[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I am glad that you're starting to enjoy OOO more.
Shame that you're liking Fourze less and less, though. I personally enjoyed both series for different reasons.

Gentaro's attitude did become a flanderization of what it originally was, seemingly way too bloated of his original intention to be friends with the troubled students to just "FRIENDSHIP!!!!" x10

And Leo's devotion to the chairman was...Yeah. It was odd

I still think the OOO universe and general mythos and lore and what have you is absolute pants but whereas Kuuga had one character to keep me watching in the form of Ichijou, OOO has three characters to keep me watching and actually because there are three of them I even actually genuinely enjoy the show most of the time.

I don't hate Fourze but the first third of the show was really interesting, it made full use of its setting, had great action sequences and really rose above its inherent silly shallowness to have depth, heart and ultimately meaning. Everything that rose it above its inherent mediocrity however has been stripped away thread by thread since Meteor was introduced and now they are running out of time they are ripping it out in chunks and the stuff that is left behind just really isn't that good.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Gentaro's attitude did become a flanderization of what it originally was, seemingly way too bloated of his original intention to be friends with the troubled students to just "FRIENDSHIP!!!!" x10

Yeah, this got taken to pretty ridiculous extremes, too. By the time of the big summer movie he was openly weeping because he couldn't befriend a space station. Yes, it was a sentient space station, but he didn't know that until the last quarter of the film.

[Locke]

Episode 36 of OOO was pretty hit and miss, if you expect me to care about a stupid rubber arm shivering in the rain then you are having a fucking giggle that is absolutely ridiculous.

What was also pretty dumb is in the last episode Bug had to go out and get more cores to bring the Greed back to life but then he doesn't use any that he collected so they aren't too strong when they come back. I guess everything he did in the last episode was pointless then...

Gamel and Mezul coming back was pointless in general anyway, it's pretty clear they aren't needed and as Bug put them at a deliberate disadvantage, the first thing they did was get their asses kicked...repeatedly.

MMPR form is also considerably less interesting now Eiji is inexplicably in control of it. Although we got some interesting insights into his character this episode to make up for it.

Also don't Ankh's and Mezul's helmets have the same power?

The chemistry and bromance between Brotou and Date is great though and was where the episode hit, aside from the Eiji focus, as always.

[Matrixbeast]

You're supposed to care about the character, not the prop.
Or are you just the guy at the theater screaming that Godzilla is just a guy in a suit?

Anyway, I think the Shachi/Killer Whale medal lets him fire water from his head? I'm not entirely certain...He uses that medal so sparingly I can't remember...

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

You're supposed to care about the character, not the prop.
Or are you just the guy at the theater screaming that Godzilla is just a guy in a suit?

Anyway, I think the Shachi/Killer Whale medal lets him fire water from his head? I'm not entirely certain...He uses that medal so sparingly I can't remember...

But I don't care about Ankh and I care even less when a poorly greenscreened prop is supposed to be sympathetic as it hides from the cold and rain.

Oh? Well last time he used it it let him see through walls.

[SPLIT LIP]

I'm honesty inclined to say you're not supposed to feel bad for Ankh considering the show overall. I'd hazard a guess that that scene was just to show how hard it is for Ankh without a body, hence feuling his anger and resentment since he's been kicked out.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

I'm honesty inclined to say you're not supposed to feel bad for Ankh considering the show overall. I'd hazard a guess that that scene was just to show how hard it is for Ankh without a body, hence feuling his anger and resentment since he's been kicked out.

I guess that is lucky then because I think he's the worst character on the show. Then again all the Greed are rubbish.

[SPLIT LIP]

Ankh, and the Greed overall left little of an impression on me. They functioned as villains, but that's it. I remember Eiji, Brotou and Date just fine as well as Birthday man, but Ankh is sometimes interesting, mostly eh. The rest of the Greed only enter my mind when they're mentioned.

[losondro]

To me the Greeed were just there as villains. the only Greeed that left a slight impression on me was Uva mostly because he did whatever he could to survive, even when he had no physical form.

[Matrixbeast]

I liked Ankh the most of the Greed. His assholish nature presented a nice counter to Eiji, which also allowed for the secondary Rider to not be the walking asshole of the series, making Date a lot more endearing because of it.