I still haven't seen the last two episodes.
>>22885746You haven't missed anything
Series peak at episode 11
>>22885746Earth explodes medetashi medetashi
what the fuck was up with the insane ntr wedding shit? i've never seen the original show but i have read the manga and that was just bizarre. and then she just goes "uh actually i dont want to be with you" and leaves like who the fuck writes this? also the sheer audacity to end this show with a teaser for more, what a crock of shit
>>22886068The longer Okouichi tries to write something the more it veers into deranged romantic melodrama
>>22886110It's not like he spread it across the whole series. The whole thing was done in about three episodes.
>>22885746Same, waiting for Waffle but it sounds insane and unpromisingWe were supposed to get a super robot revival with the Grendizer game and anime, what happened
>>22886068>also the sheer audacity to end this show with a teaser for more, what a crock of shitI swear if this shit somehow manages a sequel I will.... post impotently online in a very acrimonious tone.
>>22886456Okouichi happened.
>>22886456>we
Damn I completely forgot this even came outHow bad did it shit the bed?
>>22886486First ten episodes were fine, then it went genderbend Valvrave.
>>22886486Generally mediocre -> CE style nonsense -> Valvrave style nonsenseI found it entertaining, but it was definitely kind of shit.
>>22886487>First ten episodes were fineThey were extremely dull and wasted time setting up a rival that was ultimately pointless.
>>22886487>>22886489What the fuckHow badly did they mangle Koji and Sayaka?
>>22886494They were fine. Sayaka's purple but otherwise they were fine. Under written at worst.
>>22886500Sayaka being purple was a good thing.
>>22886503Great thing, she looks sexy and modern.
>>22886503generally disagree but everything else as it were was not a point worth fighting for.
>>22886509Modernity is overrated she has a classic timeless style.
>>22886511>>22886510>>22886509The purple instantly made her stand out in U's character designs.
>>22886518It's not like she would have blended in. And considering how much they already changed Hikaru's look change her hair color.
They really shouldn't tried with that cliff hanger of an ending. It worked for Getter Arc because it wasn't more so of a cliff hanger ending, but an open ending.U's ending was trying to bait into a S2 which won't happen.
>>2288580711 was hilarious. The show needed more episodes like that instead of what we got. Okouchi's usual retard pacing hurt things here and the staff's hope for a second season seems misplaced. Maybe it'll be a bit more fleshed out if it gets into SRW or something.
>>22886871>which won't happen.With oil magnate dosh, everything's possible.
>>22886891I'm looking forward to the next season when Great Vega is forced to invite Duke to the Vega family picnic and goes through a midlife crisis because he's a grandfather now
>>22886528I think the main issue is Maria's skin and hair color. Sayaka would share both of those in her classic colors. That's probably why Hikaru has darker skin here.
>>22886528>>22887544Hikaru's character design and personality being changed for each iteration has been a sight to behold.
>>22886494Surprisingly they were alright. Didn't really do a lot with them and it's a bit hard to parse details through crab, but what was there seemed basically fine.
>>22886494The only bad thing they did was Koji being Duke's best friend by episode 1
>>22887585A couple episodes of them not getting along at all before becoming bros would have been appreciated. Maybe they'd have a classic fist fight.
>>22885746I still haven't seen the remake, only the original '70s anime.Excellent fights and creature design paired with some of Shunsuke Kikuchi's best music, held back by characters who don't have the chemistry of Mazinger Z's cast.It's pretty lame that most of the named villains die before they have a chance to become recurring characters.The melodrama is fairly unambitious compared to its immediate successors (i.e Voltes, Daimos, 0079) but I still liked those episodes, though I definitely prefer the two-parters.Do Frenchmen and Italians regard it as a high point of mecha anime, or are they just as lukewarm as I?
>>22887671Frogs treat it like a national institution
>>22887585I really want to watch actual Gekiganger 3
Waffle's subs are finally out for episode 12.
>>22886511>>22886510Dunno which is better: white or yellow suit Sayaka>>22886490He should died by episode 4. Hikaru was a nothing burger
>>22890532>He should died by episode 4. Hikaru was a nothing burgerHe could have been the big mid series boss. Kill him 6 and then work towards the rest of mysteries.
>>22890532He should have stayed alive the whole series and they should have killed off useless jobbers like pic related instead.
Anon-kun wa Sugoi’s subs for episode 12 just showed on Nyaa today. That just leaves 13…
>>22886461Hikaru's actress talked about seeing a huge number of scripts for the show and a staffer said they couldn't comment on the full number of episodes. If it flopped so hard though we probably wouldn't get the rest.
