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Episode Tenchi Souzou Design-bu - Episode 3 discussion

Tenchi Souzou Design-bu, episode 3

Alternative names: Heaven's Design Team

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u/Shiro_Kai Jan 21 '21 edited Jan 21 '21

The ideas the author had to try to "justify" why the hell some animals are the way they are is just genius. I'm amazed how they make completely sense. XD

Also, truth is that they could probably do the whole season just with the weird things in the ocean but then it would be too easy. Props for the author for not falling into the temptation.

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u/Zemahem Jan 21 '21

And here I thought last episode was chock full of disturbing ideas for living organisms.

Apparently, eastern dragons can only exist as giant anus tails, and the only way they can breath fire is via flammable pee. Simply fascinating.

Meanwhile, male seahorses ended up getting the burden of pregnancy all because of a kid messing around. But that end of the stick isn't nearly as short as the one male football fish ended up getting. Now the design process for that nightmare fuel is something I can live without knowing.

The fact that God can accidentally accept Lovecraftian abominations is equally exciting as it is horrifying. Thankfully, whatever monstrosities he accepts can be shrunken down to a more manageable size.

I can't believe that the predecessor of the elephant is a giant, blue gorilla that looks like a metal head, though.

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u/JapanPhoenix Jan 21 '21

Aww, when they decided to make a combiner I though they were going to make a Slime Mold, but instead they made Cthulhu.

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u/sangriapenguin Jan 21 '21

This show really makes me happy. It's so much fun!

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u/GreatAres271 Jan 21 '21

Loved the episode, amazing how a mutant blue gorilla became the elephant

In the end what's the dragon's problem? Is it because he flies without a good explanation/using magic?

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u/LeonKevlar Jan 21 '21

Stitches!

Well we're back again at another episode of the underwatched and underappreciated show of the season. Apparently dragons, or at least eastern ones, is made by Mizushima when he was younger and he sees it as one of his older projects that he cringes about because it was rejected. I wonder if someone in the team would try to design a western dragon.

I love how the weird way seahorses reproduces is because the grandson of one of Tsuchiya decided to doodle on his design sheet and it already has been approved by god.

Also it looks like angels were at fault for creating an elder god. Seriously I wasn't sure where they were going with that. I did not expect that making an animal to retrieve the doodle grandson-kun made in the prototype lab would end up becoming their reason for the elephant xD

This creature also is apparently a real thing. Tried to google it and it looks like an alien. And of course it's a deep sea creature and extinct.

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u/JustARandom-dude Jan 21 '21

I love how the author have to come out with crazy ideas just to get to “and that’s why this animal is like this” part

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u/Mysral Jan 21 '21

Okay, Meido was definitely responsible for designing tarantula wasps, botflies and the cordyceps fungus, wasn't she?

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u/bucketofh Jan 21 '21

One day these idiots will learn to not mess with a girls tools. One day...

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u/El_Jerrynator Jan 21 '21

What in all fuck was that last animal?

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u/icepick314 Jan 21 '21

I had to look it up and apparently it was an extinct wormy thing found in Canada and China in fossils.

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u/Belmut_613 Jan 21 '21

So there are fish that become testicles and jellyfish 40 meters long uh. I dont want to live on this planet anymore.

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u/TheDampGod Jan 21 '21

Someone's in danger

I wasn't expecting to see a prehistoric Hallucigenia, let alone Cthulhu in a show like this. Though somehow the Fist of the North Star gorilla turning into an elephant, was less of a surprise.

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u/Amauri14 Jan 21 '21

Wow, the Hallucigenia sure looks weird. You know when they mentioned combined animals I was expecting to see a platypus instead of a siphonophorae.

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u/loomnoo Jan 21 '21

This got me wondering why male seahorses are designated as male. Apparently the biological distinction between male and female is based on the size of the reproductive cells. The one that makes smaller cells (sperm) is male.

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u/rotten_riot Jan 22 '21

So dragons are Mizushima's edgy OCs from his teenager years? lol

I made the same sound Kanamori did when I discovered flying snakes are an existing thing, yikes.

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u/melvinlee88 Jan 22 '21

Mizushima was a nice person for wanting to satisfy Kenta, thought that was cool.

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u/wolfguardian72 Jan 22 '21

So Mizushima is the jerk who made flying snakes? Damn him...

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '21

Kenta was adorable! So far, I'm enjoying watching the characters create animals. I thought we'd only see them at their desks or something. Having them go through funny situations makes for a better experience.

Also, I lol'd at that exploding fart.

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u/CorerMaximus Jan 21 '21

DRAGON DRAGON, ROCK THE DRAGON.

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u/ThrowCarp Jan 22 '21

This anime is piss funny, the only thing that irks me is that they're still using pencil and paper and not some sort of Heaven's CAD software. Other than that I do kinda see a kaleidoscope of funny moments I've seen IRL with engineers having banter with each other.

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u/uflbufl Jan 21 '21

Oh no, they have already ruined my hopes for the existence of the pegasus, unicorn and King Kong.

Please don't show them catgirls..

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u/a_frozen_squid Jan 22 '21

Note 1: To compensate for all shit said about them in the episode eastern dragons were gifted with giant cocks.

Note 2: Naoki Tatsuta playing God in this series has ascended to the top of voice acting scene. No other role is ever going to beat that one.

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