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 In 1972, Apollo 17 discovers a structure on the Moon. This structure, a Hypergate to Mars, allows Humanity to begin colonizing the red planet. Soon, however, the Vers Empire appeared and claimed dominion over the ruins of high technology found there. A war broke out, destroying much of the Moon and changing the world forever. Now, after 15 years of uneasy peace, the Vers Empire has found the perfect excuse to invade Earth: the assassination of their goodwill ambassador, Princess Asseylum. Who's doing this? The director is Ei Aoki. The original series creator is Gen Urobuchi. The series is produced by Nitroplus and animated by A-1 Pictures and TROYCA. Thank you Wikipedia for making this info easy for me to find. Episode One just aired. As much as I hate the site, it's being simulcast for free on Crunchyroll.       Oh, and I suppose I ought to post a few of the characters.  
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The original character designer is Takako Shimura. The mangaka of Aoi Hana and Wandering Son.
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Jul 7, 2014 17:36
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After watching the first episode I just want to applaud you for the thread title.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:15
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Holy crap, its Mechwarrior the Anime. Clans coming to invade the inner-sphere in a cut-throat free for all.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:20
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Should also be noted that the writer is Katsuhiko Takayama, who has written stuff like Ga-Rei Zero and Baka & Test.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:28
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Thor-Stryker posted:Holy crap, its Mechwarrior the Anime. Clans coming to invade the inner-sphere in a cut-throat free for all. That seems...surprisingly apt. It even has mechs.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:44
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Okay, so when they say the Vers empire appeared, does that mean the people on Mars decided, hey we're an "empire" of new humans now, gently caress off. Or did a bunch of people from outside the system suddenly show up when explorers found those artifacts? The former seems like a really really short time frame for all that to happen, but they're constantly referred to as Martians so idk. Also someone at A-1 took the time to research what nuclear shockwaves looks like. The missile scene is really well put together.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:55
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I was wondering about that too. A bunch of places say it just "appeared" which made me think that some people went full Zeon and tried to make a Spacenoid Race type thing, but then the talk of "generations" and whatnot wouldn't make any sense. Wikipedia says that they emigrated to Mars thousands of years ago, though, which makes more sense.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:03
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I hated the princess' voice, so I have to admit I laughed when the missile hit. So far it's pretty interesting, with some neat robots.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:36
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psyer posted:The original character designer is Takako Shimura. The mangaka of Aoi Hana and Wandering Son.  what?! Well now I've got to watch it.
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Jul 7, 2014 20:50
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Great thread title, fantastic first episode. That bridge scene was loving brutal, holy gently caress.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:06
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Mango Polo posted:I hated the princess' voice, so I have to admit I laughed when the missile hit. Willing to bet that it wasn't actually the princess who died, given they made a big show of, well, not showing her face at any point after she got out of the limo.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:20
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The princess is obviously not dead, right? When she gets out of the car and watches the missile approach they intentionally framed the shot from behind so that you never see her face. That sort of thing always stands out to me. Edit: Haha beaten.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:20
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paragon1 posted:Okay, so when they say the Vers empire appeared, does that mean the people on Mars decided, hey we're an "empire" of new humans now, gently caress off. Or did a bunch of people from outside the system suddenly show up when explorers found those artifacts? The former seems like a really really short time frame for all that to happen, but they're constantly referred to as Martians so idk. It's the latter; from what I gather the Vers Empire left the solar system thousands of years ago using the alien technology they found to go do empire things in other star systems. They had outposts/colonies/something (relics) on Mars and when the remaining Earth humans started getting uppity they just reclaimed it and moved back in to use Mars as a staging area for dealing with Earth. The anime explicitly mentioned Martian relics, so it has to be something old and abandoned, and the Vers empire coming back (the princess had never seen Earth with her own eyes, and mentions her home planet being Vers) to claim them. The Vers empire isn't a "Martian" empire; I think everyone's being confused by the mention of an ancient "Martian" civilization, which is either the Vers empire's previous holdings on Mars or the alien civilization that left behind their technology. An alternate reading is that the Vers empire never really colonized Mars (and just emigrated from Earth straight to Vers and other systems) in the past and everything on Mars was from the even earlier, potentially alien, civilization and the Vers empire is just claiming it to keep Earth from learning its secrets. edit: Also I have no idea how the Earthfall operation spans generations either. Maybe he's talking about finishing the job their ancient ancestors started? My theory is that the Vers empire was one of a number of ancient Earth nations or civilizations and it just blasted its competitors back to the stone age before leaving Earth. This also gives it a reason for why it left Earth to make another planet its capital. Desuwa fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 21:21
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Desuwa posted:It's the latter, from what I gather the Vers Empire left the solar system thousands of years ago using the alien technology they found to go do empire things in other star systems. They had outposts/colonies/something (relics) on Mars and when the remaining Earth humans started getting uppity they just reclaimed it and moved back in to use Mars as a staging area for dealing with Earth. I'm liking this interpretation more, actually. I imagine it'll be made clearer as time goes on. By the way, in case anyone is wondering why they chose New Orleans to land, I just noticed this...  Even outside of Gundam Australia can't escape the Colony Drop.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:26
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Man, the ending of the first episode, they certainly like their black humor don't they?
