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View Poll Results: Aquarion EVOL - Episode 22 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 6 | 16.22% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 7 | 18.92% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 8 | 21.62% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 4 | 10.81% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 4 | 10.81% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 2.70% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 2 | 5.41% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 5 | 13.51% | |
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2012-05-27, 17:25 | Link #61 | |
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Amata and Mikono have been stagnant, I expected them, as flawed lead characters from the beginning to grow stronger as a couple and individually dealing with their own issues but was disappointed. With only 5 episodes to go, character development of this sort will feel rushed and unnatural. Kagura also suffers in the same way. He's still the same guy he was at the start, one track mind after his smelly wench. Several times he's been tormented by mykage but we've never seen evidence of him actually thinking of not being a pawn in mykage's schemes. Zessica was okay at first, but once the writers had a chance to flesh her out they ruined her. Which leads me to believe that the only characters people will genuinely like at the end of EVOL are those that the writers simply didn't have enough time to develop at all or those who died early. Like jin and shrade. |
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2012-05-27, 17:51 | Link #63 | |
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I don't remember to be honest, maybe?
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I would have no problem with the current development if (Amata and Kagura weren't the same person, for starters; its not like Sirius suddenly stopped being Celianne just because he was male and Sylvia was the love interest. They are a split soul and no matter how you split Amata/Kagura, they all still tie back to Apollonius & Celianne): "Let's fight fate, guys!" hadn't been slammed in our faces time and again in previous episodes (Amata, for pete's sake, even does this shpeel when he sees Sylvia in Mikono). No destiny is being fought, just ideals. As I said, destiny is not one person fighting his shadow over ending up with the girl he was always meant to end up with over conflicting ideals as to why they need to end up together. Fighting destiny is when you say screw you, and go off with some other person and throw off destiny entirely. Maybe I've missed something or maybe the writers have just not made this very convincing. Mykage's interruption last episode wasn't clear enough about her going off script?
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2012-05-27, 18:00 | Link #64 | |
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So, I don't think they will merge together in the end for this reason. They will probably die, yes, but as single entities Anyways I enjoyed the episode, but tbh I didn't expect Amata being so coldhearted with Zessica. I mean, I understand that he faced many event one after another, but well, the writers seem to be busy making him getting hated. I'm glad that I don't care about Zessica so I can still enjoy the show. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I dislike her, but her path is too much exaggerated to the point that I can't feel it. Ah, obviously it is crystal clear that Mikono won't suffer of the Altar disease, will she?
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2012-05-27, 19:07 | Link #65 |
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why do I feel like the ending will be a merge of altair and vega with the sacrifice of Mikono. At least in the end she will be useful with her ability to connect. Both worlds are dying to begin with in a way that the other world needs support of Aquarion and the other has the curse of Eve.
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2012-05-27, 19:13 | Link #66 |
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I am a devoted follower of Aquarion Evol up to Jin's death, whose death I mourn and also think it adds a certain depth to the show. But from there....it just goes downhill. Amata and Mikono are not bad characters, but really, they are dull, and to a certain extent, one-dimensional characters. I especially dislike how they mess up Zessica's character. It's a shame that she is never given the chance to shine. Initially, she's your typical cheerful and confident heroine. Then she falls in love with Amata and this is where her character starts to downgrade. She experiences jealousy and insecurity, and these two things would have been excellent to further develop her character. At one point, I fancied myself that she might go to the dark side but no, she sticks with the group and instead of improving, she becomes more depressed, wears the hideous dress and finally sacrifices herself for an ungrateful dude. Never have I felt such a pity for a character. I am sad that her character is trolled hard by the writer. After giving up on the main characters, I find myself rooting for secondary characters like Shrade and Andy. Instead of dedicating time to Mykage trolling about or Fudo with his donut philosophy week after week, I truly wish that the characters could be developed more. How about Donar? Crea? Suomi? Izumo? It would have been interesting to see some spark between Donar and Suomi, and Crea actually doing something rather than being Fudo's permanent loli toy.
With this episode, I am not going to bother expecting solid plot in future episodes, I am just going to stick with this for the mere reason of watching the conclusion.
