2011-04-04, 09:44 | Link #2861 |
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Epic episode... I have that bad test in my mouth like watching Gundam it ends in space and no real epilogue just the broken Mech and nice background scenery... XD
Keito ended the story as the loveless lovestruck girl that accepts she loses for me that was a bad place to end her character. I loved how Monochrome creeped into the batte sequence and Wako's monologue basically summed up her character development through the story on the whole great episode and Takuto going "I can still see it" reminds me of Kami Nomi... Overall Series: 7.5/10 Great Music Interesting Characters and enough Development individually Certain areas of character development needed fleshing out
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2011-04-04, 10:33 | Link #2864 |
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Garbage. 7/10 due to the animation and music only.
First major issue, the whole regenerating cybodies was just a way to fluff out a show that the writers had no clue what to do with. First off despite them bringing up the whole danger of regenerating, not a single person was harmed in the multitude of times they used it. Especially considering it was supposed to be 50/50 odds. Next I love the overuse of deus ex machina in this show. Whenever the protagonist is in any sort of danger, some miraculous BS comes out of nowhere and saves him. In this case the Glitters magically getting the ability to control their mechs. I mean Jesus Takuto even beats Samekh which is just ridiculous at the entire show makes the thing out to be some unbeatable badass and he wipes the deck with it. Really? It's absolutely ridiculous that we didn't see him lose once in the entire show. Oh how about the complete lack of background on everything the show? They could have spent less time on those worthless mech fights and actually showed some backstory. Fourth of all, there are no consequences in the show. Even Gurren Lagann atleast had people dying to show the seriousness of the situation as well as there being situations that there isn't a win outcome. Even the villain walks away scotch-free after trying to wipe out humanity. All he got was a punch, hell I doubt he's even going to jail. Then there is the ending. After all that lead up to Wako making a choice, they of course go the open ended route as its anime. Got to love how writers have to bail out of a choice in these shows and actually show relationship development. Or the complete lack of an epilogue to show the effects of the finale. The show should have been 13 episodes at max. All flash, no substance. |
2011-04-04, 11:42 | Link #2865 |
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pretty much the same opinion as Jarmel...
is it fun, at times yes... does it stand out... not in the slightest. To many flaws and poor story designs made me stop caring about the characters. I'll give it a 6/10 as 7 seems a bit to high for all the faults it has, it's more or less average.
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2011-04-04, 12:00 | Link #2866 | ||||||
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Jarmel, you are honestly not a good judge of writing and storytelling.
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2011-04-04, 12:12 | Link #2868 |
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Epic episode.
Wish they had the fight be two episodes long though. Like 1st episode was the fight in Zero-Time, and 2nd was an entire fight IN SPACE. I really loved when the other Crux Members took back their Cybodies, and helped Takuto out. Always love when that happens. I really liked how they started playing the maiden songs during the fight. I felt they should have used all 4 right after the other. But it seemed it only showed 2, and the 3rd kind of just creeped in there.
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2011-04-04, 12:23 | Link #2869 |
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Doesn't it contradict itself?Because 7/10 is pretty good for anime overall. If you think that story is garbage and char development is too, but you give 7 , that means that story isn't really important?\
And I guess Samekh was controlled not by Sugata, but by some Cybody evil AI so Takuto was just like fighting a robot not the Cybody piloted by a human . That's why he owned Samekh.
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2011-04-04, 12:54 | Link #2870 |
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Star Driver is a FABULOUS anecdote that will make you laugh hard the first few times you hear it before it becomes repetitive and dull. And you need to endure it 25 times.
One will wonder why is this a full season anime, when the trend became a half season; especially for an anime whose story could easily be summed up in 3 episodes. Many compare it to Revolutionary Girl Utena for its repetitive format, liberal take on relationships and WTF sceneries but in practice it is nowhere NEAR as good as Utena. It doesn’t really offer symbolisms, allusions, indirect messages towards freedom from taboos; it’s just fooling around aimlessly. It is also closer to fujoshi fans rather than mecha fans, as the robot action is so far-fetched and repetitive, it loses interest fast. I mean, Tengen Toppa Gurenn Lagann was also far-fetched, but at least it had an on-going plot and stuff would build up along the way. Here, it is nothing. Even the weird mystery around the maidens and the cybodies and the rest of the whacky S&M Kiraboshi, quickly become unimportant before laughing for the 25th time with the same transformation sequence and wondering which guy will kiss which… guy. And even that is never shown, so what gives? And who even remembers after awhile that the lead is originally there to look for his father? Not even him apparently. Kenshiro in Hokuto no Ken is one of the most GAR leads ever but he is far more interesting because there is plot there and because he doesn’t need huge robots or even weapons to turn his opponents into mince-meat. But GALACTIC PRETTY BOY (lol what a ridiculous name) always needs his robot to play it almighty, yet none of the villains attack him when he is away from it even when they know who he is and where he is. It’s as if they don’t even care to win. There are no redeeming qualities in this show for me; it is brain-dead entertainment that outlasted its welcome by about 22 episodes. There are no memorable characters or battles outside of the protagonist’s name and transformations. The episodic nature ruins any replay value too and it was fun only the first few times you see the same thing happening. Is it me or does Pokemon offer more plot and story and far more subconscious messages than Star Driver? I mean, really, Utena on one side, Pokemon in the middle and SD in the other side. |
2011-04-04, 13:05 | Link #2871 |
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Far-fetched?
