Next episode. A field will be burning. Fire maidens.

You listened to /a/? That's usually not the best idea.

actually flashbacks do count

otherwise, you just invalidated 6 seasons of Lost

Why the hell aren't there any SnW threads besides this one? This episode answered a ton of shit and no one's talking about it?

I watch it for the plot. Especially that episode with the girl sitting there for 20 minutes waiting on a fucking phone call and doesn't want to piss in a fucking bucket.

>>31927477
too DEEP

No one told you that. Stop lying to yourself and just admit you like watching cute girls doing things.

>>31927540
Yes but I also enjoy watching cute girls dying.

>>31927428
this episode was so friggin good. What more do you want?

>>31927487
We are kind of suprised.
I didn't think that Rio would really leave like that.
What I (and probably most of us) expect is that a new character will enter who will stir up some trouble.
Either that or a time-skip in 2 episodes.

>>31927487
main thread JUST died son

>>31913309
old thread

>>31927487
Don't tell me you missed >>31913309

fine this is new thread. prepping the archive

>>31927583
13 episodes plus 2 DVD only episodes... if those episodes have some cool shit so help me god...

Last three episodes are probably going to have the combat people have been waiting for. The tank seems ready to go.

>>31927583
ANN says 12, even though I still believe it will hit 24 or a second season.

We should take into account that they also listed Railgun to be 12 episode long first.

>>31927619
added

>>31927622
>>31927642

Ah cool. Thanks for the info.

So where were we? Yes of course...

In the episode where Kanata gets sick Rio has a flashback to her mother in bed. Present there was a rather tan man.
We assume that tan folk are generally the people of Roma, Helvetia's enemy.
We assume this is the Holy Roman Emperor which means only one thing:

Rio-sempai will take old cock in order to save her country.

Soranowoto is set after the shit already hit the fan, so the fan is spinning with a couple of shit-caked blades and the shit is unevenly distributed so the fan spins faster when the shitty blade is going downward and slower when the shitty blade is going up due to its weight so it's rocking back and forth and listing to the left and flinging a little bit of shit on every rotation but it's not really flying in big quantities anymore

>>31927428
if you didn't like this episode. I don't know man. It was ridiculously good

Brb, fucking Rio (and my sister).

>>31927722
i mean this in the most positive way it can be taken if there is any confusion

>>31927451
Did anybody else shit bricks when the instrumental version of the festival song came on in this episode?

>>31927775
Hey, just asking, was Commodus the dude who ravished Maximus' wife, or was it a team effort by some Praetorians while he watched. Because dude, then he really deserved to die for that.

>>31927719
Glimmer of hope - the peace talks aren't going well. If tensions mount and armistice is broken, she may not have to.

>>31927775
Why couldn't it have been a German instead? Why Italian?

>>31927722
Interesting.

>>31927722
Yeah, not enough after shit-hit-the-fan scenarios in the world. Kudos to SnW.

>>31927821
Team effort. It was heavily implied she was gangraped.
Somebody shoop Rio into this.

>>31927800
yo man the entire episode had the friggin best music off the soundtrack. And then the duet with amazing grace. fuck man fuck.

AMAZING GRACE GATTAI

>>31927863
Also, he wasn't there when it happened. His exact words were "They tell me your son... etc."

>>31927821
Commodus wouldn't have ridden to a remote farm to just rape someone. He had everything right at home.

>>31927863
>>31927918
Sometimes, I hate my cable TV morality censorship.

so was it explained why Kureha was so into Rio or was it just idolization

>>31927863
Demon = the Emperor
Maidens = wives
Beheading = banging the Emperor until he's satisfied
Water spashing = public bukkake

It all makes sense now!

>>31927719
She's gonna get fucked by Charlemagne and like it?

>>31927975
well remember the original myth. The original demon has a fuck ton of wives/mistresses and the last one killed him.

yeah...

>>31927975
Don't the maidens splash it on the demon?
Futas, fuck yes, Rio's getting bio-engineered.

Rio and an Italian?

Why an Italian?

>>31927955
Kureha is a sheep that fawns over anything and everything. I thought her infatuation with fake Claus made that pretty clear.

>>31928001
>One day in the sixth month, his seventh wife, who had been kidnapped from the village, tricked him into revealing his weaknesses. As he slept, his wives used his hair to cut off his head.

coincidentally, someone had said that Kanata had been on the base so far for 6 months.

>>31927955
The latter. She isn't so DEEP when it came to hero worship - she respected any of her superiors in service. She's got more to do with the orphans, however, unlike that insensitive Kanata.

we can only hope and pray this doesnt get a second season.

