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dogsicle: Oct 23, 2012

I understand that some people might dislike G-Reco, but comparing the animation to Gundoh is wrong

# ? Aug 27, 2015 03:57

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GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

This is more like it,.

# ? Aug 27, 2015 04:00

Tabletops: Jan 27, 2014; anime

boom boom boom posted:

Admitting you were confused by G-Reco is basically owning youself.

It wasn't confusing, it was just dumb and bad. As someone who absolutely loves Turn A It was really disappointing. It started out strong, I was super hooked like 5 episodes in but it devolved so quickly and just became the worst. There was a hefty amount of quality in it towards the end as well, though obviously the gundoh reference was just hyperbole. So much breaking of "show don't tell" through the middle part of the show, so much useless dialogue and silly machinations. It didn't help that it was a bit of a rehash of Turn A's storyline (kind of), but just a lot worse.

There are a lot of things to like about it individually, but when you put them all together it's just a pile of trash.

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For instance I loved a lot of the mecha design, and I adore Kenichi Yoshida's character designs in practically everything he works on. I loved that it's the first show (to my knowledge, or that i've seen anyway) that had safety/pilot protections in the cockpits. I loved the animation and art style overall (inspite of the quality moments). I guess my overall complaint boils down to just plain bad storytelling/pacing. Overman king gainer also had terrible pacing and storytelling, and watching G-Reco just gave me a lot of flashbacks to it.

Sorry for the rambliness of this, I was kind of hashing this out from a internalized feeling of disgust towards G-Reco in this post.

Tabletops fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Aug 27, 2015

# ? Aug 27, 2015 04:19

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

Tabletops posted:

It wasn't confusing, it was just dumb and bad. As someone who absolutely loves Turn A It was really disappointing. It started out strong, I was super hooked like 5 episodes in but it devolved so quickly and just became the worst. There was a hefty amount of quality in it towards the end as well, though obviously the gundoh reference was just hyperbole. So much breaking of "show don't tell" through the middle part of the show, so much useless dialogue and silly machinations. It didn't help that it was a bit of a rehash of Turn A's storyline (kind of), but just a lot worse.

There are a lot of things to like about it individually, but when you put them all together it's just a pile of trash.

You are literally the first person in human history, and possibly the last ever, to accuse Reconguista of breaking "show don't tell" and having too much dialogue.

# ? Aug 27, 2015 04:22

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

boom boom boom posted:

You are literally the first person in human history, and possibly the last ever, to accuse Reconguista of breaking "show don't tell" and having too much dialogue.

To be fair, there is a shitload of stuff that happens offscreen and is only mentioned in passing, and some of it is quite important to the plot and characters.

# ? Aug 27, 2015 04:29

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

G-Reco is flawed by it's pacing imo but whether you can enjoy it or not, and whether you complain about it being confusing and badly written or praise it as really good, depends on whether you accept its narrative conceit that after centuries of world peace, and social engineering explicitly intended to further world peace, nobody understands how to conduct large scale war anymore.

And I like it a lot because its the first anime I've seen in ages that is actually trying to say something relevant, instead of "if people with cool powers existed it would be cool, but maybe the government wouldn't like it" or whatever.

# ? Aug 27, 2015 09:14

Yes_Cantaloupe: Feb 28, 2005

I liked Reconguista, but it had a lot of "let's go over there!" "OK!" for no discernible reason other than that was what the plot required. I still don't really get why they went to the moon, or why, once there, they then went to Venus Globe.

# ? Aug 27, 2015 09:36

Cake Attack: Mar 26, 2010

Red Bones posted:

And I like it a lot because its the first anime I've seen in ages that is actually trying to say something relevant, instead of "if people with cool powers existed it would be cool, but maybe the government wouldn't like it" or whatever.

you should watch better anime

# ? Aug 27, 2015 14:10

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

Shut up about Gundam!!!

