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NEWS: Crunchyroll Ranks Fall 2010 Simulcasts by Popularity

Pereyda also commented that Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector "may be the surprise hit of the season," and that part of the reason for its popularity was that Crunchyroll has the world-wide license for the series. Although no specific viewing numbers were cited in any of the tweets, Pereyda said that the "baseline level of hits" for this season is comparable to the top levels in previous seasons.

I'm surprised that Zakuro is second, since barely anyone talks about that show. Its my personal favorite of the seasons so far. The only other crunchy things I've seen are Panty & Stocking, which I dropped, and Fortune Arterial, which is on a three-episode test.

Okay, I'm confused. How is OG's plot shambles? I mean, it does require knowledge of the games. All the people I've seen who've played them say it makes perfect sense.

garfield15 wrote:

Okay, I'm confused. How is OG's plot shambles? I mean, it does require knowledge of the games. All the people I've seen who've played them say it makes perfect sense.

Yes, that is the explanation I have heard for why the plot is a shambles: there is a lot of information that they just assume people have from the game.

But for a lot of the viewers, the fact that the plot is indecipherable to someone who is not already a fan of the games is neither here nor there, since they are just watching it for the mecha fights.

For the rest, though ... if only they had had a speech in a setting where the speaker could have flashed slides of clearly identified protaganist and antagonist ships and mechas while rambling on, to give people who never played the games a chance to catch up. But when could they possibly have had a chance to work something like that in, in the introductory episode?

Olivine wrote:

-Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso.

Hey. Don't knock the robots and boobfests until you try it. Especially the robots.

garfield15 wrote:

Olivine wrote: -Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso. Hey. Don't knock the robots and boobfests until you try it. Especially the robots.

Sorry, but Kannazuki no Miko ruined that for me.

SonicRenegade84 wrote:

garfield15 wrote: Olivine wrote: -Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso. Hey. Don't knock the robots and boobfests until you try it. Especially the robots. Sorry, but Kannazuki no Miko ruined that for me.

Oh, the outrage! To paraphrase the poet of Funimation's PR department, anyone who with a heart loves Chikane and Himeko!

And destiny of the Shrine Maidens actually explains Japan's fascination with mecha, since it reveals that the ancient gods are actually mecha pilots themselves.

OTOH, there's no accounting for taste and while SRWOG is indeed a combined r&bfest, its not shrine maideny at all. Indeed, its integrated into the design of the mecha.

That wasn't my problem. The story was bad, the characters were boring out of hell, and I just begged for them to hurry up and ...

Then again, I don't have a problem with shrine maidens at all. It's Boobfests I have a thing with, considering when someone tells me to watch this or that, it's like they're telling me to lower my standards and find entertainment in a girl showing her boobs for you. If that was the case, i'd go to a strip joint.

SonicRenegade84 wrote:

That wasn't my problem. The story was bad, the characters were boring out of hell, and I just begged for them to hurry up and ...

Like I said, there's no accounting for taste. And if they hurried up and did anything to resolve the relationship, there'd be no akogare to it.

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Then again, I don't have a problem with shrine maidens at all. It's Boobfests I have a thing with, considering when someone tells me to watch this or that, it's like they're telling me to lower my standards and find entertainment in a girl showing her boobs for you. If that was the case, i'd go to a strip joint.

If you know of a strip joint with giant mecha battles also going on, spill.

garfield15 wrote:

Okay, I'm confused. How is OG's plot shambles? I mean, it does require knowledge of the games. All the people I've seen who've played them say it makes perfect sense.

Yes, that is the explanation I have heard for why the plot is a shambles: there is a lot of information that they just assume people have from the game.

But for a lot of the viewers, the fact that the plot is indecipherable to someone who is not already a fan of the games is neither here nor there, since they are just watching it for the mecha fights.

For the rest, though ... if only they had had a speech in a setting where the speaker could have flashed slides of clearly identified protaganist and antagonist ships and mechas while rambling on, to give people who never played the games a chance to catch up. But when could they possibly have had a chance to work something like that in, in the introductory episode?

Right, but that's the thing. How can you say it's a shambles because of that?

That would be like saying Kingdom Hearts II's plot is a mess because it would require knowledge of the previous two games or that Char's Counterattack is a mess because it would require knowledge of all the previous series.

... You can't blame the studio for doing this. I mean, all the sources that (barely) brought me up to speed took at least five paragraphs of text to explain it all.

If you know of a strip joint with giant mecha battles also going on, spill.