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REVIEW: Zegapain DVD 1

A couple of days ago Chris Gore from Film Threat mentioned on G4's Attack of the Show that Solty Rei is one of the greatest anime series of all time. He even compared Roy to Bruce Willis!

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Yes, it does tell you something doesn't it, perhaps the fact that those scores are based on the WHOLE, not on the first 5 episodes?

Yeah people only rate shows when they're finished airing, Clannad isn't in the top 10 with 89 votes after only 3 out of 24 episodes have aired... *whistles*

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Some titles take up to 50% it's airtime before getting real

And a lot of titles manage to do this without being as crap and boring as Zegapain is.

There is really something wrong with this review. Zegapain is probably the most underrated series of 2006. The beginning is slow and not much interesting but later on it becomes NOTHING short than awesome.

First it was I'm the devil for pointing this out, and now your doing it yourself. What do they call this again..... oh right.

Pretty typical stuff for Kyoani anime. When I woke up in the morning to see it already in the Top 50 despite only one episode airing I said 2 things, "Only Kyoani fans would have the audacity to vote masterpiece for their beloved studios new show almost immediately" and two "Only ANN's system would allow them to get away with it". I agree something needs to be done about the system in general that will only open up the voting AFTER the anime has finished airing

That and the anime page now has two pictures since the Kyoani fanboys can't calm down and obey the one picture per anime rule as set out in the terms of use.

Normally, if you read 20% of a book, and you don't like the author's style or the characters or the plot, why the hell would you keep reading?

The review also mentioned the fact that the main characters are archetypes and that the plot is uninteresting.

You're clearly biased because you've seen the whole series and think it's fabulous

The reviewer is rating these episodes, not the whole series, so give them a break.

Does ANN need to have a disclaimer, similar to the Season Previews, on every review saying "Disclaimer: This is only a review of the first X episodes of the series

In the eternal quest to keep the giant robot fresh (and profitable) it's amazing how few series strike upon the simple solution of telling a good story and instead opt for high-concept gimmicks....

...and characters that are such nonentities that they don't even serve as plot devices.

...and the remaining cast members have stock personalities so thin they're transparent.

...The concept itself has been beaten to death (and then flogged some more), and the answer to the question is so glaringly obvious (just ask yourself which option offers easy drama) that it doesn't even warrant a thought.

That excursions in Zegapain involve overly simplistic missions and the same three types of enemy mecha being destroyed in the exact same ways (complete with repeated animation) doesn't help much...

Zegapain doesn't even deserve the epithet "escapism." In order to be escapism there needs to be something there to escape into;

I didn't see this as a "poor attempt of a review" because I felt that Carl backed up his opinions with solid evidence from the episodes on the disc

But when it comes down to a decision to buy the initial DVDs, I'm more apt to trust the pros' reviews.

i previewed the first episode and i have to agree with reviewer it was boring and cliche and really i think they only put in mecha so they could sell models to gundam fans. I say that simply cause of how the first episode used them, cough cough boy instantly knows how to use his giant robot to fight enemies.