This anime had one of the most plausible RL mech story in it. Not whole cities getting wasted and pedestrian deaths out the ass like some other ones. It could almost happen in RL somewhere unknown to use because how would we really know? We would all be stopped in time and they fighting in some pocket dimension. But yeah some shots were a bit repetitive, but when he brought something new out it was awesome. That one punch against the the little rich girl was my favorite.
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2011-04-04, 13:24 | Link #2874 |
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Why yes. Stoppage of time to fight in pocket dimension is far more "far-fetched" than whole cities' getting wasted and pedestrian deaths. I know I can relate to the latter than the former. The show does not give anything to a casual viewer as far as plot is concerned. As harsh as it sounds, this show was nothing more than eyecandy which featured polished bishoujo/bishounen who were buffed in extra coating of wax. Everyone needed to be so kira-kira and pica-pica that there were no time for any plot development. No wonder episode 1 pretty much served the layout for the next 24 episodes to follow. Rinse and repeat.
Yeah, a 7 is too high of a rating for this show which tried to mask a pretentious plot with visual aesthetic. Even the visual was nothing more than the reuse of a few stock footage that were done earlier in the series.
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2011-04-04, 13:56 | Link #2875 |
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I personally rated the show with 4.5 / 10
Say, does anyone remember X-tv and its pocket dimensions there? The story was equally simplistic but at least we had CHARACTER COLORIZATION! That alone makes that old series better than Star Driver. And it's not like it didn't have bijins; it was a CLAMP work! |
2011-04-04, 15:34 | Link #2877 | |
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I'm actually more or less completely in tune with roriconfan for a change. Gotta write this one down as something like a 5/10. Had the major characters been fleshed out just a little more and the show maintained more of a clear focus we'd easily be looking at as high up as 8/10....whatever that means to people. Having a really flashy final battle just isn't going to cut it for me at this point because I basically more or less expected that along with at least some form of closure. I got one of the two... Ughhhhh Star Driver.......so hugely disappointing and frankly a little insulting. Thank god I had Tiger & Bunny to wash that bitter aftertaste out of my mouth immediately afterward. Star Driver will have a legacy in terms of my anime watching habits though. From now on I'm going to be extremely cautious of mecha-anime and anime in general that take place in a school because it always seems to result in shows ending up feeling like huge wastes of time when they should instead be hitting all the right buttons with me. Calling it the "Star Driver Alert". It really is unfortunate. I hope this isn't any sort of sign of what's to come from Bones and that they manage to pick up the pieces after this. From the looks of it it's bombing pretty hard on the Blu-Ray charts too....at least compared to where you would expect it to be.....like say first or second place per volume. Instead it looks like it's destined to be a perennial 4th placer behind the likes of Strike Witches, Index and OreImo. Indeed, how far you have fallen Bones. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2011-04-04 at 15:49. |
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2011-04-04, 15:43 | Link #2878 |
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To be honest I was rather surprised to hear people saying that they didn't find the characters had much depth myself since i thought the characters were the whole point of the story.
I didn't really find Marino, Mizuno or the Fish Girl all that pointless. Like I said I didn't really see Star Driver in terms of plot development so i didn't really care if they weren't in the final episode. There were many characters that I thought had a lot of depth to them and considered memorable. But maybe I'm just confusing depth for potential...
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2011-04-04, 16:06 | Link #2879 | ||
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What about the episode about Sugata always carrying a knife around when we know that all the former mark bearers are destined to die. It at first made it seem like he would kill himself if he has to, but we learn it was all actually for Waka. What about when Takuto saw the parallel between his old friend who knew he was dying and Sugata? What about the play that gave subtle messages of the history of the Cybodies and Fish people? Or how about the reason why Sugata suddenly decided to join the Crux, did you notice what he was doing before that happened? There is plenty of depth and character development if you just LOOK and watch. Analyze what they want and are trying to do.
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2011-04-04, 16:23 | Link #2880 | ||||||
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