... they rarely disappoint like more succinct ones sometimes can. For example, I'm sure I've said before that I will always be sad Attack on Titan isn't a space opera about a war between the various colonies of the solar system's outer moons. If it had been called That Time I Joined an Anti-Giant Defense Force and Then Discovered That I'm Actually a Giant Myself, I wouldn't have gotten my hopes.

And don't even get me started about Yuri on Ice...

--G.
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Yuri on Ice has a guy named Yuri who spends a lot of his time on ice (being, y'know, a professional ice skater). I don't see the problem. ;-)

So Let Me Get This Right, The Two Sexy Super-Cops Who Appeared On Campus Out Of Nowhere Are Super Into Me And My Best Friend, And They Only Showed Up Because Of The Cheat Device In The Basement That Let Me Reverse-Isekai All My Waifus And Oshis Into Existence Forever?!?!?!

Is this mean? Who knows? Not me. I'm nice. Probably...

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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

This latest entry in Bacon Media's "So You've Just . . . " series is a bit odd, and even more specific than usual

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>So Let Me Get This Right, The Two Sexy Super-Cops Who Appeared On
>Campus Out Of Nowhere Are Super Into Me And My Best Friend, And They
>Only Showed Up Because Of The Cheat Device In The Basement That Let Me
>Reverse-Isekai All My Waifus And Oshis Into Existence
>Forever?!?!?!

I mean, I showed that to a friend and they immediately knew it was Undocumented Features

I Thought Becoming Rubber Was a Lame Power, but Turns Out It's A Cheat Skill So I'm Aiming For Pirate King (thanks Polka's chat)

My Planet Was Conquered By Space Elves, So They Made My Dad A Noble and Sent Me to Join the Space Navy.

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My sister married the Emperor, so I'll conquer the galaxy
My best friend died, so I'll conquer the galaxy
I don't know what to do any more, so I'll conquer the galaxy
I have fabulous hair, so I'll conquer the galaxy

Title changing each season of the OVAs.

edit: by Jen to make links work right

I Woke The Mummy At The Family Shrine And Now She Wants My Balls

I thought they were going to let me pilot a steampunk mecha, but instead I'm an usher at the theatre?!?

My Dad Built Me The Strongest Giant Robot In The World But Now I'm Fighting In A War Against Invading Aliens?!

Though I guess this one would be too many different series.

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Earlier this week, I found out that in the American take on the Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 movie that was scripted in the 80s but never produced, Zeon was an army of alien artificial intelligences rather than humans. It was mostly populated by 'Zaks' and the 'Ziong' was the leader. Oh, and every robot was about 100 metres tall.

I joked that it was actually SD Gundam Force the movie, ahead of its time.

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/General_Zeong

>My Dad Built Me The Strongest Giant Robot In The World But Now I'm
>Fighting In A War Against Invading Aliens?!
>
>Though I guess this one would be too many different series.

I can think of at least one, but that title would actually be a spoiler for it...

-IA.

(specifically that the robot builder is the lead's dad only comes out fairly far in)

Probably half of the super robot shows of the 70's. Being a Super Robot show back then practically required the Super Robot to be made by the main characters father or grandfather.

Okay, I was a little too vague. In the one I'm thinking of, he knows the robot was made (or found and upgraded, I'm not 100% on this anymore) by his grandfather, except it turns out later on that it was actually his father who made (or whatever) the robot.

-IA.

(fgvyy gur fnzr thl zvaq lbh)

No, I mean the title describes probably half the super robot shows of the 70s.

And many shows since that, too, including some Real Robot shows.

If we loosen the definition of aliens a bit, we start with Mazinger Z, and move on to Great Mazinger and Mazinkaiser, then we continue on to Steel Jeeg, with the twist that he *is* the giant robot (well, it's head anyway), Diappolon, Combattler V, though it's the Team Girl who's grandfather built the mech, Groizer X, Gakeen, Mechander Robo, Voltes V, Zambot 3, Daitarn 3, and that's just the 70s!

Er, yeah, I get that, I'm just saying I was reminded of a work that fits it in a really weird way.

-IA.

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>Though I guess this one would be too many different series.

It’s a common enough trope that about 1/3 of the character’s Story Mode in Tech Romancer (still the best Dreamcast game that’s never had a re-release) can be described by it.
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>Tech Romancer (still the best Dreamcast game that’s never had a re-release)

In my head it's a toss-up between that and Blue Stinger, the only survival horror game I've ever truly enjoyed.

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Skies of Arcadia did get released on other platforms, but man, I really want a modern remake, like the one System Shock got
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Skies of Arcadia should be in the UF verse, somehow.

I believe it's already had a couple cameos.

-IA.

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>Skies of Arcadia should be in the UF verse, somehow.

It is! Rob Shannon adapted bits of it into his branch years ago; they turn up most prominently in Twilight.

--G.
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Newest Bacon Comics light novel series:

I Challenged The School Jerk To A Duel Over A Girl And Now She's My Bride.

Utena or Witch From Mercury, you be the judge.

UF Utena needs to finally get a giant robot of her own. She did pretty well with the Getter Machine in Hunter Rose, even though she went in with next to no training in one of the most important missions of her career.

...or is that because she went in with next to no training in one of the most important missions of her career? It's kinda hard to tell sometimes.

Getters are of that specific class of machines you can control entirely via vibes so that's probably exactly so.

I bet if she had an hour of training she'd have failed spectacularly because she kept trying to pilot it instead of just letting instinct and gut feelings work.

Getters, Evangelions, Brains (Brain Powerd), most stuff from Gurren Lagann, Lantern rings...Empathic weapons like that practically work themselves if you have a clear enough image of what you want to do.

Whenever I want to give an example of 'cool Eyrie stuff', I mention Kozue doing a backflip in mid-air from one Get Machine to the other to pull off a solo form change.

> she went in with next to no training

Are you sure about that?

Like, I can't see where there's any indication of how much training she's done with it, other than an indication that it's more than "none".

-IA.

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Gundam Rose, anyone?