.anime phreak. – call me Ki様

Synopsis:

This episode’s synopsis is short and sweet since all the explanations are done and all thats left is to fight it out. After the battle, Lockon refuses to be in a “regeneration capsule” because he cannot help if someone attacks them, and UN announces it will now take it’s GN units to war with Gundams. The OverFlag is still being developed while Dynames is out of service. Honestly, decompression should have left Dynames much more damage than just the hull. Anyways, Tieria still feeling bad about Lockon’s injury and his loss of reliance on Veda for battle skills. Feldt gets a little airtime in this episode, but she used it to snoop on Lockon, what a stalker! xD Trinities on the run after their land-base was destroyed by the HRL, and they are once again chase down by the HRL, Drei got damaged in the battle, and they pulled a hasty retreat. Meanwhile, Saji is slowly losing his soul to become Shinn reincarnate. After the battle Celestial Being decides they need to come out rehab and do another armed intervention. Al-Saachez comes along and tells the Trinities that he killed Lagna, and then pulled a quickie on Michael (not that quickie, perv), he should’ve gone with a headshot since Michael had armor on (maybe futuristic pistols are really strong). He jacks Michael’s Gundam and kills Johann, or at least blows up his Gundam (always leave room for some miracle). As expected, Nena lives because a)she’s a girl, b)she’s got comedic value. Setsuna fights Al-Saachez once again, and has another fit, right when he’s about to lose, he conveniently gets a Super-Saiyan power-up from Veda (notice somethings wrong, since his unit is obvious disconnected from Veda now). The SS power-up is called Trans-Am and reveals a bit of Setsuna’s past. Trans-Am, isn’t that a car model? Vroom vroom!
(Wait… this isn’t short at all! -.-)

Thoughts:

Well it looks like it’s nearing the climax/ending (same thing for Gundam, because they find peace when everything’s blown up). Is Saji going to have any role later on? Maybe he’s just gonna curl up and die? Or some protagonist in a sequel? Still kinda disappointed by the lack of airtime Soma Peries has, she’s my favourite of the anime and has such a potential for a good protagonist! Ah well, maybe in a sequel. To add on, I disapprove of the Trans AM system, it succeeded in making Gundam 00 ridiculously unrealistic (like it isn’t before). I dislike the idea of 1 person pwning every single thing he sees. Or even a small group of elites, the pressure for them to revolt into their own powers is unparalleled to their loyalty, such is the case in this series, (although it’s true with Seed also). Maybe that’s why I never really liked Gundam battle scenes.

This is also about Gundam 00… ちょっと…

Notes:

I’ve been neglecting certain series lately, namely Miname-ke, Zetsubou Sensei, Bamboo Blade, and True Tears, of those four, only True Tears has been regularly coming out with subbed episodes, but honestly the story itself is slow already, I have keep following it episode by episode I’ll be very confused since I’ll keep forgetting what happened before. I’ll wait till it’s finished. Good thing Minami-ke and Zetsubou Sensei has no general plotline to follow, and Bamboo Blade’s plot line isn’t exactly coherent either.

Left to post:
Shigofumi 9/10
KimiKiss 21/22

Left to watch:
Clannad 20
Clannad the Movie

Wanna try out the format that I see most other anime blogs do, looks less messy that way, but not good for making snide comments =

We’ll see how it works out.

I wonder if I can mass-upload with WordPress, since uploading one at a time can get quite tedious. Or maybe I should collage it into one big image…

Synopsis (Episode 20):

