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Mar 31, 2008 6:51 PM
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omg a two part recap episode!?! if they didn't want to make a 26 episode series then they should have said so in the first place, i'm just glad i can skip over them and feel very sorry for those fans that were actually watching this as it came out and had to put up with this piece of unmitigated stupidity.
Jul 29, 2008 6:35 PM
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i totally hated the fact that this episode and the next was just a review from the beginning. i didnt even bother to watch it lol
Nov 17, 2008 7:31 PM
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Wtf fillers... I hoped they could avoid this. It can't be helped, its and industry!



Jun 29, 2009 3:42 PM
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Agreed, it was very unnecessary.
Oct 15, 2009 4:53 AM
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This episode made me want to cut myself, not because it was a recap, but because the dialogue was depressing.



Oct 15, 2009 3:03 PM
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Ahhh recap...though revisits of cute scenes = :)
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Mar 20, 2010 5:55 PM
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seracx3 said:
i totally hated the fact that this episode and the next was just a review from the beginning. i didnt even bother to watch it lol


Same. :(
Jun 27, 2010 8:22 PM
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This is the most fun recap chapter I've seen in my life. Amazing choice of music!

I don't blame Gainax for doing recaps, man, in 1998 was difficult to make anime. And I don't think they had enough money either.

It was very fun, people :)
Feb 15, 2011 1:21 PM
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Seriously, I can't get why people get so pissed for a funny, well made recap episode with good music and then look for or makes AMV...
Sep 12, 2011 5:13 AM

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Skipping recap~
Nov 14, 2011 9:26 PM

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Was fine as a recap, not that I think the show really needed one. Especially seeing as how they have been doing front end recaps for most of the series.

Don't generally skip things but if I ever go back and watch the series again I see no point in watching this episode. Just a word to the wise for anyone skipping, while the recap does carry into the next episode only the first half is a recap. The second half of episode 15 is new stuff.
Feb 11, 2012 1:23 AM

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Summary.
Jun 16, 2012 10:48 PM
Jun 21, 2012 7:25 PM
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lol i skipped episode 14 like 2 mins in cause i can just tell its a recap and its totally pointless >.< yea i know what i happened, i was there, i watched it.
Apr 22, 2013 12:27 AM

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Yup, not much to say.
This would only bother me if I watched it when it was airing
Apr 23, 2013 12:11 PM

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Pretty much a full recap episode, nothing more to say as there wasn't anything special to the recap in the first place!
May 4, 2013 3:43 PM
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recap...
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Dec 3, 2014 12:57 PM
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Skipped, recap episodes? Seriously?!

Jan 13, 2015 12:52 AM

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This is definitely been a really good series so far but it's kinda annoying how often they have recapped things but at least they were previously brief.

But now there's 2 episodes of nothing but showing what has already happened and after just 13 episodes...........fuck.

Edit: Actually i'm glad that i checked the second episode because actually only half of the episode is recapping so don't skip it entirely.

[quote=Tanrim]Was fine as a recap, not that I think the show really needed one. Especially seeing as how they have been doing front end recaps for most of the series.

Don't generally skip things but if I ever go back and watch the series again I see no point in watching this episode. Just a word to the wise for anyone skipping, while the recap does carry into the next episode only the first half is a recap. The second half of episode 15 is new stuff.[/quote

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Mar 29, 2016 8:24 AM

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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who loved this recap. Really good montage, and perfectly matched music. Very little amount of dialogues, in a recap they can easily bore. Plus, I liked those pools.
Jun 7, 2016 4:41 AM

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Why a recap episode? They seem to recap the whole anime at the start of every episode anyway so this is a little redundant.
Jul 10, 2016 12:44 AM

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Ugh, recap ep >.> Booorrrringggggg. I only stopped at my fave scenes like when Arima was expecting a kiss but got punched HAHHAHAHAHAAA XDDD
Aug 21, 2016 11:01 PM

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Not even 50 episodes, already recap
Worse than KHR recap xD
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Jan 27, 2017 2:03 AM

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it must suck to be an actually person during the 90s, waiting for this to air and then getting a recap episode LMFAO
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Feb 24, 2017 11:57 AM

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C'mon guys, it is not that bad, we don't have (sometimes long) recaps at the beggining of every episode, so we kinda needed this...


