-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Spring Anime 2013 |OT -7| My Giant CG Pony Can't Possibly Read This Much Baudelaire
- Thread starter Brazil
- Start date
- Status
gargantia - 01
My favorite opener of the season, and I only liked like 50% of it. Good times.
That jargon overload early on was kinda terrible. It's like those derivative fantasy things where everything has an apostrophe in it and sounds vaguely elvish/finnish - my sin'dari hkka'lar'h ji'ghsdisdfadsoaij, etc - except with European names to fill in the bubbles. It's all noise, and that's how I feel about the first half of the episode in general. There's some good stuff pre-battle, both art- and writing-related, at least; hints at the kind of society they're defending, the main dude's origins, the inevitable culture shock once he is introduced to the verdurous planet. But most of it is drowned by too much chatter--too much techno-babble that means nothing--exposition and explosions without context.
But the latter half of the episode - wherein we are introduced to the setting and a few of the main cast - was pretty damn good. Glad this is where the focus will be; the design-work is excellent and the contrast between the derelict background of the ship and the people living within it is rather indicative of the kind of dissonance Ledo suffered from in his war. Fond of how they show communicative difficulties by shifting perspectives--one moment you hear Ledo's speech as Spacebabble, the next it's Amy being rendered as something needing a translation.
Just where the story will go is obvious, but who cares, really.
My favorite opener of the season, and I only liked like 50% of it. Good times.
That jargon overload early on was kinda terrible. It's like those derivative fantasy things where everything has an apostrophe in it and sounds vaguely elvish/finnish - my sin'dari hkka'lar'h ji'ghsdisdfadsoaij, etc - except with European names to fill in the bubbles. It's all noise, and that's how I feel about the first half of the episode in general. There's some good stuff pre-battle, both art- and writing-related, at least; hints at the kind of society they're defending, the main dude's origins, the inevitable culture shock once he is introduced to the verdurous planet. But most of it is drowned by too much chatter--too much techno-babble that means nothing--exposition and explosions without context.
But the latter half of the episode - wherein we are introduced to the setting and a few of the main cast - was pretty damn good. Glad this is where the focus will be; the design-work is excellent and the contrast between the derelict background of the ship and the people living within it is rather indicative of the kind of dissonance Ledo suffered from in his war. Fond of how they show communicative difficulties by shifting perspectives--one moment you hear Ledo's speech as Spacebabble, the next it's Amy being rendered as something needing a translation.
Just where the story will go is obvious, but who cares, really.
Amibguous Cad
Member
Mayou 03
This is transhumanism in medieval anime form, and I love it
This is transhumanism in medieval anime form, and I love it
That's also a bad quality image. LOL.
Chet Rippo
Member
Suisei no Gargantia - 01
Very interesting opener. Will be sticking to this one for sure!
Super interesting.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
I tried to fit in as much as I could. I wanted to make people know that it was made by the Yu Yu Hakusho creator, but at the same time mention the Chimera Ant Arc. I could only get in Chimera Arc though. I didn't want to have to shorten Yu Yu Hakusho, in case some people didn't know that was what the acronym stood for. I need to get some sleep now.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=536403
Jex
Member
It seemed pretty reasonable to me. Hannes has been 'defending town' which is another way of saying he's been doing very little with his time. He's not some kind of titan-slayer and he's intoxicated. He realised he was going to get annihilated for these very reasons.
Passive Assassin
Member
Yea it's pretty much PTSD the show.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
If you are on Windows try using the Snipping Tool. It's not the best option for screen capping, but at least you won't get any white space.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Weird hair guy with glasses is Tyrion?
Chet Rippo
Member
duckroll to sell us out so they can make an new animeGAF thread every month?
I stopped reading it after a fews seconds, really mind numbing stuff there. Particularly with how rapidly it was coming at you, but I guess that's the point since its pretty unimportant.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
I should have explained that better. The way it went from him looking at the titan and then showing him rescuing Eren and Mikasa the very next shot made it feel very comedic in relation to the overall seriousness of the show.
Well, I think that's supposed to be a little bit darkly comedic. It's funny because Hannes was so gung-ho and
"heroic" until he realized what exactly he was facing.
I wouldn't. I would get into my Super Robot and deal with it.
But what if you lose your internet connection.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
And then the plug comes off and you run out of battery.
I dunno wtf you people are talking about. I said SUPER ROBOT. Those are powered by my will and believe. Why can't you people read?!
Gargantia 1
Excellent first episode. Between just this and Titan this season is justified already!
The technobabble at the beginning got old fast, as did the alternating fake language yelling between the characters though thankfully not as much. The first episode did a fine job of hooking me into the setting and I'm definitely interested in watching more.
Also, I didn't mind the squirrel too much mostly because I've suffered through enough mascot characters in my time to be unphazed by it. I do see how others would find it insufferable, however.
Excellent first episode. Between just this and Titan this season is justified already!