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2012-05-27, 19:36 | Link #67 | |
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I think a good ending would be Amata killing Kagura and absorbing him back into his soul and saving the world. I think this whole laybrinth of lies and deception from Mykage will backfire on him, because in reality. He's the one trying to destroy everything and go against fate. It would be Ironic if Alicia and not mikono will help amata and kagura join together. But I can see Alica doing that role, I mean she cant sleep the rest of the god damn series in there? Also would Alicia recognize Kagura as being apart of Amata? |
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2012-05-27, 20:09 | Link #68 | |
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"Mikono-san! MIKONO-SAN!! MIKONO-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
Amata Sora, Aquarion EVOL. After 22 episodes and a lot of crap Guilty Crown ended, then its cast moved to another project. After 22 episodes and even more crap than GC, Aquarion EVOL goes on... I really enjoy this one "oh Zessica! U alive? lol!" it reminded me of how they resolve C.C.'s amnesia in Code Geass R2 : We. Don't. Give. A. Damn. Quote:
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2012-05-27, 20:34 | Link #69 | |||||
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Mykage is the key to everything. I think in the next episode we'll learn who he is and what the hell he wants. Until that... speculations, speculations. Quote:
>Maximillionus But those are not memories. That's pretty much the key, IMO. Amata has the wings, and has stuff lurking very, very deep in his subconscious, but it's stuff he can't access (remember the memory scan in ep whatever... 3? 4?) He has no idea why he knows what to do in Aquarion; when he sees Kagura he has a feeling he knows him from somewhere but doesn't know where or how. Also, all this time he's been connected to Aquarion and not Apollon (and yes, yes, Wings of the Sun and Apollonius and all, but with 3 Aquarions running around I won't even start speculating what Amata's connection to Aquarion even means). Last edited by kuromitsu; 2012-05-27 at 20:46. |
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2012-05-27, 21:03 | Link #70 | |||
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As for the rest, thats all fine and dandy, like I said, but its missing the point of previous plot points in fighting fate. No fate is being fought. It may be getting disregarded as the *reason* but its not being fought by either of them. Like I said, its a conflict of *why* not *how*. He's not saying screw anything either because he himself has espoused the same bullshit as Kagura about having been fated to meet with Mikono. The flow is awful, the fact that Kagura and Amata are the same person is what really makes the claim hard to swallow. That's all there really is to it. I have nothing against what he said, in fact it would be a great line for a scene where people were actually fighting destiny, as it stands, though, I find it... underwhelming? There's no real weight to it as I've said before. Yes, great, you like the girl because of who she is but it would certainly mean a lot more if you weren't, (a.) fighting your shadow, (b.) not destined to end up with her anyway (whether its Apollo-Sylvia, or Apollonius-Celianne). Maybe in a few episodes it will turn out that Amata is somehow no one at all despite being someone when he was born but I'd be really hard pressed to believe any such development. I mean, I found the whole episode silly. The scenes and character flow was off the wall all over the place. Mikono literally goes from shouting/crying about how Amata and Kagura should stop fighting, while with Fudo where neither can hear her. To, after going to where they are and now able to be heard, says not a word. The whole fight between Kagura and Amata is framed on a misconception on what Kagura means, and Mikono doesn't say a word to clear it up. (The whole fate thing, but we'll that for a later time as we're never going to agree.) Amata, for some strange reason, tries to fight Kagura, who'd been passive until that moment, because the latter said that the only thing he remembered was Mikono's smell. Many character actions this episode just didn't make any sense to me. Why does Mykage play an active role in fucking with the cast, while Fudo just watches? What's the point of dragging Zessica through more mud? Quote:
The mirror is very clearly Amagura. Look at the hair form, its Amata's. Quote:
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2012-05-27, 21:06 | Link #71 | |
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2012-05-27, 23:45 | Link #74 | |
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Darn, it seems my worst case scenerio was right about how Amata and Mikono would be treated in this episode. I was hopeing they would have at least pushed some growth down their throats, instead they've regressed back to their early episode selves. C'mon, are they even trying to make Mikono likeable or are they just trying to make Amata extremely unlikeable so they're on even ground?
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2012-05-28, 00:16 | Link #75 | |
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2012-05-28, 00:25 | Link #76 | |
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2012-05-28, 00:58 | Link #77 | |
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This is the true problem with Kagura's character in that ultimately the "fate" that he claims connects him to Mikono is a false one, created by being with a ntr loving feather bastard with an acute case of chaotic selfish, and a little dash of god complex. In that way one can say that Kagura's love for Mikono is ultimately superficial and in a sense fake, because a good portion of it comes from Mykage's brainwashing. |
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2012-05-28, 01:04 | Link #79 | |
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2012-05-28, 01:15 | Link #80 |
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It might be this but really no one is handling this scene writing well. Not the japanese viewers or even the chinese viewers. english speaking folks across boards are not taking it well either. Maybe the words dont convey it the way it should be or the tone kaji yuki says it.
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