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View Poll Results: Code Geass: Akito the Exiled OVA - Episode 2 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 2 | 18.18% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 1 | 9.09% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 6 | 54.55% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 1 | 9.09% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 9.09% | |
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2013-02-09, 00:23 | Link #802 |
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No one's gonna liceense this until the series is complete (In America I mean, Madman already licensed it in Oz). I don't think it'd be economical for them to license it in parcels. I'd suspect Viz would buy the license though; Geass seems bankable enough.
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2013-02-09, 00:32 | Link #803 | |||||||
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I agree that there wasn't a huge emphasis on characterization though, as opposed to presenting the general setting. I'm willing to give the show another episode to start focusing on the characters and bring other developments to light, after going through the purely introductory motions of placing them in the necessary positions. The question of the "dead air" is also debatable, since it's hard to swap out too many of those quiet moments in exchange for more content without hurting the atmosphere and running into other risks, such as inadvertently making the pacing feel too rushed or compressed. Not saying it can't be done, since there are ways to balance such factors, but I don't see spending time on what amounts to an atmosphere-heavy prologue as an objective flaw. Some people will snooze halfway through, but I certainly didn't. Quote:
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Also, another comment someone from the staff has made is that after some internal discussion they decided to keep the ridiculous scene in R2 where the Emperor literally rockets across the screen because it was just too funny. In light of those and other pieces of evidence, the suggestion that the staff could never remotely recognize such over-the-top moments as being incongruously funny and somehow only left them in purely unintentionally seems rather...questionable. You could even argue that's in poor taste, rightfully so, but I still think it's not a case of self-absorbed blindness or total unawareness about the fact people would make memes out of such things. Quote:
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And in terms of comedy; it's just I've seen shows like TTGL or Diebuster which do a really good job mixing comedy with drama. And when comparing them to Geass, Geass falls flat, imo. Quote:
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I can see you wanted to have a more detailed or in-depth look at both him and the rest of the cast, which isn't an unreasonable expectation on paper, but the director simply went out of his way to pick a different approach for the first of four acts, all within the limits of the available running time. My position is that only time will tell if this was or wasn't a risk worth taking. Quote:
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2013-02-09, 16:06 | Link #810 |
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That seems to be one of the positives of the move to 3D in this case, since there's a lot more room for camera movement and the action choreography is heavier on the melee than on the big guns so far. It was a bit weird at first, when the initial footage came out, but after a while you can keep track of what's going on without much difficulty during the episode itself.
Then again, there's also that one strange shot at the end of the new PV for episode 2 showing the Alexander floating in space...which I honestly don't have a clue if it's meant to be taken literally or is just a random piece of promotional imagery. Such things tend to give me some sort of "this is only a cool visual for preview purposes" feeling, but you never know. |
2013-02-10, 16:10 | Link #811 |
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Just a side note on the "anti-Knightmare sapper" idea, I always wondered how well armored those cockpits were too! As for the "super robot" thing, everything has an Achillies heel.
As for Akito dieing a hero's death by Suzaku, well the fat lady isn't even warming up yet, and unless "White Death" has an ace up his sleeve, I don't see the Alexander giving the Lancelot any quarter! I for one find Akito much more entertaining than Geass, the writers on this one are veterans of some very outstanding shows, and thus far its working to every bodies benefit. It's obvious they're at least trying to make a show that as good as or better than the original.
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2013-02-12, 00:49 | Link #813 |
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Would it be bad that part of the reason I'm watching this is to see how Suzaku makes life more difficult for everyone else because........well......Suzaku
On a more serious note, the KMF fights in this OVA have made me realize that the mecha of Code Geass can actually look like real military vehicles (kind of like TSFs in Muv-luv) instead of looking fabulous like in R1 and R2. P.S. I am probably one of the few Suzaku fans on here and before anyone asks he was actually my favorite character precisely because of his many many flaws. That and like I mentioned before, seeing him make life harder for everyone else simply by being there became pretty funny after a while. |
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2013-02-18, 19:46 | Link #817 |
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He is supposed to be in the next installment, along with C.C.
As for an english dub of the entire OVA series, I would think that depends on how well it does sales wise, and if anybody ponies up the money for the rights over here. Remember Bandai Ent. is out of business over here.
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2013-02-19, 17:04 | Link #819 |
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Whatever character exposition happens in this OVA, we can expect such to happen in measured steps. Length of the OVA series along with the people in charge assures me that I'll be spared from a CC-like daytime soap opera where the characters' playing out their role can see dramatic ups and downs in their established personality from one episode to the next for the sake of generating those twist-and-truns wildly cheered by the fans. In this OVA, traits like inner-conflict and such probably will be handled in a manner where the overall plot-point isn't overshadowed for the sake of creating artificial drama. I say the approach is going to be subtle, an word that has been very alien to the Code Geass franchise thus far. As has been pointed out already in this thread, Akito was far from interesting in episode 1 and yet, he did just enough to draw attention to his character.
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