(L) Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto

[n120cky]

Originally Posted by Dark Wing

However I think many people are jumping to conclusions. Remember when he uses the Kings Pillar Sugata is supposed to go into a coma like state it's obvious that her duty is to help get him out of or even prevent it from happening.

Yes I agreed, she just there naked and that's doesn't mean she does her night job, maybe she just use her power to return Sugata from deep slumber. Wako does the purification naked to.

Also my theory about Sarina is:
We got 3 type of cybody Warrior, Maiden, King. Maybe Sarina is the queen, well it's just speculation, i got this because of when vice president in the top of her head, it's like a crown for her . Silly eh . . ..

[j0x]

ok thinking an alternative on Keito implied rape scene to Sugata, it might just be her duty as a maiden (or this is the Head's plan that his talking about) to heal Sugata whenever he uses the King's Pillar, and it might be just some kind of purification ritual that Wako is nakedly doing too, so Keito does not necessarily having sex with Sugata there to get pregnant, that implied rape scene may just be trolling of BONES because if its indeed sex scene and will lead to pregnancy and Keito is still minor at High School, i dont think Star Driver will pass that anti-anime and anti-manga law of Tokyo if its really a sex scene

[DragoZERO]

Fun episode, all of those disclaimers and everything. It made that final scene a bigger WTF!? too.

Originally Posted by Haak

I thought that was them. You can't spell faggots without gg...

Yes, their trolling knows no bounds.

[j0x]

after some thinking of this episode, its kinda obvious now that Star Drivers that have real marks are the only ones that have First Phase abilities, i hope they show the First Phase of Takuto already

[DragoZERO]

Originally Posted by ckmox

after some thinking of this episode, its kinda obvious now that Star Drivers that have real marks are the only ones that have First Phase abilities, i hope they show the First Phase of Takuto already

It's Engrish proficiency.

[j0x]

Originally Posted by DragoZERO

It's Engrish proficiency.

its a pinch!!!

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by ckmox

its a pinch!!!

It's a wonder....

[Freya]

lol <3 the ending scene. Good stuff. Rape me to heal me.

[christinemarie]

The last time I saw this kind of scene from episode 18 is from Fatal Fury Movie 3, where Sulia (Keiko) got herself naked to heal Terry Bogard (Sugata).

Spoiler for Wild Speculation:

Keito's first phase is to creatre a replica body without a soul, then transferred Sugata's soul into the replica 10 years ago, this transpired only after Sugata saved Keito during that time, Wako is not aware of it (she thought it only happened when Takuto and Wako is in danger of those first phase clones several episodes ago.) Occasionally every night, she needs to restore some sort of energy on Sugata's real body via using her own body kind of reminds me even with Fushigi Yugi way of replenishing energy (As for Nakago to heal quickly, Soi makes love with him to restore chi.) Sugata is not even aware, or he is already aware that it's not his real body, so he can abuse his first phase whenever he likes. Both Sugata and Sugata's father is in deep slumber. Head's real plan is to revive Sugata's father, it would only happen if he can revive Sugata's real body.

[Jeffry2009]

Please DO NOT imitate rapist

at the end.

What the hell just happened?!

Keito, what have you done?!

[Jarmel]

Damn. There's no way that they're going to go down the implied rape route. I mean Jesus that's dark even for Bones. I'm guessing it's a purification ritual from using King's Pillar. Otherwise god damn I'll give this show serious points for this. Yea they had heavy sexual hints before but this is on a whole new level.

Also note how Sugata didn't care even about Takuto's safety when he used King's Pillar. I'm sure he's going to become the final villain and this will probably lead to the breaking point.

Just god damn.

Takuto's reaction to the karaoke scene was classic though.

Honest to god, the mecha fights are the weakest aspect of this show and are what is going to hold back the show from becoming a classic. Which is mindblowing considering this is coming from the studio that made Eureka 7.

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by Jarmel

Takuto's reaction to the karaoke scene was classic though.

I'd say her reaction was even funnier. Then the employee admitting she was there every day (after she told Takuto she didn't have that dream anymore) just made it even more hilarious. lol

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Jeffry2009

Please DO NOT imitate rapist

at the end.

What the hell just happened?!

Keito, what have you done?!

