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Anyways this version of Legion had it much easier then the legion he is based on. Check out what the original legion suffered compared to this version at the wiki. Oh man I think ive gone off and rambled on to long...
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2011-06-20, 01:50 | Link #382 | |||
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Unfortunately, can't really say the same with this episode ...I don't know, if I didn't read/look at the credits, and you said that one of these two episodes was outsourced and the other wasn't, I'd think that it was this episode :/ The only good looking parts in the episode (animation-wise) was the Wolverine bit, from him bursting out of his shirt to stopping from filleting Beast (and even then, I question the whole X-Cut bit, since the preceptive didn't look right at from that camera angel ) but it was still not as good as the past episodes and other Wolverine fights in this anime, since Neuron is such a poor match up to him. Neuron's power is so ill suited for any elaborate fight scenes, that the moment Logan went berserk, it was over. So it was nice looking, but not up to par with Episode 4, 7 and 10 fights. Other than that, Armour gets a chance to shine as well ... too bad they didn't spare some higher quality animation to go with it :/ I mean yeah, it was good enough, but the fight ends with a still frame (however short it is) of her punching Liquid-man in the face in the classic Shonen-esque shot of the lead landing the finishing blow on the bad guy. and compare it with the Wolverine bit ... I did like Scott's illusion bit at the very start, with the rest of the team being crucified on those X-Crosses. It reminded me very much of comic book covers, which is a nice touch. Quote:
And yes, the writing was my biggest problem with this episode, or to be more exact, Yui's stupidity. FlareKnight, orion and Lumir already covered the majority of the points, so I will try and not repeat the same thing over again. I will say that I get that Yui was apparently trying to do the best thing for her son, and that she went through a lot and sacrificed her morals and believes for her flesh and blood, and that is in some way admirable about her. Too bad she didn't need to do any of that. It's really astonishing how idiotic the thought process is here ''Oh no, my son has awakened as an Omega-Class mutant in an incident that which made him afraid of his own power and might eventually consume him.'' So instead of contacting his father, who by the way has made it the goal of his entire life to help Mutants like Takeo, his own son (who also after learning about him, decided to travel by himself to Japan almost immediately to see him, knowing nothing at all about what was going on there, other than Yui was hiding it from him, so had she told him earlier, he wouldn't have any reason to not go there and help his own son) she decides to close down the mutant institution and try and handle it herself, which I interrupt in that she was so butthurt that Charles had left her to help Mutants, so she didn't want any of help (a very pity and idiotic reason, since asking Xavier to help his son, a Mutant in need, doesn't mean they needed to get back together) not to mention that she wasn't thinking of her sons best interest by asking the person who had the most expertises in this case, and is a Mutant as well with a similar base for his power). But after a while, she decides that getting help from the shady organization who deal in human trafficking and mutant organ harvesting is still better than asking help from her ex-lover, the father of her son, the man who made it his life mission to save Mutants and has dealt and trained Omega-Class mutants before. I will say that I liked Scott coming to terms with Jean's death at last, despite us already knowing that he would do just that at this point, alas the rest of the writing in the episode couldn't have been as nice as that moment. Quote:
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2011-06-25, 20:50 | Link #385 |
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Exactly my thoughts! Its to bad takeo had to die. I thought he might make it but man talk about a crazy power. Poor Charles, he raised many mutants like his own children and his very own child he had to try and destroy!
The series was not super special but it was good. Overall I did like the approach they took with the animation, story, ect. Looking forward to that season 2 if there is one! Magneto had check mate =).
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2011-06-25, 22:34 | Link #386 |
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Overall this anime was, by far, the best of the Marvel Comics-based anime shows of the past few years.
It wasn't perfect. As others have pointed out, some of the villains were overly one-dimensional, and Yui's decisions were... highly questionable to say the least. Nonetheless, all of the villains tended to provide good physical challenges, at least, and perhaps at an emotional level, one can understand Yui's decisions. My own sense is that Yui was afraid she'd essentially lose Takeo to her former lover if she notified Charles of Takeo's existence. Charles would naturally want to take Takeo with him back to the Xavier Institute in America, and that would force Yui to choose between either parting ways with her son or moving to America herself (which she clearly was strongly against as she ended her romance with Charles for just this reason). Yui was undeniably quite selfish here, wanting the best of all worlds, and in the process she almost destroyed THE world. Still, I can at least understand her decisions at an emotional level. Almost anyway... Personally, I very much liked all of the cameos in this final episode. In particular, I was surprised to see... Spoiler for Cameos!:
This anime dug pretty deep into Marvel Lore for the first of these two, and the other one was a surprise because he's a pretty prominent non-mutant super hero. I felt that, over the full course of the anime, all of the core protagonists were given a chance to shine (Storm had more 'weak' showings than I'd like, but at least she did get to kick butt in battle a few times as well). And the overall narrative was a satisfying one, with a good gradual start to ease you in, and an appropriately epic ending. The pacing was mostly superb. This anime started extremely well, and I think that it ended extremely well too. It meandered slightly in the middle sections, but not to any major degrees. Overall, I'm going to give this a 8.5/10. Being a Marvel/DC Comics fan in my youth (and an X-Men fan in particular) I'll admit I'm a bit biased here, though, lol. I'd love to see a sequel to this, with perhaps Magneto in the role of main antagonist.
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2011-06-26, 02:18 | Link #387 |
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I have to say this has definitely been the best of the Marvel anime that they've released so far. The only major negative was the bizarre and stupid decisions made by Yui. But if we just throw her to the side the rest was pretty much fine. I mean sure Storm could have been used a lot better, but really it could have been worse.
