Vividred Operation Discussion Thread

[Buckeye]

- Dodging those swinging logs? Tough. Hitting them back? Impossible. Unless it's Wakaba.
- It's a home run for Akane! And it goes through the window, and breaks Himawari's camera.
- Gotta go visit her to apologize. It seems that Himawari is on to something.
- It sure is freezing there. The AC is way up to keep her electronics from overheating.
- Time to go out and see the world in a cute dress.
- An Alone attacks, and Himawari must shut down the power plant.
- So Himawari was bullied. Well, Akane will make sure that won't happen on her watch.
- Vividyellow is born, and the power of deflection takes down the enemy.

This show just continues to be amazing as shows with such a formula often don't end well in my past experience. But here, the battles are great and the stories of the characters are just remarkable. So the circle of heroes gains another member, a cute girl who is coming out of hiding due to her social awkwardness. Next episode should really be something to look forward to as it is all about Rei, and why she has been powering up the Alones. I am thinking that Akane and Rei will come face-to-face with each other in battle, and Akane will talk some serious sense into her to flip her over to the good guys. The episode title suggests that she will become Vividblack, but we'll see about that.

[stardf29]

So, it looks like VividBlue has sheer power, VividGreen has high agility, and VividYellow is a defensive/long range specialist. I do wonder if the girls specifically have to dock with Akane or if they can dock with each other...

Also, Himawari is a Manifestation Engine otaku. I love her geek-out moment at the end when she meets Isshiki-oji-chan at the end.

[Damius]

- DOCKINGU! I will finally see what it really is.
- Of course Aoi wants to help Akane save everyone!
- Aoi’s transforms! Epic once again!
- Operation Nakedrang… What???
- Aoi was hit by a plane…but…well… no problem! She even stops the plane before it crashes.
- And after that she feels bad because she thinks she caused a ruckus. Lol.
- Aoi acquires a huge hammer.
- Yes, the future definitely depends on you!
- They destroyed the Alone. Mission succeeds!
- Kiss on the forehead…and then… OH MY GOD!!
- But it fails… The yuri needs to be more intense for it to succeed! Awesome!
- Aoi notices Akane the first second she sees her. And she notices that newspaper too.
- Aoi got the first gift from Akane a tomato!
- Who is the girl who reactivates the Alone?
- Kiss on the forehead… Second attempt… and that was utterly amazing! They become one!!!
- DOCKINGU! Is way too AMAZING!!!
- Momo was worried about Akane.
- Vivid Momo Operation!!!
- Oops…the school is gone. They will transfer to a new school.

This show is ssooooooooooo amazing!!! WOW! Yuri!!! Gattai!!!

[strangefour]

-DICKINGU! Butts...
-Wait a minute. Is thatan Alone nautilus? Are all the Alone going to look like strange sea creatures? When are Anamalocaris & Hallucigenia going to show up?
-Human is fly, mismatch?
-Elite hakkar!
-Log? Log! It's big. It's heavy. It can be deflected.
-Her ass hurts... They aren't even being coy about the butt-centricness anymore.They could have used the excuse of low camera angles for dramatic effect to show things in the background in previous episodes. This episode is nothing but gratuitous ass.
-Oh shit I was right. This is a baseball anime! Princess Nine lives again!
-HOME RUN!
-NO! Himawari-chan's dead. We only just got to know you you adorable little Wall-e knockoff. If o-- Oh wait she's the girl at the persokontatsu. Nevermind false alarm.

-Welcome to the home of Frau Bow MkII.
-Saegusa was carrying around a dress she planned to give to Momo, wasn't she.
-Wait. Did they just use a Superman music cue when Akane caught that girder?
-Himawari Henshin! Frau Bow Zeta is born!
-Wait what? FUNNELS!? She's skipped all the way up to High Nu Frau Bow.
-"Sign kudasai!" Where was she keeping that book?
-Did she just say something about getting energy from the multiverse? Is Dr Isshiki's super science engine powered by sucking other universes dry of energy?

Next week Homuhomu & her pet crow's story.

[something]

Originally Posted by strangefour

-DICKINGU!

A tragic typo. Vividred Operation is an emphatically no-dickingu zone!

[HitokiriShadow]

And now a Rei episode, pretty much giving us her whole back story. Except, notably, the details of her deal with... whoever "they" are. I assume they are pulling some sort of world destruction ponzi scheme: destroy a world and use one (or more) of its inhabitants to destroy another one.

While Rei has been more than a little reminiscent of Fate and Homura, she also invokes another enemy/rival magical girl in this episode: Rue/Krahe from Princess Tutu.

Rei scaling the buidling and REALLY pushing those HomuHomu similarities was pretty cool, though definitely moderately high on the "don't think about it, just turn your brain off and enjoy" scale.

On that note, I was amused how they didn't even pretend to give an explanation for how Ferret Ojii-san figured out there was outside interference. "Look, this makes it obvious!" and it couldn't be farther from that to the audience. Decent way to have him find out without exposing that plot point to fan critique and over-analysis, though somehow I don't think this show cares too much about that.

[strangefour]

Okay I give in. Be fore everyone starts spoiling this all over twitter I have to start watching before Crunchyroll. Also i got a brand new bigger & finally HD monitor. Time to see what anime is like in a post CRT world.

-Vroom vroom vroom. Butts butts butts. *sigh*
-Good morning Homuhomu Mk2~
-She vanished... did she dive back into the briny depths from whence she came? Or fly up into the salt sea air with the squawking birds upon a moonbeam?
-Wow the OP is so nice and crisp and HUGE on new monitor. Hooray~
-Sweet! A Yama no Susume crossover!
-Himawari, you little pot, don't call the kettle black.
-Oh sure. You can cause hundreds of sailors to die, but if a little child is threatened you leap in to save them. Kurokuro has a double standard.
-Quoth the Raven: "Do your damn job Rei! Destroy humanity!" Raven's kind of a jerk.
-Cleavage? But this show is about butts! You're doing it all wrong Kurokuro.
-Seven more... Seven more episodes until Kurokuro can join the good girls.
-Kurokuro is a one girl terrorist cell.
-That's more like it Kurokuro. Now you're getting the hang of Vividbutts.
-She's stealing their guns too? Wow she really is Homuhomu Mk2.
-GUNBUTTS! It's a pun! >__< Also you'll shoot your ass off like that.
-Kurokuro you are not Spider-man! Stop trying to be like him. Everyone knows Doctor Octopus is the superior Spider-man.
-I really hope that Silver Key doesn't mean Kurokuro is going on a Dream Quest.

-Damn it Kurokuro. Don't you go dream wandering on us.
-Akane just said, "Wa-wa-wa-wowie!" Not a comment. Just an observation.
-Okay... that does not look like any kind of ancient sea creature. WTF are you Alone anyway? That looks more like a piece of lab equipment.
-Wait... Kurokuro made a pact with the Great Old Ones outside of space & time to save her dead universe by destroying another?
-Kuroki Rei is Randolph Carter-chan.
-Moooooom~ Stop spoiling the plot.

Well that's an interesting and different (but not 100% new) back story. My whole universe is dead! However screwing with a new universe to maybe save your dead one is kinda messed up. I guess she is being tortured into doing it, but her eventual heel turn to become a magical girl is gonna be awkward.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by strangefour

-She's stealing their guns too? Wow she really is Homuhomu Mk2.
-GUNBUTTS! It's a pun! >__< Also you'll shoot your ass off like that.

"You'll shoot your ass off! You'll shoot your ass off!" I remember that line from Christmas Story! ;p

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

While Rei has been more than a little reminiscent of Fate and Homura, she also invokes another enemy/rival magical girl in this episode: Rue/Krahe from Princess Tutu.

Heh... I made a similar comparison (Vividred/Tutu) after the last episode on one forum or another out there (/me Googles, and sees it was on AS). Black-haired girl being manipulated by crow/raven. Rei's similarities to Fate are very obvious. ^^

On that note, I was amused how they didn't even pretend to give an explanation for how Ferret Ojii-san figured out there was outside interference. "Look, this makes it obvious!" and it couldn't be farther from that to the audience.

Yeah, I was wondering what the time scale/range was on the graph being shown when he picked out the key bit of data. ^^; I was surprised to find out that the video from the airborne bots wasn't being streamed back to a device in the facility, and instead all AI-handled. Well, it's kinda in the near-future, so I guess that autonomous UCAVs aren't too incredible.

[something]

Episode 5:

- Akanebutt!
- HEY! Mount Takao? Damn, if the girls were going there they could run into the Yama no Susume girls!
- Nyoronyoronyoronyoronyoronyoro~ro~ron! ...says Churuya-san.
- Heh, Akane looks at that bentou like Yoshika looks at Lynne's boobs.
- Oh we so better see Aoi in that bikini from her daydreaming.
- Reibutt!
- Himwari I'm not sure you should be calling anyone else "weird".

- Akane goes into stalking mode.
- And Rei feels guilt when she hears about people losing their homes. Then saves a kid's life. Well, it was obvious she was going to be doing this only because she felt she had to, not because she really wants to destroy the world. Now we just need to see how interesting the explanation the show comes up with is.
- Heh, that's it, Akane has decided: she's befriending the fuck out of that.

- Nice apartment, Rei. Even dark and brooding anti-heroines are allowed to own more than a table, a chair, and a birdcage.
- Oh jeeze, this is sad. Her only friend is a bird.
- And her only other contact is another bird. But this one talks.
- Well that was revealed a bit sooner than I expected. "...lest you never see your world revived fromits destruction."
- She can power up 7 more Alones. Conveniently we only have about that many episodes left!
- And of course her mission is to destroy the Incarnate Engine.

- HAHAHA the gun in the pants. That's got to be uncomfortable.
- Oh damn Rei, that's impressive.
- But of course she's washed up on the beach without drowning and found by our protagonist, as usual.
- FOREHEAD DOCKINGU!
- "I'm not hungry." Rei's stomach betrays her. So cute.
- Ahahah, I love Akane. Rei absolutely cannot adjust to her pace.
- Alone attacks, but we don't need to see the fight at this point. It's all about Rei!
- Awww, Rei is so conflicted. She's playing hard to get, Akane! Go get her!
- FFFFFFFFF HOSPITAL SCENE WAS SO ADORABLE.

<3 Rei.

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

On that note, I was amused how they didn't even pretend to give an explanation for how Ferret Ojii-san figured out there was outside interference. "Look, this makes it obvious!"

That cracked me the fuck up.