Feb 28, 2009 5:04 AM
Gigantic Formula 22-26 (end)
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Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula
(I'm trying not to make the obvious joke here- oh, what the hell: THE ENDING WAS A DEUS EX MACHINA. LITERALLY.)
If there was one thing that impressed me the most about this show, it was the way both god, Translator, and Pilot made for a fucking amazing combination, pardon my French. And in a way not unlike Fate/zero, everyone had a reason to fight for something--the only difference is that nobody dies at the end of it, save the only manly Pilot/Translator team in the entire show.
It's funny how my perception of this changed. I'd put this on hold ages ago due to Lunar subbing it at a glacial pace, and when I first resumed watching it at episode 22 things weren't that impressive. The animation was incredibly shoddy, characters and faces looked weird, the whole thing bordered on melodrama.
Then the first battle came and I remembered why I liked it so much: It's mecha porn. Mecha porn with a purpose, the purpose here being to have as many mechas designed by as many people as possible in a single show while getting all of them to have legitimate battles choreographed to a GLORIOUS, SOARING, HEART-THUMPING soundtrack. Purposefully, of course, which is a way of saying that each and every team is sympathetic and painfully real in their own right.
Like Bokurano, this will always be another forgotten gem of the Legendary Spring 2007 Season, and for a good reason: Aside from being completely overshadowed by all the other shows, Bokurano had Gonzo and the director's remarks/adaptation fags working against it; Gigantic Formula, on the other hand, didn't really stand out as something particularly remarkable. It was overtly mecha, unlike Bokurano's more human-drama-centric approach, and had the disadvantage of the overtly slow subbing methods that I mentioned earlier.
Nevermind the fact that I took almost two years to finish this show--I started on episode 22 utterly nonplussed, ready to give it a 6, but it ended at episode 26 with me in tears, swearing to give it no less than a 9.
P.S.: The scene after the climatic ending was a nod to F/sn's Heaven's Feel ending, I swear.
If there was one thing that impressed me the most about this show, it was the way both god, Translator, and Pilot made for a fucking amazing combination, pardon my French. And in a way not unlike Fate/zero, everyone had a reason to fight for something--the only difference is that nobody dies at the end of it, save the only manly Pilot/Translator team in the entire show.
It's funny how my perception of this changed. I'd put this on hold ages ago due to Lunar subbing it at a glacial pace, and when I first resumed watching it at episode 22 things weren't that impressive. The animation was incredibly shoddy, characters and faces looked weird, the whole thing bordered on melodrama.
Then the first battle came and I remembered why I liked it so much: It's mecha porn. Mecha porn with a purpose, the purpose here being to have as many mechas designed by as many people as possible in a single show while getting all of them to have legitimate battles choreographed to a GLORIOUS, SOARING, HEART-THUMPING soundtrack. Purposefully, of course, which is a way of saying that each and every team is sympathetic and painfully real in their own right.
Like Bokurano, this will always be another forgotten gem of the Legendary Spring 2007 Season, and for a good reason: Aside from being completely overshadowed by all the other shows, Bokurano had Gonzo and the director's remarks/adaptation fags working against it; Gigantic Formula, on the other hand, didn't really stand out as something particularly remarkable. It was overtly mecha, unlike Bokurano's more human-drama-centric approach, and had the disadvantage of the overtly slow subbing methods that I mentioned earlier.
Nevermind the fact that I took almost two years to finish this show--I started on episode 22 utterly nonplussed, ready to give it a 6, but it ended at episode 26 with me in tears, swearing to give it no less than a 9.
P.S.: The scene after the climatic ending was a nod to F/sn's Heaven's Feel ending, I swear.
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