In the end Hisako was a pretty nice character overall. Was useful to help show off more about the X-Men, but also grew to be a strong character in her own right. Being tied tightly into the plot helped too. Besides the fancy glowing armor was solid . Even though the series dealt with ugly things like outright hate against mutants, organ trafficking, inhuman experiments, in the end love and friendship saved the day . Though really it wasn't badly handled. I wasn't really surprised by the Iron Man cameo. They've done a decent job doing that for all the series so far. Wolverine helped out Iron Man, Scott gave Wolverine a lift in his anime, and Iron Man helped out during this crisis. Was nice thought to see some of the X-Men that weren't part of this series like Nightcrawler and Rogue. Good job Jean. I mean really she helped the Professor when he was struggling to even get to the location, helped Scott during the mind battle, and woke everyone up at the end in this episode. Staying busy even though she died in the first episode. Nicely done leaving it open to a sequel down the road. Think this could have the most success there since there really is a number of situations they could run into with the Magneto bit at the end being the most obvious. Plus with a large cast plenty of room for character development. But who knows. Funny scene at the end with Scott handing the necklace to Hisako. Wolverine pretty much had to break it up since Scott was getting a bit too much attention from the girls there . Might as well point out how they are kind of stranded thanks to their back-up jet crashing. The budget for that year is taking a hit .
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2011-06-26, 06:39 | Link #388 |
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I liked the ending. It wasn't "epic" or filled with action, but there was quite a lot of heart in it. It felt like a very anime way to tackle a Marvel comic situation, which was interesting to watch. The cameos throughout the final episode made it feel more interesting too. It's kinda a kick in the balls by Madhouse to put in that Iron Man cameo though. He looked so good there, you really have to wonder what happened with the actual Iron Man anime.
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2011-06-26, 15:32 | Link #389 |
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^Wow duckroll, looks like you've changed you're tune...And yes Ironman's incredible split-second of awesomeness almost makes you wanna poison dart somebody at Madhouse for that CGI disco-$hit they tried to pawn off on us as good...
Back to Xmen, the last 2 episodes were boss, plain and simple...I mean you had one physical battle with Mastermind's goons taking on the X-men, then another mental battle with Mastermind pwning the Xmen and Charles son, and then there's the metaphysical battle taking place within Scott's mind that actually wraps up Jean's offscreen story arc, all the while Takeo is hulking out having an infinite level go at Charles' mind before he even lands to help in the fight...EVEN STILL with all this $hit happening Takeo is raeping all of reality destroying what seems to be the entire effin' universe...Wasn't epic? Pfft... I don't know what can beat that...Not that it was hard, but Xmen finally brings some much needed honor to the Marvel Anime experiment...I doubt Blade is gonna be able to rockout harder than this, but let's hope he loses his serum and certainly tries...The final 2 episodes were so good, I gotta up this series to a 8.95/10... Oh and Scott Summers >> Wolverine (FIRST TIME EVA!)
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2011-06-26, 22:39 | Link #390 |
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Yeah, this may actually be the best I've seen Scott Summers, in any entertainment medium (comic book, movie, video game, anime/cartoon).
This is the first time where I felt that Scott was a strong enough character for Wolverine to legitimately consider him his Leader.
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Good point on the stinger magnumcyclonex, hopefully this gets the good reception it deserves when it finally airs here and maybe it'll push Madhouse over the edge to do another installment. Last edited by DangerMouse; 2011-06-27 at 00:48. |
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Spoiler for X-men Episode 12 of ... Archangel? Colossus? Rouge!? Nightcrawler!!? DEADPOOL!!? CAPTAIN BRITAIN!!!? MAGNETO ON THE LOOSE!!!? SEASON TWO WHERE!?!?!?:
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Yui was a moron, plain and simple. I can understand wanting the best for her son, but the way she went about made no sense at all, why wouldn't she want to tell X about the child, why not have him learn to control his power? She went he hard way due to being unable to put aside her own feelings for her son. What's worse, this Charles Xavier had an actual ethical code for using his power! He was an actual good guy, what the hell Yui!? Quote:
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As for honor for the Marvel-Anime ... well, the show was great, but having two crap shows (and Blade looks like a joke so far) will make what ever honor won here go diminished down the line
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2011-06-27, 04:49 | Link #395 |
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Cyclopes in the ending made another bad call gonna attack Takeo while Prof.X is inside his mind, but there was no choice we need to kill off anime characters, yet they where knocked down lol.
Surprise Prof.X can probe all mutants around the world without cerebro! O_o Give it an 8 Alot of other mutant Omake appearances Xmen fan favorites to boot. DeadPool and Magneto After Blade anime this needs a season 2. Edit: I think if season2 aired that's the time where they kill off Yui.
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Might be necessary to go X-Men casual style for a while . Have to replace 2 jets which isn't going to be cheap.
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2011-06-27, 19:53 | Link #399 | ||
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Oh yeah Blade does look pretty hokey, but just a couple months ago I wasn't expecting crap from the Xmen series, so I'll be aiming high, looking low... Yeah, I did a double-take after seeing that aswell...Like no, that's not him...I mean I don't know much about Deadpool other than he seems to be the Nathan Fillion of Comicbook heroes in the sense fanboy sites swoon over him even though he doesn't have much out-front presence, but I was like damn, dude an Xmen?
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2011-06-27, 21:15 | Link #400 |
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Hisako probably likes abs. While attitude wise she likes wild guys like Logan.
Seeing Logan with Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, X-23 I guess Hisako and him for season 2. She's just being mushy with Scott, but all the time she has been with most is Logan. Hope season 2 we see more of Logan ("teaching the young") and Hisako either training or more interactions. I felt they focused too much on Scott.
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