Canaan 4 – 6 » Get Some Get Some
Posted by 0rion on August 25th, 2009 - 8:30 pm
“Get some!”
I’m sure this is exactly how terrorists behave in real life.
Somehow I feel like this should be “the rejected Nintendo Wii commercial”. Fun for the whole family… if your family happens to consist of crazy siscon maniacs and masochist henchmen. Maybe cut to Liang Qi playing Mario Party 8, you know. At least that would explain why she seems so furious.
But man, if nothing else CANAAN is certainly generating lots of fodder for the internet meme-factories to work with. Between this and “LOVE AND PEACE”, CANAAN is a definite leader when it comes to legendary Engrish.
The random bathroom fight sequence between Canaan and Alphard was entertaining on so many levels.
Kabitzin opines that:
While Canaan may be a great shot, she needs some serious work on her close quarters combat. I have not been put in this exact same hold, but I am 85% sure that grabbing the attacker’s ass is not the proper defense.
So there’s a 15% chance that it is the correct defense?!
Although, to be fair, if your opponent is strong enough to pin you against the wall by your throat, legs completely off the floor, using only her forearm, there probably aren’t too many good counter techniques.
And now that I think about it, although it looks awkward, technically Canaan does have an underhook from the clinch there. Maybe she was looking to drop her weight and execute a judo throw?
My favorite part of the fight scene was actually this shot right here, where we only see their stance and leg movements and have to infer the other details of the fight. This is a common technique used in Hong Kong martial arts films, so it was nice to see it used here as well.
I really enjoy this style of cinematography because it emphasizes the fact that footwork is the foundation of any stand-up fighting discipline. You can actually get a pretty good feel for what’s happening even though you only see the combatants from the knees down.
Or maybe they just like animating lots of leg fanservice. Legservice?
Ponyo by the sea he’s not
You know there’s something seriously wrong when a Japanese person looks at a fish and has that kind of reaction. Considering that Japanese people are freaking hardcore and regularly eat things that would cause most Americans to flip out, it takes something pretty bizarre to give them pause.
Of course, with that hair and eye color Maria is so not authentic Japanese anyway, so perhaps it’s a moot point.
The scene where Yun Yun leaves her boat was surprisingly poignant, I thought. She is literally leaving her old life behind, having packed all of her earthly possessions in that backpack of hers and left her home boarded up.
We haven’t really seen the significance of Yun Yun giving Maria a key to the boat yet in the story. I really do hope that plot point comes back later in the story, though, if only because that boat is incredibly awesome.
I was a bit surprised at first that Canaan would actually help Yun Yun out by showing how to shoot a gun. It makes sense, though, because of her synesthesia. She knew from the beginning that Yun Yun did not have the “intent to kill”, and thus there was no danger.
“198! 199! 200! 200 sticks of dynamite, ah ah ah!”
I love taking screenshots totally out of context.
The look on Maria’s face was priceless, too. No reaction from Canaan, though. Just part of the normal routine for her, eh? Or maybe she wasn’t concerned because she saw that Mino didn’t have the color for “rape and pillage”. Whatever color that might be.
“I see what you did there.”
Here’s one more.
“All hail Brittania!!”
LOVE AND PEACE!
I really think this is supposed to be a social commentary on how the rest of the world views American foreign policy. Lots of energetic and (mostly well meaning) bravado about how we all need to understand each other for the sake of LOVE AND PEACE, but in the end no real solutions, just lots of empty platitudes.
Gotta infect ‘em all!
OK, now this was the one big letdown for me in what has been an otherwise fun and creative series. I understand that they aren’t going for realism, but so far they’ve mostly stayed in the realm of “unrealistically awesome”.
This chibi anime terrorist avatar was so terribly out of place with what had been a fairly serious hostage crisis scene up until that point. At first I laughed awkwardly. It got old real quickly, though. Eventually I threw slices of cheese at the monitor.
I’ll stick with “get some”, thanks. Oh well.
Awesome animated gif!
As for pinned Canaan, I don’t think she has underhooks. It looks like Alphard threaded her own arm through both of Canaan’s arms and Canaan’s body. I’m guessing the correct defense sequence is:
1) Grab Alphard’s ass (right?)
2) Grab Alphard’s hair and pull back hard, or cup hand and clap her ear, or poke eyes
3) Immediately pull guard and wrap legs around her waist while keeping her right arm pinned against your back with your right hand. Hopefully this will drag Alphard to the ground.
4) Make out (right?)
Canaan’s main problem is probably that she is lifted up in the air.
Poor Liang is probably over-compensating for her lack of getting some Alphie-oneesama. I wonder what she would she say about the toilet flirting by fighting scene?
Awesome post, had me laughing a lot. I don’t get the hate for the animated thing though. I laughed my ass off at that thing! It was great. Reminded me of Edward from Cowboy Bebop, using little cute buttons to hack big things.
But maybe I’m biased, because I still can’t find anything to dislike about Canaan lol
I dunno but I actually thought that fish looked delicious o_o Maybe because I’m chinese and curry fish head happens to be quite the common dish where I live.
And I’m not sure about reflecting what the rest of the world thinks about American foreign policies – my brain didn’t get that far during that scene since my face was busy getting painfully slammed into my palm.
@ Kabitzin
Nah, Canaan’s got no ground game. She’d probably get mounted immediately. (right?)
@ Zyl
This is just a wild guess here, but I’ll go out on a limb and say her response would probably be… “Get some!”
@ digitalboy
It’s funny when Ed does it because the audience knows that Ed is a decidedly non-serious character. When the Snakes do it, it ruins what little credibility they still have as a legitimate SRS BSNSS terrorist organization.
I dunno; really it’s my only major gripe with the series so far.
@ Jason
Heh, I can definitely empathize with the pain of the inevitable meeting of face and palm during that episode.
but it was Liang Qi’s idea, and she’s a certifiable fucking psychobitch with the mind of a small child.
Also, the whole terrorist using cartoons thing is common in anime. It happens other times in CB, like with Teddy Bomber, or in Ghost in the Shell with the Laughing Man. Terrorists love to fuck around with the people they are intimidating. It makes the enemy seem that much more helpless and ridiculous that they are being so easily fucked with by such a cartoony creature.
I’m trying to think of where else I’ve seen this, I know it’s been done in some movies before.
LOL first image rocks
, anime is pretty good, a bit sad.
the first image rocks :> yeah … geting some :>