explains a LOT. At least they put him on a leash for everything that didn't involve the card game.

>>13838417
>>13838425
This is the same guy that had a gambling episode in a Sentai, so it's no surprise (to elaborate: Arakawa wrote that particular episode while under Inoue's tenure, so things went full circle with Inoue doing the latest AR episode).

Horrible episode.

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>>13838929
You mean dead episode.

>>13838944
That line was something else.

I didn't get this. The cards are dealt by the dealer so the only thing the player's control is calling and folding. So how does changing the person change anything?

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>CGI mech

not even once.

>>13838972
Funasaka just isn't that good at bluffing, and Kuroki sucks even more despite being stuck inside a power armor and wearing a classy bow tie.
Thus, Madoka had to jump in.

>>13838992
But what point is there to bluffing? They can see each other's cards and they both don't know what the flipped card is until they turn it over. Bluffing only makes sense if they know that and they didn't.

>>13838417
>Toshiki "into the river it goes" Inoue

What's the story on this again?

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>>13838260
>>13838351
>can play hard in moderation
>family person
>good with computers
>great at mathematics

12/10 waifu.

>>13839004
He's known for having characters fall into rivers, declared dead by other characters, except they're not dead. Pretty much anytime someone needs to be defeated, but not killed, they'll fall into a river. Kamen Rider Faiz was REALLY bad at this.

>>13839011
Really GREAT you mean.

It's stupid and dumb and I love it

>>13838972
>>13839000
I assume it was some variant of Texas Hold 'Em. They didn't explain the rules or what exactly they were playing so make of that what you will.

Really the specifics of the game weren't really important to the episode. The entire climax was turned into a montage, after all.

>>13839004
People get thrown into rivers all of the time in his shows.

>>13838972
Basically cards and sets of cards have a certain probability of being dealt, so judging which hand the other player has is a combination of keeping in mind what has already been dealt and trying to gauge what hand the other player has from his or her behaviour. Switching out players should at least give you a respite as the opponent has to get a feel for this new person.

>>13838988
But Char, you have a CGI mecha in The Origin and in Unicorn. That's more than once.

>>13838929
>>13838929
The episodic narrative wasn't anything special, but they had a few interesting or amusing exchanges. I do hope for more action though.

>>13839029
>trying to gauge what hand the other player has from his or her behaviour.
Except they both don't know what the flipped cards are from what they showed us, so that part of the episode was bullshit.

>>13839049
Probably just artistic license since showing us everything in detail would take too much time for something that's going to be so silly anyway.

>>13838303
>>13838319
I like to think that it's a joke. The entire show plays itself off as a subtle comedy, so it's not unlikely that the constant straights and flushes is just a parody of poker in media. It's really hard to say because even serious things in this show are couched in humorous elements.

>>13838222

Pick pocket?

>>13839494
The gril that stole the newbies e-wallet in the first episode. She's shown up in every episode so far.

>>13839095
It's obviously this,I cant believe people are debating this.

>>13838396
That explains why it isn't funny at all.

>>13840021
Shrug

>>13838351
Doesn't she have an older man fetish?

>>13839939
I wonder if the crazy theory she's the third member of Logos is true, or if she's just a recurring background character ala Scarf Girl or Flower Girl.

Did no one on the production team ever play poker?
Seems like they just read the rules without even trying a round.

>>13838532

God bless Tosh

>>13840525
A real poker game in only one episode would have to be cut short. This isn't about RRRRRRULES

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I want to marry Bossu.

>>13840567
What does Tosh have to do with this show?

>>13840576
They could've done much better than just showing a bunch of hands. They could've had raising, folding, and actual bluffing instead of this heart of the cards better hands shit.

>>13840825

He does the character designs

>>13840887
Original character designs. They are rather starting to look like his work though.

>>13840887
The concept character design or the animation oversight character design?

>>13840854
Thinking too hard

>>13840854
0. There was a little actual bluffing, just so we're clear.

1. IMS is a new studio and this isn't high budget animation.

2. The staff literally said this is a show meant to be watched comfortably and relaxed, not with stiff shoulders or sitting straight.

I knew Madoka was going to have a focus episode when the character sheets were posted here last time, but I didn't expect it to be high-stakes poker.

>>13838351
My heart couldn't take it.

>captcha: select all images with rivers
They know.

>>13838246
Is this one of those situations where young girls get paid to 'date' salarymen? I heard about it some time ago.

>>13839939

>The gril that stole the newbies e-wallet in the first episode

I'm talking about this.

I didn't catch the part when they said she was a thief.

>>13838222
>>13838246
Two different guys. She went from pick pocketing to prostituting herself.

>>13841020
This is actually pretty good coming from IMS. At least the characters didn't move like shit unlike Twintails.

>>13840887
The character design was done by the lovelive guy. It's pretty noticeable on Bosu's design.

The guys pretty much look like Tosh' though.

>>13841636
Nah, the original character design is Saeki Shun, AKA tosh.

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>>13838238
I prefer powered armors.

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>>13841020
>Active Raid is literally meant to be a comfy show

This explains everything.

>>13841157
>I knew Madoka was going to have a focus episode when the character sheets were posted here last time, but I didn't expect it to be high-stakes poker.
I hope we see more Hairband/good posture Madoka

>>13841666
The ORIGINAL character design. It was later redone for the anime by Asako Nishida.

I still don't get why original anime do this though.

>>13841783
The one that gets me is the loli cyborg show. Granted I don't know the whole story, but why even hire Shirow to do concept, if you aren't going to use any of his designs?

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>>13841788
Because they didn't want everything to be covered in grease and horsecocks ;^)

>>13841788

> Granted I don't know the whole story

You really don't know what you're talking about.

Koukaku no Pandora is like Real Drive and Ghost Hound, only the original concept was made by Shirow.

They are using his concepts, what they changed were the aesthetics and the overall tone. Hell, Megatech even had a cameo in the last episode. Ghost Urn is almost a "lighthearted" prequel to GITS.

>>13840525
>Japanese
>Playing ilegal games

'no'

Also that was the joke
>Hey I don't know the rules of this
>Oh i'll send them to you
>Ok.

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>>13838246
I love how BDSM-chan been in every episode thus far. Bet she's the secret evil boss at the end of the series, calling it now!

>>13841694
>I hope we see more Hairband/good posture Madoka
They didn't hire Saori Oonishi not to.

>>13841783
Because they want Saeki Shun's creative ideas but he doesn't have any animation relevant skills.

>>13841636
Things like the lips tend to look like Love Live but when you get a character without makeup like Madoka the tosh starts coming out more.

>>13841631
Remember OreTwi was like 3 days behind on production the entire run, so it looked like shit on the first channel it aired and therefore the speedsubs but much better by the net streaming version at the end of the week.