>>31928025
Their enemy is Rome/Roma or whatever. So it'll be some tanned, swarthy Italian that sinks his meat into her.

>>31927975
>>31928001
>>31928034
so the legend might not just be some bullshit that they spewed to connect to the giant ass birds.
Also there was a scene where they were looking at this bitch one of the maidens.

>>31928072
OVAs are fine though, right? Because we're getting those. One will probably be serious and the other a throwaway.

>>31928107
>caged maiden
SYMBOLISM.

>>31928042
>she respected any of her superiors in service.
She doesn't worship Filicia. She only worships about four people that we know: Rio, Klaus, Desert Wolf Klaus, and Iriya-koujoudenka. OLOLOL uso japones. HUEHUEHEUHUEHEUE

Wait, maybe by "save the world" Rio's dad wasn't asking her to marry and unite the countries, but to go on a suicide mission and assassinate the king!

>>31928015
No, the Maidens cradle the Demon's head to stop the fire from spilling out and the townspeople splash water on the Maidens.

>>31928025
Fuck you, Italians are awesome. Better an Italian that can treat his women right than some Dutch pig...

>>31928144
well I guess you could say that. But as the comparison picture points out, it's just so people don't steal it.

>>31928107
So perhaps "splashing of water" is quelling the opposing Emperor/Nation until he's/they're no longer a threat.

>>31928157
This would be awesome but it would guarantee Rio's death.

So the U.S. isn't the enemy?

>>31928218
Hence the term "suicide mission"

>>31928222
AFAWK, there's no mention about people beyond the sea.

>>31928222
If anything the U.S. would be the first target to get bombed to death in a global war.

Killing an enemy emperor does nothing. That's why there are succession protocols, crown princes and shit.

Rio's definitely coming back guys. But she's gonna fuck an old guy first. Shit's gonna be crazzy

>>31928316
You want to know whats happening in the United States while Sora no Woto is going on? Go play Fallout.

Has that shit really not had moeblobs? I find that hard to believe

>>31928271
I'd like it to end with Rio teaching her kid how to play the trumpet when she wonders about how Kanata is doing. Then we get a shot of Kanata atop the fortress with a long flowing beard...

>>31928388

>>31928417
I find that first sentence hard to understand.

>>31928417
There are moeblobs. Damaged goods, though.

>>31928222
>So the U.S. isn't the enemy?

I hope we are, Japanese malcontent toward the US is fucking delicious. I liked the way they portrayed us in CANAAN.

>>31928500
>>CANAAN
HO BOY

>>31928565
took me a sec, but oh god..

>>31928408
Or read Gantz

>>31928388
>But she's gonna fuck an old guy first. Shit's gonna be crazzy
DOUJINS HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRREEEEEEEE WE COME

>>31928565

Christ, it wasn't THAT bad.

>>31928676
I liked for the solid action, Yun-Yun and the goddamn Taxi Driver. Everything else was kinda meh.

seems like most of the new parts were probably scavenged off other vector zeros, going by the coloring etc

where they would get that is uncertain

Why is Noel so awesome?

>>31928774
Because she'd suck cocks in her sleep.

im guessing that althought there are only ~10 vectors left, there are probably lots of bits and pieces of others that are usable

>>31928676
Don't lie.

inb4 hurr vlc, i like using it for caps

>>31928774
She's not afraid to deviate from the archetype she's based around?

I'm starting to wonder if that Tank's role in this story is similar to that of the clock in Elfen Lied...

>>31928810
No matter what a genius Noel may be, seems kind of unlikely that 5 teenage girls can repair any kind of armored vehicle. Those legs must weigh tons each.

Also, all the exposed hydraulics on Tank-kun seem kind of impractical for combat.

>Canaan
I hated Canaan because I got into arguements with a guy who liked Canaan.

>>31928913

Never seen EL. What's that role?

>>31929080
Unless the terrain calls for it.

>>31929083
Oh, and girls with guns outgunning men.
I didn't like that either.

>>31927428
I take it you haven't watched much anime, have you? They'll add serious stuff when the show's almost over, so they can have a (hollow) climax with which to end the show.

Oh God the Good bye scene... WTF I hate the fucking Emperor of Rome...

>>31928913
Wait wait wait, if the clock from Elfen Lied is in this then is Bandou in this as well?

>>31929083
>I hated Canaan because I got into arguements with a guy who liked Canaan.

I think that summarizes like half of the hate that's present here.

>>31928913
Eh, maybe. I guess I could see the irony of a machine made for war being completed at the same time as they sacrifice their companion to ensure peace.

