How did we go from THIS
>>140766702
to THIS
Habaneros
>>140766787
I really didnt expect that mc to be such a badass
Loving the SDF Macross/Macross 7 design style of the characters.
To be honest, I like his former look more.
>>140766787
He bleached his hair. Not that hard.
>>140767115
Same. Second look just screams edgelord.
>>140767115
I wish he'd at least wear proper fucking clothes.
>>140767488
>implying edgelords aren't the best characters
>>140767488
>mad max is now edgy
4chins as gone to shit.
>>140766787
Why doesn't he take those belts of?
>>140766787
WITNESS
>>140767776
That's his fashion statement.
>>140767776
Didn't he used nails to hold them in place?
>>140767776
It would be extremly painful
>>140768240
You're a spicy guy
>>140766787
MANLY AS FUCK
>>1407682574 bushi
>>140767527
He could at least replace those pants. But logically speaking he didn't had time for that. And much more worries than torn clothes
>>140768354
They have to have some spare clothes he can borrow on the train though, right?
>>140767776
I think the real reason is that he thinks it's better to leave them where they are just to be sure the kabane "virus" won't reach his brain.
They said that persons suspected of being Kabane (without visible wounds) are quarantined for three days, so it can take as much as that.
>>140766787
They did a Sweeney Todd anime?
>>140766787
why is he filled with bolts though? I didn't quite get that
>>140768433
He bolted them into his skin when the virus was spreading up his arm, as to if it actually helped at all - who the fuck knows?
>>140767776
If he take them off will he die?
>>140768240
From what?
>>140768382
Maybe. People were evacuating, so they took only necessary things. Maybe someone have spare pants but that doesn't mean s/he would be willing to give them away.
>>140766787
What was his name again /a/?
KABANE JA NAI
>>140766787
JACK'S BACK
>>140767776
It looks as if he was wearing a fanny pack
>>140768575
Heart-piercing Habanero
>>140768433
He thought bolting would be tight enough to stop blood flowing to his brain so the virus wouldn't spread, though I'm willing to bet it's more like "You're strong will overpowered it!" calling it now.
>>140768539
They are bolted to his body via long nails. A better question is why isn't he getting major infections in those places?
>>140768645
I guess Kabane don't get infections?
>>140766702
This design looks cool as fuck with the coat and everything.
>>140766787
This design looks retarded as fuck and was probably designed by an edgy 3-year old. Those metal piece bolted onto his shoulder and that neck brace are so fucking stupid.
>>140768645
He's immune to virus' and shit now right?
Only way to kill him is to destroy his metal heart
>>140768639
Well no, it only just stopped when he hung himself
>>140768645
Kabane are half-zombie... so they don't get typical human illnesses, right?
>>140768645
An even better question is, if that stuff was meant to stop the blood from flowing, since it's still in place, why can he still move his arm instead of having it hanging numb from his shoulder and starting to become necrotic?
>>140768668
>>140768738
>>140768762
Right I guess but it would be nice if small shit like this is explained but whatever.
>>140767776
Because he would lose the blue eyed dragons.
>>140768790
Because it didn't fucking work.
>>140768709
>an edgy 3-year old
newfag
>>140768742
It went past his neck, then suddenly turned around
>>140768790
The bolts aren't big enough to cause disturbances to his movement I would assume.
>>140768809
They really haven't had time to say anything yet, its been
"oh no zombies"
"oh he killed a zombie"
"Oh he IS a zombie"
"No hes merely half zombie"
It'll get into details soon
>>140768830
So Ikoma pierced his own skin and probably flesh too with several nails for absolutely fucking nothing.
Am I watching Jackass?
>>140768639
>>140768742
He used them to slow down the circulation,not to completely stop it
>>140768997
Why anons bitch about the smallest shit is beyond me. The average anime fan would say he looks cool but /a/ likes to nitpick by asking all these questions. Can't people just enjoy the anime without overanalyzing all this shit?