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Jul 7, 2014 21:34
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unseenlibrarian posted:Willing to bet that it wasn't actually the princess who died, given they made a big show of, well, not showing her face at any point after she got out of the limo. Of course, but it still made me laugh 
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Jul 7, 2014 21:43
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Man, the ending of the first episode, they certainly like their black humor don't they? That was too depressing to be humor.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:13
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The more Urobuchi shows I watch, the more I realize I was never an Urobuchi fan, I just liked Madoka for the trippy witch battles. For all it's awkward exposition, the first episode was really bad at explaining what the gently caress. I am gonna give it a 3 episode test just to see how the battles look at least, but I don't think I'll stick around.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:35
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ViggyNash posted:That was too depressing to be humor. Actually that part was hilarious as hell! Rexides posted:The more Urobuchi shows I watch, the more I realize I was never an Urobuchi fan, I just liked Madoka for the trippy witch battles. Dude loves the hell out of his infodumping, which really turns me off most of his shows. It really shows his visual novel roots and dang, that just makes things really tough to sit through.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:45
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Srice posted:Actually that part was hilarious as hell! It's mostly a first-episode problem. Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass both had infodumpy first episodes that made a bad first impression, but got better fairly quickly.
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Jul 7, 2014 23:19
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The pretty obvious setup they're likely going for is the princess isn't dead, one of the counts either ordered the hit himself or have the princess' route info to some terrestrial warhawks, random high school kids get access to EARTHS LAST HOPE EXPERIMENTAL MECHA 001, the moon knight guy from the first few minutes starts as an enemy but ends up changing sides when he realizes the princess is inconveniently alive, and the rear end in a top hat (though honest?) count guy changes sides when he finds out one of the other counts was behind the hit on the princess I hope they find some way to make this interesting or go wildly off the tracks because I doubt I'll last otherwise. Maybe if the actual princess really did die and it's her body double that survived, and now the kids all have to do a bunch of horrible poo poo to get everyone to buy she's the real thing to stop the war.
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Jul 8, 2014 13:21
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Man, the ending of the first episode, they certainly like their black humor don't they? It's two middle fingers up at Cyborg 009's ending is what it is. Srice posted:Should also be noted that the writer is Katsuhiko Takayama, who has written stuff like Ga-Rei Zero and Baka & Test. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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Jul 8, 2014 15:12
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The America's got hosed up didn't it? Pretty much all the powerful nations got hit pretty hard except Russia. France and the UK look seemingly intact but with the nearby crater in Spain, their population centers probably took a toll. e: The crater that I thought was in Spain is actually the Bay of Biscay, oops. Silvain fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 01:49
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Silvain posted:The America's got hosed up didn't it? Pretty much all the powerful nations got hit pretty hard except Russia. France and the UK look seemingly intact but with the nearby crater in Spain, their population centers probably took a toll. Realistically, all life on the planet should be dead, given the force needed to do all that. Even discounting that, New Orleans shouldn't even have still been around to get landed on. Given how close it is to those impact craters, and the fact that it's BELOW SEA LEVEL, it should have simply been drowned under a huge amount of water 15 years previous.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:58
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It kind of bothers me that every piece of the moon seems to have fallen near the coast. The ones in the Americas that were further inland conveniently landed next to other craters to let water in. Also it looks like the Black sea got filled in.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:36
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Wonder why the UK is oddly intact. Maybe perhaps the Mars people, being all prim and proper and so very English, consider the royalty from the United Kingdom as the only humans ever worth considering as distant relatives. Which explains why Ireland is hosed in that image with the removal of Dublin but keeping Northern Ireland somewhat intact.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:47
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Why is there a chunk taken out of Bangladesh? That doesn't seem like a particularly useful place to bombard, given most of Europe is still fine.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:55
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Half the moon blew up, the chunks fell on Earth. The destruction is all (supposedly) random. As for Russia, I'm assuming it took hits, just not close enough to the coast to have filled in with water. That map is only showing land vs. water, as opposed to anything more complex. edit: Alternatively, go with the joke answer in the Preview thread. They handed a world map to a junior animator and told him to erase random portions of it. Which would also explain the disconnect between the hilarious amount of land gone and the fact that life and civilization is still generally continuing as usual. Lord Koth fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 03:58
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 That junior animator has something against North Korea.
