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 As Knights of Sidonia seems to be well-recieved here, this show seems to kinda be that, only in Tokyo instead of a spaceship. Either most of the world or some section of it is covered in a black hellscape darkness with metallic...alien...things roaming around, and it is the job of our cast of dysfunctional teens to save the world in their mecha. Personally it kinda reminded me even more of Fafner in the Azure (which I probably liked way more than anyone else did), with a more ensemble cast focus over revolving simply around one protagonist with his buddies in the background, and a big difficulty in telling them apart onscreen since there's a lot of them and they look quite similar. Also they have a mysterious past secret linking them and the evil alien assimilators have...some method of empathy possible? First episode was somewhat confusing and tough to follow, but the show has a lot of good names behind it, and there's some solid intrigue into what's going on. Though it took me halfway into the episode to tell the three girls apart - normally you see a character with too much under eyeshadow and kinda identify them by that, but apparently all the female characters have the same sort of eyes. Hrm. In any case, I know I'll be following, since I am always a sucker for giant robots. I haven't even gotten around to dropping goddamn Daimidaler or Dai-Shogun, probably sticking with this way more promising one. Hopefully it doesn't get muddled by taking the plot in fanfic directions like way too many robot shows over the past year or two. edit: okay i guess i will have to remember to pick a tag next time Gyra_Solune fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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It does seem to me that...lighting is a very serious problem in shows with CG nowadays. It happened with Majestic Prince, Symphogear, Valvrave, Buddy Complex, and a few more I can't remember. Occasionally things just get much dimmer than they ought to be and it's somewhat jarring.
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Apr 27, 2014 19:20
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Oh yes it is Hirai as gently caress, the main character looks practically identical to Shinn Asuka. Show seems to be divisive, some people love it, some people really don't! and i kinda feel like most people were just sorta 'meh' on it. opinions!
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Apr 28, 2014 12:46
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Yeah this episode was pretty...silly and ridiculous. They've got some explaining to do.
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Apr 30, 2014 13:20
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Yeah, this show is very shaky and hard to get a good read on what it's trying to do. It has enjoyable aspects and good things going for it, but no real idea of how to actually use them. I feel like mad scientist dude isn't evil or anything, just...overenthusiastic. We've been a bit jaded on those sorts over the past few years since they've all been awful horrible villains, but yeah.
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May 6, 2014 22:21
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Whatever is it about this Bliss Stage that results in a suicide emoji? And from the description it doesn't seem that much like this show, that implies that there's lots of weird love polygons all over the place, where here everyone's just classmates with closer ties here and there.
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May 14, 2014 12:37
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...So that was a pretty hosed-up episode. The show in general is taking a turn for the hosed-up really. Hopefully things don't keep getting endlessly worse for Emiru, what with having Heito all in her head constantly.
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May 21, 2014 22:54
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...so I think I get this now. This show is all about psychopaths and using their craziness to power robots and have them punch the aliens. It is Neon Genesis Getter Robo. Finally I understand what M3 is going for. ...this promises to be one hell of a...a thing.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:39
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Yeah, mostly what's changed is...well, we get a handle on who all these characters are, and now it's entertaining to see how much of a wreck they all are.
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Jun 5, 2014 19:02
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I think the Serious poo poo phase is starting now, holy crap. Too bad Sasame had to go and get LIM-ified, but then, it was kinda inevitable. The whole alien-corpse-mecha-cancer thing pretty much spells it out. At least it's a cool robot! And Heito has seriously been hanging out of Sable's cockpit like that for...it's gotta at least be a week by this point. And right in the center of alien-corpse-mecha-cancer Chernobyl. I'm astonished he's not a pile of crusty metal by now, given that a thirty-minute walk started eating at Akashi's suit.
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