(L) Scrapped Princess

[Captain Yoruichi]

Oh, sorry to revive this after so long. But I wanted to put in my two cents. ^_^

Scrapped Princess is another anime that I personally love and think is underrated. It ran for 24 episodes, but it's so good that it feels shorter, because when you get to the last episode, you'll wish there was more. ^__^

It's my favorite dub anime by far. I don't think I've even watched it with subtitles, actually.

Pacifica is voiced by Kari Wahlgren, who I was already a fan of from Tales of Symphonia, but her range is so awesome that I didn't even realize she was doing Pacifica's voice until I saw her name in the credits. ^_^

[Magin]

Kari Wahlgren is incredible with her vocal talent...

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otherwise, I'll never be over the fact that they offed Ciz (I don't care if she was enemy, she was cute loli and then hot woman, and I liked her being with Shannon), but at least the little Dragoon girl got to be with Shannon

[ApostleOfGod]

Don't be sorry about reviving an awesome thread dedicated to an amazing anime

Scrapped Princess recently came to my mind, as I was thinking of animes to rewatch - such an amazing series... Underrated, not very known, deep, simply spectacular.

[Asleep]

I loved Scrapped Princess. Bones, nice voice acting, sci-fi/fantasy, great characters.

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And it had a lovely ending.

I really liked that she

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rejected Leo too

But really, it was all and all a pleasure to watch, and had one of the rare

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happy endings.

[Saki_chan]

Originally Posted by Asleep

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And it had a lovely ending.

Haha, is that really a spoiler?

Anyway, I agree. Scrapped Princess is a great anime. I've got the first three of the novels, too, although I've only had time to read the first one. -_- (Stupid homework...)

[Asleep]

Originally Posted by Saki_chan

Haha, is that really a spoiler?

Anyway, I agree. Scrapped Princess is a great anime. I've got the first three of the novels, too, although I've only had time to read the first one. -_- (Stupid homework...)

Well I know some people

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who hated the ending because it was too happy.

So I didn't want to reveal how it ends

[golthin]

Originally Posted by Asleep

Well I know some people

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who hated the ending because it was too happy.

So I didn't want to reveal how it ends

In this case that ending was very appropiate. Why do you ask?

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Everyone had suffered so much during the whole show. they were due a little happiness.
I also like that Pacifica rejected Leo

[Asleep]

Originally Posted by golthin

In this case that ending was very appropiate. Why do you ask?

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Everyone had suffered so much during the whole show. they were due a little happiness.
I also like that Pacifica rejected Leo

I know and I absolutely agree with you!

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but many people hate happy endings for some reason

And I loved Zephiris. It was

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nice to see her as a milkmaid (?) in the end I had really thought she wouldn't survive.

[Saki_chan]

Originally Posted by golthin

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Everyone had suffered so much during the whole show. they were due a little happiness.
I also like that Pacifica rejected Leo

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I like that she rejected him, too, although I didn't feel like it was terribly final. I feel like it was more of an "I'm not ready to be married to anyone yet" rejection than an "I don't feel that way about you" rejection.

That said, it'll probably become an "I don't feel that way about you" rejection sooner or later, because poor Leo's totally not her type.

[chaos_animagic]

I just watched the last episode of Scrapped Princess - seem that the series isn't that popular... can't find much info on it...

The ending is nice and all... but...

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I feel like they got the crap end of things... since they did lost 6000 years of technology and culture and language (English is lost, and how come only the Japanese survive?)...
They were kept in the olden years and did not allowed to develop and evolve because of the Peacemakers...

Also... whatever happened to the "Humans/ Mankind" that was outside of the "Seal"? since they did say that the outside humans are trying to break the seal from outside... but we never did see what happened... (and it was for 5000 years... did they gave up or did the outside humans get wiped out by the aliens?)

Also... I hate that stupid Mauser girl... just cause she wanted to save 2 people, she doomed mankind (how many people is there in this?... I am guess that she doomed over 50 million people) and in the end, the 2 people she wanted to save also died...
LOL at Mauser girl talking about aliens saying Mankind is precious animals... than why don't they (the aliens) leave and not attack mankind instead?... that would solve everything... cause they were the reason the war started...

[4Tran]

Given that this show's over five years old, I don't see the need for spoiler tags :

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

I feel like they got the crap end of things... since they did lost 6000 years of technology and culture and language (English is lost, and how come only the Japanese survive?)...
They were kept in the olden years and did not allowed to develop and evolve because of the Peacemakers...

Pretty much, although the language they're using is more likely to be English than Japanese.

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

Also... whatever happened to the "Humans/ Mankind" that was outside of the "Seal"? since they did say that the outside humans are trying to break the seal from outside... but we never did see what happened... (and it was for 5000 years... did they gave up or did the outside humans get wiped out by the aliens?)

I don't think that the outside world was ever expanded upon, but implication is that they're all dead. If they were still alive, then Mauser would have been far less worried by Pacifica, and we should have seen the interaction of the Outside humans with the Inside humans at the end of the show.

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

LOL at Mauser girl talking about aliens saying Mankind is precious animals... than why don't they (the aliens) leave and not attack mankind instead?... that would solve everything... cause they were the reason the war started...

The aliens probably never wanted to exterminate mankind to begin with. It wouldn't be that different from us creating a nature preserve (or a zoo) to save the last few specimens of an animal species. In this case, humanity is a lot more dangerous, and the aliens never wanted to stick around. I'd imagine that if the newly released humans demonstrated that they were no threat, the aliens would leave them alone as well.

[Magin]

No need for spoiler tags? Keep in mind, there are still those out there who haven't seen the show despite its age (there are things out there that are over ten years old that I haven't seen, and could still be spoiled on), and therefore much of this stuff is still considered as spoilers...

but anyways...

