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Spider3PO
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Nicely put. The only thing missing is that amazing soundtrack.
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Aerodynamic41
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I just started reading Vol. 1 of the LN and for those wondering if the LN was in anachronic order too, I have to say no. The LN is in proper chronological order. It seems like the anime deliberately mixed up the timeline.
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meiam
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The wacky aspect and fast pace are great, but it's a bit hard to like the main character since he just start by indiscriminately bombing a city and down helicopter into building, probably killing in the low hundreds of people... But we're probably not supposed to think that and I'll be fine with that so long as the show doesn't slow down.
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Animegomaniac
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Desert Punk put its lead character front and center and let the rest of the story catch up. Bisco... look, I'm trying to be nice but I was underwhelmed by the first episode, irritated by the second.
Bisco put nothing up front but the opener and trailer and it hopes the audience sticks around while it continues to show off. "Here's a scene where you already know the outcome. Here's another. Here's one showing what was explained earlier and here's one showing the explained outcome of what we're showing next." I don't have questions about the world itself because I don't trust what we're being told; I just have questions on how it's being told and why. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I'm not a big fan of jumbled timelines, but that's mostly because they're often so poorly handled I have trouble telling where we are in the timeline in any given scene (lookin' at you, Ep 1 of Sasaki & Miyano). Here it's easy to tell: day is past, night is now; uninjured is past, bloody faces are now. With those easy visual cues, even I don't need any other exposition or captions or color shifts to tell me where we are.
As for whether it adds anything, I think it's mostly to provide some breathing room for the action, and to keep it from dragging at other times. Trying to imagine how this would feel chronologically, there would be long periods of nearly non-stop action, then long periods of no action, plus not even getting to meet half the characters before their time came due. So for me at least, it works surprisingly well. It doesn't hurt that I'm so loving the bizarre scaffolding of flying whales, hippo tanks, snail planes and lizard corps, decorated with giant exploding mushroom arrows, that all this is built on. 
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Sven Viking
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I liked the first episode, but the second seems to me to be indicating a downward trajectory. Still more interesting than average though.
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jdnation
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I'm getting some TRIGUN vibes from this... so I'm in!
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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I've read that the jumbled chronology is directors decision and novels were telling the story straight. Hopefully it won't end up like Peach Boy Riverside, I didn't mind the story switching here in the first 2 episodes, because it was reasonably easy to follow, but it's a good question if it's a good idea to introduce that stuff when adapting a source that didn't have it in first place.
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yuna49
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Wasn't that also true for Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu? |
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Gina Szanboti
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For some reason, I got the impression that the "little" crab woke up the enormous one. Whether or not that's true, I still liked how Milo got along with Actagawa.
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Abraham Omosun
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Best part of the by far. So ridiculous yet somehow fits so well I wonder why I haven't seen it done anywhere else |
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Animegomaniac
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No. As even as asinine as the whole "broadcast" order thing was... that's 2006 broadcast order, not the 2009 broadcast order... what happened was they took the six parts of the first book and left them in order and then they took the remainder of episodes and left them in order and then shuffled them in just so the first series would have the climax of the first novel. They didn't do part 1, 4, 2, 5, 3 6 Episode 0 is its own separate issue as that's part of the second novel which wasn't adapted until season 2. |
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Minos_Kurumada
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I watched episode one in CR and I have a question:
What's the deal with the checkpoint's sight? It looked awful flickering all the time. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I don't know what you mean by its "sight." I didn't notice anything flickering. Reviewing it to see if I could figure out what you were asking about, I did notice that his "monk's name" was "Watarigani [Japanese blue crab] Wataru [to go across]," so I guess his alias essentially means to travel on a crab.
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SHD
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This show didn't impress me at all with its first couple of episodes (I thought it was trying way too hard to be "whee zany" and "badass and edgy"), and in a better season I would've dropped it at that point. Good thing I didn't though, because episode 3 was a slight improvement, and episode 4 was downright endearing to me. Milo's crab adventures were nice, but what really sold the show to me was the character interaction. These are not particularly unique characters and their dynamics and conflicts are the type that we've seen a million times already, and yet they work and are fun to watch. I guess this is where that elusive "chemistry" thing comes in and works its magic. And it's not just Bisco and Milo: even Tirol, who was one of the aspects of the show I wasn't impressed with in the beginning turned out to be a reasonably fun character whom I'll be happy to see when she shows up again.
Also, I'm growing to really appreciate Suzuki Ryouta (Bisco's seiyuu). He was kind of one-note at first, but now that the character has a wider range of moods and emotions to express he can finally extend beyond shouting and growling, and he's a lot of fun to listen to. And I love his little snicker. |
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