It's been a long time since I watched anime, the last good one being geass(i think) and became too lazy to catch up with the newer versions of gundam 00, gundam unicorn, gundam turnA, gundam sagittarus, gundam cancer or whatnots.But one fine day i read a post about valvrave at *coughGcoughGkcoughthwheezex* and it seemed like such an epic anime i decided to watch it. After all, it's from the fine people who brought you gundam aries and gundam gemini and geass!
So I just watched Valvrave episode 1. While the animation was pretty good, the storyline was..... kinda cheesy. Actually, rather than the storyline, I would say that the characters are the cheesier ones. So much cheese that I revived the ancient blog of anime and manga thoughts, where years of dust had settled upon... for ranting.
And here goes my thoughts on Valvrave: Episode 1.
The opening of the episode was okay, showing the futuristic "age" of space colony, accompanied by a short monologue. Typical of such anime/manga, the protaganists are school students (no idea how old they are) and you see the everyday lives of students. At one point someone thought it was a good idea to put the background story (continuing the monologue as a news report) in the scene where students were talking on a cellphone (to make it look like a natural bustling space colony or something) but the attentive me wasn't particularly pleased. How am i to attend to two conversations at the same time? The mundane phone convo that probably has no significance in the whole series, or the news report which should be significant in the story; i caught bits of both but understood neither of it. If the goal was not to let viewers understand what the heck is going on, it's a job well done. The school life is shows the cheesy wimpsy side of the main male character, and the impossibly dense female character, lik-
Oh perhaps I should say, since I am ranting about episode 1, I may be obliged to tell you SPOILERS POSSIBLY AHEAD (or before if you haven't noticed.)
You have been appropriately informed, so it's none of my spoiler business from below onwards.
-like when they say "the one with the wierd(or something) shirt" and she looks around, looking confused as if she had no idea who it could be, despite the conversation being only between the two of them, and that ALL OF THEM ARE WEARING THEIR OWN UNIFORMS AND SHE IS THE ONLY ONE WEARING A DIFFERENT SHIRT makes that whole klutzy/ditzy female character impression, which is so cheesy I probably would not eat Al Fungi for a week. In fact, this scene would make a good anti Al Fungi therapy for anyone severely addicted to al fungi and needs to stop eating al fungi. Or anything too cheesy can be substituted with al fungi too.
Oh damn this. Just thinking of that scene makes me sad.
Scene of main male liking female main character. I had no issues with it.
Anyway, another group of Dorssian terrorist-spy-covert-spec-ops (which obviously will be a bunch of teenagers...i think) busts in the colony to steal stuff. Whilst they are on it the Dorssian army invades the space colony (DIOR? or something) and threatens the protaganists' friends (more specifically, hurting the female lead right before the male lead's eyes and implying possible death of female lead) led main male lead to sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~. The following is an excerpt of
what i saw(not necessarily accurate):"WAAAAAAAAHHH U KILL MY CRUSH I WILL CRUSH U". Main male jumps into super secret robot suit and here we learn that sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~ gives you lv999 piloting skillz. Suddenly main male is some pro piloter flying around dancing like water and leaving the enemy in awe and rubble. Robot saves the day from the invasion of the small squad of Dorssian robots, and main male's profile is shared on their interwebz. His friend request jumps to over 9000 and he sits in robot crying for female lead lost. When he gets off the robot he meets L-elf who stabs him in the chest and finishes him off with a few more rounds. (this is a big improvement! One of the scenes which I felt was better in this episode.) which consisted of less bullcrap. Then just before the episode ends, we see him rise like bread.
I actually watched episode 2, saw a couple of things and became motivated to rant about valvrave, but because I was recalling episode 1's rants I forgot what parts of episode 2 were intriguing, and am debating about watching episode 2 again to recall and blog down the details on a blog which nobody reads. But for now this is episode 1 of Valvrave. I hope you all have more fun with Valvrave than I did! :D
So I just watched Valvrave episode 1. While the animation was pretty good, the storyline was..... kinda cheesy. Actually, rather than the storyline, I would say that the characters are the cheesier ones. So much cheese that I revived the ancient blog of anime and manga thoughts, where years of dust had settled upon... for ranting.
And here goes my thoughts on Valvrave: Episode 1.
The opening of the episode was okay, showing the futuristic "age" of space colony, accompanied by a short monologue. Typical of such anime/manga, the protaganists are school students (no idea how old they are) and you see the everyday lives of students. At one point someone thought it was a good idea to put the background story (continuing the monologue as a news report) in the scene where students were talking on a cellphone (to make it look like a natural bustling space colony or something) but the attentive me wasn't particularly pleased. How am i to attend to two conversations at the same time? The mundane phone convo that probably has no significance in the whole series, or the news report which should be significant in the story; i caught bits of both but understood neither of it. If the goal was not to let viewers understand what the heck is going on, it's a job well done. The school life is shows the cheesy wimpsy side of the main male character, and the impossibly dense female character, lik-
Oh perhaps I should say, since I am ranting about episode 1, I may be obliged to tell you SPOILERS POSSIBLY AHEAD (or before if you haven't noticed.)
You have been appropriately informed, so it's none of my spoiler business from below onwards.
-like when they say "the one with the wierd(or something) shirt" and she looks around, looking confused as if she had no idea who it could be, despite the conversation being only between the two of them, and that ALL OF THEM ARE WEARING THEIR OWN UNIFORMS AND SHE IS THE ONLY ONE WEARING A DIFFERENT SHIRT makes that whole klutzy/ditzy female character impression, which is so cheesy I probably would not eat Al Fungi for a week. In fact, this scene would make a good anti Al Fungi therapy for anyone severely addicted to al fungi and needs to stop eating al fungi. Or anything too cheesy can be substituted with al fungi too.
Oh damn this. Just thinking of that scene makes me sad.
Scene of main male liking female main character. I had no issues with it.
Anyway, another group of Dorssian terrorist-spy-covert-spec-ops (which obviously will be a bunch of teenagers...i think) busts in the colony to steal stuff. Whilst they are on it the Dorssian army invades the space colony (DIOR? or something) and threatens the protaganists' friends (more specifically, hurting the female lead right before the male lead's eyes and implying possible death of female lead) led main male lead to sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~. The following is an excerpt of
what i saw(not necessarily accurate):"WAAAAAAAAHHH U KILL MY CRUSH I WILL CRUSH U". Main male jumps into super secret robot suit and here we learn that sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~ gives you lv999 piloting skillz. Suddenly main male is some pro piloter flying around dancing like water and leaving the enemy in awe and rubble. Robot saves the day from the invasion of the small squad of Dorssian robots, and main male's profile is shared on their interwebz. His friend request jumps to over 9000 and he sits in robot crying for female lead lost. When he gets off the robot he meets L-elf who stabs him in the chest and finishes him off with a few more rounds. (this is a big improvement! One of the scenes which I felt was better in this episode.) which consisted of less bullcrap. Then just before the episode ends, we see him rise like bread.
I actually watched episode 2, saw a couple of things and became motivated to rant about valvrave, but because I was recalling episode 1's rants I forgot what parts of episode 2 were intriguing, and am debating about watching episode 2 again to recall and blog down the details on a blog which nobody reads. But for now this is episode 1 of Valvrave. I hope you all have more fun with Valvrave than I did! :D
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