First episode of the year!
What's actually happening on this scene?
God, I fucking want a SoC of this thing.
....wat
Let's go back to things that make more sense.
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>>15091094
it's the dragon guy that got rektd in the first episode!
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>>15091141
So, has the whole show had action like this so far? I kinda want to start watching, but I'm not sure if it's /m/ enough to satisfy me.
>>15091180
Most of it is "how much crazy nonsense and IRL Todd-posting can we shove into a show while retaining a somewhat coherent plot" with stuff like
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>>15091096
mostly happening in the last minute of the episode to remind you that some bigger stuff is going to happen later on.
You faggots are still watching this?
>>15091497
you IBOfags still shitting up /m/?
>Sunrise calendar for 2017
Too lazy editing this picture to remove the irrelevant ones.
>>15091103
CLAMP
>>15091540
Heybot best waifu
>>15091103
>noodle girl sitting next to the noodle
It's like poetry.
If you haven't seen it, here's the PV for the franchise.
The animated portion seems to be pretty early - none of the Screw Island inhabitants appear, and some of the VocaNeji names are different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90oMw8Ptb8
Was this actually a reference to something?
It looks so awfully familiar.
>>15092328
iirc Keroro has used a similar shot for depictions of Them hauling aliens away for dissection, so yeah it's probably from something. Maybe some disease monkey movie?
>>15092328
Also, that fucking macaroni is everywhere, even in single frames.
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>>15092340
Could be from E.T., no?
>>15092367
Might be. I never really dug ET.
holy shit.
I just love how the whole screw-talk in the show becomes one case of unintended innuendo after another in the translations.
>>15090978
One of the multiverse Nejirus causing the Screw Nemesis.
>>15089963
Man, this show looks nuts!
>>15092594
If you had to pick ONE of these Vocabots to fuck, which would it be and why?
Sky Rabbit here, at least he's voiced by a woman.
>>15100662
Why limit youself to the Zodiacs?
fuck: Sky Rabbit
marry: Yuuko
kill: Vocammy
cuddle the fuck out of: Macaroni
>>15102362
>kill: Vocammy
Reported.
>>15100640
it rocks
>>15102362
Zodiacs are cool
>>15105148
>you will never know how Imochin tastes
probably like every other greasy potato crap, though
>>15092530
Japanese kids don't even know who Stephen King is, a Misery reference is super obscure...
>>15105275
between this and Sonic Boom it seems Misery is making a comeback
>heybot
>>15105275
The whole show boils down to "kids in Japan don't (and absolutely shouldn't) fucking knows this!"
It really feels like an old Nickelodeon show like Rocko's Modern Life where kids will laugh at the farts, puns and slapstick while adults will get their kicks out of the (sometimes baffling) references.
>Jean-Claude Van Damme out of fucking nowhere
Heybot just GOT GUD
>next week's episode is about Heybot encountering his cheap Sofubi counterpart
this is pure gold
>>15110442
Good week for reaction images.
Anyone knows how the show and merch is doing in its home country?
>>15091540
HEybot is a "girl" ?
>>15111862
He can be whatever the fuck he wants.
>>15092328
supposed to be referring to this image.
oddly enough a few other animes also pulled this off too.
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>>15092367
forgot my image wups.
>>15111933
>old 1950 hoax from a Cologne newspaper
Just when I thought the show couldn't surprise me anymore.
Also, those two guys in the background of ep.3 - anyone knows whether they were a reference to something or not?
>>15111955
Desert Punk? El Topo?
>>15111933
Hey, UFOlogy was still reasonably warm when we 30-somethings were kids.
>>15111933
nice catch
>>15111955
>Just when I thought the show couldn't surprise me anymore.
>>15112042
>Hey, UFOlogy was still reasonably warm when we 30-somethings were kids.
I think this sits about on par with referencing Inoki/Ali.
best character of the episode on the left
Why do you people watch this?
>>15118256
Why shouldn't we?
>>15118256
It's legitimately funny, if you have a good sense of humour. All of the characters are extremely likeable and the VocaBattle songs are catchy. It and Time Bokan 24 compliment each other well, too.
>>15118256
>almost the entire cast consists of some of the most likable psycho- and sociopaths in recent times
>it fully knows what kind of show it is to the point where it more or less takes a big fat dump on the collectable crap battle anime genre and toy-driven shows
>the humor often hits pretty hard and the parodies and references are completely out there with tons of them going over the head of the normal viewer, be it someone in Japan or not - you'll often wonder just who the hell the intended target audience really is
Only problem is that it's apparently a nightmare to translate due to all the puns, haikus and references so a lot of its humor gets lost in translation.
>>15118401
>tfw you know it's the eyecatch but can't remember the exact show
FFFFFFFFFFFFF-
Lupin? Urashiman?
>>15118435
first Lupin series
>>15118401
It helps that the head writer worked on the anime shows for a card battle franchise before this.
>Only problem is that it's apparently a nightmare to translate due to all the puns, haikus and references so a lot of its humor gets lost in translation.
Basically, the Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo of mecha.
>>15111862
Heybot is a children's toy. It can be a cute girl in its head if it wants.
Lemme
Just got this little beauty in the mail. He never shuts up and I can't figure out how to make him VocaBattle, but he's cute.
>>15131406
What's wrong with his feet?
Aren't they supposed to be white and blue?
>>15131505
They are - the front part is completely white, and the soles/heels are blue.
>>15131517
Ah, so it's just the combination of the angle, lighting and the figure slightly sinking into the leather that made it look like that.
>> 15119683# indeed
Easily my favourite episode so far.
>ヘボットの弟『DXペケット!』
>3月上旬発売予定です
>もちろんテレビアニメにも登場する
What. I guess the anime is really planned for 50 episodes.
>>15133048
>ネジルの兄・チギル
Also this.
>>15132201
Same here.
A meta as fuck plot, one great gag after another, references to Platoon, Terminator 2 and more - it had it all.
Also, I get the feeling that Heybot being a massproduced toy is going to tie in with the background story with Nejikill's massproduced Vocabot mechs.
>>15133048
>50
>TB24 probably/most likely won't get this far
Better than overstaying its welcome, but a pity, since they complement each other.
>>15134088
Time Bokan series: Denpaman
>>15134088
Obviously the second half of the series is going to be a crossover between the two where it is revealed that Heybot and TB24 take place in mirror universes (VocaLeemans = Akudarma, Moeru & Kathleen = Tokio & Calen, etc.)
>>15133048
I can't even imagine how they can keep up with this insanity for 33 more episodes or even top the recent one's Indian bootleg opening.
>>15134383
>Smart not!twitter shitposter
>Big guy
Geroreeman is the Bimajo counterpart?
>>15134982Yes.
>>15134383
>Vitae used the Time Time Vocaneji in the first episode
>Time Time Vocaneji
>Time Vocaneji
>Time Bokaneji
oh shit
>>15135057
Wasn't there already a Time Bokan-type narrator in one of the recent episodes?
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>>15135102
If they follow up on this, it'd be mind-blowing.
God damn I still have no idea what the rules to Vocabattling are.
This is some Japanese mahjong shit
>>15136013
It's a trading card game for kids, I suppose. Only with screws and little tunes.
>>15136013
The show and the toy have different rules, but basically the idea is to make a combo that's better than your opponents. There are five tiers, and, in the show, the idea is to make a combo that's of a higher tier than your opponent. Better combos have more unique songs, whereas Bonehead Combos use the same "heybo heybo heybo heybo" beat.
For the toy, the idea is to get a higher amount of "energy" than your opponent. At the beginning of each battle, three "types" of screws are listed, and using those screws in the order given gives you more energy. None of these rules are in the show, presumably to save time, but the tiers still apply - Zodiac combos give more energy than Bonehead Combos, etc.
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>>15136154
So basically it's some kind of a rap battle for kids,only with gags,beat and shit,and instead of insulting your opponents,the objective is to make the audience instead or impress the judge?
>>15134644
Was that just made-up gibberish or some actual language?
>>15141982
>tfw Patchbot
>just want to myon-myon-hebora-he
>no one buys you
>everyone buys Memebot instead
>end up getting crushed in a trash compacter along with the majority of your brethren
>playing through Mission Mode on my Heybot
>get to a mission that requires 3 different screws
>only have 2 screws
>the only way to buy them outside of Japan is to import a pack of 16
>>15145112
Just fake it.
>>15145112
I was thinking about sending my nephew a Heybot for his birthday to troll my imouto.I went with some SD gunpla and a few volumes of Yuru Yuri instead
>>15145142
You can't. It can tell immediately if the same screw has been used twice.
So, given that his ponytail is the same as Nejiru's strand of hair he's yet another version of him?
>>15148223
My theory was that that guy is a future Heybot and the red-haired guy is some combination of Nejiru and a Vocabot.
>>15148263
I assume that both are combinations of Nejiru and Heybot, only from various dimensions or timelines.
I also can't help but think that those guys will actually be relevant again later on.
It may looked like a silly cutaway gag but they reference them later on again in the same episode in a non-gag manner.
bump for episode 18
>>15149927
Considering what this show likes to do in regards to plot and plot threads, I wouldn't doubt it at all.
This week's episode wasn't that great, but I got some good reaction images out of it.
