Anime thread Winter 2013

[stefan]

Originally Posted by Ramary

It is a Bones sequel Ryong, it has barely anything to do with the first one. Once you accept that you will like it more.

And then you'll start to hate it more because the plotting is an abortive mess that seems like three separate writers were working on it without any sort of intercommunication until the last three episodes, at which they shat out a giant pile of failure in a vain attempt to tie it back into the old series and knot up the several dozen conflicting plot threads they left hanging.

And that series had so much potential at the beginning, too.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Ryong

And yeah, I'm wondering: Hadn't Nirvash transcended into a completely different thing? Is this something like...A child of Nirvash or some shit?

I want to say it's a robot built by Renton as a LFO without enslaving Coralians (IFOs have no archetype, in case you forgot that was a thing in an LFO) , but then (and this is really spoilers for AO, even though I'm really just gonna express confusion, but it's REALLY spoilers) two more Nirvashes show up, each in a different form, and then there's a third one with Renton which may-or-may-not be the Nirvash from after the last episode of Eureka Seven (even though the Nirvash in Mode 2 with Eureka is definitely the same person as the Nirvash from the first show), and all-in-all it's just super obtuse and doesn't make much sense beyond "lol Coralian magic."

So yeah, no one knows, certainly not the writers.

[Ryong]

Up to episode 9:
What the fuck.
Either it had a bunch of writers or someone who was into jumpcuts coupled with the weirdest parallel storytelling I've ever seen.

What I was expecting from the early episodes:
Ao's the child of Eureka and Renton. Naru is the child of Holland and Talho and some shit resulted in a pregnant Eureka and a baby Naru falling into the scub coral and ending up in another world entirely, because the scub coral had a bunch of weird shit happening. I kind of expected a Majora's Mask-esque take on the world, like having nearly the same characters but different. And then scub bursts would be some sort of anomaly caused by people from the original world attempting to get Ao and Naru back.

But no, I'm getting this clusterfuck.

[Donomni]

Basically, AO is what happens when you try and subvert the expectations made as a sequel series to Eureka Seven with no real idea what you're doing.

Or even keeping in mind why people watched the first show. It's... it's just a total confusing mess.

[Ryong]

Up to episode 14 because I'm going to finish this darn thing today:

So I was right on some things except with a lot more shit thrown in. And what the fuck is up with Elena?

Also: Okay, coralians are aliens who came to Earth and fused with coral reefs. Or something. The shit's quartz? The shit's a Secret? Is scub coral from the future getting thrown into the past to avoid the limit of life deal from Eureka Seven? Also, this Truth dude.

[Ramary]

If you hate Truth (and you should) you will have another reason to hate the ending.

[Ryong]

There I finished AO.
The fuck.

[stefan]

Originally Posted by Ryong

There I finished AO.
The fuck.

congratulations on joining the club of people who spent 12 hours on that show and will never be able to get them back.

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by stefan

congratulations on joining the club of people who spent 12 hours on that show and will never be able to get them back.

When do I get shot by a retcon gun to forget it?

[phil_]

You don't. The gun was retconned out of existence.