2022-03-20, 08:20 | Link #1322 |
Black Steel Knight
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Indonesia
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Oooh, what do we have here? Looks like the team poured most of their effort & resources for this episode compared to the previous one (for obvious reasons, I guess). They pair finally meet and it's pretty good.
Overall, I give this show 7/10. As you can see from my score, I don't think it's absolutely ecxellent. It still retains its overly sappy nature from beginning to end. I've said this before during Cour 1 but it still applies in Cour 2: this show feels like it's a "mecha made by Key". Sappiness abound and characters often speak like they're performing lines on stage (even the blocking) whenever they're talking about something serious. Sawano's music cranked that sappiness to over-9000 (for better or worse) and I don't like the OP songs at all (I think they really mis-represent the show). Some parts of the narrative are clunky, derivative and could've been done better. Those are the negatives that took the 3 points out of 10. Meanwhile, the rest are ranging from ok to excellent. Visuals are top notch (some animation cutting-corners notwithstanding). Art direction is superb but could use something more to differentiate the characters' mech-spiders so that we can tell who's who during a group battle. CGI is good. Whenever Sawano is not being overly sappy, the BGM is always top tier. Main two characters are worth rooting for while the side-protags are likeable enough. Excellent voice-acting too. The villains are.....ok. The action mostly delivers whenever they want to showcase it. The story mostly delivers despite the clunkiness I've mentioned before. Also, Fido certainly helps. All in all, I'm glad this show exists and I'm glad it attracted some new viewers who've never watched mecha before and opened their eyes that mecha shows are not about the robots (which is ironic considering the human characters are literally fighting terminator-bugs in this show). Now that I think about it, looks like mecha anime in the 20s decade started strong. We had the trinity of EVA 3.0+1.0 movie, Gundam Hathaway movie & this 86 show which all started in 2021 and did gangbusters in box office & ratings IIRC (I wanted to include Dynazenon which also did well in 21 but that show was mainly from Tokusatsu franchise, not mecha anime). I wonder how well the rest of the decade will do for mecha.
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2022-03-20, 10:12 | Link #1324 | ||
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I guess there's a fine line between sappiness and proper dramatic weight, although the emotions always rang true and genuine to me. I think this cours' Opening fit wayyy better than cour 1's, and had better visuals, and I also felt all the insert songs hit really well in this episode .
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2022-03-21, 12:02 | Link #1327 |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Blue Notes Blues
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I watched all the season in 1 sit and it's been a while since I disliked a loli this much, frederica ruined this season for me.
At least I loved the last chapter reunion, it was only good thing in this season. 6/10 |
2022-03-22, 18:54 | Link #1329 |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
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Seen the last episode, San Magnolia received a lesson for his behavior but not everyone learned, finally the protagonists meet again and prepare for another battle, it looks interesting.
I really liked the series, I liked the characters like Shin and Lena, their antagonists too and I like the other characters like Frederica, the bad thing was the breaks but that's fine, to wait for more news about the series. |
2022-03-23, 20:34 | Link #1332 |
Harem Seeker
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Considering how much subtle hints A1 were throwing around in this series a d that we have a bunches of "coincidences" piled up like the day Shin and Lena officially met was the same day the episode was aired irl and the days episode 21 and 23 were aired are also roughly 86 days apart, i pretty thr days here are intentionally left at 86
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2022-03-25, 20:05 | Link #1333 | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Tampa Florida
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The almost handholding at the end is bittersweet it's representative of their relationship, so close yet so far away But very real emotions, the path they follow to truly get to each other is soo worth it, For those who wonder about what really went on in magnolia. it wasn't cut or anything not a whole lot is really said about in the books that the anime covers, mainly because what went on there is part of a bigger arch, which reveals its ugly head when they fight together. Last edited by carmolita; 2022-03-27 at 10:10. |
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