>just finished the Toei ep where Hikaru finds out about Duke>way more of a warm, emotional, and endearing character than the one in UI had my hopes up when she was being a human dork during the cook-off episode with Maria, but man.Inversely, if Toei Maria's less charming, I'll flip>>22890702Could it have been a good show? Sounds like potentially they had good material, but had to abandon plotlines and just pick episodes to make, which would explain both lack of character development as well as pointless character half-arcs
>>22890988>Could it have been a good show?It could have been fine if they just had a sense of what they were doing. Maybe something along the lines of Shin Jeeg or Dancouga Nova. Maybe even Kaiser if you were lucky. But there's no excuse for this level of crap. They didn't even have the sense to make a Mazinger Grendizer team up battle. This level of incompetence borders on the intentional.
>whatshisname was based off of a single-ep rando named Whiter>>22890989I get wanting to have Naida and Rubina, those seem like they'll be rather iconic and important episodes. Even having pretty much the entire show revolve around that would have been begrudgingly tolerable if it at least pointed to an exciting sequel we'd never have. I can't speak for Dancouga Nova but we were given something quite lovely and self-contained within seven episodes for Mazinkaiser, albeit Kaiser and Jeeg relied on the viewer knowing or at least accepting that there were previous events going on in the series, whereas I guess they wanted people to have an intro to Grendizer (which you could still do in one episode, if you can quickly establish Clark Kent, you can quickly establish Duke Fleed). They should have just condensed the girl subplot, maybe even send Casado to space if you couldn't fit his arc but still wanted to do something with him some day, or at least give us good fights instead of 2minute steamrolls. We got to have fun with Maria though, so I guess that and purple-haired Sayaka were the only things we got. That and Umon was endearing. But it says a lot that the background characters were the best parts.>They didn't even have the sense to make a Mazinger Grendizer team up battle.>Spazers were getting built-up, but unceremoniously shown in the hangar and then just released>the combining we speculated was for Mazinger X and it was unceremonious and temporary>>>Mazinger XThey should have began with accepting the depressing premise of 13-episode shows, and tried to do something fun with the plot and robots, but it feels like somehow they've failed to deliver in all regards.
>>22890988>Could it have been a good show?It should have been a good/decent show. Most of the episodes were boring except a few. Duke getting raped was literally the highlight of this borefest because no ine expected.Casado's story was to long. Actions scenes peaked in episode 1 with Mazinger and never again, and whole lot of others.
>>22891002Hopefully the rape reveal is at least entertaining or hot since it seems there's little else to look forward to.I was thinking it peaked in ep 1 as well, the intro was inoffensive and there was a lot of meaningful action. Then it just got slower, and slower, I think the pacing literally became slower per episode
>>22891011>Hopefully the rape reveal is at least entertaining or hot since it seems there's little else to look forward to.Honestly outside the surprise? It's really not.
>>22891015Grendizer.. oil barons... I believed in you...
>>22887671>Do Frenchmen regard it as a high point of mecha anime, or are they just as lukewarm as I ?I drank a dozen of wine bottles to avoid killing myself after I watched Grendizer U. Okoushit, Duke Faggot, the grey haired antagonist and useless bitch Tirona slaughtered my childhood.
>>22891022Tirona posting was fun while it briefly lasted. Same they had to bait us into a S2
>>22886147You just came off of G-Witch where nothing happened for the majority of the show, anything that did happen didn't actually matter, then it was suddenly Unicorn episode 7 in two episodes after a very brief Armored Core 3 x Gundam X episode after he reused building our own nation(company) plot yet again.It's time to just accept that's his thing. He writes pointless, meandering shows with no build up or foreshadowing, then dumps a bunch of edgy shit(either mass murder or rape plus daytime soap NTR) all at once.He's literally the opposite of Tomino where way too much shit happens way too fast so you don't even noticed Vague Penis and Dry Lactation actually laid their schemes for the finale in episode 32 because Object Action got simultaneously caught up in dick problems, ghost problems, weapon problems, warcrimes super problems, and suddenly having dumber people around him than he was for the first 20 episodes.
Just finished watching...They waste so much time on stuff like Hikaru and Kasado that makes me angry
>>22891022Reinhard-sama...
>>22885746I'm only on episode 8.
Waffle's subs for the finale are out.
This is stupid. It relies on the assumption that the Vegans wouldn't just regroup and come back with some more bullshit.
>>22891057>where nothing happened for the majority of the showThat's factually wrong.
>Nice, Teronna's leaving, now I can have Duke all to myself!
>>22898201Koji kun is so sexy, it's unreal.
>>22887671Lukewarm in France. Many old timers didn’t liked the artstyle which felt too modern. And for the others it was just alright. Nothing more.At least from the few stuff I read. It’s not hated but it will never reach the height or popularity of the original. The alternate sequel French BD did a lot more noises and is still currently one of the best selling graphic novel since it’s release meanwhile.
It's time for Tetsuya to get his turn.
Finished it last night and checked some comments, arabs and italians were not happy about it saying it holds no weight against the original and that a second season would be pointless whereas some french were saying it was fun and gave them nostalgia for the old series.
>>22885807This.
>>22899038Tetsuya will never get his turn.
>>22910787
>>22900244>next to literally another forgotten show