>>140769034
He was panicking. It's not like he planned to get bit beforehand.
>>140769034
You're watching zombie fighting jackass doing multi track drifting with steam engine trains
>>140769069
He just tried to survive. Even if the effect seems meaningless from wider perspective, he just did what he trough would save him. no matter the pain
>>140769084
> The average anime fan
Get the fuck out faggot
ROKKON SHOJO
>>140769212
>12 years old
![[HorribleSubs] Log Horizon 2 - 04 [720p].mkv_snapshot_04.54_[2014.10.25_20.51.21].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KEjAbQT.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Log Horizon 2 - 04 [720p].mkv_snapshot_04.54_[2014.10.25_20.51.21].jpg")
>>140769084
>The average anime fan
>Can't people just enjoy the anime without overanalyzing all this shit?
>>140769084
There are a lot of people like that, anon. They are the ones who are content just watching anime without spending a lot of time later to discuss about then in the internet.
>>140769165
Problem edgelord500? Humour daddy by telling me your troubles.
>>140766787
>patch of white blob on his hair.
WHERE DID THIS COME FROM.
>>140769340
Stress from masturbation.
>>140769340
They animated it faggot,just rewatch his jackass scene,his hair changes 2 times
>>140769340
The kabane that attacked him was very happy to meet him.
>>140766787
This nigga want to die a kv so bad
>>140769311
>>>/reddit/
>>140766787
He needs a new pair of clothes, and to take that shit on his shoulder/neck off.
>>140766787
OWWWWWW THE EDGE
How did choking himself for a little bit stop a virus from going into his brain? What's the point in making a gun that pierces heart cages when that one bitch kills zombies left and right without some super gun?
>>140769537
That rat is fucking adorable goddamn.
>>140769340
Marie Antoinette syndrome
>>140769562
> How did choking himself for a little bit stop a virus from going into his brain?
Standard Shounen MC powers
> What's the point in making a gun that pierces heart cages when that one bitch kills zombies left and right without some super gun?
Because he's not the standard shounen MC! He's a scientist!
>>140769604
Delicious.
>>140766787
Hey buddy, you picked up the wrong door,leather club is two box down
>>140769562
>How did choking himself for a little bit stop a virus from going into his brain?
They said it in episode 1. The vein that runs through the neck is the one that carries the virus. He chocked himself and stopped the virus from spreading.
> What's the point in making a gun that pierces heart cages when that one bitch kills zombies left and right without some super gun?
It takes more than one hit for her to kill them, she also runs fast. He is making a weapon that your average Joe can use.
>>140769706
>He chocked himself and stopped the virus from spreading.
Right, but that doesn't make any sense, the virus is still in his body. He'd have to permanently cut off circulation to his head which would make him brain dead, which would kill him.
>He is making a weapon that your average Joe can use.
Why doesn't an average Joe just be more efficient? Using a weapon that seemingly takes a good amount of time and effort to fire one shot and practically gets the user bitten to use, at least from what we've seen doesn't exactly seem practical for combating hordes.
>>140769706
>He chocked himself and stopped the virus from spreading.
That's not how viruses work, if it was a toxin then maybe, but not a virus.
If you really want to defend that scene, just say that Ikoma is wrong about it being a virus, after all very few things went as he expected them to go.
>>140769984
>the virus is still in his body.
Who knows how it works. Maybe it has a short life.
>Why doesn't an average Joe just be more efficient?
>Why doesn't the average Joe play football as well as Maradona?
>Why isn't the average Joe as good at Physics as Feynman?
>>140770011
>That's not how viruses work
Yeah, but I also bet that real corpses stay dead and don't walk around.
>>140766787
>>140766702
Having some wierd ass fetishism
>>140767776
They are literally bolted into his body did you even watch the show?
