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04-06-2014, 05:27 PM | #3281 |
Kawaii 5-0
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Checked out my first two picks for this anime season - Captain Earth and Daimidaler.
Captain Earth really is Eureka Seven meets Star Driver, and with those being two of my absolute favourite shows this has some real potential. The story didn't explain a lot (in fact it was pretty confusing) but it had E7 written all over it - the character design, the fashion,weird children with odd coloured hair. Meanwhile the mecha was totally Star Driver - what I assume was the villains had mecha that looked like they were lifted straight out of it, while the main mech was essentially a bulkier, blockier version of Taubarn. Exciting stuff. Daimidaler on the other hand - well that was a thing. A high school kid pilots a crappy looking robot and powers it by fondling women's boobs. He battles the Penguin Empire, which is made up of people in penguin suits (which bizarrely all have boners) piloting penguin-esque mecha with crotch cannons. Oh Japan, what will you think of next? It was pretty terrible, but the kind of terrible that you can't help but to want to watch more.
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04-06-2014, 08:27 PM | #3282 |
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I finished watching Captian Earth just now myself.
I've seen someone compare it to Valvrave, and I do see a few similarities here and there…the high school theme and super hacker girl for one thing but also a lot of the visual elements too. Still, I think this series has potential. There wasn't a lot of back story but what was there could be interesting. Also, the show's got some gorgeous animation. |
04-06-2014, 08:53 PM | #3283 |
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If I had to describe Captain Earth in one word it would be: Beautiful.
It's hard to judge mech shows by their first ep, since most follow the same exact format, but it had interesting ideas and it was simply a very good looking show, I mean dang, it's frigging pretty. |
04-06-2014, 10:27 PM | #3284 |
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Yes it was. And there was actually some danger involved. I guess they didn't show the other ones because they said no one had died in a while. I just thought the best moments of the show were when people got put to the choice of potentially dying. And seeing the ways some died in the game and how the people trapped dealt with that emotionally. It's hard for me to imagine people would deny that the death were real and go around killing people for fun. I mean, I guess there would be some but you'd think the others would put an end to that fast. I guess most people were just playing it safe and hoping for someone, in-game or out, to save them. Most of the time, yes. Like I said, I typically won't watch live action dubbed. Just got to make the best of it if I do. |
04-06-2014, 11:58 PM | #3285 |
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I think I'm going to give Captain Earth and Knights of Sidonia a try after their first few episodes are out. I don't like watching anime once a week these days because you need a few episodes to decide if the show is good enough to continue or not.
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04-07-2014, 12:05 PM | #3286 |
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Arc V is... fairly different.
Now it's all about Action Duels, essentially, the holograms are solid now so the players can interact with their monsters as well as find Action Cards scattered amongst the field. In these shows the characters always get the perfect card at the perfect moment, but by making them find them instead of drawing them it feels somewhat cheaper. It was interesting but I doubt I'll get very far. |
04-07-2014, 12:29 PM | #3287 |
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Arc V is... fairly different.
Now it's all about Action Duels, essentially, the holograms are solid now so the players can interact with their monsters as well as find Action Cards scattered amongst the field. In these shows the characters always get the perfect card at the perfect moment, but by making them find them instead of drawing them it feels somewhat cheaper. It was interesting but I doubt I'll get very far.
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04-07-2014, 12:31 PM | #3288 |
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I know, I watched it subbed.
*Edit: Sorry I misunuderstood your question for an affirmation. Yes, it it subbed. Last edited by algo448; 04-07-2014 at 02:15 PM.. |
04-07-2014, 01:32 PM | #3289 |
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Finally got to see episode 59 of Fairy Tail, Nirvana Arc is ending & shit's getting about as real as it can get with Fairy Tail's guild members, & as usual Happy has to keep Natsu airborne, also I basically CRIED at the Jerza scenes that the episode had, now I will watch episode 58, I had enough time to watch one episode before tuning in to watch my usual random as hell Toonami stuff .
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04-07-2014, 01:46 PM | #3290 |
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Checked out the first episode of Brynhildr in the Darkness as it was written by Lynn Okamoto (who did Elfen Lied - another of my faves). Another series that shows some real promise. It doesn't have the violence, gore and nudity that Elfen Lied had, but it still has a very similar element of mystery and set up a lot of of questions for the rest of the series.
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