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Jul 25, 2008 3:45 AM
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Recap episode was a bit boring and was over the place.
Sep 23, 2008 4:58 PM
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That was a struggle.. I hope this picks up at some point.
Oct 10, 2008 4:52 AM
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I fell asleep. Twice.
What I hate about recap eps is that I always hope they reveal something new(it was nice to get a speech from the photographer), and am always dissapointed when they don't/reveal something useless.But if I skip, I always think about missing something(in this case, Dominic's decision to visit Bellforest and some extra info on Gekko-go).
Damn, I hate recaps.
Oct 27, 2008 7:34 AM
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Boring.
Nov 15, 2008 7:48 PM
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BORING. It would be acceptable for when it was airing but I think most of us can watch these episodes in a week?
Jun 8, 2009 10:29 PM
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Man, glad I'm marathoning this series. Recaps piss the hell out of me.

The new OD was really...different. Cool though, but didn't seem to fit the series. The Ed is pretty good too.


Jul 26, 2009 11:17 PM
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I watched about two minutes of that, in 10 second intervals dispersed evenly throughout the episode, in hopes that something new would arise.

Next episode plez.
Jul 26, 2009 11:20 PM
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Have fun on your way to the top.
Dec 20, 2009 12:44 PM
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New opening and ending theme - cool, but episode was bo~ring >[
May 8, 2010 9:57 PM

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thefallofadamxx said:
I think this episode was just what the anime needed actually. It answered a lot of question I had about the history of the Gekko-Go and the so called outlaws who stole it. Overall, excellent episode.

The first half strongly reminded me of Evangelion. Especially with Stoner being the narrator. When Renton screamed, I swear I thought he was another Shinji Ikari.

I Agree It did answer a lot questions and gave us a bit more background for the plot. Its a turning point for the story...Finally ^_^


Jul 2, 2010 6:28 PM

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Canelo said:
thefallofadamxx said:
I think this episode was just what the anime needed actually. It answered a lot of question I had about the history of the Gekko-Go and the so called outlaws who stole it. Overall, excellent episode.

The first half strongly reminded me of Evangelion. Especially with Stoner being the narrator. When Renton screamed, I swear I thought he was another Shinji Ikari.

I Agree It did answer a lot questions and gave us a bit more background for the plot. Its a turning point for the story...Finally ^_^
Yeah this episode had a lot of information people have been asking for, so I don't know why everyone's saying there's nothing new. The new stuff is mostly in the dialogue.
Oct 17, 2010 1:49 AM

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Decent episode., this was good information to help explain things.
because for a bit I was confused on some things.

& The new opening theme song and ending theme songs are too awesome! :D


Nov 5, 2010 1:16 PM

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Didn't expect a recap episode so soon.
Nov 27, 2010 4:02 PM

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Well, they just finished 13 episodes, so I assume they also finished a season.

That, and this really does give a lot more details about who/what/why/how things came to be. So I liked this episode. I always like setting details like this.
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Sep 19, 2011 12:56 PM

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It was alright

Some good pieces of information here and there

Overall, just a recap episode.
Jan 10, 2012 10:14 AM

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Just a recap episode, but one that wasn't painful. And that's something I can appreciate.

What helps is that it's also really interesting in its philosophy. Utena did something similar where the recap episode re-contextualized the preceding episodes and made you think about them differently with a different light cast on them.

Feb 9, 2012 7:43 PM
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An interesting recap, I would say. It helped me to understand some things.
Feb 16, 2012 3:27 PM

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Bad new opening -_-'

Bad New ending.

And bad recap episode 2/5


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Feb 23, 2012 4:01 PM

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Well that was a bore.
Nov 18, 2012 9:47 AM

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Just watched it to hear Dominic's sexy voice. Since I'm watching it dubbed I'm just fooling around on other websites while listening in.

1/5 cause recaps suck.
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Mar 6, 2013 1:54 AM

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Wahhh, I knew a 50 episode anime would have recaps like this
Apr 7, 2013 11:20 PM

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I dont like when they blend a recap with new information. atleast it was interesting how they shone a different light on the series. some cool new info as well. like stealing the gekko ^ ^
well, i gotta say it seemed like they were trying to pull a psychological neon genesis evangelion scene at first, just toned down a little.
the protag is starting to be a leetle more three dimensional, but i still think eureka's kinda a bitch.
Apr 9, 2013 3:13 PM
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Sure 95% of all recap episodes are dull and boring and don't add anything new either. But once in a long while there are recaps like this one that are presented in a special manner that isn't boring and at the same time adds NEW important information. For a recap episode I liked this one, sure it was a bit boring compared to a normal episode but for a recap it was actually good.

