Kurogane no Linebarrels Episode 2 Discussion

RandomOugi said:


Your arguments are very good, only this part is flawed. Even if you don't take a look at the manga, you can see it's not going for anything like this, they're trying to do a serious job, which they clearly cannot.

There's much to criticize, they completely obliterated the original plot, specially with making Kizaki Emi play a fanservice role. The way they introduced Linebarrel screwed with a lot of things that should be happening later on; The art is horrible; The opening is by Ali Project, which many people hate because their songs are somewhat similar to each other and use very archaic and complicated japanese, but I don't have anything against them personally; The voice cast is just plain wrong(great actors chosen for the wrong roles), this one's more of a opinion, but just looking at the credits I can spot a few misfits:

Mamiko Noto as Emi: before the anime aired I was happy she was going to voice someone in this series, but Emi wasn't the best choice, I was originally expecting her to voice Ishigami's secretary. Still hoping to hear more lines from her though, to see how it comes through.

Sawashiro Miyuki as Satoru: this one we already heard and it came out horrible, she does the same voice she did for Kurenai.

Kugimiya Rie as Izuna: He's probably coming with the voice of Rokujou Miharu, and that's bad. She'd probably do a better job as Shizuna.

EDIT: Close up of the worst part of the animation:

Monkey_D_Luffy said:
This is so bad that I think I'm actually not gonna drop it because of that, if that makes any sense.


...I don't even know where to start in reply to this. Maybe with the fact that they're called Gundams, not Gundams.

airwalk said:
I just hate that mother F****** AS*H***.. WHY IS SO ANNOYING!!!! AHHHH please let me know if hes going to die for a 2nd time and never come back!!! I can't take it anymore!!!! I HATE HIM!!!

Well I'm overacting a little bit, but i never felt this way to the main character!!

gc said:
And it's completely fucking retarded, ~in my opinion~, that people do that. A lot of good series don't always have the strongest first couple episodes but people judge everything by those episodes and it's unfair.

Jelli said:
Deal is, that's human nature. First impressions usually mean everything to a person, so when the show doesn't start off good, a lot of people are going to jump to conclusions about it. This may end up being the best show of 2008 for all we know, but a lot of people are not going to watch it all because of these first few eps.

gc said:
And it's completely fucking retarded, ~in my opinion~, that people do that. A lot of good series don't always have the strongest first couple episodes but people judge everything by those episodes and it's unfair.

Maurice said:
Ali Project doing the OP is good in my opinion ^^

Lolz Kouichi again with his evil laugh in the end of the episode.

angel999 said:


Yes I am complaining about that scene too but the context made me less into complaining but I still felt uncomfortable.

BTW just to let you know I HATE FOLLOWING UNIVERSAL LAWS. THE LAW IS MY LAW MY WAY! Learn about individuality!

Turbe said:
Well another ep..

The plot is nice but well I just dont like the attitude of the main character.

Reply to the person above: We were able to watch it because even though they had their "annoying" attitude they could still be acceptable and likable, which this character is always bitching and never shuts up. Its kind of hard to say why one character is better than another than just saying those two had a more emotional impact to us than this character which makes them likable and this character not likable.

corroded said:
i still don't get why people keep comparing shows to their original manga counterparts. seriously, this thread is only used to discuss the anime episode, not the manga -_-

in any case, as much as i don't like the animation and the main character, i do think that this is still quite "good" as a show.

first, the op and ed for me are quite good(not THAT good, but likable). only problem i have for those songs is that ali project and maaya sakamoto don't change their song styles. you can identify them right off the bat without even looking at the credits or in wiki :P(ali project usually des fast rap sounding songs, while maaya's song sounds like the first MF ed)

second, the fact that most of you people(inclding me of course) are pissed with kouichi just means that his VA is totally into the role, and the script/acting or whatever makes him annoying is well done. why? because i do think he was meant to be an ass. that said, him acting like an ass, and us thinking he IS an ass, means he was portrayed well. that makes the quality of the show good. it gets the message across(the message being, "kouichi is an a-hole").

sure, it is hard to watch a show when the protagonist is an ass, but hey, im pretty sure most of you watched code geass and death note(and yes, lelouch and light acted as asses, and they also were thinking of the same thing kouichi is preaching: justice) so, do you still think linebarrels is crappy just because of kouichi?

while i do believe it isn't the best show(there are way better shows in terms of characters,story and animation) i do think people should think twice about dropping it just because of the main character, or because the show isn't following the manga or whatnot. just my two cents :)