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Jul 9, 2014 04:42
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psyer posted:The original character designer is Takako Shimura. The mangaka of Aoi Hana and Wandering Son. Yes I totally figured it out just by glancing at the shots. Oh man, I have to watch this now. Urobuchi and Shimura?  PerrineClostermann posted:By the way, in case anyone is wondering why they chose New Orleans to land, I just noticed this... Wow, I didn't know we were playing Wonderful 101 
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Jul 9, 2014 04:51
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Pollyanna posted:Yes I totally figured it out just by glancing at the shots. Oh man, I have to watch this now. Urobuchi and Shimura? I'm not sure I would have noticed without prompting, but you can definitely see her hand in the faces occasionally. It's not super visually interesting overall, I was hoping for more since the director did adapt Wandering Son and that show's use of the watercolor aesthetic was really great looking, and Fate/zero isn't any slouch in that department either. Interesting first episode, enough to get me to watch the second anyway. Not much of an Urobuchi fan really, even though I love Madoka Magicka, but who knows this might have some potential for me.
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Jul 9, 2014 05:36
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Urobuchi only wrote 3 episodes of Aldnoah, he isn't writing the rest. At his AX panel he implied he wrote the first 3 episodes. This is why the series comp is Katsuhiko Takayama, who will be taking over at episode 4 presumably.
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Jul 9, 2014 05:49
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Poor new orleans but at least we're seeing somewhere outside of Japan being destroyed in anime.
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Jul 10, 2014 14:00
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unseenlibrarian posted:Willing to bet that it wasn't actually the princess who died, given they made a big show of, well, not showing her face at any point after she got out of the limo. Yeah, the shot was too conspicuously vague to not be setting something like this up.
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Jul 10, 2014 14:33
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Desuwa posted:It's the latter; from what I gather the Vers Empire left the solar system thousands of years ago using the alien technology they found to go do empire things in other star systems. They had outposts/colonies/something (relics) on Mars and when the remaining Earth humans started getting uppity they just reclaimed it and moved back in to use Mars as a staging area for dealing with Earth. This makes way more sense. I was wondering why a bunch of guys that left earth 40 years ago were spouting all this master race bullshit.
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Jul 11, 2014 05:12
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"There's a missile coming."  I'm intrigued about the Knights of Mars, since everything points to them being much more likely to fight each other than the Earth.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:26
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Wait, so did the gigantic orbital lander things come from the orbital knights or from the enemy homeworld? I thought the two were semi-separate, as they said a lot of the enemy guys got stranded in space when the moon portal blew up, and only recently had travel between worlds been re-established. Seems odd the stranded guys would have the resources to put those hilariously gigantic things together, let alone nineteen of them - especially if they were having to build then somewhere that Earth could presumably see them doing it - so I thought the bad guys brought the huge things with them when they came back. That would make the guy tutoring the princess at the start one of the orbital knights, since he was teaching her about local stuff that the nobles from off-world wouldn't know, and why the noble guy slapped his trashy rear end for getting too close to her since they might be considered to have gone native or something.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:50
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Daler Mehndi posted:"There's a missile coming." It honestly feels like they will get around to that, Earth is their battleground and woe to those caught between them Coldbird posted:
Woah how the hell did you get that idea. The noble calls the kid a Terran and the kid mentions that he and his dad was saved thanks to her. The noble is another Orbital Knight as he is in charge of the "castle"
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Jul 11, 2014 15:04
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boredsatellite posted:Woah how the hell did you get that idea. The noble calls the kid a Terran and the kid mentions that he and his dad was saved thanks to her.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:52
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