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Nondescript gender swapping anime Kämpfer has finally attracted some attention, though perhaps not for reasons which will delight its creators – the above still shows a truly fascinating grasp of physics on the part of the animators in several key respects…

The studio responsible, Nomad, previously animated Rozen Maiden, causing certain scenes to swim sharply into focus:

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    Comment by arielaol
    03:27 16/11/2009 # ! Good (+0.7)

    how many of us didnt notice until the second picture?
    ...
    hehe I had to check twice ^^U

    Comment by Oh No xV3GAx
    03:29 16/11/2009 # ! Good (+0.4)

    I did just because ive seen this picture posted in a post before..

    Comment by loli-kun
    05:11 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    ^ This.
    Old pic is old.

    Comment by Chrouya
    05:28 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    As long as it stays epic fail, fine to me.

    Comment by EroMango
    08:15 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    epic fail pic +1

    so first pic is just mirror physics?

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:28 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    loli-kun where did you get that pic

    Comment by k
    20:17 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    wat's wrong with the blonde?

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:43 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i didn't cuz i don't usually bother counting fingers

    Comment by Zedd
    20:23 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)
    Comment by Anonymous
    05:27 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I assume you mean the hand picture.

    In the mirror one the towel rack is missing in the mirror. Not to mention the fact that she's not mirrored. As then you'd see half her back instead of her front. As you can't show your back to the mirror and have it show your chest.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:53 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think you've found the problem there: they had to go for double the tits.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:11 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    It's not a bug, it's a feature

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:47 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol i noticed that when i was watching the anime. somehow i knew it was going to end up in SanCom

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:47 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    There's a worse picture later. The mirror isn't reflecting at a 180 degrees angle, but at a 90 degrees one!

    I have to be honest. I expected some really smart sexual comedy in Kampfer when I knew what it was about. In the end, I only got a bad plot (with a terrible adaptation - no suspense, no character development, no nothing) with fanservice. Alright, it's a fanservice anime then. Couldn't at least they do the damn drawing right!?

    I had struggled to find Kampfer enjoyable after a friend's insistence that the plot might bring up something good. But with the mirror scene, I really gave up on it. Kampfer has just earned my 2009's worst anime title award.

    Comment by MoeMoeKyunBeam
    03:31 25/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol yeah, in the same scene they show a normal length shirt in the mirror, but in real life it like goes down to her knees. I was like.. wtf. I'm surprised that picture didnt make this post instead of the towel rack one.

    The sexual jokes and whatever had me laughing quite a bit in the first few episodes with Natseru and his partner, but they sort of disappeared

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:19 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    That was probably a last minute censure.

    I have a feeling that the towel rack will disappear altogether in the DVD release.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:36 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's not a mirror, it's a huge TV screen showing the live feed from the hidden camera.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:11 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    if that was the case then you would have tunnel vision cause the hidden camera would also see the tv

    Comment by JadeMatrix
    10:30 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Not if the camera and the projector alternated frames, so that whenever the camera took a frame, the screen was blank....

    Oh never mind.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:12 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's hidden in the towel rack? It's that voyeuristic student council president I tell you. It's gotta be!

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:31 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's not a mirror! They must've had a webcam and a giant flatscreen monitor. And there's a delay in the playback so she's not slouched over in the video monitor. Yeah, that's the ticket! :D

    Comment by Oh No xV3GAx
    03:28 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Fail

    Comment by TNinja
    03:34 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I though I saw this same thing in Sankaku before in a Fail Gallery somewhere. Nice to be reminded though.

    Comment by No Comment
    03:36 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I didn't notice until I saw numbers.

    Comment by Roukou
    03:36 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    What am I looking at for the second one?

    Comment by Sinsumi
    03:46 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    The light reflection on the eye should change when you move in a different angle. :P

    Comment by Rokudaime
    03:50 16/11/2009 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    Who cares about shit like this? get a life! detail freaks.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:54 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Your anger in this case speaks volumes about your own inanity.

    Comment by Nin
    04:10 16/11/2009 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Wait, wait, are you guys sure about this? As far as I can tell, the second and fourth picture are there just to complete the meme purposes this has. Int he second picture, the girl is looking intensely at the first picture, then notices what is wrong. The fourth picture then "occurs".

    Well, anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I got from it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:32 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i have to agree with you nin the close up of the eyes seems to just be a reaction pic rather than a contrasting one

    Comment by Y0k41
    04:42 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I agree with Nin, I mean I thought it was just showing Shinku's reaction to it....

