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| Well this is decent, i guess, i had no good expectations for this but i enjoyed it, hope the next episodes will be more serious, the CGI in this one is sweet to watch, character designs are strange but i'm okay with this, the mechas are awesome, the action was good, but i just didn't understood how these noobs actually made the Alien(?) army flee. Well, let's see what it turns out. |
| Alcyone. Electra. Maia. Taygeta. Calaeno. Asterope. Merope. By the blessing of the Seven Sisters, I descend from four hundred lightyears in space! I AM MR PLEIADES!!  |
| Some of the opening comedy was a little cheesy and the character designs are different, but once they hit that battle at the end I was blown away. Those mobile suits they had were amazing in my opinion, and the fight itself was so fast paced. I kept rewinding it over and over to watch that battle. Plus that song for the last part of the battle was really good as well I thought. Hopefully it will get better and better. |
| Not bad start,the character designs and art really remembers me of Gundam Seed(well same person) specially the faces. The mecha battles were great! the 5 guys are not bad and there interactions are fun to watch specially liked Hitachi by not giving up to save the survivors(as cliche it is),well to soon to tell but first episode was not bad many unanswered questions but is still the first episode and its 2 cour so still a lot of time to know more about the plot. Will continue to watch no doubt! |
| A desperate war of annihilation, and a group of misfits. symbv said: I'd say they've come to take our women and drink our beer, but they didn't look like the type to drink beer.Not much of explanation about what they are fighting - we don't even know what the enemy is talking about.... |
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| Failed or sucked at practices doesn't mean that they will fail at the real thing for sure.. It's like they have a hidden potential, that's why the commander chose them IMHO.. Usually I never watch mecha though, guess gonna give this one a try and see it for another couple eps.. |
| Keep moving forward |
| Good show good show. I think I might turn out to like this. Action is nice and so is the CG. Brings me back to the good ol days of space combat anime. Can't entirely see why people are giving this such a low rating right off the bat. |
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| They should seriously drop the sd on this one. This is a mecha show so they shouldn't give an image of complete buffoons. I mean why is this girl sounding like she is barking when she sees her new mecha and they're going to do an important mission? I'm not asking for anime to be super serious, but come on... |
Amarrez said: ...why did they send the worst students(?) on the base to fight? The ones who don't work well together? Why not send the team that actually beat them in the training run? They looked as if they were pretty good. They where only needed to distract the enemies, why would they risk better soldiers for such a job? |
| I don't mind the comedy in the show, I don't really want to watch 45 year old war hero's having serious conversations about the morals of war. I for one like the sort of plain looking characters, I don't know why. It's probably due to the fact that I'm a Seed fanboy, but even if they don't stand out at all there isn't anything wrong with them either. I do not like, however, the CGI that they use for the Mecha. I hate it when anime use CGI, it completely takes me out of the experiences because it contrasts way too much with the hand drawn animation. Aside from that, it seemed to be very quickly paced. Hey you guys suck, okay you'll be cannon fodder in these new high tech machines (what?), oh look even though you guys suck it took you 1 minute of fighting to fend off the entire enemy fleet. Yea, okay, why not? Overall I'd say its a 3/5 right now. Kind of bland characters (even though that doesn't annoy me at all), no idea whats going on (but it's only the first episode so that's okay), CGI make it seem meh. But the great animation, aside from the CGI, and the music I like. I also enjoyed watching it, though I will admit that it wasn't "good" or "praiseworthy." We'll see how it progresses. |
| Seems like it getting alot of hate, but i think it was quite good. Like the ending of ep1 the intense music with some cool fighting, those parts really get to me in animes. The animation were quite weird though they went from being bad to being amazing from time to time. But will follow it! |
An_anon said: Damn, these are some pretty mixed reactions. Apparently people don't like comedy and variety with their mecha. I think the more series action-pack mecha that people are looking for it Valvrave (that comes out next week. |
| Meh. |
| "What color do you want to be?" -Shiina Mashiro |
| I feel this show is easy to get in to and will apppeal to western audiences. Personally, I like this first episode quite well and will continue watching it. |
| i dont know, i stay neutral for now, gonna watch few more eps to see if it gets interesting.. |
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| Hmm, I don't like the character designs. |
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| I don't know how to feel for this one. It started with people screaming while dying and not a minute later it skipped to comedy and silliness. I didn't like that. You can't start a show as something dark and gritty, people were screaming while being blown up for crying out loud, only to change it into comedy with no time skip whatsoever. You just can't. I liked the animation and I loved soundtrack, but as far as the show goes, it was average to below average. I'll keep watching, if for nothing than for soundtrack. |
kaykenner54 said: Apparently people don't like comedy and variety with their mecha. More like people don't like bad transitions and amateurish direction. |
Kirahito said: I actually really enjoyed it a lot. No, it isn't your generic mecha. It may feel like it because of the art style (most people will associate with Gundam Seed) But it feels like something that could turn into a refreshing series. I do see the slight problem with the art style though, it's not going to be for everyone. To the people griping about the characters, I guess they can't be happy? Not a single angsty or wimpy character in the main team and people still can't be happy. Also to the people calling this a Gundam clone. Uhhh what? LOL Only thing remotely similar is the art style to Gundam Seed, and a Char clone?.... Char clones are known for their blonde hair and face masks. If anything the commander in this series is inspired by Gendo from Evangelion. Especially his appearance from 3.0 And one more thing: Those mechs are pure sex. I have seen bad CGI (Total Eclipse) and this anime isn't bad CGI. 1) You're right, this isn't a Gundam clone, Gundam's too good for that. This is like a Gundam photocopy that didn't go through correctly. Any given Gundam series at least will give you an explanation as to why the inexperienced newbies are the ones with the fancy tech, new model ship, and taking on the enemy ships single-handedly. It's got the mechas and started off with a good space epic tone, and then somehow degraded into a generic mess. 2) Do you know anything about Char clones? They do not ALL have to be blond and have full masks. Gundam itself has had at least 4 Char clones that aren't blond and at least 2 that only use sunglasses (and that's not including Char HIMSELF). The commander here has the potential to be a Char clone, though not a very good one. And when you say "angsty" do you really mean that the characters actually have some DEPTH? So far, there's nothing really interesting about the characters of the 5 idiots other than that they're cliched stereotypes. |