>>140770137
This is an asinine argument to make, if fiction uses things that are quantifiable and actually exist to fill in the holes of their world, it has to conform to those laws unless otherwise explicitly stated. If they said it was fucking magic, that'd be that unless it contradicted the own set of rules it established with its fantasy elements, but it's leaning on real world science so that doesn't really bode well when it doesn't even conform to what it's trying to convince the audience it is, regardless if it's explaining a fantastical element or not.
>>140770088
>Why doesn't the average Joe play football as well as Maradona?
>Why isn't the average Joe as good at Physics as Feynman?
Neither of these actually address what was said about how the weapon isn't conducive to fighting hordes. Also, saying someone should be more efficient doesn't translate to claiming they should master it.
>>140770137
I don't think they are actually dead though. It looks like they turn into kabane when they are still alive, as opposed to after dying in the classical zombie scenario.
how did we go from this
>>140770592
to this
>>140770415
>it's leaning on real world science
Literally how? Where? They use massive train engines to get around in an apocalypse of glowing zombies with iron cages around their hearts. Everything (everything) in their world works on steam. This is not real world science, it's not even close. It's very clearly a fantasy setting working with the conflict of fantasy superstition and fantasy science. It's about as factually scientific as fucking Raildex.
>>140769252
>Not knowing Kabaneri live for only 25 years.
>>140770629
I want to eat that pepper
>>140770631
>Literally how? Where?
When it said it was a fucking virus?
All the shit you're using to defend this is shit that doesn't have an explanation, which is better that giving an explanation that makes no sense. For all we know there's some sort of system they've come up with that turns steam into infinite energy, we don't fucking know because they didn't say anything about how it worked. If they did by saying something stupid like solar roadways, then you'd criticize it for its explanation leaning on something that exists that is flawed or misrepresenting something that has a very concrete definition. Pointing out that there are fantastical elements that haven't been explained doesn't defend the elements that are explained when they're wrong.
>>140770665
Fuck off, Kawamori.
>>140770872
I don't get where you make the cognitive leap from "steam magically powers everything and dead people walk" being a-okay to "viruses magically stop with the blood flow" being a no-no. Both are fucking wrong.
>>140771052
Simple, either give an explanation that makes sense or don't bother giving one at all. It's really not that hard to understand.
Best otp/brotp of the season.
>episode 3 tomorrow
>>140766787
CRAWWwLING IN MY SKIIIIN
>>140766787
When was the last time we had a general badass for a mc?
I'm enjoying this fully.
>>140771596
>>>/reddit/
>>140771596
Last season and at least one a season for the past 20 years.
>>140766787
This MC is badass as fuck, and anybody who says otherwise is objectively wrong.
>doesn't afraid of anything
>makes weapons to kill kabane
>even after being shot and tossed off a train, he fights his way through dozens of kabane to save the very people who abandoned him
>even after his bro tried to save him, he wanted to be left behind in case he really did go full kabane on the train
>>140771659
Not really as high-test as "Watch as the one you cast out saves all of you assholes. I will be laughing at you from beyond the grave"
>>140771659
"I don't feel like punching the MC in the face" doesn't mean "badass". It's not an achievement to not have an MC either A) being a maxbeta self-insert loser, or B) a cute girl.
>>140771596
>When was the last time we had a general badass for a mc?
Onii-sama?
>>140771046
You know it to be true, they won't be living pass a year from now, much less til they're 25.
>>140771748
>doesn't afraid of anything
+10
>makes weapons to kill kabane
+5
>even after being shot and tossed off a train, he fights his way through dozens of kabane to save the very people who abandoned him
+20
>even after his bro tried to save him, he wanted to be left behind in case he really did go full kabane on the train
+5
- gets bitten by a Kabane on his very first fight
-5
- he's shocked when he realizes that even his friend fears him
-5
- he cries like a babby because he feels abandoned and destined to become a kabane
-10
Final verdict: he does some badass stuff, one in particular was very badass, but he's not that badass overall.
>>140772789
I think he's a good balance between badass, but still being relatable.
>>140767776
You have a point. Now he's a kabaneri there is no point trying to stop the virus anymore and his regeneration is strong enough not to care about the nail. May be for protection in fight.