    Comment by motaku96
    04:10 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's just to show shinku's reaction. There's nothing wrong with the second and fourth pic.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:45 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'l give you a hint, count the number of fingers on your hand then do the same for the image.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:51 16/11/2009 # ! Bad (-0.2)

    More like... What are we looking for in the first one?

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:53 16/11/2009 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Mirrors don't work that way.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:53 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    The background has a mirror, so it should be reflecting her back, not her front.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:54 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Plus it isn't reflecting that towel rack in front of her.

    Comment by 13k
    03:55 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    The reflection in the mirror is all wrong. But animating reflections are always troublesome.

    Sidenote, this is why we need Quality Control.

    Comment by 女中 あゆ
    06:22 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Better no reflection then a bad reflection.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:51 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    1. Get a generic figma and a small mirror.
    2. Take a picture of it.
    3. Base yourself on it for the animation.

    There, was that so hard? It took me 5 seconds to notice the "mistake". What's wrong with these people? They literally had HOURS to notice the mistake.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:57 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Mirror perspective fail is actually pretty obvious.

    Comment by RopeXPantsu
    04:11 16/11/2009 # ! Good (+0.4)

    It would have been funny if they had "accidentally" shown the "camera team" in the mirror.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:34 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    id lol cuz that would be fuckin funny

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:00 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    that's something you'd find in Pani Poni Dash

    Comment by NitWit005
    03:55 16/11/2009 # ! Bad (-0.4)

    Everything except that towel rack seems to be mirrored correctly. Although the scale is slightly off. This suggests it may have been added for TV censorship and may vanish in the DVD release.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:21 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You are joking right? They just copypasta'd the girl directly onto the mirror. That's not how mirrors work.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:36 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    They definitely didnt copy paste the girl. The size/angle of the boobs, angle of the sleeves, shape of her hair and angle of her shoulders.

    It would have been a bit more 'sellable' if the character actually remained the same in the so called reflection.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:27 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i'd understand if it was due to lack of time for a rush job or even plain laziness using the old ALT-CTRL-C, ALT-CTRL-V. but unfortunately it isn't... *sigh*

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:28 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    oh sorry... no ALT

    Comment by NitWit005
    14:19 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    If you go actually watch the scene, you'll see his/her reflection is correctly mirrored a lot of the time.

    Comment by Mitsuo Kubo
    04:45 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You really are a Nitwit aren't you?

    Comment by NitWit005
    14:21 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You know, it's not very offensive when you recite someone's user name as an insult. Please try harder.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:14 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So when you look directly into a mirror it shows your back? What kind of fucked up carnival house-of-mirrors attraction does your bathroom look like?

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:06 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    But she isn't looking at the mirror.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:39 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    ...And yet it shows her front. It was an example of a similar failing of physics, please try to keep up.

    Comment by LaughingReader
    04:01 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Every studios(pros or not) have their flaws once in a while or..... their quality checkers are not scientifically qualified(aarggh!!! those are defying the very laws of physics, the essence of the universe, the "u can bend a spoon but can u bend the plate" classic dinner pun)

    Da original artwork is much better(in terms of resolution... duhh)

    On the other finger, the Natsuru ePICT fail(wat u may call it) is well fail because the artist/animators/coloringbook experts?? have forgotten to erase the object(typewriter?) that's hindering the view to Natsuru's(of course female ver.) lower part

    As the saying goes...A tilapia caught is a tilapia eaten
    Well I thought the past article(Aya Hirano now ero-....) picture was Natsuru. hehehe

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:10 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Ahemz

    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=s5xwfq&s=4

    Comment by Chrouya
    05:31 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Now that reminds me of Kamichama Karin, or something. I thought it was that anime, with eyes going all like

    Comment by RopeXPantsu
    04:15 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Why is that room so empty? Gender Swap Isolation Anime?

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:19 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Fuck yea.

    Six fingers...I could use that. (Well....not really, no, but it'd be awesome.) Suigintou never stops to amaze me.

    On Kampfer related news (SPOILER ALERT):

    It's a trap.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:35 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i'd still hit it, the blue haired one that is

    Comment by RopeXPantsu
    07:01 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I wonder if fapping with six fingers feels better.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:49 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I thought he meant an extra finger to shove up his bum since he has gotten so used to only 5.

    Comment by VeriSilvio
    04:20 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Oh wow, i didn't see the 6th finger at first. What the hell O_O

    Comment by Miroku74
    04:55 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Are the animators trying to suggest that Suigintou is an artificially created daughter of Graz'zt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graz'zt#Description]? o_O

    Comment by chibblz
    04:22 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Haha, yeah.. That was bugging me when I was watching the anime too. D:

    Comment by Endersgame
    15:02 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol when I saw this scene in the anime something was bugging me but I couldn't figure out what until now lol :D

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:31 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Am I the only one who noticed her tits look different in the mirror? That was the first thing I noticed, then all the other stuff everyone pointed out already.