>>31929153
They were girls with superpowers versus normal men.

>>31929226
Yeah, but they could've done it RIGHT, like, pic related.

>>31929202
Kraus, although not nearly as bad ass as Bandou, is the closest thing you'll get.

>Same director as EL
>Cute girls in military
>No girls getting raped, maimed or killed

Son I am disappointed.

>>31929272

At least they tried to tie the "super power" to a natural phenomenon. If you can overlook the gross misrepresentation of synesthesia, it was pretty fun. The crazy bitch that got off to getting the shit beat out of her was sweet, and watching a little brown girl beat down delta force was good too.

Episode 1: (:
Episode 2: (:
Episode 3: (:
Episode 4: (:
Episode 5: (:
Episode 6: ((:
Episode 7: D:
Episode 8: |:
Episode 9: |:
Episode 10: ;_;

Thread hijacked. I think we should call it quits for tonight.

>>31929406
> emoticons
Someone kill him.

>>31929360
>he actually likes Elfen Lied

>>31929272
Bandou is an exception. He's a badass normal. The people Canaan fought were, for the most part, nameless mooks.

>>31929406
Episode 1: :/
Episode 2: :|
Episode 3: :)
Episode 4: :o
Episode 5: >D
Episode 6: :)
Episode 7: :D
Episode 8: >(
Episode 9: >)
Episode 10: :D

>>31929454
True, true.
I still don't like the concept of chicks outgunning dudes, though. But ah well, to each their own.

>>31929634
Someone called in S.T.A.R.S.?

The injured soldier is befriended, ends up revealing the empire's DARK SECRET, the rest of the cast goes to rescue Rio, some deus ex machina pops up in the last episode to stop the war anyway.

THIS ANIME IS CALLED So Ra No Wo To. DAMMIT YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR CRYPTIC SHIT

>>31929954
Considering that Noel will finish Tank-Kun in time we might not need a Deux Ex Machine seeing that it will be the only Vector Type-Zero in operation. And an invisible tank that can climb steep buildings and fire rail guns would waste an entire army. So yea I hope the emperor and Rio's dad get killed, they fucking deserve it.

Roman Army?
So they fighting against Italy?

>>31930148

>>31930148

>>31930250

Looks like it, or could be a fourth reich. The holy roman empire all over again, which just happens to also have Italy as part of it.

Wait so was Rome the enemy all along or was it just a third party who is invading Helvetia now?

>>31930634
Rome was the enemy all along. Pay attention to the damn episode.

Christfags are the enemy... they are coming for our 5 maidens.

Nothing Happens - the Anime!

I love how you can FEEL the money they saved for the final episodes watching this one.

>>31930775
WTF are you talking about this episode was awesome. One of the best music this season.

>>31930775

I certainly hope there's going to be some money in the last episodes. When they can't even bother to make a decent eyecatch...

>>31930894
I think your sarcasm detector is broken, it seems to be giving you false positives.

>>31931134
I don't know, I always loved how angry everybody looks in the eyecatch.

>>31930775
THIS.
I was smiling from ear to ear when they had the still-shots of Rio and Kanata playing.

COME ON FINAL BATTLE!

>>31928810
You can picture Noel's black panties just under those pants. Unchanged/unwashed since the last episode

God damn Italian greaseballs trying to start shit

>>31931287

;_; I prefer to believe that mah Noel bathes and does laundry regularly regularly in a marble bath filled with rose petals that no one else knows about.

Sweaty, sleepy Noel is the best.

Stupid episode got me all choked up.

>>31931594
It got a lot of people choked up man.

The ending is pretty damn sad.

AI JOU YUU JOU

No matter how far away you are sound fills the air.
Sound fills the air and reaches people's hearts.

If it wasn't for Amazing Grace this episode would be meh tier, but it managed to be bawww like a little baby tier.

>>31931343
Hey, our emperor just like his women fresh, foreign, and rich. At least he doesn't sell off his only remaining daughter just because his cowardly ass is afraid of our superior Roman military.

>>31928783
i lol'd when i noticed noel was using a vaulting box as a ladder

FLASHBACKS NEVER COUNT FOR YOU PEOPLE, DO THEY
FUCK YOU

fgsfds

Helvetia = US
Rome = Euro

I don't care about the show, but with Michuru Oshima as the music composer, I'd check out the soundtrack.

>>31933932
Helvetia = Switzerland
Rome/Roma = Italy

>>31928756
Kureha reports back to Rio saying they can get anything "there," but where "there" is is never specified.

