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kaigouOh, wait, I do, it's because I think we've entered something like year nine of correspondence, so it's probably safe to say that branchandroot's influence on me is beyond dire, at this point. Hence watching the first 30-or-so episodes of GetBackers. Right. I know. Like a decade behind everyone else, but I guess Em can wear down even the most stubborn of dogs.
Currently it's on pause, while I watch Fate/Zero and then realize that maybe watching Fate/Stay_Night might help, which I'll probably fast-forward through all but the fight scenes, and only that so I can watch the OVA. And even then, only that because OVAs (usually) have higher budgets and therefore better fight scenes. And then I'll get back to the other, or maybe by then I'll just break down and read the manga.
branchandroot's influence on me is beyond dire, at this point. Hence watching the first 30-or-so episodes of GetBackers. Right. I know. Like a decade behind everyone else, but I guess Em can wear down even the most stubborn of dogs. Currently it's on pause, while I watch Fate/Zero and then realize that maybe watching Fate/Stay_Night might help, which I'll probably fast-forward through all but the fight scenes, and only that so I can watch the OVA. And even then, only that because OVAs (usually) have higher budgets and therefore better fight scenes. And then I'll get back to the other, or maybe by then I'll just break down and read the manga.
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Date: 18 Oct 2011 05:41 am (UTC)How is Stay Night? I wikipedia-ed it so I wouldn't be totally lost in Zero, but it sounded like the most interesting parts of the game storylines got cut.
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Date: 18 Oct 2011 05:50 am (UTC)I'm only on ep3 with F/SN, but I'll let you know. So far, fast-forward whenever it verges on harem (more than two girls on the screen). Stop when things start flashing, which seems to indicate fight scene.
ETA: read the wiki article & skip ep3, which is really nothing but one big info-dump. It's talking, and not even atmospheric quality-animation talking heads like Fate/Zero. Besides, skipping ep3 means you also skip the main character's jaw-dropping argument that girls shouldn't fight. Yeah, tell that to the spirit-chick with the big honking invisible sword who's protecting your ass. Moron.
I suspect I may end up snarking this show as much as fast-forwarding, if the lead guy really is as stupid as all the reviews imply (if not state outright).
ETA2: remember what I said in that post about transitional damsels, how these days authors (mangaka/animators) give the female characters a gun, but then take away their ammo? That's pretty much what they're doing with Saber, who's ostensibly the lead combat character. She's supposedly the strongest of the lot, but the male main character is so ineffectual, so ambivalent, and most importantly, so magically incompetent, that he can't supply her with enough energy to fight at full capability. So she's set up as the most powerful of all and cut off at the knees by virtue of a quick shift in the characterization of her human commander. Now, if she had full strength and her commander were ambivalent and/or reluctant to fight, that'd be one thing. That, I might enjoy watching (and it would remind me of Balsa, or would have the potential to do so, with a strong woman willing to fight), but here... I suspect we're in for seeing a lot of Saber being handicapped by (a) lack of fed energy and (b) that annoying insistence by the male lead that it's not "okay" for girls to fight. If I knew he'd get smacked pretty quickly and wise up, I might be less annoyed, but from what I've read, it takes most of the series before that happens, and reviewers seem to be of mixed reactions as to whether this really happens (he gets over the "girls shouldn't fight" and "I should protect [helpless] girls") with any certitude. Will keep you posted, but don't quote me on too much, because I'm fast-forwarding whenever I get annoyed.
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Date: 18 Oct 2011 05:21 pm (UTC)