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04-16-2024, 11:20 PM | #871 |
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Speaking of Sentai-inspired anime, has anyone else taken a look at Sentai Daishikkaku? Looks like only two episodes have aired, and, yeah, Sentai is fully baked into its premise, as the story is told from the perspective of a villain-army grunt soldier. I'm diggin' it.
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04-16-2024, 11:54 PM | #872 |
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Even if this is offtopic for this section, I'll still write it. Dogengers and The Boys are two sides of the same coin. Yin and Yang, White and Black, Ahuramazda and Ahriman, Fear and Laughter. Even the plot is mirrored. There is a world where completely unheroic and very corrupt superheroes live, among whom there is a stern guy in black. An ordinary guy accidentally runs into them because of a girl, and then a stern man who loves to shove exploding things into the villains' ass gives him the opportunity to find out more about them. Our hero uses it and this is where the difference shows up. And even the structure of subsequent seasons is both similar and opposite. A new villain/hero appears, interacts with everyone, and then disappears/remains.
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Even if this is offtopic for this section, I'll still write it. Dogengers and The Boys are two sides of the same coin. Yin and Yang, White and Black, Ahuramazda and Ahriman, Fear and Laughter. Even the plot is mirrored. There is a world where completely unheroic and very corrupt superheroes live, among whom there is a stern guy in black. An ordinary guy accidentally runs into them because of a girl, and then a stern man who loves to shove exploding things into the villains' ass gives him the opportunity to find out more about them. Our hero uses it and this is where the difference shows up. And even the structure of subsequent seasons is both similar and opposite. A new villain/hero appears, interacts with everyone, and then disappears/remains.
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Yesterday, 06:26 PM | #875 |
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Now she just needs to appear in season 2 of Futo PI!
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Episode 13: Code EVE I can't believe this show came along and combined a Kikaider finale with a GARO one! Joking aside, this is the sort of ending that I could see some finding contentious, given the big twist that it immediately pulls. Said twist being that Roy, Rouge's' father, was the one behind everything. He even pre-programmed and altered the personalities and memories of the Immortal Nine(which I totally called), meaning he's the source of the Rebellion. And while I won't argue that such a twist can be seen as harmful to the show's' overall message, I personally take a much more optimistic approach to the entire thing, and feel as though that, with Rouge activating Code EVE of her own free will at the end, it instead works towards an additional, other message. Essentially, it doesn't matter if Roy, Eva, or anyone else started this entire mess. What matters is what the Neans decided to do with their own lives going forward. Yes, Roy might've been the one who brought forth the idea of Nean equality just so he could watch the chaos that would ensue, but that doesn't in turn mean that Neans still being treated as people is therefore an inherently bad thing. Really, it's no different for people growing up. Our upbringing and our environment instill our base core values and attitudes, the ways inwhich we choose to carry them and evolve throughout our lives is what will have the most impact in the end. Even if they don't end up resulting in anything and grandiose as changing the whole world, they absolutely change the world in us, as well as affecting those around us. I won't say that this ending is perfect, as just like last episode they gun through alot of different ideas rather quickly, and we don't even get proper epilogues for every character left alive by the end, I do feel that, like a vast majority of the show, they focused on the things that mattered most. And for that, I am mostly satisfied. Though I will say, I still vouch for getting a Prequel OVA at some point. And maybe an epilogue episode would be nice too. There's still so much more of this world to unpack, and I'd love to see more. Final thoughts on Metallic Rouge as a whole will be posted tomorrow night.
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There's something amusing about the dub punching up Naomi's dialogue in Episode 5 from "I want to save you" to "I want to save you like a Knight on a Horse". I doubt the JP run was on the final episode when they dubbed Episode 5, and I'm unaware of how much they knew of what was going to happen ahead of time. But how did they manage to basically alter a line and nail what happens in Episode 13 so perfectly?
Which is to say, Rouge gets a Final Form thanks to Naomi and a trick from earlier in the run. And admittedly when we saw Naomi give her ID to Rouge last time I thought we were going to get Winged Metal Rouge from the OP. Was not expecting Metal Rouge+ as an actual form in which she gets a fancy medieval styled energy shield alongside her usual blade. This was a packed finale, but between us reaching the full culmination of Rouge and Naomi's friendship alongside the fantastic performance Roy put on, and how bittersweet Cyan's ending was, I think it pulled it off well enough. But as the name of the episode implies, and as we've been building up to, this is about whether or not Code Eve will activate. And I think that was the most important part given well, we only have 13 episodes and even if we had more I doubt even a 2 cour season is enough to actually dismantle oppressive systems and class divides like what we've seen over the course of the show. What we do get shown I think works out pretty well though. It's a big unknown but one our main characters are optimistic about. Who knows what will happen when it's all said and done? But they want to think on the bright side. And I do kind of love how the final scene ties into Rouge's declarations during the latter half of the series. How she will "protect the freedom of Humans and Neans", which fits with her being the only combatant on a battlefield swarming with Usurper war machines. They don't need to be dragged into this pointless fight, if aliens want to cause trouble she'll deal with them herself. And yet it doesn't feel like this bleak overwhelming situation for her as it's just business as usual between her and Naomi, transforming to fight another day as we fade to white. |
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