Probably one of the DVD episodes. One for Kanata finding out about the booze, one for the platoon discovering a ruined spider tank to salvage or something.

what anime is this?

/a/ lied
No-one died

>>31934728

Sora no Woto

so what's happening in strike witches season 2

>>31934736

Cool.

Show of the season

She's gonna regret joining the military when she watches her friends die and she gets captured and raped by the enemy.

People still watch this shit show? LOL

Episode 11 Noel and Kureha dies from a surprise offensive.

Show cuts away to breaking news, a 8.0 Earthquake has struck Tokyo, insurmountable damage to surrounding areas and thousands if not tens of thousands are unaccounted for.

AIJOU YUUJOU

>>31934932
Then 2012 happened.

AIJOU YUUJOU

>>31934932
>breaking news
>from tokyo

You do realise that there's no electronics anywhere, right?

>>31934932
>>31934965

EVERYBODY SINGING

>>31931770
sorami ranata ruined it on my second viewing

Originally, I thought that shit would never hit the fan, but there are two noteworthy hints in this episode:

-They're almost done rebuilding the tank
-The animation was pretty lazy this episode (check out the scene with Rio and Kanata walking through the village, nearly all still frames), so either their budget is starting to run out already (I doubt it's that low, though), or they're saving up for a later episode

brb, checking out preview for next episode

japanesesoldierblowinghorn.jpg

>>31935840
Okay, the description of next episode says that there's a rumor going around about an enemy invasion targeting the fortress, leaving the village and Kanata's group in unease, though the days still pass by brightly. And on one of those days, Kanata and Kureha discovers a wounded girl in a snowfield. However, it turns out said girl was a soldier from Rome.

Yeah, I'm changing my viewpoint here, we're probably going to see them fighting off a small invasion.

I'm looking forward to the doujins of Rio being plowed by the emperor of Rome, initially hating the degradation of having to trade her body and her freedom to stop war from reigniting and only grudgingly fulfilling her wifely duty, but she surely enough as she's pumped again and again she begins transforming in a slut who loves the taste of kingly seed and ends up on her knees alongside the other consorts begging to be impaled on a big powerful cock until her moaning cries of orgasm echo in the sky and far, far away kanata hears japanese soldier playing horn.

why do you guys want Rio rape doujins so bad? I understand this /a/ and all but... she doesn't deserve that

>>31936031

but why was she wounded if fighting has not started yet? Hmm...

>>31936192
>she doesn't deserve that
yes she damn well does

>>31936207

no she doesn't.

meh, this is stupid thing to argue about LOLOLOLOl SLUUUTS SLUUUTS BITCHES AND WHORES LOL SLUUUTS

>>31936158

>>31936192
There are ways to get wounded without fighting, you know. Like falling down stairs.

>>31931134
>>31931178
I like that eyecatch. Kanata's "DERP" face makes me laugh every time.

>>31936231
Well, considering that this is the current military strength of Roma...I'd surrender too.

>>31936231
>>31936231
>>31936231

It's confirmed, then.

SHE IS A SLUT.

>>31936733
Nothing confirmed until we have actual visual proof. C'mooooon drawfags!

>>31936757
If she's married off she will not be a slut.

Also Roma = mormon or muslim nation with the whole polygamy issue. They will also probably be a mix of different cultures.

So the peace talks failed because the Roman emperor didn't get his new waifu, and things may get better if they give him one? WTF, a king is goes to war just because of (a lack of) a woman and the country is ok with this???

>>31936961
It's a bit more complex issue. Giving him a princess to marry is just a cheap way out for Helvetia. If not they may have to pay with land, resources, money or what not.

>>31927642
>ANN says 12, even though I still believe it will hit 24 or a second season.
No way. There's already a show announced on the same timeslot next season.

Hopefully these Romans are Romans and not Italians. Maybe the Americans are a third party and was the French tank Helvetian or the enemies?

SnW S2 confirmed for late 2011

>>31937396
They did refer to it as a holy empire. Was Rome seen as a holy empire back in the day?

On one hand, it would be cool if there were people trying to rebuild Ancient Rome after an apocalypse, but on the other hand, they sound like a bunch of douchebags.

>>31929423
Don't tell me that's the only piece of h-fanart so far.

>>31937461
source?

>>31937549

troll

>>31937507

the Holy Roman Empire was Germany

>> "Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutsche Nation"

>>31937581
ah

>>31937546
I was gonnna go to pixiv to check how much there and call you an idiot for suspecting there's only one picture, but then I found this picture, which is much more interesting that that.

Let's discuss this picture instead.