>>15153787
>Stretching an advertisement into 1 episode
>>15153787
Compared to the last one it was kinda weak due to the lack of over the top cutaway jokes and references but the punchlines and the wholeexpected yet totally unexpected con artist plotwere still funny as fuck.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not actually watching a Pokemon-esque kids show but the adventures of two criminally insane drug addicts.
>>15154664
They're doing that for 18 episodes by now.
>>15157122
This "Goes to school" thing feels out-of-place compared to others though.
>>15159670
The whole plot of that episode was actually quite amazing.
I expected your standard "kid starts to go to school and makes friends who will be recurring characters" plot but instead Nejiru starting to go to school turned out to be just a cover for him and Heybot so they can steal the school's screw supply and in the end they made nothing but enemies.
Hell, Nejiru was 11 at the start of the show so him just starting to go to school was already kinda fishy to begin with.
It neatly shows just HOW shameless and irredeemable the two are when it comes to screws, not even stopping from scamming and kidnapping.
Will there be an allusion to Moe-Kath being the protagonists next week?
>it's a horse
>that's Rock 'n' Roll themed
>which makes it a rocking horse
oh god fucking dammit
Heyworkers of Russia.
>next week is the hot spring episode
You can bet your ass that they're gonna advertise the Heybot towel in it.
>>15163479
That's kinda cool, actually. I might try to order that.
>>15163523
I can't speak for that one, but my brief dabbling in moontowels (Mario and a couple of Sanrio things) consistently had totally shit printing on it that flaked off quickly and wasn't anywhere near the sort of beach towel printing you get in the USA
cute to hang on a wall but I wouldn't use them as towels at all
>>15163532
Thanks for the head's up.
>>15160562
I wonder if the OP will be updated with it. There are still 5 more other Zodiac Vocabots which yet to be revealed as well,
>>15163479
>>next week is the hot spring episode
Are we going to get some loliservice? We better.
>>15155046
Toy game collectables, drugs, what's the difference.
>>15166221
drugs are cheaper
nice shota
>>15166699
"Nice" is the last word I'd use for that guy.
"Little irresponsible bastard" would fit better.
>>15168066
I really don't blame the writing staff for doing that, if they finally snapped after doing merchandisable/kid-friendly shows for years and Brave Beats' failure ended up being the last straw.
>>15166699
I just realized Nejiru has two screwdrivers and a pair of pliers attached to his belt.
>>15168066
Being honest though, pretty much everyone in the cast of this series fits the bill; irresponsible idiots, shameless addicts, narcissists, tricksters, psychos, mental cases and more.
Truly a lovely cast.
>>15166186
They're already on it.
>>15170697
cutie
>>15170697
Today episode is too normal for a Heybot episode imo aside some things that happened in the background.
Found my new wallpaper.
>>15174692
It along with the Hakusenchou episode were probably the weakest ones so far.
Still entertaining, though.
The next one seems to go off the rails again.
Why the fuck aren't there any figures of those three guys yet?!
Do it already, Bandai!
>>15118738
Clearly the answer to this dilemma is to give it a Bobobo style gag dub.
>>15175597
I wonder what is the reason the Princess used Time-Time Screw on episode 1.
Will we get an OST release?
>>15175629
For what it's worth, somebody came here with the intention of officially dubbing this and Time Bokan 24 sometime ago. Complete with the liberal use of "boneheads".
So what's this show about?
>>15178415
To put it as simply as possible, joke-telling contests. In practice, it's like Bobobo's Wig-out battles.
>>15178415
Toy-driven show by people who aren't particularly fond of Toy-driven shows for people who aren't particularly fond of Toy-driven shows.
>>15178373
Maybe although it probably will be included on the DVD-BOX release just like Brave Beats so finding it will be hard.
What is Heybot contemplating?
Happy 1-month birthday, thread!
>>15181594
Why Imochin is shaped like that.
This Po pen pip-pip thing in the episode seems important because it keeps happening, but I don't understand it. Fucking being an American hindering my understanding of Japanese gag anime.
>>15160321
Lolnope. Even called Heybot and Nejiru protags twice
>>15160321
The joke was that they were only promoted to protags for one week, so by the time the new episode rolled in they would be demoted again.
>>15166699
I wonder if it's like Ren & Stimpy or Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog where they are told to deviate from the model sheets as much and often as possible.
>>15188578
It'd be hilarious if the character designer/lead animator is like Milton Knight on AoStH and wanted to make Heybot into the "sexiest toy on television".
>>15187240
It's shaped like the astronomical symbol of Earth (⨁). It's symbolizes how our never-ending hunger for puffed cornmeal chips is devouring the Earth itself.
Considering the pace that we've been getting the Zodiacs at, how long will it take to get the full set out there?
