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Originally Posted by SanoBaron

gaim wasnt that dark for the most part anyway.

Agito was darker in more ways than Gaim.

Gaim was very dark, but in a subtle, forboding way. You didn't realise how dark it was until the first big signs dropped, then you looked back and saw prevous events in a new light. As things came to light, so did the light fade from the show. The main characters became tainted as time went on, one by one drained of their heroics in different ways: Zangetsu nearly paid for it with his life, Baron was led astray by his own perspective of justice, Ryugen became an outright villain, and even Gaim was tainted by the sacrifice of others. Plus, the entire Helheim thign was absolutely a lose-lose senario. Though bittersweet as it was, this made the show gratifying when Gaim, the only one to never falter in his ideals, came out of top without having to compromise. The show had tragedy, betrayal, death, and suffering, but did so very maturely, with tact. It all served a narrative purpose and moved the story forward.

Agito was dark, but it was an over-the-top, immature dark. It was very juvinile, with gratuitous violence, nonsensical religious parallels, and a lack of emotion most common in works attempting to strike a dark chord, but are afraid having emotional characters and moments would make them "sissies." It's hard to take Agito himelf as a protagonist when he is so emotionally disconnected from everything. He wasn't a character, he was a prop. He hardly ever even acknowledges anything that happens when he's Agito. Gills is similar. G3 spends so much of the series in plain old ignorance he never as an on-point reaction to anything. There's not a single realistic emotional response to anything in that show. It was chock full of "edgy" and "mature" scenes of brutal death of innocents, but in doing so came across like an angstful teen writing his first "dark" fanfic. Plus, the pacing so God-damn awful whatever emotional impact was there was stretched so thin it was nearly imperceptable.

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

Gaim did start off rather campy and silly until later on. Most people watch Gaim to expect a show about dancing with a lots of bright campy looking colors everywhere. With Gaim, they can made a serious show that it can be enjoy by all ages.

Yup. It almost pulled a fast one of us, pretending to be something it wasn't to lure us into a false expectation.