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yes, I always did wonder about fitting that piece back with the rest of the Earth... I know we'll never see a sequel, but it does leave a lot of questions, such as if people were wondering what the gaping hole in the world was, and also, when it was put back into place, how it going back affected the rest of the world, if there even was any. And I still wonder if Zephy could've changed from her Loli form (heh, shannon could get both a loli and a beautiful young woman...). Though, I personally don't classify this as a happy ending, but rather, a decent/okay ending... despite Zephy, I'll always be upset about Ciz's fate

and on a side note, even though I haven't touched it in ages, the way things went with Shannon, along with the technology stuff, inspired me to write a fic using those as a basis for a little idea that I have yet to complete...

[4Tran]

Originally Posted by Magin

No need for spoiler tags? Keep in mind, there are still those out there who haven't seen the show despite its age (there are things out there that are over ten years old that I haven't seen, and could still be spoiled on), and therefore much of this stuff is still considered as spoilers...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I rather appreciate you taking the effort to put your points inside spoiler tags; it's just that I feel that they're unnecessary for a number of reasons. The first is that the point of spoiler tags is to keep people from being inadvertently spoilers. Since this is the discussion thread about a show that finished airing ages ago, I'd think that it should be expected that people would be discussing all aspects of the show; including the ending and any shocking developments. Also, someone who hasn't watched the show or is beginning to watch the show would be reading this thread from the beginning. Since the earlier posts already discuss the ending, then any reader would encounter the spoilers long before they get here.

For anime threads, use spoiler tags whenever you discuss any details about a different show, or if you're discussing material that hasn't been released in an English format. The exception is if the material is from a pre-existing like the original manga or novel, in which case that material shouldn't be discussed in the anime thread until it's been animated.

Originally Posted by Magin

yes, I always did wonder about fitting that piece back with the rest of the Earth... I know we'll never see a sequel, but it does leave a lot of questions, such as if people were wondering what the gaping hole in the world was, and also, when it was put back into place, how it going back affected the rest of the world, if there even was any.

This might have been detailed in the original novels - the fourth of 13 volumes has just been released in English by Tokyopop.

[klare]

this show seems to be highly rated, it is on my watch list after i finish Hirugashi

been trying not to click the spoiler tags

[npcomplete]

Yes, it's an excellent show. One of my favorites.

Originally Posted by 4Tran

This might have been detailed in the original novels - the fourth of 13 volumes has just been released in English by Tokyopop.

Do the novels go beyond the anime?

[Magin]

The novels are... different from the anime, in that they do cover bases that the anime never covered. I haven't personally read any of them, so I'm just going on what I've heard

Originally Posted by klare

this show seems to be highly rated, it is on my watch list after i finish Hirugashi

been trying not to click the spoiler tags

and 4Tran, here's a perfect example of why even ending spoilers about a show that's been over for years probably need to be in tags... (though klare is probably going to start from page one as it is...)

[chaos_animagic]

Pretty much, although the language they're using is more likely to be English than Japanese.

But... in the anime, when they were in the

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engine room... they didn't know how to read English and even asked what language that was... and that other girl had a piece of paper to see what the words are...

The aliens probably never wanted to exterminate mankind to begin with. It wouldn't be that different from us creating a nature preserve (or a zoo) to save the last few specimens of an animal species. In this case, humanity is a lot more dangerous, and the aliens never wanted to stick around. I'd imagine that if the newly released humans demonstrated that they were no threat, the aliens would leave them alone as well.

As you said... "Humanity is a lot more dangerous... Humans demonstrated that they were no threat"... This basically goes against what Mauser said...

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she said the alien think Humanity is "precious"... Precious does not equal no Threat...
The Alien attacked cause of "Threat" and not to "preserve mankind"...
Basically the Alien tricked Mauser to doom her own kind, stupid girl...

I'll always be upset about Ciz's fate

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Yea, I had thought Cz, aka Sim would have remembered her time with Shannon-nii and stay with him, but in the end Cz died ;(

[PastPrime]

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

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Yea, I had thought Cz, aka Sim would have remembered her time with Shannon-nii and stay with him, but in the end Cz died ;(

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She did remember. At the last moment she told him that she was sorry but, although he tried, it was to late for Shannon to stop his final strike.

[4Tran]

Originally Posted by Magin

and 4Tran, here's a perfect example of why even ending spoilers about a show that's been over for years probably need to be in tags... (though klare is probably going to start from page one as it is...)

While this thread tends to be fairly late in getting into the ending spoilers, they start at about post 30-40. Anyone reading this thread is going to get spoiled anyways, so why should we go through post after post of spoiler tags?

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

But... in the anime, when they were in the engine room... they didn't know how to read English and even asked what language that was... and that other girl had a piece of paper to see what the words are...

Cool. It's been about four years since I've actually watched the show.

Originally Posted by chaos_animagic

As you said... "Humanity is a lot more dangerous... Humans demonstrated that they were no threat"... This basically goes against what Mauser said... she said the alien think Humanity is "precious"... Precious does not equal no Threat...
The Alien attacked cause of "Threat" and not to "preserve mankind"...
Basically the Alien tricked Mauser to doom her own kind, stupid girl...

That's sort of my point - that as long as humanity does not pose itself as a threat to the aliens, they are likely to leave humanity alone.

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by 4Tran

While this thread tends to be fairly late in getting into the ending spoilers, they start at about post 30-40. Anyone reading this thread is going to get spoiled anyways, so why should we go through post after post of spoiler tags?


Cool. It's been about four years since I've actually watched the show.


That's sort of my point - that as long as humanity does not pose itself as a threat to the aliens, they are likely to leave humanity alone.

Humanity is no threat till it reaches the space age again. as soon as humanity becomes competition like last time it will be a threat.