Reichu: That's an aerial shot, in case you can't tell.

(repeat)

Sharp-kun: Ah, youth...

Soluzar: Youth be damned; Kensuke is as nutty as a fruitcake. How many kids play war all on their own? He's an unhinged loon, I tell you! He's also sort of impossible to dislike. I don't know why. Maybe because Kensuke is my kind of eccentric tech-nerd. ;)

Dr. Nick: I used to play war alone when I was a kid, since I was a little moron. And I didn't have any fancy guns or other gadgets, just sticks and stones. Luckily, retardedness was mostly beaten out of me in junior high, and I grew up to be the fine male specimen I am today.

Reichu: The best part of the episode. I mean, come on. It's Kensuke playing with himself!

Sharp-kun: That pun makes Sharp-kun cry. T_T

Treize X: I LOVE this sequence. It's SO funny.

Mr. Tines: Ah, sweet cliché, reminiscent of every tale of GIs slogging their way up past Monte Cassino (a common setting for war comics in my youth).

Otaprince: This scene reminds me of the airgun game in FLCL, which is also played in a field, and of the scene in Honneamise. [Pic]

OMF: Also, the sound effects for the grass is quite well done. Good foley work here.

He gets up.
"Captain!!"

Then he rolls over, striking a pose with half his body raised.
  "Go. Aida, keep going!"

Then he gets up and assumes a grieving pose.
  "But I won't go without you!"

He rolls again and punches.
  "You fool!!"

Reaction to getting struck.
  "Ugh!"
His ridiculous one-man show over, he plops onto the ground.

thewayneiac: Yep, Kensuke's a strange duck.

Reichu: Lying in the grass and watching the evening sky is a rather appealing "down with nature'" sort of thing to do. I would do it more often if I weren't afraid of attracting a certain blood-sucking arachnid. (Lyme's isn't fun.)

OMF: I've just realised, I haven't done this in years. Must arrange a sky staring session soon.

Reichu: Kensuke looks like a servant of the undead in the bottom shot.

Mr. Tines: Last sunlight reflecting off lenses -- just like Gendo.

Reichu: Although with the gun (which, in silhouette, we wouldn't know is just a model) slung at his side, Kensuke actually looks somewhat more ominous. Heresy, I know.

Treize X: This is the only time we ever see Kensuke in his military fatigues.

thewayneiac: Okay, I only allow one violation of the law of incredible coincidence per episode, and this is it.

Sharp-kun: Stunned by what? Meeting Kensuke, or the idea that someone actually recognises him?

Hexon.arq: Stunned by the incredible coincidence thewayneiac called.

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