Skipped.
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Mar 5, 2017 6:08 PM

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oh boy, a recap episode. well onto the next episode -_-
Apr 27, 2017 3:18 PM
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Personally, I love a good show with interesting plot line and ideas, ones that don't overuse cliche' lines and acts just to fill that 20 or more minutes. Recaps = no story development = nothing to be gain = FILTER!!!!!!


I hate episodes so like these because it makes me feel like they got lazy and needed to fill that extra time. I know a lot of people think the same thing, but I sincerely have to agree with them. Because episodes like this really bug me.
Mar 15, 2018 9:14 AM

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I'm watching this for many months now,so I definitely appreciate the recap.

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


May 21, 2018 7:17 PM

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Meh recap was meh.

Could have at least used some clever narrative gimmick to make it more interesting... "14.3" wasn't quite enough.
Jun 27, 2019 5:23 AM

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What? Recap? Filler? Did they fall out with the director or something?
Oct 3, 2019 3:15 PM

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Ah yes, the obligatory recap episode in a Gainax show :) I happened to watch it after a bit of a pause in watching the series, so it was cute to revisit all the funny scenes with beautiful instrumental OST. I don't blame Gainax for making it and I don't hate it as other people tend to. Although the recap episode in Kill la Kill is still unmatched.

P.S. I would really like to know the translation of the cuts with statistics.
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Seems like they crossed over to hand drawn ED in the second half. Shame, I liked these wide angle camera shots.
May 29, 2021 10:04 AM

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I just watched a 20 minute recap episode that featured not a single spoken word I could understand and I am not even mad. However, I would love to know what the categories on the pie charts were.
In modern terms, I would call all of the individual recaps instrumental AMVs. They are clearly aimed at people who know the story, not at viewers who missed several episodes. This is a good opportunity to talk about a part of the series that I missed so far: the excellent music. I tend to overlook that, but taking away the voices and making the entire episode instrumental is a bold choice and one that is largely successful because of the excellent soundtrack of the series that is used for all the recaps. Oh, and it does not hurt that Gainax’ talent at shot composition blows the average youtube AMVer out of the water. Some of the recaps were seriously beautiful.
The decision to have this extraordinary recap style also shows the guts of Gainax in their heyday. Their willingness to leave well-travelled path is obvious all over the series. It compares so favorably to a lot of the bland, standardized anime that has come out lately. Where every character is a trope and every scene has been animated before in a previous series in a similar way.
That being said, what on earth was going on production-wise. The anime already is so low on actual animation in the standard episodes and then they need to pull a 2 episode recap break with 0 new animation? I would love to hear the story about this. Not that I mind the actual recap or use of stills in the episodes, but what lead to this? Clearly it cannot soley be artistic intent, there needs to be a lack of animation resource explanation, too.
CalmTeaTimeJul 9, 2023 8:26 PM
Mar 10, 2022 10:16 AM

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since this is a recap and so will be episode 15, that means this anime technically only has 24 episodes... lol
    
Jun 28, 2022 4:14 PM

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Again? They could've at least kept the dialogue in
Apr 27, 2023 12:03 AM
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relleno una paja mal
Apr 28, 2023 3:27 PM

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as someone born in the mid 80's, i agree that having recaps in the 90's / early 2000's as the new episode of the week wasn't the best feeling ever... i've been there. And if i did watch this series in 2002 when it was aired on MTV in Italy for the first time, this was the episode that resumed the broadcast after the three months hiatus that lasted all summer long, as told by the italian wikipedia (reliable at least when it comes to MTV Anime Night history), so i would have been not amused, even if i never was a recaps hater (three years later, the italian adaptation added a recap out of nowhere for Full Metal Panic Fumoffu in late december for some reason, and it didn't exist in the japanese original run).


In hindsight, it was easy to expect this recap to exist considering how much the show is trying to work on a limited budget, and it would have been very interesting to see how negative must have been the pools for this exact episode...
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Even in 4x speed the music is great

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