This show fails at mechanics and basic logic

Apr 28, 2017 6:25 PM

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At first I thought: great, a show about gears and machine dolls, that's gonna be great.

I was not as displeased with the graphics as other people were. (mainly a the bad sound sampling bothered me, they failed at re-mastering)

The problem with this show simply is that all the gears on stuff make totally no sense at all.
Gears have tooth to be intertwined with other gears.

A gear hanging in the air or on some pole, without beeing intertwined with another gear makes no fcking sense at all. It's like they just slap gears on everything to make stuff look as if it would be something mechanical.

But wait, there's more.

The machines. Omfs. Do they really try to tell us that gears that don't touch eachother can move eachother? Pure logic fail. Unless it's 'magic' moving through the air, which it isn't. So, yeah.

But it gets even worse than that, when they actually show some intertwined gears that absolutely do not fit into each other because of the shape of their tooth. Like this doesn't even work, how can you animate such a shit without noticing that?

This show made me cringe so hard.

Apr 28, 2017 6:29 PM

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Well I haven't caught up to it yet, but I'm pretty sure that it can be explained due to the genre. It has a "fantasy" genre, so that maybe explain itself.

As for the final statement maybe it has to do with production. Not the show's fault perhaps for doing that.

Apr 28, 2017 11:58 PM

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Kinda agree with post above. In the manga version, things are drawn more detailed, the gears are more "Correctly" drawn at least than the anime version where sizes are fitting and stuffs are connected and lets not talk about the novel's illustrations because I could only say damn beautiful. But I think it must be done for the anime version to catch up release time along with production budget.

To enjoy this anime, I really recommend everyone to read the manga version at least if not able to handle novel's wall of texts. There are some part of stories skipped or slightly jumped here and there.

Apr 28, 2017 11:59 PM

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Well I read the LN and it has a lot of flaws in the first place(awful tonal shifts etc), anime even made it worse.

Apr 29, 2017 12:01 AM

Swagernator

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Its light novel adaptation. 90% of LN adaptations are garbage. Not to mention that 90% LN are garbage...

Apr 29, 2017 12:03 AM

joe_g7

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Actually the biggest problem of this show are it's main characters, one is a freak that masturbates over stupid gears, and the other is a genius brat which we're supposed to take seriously but it's impossible since she's a brat.

"At some point, I stopped hoping."

May 1, 2017 9:10 AM

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joe_g7 said:
Actually the biggest problem of this show are it's main characters, one is a freak that masturbates over stupid gears, and the other is a genius brat which we're supposed to take seriously but it's impossible since she's a brat.

Main characters are supposed to be flawed. The name for characters who have no flaws is "Mary Sue".
And as long as that flaw is not "dumb as brick" or "actually the villain of the story", I am happy. This anime does not disappoint on the characters front.

Gears do not make as much sense, sure. At the very least, they have multiple redundancies (so that they keep working despite the massive damage caused by all the fighting) and lots of kludge. I tend to look at it philosophically - gears could not make sense, because they are drawn by animators. (who are probably not paid enough to try harder)

May 1, 2017 9:05 PM

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AeolusT55 said:

The problem with this show simply is that all the gears on stuff make totally no sense at all.
Gears have tooth to be intertwined with other gears.

A gear hanging in the air or on some pole, without beeing intertwined with another gear makes no fcking sense at all. It's like they just slap gears on everything to make stuff look as if it would be something mechanical.

Welcome to steampunk universe, it's your first day here?

May 4, 2017 10:29 PM

Mormegil

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SHE'S MADE OF 4 TRILLION GEARS.

May 5, 2017 7:56 AM

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I don't hate it as much as everyone else but I think it was a premature adaption. The show and animation looks really cheap.

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