Turn off subtitles and watch that scene again.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Turn off subtitles and watch that scene again.

It doesn't make it any less of an implied rape scene, you know.

[Dahak86]

Originally Posted by Jarmel

Honest to god, the mecha fights are the weakest aspect of this show and are what is going to hold back the show from becoming a classic.

Because someone chose to make them look excessively repetitive and poorly animated at times.

take ep18 for example, if it wasn't for the awesome karaoke-scene and the WTF-supposed rape-scene at the end, it really wouldn't have anything memorable. (i.e. no memorable mecha fights)

I'd say the First Phase fights are the weakest aspect of the show, no wonder they're often underused. (i.e. usually when there's some problem with cybodies: damaged or whatever)

[n120cky]

Well it's true we don't know what the true meaning about that "rape scene" for now. What would you think if the one who did it not Keito, but Takuto .

[Shiroth]

Totally didn't see that last scene coming. It goes so well with the pairs little scene in the preview "you enjoyed raping me, right?" for next weeks episode.

[_gallo_]

Originally Posted by Jarmel

Honest to god, the mecha fights are the weakest aspect of this show and are what is going to hold back the show from becoming a classic. Which is mindblowing considering this is coming from the studio that made Eureka 7.

I wouldn’t be so sure about this. Star Driver has more drawbacks than simply uninspiring mecha dogfights. Even if you take them away from the show, I doubt it will be judged as a classic. The series seem to have gathered a lot of hate among the anime-sphere. Some people call it and abortion, others a trainwreck and in general this blend between mecha and mahout shojo shonen has been seen as one of the most uninspiring thing ever made.
Personally I’m a bit disappointed at this point since I was expecting something more, especially in terms of character development. Instead of trying to be extremely popular the show needed to dedicate more space to dramatic retrospective about the main characters. Instead too much time is wasted on pandering the audience. The school moments are fun, and there probably lies Igarashi’s ability to handle this kind of situations, but once the show tries to get serious and to go in deep it’s pretty uninteresting and tamed, like the if the authors fear the audience's reactions. Plus characters’ personality is underexposed.
That said, the show is far from being the worst thing out there. I can’t understand all the blame on Star Driver while there are by far worse anime. Sometime I see all this hate as the outcome of an hyperbole syndrome.

Another underwhelming thing about the show for me was the lack of skilled staffers working on it. With more talented people doing single episodes, I’m sure that the series would have been better. The only one which I think has above average skills besides the director and the writer is Yoshiyuki Asai which has directed ep 1, 15 as well as the part where Keito sings in the last episode. The rest of the line directors didn’t really shined across the series. Moreover I was really pissed that Igarashi has not got his hand dirty on some episode ever since the first one. Both in Soul Eater and Ouran he was much more directly involved, whereas here he probably spend his time on directional duties since he has to cope with staff inexperience episode by episode. Bones has made too many series during these years and their talents really got diluited across them. Fuck Bones! Instead of making Ando and Kyoda work under that shitty Heroman director, they should have been redeployed to Star Driver along with Nakamura.

[klare]

Spoiler for eps 18:

how much they spent on that Keito singing animation? but i welcome that, finally Keito gets her screen time

at the final scene, i would like to believe Keito is doing her duty as a maiden, like recharging mana... haha i try to think clean, she likes Sugata anyway

no Tauburn this eps but really does not matter

[citrinitas668]

Originally Posted by _gallo_

Another underwhelming thing about the show for me was the lack of skilled staffers working on it.

I'm sure most of the people working on the show would take great offense to being described as "unskilled" and "inexperienced." Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Most of these people have been working together since the 90s! The vast majority of the main-billed staff worked together on Sailor Moon at some point. There are only a handful of truly green staff members and they're used sparingly. Even some of the "newer" staff are highly skilled––just look at Iwasaki Tarou, he hasn't been in the industry since the 90s like many of the others, but his episodes have been stunning (8 and 12 so far, he directed and storyboarded both).

Originally Posted by _gallo_

the director and the writer is Yoshiyuki Asai

Oh wait, you really don't have any idea what you're talking about. Asai didn't write shit, Enokido has personally written every episode so far.

Stop talking out of your ass and at least bother to get your facts straight before you shit all over something.