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...... There are other kaiju fans on this board?
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Life seems dreadful when you have no place to call home, here is episode 7. Tomorrow I might do episode 8 and quit due to depression 'cause I just haven't been happy for years and the past month has been so miserable that I've given death some serious thought. With that said....
The episode begins with Baku training at Shoot's house because he is a manly man, but Zero spawns roses to annoy him for no reason.
The battle of Manly Man and Pedo Knight is about to begin!
Captain Gundam tells shoot that his teacher will be coming to visit him, presumably for extra training, and shortly arrives. The teacher's name is Gunbike and he is.... your typical drill sarge.
Captain Gundam is disappointed in his meat bag sidekick.
Gunbike goes on to teach the gundams (Shoot included) that he means business.
You're lucky Neotopia is lazy when it comes to the Jessica Lovesford Act.
Meanwhile, G2 is planning to install a couple of control horns onto a moving train because what villainy would be complete without a train heist, right? Well....
And here I thought Grappler Gouf was smart.
After Gunbike forces Shoot to do a bad imitation of a wolf, the gundams are alerted to G2's mustache twirling plot and move out. Just before catching the train, G2 made it with a boat (yes they actually call the sled that) and installs a couple of control horns to make a knockoff of the EI-08 from GaoGaiGar.
Now to follow the yellow brick road like the gold standard!
The gundams catch up to them amazingly with no references to old western movies.
Manly men riding manly horses like men.
Zero goes after G2 while Baku takes on the zakus and CG tries to snipe the control horns. However, their bad use of teamwork causes much confusion much to Gunbike's dismay.
To make a Heero Yui quote or not at the irony, decisions decisions.
The battle between pedo knight and G2 continues until he flies into a wall as well.
Ashton Kutcher was really desperate for money for the show at that point.
After some sharades with the zakus and tunnels, manly man and CG try to attack G2 to no avail since they both have different ideas of defense.
All in favor say DIE!
G2 manages to knock Baku off, with CG trying to save him, and lead it toward a zakurello gate right behind a power plant. Why? Because Fox had yet to secure copyright laws for the movie Unstoppable.
Like a boss!
Gunbike tells the good guys to get their heads out of their rectums and do some teamwork before he drives them to catch up. The Soul Drive is activated in CG for a speed boost.
YABBADABBADOOOOOOOOOO!
Upon catching up, CG falcon kicks G2 into the Zakurello gate.
POW! Right in the kisser!
The control horns are destroyed, the trains derail but remain safe, and everyone learns a valuable lesson. The zakozako show gives a brief rundown on Dark Axis technology before G2 gets angry they stole his sled.
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Blue Submarine Number 6 is okay, but Fafner is really cool. Yeah, pacing and music flipflops/is mediocre, but it has good action. The movie on the other hand, f**k, if they cut out Canon's bounce animations it could have easily been one of the greatest anime in history. Hell, it still made my top 25.
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It is as though I am the only Aquarion fan ever.
Recently watched Kikaider The Animation, both the series and the 01 OVA. I'll give it credit for trying to be psychological, but compared to the old tokusatsu shows it just isn't as good or entertaining. Not to mention the ending in 01 was unnecessarily depressing.
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Considering it is my favorite entry in the franchise, no not really.
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you say that almost as if I'm not expressing my own opinion.
I expected more of your hamfisted/plot talk.
because it's true?
Except it wasn't.
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I'll watch it even if only for completest reasons.
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Well that was a typical ZZ critique.
And why call Destiny schlock if you haven't seen it yet? -
My misery is so endless, here is episode 6. Also to note that is is Grappler Gouf, not Grabber, my bad!
To start of the episode, Baku looks around Neotopia looking for Dark Axis goons to fight.
Burn baby burn!
Zero shows up and tells him to calm the hell down and so begins a short "duel". Shoot and CG do not approve.
This cannot end well.
After Baku gets ticked at pedo knight for spawning flowers on him, this statue comes out of nowhere.
And you never thought the 50 Foot Woman was a statue, did you?
Pedo knight does not think it is from Dark Axis while Baku does so they keep fighting.
Less than meets the eye.
The statue is actually a vessel/ferris wheel used by Neotopia's mayor (who looks exactly like the statue), and is pleased to meet the gundams. As pedo knight and Baku bicker some more she kindly tells everyone to go home saying they are shooting a movie. Meanwhile Baku complains about going home (oh how I can relate with the forums I was banned from) with the inclusion of his destructive methods last episode.
The NDAA of 2012 does not care, peasant.
After pedo knight bothers Baku some more, Z2 and his minions somehow managed to hide in the statue's ferris wheel.
Nobody will see me here unless they've seen the Batman anime! Mwuahahahahahaha!
And so a new geister robo knockoff is born for a rampage!
Borrowing the power of the sun to ruin meganoid ambitions.
Using an over sized speaker as a sonic weapon, probably because the staff was sexist, the statue goes on a rampage and Baku tries to hunt Z2 down because he thinks he can get him back to Arc. Lots of fighting occurs until CG gets caught.
We still have Roger Corman!