>>31937659
Yeah, that came to mind when they said "holy" and "Roma", but I don't really think that's the first thing people would want to rebuild after the apocalypse.

>>31937688
It was actually a covert request to post more.

>>31937721
>implying if you had the chance to rebuild countries you wouldn't rebuild the fucking holy empire of Rome

>>31937688
Lolicon and he seems a nice enough guy to have her.

>>31937774
Just get a pixiv account, bro.

God damnit, this episode made me cry girly, bitch tears.

>>31937774
There's only a handful of decent porn on pixiv, sadly. The one posted isn't even on there - it's from a *booru according to the filename.

>>31937906
a touching episode. i can easily see where they were going with this, yet... it doesn't quite come out well if you ask me.

all in all SnW has had that same overall feeling, as if i know where they're going, but the execution seems off

but then again i suppose if you're not an oldfag like me and have seen the other animes i wouldn't be as cirtical as much?

Excluding ep 8 I have no whines about way SnW's been handled. Easily best show of the season.

>>31939480
>Excluding ep 8
You can't stand a bit of humor?

>>31938822
I am pretty certain I saw it on pixiv. It's just not tagged with it. Might be ahegao or something else I searched.

>>31939556

no no, it was ok episode. It was however very lite on actual content in comparison to all the rest. It could've used bit more meat around its bones

and I don't think watersports in the end was really necessary

>>31938822
unless you count the pieces with scenery porn. Gotta love how much of that Sora no Woto have inspired.

THE KING OF TERROR IS HERE!

SURRENDER YOUR MOEBLOBS OR FACE OBLITERATION!

so tsundere

so same old bitch from episode one? she does mention that kanata has gotten better

>>31941048
they're with the same young girl

>>31941058
>>31941048
lost a lot of weight

>>31928425

if you look at the photo album you could see dates underneath the persons names. Some have just one date and others have two
(birth and death)

>>31941120
so if this was 2 years ago then right now it's A.P. 271

from kureha's banter it doesn't seem like the countries were fighting over anything important. They seemed like they were just fighting just to win.

>>31941149
Is it safe to guess that the A.P. convention started after the end of the Old Era war?

>>31941225
Or the date when people started caring to take down dates again.

>>31941149
So when did they start their dating system? Anno P-something or other, maybe when the war with the bird things was over?

I guess I missed something important or I'm just retarded or both. anyway, somebody bring me up to speed. why did rio leave?

I'll keep your Rio.

>labyrinth
was this mentioned in the other subs?
It feels like a reference to the legend.

Just dropping by to say

Great show.

oh yeah rubbing the ring finger. YOU'LL NEVER GET THAT RING OLD LADY

guys it's just shuko with a cloth over his head at the window.

>Fall asleep
>Wake up
>This thread is still going
Jesus fucking christ!

so kanata's giong to marry a trumpet...

stupid snow bunnies

>03/09/10(Tue)00:06
>03/09/10(Tue)10:29
>Thread's been going for ten hours

fuuuuuuuu the tears ;-;

she left her with the power to stop the rain and summon the sun

SURELY WILL ECHO.
I like echo and reach translation. Goes along with the translation of the ending. Feels good bro

>>31941584

episode was an emotional ride. best episode ever

http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/84519/annot/

wow, these kids sure suck at building snowmen...

>>31941568
weren't those things in kanon or some other magical-drama moe show too?

>>31941589
was in bitch tears

>>31941760

yeah I think it was kanon

Rio's gone. She's off to save the damn world

>>31941886

Rio is just too awesome

could someone post screencap from ep 9 jazz trumpetah scene - the one where she looks pretty goddamn angry (closeup, in other words)

if they fight rome and have pretty much no military strength left, wouldn't that mean that rome is their only enemy?

I'm not looking for a grimdark or violent end, but just once in the series I want to see them fuck some shit up with Tank-kun.

>>31941910
I don't remember if it got closer than this.

Nothing will happen, and it's a shame.

Woah what the fuck? I was about to go in and start hating on this for copypasta, but this is the same thread I went to sleep to?

why do they use a japanese axe (at least it was called an axe in higurashi) in europe?
also, i never understood the design, aren't our axes more effective with their leverage and massive peace of steel at the end?

>>31941918
we've seen that france is a dead desert, maybe germany was fucked in the war too?

>>31942018
yes but I doubt they know about those things

>>31941948
Same here, that's why I still watch it. Only to be disappointed every fucken time. Shit is a show for minors. It's like a pretty Heidi.

>>31942018

aren't those blunt on the opposite site, which lets you hammer om them to easily split wood?

of course, could also just be animu making no sense.