>>15193240
I guess still quite a while since the toys of them haven't been announced yet and they'll probably appear after they release the DX Peket.
Fuck, why haven't I noticed that before.
>>15194265
N-NANI?
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>>15134088
They did, fuckers.
>>15197070
Puchitona
>>15194265
although possible, i would say the T is kinda overreaching, with the H.E.B.O. is more than enough.
>>15194265
so Ideon?
Good to see the show back on track again with its comedy.
So...
...they straight up murdered someone due to Imochin this time?
Holy shit.
>>15197225
It's intended and a lot more visible on Peket.
>>15199503
Love it.
OUT OF THE WAY FUCKERS
>>15134383
I wanna lick her cunny so bad
>>15199503
Who is the other blonde? drawing a blank on who that is.
>>15199503
>Space Granny from Saturn
>>15200711
The one in the corner?
That's the one that appears whenever something lewd is implied.
>>15202513
>>15200711
>>15199503
>The blonde girl on the right with the huge rack
*sucking intensifies*
>>15206573
She might be Nejiru's future daughter or something. Do not suck.
>>15207760
Anything could be a future something at this point, considering what sort of plot pieces we've been seeing.
>not even halfway through its run
>already have about 250 screencaps
show of the decade
>>15213930
Windows XP/10
>>15214132
10/10, would make a lovely screensaver as well
Looks like a video game themed parody episode tomorrow?
>>15218473
Probably a video game and giant robo although the episode title seems to be based of pic related.
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>>15218497
Man, I hope it will be even more ridiculous than the Daddyboa episode.
>>15219329
>>15198005
>ペケット:山岡ゆり
It seems Peket will appear on next week episode according to the cast list.
>>15218497
>>15219329
Knowing this show, it's either going to completely and utterly nuts or a very faithful (and screwy) representation of various games.
Not going to lie, I'm kind of hoping it's both. (in various ways) The Daddyboar episode was a pretty decent parody and I kind of hope this takes the bar up to 11.
DID THEY REALLY JUST REFERENCE FUCKING SHADOWGATE?
References I caught:
>Dark Souls
>Twinbee
>Mario
>Sonic
>Shadowgate
>Street Fighter
>Dragon Quest
>Final Fantasy
>Pokemon
>Ape Escape
>FPS games
>Darius
>Kirby
>Smash Bros
>Gradius
>Dating Sims
>>15222155
>Twinbee
>Ape Escape
>Kirby
>Smash Bros
These niggas are based.
>Dating Sims
Was a bomb involved like the time Excel Saga parodied those?
>>15222155
The Shiritori part is reference to Wagyan Land,
The FPS changed halfway into Duck Hunt.
The "Screaming into controller mic" is reference Zelda on Famicom (JPN version).
There are also online and mobile game references on 4-minutes mark.
>>15222155
The last scene before the ED is reference of Takeshi no Chōsenjō.
It was trending for awhile in Japan so I think people really liked this episode overall. So many references too.
>>15222155
Some other stuff:
>Sazae-San
>Game Center Arashi
>Star Fox
>Phelios
>Kiki's Delivery Service
>Machine Robo Revenge of Cronos
Also, MC Neji's 100 Megashock refers to a Neo Geo marketing schtick for advertising games that are 100 megs or larger.
>>15223048
Wait, scratch the KDS one - that was actually freaking Panorama Cotton.
Space Invaders reference
I also can't help but think that the still image of Guchi, Heybot and the fat guy shooting beams out of their heads was a reference to Cho Aniki.
King Gainer
was that supposed to be a reference to Stop 'n' Swop?
>>15223322
Probably a reference to "hidden stages" on 1st Super Mario Bros on Famicom/NES.
>>15223126
You caught this, but not any of the KoF/Fatal Fury stuff?
>>15226293
I did but it was too obvious to point out.
Managed to snag the two Vocaneji songs from this episode.
https://vid.me/26cm
https://vid.me/0NH6
I can't help but think that the show is like the ultimate nerd/otaku pleb-filter by now.
>>15229179
https://twitter.com/philia95/status/833113040643989504
>>15229179
Here is somewhat obscure one.
>>15232411
Not too much, since Saizen Fansubs are doing that series.
>>15233119
I'm referring to that "Not enough guts" line is taken from the game. No such thing on the anime unless I remembered it wrong.
>Full OP and ED album is out
>Most likely will be hard to find uploads of them
>The OP isn't available on my country iTunes despite it has a few older Misokkasu songs
>Can't import without 3rd party because Avex recent ban
Fuck.
>>15241011
Hmm, yeah that sucks. Wouldn't hurt to keep an eye out either way though.
>>15089963
Okay