People are simply too prejudiced and once they find out that it's a recap episode they immediately think it sucks and skip it. I for one am glad that i watched it as it made me understand certain things more clearly and learn new things as well. But this episode definitely can be skipped during a rewatch though, since then it won't have any added value.
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but i still think eureka's kinda a bitch.

Huh You serious? Why would you think that?
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Jun 13, 2013 2:16 PM

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Nothing new really happened. A bit of a letdown.

Jul 22, 2013 2:25 PM
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Well it was nice listening to Dominic's voice. We do learn a bit of new information/clear ups, and yeah it was a good recap in terms of how it wasn't completely a recap. But idk, I find it a lot of times when new information is being narrated, it's not good writing because good writing imo is when you include everything in the story by showing and not telling. But since this was meant to be a recap, and they only added these info in to make the recap less boring, I won't complain too much :P but it was still boring.
Aug 4, 2013 12:09 PM

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mmmmm. i wont say this was completely pointless, mainly because the new OP which i love,
aside from that, i too nodded off in this ep.
Sep 16, 2013 11:51 AM
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Harout said:
Boring.


Needs more mecha fights !

RediceRyan said:
Wahhh, I knew a 50 episode anime would have recaps like this


What if they plan to make a recap each 13 episodes ?
Sep 16, 2013 1:47 PM

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Zarnaav said:
What if they plan to make a recap each 13 episodes ?


This is pretty much the only recap episode.
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Jun 25, 2014 8:28 AM

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hate the new OP
Jul 18, 2014 11:20 AM

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A recap ?! Sighhh......
Jul 20, 2014 11:00 PM

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Recap episodes are kind of annoying for someone who marathons >__<
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Aug 18, 2014 3:47 PM

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A new op and ed starting with a recap that ain't the best idea... the way they handled the recap wasn't that good either so it wasn't that interesting in general but well let's see what's next!
Dec 5, 2014 6:58 AM

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Well, pretty much a recap episode. A few new scenes and explications, but nothing amazing.

The new OP and ED are really cool, love their chilling vibes. Also, from the ED, look like Renton is becoming quite famous.
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Dec 11, 2014 9:07 PM
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xchee said:
Recap episodes are kind of annoying for someone who marathons >__<

Hear hear.

And I miss the first opening :(
Aug 10, 2015 3:13 AM

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well that was a waste of time.

i'm not liking the new OP, doesn't get me as 'hyped' as the previous one ;-;
Nov 18, 2015 9:27 PM

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gogogogogoogogogogogog

i had no idea renton had made it to the cover of ray=out......
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Jun 21, 2017 5:26 AM

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The problem wasn't being a recap episode, it's that it was so disjointed that it made me wonder just what was the point of it?
Sep 27, 2017 1:23 PM

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I got more confused by this recap episode, honestly I did.

Boring.
Oct 11, 2017 1:34 PM
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just when I was getting used to the previous op/end, they change c_c
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Jul 12, 2019 4:25 PM

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Fuck off with recap/ info dump episodes, although it explained some things a little better. The new opening and ending are great, very funky. Not better than Days tho.
Apr 16, 2020 12:57 AM

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wtf they trying to be evangelion or something?
May 24, 2020 2:31 PM
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Psychedelios said:
wtf they trying to be evangelion or something?

The EVA influence is pretty clear I think. Especially with that whole dream sequence; Just in the way it was presented was very reminiscent of the final 2 episodes of EVA.
This show tends to lean more towards super robot compared to EVA which is more on the sci-fi side in my opinion, but still is trying to to be taken seriously in its narrative and characters.
Dec 22, 2020 10:56 AM

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I'm no fan of recap episodes but that's genuinely one of the worst recap episodes I've seen. So fucking disjointed and all over the place when trying to present itself as something new despite being all recap. At least the new opening is good (although Days by FLOW is better) and Eureka seemingly is fine after what happened to her in the past couple episodes mentally and physically too.
Apr 25, 2021 2:58 PM

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This felt longer than 30 minutes... and sadly not in a good way.
Oct 10, 2021 9:29 AM

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Both new OP and ED are more upbeat with their individual hip-hop style, I particularly love the new OP by Home Made Kazoku, I'll miss the first OP by Flow, it has a more nostalgic and emotional feeling to it but this new OP is nice to listen to just as well.

I'm pretty disappointed to find out that this ep is just a recap ep with tiny bits of new content added here and there. That first monologue was honestly a bunch of rubbish, unlike the second one narrated by Dominic which actually revealed several new pieces of information. If you put two and two together, you'd realize that Gekko ofc is an experimental aircraft that Holland took along with Eureka as they became their own independent militia unit, but it's good that they made it official by stating it as fact.

Still, aside from that... As I said... It's just a damn recap ep...

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