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If the whole series had been more like eps 20+, this likely would have ended up hovering around my favorites list, but as it is, I had the same problems with it that I did with Cowboy Bebop...too much about the music, style and action scenes and not enough about the story or characterization.  I mean, I'm(obviously, if you read my anime posts) always good for a good action anime, but it's hard to care about the action if it's about the action instead of the who or why.  I was more attached to this one than Cowboy Bebop(which, incidentally, is far from being the worst case of "style over substance" and I did like...like Samurai Champloo...it's just that the popularity of both rests much more on how the story is told than the story that's being told or the people in the story, and that's not my thing)

But the last leg was really good(and 20-21 had Sara, the only female in the show besides Fuu who was remotely interesting) and I'd probably have a different opinion of it if the whole thing was more like the last episodes, because that's when the focus shifts to story and character...Cowboy Bebop did the same thing towards the tail end, and that was when I really started paying attention to it, too.)

Date: 2007-03-27 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzoppa.livejournal.com
You haven't listed RahXephon. If you haven't seen that, I would HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. It was the first series I saw, a couple of years ago. I was... blown away. It was everything I'd been hunting for in stories and was sadly disappointed by American attempts.

The guy who got me into it said if I wasn't hooked by the 4th ep I could put it aside. I was floored within the first 10.

However, you've watched a lot so it could definitely already be on your list of have-seens.

Same people who made Wolf's Rain (which I never finished, but liked the beginning; I heard it didn't have a greate ending).

Date: 2007-03-27 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzoppa.livejournal.com
er, floored within the first 10 MINUTES. Sheesh.

Date: 2007-03-27 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
What's RahXephon about?

Wolf's Rain has a very good ending...almost every time an anime I love gets trashed for the ending, it's because not everyone lived and they want their characters to all live and skip off happily in the sunset, even if the actual ending is the RIGHT ending(which it is for Wolf's Rain...any other ending...except maybe the last 2 minutes, which you can defend or ignore depending on your preferences...would have been wrongwrongwrong for the series)

Date: 2007-03-27 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bzoppa.livejournal.com
Wolf's Rain has a very good ending

Really! I might have to give it a better shot, then. I think I watched about the first 12, then caught people complaining around ep 18. This was back when it came out which would've been, what, 2003? 2004?

RahXephon is, in the brilliant words of [livejournal.com profile] plateoshrimp "Evangelion for people who like good things." There is a lot of similarity in terms of mecha and the Boy Who Could Pilot, but the characters are much more sympathetic. As crappy as the animation was in Eva and the story was off-the-wall (which I loved about it), you have to give the director props for making his protagonists some of the most unlikeable characters ever. Takes some balls.

Like I said, RahXephon got me into anime. Fullmetal Alchemist is definitely better, but the person who recommended FMA also gave me RahXephon as a place to start. You've got your military, your apocalypse, the "Men behind the scenes," and multiple villains. There's also the OTP and the distractors on both sides.

I'm going to have to re-watch it very very soon. I've seen it through two or three times and there are still pieces I'm fitting in. I'll go with what my friend said, and if you're not hooked by ep 4 to go ahead and stop watching. However, I think you'll be hooked on the first episode.

Date: 2007-03-27 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
I actually have no problem with characters being unlikable(Samurai Deeper Kyo and Twelve Kingdoms immediately come to mind) as long as there's growth and development.

Mecha though...hrm...it takes a lot for me to check out mecha...usually multiple recs and/or having it shoved in my hands.

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