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I'm clearly a 'Chicken' type beastman, as I can never bring myself to comment on a new episode until someone else has already done so.
Seth might be sadly right to say that this series is falling on the side of the fence dominated by fun, well-made adventure anime shows (Nadesico, Cowboy Bebop) rather than head-melting, life-changing annihilators of the medium (Utena, Evangelion, Paranoia Agent). For all that I'm emphatically sticking with it, because the characters and execution have grown on me and because an ounce of Gainax goodness goes a lot further than ten pounds of many other shows.
The revelations about the Spiral King are interesting, the detail of the throwaway princesses creepy and something I can't recall seeing elsewhere. (Maybe a bit of industry satire, since anime thrives on the constant production and disposal of pliable big-eyed flopsies for the lonely souls in the audience to project onto.) I'm also enjoying Kittan being crap at leadership, Simon blossoming under the influence of Nia and Yoko being frankly not very nice.
The flashback to Kamina confessing his cowardice was a bit of a cheat, but I have a real aversion to after-the-fact character development, so others will probably find it less objectionable than I did. I just somehow want the constant rhetoric about self-belief, which in the absence of a truly bugfuck character like Kamina sounds mainly like shonen anime boilerplate, to cross over into something meaningful. But there's me demanding too much from a children's show; despite the timeslot and other similarities, this isn't another Eureka Seven. (I really need to get past that series.)
Next week, TTGL hits the beach! As if anything in the brazen fan service stakes could be greater than episode six. Never mind, just relax and enjoy the jiggling. |
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