This show is so stupid lmao
Unfortunately it goes to incredibly stupid (painful) in his next two shows, Guilty Crown and Valverave the Liberator. Both those shows have a kinda light political commentary in the same vein as Code Geass, but they flub it sooooooo hard in very not-fun ways.
Let’s just say I was pleasantly surprised Witch from Mercury turned out as well as it did.
I’m morbidly curious about that new Grendizer, since it’s Fukuda and Okouchi working together lol.
I haven’t heard anything about it one way or the other (and I haven’t seen it myself yet) - either it’s played it safe and stuck to the source material (which is weird, because if I’m not wrong they changed the setting of the story to Saudi Arabia, because the show is funded by Saudi oil money or something really whack like that) or there isn’t really anything going on beyond Super Robot Saves the World.
Everything I’ve heard about SEED Freedom makes me think that I’d rather dig my own eyeballs out with a rusty spoon than watch it, though.
I remember Cromalin mentioned that it has an obligatory Fukuda cuckold plot line in it lol.
I’ve been meaning to watch it eventually. I usually only watch an anime movie once every 1-3 months or so, and I’ve been too busy watching decent/good stuff. I’ll have to work myself up to watching some absolute trash idk
I loved Guilty Crown when it aired but I was also 20 and didn’t have as much media literacy. I just remember how much I hated the ended and shit posting about the Shurher arc on /a/. Maybe I’ll revisit it and see how I feel now.
The biggest problem with the show was that it just became incomprehensible- by the end no one knew what any characters motivations were, never mind who was aligned with what faction. So the ending just became this slog where the characters might as well have been ad-libbing a script.
Also yeah the entire “the MC decides that the only solution to his problems is The Final Solution” is one whole other can of worms.
The only good thing that came out of the show was Egoist (and the music in general).
