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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- That was downright inspirational. The ending made me think of Castle in the Sky for some reason or another. Not because it was literally similar, but just in the feelings it gave me. The whole "power of universal love" bent, for example. It also thematically reminded me of Evangelion, but this was like the antidote or something. The broken characters, the psychological problems caused by family strife, the problem of lonliness, and then of course the literal take with biomechanical machines and their interactions with humans, apocalypse, etc. I can't believe I just watched 20 episodes of this in one day. Holy crap was I hooked. I'm also surprised at how easy this was to follow. I don't know what the hell everyone else was confused about. In my opinion, this series was a work of great beauty, though a bit hokey at some points. I'm privledged to have discovered this series, seriously. |
| “Money can't buy dere” |
| I've just finished rewatching it, and my second thoughts about the show are that perhaps I was a bit too enthusiastic with my reaction. When I said "a bit hokey at some points", what I really should have said was "very hokey at a lot of points". It's still a wonderful show though, I still think that at least. And besides, it has bagpipe battle music, what more can you ask for? |
| “Money can't buy dere” |
| i'd say it's very good anime. I've read many opinions of it being incomprehensible or something but i can't think of anything that would confuse me. I really liked it. It gave me things to think of and plus it had romance subplot which was nice. i'm glad i watched this one in spite of some badmouthing. Its negative point is that it doesn't explain or show everything it could. 26 episodes was simply not enough. There's rumor that It might have been caused by that it was supposed to be 50 episodes long but for some reason they were forced to make it shorter by leaving out some episodes. If that's true it was horrible thing to do because i think that this could have become one of the best pieces of that time. Overall 8/10 Sent with Mal Updater |
( Currently interested in OP MC genre. Recommendations are welcomed, preferable those yet not on my list ) |
| This ending was very optimistic for a Tomino show. Hell, the entire show was very optimistic for Tomino. It feels weird considering Victory Gundam was his previous work. If it was supposed to be longer, it's a shame, there are places that could be expanded, especially characters and their relations since parent-child relationships and love in general were big themes in this show. But oh well, at least it isn't like F91 that was actually cut down to a movie. And yeah, nothing here was incomprehensible. Maybe people watched the dub or need to be spoonfed? Tomino really loves the "show don't tell", so he rarely ever goes into info-dumps. You just need to connect the dots in his shows. He presents you important information, and you make what you can with it. Maybe not the best way of storytelling, but a lot better than shows that spend 10 minutes explaining things. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| I have no idea where people are getting their hyperbolic negative reactions from. Like a lot of anime, this is nowhere close to the 'worst ever' label I see it get. If Anno is a self-hating male, then Tomino is definitely the opposite. The overall aesthetic package is way too strong for me to understand the hate. A pretty straightforward plot that ends on a thematic note, a very interesting human-'mecha' relationship, good characters, good OST, good visuals and designs. Very good 'mecha' designs. Hime seems a deliberately stupid (maybe simple is the better word) character, and her relationship with Yuu is at times weird, playful and intimate. The series has both good and bad writing, sometimes in the same scene. When Jonathan confronts his mother the dialogue is definitely forced, but there is no denying some genuine human emotion there. It seems the writing does this quite often, but overall I don't think any main story ideas ever get forgotten and it all works towards the end. It seems what you're supposed to take out of all this, is the importance of motherhood, child-rearing and openness and understanding in child-parent relationships. More of a response to Eva than a 'clone' (but none of the clones are really clones) the way the stories are told and the overall ideas are very distinct. In some ways it feels like a proto-RaXhephon, both this and that are quite beautiful. Also, on the subject of beauty, I personally love images of the sky and the ocean. The fact that the mecha fights often happen over the sea is like the show throwing me a bone. Not to mention the cloud motifs, and the way Orphan juts out of the sea, covered in darkness and clouds...I have a weak spot for these kinds of images. This was an experience that I'm glad I didn't miss out on due to a negative impression. |
syncrogazerSep 22, 2018 11:52 AM
| ^ I don't think that Maaya Sakamoto song is used, unfortunately. I wasn't expecting wholesome Tomino out of this, if anything I was prepared for some crude version with disposable characters left and right and a series that overall would leave you with some terrible aftertaste. In general something that would explain its reception at least. And while I can see that it might not be enjoyable to most people due to its "show and don't tell" nature and general delivery, it clicked on all the right spots for me. I finished this feeling as well or better than I would've with a very good iyashikei. The clear drawing aspects were Akino Murata giving life to Hime in one of her only 3 roles in anime (and I really liked Sochie in Turn A Gundam) and Yoko Kanno's score, which ends up enhancing every other scene in the series. And then I stayed also thanks to its aesthetic appeal (even if rough around the edges at times), general easiness to watch and the sheer appreciation towards its general theme and where it ultimately aimed for, "hokey" or not as Seabury called it above. |
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| Well, this was something. Story and characters are indeed extremely wonky and most of the dialogues and situations are incredibly awkward and surreal, but... somehow I just could not love this band of lunatics. It sure shows how Tomino had great empathy for his characters. Some concepts were interesting but sadly they weren't really explored. I get the "show don't tell", but glossing over the majority of plot points without contextualize why you don't want to show them can never be a good thing. In short, this is far from being the worst anime ever (a lot of shit this site hypes up is 10 times worse). It has a lot of heart but it lacks consistency in story, characters, animation... basically everything except the music. Yoko Kanno made her masterpiece here. Brain Powerd has one of the most suggestive soundtracks I ever heard, it really matches the mysterious vibe of the story. I'd say it's a 5/10, it could become a 6 with a rewatch and some indulgence on my part, mostly because the music is godly and Jonathan Glen has some of the funniest lines in the history of entertainment. |
| On second viewing, I'd consider this anime to be a masterpiece. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but the series had tons of ideas, ambition, unique direction, interesting characters, and one of the best scores in anime history. I was a big fan of the breakneck pacing because it forced me to focus on the plot. I also love how it played out like one big disaster film with the stakes getting higher and higher throughout the series. It's fascinating to see Tomino take on something so uplifting because it had every opportunity to end apocalyptic. I don't really get the hate for Brain Powerd or how people say it's an Eva knockoff. They must've been watching a different show. |
| Liked it. Not Evangelion-level philosophical but it shares most of it's ideas, the ending is a lot less arthouse and more straightforward in resolving it's characters. It went a little easy on the politics for being a Tomino show but it's not a fault. I found pretty intringuing the idea of the mechs being fully fledged sentient beings. Don't see why people hate it. |
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| Simply a bad series. Yes it had some worthwhile aspects such as the music and visual design, but the foundation of the show was terribly misguided, and the execution was troubled on top of that. The main problem is the lack of real character building, with so much of the runtime taken up instead by characters having vague speculative conversations about Brain Powereds, Grand Chers, Orphan, Plates, the Vital Globe, etc. None of this stuff is even slightly interesting, nor do the characters have anything interesting to say about it. This focus on trying (and failing) to build intrigue around lame lore, world-building and supernatural concepts feels like Tomino taking all the wrong lessons from Evangelion and trying to make a show out of them - it was just doomed to fail from the very start. Combine this with the way the show turns into a totally incoherent mess after episode 16 (the story relying on mysteriously teleporting characters from one key location to the next is always a sign of production problems - see the final stretch of Escaflowne for another example of this), in a way that makes it feel like the show was originally planned to be 50 episodes, and after the first 16 went as planned they then got told to wrap it up and just shoved all the remaining material into the last 10, and you have something which cannot possibly satisfy a viewer. It's crazy to think that the greatness of Turn A to some extent grew out of the remains of this creative abortion. |
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