# ? Aug 27, 2015 15:54

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Shut up about Gundam!!!

unless it's g-gundam

# ? Aug 28, 2015 00:48

Rigged Death Trap: Feb 13, 2012; BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Stairmaster posted:

unless it's g-gundam

# ? Aug 28, 2015 02:13

Tabletops: Jan 27, 2014; anime

I think G gundam is the only gundam that I ever got a little choked up about. Oh and the end of Turn A I guess. SOCHIIIII!!!!

# ? Aug 28, 2015 03:14

Ka0: Sep 16, 2002; AS A PROUD GAMERGATER THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN WOMEN ARE GAYS AND TRANS PEOPLE

I expected nothing but King Gainer from G reco and that was exactly what I got.

# ? Aug 28, 2015 16:10

Captain Hotbutt: Aug 18, 2014

A really funny, heartfelt show that went down easy and smoooooth.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 06:20

Ranzear: Jul 25, 2013

# ? Sep 18, 2015 23:44

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

# ? Sep 19, 2015 00:35

CuLT: Sep 9, 2005

# ? Sep 19, 2015 01:40

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

That's the best recommendation for Bakemonogatari I've ever seen.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:53

Chalupa Picada: Jan 13, 2009

hopefully it inspires some peeps to give it a shot if they haven't

# ? Sep 19, 2015 07:15

Torquemadras: Jun 3, 2013

Ranzear posted:

Okay, that's clever.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 16:55

White Light: Dec 19, 2012

Torquemadras posted:

Okay, that's clever.

idgi, please explain

# ? Sep 20, 2015 00:16

Futaba Anzu: May 6, 2011; GROSS BOY

Parrotine posted:

idgi, please explain

Watch patema inverted

# ? Sep 20, 2015 00:40

Torquemadras: Jun 3, 2013

Parrotine posted:

idgi, please explain

Okay, here goes. Super-ultra spoilers, obviously.
You should really just watch Patema Inverted, tho, if you don't mind good old two-dimensional cackling Disney villains.

Here we gooooo

Patema Inverted takes place in a world where humanity attempted some kind of gravity experiment on a grand scale, which went horribly wrong. Lots of people + matter had gravity "reversed", meaning they'd fall up in the sky and die. Hundreds of years later, the survivors who had gravity reversed live underground, and the normal ones live aboveground as usual in some kind of dystopian society. The girl (Patema) is an "inverted" from underground and meets a boy (forgot the name) from aboveground. Dystopian society ruler gets pissy, blablabla

During the entire movie, it looks like the aboveground dudes have normal gravity, since they have a sky and poo poo, no? Hence, you espect the boy to be the normal one.
BUT it's the other way around: turns out the gravity experiment also hosed up earth's surface really bad, so EVERYONE retreated underground. Those with reversed gravity basically lived in a gargantuan cave with an artificial sky + weather simulation and poo poo, think Truman Show style. The underground folks were once guardians of sorts that monitored the surface, but both factions lost that knowledge almost completely. So the movie poster was actually correct: Patema always had the "correct" gravity, and the dystopian society is actually the inverted one. What a twist! A stupid or great one?

I really don't care

# ? Sep 20, 2015 15:18

Ranzear: Jul 25, 2013

What I got: Vertigo.

# ? Sep 20, 2015 22:19

CuLT: Sep 9, 2005

boom boom boom posted:

That's the best recommendation for Bakemonogatari I've ever seen.

You're right, I was flying too close to the sun by putting Mushishi and Blackjack in there. It was not meant to be a recommendation, so much as an observation. In retrospect, I would put a big ol' Moonphase image in there - the creep factor really gears up after the first season (which was still, I don't know... I wouldn't watch it with anyone whose opinion of me I value). I dropped it.

If they did a cut without all of (what I assume are) Shinbou's worst influences, while keeping the surreality, it would be a better show. Still, judging by the relentless pace of adaptations, it still seems to find an audience so �\_(ツ)_/�

# ? Sep 26, 2015 13:07

Sharkopath: May 27, 2009

Monogatari is one of the best written and directed anime so its not a mystery why people like it.

Old people don't like it because they are afraid of girls.

# ? Sep 26, 2015 13:25