Oh yeah to be real, the wiki kind of sucks. Maybe we should Organise an effort to fill outs its articles? I was hoping it'd have general concepts too, like explanations of gas guns and supercavitating rounds, no such luck. Wild that Maryam's page is empty like that, she is not a smol bean! I mean she is but!
Lol no, but I know of it, it's been on my radar for a long while & 80s ovas are profoundly stinky (positive) lookin. Since I hve mecha brainrot now it's probably in my future... AW YEAH MORE MAJIDA MY BELOVED, IMPERIALIST CLOWNS ARE COOKED! I adore hearing that. It is slighly disquieting how we haven't seen certain characters in an actual dog's age, like the Premier and Nagavanshi. I know how it be, vast scope, but Idk...
i think the wiki was basically all done by one person? as is right now it's mostly useful for making sure you're spelling a characters name right and when someone gets mentioned by name in a new chapter and i don't remember who they are i can go and check if this is an established character i forgot about or a new one, and i can go look at a list of people on the brigand (which does have some spoilers for you, "character x is in situation y after the events of episode 11" type stuff) and go "ah the helmsman was abdul kamarik". it would be nice to have more detail but i wouldn't want to go overboard. some wikis try and include literally everything that has ever happened and that's unreadable. but adding like, any detail about maryam would certainly be nice
the patlabor ovas are kinda clean with the characters but the MECHS are crunchy as hell. also really good cast, just a pretty good comedy series. patlabor 2 is like getting a 2 hour lecture on the jsdf with some of the crunchiest mech animation ever and a good atmosphere. i think it's less scope that keeps characters out of the spotlight and more that the metaphorical camera can only go so far from the brigand's path, the actual scope of the main story is fairly limited. like, episode 4 could cover elena because she ends up on the brigand, 7 could cover norn because she was about to fight the brigand, so unless the premier and nagavanshi either make an appearance in imperial territory or start making decisions that affect the brigand we probably won't be seeing them much. the intermissions do break this though, so that's where characters who aren't immediately relevant to the brigand might get a chance to shine
Yeah spoilers is kind of a concern, Idk how to handle that. Certainly some stable characters can have spoiler sections on their articles? And just backstory/rank/physical traits/whatever on page. Uncritical support to that one person doing the wiki though. Fuck knows I've misquoted or misspelt character names before
Ew jsdf
Uh I guess, Idk we spent all of episode 4 and 7 away, to me getting to see the anarchists by Khaybar or the Volkische uprising, bits of the Republic too, the Imbrium ocean is fucking vast and has so many characters. Erich, the Sunlight org, Victoria van Veka and her mistress, there's so much stuff... But yeah, I guess the intermissions are what draws stuff out. Does this mean we are never gonna see the Premier again though...?
there IS a good description of some of the divers at least, which is nice
tbf the movie's all about exploring japan's role as a usa client state and its complicity in imperialism. it isn't pro jsdf, just kinda boring
yeah the scope isn't THAT limited, it's just that in numbered chapters we only really see things that are either intersecting with the brigand or that will intersect with the brigand soon. we could very easily see all the people and groups you mention again soon, in numbered chapters even! not even just if they arrive in the same colony as the brigand, they could just be doing something relevant to the brigand. and i also do wanna say there's an intermission right after episode 9, so that's even more space for the wider world to be seen
Oh ok cool, uh still rip but that's better at least
Yeah Idk it just feels like there is a whole entire world because we get to see far-off pockets of it pretty regularly, this is praise now actually. Worldbuilding. Also yaw intermission soon!!
the ova and the first movie are both great, if you can stomach comedies about cops being bad at their jobs that understand the problems with policing but also are more concerned with "wouldn't it be funny if the cops had a mech and they kept stepping on peoples cars"
worldbuilding! yeah the world is very well built, though there's always plenty more to be done
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And blackjack!! People should do this!!
