2012-01-23, 02:48 | Link #602 |
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What's wrong with pink? Real men can wear pink clothes and still be sexy. I remember the Eternal being pink and still kick ass. And before it was a girl's color Pink WAS a man's color.
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2012-01-23, 03:18 | Link #604 |
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Someone forgot to mention that Episode 3 was a filler, but still somewhat important as Marika has to obtain further experience and expertise. But the cruise will remain to be a perilous one as they leave the confines of their homeworld.
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2012-01-23, 03:31 | Link #606 | |
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Again, I like slow-paced, "world-absorbing" shows - but they need to fill in the blanks with thorough character development or atmospherics. While it's clearly connected with some viewers, MP hasn't connected in those areas with me. It's a perfectly pleasant place to be - it's pretty and full of nice people doing fairly interesting things. I just don't see the point, at least so far.
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Well, perhaps what you are getting thus far will be nicely wrapped up (hopefully sooner than later for you) or perhaps it will show itself to be endemic to the series and a serious weakness for more and more - I hope the former will prove to be the case for you and others. Of course there is also another possibility - perhaps the series will turn into something completely different and blow all viewers completely out of the water, overwhelmed and scratching their heads, wondering what on earth just happened. BTW - for some reason I have it somewhere in my head that the Yacht club is going to be meeting up with the crew that Marika has "inherited". Has this actually been said in the series or am I inventing things?
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2012-01-23, 05:31 | Link #609 | |
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ETA: @Guardian Enzo: I think I finally get it. Thanks for patiently explaining your issues. I'm, personally, sold on the show (which I think will be a sideways glance at a complex political situation, seen through adventure goggles). |
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2012-01-23, 11:38 | Link #610 | |
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2012-01-23, 14:34 | Link #613 | |
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The only thing I liked about episode 3 is when they ventured outside the spaceship and the procedures they went through to get ready. Other than that I felt the pacing was way too slow for my tastes... I'm still going to watch a few more episodes because I still like the characters and the story idea, but I hope they speed up the pace a tiny bit.
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2012-01-23, 17:07 | Link #615 | ||
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2012-01-23, 21:45 | Link #616 |
絶対領域に嵌り過ぎた。
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This anime sure takes its time to go through but I really appreciate its laidback nature and the characters are all just regular schoolgirls instead of over the top. I missed this kind of anime. I liked the main character Marika, for once she seems like the most levelheaded teen I've seen and eager for anything yet she has nothing in particular stands out. It's very refreshing to see such anime with mostly female casts and hardly no fanservice.
While the other people may be complaining about episode 3 for its particularly slower pace and no action, I found it enjoyable. I liked the fact the other characters had some screen time beside the main casts. Sure they may or may not be making appearance later on but I appreciate any anime willing to give screen time to unimportant characters than just making them plot devices which a lot of anime does nowadays. Anyhow it was very relaxing in a way watching this episode. Maybe it was a good idea to put some kind of foreshadowing or some hint to make it more interesting. |
2012-01-24, 15:32 | Link #617 |
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After Episode 3, my views on this anime are very similar to Guardian Enzo and Reckoner's. That's unfortunate because Episode 1 was honestly better than I had expected. But what I ironically initially saw as a positive (little-to-no fanservice) has actually now turned into a negative. If ever there was an anime that could use more fanservice, this one is it.
Mark it down, folks, because you won't read Triple_R write this very often: This anime would benefit from more fanservice. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen an anime that would benefit more from fanservice than this one would. You have an entire class of teenage girl characters, probably half of which most viewers will never care about (if they even manage to get names), so there should be no concern that fanservice-ing them up some could degrade their characters because they're not terribly important anyway. Now an anime can get away with being a slow-burner, but it needs one of three things in order to pull it off, imo: 1) Be very heartwarming. I'll call this the Tamayura ~Hitotose~ approach, since that anime has already been raised on this thread. 2) Be very suspenseful. I'll call this Another approach. 3) Spice up a few scenes here and there with a bit of comedy and/or fanservice. When executed well, this can kind of compensate for a very slow-moving plot. Mouretsu Pirate's characters are nice and pleasant enough for most types of anime, but their overall presentation doesn't lend itself to that "DDAAAAAWWW!" feeling that Tamayura captured so marvelously, imo. The show does a decent job of making bits of narrative that would typically be boring seem mildly interesting, but it's not exactly suspenseful. So that leaves us needing comedy or fanservice. Which this show also doesn't have much of. But it is interesting what this causes the show to be, which is different than anything I've seen before. It's competent in just about everything that it does (characters, visuals, audio, dialogue), and it's above average in at least a couple areas (realism, attention to detail), but there's just no hook/payoff there at all. Episode 3 was pure homogenized vanilla ice-cream for the entire episode. It's competently made, but it's still pure vanilla without any of those myriad of wondrous added elements found in Chiaki's artery-destroying parfaits. (As an aside, Chikai originally made me think of Akemi Homura, but now she makes me think of Kyouko Sakura in her ability to eat vast quantities of food without putting on weight. ). Finally, a show's premise and title aren't everything, but a show can't be almost the exact opposite of it unless it's a *wink, wink* running gag that the audience is in on. If you call yourself "Bodacious Space Pirates", then you better provide at least two of the three, and so far all I'm seeing is the "Space" part. After three episodes, the anime is really not living up to its premise and title. I'll give this anime another episode or two, but by then, I hope things will be picking up more.
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2012-01-24, 16:52 | Link #618 | |
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Anyways... judging from the trailer... there will be plenty of space and pirating. Therefore, plenty to look forward to. Sometimes, it may help to shelve a series - and/or - wait to let the whole thing finish before watching, in order to enjoy a series at one's own leisurely pace.
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2012-01-24, 17:10 | Link #620 |
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I, for one, approve of my non-fanservice Moretsu overlords.
It's an anime I've become addicted to because of its share of seriousness and old school sci-fi elements, despite its slow pace. No fanservice is a fresh breeze and adds nothing anyway.
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