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had and remember my first non-nightmare dream in a while so may as well write it down: i was watching gundam witch from mercury but irl i've never seen a single episode of the show so my brain basically invented an entire anime for me to watch. the setting was, i guess, kinda like xenoblade 3 if it were funny? like they weren't stealing life energy but everyone was doing a lot of war and they liked doing the war and it all was light and fun in an advance wars sorta way. the handful of characters ive seen pictures of from the show all led groups of "teams" and they were the captains. suletta was there leading a team. the pom pom head lunch girl was a captain. char lunchable or whatever her name is. but my dream version of the show mostly revolved around the white hair girl that i think is in lesbians with suletta in the actual show. my dream brain decided her name was daidouji. a lot of the fine details of what happened in the episode have slipped away from me at this point but the moment i remember is that there was a scene where it pans up daidouji's robot, she's standing on its shoulder cloaked in shadow delivering a monologue, and it zooms in on her as she goes "i am daidouji..... King Captain" and the lights turn on to cast away the shadows and reveal her, arms crossed, wearing a very big and ornate old-timey captain's hat, grinning at the camera. the characters she was monologuing at don't take her seriously at all except for one who goes "KING CAPTAIN?! THAT'S SOO COOL" and i just remember sitting there watching this going fuck yeah. this kicks ass. thats my fuckin wife.
that's all i remember. i wish i could watch another episode
I love it when these kinds of series pull back the camera onto the wider world, and I've been really wanting to see more of the decrepit left-over Earth setting, so I was very happy with this week. Evil Schoolgirls A and B from last week were rather cardboard characters, but it's really important that this show fully lay out the extremely valid reasons for the Earth people's resentment. The genuine anger behind the beating at the start of the episode. It's not "just evil", or meaningless cruelty. These people are held under a rock.
Anyway, the otaku-tragic detail is that the poor kids have just an AV Famicom hooked up to a LED screen. One controller. Eight frames input lag. I wonder how many hundreds of years old that Fami is in this show's timeline. I wonder how long ago the last CRT burned out.