Oh yeah to be real, the wiki kind of sucks. Maybe we should Organise an effort to fill outs its articles? I was hoping it'd have general concepts too, like explanations of gas guns and supercavitating rounds, no such luck. Wild that Maryam's page is empty like that, she is not a smol bean! I mean she is but!
Lol no, but I know of it, it's been on my radar for a long while & 80s ovas are profoundly stinky (positive) lookin. Since I hve mecha brainrot now it's probably in my future... AW YEAH MORE MAJIDA MY BELOVED, IMPERIALIST CLOWNS ARE COOKED! I adore hearing that. It is slighly disquieting how we haven't seen certain characters in an actual dog's age, like the Premier and Nagavanshi. I know how it be, vast scope, but Idk...
Okay, so I had it pretty much right :)
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praying, would love for that to happen
i think the wiki was basically all done by one person? as is right now it's mostly useful for making sure you're spelling a characters name right and when someone gets mentioned by name in a new chapter and i don't remember who they are i can go and check if this is an established character i forgot about or a new one, and i can go look at a list of people on the brigand (which does have some spoilers for you, "character x is in situation y after the events of episode 11" type stuff) and go "ah the helmsman was abdul kamarik". it would be nice to have more detail but i wouldn't want to go overboard. some wikis try and include literally everything that has ever happened and that's unreadable. but adding like, any detail about maryam would certainly be nice
the patlabor ovas are kinda clean with the characters but the MECHS are crunchy as hell. also really good cast, just a pretty good comedy series. patlabor 2 is like getting a 2 hour lecture on the jsdf with some of the crunchiest mech animation ever and a good atmosphere. i think it's less scope that keeps characters out of the spotlight and more that the metaphorical camera can only go so far from the brigand's path, the actual scope of the main story is fairly limited. like, episode 4 could cover elena because she ends up on the brigand, 7 could cover norn because she was about to fight the brigand, so unless the premier and nagavanshi either make an appearance in imperial territory or start making decisions that affect the brigand we probably won't be seeing them much. the intermissions do break this though, so that's where characters who aren't immediately relevant to the brigand might get a chance to shine
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Yeah spoilers is kind of a concern, Idk how to handle that. Certainly some stable characters can have spoiler sections on their articles? And just backstory/rank/physical traits/whatever on page. Uncritical support to that one person doing the wiki though. Fuck knows I've misquoted or misspelt character names before
Ew jsdf
Uh I guess, Idk we spent all of episode 4 and 7 away, to me getting to see the anarchists by Khaybar or the Volkische uprising, bits of the Republic too, the Imbrium ocean is fucking vast and has so many characters. Erich, the Sunlight org, Victoria van Veka and her mistress, there's so much stuff... But yeah, I guess the intermissions are what draws stuff out. Does this mean we are never gonna see the Premier again though...?
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there IS a good description of some of the divers at least, which is nice
tbf the movie's all about exploring japan's role as a usa client state and its complicity in imperialism. it isn't pro jsdf, just kinda boring
yeah the scope isn't THAT limited, it's just that in numbered chapters we only really see things that are either intersecting with the brigand or that will intersect with the brigand soon. we could very easily see all the people and groups you mention again soon, in numbered chapters even! not even just if they arrive in the same colony as the brigand, they could just be doing something relevant to the brigand. and i also do wanna say there's an intermission right after episode 9, so that's even more space for the wider world to be seen
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I shall peruse then :)
Oh ok cool, uh still rip but that's better at least
Yeah Idk it just feels like there is a whole entire world because we get to see far-off pockets of it pretty regularly, this is praise now actually. Worldbuilding. Also yaw intermission soon!!
spoiler
the ova and the first movie are both great, if you can stomach comedies about cops being bad at their jobs that understand the problems with policing but also are more concerned with "wouldn't it be funny if the cops had a mech and they kept stepping on peoples cars"
worldbuilding! yeah the world is very well built, though there's always plenty more to be done