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bassgs435
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All I'll say is that with the visual quality being a main complaint: the show improves that massively starting with season 2. You can look up clips in sakugabooru if you don't want to watch whole seasons. The first season is very much a passion project that couldn't gather much talent or production quality, so it's somewhat infamous for that. However, once japanese fans gave it enough success for more, they got some good staff involved in the show and the animation became really good.
I still love S1 for what it is, but can understand how the animation and art quality can be a turn off. |
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Essedess
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"Final Verdict: Nah. "
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OpenYourEels4TheNextFeels
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I have no personal stake in the series, but I will say that nearly all the super-fans I am acquainted with will start-off by showing people the opening scene of season 3 to try to introduce the series to people. And having seen said scene, I would highly encourage even those who have no plans of watching the rest of the series to search up & watch "Symphogear GX Opening Scene".
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OpenYourEels4TheNextFeels
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It is my understanding that in the subsequent seasons spoiler[it's not subtext]. |
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Arale Kurashiki
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That's about right. I enjoyed all of Symphogear, and at the same time, I never felt like there was anything I could truly relate to or get emotional about. So much exists for superficial appearances; there's technically characterization, but without the characters making decisions that really impact the their ability to do the same crowd-pleasing fight scene most eps. There's "yuri", but only in the sense of the anime trope for people to enjoy as a fictional trope to their taste, nothing applicable to a lived emotional experience. Which all makes it feel especially detached when the show does try and get serious about, like, assault.
It's a fun show, but one that I don't really feel welcome in beyond that. |
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bassgs435
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spoiler[ still is to the end. They come close, but nothing ] |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Bizarrely, this may be why I felt the show got way better after the first season. Most of these sorts of shows start to suffer from character bloat each time a new magical girl gets added to the cast, but it turns out that doubling the cast size made each individual character’s lack of emotional depth much less of an issue for me. The less screen time each individual girl was given, the more I actually enjoyed the show as a whole. |
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q_3
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I actually found the first season to be stronger than later ones just because it seemed more raw and unfiltered, the unhinged fever dream of its creators. Later seasons felt like they were compelled to be more commercial and corporate friendly. Also season one had the closest the franchise ever came to actually good character writing with Tsubasa's arc (note that I said closest, it never actually reached "good").
The beef stroganoff song is still the best though. The Autoscorers were also fun but weirdly underutilized. |
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KitKat1721
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I gave Symphogear a solid chance a few years ago and kinda felt the same way (so Lynzee's not alone haha). Just not really for me though I can see the appeal for others!
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milkyy
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Unfortunately I will always associate this show with a former friend/roommate who told me this was his FAVORITE anime ever, but whose aversion to showering and also wiping his backside started to cause... sensory issues in the house. Being forced to watch the OP and various fanservice compilations while the stench of rot lingered over me is too strong an association to break unfortunately.
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TarsTarkas
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I loved the first season of Symphogear, but because of the aforementioned distribution issues, I didn't see it when it first came out. When I did watch it, I watched fansubs. Whatever faults it has, I must have glossed over them. It still has a place in my heart, and the show wears it's heart on its sleeve.
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OpenYourEels4TheNextFeels
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spoiler[I know that they don't actually kiss in the series. However, call me old fashioned, but I feel like Hibiki & Miku going to sleep each night under the same covers, despite the fact that their room has a bunk bed, goes beyond "subtext"] |
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bassgs435
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spoiler[It’s subtext because they never confirm the relationship as romantic (compare to works like Magical Revolution or I Love the Villainess) and stay “super friends” officially ] |
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CrazyCanuck
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This is the first item in the Backlog that I've never heard of.
It's nice to finally read this column with no sense of lingering guilt. I don't own this. I don't know anything about it (beyond what the column said). I have no remorse about not having watched it. Yay! |
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Vanadise
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Other people have related similar stories, but I'll just say that personally, I watched about the first six episodes of Symphogear because my friends were raving about it, then I dropped it because it just wasn't holding my interest. A few months later, I was bored and didn't have anything else to watch, so I went back and finished it, and I enjoyed the ending but still wasn't super impressed with it.
Then I decided to give the first couple of episodes of Symphogear G a try just to see how different it was from the first season, and I was immediately hooked and proceeded to binge the entire rest of the series. There really is a huge jump in quality between the first and second seasons. |
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