    Comment by Chrouya
    05:32 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Because they wanted to show that they fail on purpose.

    Comment by s0mething
    13:54 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Didn't you know? Tits appear 1 size smaller through mirrors.

    21:01 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So if you placed to mirrors facing each other and put someone in the middle, eventually you'll get negative-sized tits?

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:18 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    No, but they'd shrink to zero.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:37 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think they purposely make it like that.....so that they can improve it at DVD version...

    If anything nice...then no need release DVD d..:P

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:37 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think they purposely make it like that.....so that they can improve it at DVD version...

    If everything nice...then no need release DVD d..:P

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:42 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Suigintou's hand MUST have been on purpose... I mean, drawing, coloring, I can't think that THAT picture passed through so many hands without being noticed.

    Comment by Frans
    04:53 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You guys fail! it's intentional! why do we want see someone's back when we can see the front.. more boobs are better! they even took the time to redraw the reflection (yes, it isn't just copy paste...) and make the boobs bigger on the mirror... what more can we ask!

    Kidding aside, fail is still fail of course.. but I tend to ignore this kind of stuff, especially in shows like this.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:58 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    that's not a mirror, it's a parallel universe :<

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:12 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's a MIRRORN DORRAR!

    Comment by Fonzer
    05:20 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    a universe where she has bigger tits and a far more flatter face

    Comment by Chrouya
    05:24 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's a trap!

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:27 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I'd love to see a studio attempt to animate what it looks like when two mirrors are facing each other on opposite sides. That'd be tough.

    Comment by Role
    05:32 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I actually had an issue with the main character's voice as a guy... I dunno, it just doesn't seem to fit the character when he's a guy. While I doubt the DVDs will get a better voice for him, I do hope that screw ups like in that screenshot get corrected...

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:08 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    That first image strongly reminded me of René Magritte's "La reproduction interdite". Look it up, excrete bricks.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:15 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    mirrors don't work that way...

    lol

    Comment by Doragon
    08:09 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    AHH! a six fingered demon-looking-still-kinda-sexy girl with naruto's demon-fox-mode eyes!
    AHH! the kampfer girl has a clone behind a glass instead of being mirrored!
    oh wait!
    and its not even a clone! its someone cosplaying her! couse the mirror one is obviously thinner...

    Comment by Rumia
    08:18 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Oh no.. and I was looking forward to this series if it will actually have "something" in it...
    It's all ruined..

    Comment by destructorv2
    08:42 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    ack! again! damn... i forgot what to write after seeing that giant mistake

    Comment by The_Black_Swordsman
    09:10 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    So many anime with so many fail nowadays... :/

    Comment by The_Black_Swordsman
    09:10 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    *much fail*

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:12 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    at least the mirror image is not a copy paste

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:46 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Some Rozen Maidens have six fucking fingers, so what?

    Comment by Bla7e
    11:49 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Looking more carefully at the picture of Natsuru I'd say that instead of only copying pasting they also inverted the image so in my opinion that's why she has bigger boobs and a flatter face but the only way to notice this is by comparing the sleeves of the real Natsuru and the mirrored one. If you guys do then you'll get what I mean.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:57 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Did you miss the QUALITY grape in episode 3?
    http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/616249

    Comment by Zonic505
    12:06 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    All I care about is waiting for the uncensored versions to be released on DVD. Stupid "keep out" banners.

    Comment by metatron
    12:30 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    QUALITY!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:07 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    The towel rack is definitely a "Censor", it is understandable that it is missing from the mirror. Besides the blatant censoring of panties, they need to do more and add in these stealth censors of panties

    The mirror tho... that is a QC issue

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:52 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Towel rack is a vampire towel rack.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:09 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    The towel is also a vampire.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:45 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    This rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack this rack.

    Comment by MaidNiac
    14:09 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Meh, this is normal if it's made by Xebec..

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:35 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

    22:32 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    it s still a good show

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:45 16/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Why do we all assume mirror in their world works like ours? A crazy world where guy turn into girl, stuffed animals that walk and talk. This is probably how their mirror works.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:00 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    just like a messed up photoshop

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:39 17/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    A six-fingered woman killed my father. Now, at long last, his soul can rest in peace.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:13 21/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    My guess is that the towel rack is actually a vampire, thus it does not appear in a mirror.

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