>>140770872
>When it said it was a fucking virus?
A character in the world said that. A character who, based on their technology level has not idea what a "virus" actually is. It may as well be the Latin definition of virus as "poison". Plus we already know his knowledge of the infection is faulty. He thought he was still human.
It is at most a misleading word choice on the part of the writer or animator. Personally it think they were just trying to say it was a physical infection, rather than a purely ephemeral magical curse, not that the disease operates in any real world manner. I.e. more alchemy than sorcery. At one point the philosopher stone and many of the fantastical aspect of alchemy were considered a kind of " science".
>>140772789
So he's not a gary stu
>>140772789
Well, the kabane are super powered and intelligent (he didn't know the latter), and although MC clearly isn't out of shape, he's first and foremost a scientist and tinkerer, not a fighter. I get where you're coming from, but if Ikoma didn't have some flaws or shortcomings then he would just be a boring ass Mary Sue, and that would kill the story right quick.
>>140766787
Why does this remind me of that Castlevania fighting game?
>>140772789
Nah revoke the crying thing, it totally makes sense that he would feel that way considering who he is.
Also him getting bit on his first fight after underestimating the kabanes intelligence just makes sense and keeps him from s being a Gary Stu.
He is like perfect for an mc
>>140769562
>>140769984
Frodo you are not even trying
/a/ hyping up Ikoma to new levels. He is like your typical badass character you get every season but the only difference is he is an engineer instead of a melee fighter.
Give him a couple of episodes before we see /a/ hate as usual.
When do you think Ikoma will invent the steam motorcycle/car? What other crazy steam things will he make?
>>140774574
looks like a dildo to me.
new episode when reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>[Doki] Koutetsujou no Kabaneri - 01 (1280x720 Hi10P AAC) [F16355B8].mkv
>[Doki] Koutetsujou no Kabaneri - 02 (1280x720 Hi10P AAC) [9FB86676].mkv
Is fansubbing alive?
>>140774856
It should be airing in 16 hours or so.
>>140774574
>dude who uses his brains to find a new weapon that could help them win the war against zombies is the same as someone like onii-sama
Just let Jeff Goldblum have his day, anon!
>>140774916
That karaoke is shit compared to DameDesuyo's
Also, this comes way later than Damedesuyo's releases
Fuck off, Dokidev
>>140774916
>KFX in 2016
>it looks like shit and it's unreadable
>doki
Oh, that explains it.
>>140774916
I do love me some good karaoke effects
>>140766702
To this
>>140775042
Then you should get DDY's release
>>140774948
Except nothing about him is special. Honestly his name, character design and motifs are all decent but anons have seen so much shit they hype this as amazing.
You guys seriously need to broaden what anime you watch
>Habanero isn't actually a Japanese word
Holy shit
>>140771430
FEELS LIKE IT HAS BEEN YEARS.
>>140775147
I think what's cool is that he is a normal dude that is earning his place in people's hearts for putting himself out there to try and take fear out of people's hearts rather than being a bland, revenge-ridden character that most special snowflakes you're comparing him to are.
>>140775042
>koutetsu no kabaneri yo
>kabaneri of the ironclad fortress
Doki should really hire better translators.
>>140775042
Do you sing along, anon?
>>140775143
yeah, have it as well, looks cool as fuck as
well.
>>140775219
That is what everyone else uses too.
>>140770629
spicy food
>>140766702
Pretty cool uniform. Distinct enough to be recognizable without being over designed.
>>140766787
Scarred, torn, edgy deviantart garbage. Pretty much every "badass" cliche wrapped up into one forgettable design.
>>140775262
Because Amazon translated it that way but I don't really see the point of subbing Kabaneri if you don't do an original TL or at least TLCing Amazon's subs.
>>140775147
There is literally nothing wrong with appreciating him for what he is. It's not like because there are better characters that we can't appreciate a decent new one.
>>140775223
N-no.Yes
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