Terra Formars OVA Episode 1 Discussion

keragamming said:
Ok, I'll wait for the subs to be out before watching it. I read the first volume of this series and it's pretty good. The only thing I don't like about it is that the mangaka seems to hate the female characters. Sigh......

OneWhoReadsBooks said:
Well this was disappointing. Rushed as hell, like the characters had some characterization, and made them likable before they started to get killed off in the manga, but not here. And they skipped prologue chapter, wtf, that was important.

I've always imagine that the adaptation for the manga would be something like Jojo's anime. I was psyched when I found out they were adapting this into an anime, and all my hopes came crushing down when I found out it was going to be an OVA.

I really hate this type of anime adaptation. This is the type of anime that you know was only ever meant to be a commercial for the manga rather than trying to be an anime that can stand on it own.

NHS-KEMISH said:
Well really hyped for the next OVA, but also really disappointed they skipped the first arc...

keragamming said:
Ok, I'll wait for the subs to be out before watching it. I read the first volume of this series and it's pretty good. The only thing I don't like about it is that the mangaka seems to hate the female characters. Sigh......

supervamp78 said:


Female character killed: Hates women

Male character killed: Normal

Tokoya said:
when I read the first 2 chapters last year, the stuff that went down in this OVA were the only things that I remembered lol xDD

AcidPunk said:
They spoil the fact that everyone died except for that one guy and then they expect the viewer to be excited of that cliffhanger? The characters that died we didn't even get to know their names not that it matters because we already know they all died except for that one guy. This was ok if your looking for a "slasher film" type of anime but nothing else so far.

ZetaZaku said:
BASED RAHAB


JOHJ HAS FINALLY SPOKEN!

Nidhoeggr said:
Finally it is here, the most d33p, intellectually stimulating and non-racist aniem OVA of the decade finally aired and showed Akame ga Kill and Co. who is the true edge boss.

The sounds of the JOHJ were beautiful, the rushed pacing improved the badness factor and the hilarity of the gore reached a new height - truly, a masterpiece of modern anime!
Characters were almost as fleshed out as they were in the manga, which is a feat if we consider this breaknack pacing.

This is 10, no 11, no: JOHJ out of bloody 10!
JOHJ BE PRAISED
Also:RAHAB (what a teaser at the end!)

Guilek said:
I'm black and I don't understand what are you talking about.

mr.42 said:

I've been giving some thought to how I would have drawn humanoid cockroaches that had developed along a similar evolutionary chain to the one humans ourselves had followed.

The Uber-roach designs are very clearly resemblant to the Homo-erectus model Divineking provided and despite Chibi Kangaroo's constant comparisons to the caricatures the resemblance is much closer.

So there's the first point, the basic anatomical structure is the same, the hair is the same, the large area between lip and nose is similar as are the small nose itself and the large forehead. However, As Chibi Kangaroo rightly pointed out such caricatures are themselves predominantly influenced by comparing Black people to such primitive humans so racist tones are all but automatically implied but not rational given the evolutionary themes the aeries is based on.

Next is the colour, the "black-man roach". In my opinion the weakest racist angle. We see in the coloured pages of the manga and the anime promos that the roaches are a dark brown. And obviously in the black and white pages of a manga the colour to use would be flat black. Now we know that cockroaches themselves are dark brown so it makes sense for them to have retained that colour. We also know that early humans developed on the African continent and that the melanin that the skin uses to defend itself from UV radiation is one of the reasons for dark skin.
On the treeless, shadeless planet of Mars would it be unbelievable
the the cockroaches that evolved on Mars would have retained their already dark skin tone?

Next up is the eyes, it is likely that the eyes that the Uber-roaches have are a combination of the large pupils needed to see better on a planet further away from the galactic light source and wider fullstop as a result of having developed from compound insect eyes.

They also retain their cerci and the the diminutive antennae.

The first time we see the Uber-roaches they are stooped and are carrying caveman level tools. A further indication that their basic design is based on early hominids.

We also see that they have constructed pyramids. and take to wearing loincloths of the sort we see in Egyptian period dramas/documentaries. I think that we can draw from this the theory that the Uber-roaches are developing in a culturally similar way to African civilisation as well as resembling them physiologically.

My earlier post on a possible post colonial reading of the text might then suggest, as a I did, of a pro-black intention. They might be the bad guys but they are winning. In fact are they even the bad guys? They are the ones under attack from the invading humans, who evolved after them (originally on earth) and advanced ahead of them technologically and now believe themselves the roaches betters.

As I have said before, these are only theories but so are any accusations of intentional or ignorant racism on the part of the mangaka.