GorfZaplen posted:

The Colonel posted:

Silver2195 posted:

It's a good show, but I don't understand the praise it gets for the Mesoamerican inspiration, because it's so superficial. People who make fantasy anime can't imagine a setting without horses, apparently.

To be fair, there's a reason for this: the original LNs didn't have much vivid description of architecture, etc., so the anime people added the stepped pyramids and so forth.

boom boom boom posted:

I disagree ith that completely. You may be right, and I may be reading purpose into it here there is none. But I think Robotics;Notes kne exactly hit it as doing. The entire thing, all the plot lines and the characters, are essentially a Rube Goldberg machine. It all builds up to and comes together at the moment hen Akiho realizes that the robot she built actually is going to defeat evil and save the orld. The last to episodes are the most cliche giant robot story possible, but the route it takes to get there is so circuitous and eird, it's just onderful.

As I said, I might just be forcing meaning onto hat is just bad story-riting, and even if I'm right I understand hy other people don't care for it, but it hit my taste just perfectly.