| I would have liked this more if the characters didn't feel so wishy-washy , and it's like they devolved from Gundam Seed's character designs. That one guy looked like he had a potato for a nose on his face. |
| this looked like a shitty version of gundam seed,not sure if i can sit through 2 more episodes of this.. Plus i can't stand CGI. |
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| I like mecha design but not their cracter design. |
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rederoin said: Yet, they sent them out in the newest equipment as each of those mechas must have been top of the line and super expensive.Amarrez said: ...why did they send the worst students(?) on the base to fight? The ones who don't work well together? Why not send the team that actually beat them in the training run? They looked as if they were pretty good. They where only needed to distract the enemies, why would they risk better soldiers for such a job? If you were the military, would you waste those on a group of troops who have proved that they are not battle ready? If they simply didn't care about the pilots then they could have easily have given them training suits with live ammo. Who cares if they die then? At least they didn't take the prototype mobile suits with them. |
| Thursdays are going to be fucking amazing. |
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| Some you guys do realize this is 24 episodes right? Also what's wrong with CG.....I mean if it looks good, it looks good right? |
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| Already now im going to love it. Even if a lot of people dont like this kind of thing its perfect for me, especially since i really started watching anime with SEED |
| Seed had better art. Not sure if I want to waste time with this one. Maybe give a few more tries... |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| The action is pretty good but the plot is horrible. |
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ainky said: The action is pretty good but the plot is horrible. Well I am not sure if this is a parody... Not sure.... On the side note, I need to add this to the Super Sentai relations. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
| It was an okay episode. The transitions are a bit ehh, and the comedy is kinda stale but not too bad. Not sure why they decided to send the fail five out to battle, but then again the mission was to have the 5 protect the base while everyone else escapes. Why send the best and lose them while you can send the fail five who seem at least capable of using the mechs. |
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| it was not as good as i thought it would be |
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Koko-Bear said: it was not as good as i thought it would be You have no idea how that is an understatement. Then again, I never had high expectations. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
And when you say "angsty" do you really mean that the characters actually have some DEPTH? So far, there's nothing really interesting about the characters of the 5 idiots other than that they're cliched stereotypes. What I mean is. The main characters aren't shown as your average "start out wimpy, gets stronger" or your "has bad past so he wants revenge" angsty characters. Especially the main character as we can already see he is the opposite. Yeah I know it's just now starting out and as of now, very little is known about them. But what I just described seems way more cliched then what you're making it out to be. |
AvakianApr 4, 2013 8:01 PM
| The animation was superb, but it lacks punch And I can't stand the chara design The story was decent and I expect it to pick up Gonna watch few more episodes before I decide to continue or not |
Firixizu_Mint said: Gonna watch few more episodes before I decide to continue or not me too im a sucker for sakuga animation and i like the CGI in here its better than most anime mecha CGI battles |
| It felt just silly. Character designs, animation, plot, characters themselves etc. Far from an impressive opening for me, that's for sure. Nothing Majestic about it. |
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| Ehhh, i'll give it another week. I like the art it reminds me of GD SEED |
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| Very wacky mecha show. Nice job on the battles. I would like to see more before judging. |
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| I'm not a big fan of the art, and I don't think they transitioned well from being the worst to the best in one episode. Otherwise, the plot is pretty good. |
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| If I can sit through Aquarion EVOL I can force myself to watch this. I just don't see myself scoring this at even marginal. |
| This had enough personality to make me want to check it out next week. |
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| man the art feels like gundam seed still like it anyways finally got some mecha anime to watch |
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| I hate it when people categorize and judge characters after episode 1, but...Fail Five is Fail Five..so far, I can't grasp any real sense of personality from any of them. The first couple of scenes make it look sorta like the long haired aggressive yet emo dude is the lead. Up until he was made the leader, Izuru probably had the least amount of screentime and was just the random nice guy yet pervert(see what I mean about no real sense of personality) but oh then he exclaims boldly that he wants to be a hero(gasp) so now he is just the perfect guy to be our lead!! lol good job director. |
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| please.. this is just ep1.. and it only featured the battles while giving away the bare minimum that mecha fans know of anyway.. answers to questions are reserved for later.. i mean, why would the Fail Five even win?? also, not sure if this is parody or a revive of classic mecha cheesiness.. it kinda felt that way.. if so, then f*ck the plot, this is reserved for my mecha porn.. let's see if the other two have better action (possibly valvrave but gargantia seems to be more of plot).. |
| So far, it is good and interesting. The fight scenes looks good and the characters are not boring so far. |
| I like the mecha but I don't really like all the pilot they are amaetur and it makes sad to look at -__-" |
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| Why did they send the worst team? i will never get that.. AND WHY THE HELL DIDNT THEY GIVE HIM DAT ULTRA SUPER OP GUN SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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