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Rori says:

“In the end Mohiro Kitoh was happy with the anime that was made even though the director hated the whole premise of the story.”

I’m sure so was the guy who made Mars of Destruction. Just seeing your work being animated is enough.

“As far as uniformity I really don't understand what you mean. Uniformity simply means sameness and in that case each episode definitely had a uniformity to it. And there's nothing wrong with having several stories to make up one big one. Cowboy Bebop did the same thing and is largely recognized as one of the best animes of all time.”

Please don’t compare one of the most lovable anime with this show. It had the SAME characters in all the episodes and wasn’t jumping aroung to different ones whose lives have absolutely no relation to one another. This is uniformity.

“Not all of his stories are about the suffering of childeren. His latest one that is actually ongoing and is about mountain biking.”

Is it famous for not having that? Nope. See what I mean?

“the goal is to kill the pilot, not destroy the robot. Them dying IS key to the main conflict since there really is no physical antagonist … What else could the story have been about if not for them giving their lives? I couldn't imagine what it could be about. I mean they could fly to the end of the universe and use all their will power to just shatter the universe apart and recreate it in a way so they don't have to pilot and have a Gurren Lagann type ending… all of the characters had signifiant problems in addition to the fact that they all know they're going to die, I felt that this is because if they were alll to similar or if a lot of them didn't have significant and diverse difficulties in life, the story would be anticlimatic and there would be no fuel to keep it going.”

Right here you agree with what I am saying. Dying is all it matters. Did we really need all the sadism when this was the goal? Absolutely not. So imagine if none of the kids had a rough life, they were all normal and happy and STILL had to die. THAT would be the real beauty. Spoiled kids with dreams who have to sacrifice everything. Leaving behind all that emo stuff? Half of them were happy to die and get rid of their problems. That would really be interesting, not this emo for the sake of selling to the sadists.

“I recognize as the only flaw of the anime.”

You don’t mention it and still say it did a wonderful job with the story though.

roriconfan can’t reply from his account so he asked me to do it for him. Here is what he said about your review.

Yes, I didn’t like it much. In fact, the very people who made the show hated it so this is not just me but them as well.

“I really think that this anime accomplished exactly what it's purpose was.”
If you know how the story ends in the manga, this is far from true.

“First off, this story, to me, was very well executed.”
Better say “a set of stories” since there wasn’t much of uniformity from one kid to another.

“Mohiro Kitoh has a very simplistic, a very normal, average way of portraying the characters.”
He is also acting like a sadist who tries to sell his work through torturing and killing little children in all his stories.

“All of these topics are discussed in an honest non-graphic way”
Are you sure about the non-graphic? They felt way too exaggerated to me and always happened when a kid was becoming the next pilot.

“This anime is just so honest, so real”
So honest to depict the world as one big emo place and so real all the stories are disjoined from one another.

“I really don't think a child would react the way Shinji did, and the story of Eva, to me, wasn't really about Shinji but the Eva's.”
100% disagree. It was always about Shinji looking for the love of his parents. And what was inside the EVA besides him? Exactly.

“any angst developed in the story is so down to earth you can really feel their pain.”
Beat the bad robot and die or the planet will blow up sums up the premise. The rest of the emoness was just the mangaka selling his sadistic love of tormenting little children as means to sell more. It was completely irrelevant to the main conflict.

“Bokurano is TECHNICALLY a slice-of-life but so was "Star Driver". Bokurano really is a drama, a character study even, and it may take several times watching it to get everything out of it.”
It is about the meaning of life, not a slice of it. I also don’t need to rewatch it just to make sure what a big sadist the mangaka is. Also Star Driver is totally episodic and homo. Most people hated it early on.

“if you appreciate good story telling, with wonderful character development, and characters who you can relate to, you'll like this”
It is a bunch of unrelated stories, forced drama of the most extreme sadistic way, and I never related to them. This is far from good storytelling.

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=animeatt&aid=4861&attid=7456

To save some time, start by reading my own review about it.

Care to talk about your Bokurano review? It has some parts I disagree with and seem to need fixing.

Welcome to MAL. Just read your comments about Lagrange. I had similar thoughts. It is an okay anime so far, but I am waiting for something to happen.

I just signed up for MAL yesterday but I've been watching anime for a while so it'll take time to get my list transferred over from the note document on my computer to MAL. Anyway, I plan on putting lots of reviews on here so stay tuned.