The mayor, for some reason not even dodging potential sonic death, tells Shoot that the speaker can be turned off on the palette platform on her left hand. After a dangerous climb Shoot shuts it off and the zakus attempt a retreat with Baku following.
Who the hell do you think I am? That Kamina guy?
After beating the hell out of the zakus, the Zakurello opens up and takes them home. Baku is about to go through until Shoot is flung from the statue and he rescues him just before he goes splat.
And they claim Kira has all the plot armor, whatever that is.
Everyone tries to get Baku through the gate before it closes only for it not to work.
So close.
At least one good thing came from it, the mayor uses footage from an unspecified camera to turn the situation into a movie.
No confirmation on a sequel yet.
Because five minutes are left the zakus put on a stage show.
Talk about retro.
It is just a minor recap with the main characters explained by three zakus until Z2 tells them the show is over.
Now if only we had Gundam: The Musical.
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You didn't like the first Aquarion series? WTF is wrong with you!
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I just watched the second Patlabor movie. Do you not just love it when a movie is essentially a well thought out military conspiracy story for the first third with well done visuals and then spends the rest of it's time jumping around scenes building up toward some civil war that never amounts to anything and finishes with a mediocre climax? That is this, wow Patlabor way to disappoint again! At least it was better than the last movie even if most of it is for the art style and having a solid beginning.
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You mean episode 4.
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Well I just watched the new episode, anyone else think it felt like a rehash of the last episode? A fight scene continuing from the last episode that only lasts four minutes, some philosophy, short fight scene, emotional babble with a mobile suit fight in a hanger, and finishing the episode with the beginning of another battle. Felt very similar, but at least this will get most of the talking scenes out of the way when the final episode comes, lets hope it's like episode 4!
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Do not mind me I just feel like wanting to die, here is episode 5.
After a two minute recap of the last episode CG and Shoot find themselves on the SDGF fortress. The haro gate CG uses to change shows up and Shoot gets all giddy.
Stargate Atlantis was clearly in desperation for sponsors.
Captain Gundam explains that the fortress is disguised as a cloud and is suspended in air using satellites in orbit, which I have to say is quite creative. Soon after, Chief Haro finally shows his ugly head.
As seen on the Terrance and Philip Show.
Haro likes the work Shoot has been doing and wants to congratulate him. With that he turns the human into an honorary member of the SDGF and assigned to the same unit as Captain Gundam. Meanwhile at Dark Axis Z2 and G2 are given the talking to and have a new member of their team named Destroyer Dom join them.
Once death has been mass produced....
Apparently Zapper and Grabber have a serious history with D2 as he loves destroying things like a boss and are quite scared of him. Kind of like how Strike Zero was afraid to answer questions I have because of his soft spot for girly junk or how Ryujin has a pathological fear of saying I am more intelligent than a minnow or how ShadowCell is obnoxiously paranoid and the etcetra. What? I could think of FAR worse insults! Don't think for half a second I'd ever forget- Getting back on topic the Dark Axis tries to pass through the Zakurello gate with the Komusai getting stuck and barely able to get through. Meanwhile at the base Haro gives Shoot a badge.
I bet it taste like a banana.
There is little time to celebrate as Dark Axis happens to have landed near an experimental dimensional opener that is what kept the Zakurello from functioning properly. D2 starts destroying everything with the others soon following and CG arrives just in time.
Like a boss.
Just as the battle is about to happen some doctor who's name I forgot comes in from underground and tells everyone to mellow out.
Word(s cannot describe that 90s haircut).
Apparently this kid is the main doctor of the SDGF that worked on the dimensional tower D2 is having a blast with (literally).
So epically manly. EVERYBODY DIES!
So the action kicks in just as Zero the pedo knight comes in because he can. Zero takes on G2 while CG takes on Z2.
Like a clean corvette and on high octane.
Because D2 is having a hard time locking onto opponents so he uses his Gallop to weapon spam everything in sight with no discrimination.
There are a dozen more weapons in this; this caption is not a joke for once.
Everything is crumbling with everyone being blasted about until a dimensional portal opens up and a fire ball comes out of it.
Goodness gracious GREAT BALLS OF FIAR!
The fire ball happens to be the third gundam of the series named Bakumetsumaru who I think is supposed to be either God Gundam or Double X Gundam.
I am very much aware I forgot to type the "maru" part of his name. Seriously, weird long name is weird long.
Pedo knight knows he is from a former boarding country called Arc and the two gundams fight each other until CG takes a hit (losing his left arm) as D2 fires toward the samurai bot. Not pleased with this, Baku the long named uses a giant X of fire released from his katanas.
Even herpes could not survive this if its life depended on it.
With that X the Dark Axis is sent back, Baku becomes respected, and the tower crumbles much to the doctor's dismay.
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You guys have it backwards, the anime are 12 years old.
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And I thought this was going to be a real robot series. The humans look bland but at least the titular mecha doesn't. I was planning on seeing this, although the promotional material does not make it seem so exciting. I will say this much, I hope it don't suck walnuts.
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I recently finished L.Gaim: Full Metal Soldier, officially marking that I have watched every Tomino mecha anime save for the Xabungle compilation movie. I swear, Tomino gets too much flak over nothing. Anyway, very enjoyable action and music from this ova, it easily could have made the series better.