Turns out Louise Halevy’s arm is not regrow-able (that part was really unnecessary since we don’t know that arms CAN be regrown in the first place). Some thing to do with GN Particles, damn them! Saji crying about it, and missed his train, then cried some more. Skipped to next part. AEU, HRL, and Union formed an alliance to combat the new threat, while they were on the verge of surrendering, what caused this? Marina Ismail gets a little airtime in this episode… then cut to the Ptolemaios… prepare the GN Arm! Ooo! What’s the GN Arm? Hopefully it doesn’t look as lame as the current Gundams, the Thrones look decent though. Well, to explain the alliance, there is a traitor within Veda (if not several) that sold information and 10 GN Drives to each of the three nations. We see each of the nation assigning these units to pilots, naturally it’s the pilots we’ve been seeing so far. Graham Aker turned down the offer since he promised on Howard Mason’s grave that he’d defeat a Gundam with a Flag. On the other hand, Soma Peries was keen to have one. Then cut to sideshow (could later be relevant?) on Patrick Colasour courting his captain Kathy Mannequin (what is up with these last names?). Who was the traitor? Turns out to be Laguna Harvey is the traitor (Harvey, not Halevy, got nothing to do with Louise… I think, or could be translation thing) talking with Ali Al-Saachez (again with the last names, he hasn’t done anything to live up to his pun… yet). Is it getting too hard to follow with a massive amount of brackets? Ali Al-Saachez demands a Gundam also, leaves the place, and picks up Saji’s sister Kinue (who’s been snooping for info outside). Bad bad bad, never get into a car with a man with goatee. Next thing you know, she winds up bleeding to death (raining for dramatic effects) in a back alley. Her clothes are still on, that proves it, Ali Al-Saachez is GAY, and likes little boy like Setsuna. Some more talking, switches to Alejandro Corner and his little boy slave heading somewhere. Then switches yet again to Wang Liu-Mei and the Trinity talk about cooperation. Right after that is a relatively short battle scene (they need it in order too keep it a Gundam episode, a battle an episode keeps the angry fans away). HRL retaliate the Trinity with their GN Units, caught off guard, they retreat. Lastly, the most important part of the episode, Alejandro enters Veda’s physical core computer, and thereby controls it.

This is a lot more tiring than I thought it’d be. And it’s really chewing out my study time. Or my supposedly study time.

Synopsis (Episode 21):

Kinue in a body bag, that means she’s dead, dead, dead. No chances of regrowing or whatever unknown technology the writers still have up their sleeves. You see, her mistake was, she should’ve reached for her cell instead of her wallet when she’s dying. A talk between Daryl Dodge and Patrick Colasour before operation against Ptolemaios, Daryl decides to kick some ass in Graham’s place. All he needs now is KFC and a watermelon. Aboard Ptolemaios, the two girls are working hard to hack their way out of the Veda system, since Sumeragi is suspecting traitors within the midst. Setsuna has a dream about Marina, that may sound somewhat twisted and sex depraved, but it’s not. That’s how romance is in Gundam, it’s never in the flesh, they do all this spirit combining thing in place of the real thing to keep it PG. Somehow it ends up more f’ed up than the real thing though. Alejandro found out about Laguna’s betrayal, and had him ousted. But isn’t Alejandro kinda a traitor by hacking through Veda and controlling it for himself? Apparently he’s trying to make HRL win. What a commie. God, we return to Saji’s side, and he’s STILL crying, hurry up and be a Shinn already. This is before coordinators (I think), so anyone can pilot a Gundam! So the battle scenes for this episode are Trinity VS HRL and Celestial Being VS AEU and Union, with only a little coverage on Trinity and HRL. AEU and Union attacked Ptolemaios and then suddenly Veda overrode and disabled the 4 Gundams. As expected, the hacking thing got their asses out of that mess, but Virtue’s system is still down (maybe it’s because he’s directly controlled by Veda). Lockon took the hit for Tieria, and lights out for him. Doesn’t look dead, and is probably not dead. New Gundam comes and saves the day! Or just a jet… is that the GN Arm? I fail to see any resemblance.

Thoughts:

My thoughts are this is way too tiring, but it does look better this way, so I guess I’ll stick with it. Cut back on some Battlefield/Stepmania time I guess. And cut back on 4chan lurking too… but that’s for my own good. Especially the 4chan thing. You all know that me downloading these episodes mean I’m finally interested enough to do so. The story is really nice and the artwork is an improvement from Seed (note that artwork and Gundam design is different).  I like how the multiple point of views that Gundam series have, and they emphasized on this point more so than the older ones. The music is great too, though the music video for Ash Like Snow is pretty lame. Blatant attempt at advertising Sunrise stuff.