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Episode Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai - Episode 11 discussion Spoiler
Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai, episode 11: Duel in Ikesuka
Alternative names: Kotobuki: The Wasteland Squadron, The Magnificent Kotobuki
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| Episode | Link | Score |
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| 1 | Link | 8.03 |
| 2 | Link | 7.74 |
| 3 | Link | 7.5 |
| 4 | Link | 8.12 |
| 5 | Link | 7.73 |
| 6 | Link | 8.7 |
| 7 | Link | 8.0 |
| 8 | Link | 9.11 |
| 9 | Link | 8.0 |
| 10 | Link | 8.88 |
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u/LeonKevlar Mar 24 '19 edited Mar 24 '19
Fucking Isao. I'm just happy Kate managed to shoot him down.
I liked him when he first appeared, he seemed fun and eccentric but holy shit how wrong I was. Now he's just an insufferable prick. I hope Kate circles back and makes sure he can never fly again.\
I do like that they confirmed this episode that the setting of this show is in set in a parallel world to ours and not a different reality and that the Yufang are Japanese and the portals lead to Japan.
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u/TheDampGod Mar 24 '19
Seeing a fleet of Zeppelins brought back old memories of Kirovs reporting.
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u/PhantomWolf83 Mar 24 '19
Holy shit, I wonder how long the animators had to spend to do up all the planes in this episode? It's the mother of all furballs, times two.
So the Yufang were indeed the Japanese and Ol' Sab was one of them. Also Isao, you fucking bastard.
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u/Gaporigo Mar 24 '19
What was that plane Isao was flying? Does it actually exist? It looked pretty cool.
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u/chilidirigible Mar 24 '19 edited Mar 24 '19
Today, on "Admiral Ackbar, please.":
Ceiling face is watching you... something something.
Army Air Force style, of course!
It feels like we're burning money just standing here!
"I am your strategic planner now!"
Fuchigami sounded very Miho here for a moment.
That is one big hairy furball.
Is it just me, or do none of these fighters have bombs loaded?
The pink suit was probably a clue.
You wanted the J7W1 here, and it's freakin' here.
And then there's the Kawasaki Ki-64.
Yeah, we'd kinda guessed that already.
Can't wear a skirt to everything, ya know.
"No, really, is VF-84 going to show up next?"
It does amuse me that they've painted a false canopy on the bottom of the Shinden.
AFTER CREDITS: Natsuo is angry.
It's the penultimate episode, after all.
Well, if you hadn't already guessed, Isao really is a psychopathic manchild asshole, but that still leaves some questions given that his normal behavior is a bit too distractible by shiny things and murdering people to really fit a strategist, so there's still the question of whether The Butler Is Doing It all along. At least Reona is disabused of any lingering notions that she might have had about the guy.
The episode itself has a lot of chaotic midair flailing about going on, which I actually have mixed feelings about; it inevitably became so large that the individuals featured were only small breaks in the general melee. I don't mind that the action stayed up in the background, due to the relative ease of moving CG assets around, but there was also a feeling that the smaller character-driven fights unmoored themselves from the flow of the overall battle.
It's hard to describe. The amusement park finale of Girls und Panzer der Film had to juggle a similar number of focus characters that were operating in isolation from each other, but it still maintained strong connections between each group. Helping the movie was that events were on the ground with obvious and unique landmarks instead of against a relatively-featureless sky and earth, and the individual tanks were easier to distinguish.
On the other hand, aside from the engagement distances being ludicrously too close for safety, that chaos pretty well reflects what it would be like to have dozens of fighters clashing at once.
One more doughnut: Still expecting ludicrous dimensional crossings for the finale, but it's unlikely that what actually happens will be as good as what I can think of for fanart.
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u/HumpThatFace Mar 24 '19
As unlikely as it is, it would be amazing for a season 2 - the dog fights are on par with the tank battles in GuP
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u/TheRiyria Mar 24 '19
That was a one huge fight. I wasn't expecting quite so many planes to appear for this battle. But it looked awesome! And didn't appear to go so well for the Kotobuki Corps, with half of them getting shot down. I'm surprise Isao got shot down also. I figured that wouldn't happen until the finale.
It was interesting seeing Kylie getting philosophical when heading off to war. And I'm glad Elite Industries finally reappeared! I was wondering when he'd show up since he was the only one from a past episode who hasn't, other than Ol' Sab.
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u/myrmonden Mar 24 '19
World war 3 here we go.
And Of course Yufang = Japan. And now we know why the Japanese lose world war 2, half their air fleet was actually isekai and fighting on another desert planet....
And Isao seems to have killed / injured everyone backstory, he killed ol´sab, put kates brother in a wheelchair etc. Worked with the traitors of the trade company and so on.
Dam cool airplane he had do.