2009-04-02, 09:49 | Link #1001 | |
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2009-04-02, 18:55 | Link #1002 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 38
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Eh, I didn't like the last few episodes so much. They turned the Ride Back thing into just some sort of stand-in for her dancing--like her ballet career was the whole point. Honestly, who actually gives a **** about her dancing? Ballet was just an explanation for her talent--her background--and should have stayed that way. The last episode especially made it seem like nothing really mattered except some sort of vague coming-to-terms with her having quit dancing. *yawn* Who cares? We're watching the show for the Ride Backs, and they hardly seemed to matter at all by then end of the anime.
There was also too much focus on the politics (and those side characters involved) without ever really going deeply into them, the result being a lot of screen time was wasted on events I was quite apathetic towards. |
2009-04-02, 19:18 | Link #1003 |
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Kind of late, but the last episode, especially Rin's RideBack dance was just beautiful!
I wish other studios just use this footage as a guide on how to direct action and integrate 3D (GONZO just keeps popping into my mind). As for the whole series, it was quite nice and certainly (as well as thankfully) not another sport or mecha show. Though I have my reservations on how it handled its politics, it is certainly much better then the childish treatment audiences usually get (i.e. Gundam). As for character development, taking into account that it was only one-cour, they did their best with Rin and none should expect more then that. |
2009-04-02, 20:46 | Link #1004 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: a zoo
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Just finished watching the last episode and I must say that of all the shows Iīve watched these past few months, this is hands down my favorite one.
I particularly loved the way she found closure in the end, the choice for a stage in the very same location where Suzuri-chan was killed. Itīs overall a deeply touching story about Rinīs rise from the ashes of her multiple losses with ridebacks and political maneuverings as a fascinating - but ultimately secondary - backdrop. I find myself complaining a lot lately about how most of my favorite anime shows canīt seem to wrap neatly, the ending always leaving me wanting. Itīs nice to see that Rideback didnīt follow that trend. |
2009-04-03, 01:46 | Link #1006 | |
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That is my sentiment as well. I wish they had taken the time to develop Goblinīs story, maybe show in greater detail what happened in Arizone or delve deeper into Karenbach:īs assistantīs background and what made her tick. |
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2009-04-03, 03:19 | Link #1008 |
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Read some stuff on the GGP in the Japanese site. It seemed that they started in 2012 with the BMA created as a response to it. Seems interesting they used Rideback to overpower all of the world's militaries, including the Russians and the Americans.
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2009-04-03, 15:40 | Link #1009 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Age: 35
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mmm.. beautiful. from what you guys were saying about the ending, i was expecting something else.. since they've solved the corrupt ggp problem, this arc is over, but i'm assuming we didn't cover all 9 volumes of material in 13 eps, so there's obviously room for a second season. unless the anime went and did an original ending.
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2009-04-03, 21:53 | Link #1011 |
Random Object
Join Date: Dec 2007
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the key thing about these 12 episodes is the fact they're focused on Rin and to set the story setting. If they do a second season it will probably go into more detail about everything else, hopefully enough people ask these questions to promote a second season
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2009-04-03, 22:02 | Link #1012 |
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It really seems to me that this story is more about the dance then any thing else the conflict is nothing more then a back ground story. I do not know Ballet but i think they are story that are made to give a reason to use dance to tell a story so i think ride back may be doing the same. On a side note i think they where trying to reproduces a Ballet at the end i have no idea really which i do not know ballets.
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2009-04-03, 22:21 | Link #1014 |
my sides are in orbit
Join Date: Nov 2007
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the ending is forced, and there are several wall bangers:
- why don't ya just shoot him, Romanov. - why don't ya just shoot her, Grimoires. - if you know that your underlings graduated from Imperial Stormtroopers Marksmen Academy, why don't ya do the job yourself, Goblin. - etc.... also, the "evil thwarted and the world is good again" ending is definitely forced. GGP is too colossal a military industrial complex to reform itself. if i were the Japanese, i dont want them anywhere near my soil.
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2009-04-03, 23:37 | Link #1015 |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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My sentiments exactly. The way the series started out being interesting and somewhat impressive made the ending even more lacklustre in my eyes. For the manga readers, how true is it that the source is much different from the anime? I actually think the series has potential, just bogged down with simplistic solutions and explanations.
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2009-04-03, 23:40 | Link #1016 |
Udon-YAAAAAAAA
Join Date: Jan 2008
Age: 35
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i thought they were supposed to take her alive, which is why they didn't shoot to kill. they disabled Tamayo's rideback because she was behind Rin, so she should have been next, but they were riding away, and it seems they need to be in standup mode to shoot.
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2009-04-04, 04:23 | Link #1017 | |
Waiting for more taiyuki!
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He was the less expressive of the characters and got drawn back into a terrorist situation because of his love of ridebacks. He really didn't have that much common sense imo. If you're being hunted by the GGP, you don't have anything to do with the activity that will get you caught. I didn't find anything noble about him.
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2009-04-04, 10:16 | Link #1018 | ||
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Been lurking for a while now but decided to join in.
Not sure why - Rideback has really struck a cord with me. This is the only series that got me to download the raw as soon as it was available - just to get an early look at what happened. Bummed that it's over but not unhappy with the ending. Quote:
Figure collecting is not my thing but I could really go for a scale model of Fuego Hope someone comes out with one soon. Quote:
I don't think he was being hunted by the GGP after all he used his real name when he was working at the school/club. It wasn't until after he started helping Rin that he became a target. |
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