September 06, 2007
Mecha shows that aren't gadget shows
Author comes up with a list, some of which I have to endorse heartily.
I showed Dai-Guard to my co-worker, who really doesn't enjoy mecha shows. He absolutely loved it. He wonders why it never showed up in a Super Robot Wars game. "But isn't it the best mecha series they ever made?" Yes, yes, it is. But it's not really a series for younger fans... not because it has anything objectionable (at all), but because it's Dilbert with a big robot. You have to have held down a job to appreciate it in full, I think.
He enjoyed Nadesico well enough, though we bogged down in the filler in the back half of the series; don't marathon it.
I'm not sure I'd classify Sakura Wars as a mecha show. It has mecha, but they're not really the focus of the kind of "oh cool!" geekery that you get in a lot of other shows; they're ugly and dumpy and more than a little silly, and sometimes you get the idea that the characters would actually do better just getting out and fighting without 'em. But here, the TV series suffers from low budget, and the OAVs assume you've played all the games. I enjoyed the TV series...
Also, not sure how you can endorse Gurren Lagann in one paragraph (which, don't get me wrong, is fine by itself) and mention that you have to stop before you get to the absurd. The show's a celebration of the absurd - big robots with completely arbitrary abilities, and one of the finest examples of "fighting spirit trumps numbers". Then again, it's not over yet, and Gainax and endings... Stopped watching when it got licensed, but I'll haul this one in when the time comes.
For similar reasons, I enjoyed the Shin Getter Robo series, but mostly because I was working on it - the story's a weird hash that's practically impossible to follow. But if you want huge robots fighting weird tentacle-things, and pure outright cheese, it's hard to do better.
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I showed Dai-Guard to my co-worker, who really doesn't enjoy mecha shows. He absolutely loved it. He wonders why it never showed up in a Super Robot Wars game. "But isn't it the best mecha series they ever made?" Yes, yes, it is. But it's not really a series for younger fans... not because it has anything objectionable (at all), but because it's Dilbert with a big robot. You have to have held down a job to appreciate it in full, I think.
He enjoyed Nadesico well enough, though we bogged down in the filler in the back half of the series; don't marathon it.
I'm not sure I'd classify Sakura Wars as a mecha show. It has mecha, but they're not really the focus of the kind of "oh cool!" geekery that you get in a lot of other shows; they're ugly and dumpy and more than a little silly, and sometimes you get the idea that the characters would actually do better just getting out and fighting without 'em. But here, the TV series suffers from low budget, and the OAVs assume you've played all the games. I enjoyed the TV series...
Also, not sure how you can endorse Gurren Lagann in one paragraph (which, don't get me wrong, is fine by itself) and mention that you have to stop before you get to the absurd. The show's a celebration of the absurd - big robots with completely arbitrary abilities, and one of the finest examples of "fighting spirit trumps numbers". Then again, it's not over yet, and Gainax and endings... Stopped watching when it got licensed, but I'll haul this one in when the time comes.
For similar reasons, I enjoyed the Shin Getter Robo series, but mostly because I was working on it - the story's a weird hash that's practically impossible to follow. But if you want huge robots fighting weird tentacle-things, and pure outright cheese, it's hard to do better.
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I am a big fan of both Dai-guard and Nadesico. Best deal i made, paid $10 for and some other anime for the entire set of Dai-Guard.
Shin Getter is great if you like cheese but i did fine the middle part a slow and hard to get through.
btw Avatar, since you were in the anime industry i was wondering if you could answer this questions. Is there a reason why anime companies hardly ever release anime in Gatefold cases? I just got my Slayers Season 1 and I love the fact that it came in gatefold cases instead of the crappy brick packs.
Shin Getter is great if you like cheese but i did fine the middle part a slow and hard to get through.
btw Avatar, since you were in the anime industry i was wondering if you could answer this questions. Is there a reason why anime companies hardly ever release anime in Gatefold cases? I just got my Slayers Season 1 and I love the fact that it came in gatefold cases instead of the crappy brick packs.
Posted by: Xellos-_^ at September 06, 2007 10:45 AM (12gxe)
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Every time someone does that, lots of people complain about it. You're the minority opinion, man. ;p
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 06, 2007 06:01 PM (LMDdY)
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Since I never heard the word "gatefold" before, I had to search for a description. Now that I know what it is, I can report that Naruto Uncut by VIZ is the only set thus packaged in my collection. BTW, Japanese DVDs come in much nicer transparent plastic boxes with latches in the corners. I suppose consumers paying 5 times more get to demand better containers. Maybe. Or maybe it's simply a cultural thing.
Posted by: Author at September 07, 2007 04:19 AM (9imyF)
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Both parts of "Twelve Kingdoms" came that way. So did one of the "El Hazard" collections. And Funimation is using them for the new round of re-release of DBZ.
I hate that package format.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 07, 2007 08:50 AM (+rSRq)
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