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| So the ending was awesome up until the very end, I was hoping it could wrap up there and it would have been beautiful, now it looks like we need a second season. One thing that irks me is that this show had really good moments and a lot of crappy ones, making it hard to rate. The beginning was hype, the end was great, but the middle was kind of a slog. I did raise it from a 4 to a 6/10, mostly because it is a good story but the characters were lacking. Execution was poorly done. Gene was probably the best character, which should tell you just how much the main cast was a disappointment. I still like them, but they really didn't inspire me until the very end. |
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| As many have already said, it was a rather unexciting conclusion. The characters just weren’t interesting enough to make any of it compelling, and the motivations of most characters was unclear (plus they were all being controlled by Roy anyway). I also suspect the story wouldn’t have seemed half as convoluted if they’d just used normal names for things (e.g. android instead of Nean). It’s a shame all that great animation and all those excellent designs weren’t linked to a better story. |
| 13 episodes in, seems like I've found my "Most Disappointing Anime of the Year" contender. On paper, Metallic Rouge seemed like a potential sleeper hit. With elements like its cyberpunk setting, quirky female leads, intriguing mystery, all presented with excellent visuals and good animation, how could this be not another anime original that surprised viewers like say, Lycoris Recoil or Cyberpunk: Edgerunners? Sadly, the shows inconsistencies with each episode on how it handled themes, characters, as well as overall tone didn't help. Metallic Rouge looks great, but I wish that its worldbuilding, tone, characters were as good as its visual presentation. This series can be summed up by the "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" meme. |
| This show is such a colossal mess of random idea and sci-fi tropes, that it almost feel like David Cage wrote it. lol But that being said, I can't deny that I still enjoyed it a bit. 6/10 |
| Well, that's a wrap. I feel like we needed more episodes since it felt like they were rushing and adding too much information in the few episodes that they had. |
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| Too many ideas and characters in the series which just doesn't have the expository muscle to handle it all. It wanted to be complex and interesting, but ended up being a bit too ambitious, ending up a convoluted mess of plot points and ideas that failed to stick the series landing. Maybe with better pacing or more episodes (or even stretched out over 2 seasons) the series could've developed it's plot and character motivations in a more satisfying manner. But as it is, it ended up being 'okay' but definitely feels like it fell well short of what it wanted to achieve narratively. |
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| All in all, I really liked the ending. It felt meaningful. Also, the soundtrack, not just the op and ed, was amazing. Added to my playlist. |
| Two months ago... I kinda miss Metallic Rouge. |
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| The best thing about the show was the awesome opening "Rouge" by YU-KA (由薫). After the really good first episodes, the show gradually lost it's appeal and direction. The awfully colorful mechs were so distracting. The episodes after 3 were an up and down some were good some were clearly not. Unfortunately this final was a complete mess with a terrible pacing and too much happening at once. ...and it didn't even end. Nevertheless I liked Rouge and Naomi, their chemistry was great, even though the show could not always use it properly. Bones keeps overloading their shows with too many ideas for their own good it's good to be ambitious, but don't try to add more to the show than what it is. |
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A rushed convoluted ending with quick deaths, shallow characters, a makeshift wrap up ending......what had a lot of promise just became a microwaved mess.
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| @WolfWood37 I agree with this. Cool action scenes, rushed story. |
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| Derivative and carried by its fight animation. To think this is supposed to be Bone's anniversary project. |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| A simple episode didn't have that many things. Naomi will spend her whole life living inside Rouge. 6/10 |
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| There's a fundamental flaw in all these anime. There's no reason to create robots with this level of self-awareness en masse. Why not? If you need a caretaker or a servant, then a robot with self-awareness is unnecessary. Like a military droid. It should have no fears, doubts, hopes, thoughts, etc. They would be an unnecessary waste of resources. Yes, perhaps someone will make a robot with full intelligence as an experiment, but it is not needed on a mass scale. You don't need a vacuum cleaner that thinks about freedom. As for the self-development of robots or something like that, it was shown not badly in "Ghost in the Shell' with the example of Tachikoma. But there it was a long process and not intentional. Rather, an experimental, self-evolving system grew to self-consciousness. Ghost found itself, so to speak. The only significant reason the native androids have advanced self-awareness is a side effect of production. They're fictional biomechanics. They grow a human body, supplement it with electronics for rapid data download so you don't have to learn how to walk, shoot, etc., and then put Asimov's limiter on it. That's the new soldier. But it's a very stupid approach. Man is a very fragile and weak thing. In many weapon systems today, the human is often in the role of the decision maker. The one who tells you to shoot or not to shoot. And then everything takes care of itself. The higher the level of technology, the less you need humans as enforcers. Drones, droids, guided missiles and so on. There is no point in making humanoid soldiers. The human body is very limited and fragile. Besides, if you have enough biotech to make humanoid soldiers, why not just make humans? Then you can just integrate them into society without any problems. One more thing. Slaves are very inefficient in a technologically advanced society. An excavator will dig much faster than a dozen slaves with pickaxes. To overcome the uncanny valley, it's much easier to do the opposite. Not get closer to people, but the other way round. You don't shudder at the sight of a robot vacuum cleaner, do you? Electronics in cars don't give you anxiety? There are already a lot of systems around us, but they are not usually visible to the eye. I would also note that robot intelligence and the self-awareness it has developed is a very resource-intensive thing. It's about transferring human problems into a new environment. In essence, it's about social inequality and disenfranchisement. Robots act as a basis of difference. You know, like skin colour. We're shown apartheid in here. In general, it's very hard for writers not to write about modernity and modern mores. It requires careful study of the material and a great deal of intelligence. Often, both fantasy and sci-fi look like modernity draped over a different entourage. More classical authors like Tolkien, Strugatsky, Asimov did a good job of describing somewhat alien, different worlds. The same 'Ghost in the Shell' is much deeper in terms of the elaboration of the world. There, people live in a very unfamiliar reality. And here it is a strange environment, but a very 'human' existence. |
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