[SanoBaron]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

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.

I think Agito was a good dark show because it went into things like what makes people human, what we can overcome as people, and how can you say that the characters weren't emotional? Shouichi had plenty of reactions to things, we see Hikawa's struggle for doing what he thinks is right, and with as much suffering as Ryo got, he never once whined about it. these weren't characters that were maturing into adults, they were ALREADY adults, but they each had their own problems and they dealt with them like adults. like, even that asshole Houjo got to act like a responsible adult when he turned in his mentor for murder. I liked Agito for the characters. I like Shouichi because he is always optimistic, y'know, like Godai, but Shouichi has his own problems and he deals with them in his own way, like eating a salad while his battle theme is playing.

also, I liked that Agito had it's own origin for it's world. having two overlords fighting each other and one ultimately giving the final blow after his defeat. I liked that humanity had the ability to one day become something no one could control, that was the whole point of the show. showing how people can overcome their hardships. also, there was only 1 time innocent bystanders would get killed, everyone else had the seed of Agito, and by the villain's rules, they have to die.

and don't get me wrong, I never said Gaim wasn't dark or that Gaim was bad, just that Agito had darker elements in more ways. I mean, nobody in Gaim commited suicide. or death by seaweed.