Giant Robots Made Easy
Due to my sudden access to vast amounts of free anime I've been able to take back up my interest in it.
Max where are you getting free anime
I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incinerate me
Anyway my particular rant today is about Gundum Seed.
If your not familiar with it the Gundum series of animes is about giant robots. They're piloted and have different specialties, etc. The drama of the lives of the pilots also comes into place. While the nature of the plot varies immensely from one Gundum series to another, they're usually about significant political unrest and the role of the gundums as the champions of the side which is portrayed as virtuous. If your interested the best one is Gundum Wing. They also all have extremely good music. I've found that I generally like the music in anime anyway, but Gundum is a cut above the rest.
Back to Gundum Seed. You know how I said most of the Gundum serieses are good? Seed is why. It's not that the plot is bad, or even the action. It's the blunt fact that every episode is exactly the same. This is how every freaking episode goes.
People in military/paramilitary uniforms shoot at innocent people
adolescent military pilots have interpersonal dramas
More shooting at innocent people
The song "White Reflection" plays
a kid under the age of 13 gets in a giant robot and kicks everyone's ass.
I know how this happened too. White Reflection is a good song sticking in line with the overall high quality of Gundum music. A team from a previous Gundum series was sitting around when someone pulled out that song, and the following conversation took place.
"Hey that's a good song"
"Yeah"
"Dudes, you know what we should do? We should make an anime out of it."
"You mean like a music video?"
"No, I mean like a whole anime series around that song"
"Dude that is awesome (who handed over enthusiastic pointing) That's why your the man"
The other way this could of happened is that the writes after making the pilot all decided they didn't actually want to do it. So they got dice. One die has the various groups of innocents that an be attacked. One die has the various military groups, and then 4 dice each of which has the names of the adolescent protagonists on it. Then they set up a madlib like storyboard, roll a few times, B.S. the dialog and send the whole thing to the animators. I'm not sure if it's out of laziness, distaste for the project, or the greatest scam ever conceived, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually happening.
Max where are you getting free anime
I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incinerate me
Anyway my particular rant today is about Gundum Seed.
If your not familiar with it the Gundum series of animes is about giant robots. They're piloted and have different specialties, etc. The drama of the lives of the pilots also comes into place. While the nature of the plot varies immensely from one Gundum series to another, they're usually about significant political unrest and the role of the gundums as the champions of the side which is portrayed as virtuous. If your interested the best one is Gundum Wing. They also all have extremely good music. I've found that I generally like the music in anime anyway, but Gundum is a cut above the rest.
Back to Gundum Seed. You know how I said most of the Gundum serieses are good? Seed is why. It's not that the plot is bad, or even the action. It's the blunt fact that every episode is exactly the same. This is how every freaking episode goes.
People in military/paramilitary uniforms shoot at innocent people
adolescent military pilots have interpersonal dramas
More shooting at innocent people
The song "White Reflection" plays
a kid under the age of 13 gets in a giant robot and kicks everyone's ass.
I know how this happened too. White Reflection is a good song sticking in line with the overall high quality of Gundum music. A team from a previous Gundum series was sitting around when someone pulled out that song, and the following conversation took place.
"Hey that's a good song"
"Yeah"
"Dudes, you know what we should do? We should make an anime out of it."
"You mean like a music video?"
"No, I mean like a whole anime series around that song"
"Dude that is awesome (who handed over enthusiastic pointing) That's why your the man"
The other way this could of happened is that the writes after making the pilot all decided they didn't actually want to do it. So they got dice. One die has the various groups of innocents that an be attacked. One die has the various military groups, and then 4 dice each of which has the names of the adolescent protagonists on it. Then they set up a madlib like storyboard, roll a few times, B.S. the dialog and send the whole thing to the animators. I'm not sure if it's out of laziness, distaste for the project, or the greatest scam ever conceived, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually happening.
posted by Max at 9:43 PM
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