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Last night I watched some one shot ova called Dark Cat. Man was the editing weird and very low budget; it also looked very hentai-ish. I also marathoned through Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt and just finished it. I was expecting to hate this and while the overload of fan service was annoying along with the music, I surprisingly did not hate it. I thought it was decent: Good action, good monsters of the week, good comedy, the characters did not annoy me, and I think it is silly that people call the ending to the last episode a "troll" ending. It was more random than anything else and it fit the rest of the series, why the hell did people complain so badly- Oh yeah, it is Gainax, and people are under the delusion that their endings are incredibly bittersweet and bad. Also it didn't feel like a western cartoon as much as it did Gurren Lagann with a small budget.
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I did not care for the anime that much, it just was not that interesting. It would have been better if they did not take 22 episodes to get to America.
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For those that have been living under a rock for the past four months, Kaiju Combat is a PC fighting game from Sunstone Games featuring giant monsters currently constructing its very first release and upon launch will be one of the first video games in history to have all of its big decisions from the fans themselves. All of the original giant monsters were designed by fans that donated 500 dollars to the kickstarter for this video game. If the first release is successful enough they will launch more titles featuring many licensed monsters from giant monster franchises such as Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, and possibly anime titles (Glavil from Macross 7? Afos from Macross Zero? They does meet the standards!). Right now the permanent roster for the first release is being done; round 1 of 3 finished midnight of today and round 2 is currently being done. Anybody that contributed to the kickstarter with 5 dollars or more (like me) get official voting rights. Newcomers are welcome too if they preorder the game. This developing franchise is being spearheaded by Simon Strange, a video game developer that has been part of the giant monster fandom and has done several Pipeworks titles including the Atari Godzilla trilogy and Rampage: Total Destruction. The first title will feature the titular monster from the recently released novel Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson as the final boss; the 20+ year old Japanese Sci-Fi club Monster Attack Team also collaborated with Sunstone for the first true original kaiju of the franchise via a squid alien invader named Ikameijin. The guest roster also includes several monsters from the group Kaiju Land as the free release and round 1 voted in three fan monsters named Tornaq (a polar bear spirit), Macrosaurus (an obese tyrannosaur), and Katyusha (a Russian mouse with a cannon on her back; think Pikachu meets sci-fi Rambo).
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If you go into this show expecting it to be an action packed or drama & emotion filled robot anime
I wasn't, I was just going in expecting something entertaining whatever it may be (like I do with everything).
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The first Patlabor movie, basically a long episode of the first series with better art style and somewhat better action, still very bad though. I'll watch the second movie in the near future and I am not looking forward to it.
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Normally I don't double post in anime watching topics but I need to blow off some steam and in two parts:
Part A: I started my descent into the infamous Clamp franchise X on Sunday night through their music video and prequel OVA before taking on the infamous movie version Monday morning. They were kind of boring although X is kind of like Alone in The Dark by Uwe Boll, while it is bad it is not to the point that people make it out to be. I want to say that something from Clamp was the worst thing I've seen this week, boy howdy was I WRONG.
Part B: Mobile Police Patlabor, specifically the original OVA series. F**K, I have seen some pretty deplorable excuses for anime series, but THIS.... I heard so many good things coming from it (or at least the series), how it had a strong female lead and how the mecha were super realistic and scientific and whatnot. I was expecting a silly cop series, but what I got was shallow jokes, a bland cast, far too much dialogue, mediocre music, too much build up to events that have virtually little payoff, and aside from the AL-97 Atlas and maybe the KV-98 Pickle had no mecha worth standing out. I know I give a ton of crap about Rayearth (series and OVA), Goldran, Macross Plus, and to lesser extents Wings of Rean and Gundam 0080; but at the very least, despite their faults, they were engaging. Maybe not all the time, but they had moments that were memorable and I was willing to pay attention. This? I got nothing. I genuinely wanted to enjoy the series that launched mecha anime I liked such as Full Metal Panic, J-Decker, and Viper's Creed. No real charming moments, nothing really engaging, a lack of genuine suspense, an inability to care. It was nothing. I'll give it props for having a mutant with some kaiju homages in episode 3, but other than that, well, f**k. I tried to enjoy it, but I simply couldn't! Maybe the movies and series will be a step up.
Regardless, the original Patlabor has to be, without a doubt in my mind, the worst mecha anime I have ever seen. It is still above some of the worst anime I've seen period, but for this genre specifically? I have yet to find anything worse. The only good thing about it is that it had no fan service.
AND PEOPLE LIKE IT! WHAT AM I MISSING!?
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It is my favorite entry and I've seen the vast majority of Gundam anime.
I am a weird macross fan...
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Here is how I rank the entire franchise:
Zero/25th Anniversary Air Shows > 7/Plus > Wings of Goodbye > The Galaxy is Calling Me > Frontier > Original Series > 2 > The False Songstress > Do You Remember Love > 7 Encore > Plus > Dynamite 7 > Plus Movie > XX > Nyankuri > Flash Back 2012