The technobabble at the beginning got old fast, as did the alternating fake language yelling between the characters though thankfully not as much. The first episode did a fine job of hooking me into the setting and I'm definitely interested in watching more.
Also, I didn't mind the squirrel too much mostly because I've suffered through enough mascot characters in my time to be unphazed by it. I do see how others would find it insufferable, however.
ZachDeKoromaru
Banned
It was definitely funny, but I just feel it killed a bit of the tension in a very serious moment. It was definitely less forced than how some shows have done it.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Evangelions are super robots.
Hannes' Super Robot was in the shop that day I guess.
I hate my super robot. All it does is surf the internet all day.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Congratulations, you just started Third Impact!I hate all of you.
More like Maester Pycelle.
GaoGaiGar Final 2
HOLY EFF. That was the most amazing episode of this entire show. Making Gai fight Mamoru, after Mamoru had killed someone, tried the trust of his companions and
blown Choryujin in half
it turned out not to be Mamoru at all.
But seriously, Stallion and Swan White are having sex with each other even though they are siblings.
mine some bitcoins.
bitcoins?
Attack on Titan - 1
I really like the shaded look it has, it was alright though I hope this isn't another Evangelion clone. I expect the show to start looking like shit after first 2-3 episodes at most, my expectations are low at the moment
I like how all of these titans have troll face on, lol
I really like the shaded look it has, it was alright though I hope this isn't another Evangelion clone. I expect the show to start looking like shit after first 2-3 episodes at most, my expectations are low at the moment
I like how all of these titans have troll face on, lol
I'm not sure if the ending part was supposed to be funny, I laughed
I just keep rolling down, rolling down, rolling down ♪
are you man enough?
Chet Rippo
Member
bitcoins.
I asked my butler to go get me one and he still hasn't come back.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Eren is already like the anti-Shinji so I don't get this comparison.
Attack on Titan - 1
I really really enjoyed this. I read the first couple of volumes of the manga some time ago, so I don't remember much about it, and I'm not sure if I want to continue reading it, I'd much rather just enjoy the anime if they keep the same level of quality throughout the show. We all know that it won't look this good ALL the time, but I'd love to be surprised.
But yeah, great atmosphere, music, animation, tight direction, I couldn't be more happier.
I did enjoy the first episode of Magi too, though...
I really really enjoyed this. I read the first couple of volumes of the manga some time ago, so I don't remember much about it, and I'm not sure if I want to continue reading it, I'd much rather just enjoy the anime if they keep the same level of quality throughout the show. We all know that it won't look this good ALL the time, but I'd love to be surprised.
But yeah, great atmosphere, music, animation, tight direction, I couldn't be more happier.
I did enjoy the first episode of Magi too, though...
Jex
Member
[Gargantia] - 1
The first half of this episode was pretty bad, all things considered. On one hand we have the much discussed issue of 'techno babble' fatigue which, by and large, did very little to illuminate what was actually going on. This was kind of a problem because the visuals certainly weren't helping to key the audience into what was going on. All I could make out was that there was some kind of battle in space but I had no grasp of the complexion of either side or how many units were involved or what there strategy was. All it ended up being was hundreds of moving images firing pew-pew lasers against something or other in a three dimensional battle and so it looked like a nonsense Star Wars space battle from the prequel trilogy. Action where you can't work out what's going on and you don't even care is completely redundant.
Luckily the second half was completely different and much better, although I don't know how interesting it's going to be when this initial tension between characters is inevitably resolved and we have to get to grips with the actual show. I'm cautiously optimistic at present.
The first half of this episode was pretty bad, all things considered. On one hand we have the much discussed issue of 'techno babble' fatigue which, by and large, did very little to illuminate what was actually going on. This was kind of a problem because the visuals certainly weren't helping to key the audience into what was going on. All I could make out was that there was some kind of battle in space but I had no grasp of the complexion of either side or how many units were involved or what there strategy was. All it ended up being was hundreds of moving images firing pew-pew lasers against something or other in a three dimensional battle and so it looked like a nonsense Star Wars space battle from the prequel trilogy. Action where you can't work out what's going on and you don't even care is completely redundant.
Luckily the second half was completely different and much better, although I don't know how interesting it's going to be when this initial tension between characters is inevitably resolved and we have to get to grips with the actual show. I'm cautiously optimistic at present.
By butler you mean RurouniZel, right?
Technobabble by definition is bad.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Pretty much every fucking GAINAX mecha production ever!
It can be entertaining to hear just how much bullshit the writers are willing to insert into their stories, though.
MC being exactly 180 of Shinji is probably one way author deliberately tried for it not look exactly like Evangelion to the audience, still only their motives are different, they are likely have similar vital roles against the titans... the premise is similar from this opening episode, mysterious nature of invaders is always interesting, hopefully keep it like that till the ending, can go a lot of different way later.
I don't think that's necessarily true, but it is extremely overused.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked