A.A.A. Podcast Session 114: New Year's Podcast!

[Mitsugi]

On New Years Day at 8:00pm EST, the Anime Addicts Anonymous hosts come together to celebrate the new year, discuss the podcast in the year to come and also start covering the Fall 2011/2012 animes.

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[Sir 404'd]

Woo I can actually go to it!!!!

[Reiji]

I loved this ep all the extra content made me really happy it was worth getting out of bed at 5 in the morning
I was bit sad that there was no drunk Roukou but I think he will tell us all about how drunk he was in the next ep
I finally saw cornelius that cat is epic and looks like a linx
Im a dumb puppy so I did not know that you were all in the same room when Mitsugi appeared at Chiakis side my mind got blown
I was surprised that in the end Mitsugi could not do the gendo
for those that did not like rolling star I tried to pick apop song from a well known anime with a fast pace and elements that all may like (like the guitar) and with no latin choir so there
as for t shirts at superorange i got 99 souls but a witch aint one is literally the only thing worth getting as for aaa shirts I dont really like faces on my shit but Exploding Peace could be fun depends on how it looks on a shirt
thanks for the links to ReDeath and gendo on the john I lold
will the polls be on the site or on the forum?

[Chiaki]

I loved this ep all the extra content made me really happy it was worth getting out of bed at 5 in the morning

D'aww, glad you liked it!

I finally saw cornelius that cat is epic and looks like a linx

He is a pure-bred Maine Coon.

as for t shirts at superorange i got 99 souls but a witch aint one is literally the only thing worth getting as for aaa shirts I dont really like faces on my shit but Exploding Peace could be fun depends on how it looks on a shirt

There will be more designs as time goes on. I kind of had these ideas in my head first and ran with them. But naturally more will be released. If you, or anyone else, has suggestions/ideas let me know!

will the polls be on the site or on the forum?

They will be on the main site. I'll make a page for them and put it in one of the menus at the top.

[Reiji]

as for t shirts at superorange i got 99 souls but a witch aint one is literally the only thing worth getting as for aaa shirts I dont really like faces on my shit but Exploding Peace could be fun depends on how it looks on a shirt

There will be more designs as time goes on. I kind of had these ideas in my head first and ran with them. But naturally more will be released. If you, or anyone else, has suggestions/ideas let me know!

sometimes simplicity is the key since AAA has no cool logo you could go with Anime Addict one the front like this http://www.zazzle.com/anime_addict_t_sh ... 7068331638 but cooler(different font) and
on the back "make your addiction worse" or it could be on the front in a smaller font

[Chiaki]

as for t shirts at superorange i got 99 souls but a witch aint one is literally the only thing worth getting as for aaa shirts I dont really like faces on my shit but Exploding Peace could be fun depends on how it looks on a shirt

There will be more designs as time goes on. I kind of had these ideas in my head first and ran with them. But naturally more will be released. If you, or anyone else, has suggestions/ideas let me know!

sometimes simplicity is the key since AAA has no cool logo you could go with Anime Addict one the front like this http://www.zazzle.com/anime_addict_t_sh ... 7068331638 but cooler(different font) and
on the back "make your addiction worse" or it could be on the front in a smaller font

Hmm... There was a logo I was toying with awhile back for the show, but I never got around to putting it on anything. I think I'll make a thread to get people's thoughts!

And I get what you're saying. I have some plans for simple shirts.

[Yupa]

Thanks for considering my ideas for the New Year's resolutions. I understand why you can't use them.

Good review of Fate/Zero, Mitsugi. It bothered me as well that there was little progress made in the first half. If we compare it to Mirai Nikki which also aired last season: it has the same concept. There are 12 people who must battle and kill each other so that the one left standing can become the new "God of Space and Time". Although Mirai Nikki isn't as good as Fate/Zero, at least they make progress by killing a diary holder every 2-3 episodes.

Now on to the stuff you've been waiting for: the criticism! No you've done a good job but I think you got confused with Command Spells and Noble Phantasms.

Command Spells are the tattoos on the master's hand and are the contract with the servant. Each master gets three spells and if he would lose them, he would lose his servant. So why would you use a Command Spell? Well there are two reasons.
1) To make the servant do something he or she doesn't want to do. It's like an order the servant can't resist. So if Caster's master would've gotten a different servant, he could've used his Command Spells to make them uh... murder those children.
If I remember correctly we've seen Lancer's master use one of his Command Spells to order him to go after Saber.
2) To make the servant do something he or she couldn't normally do. In Fate/Stay night Saber's master uses a Command Spell when he's attacked at school to teleport Saber to him - which is something Saber couldn't normally do.

Noble Phantasms are the servant's special attack. Each servant has their own unique attack. It's a strong attack that usually makes the difference between winning or losing. You thought Saber was kinda weak in this show, well that's because she hasn't used her Noble Phantasm yet. So why wouldn't servants just use their Noble Phantasms? That's because those attacks require a great amount of mana (magical power) from their masters. Their master's mana is also used to keep them in this world, so if that mana would run out they would disappear.

Now there's something I don't know either, maybe someone else could tell me. We've seen Rider use a Reality Marble, which is to transport everyone to his own world - that desert with the persian army. Is a Reality Marble a Noble Phantasm? I know that in Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works Archer also uses a Reality Marble and by googling a bit I found out there are a lot more.

[Kron]

If I remember correctly we've seen Lancer's master use one of his Command Spells to order him to go after Saber.

Also if you watched the uncut version of ep11, or paid attention in ep12, you would realise that Kotomine used one as well to "send out all the assassin".

Now there's something I don't know either, maybe someone else could tell me. We've seen Rider use a Reality Marble, which is to transport everyone to his own world - that desert with the persian army. Is a Reality Marble a Noble Phantasm? I know that in Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works Archer also uses a Reality Marble and by googling a bit I found out there are a lot more.

basically put, NP is like an ultimate skill that each servant can possess.
Reality Marble means that to create an dimension pocket where it's basically your own realm, your world, and works to your advantage. It's one of the best abilities so no wonder it can be classified as a NP.


The "slow" pace was brought up a lot in other anime forums as well, however F/Z works differently than the "enemy of the arc" format that Mirai Nikki uses. Just like Madoka Magica, Urobuchi love to build up characters and torture them slowly until they start to enjoy hell themselves. Do realise that no matter what happens there can only be one winner, and without those characterisations in the first half the 2nd half of the story won't have much impact as it could be.

[alittletootony]

Checking out Fate/Zero now. Gotta say, the melodramatic opening few minutes is not grabbing me. We'll see where this goes from here.

[Chiaki]

Checking out Fate/Zero now. Gotta say, the melodramatic opening few minutes is not grabbing me. We'll see where this goes from here.

OMG IT'S TONY! We've missed you