Why didn't you try to understand G-Reco, /m/?
>>23515978Because it didn't try to understand its own audience.
>>23515978We do? /m/ is the only forum that gives g-reco some nuance perspectives.
>>23515978I did. it was pretty straight forward road trip adventure story with multiple factions. frankly, I was disappointed that it wasn't as challenging as it was made it out to be by people.I want to watch the films, is EG good? I don't trust him.
>>23516018>is EG good?For this one? It's fine.
I did. I liked it a lot.People get too hung up on all the extra factions that pretty much just exist to hammer on that pretty much everyone besides the heroes are making wild grabs for power due everyone deciding to blow off the technological taboos around the same time.Once you understand that it's really not particularly overwhelming.
>>23515978>The generation that grew up after the war was long over doesn't understand how awful war is.It wasn't difficult to understand.
>>23515978I understood just fine
>>23515978It was just bad, it wasn't hard to understand.
>>23516018If EG is still the same Encodergasm from a decade ago, he puts out the best Gundam BD rips as he preserves the grain and such. I assume he does a good job on digital stuff also.
>>23515978wow! cool robot!
>>23517223This but unironically
>series has 8 separate factions by the end>anons pretend they didn’t need to look up info online to understand the showLol
>>23515978I'm a little retardedCool worldbuilding though. I had no idea what the fuck I was watching but there was something there.
After watching the TV and movies back to back I managed to grasp most of the plot and details and think G-Reco is a deeply interesting story about how conflict and war is informed and justified by the grand narratives that different cultures perpetuate amongst themselves and how those narratives that justify war must be overcome by crossing cultural boundaries and taboos.The main example of this is the narrative around the origin and control of the photon batteries shifting as the main characters cross from the territory of one faction to another. First photon batteries are controlled by capital tower, then it turns out capital tower merely distributes the batteries that arrive from Towasanga space who actually produces them, then Towasanga turns out to be a middle man for Venus globe who actually produces the batteries, and you see the pretext the faction leaders use to wage war become muddied and break down in the process until they are reduced to mere greed and ambition.Theres also the worlds religious aspect, how the divine "promised land" from the perspective of earthnoids is space, and how its the other way around for spacenoids, and yes, the shift in Bellris motivation as the person he was fighting for goes from his love interest to his sister, which causes him to re-examine his purpose within the war.I say that but does anyone understand what Cumpa Rusita's motivation was? He thought spacenoids were rotting politically and spiritually from a lack of war but he detests earthnoids for being primitive war mongers? Did anyone make a connection I fail to see?
>>23518011Cumpa was from Venus Globe, and viewed the mutations going on in the population there as a sign of the degradation of humanity. He thinks war will strengthen humanity through survival of the fittest.
>>23517432You don't. Because that's not the important part. Really you people get so hyper fixated on minutia everything else just goes right past you.
>>23518404Thematic media literacy is dead with anifags
>>23515978It's a shame so many people simply aren't good enough for shows like G Reco, GQuX, Cross Agne or Getter
>>23515978A/Z was better
>>23516192And it's not even that confusing once you remember the factions. While they aren't one-to-one of course, you have>Ameria, an Earth faction that wants to make moves on space(Federation)>Towasanga, a Space faction that wants to make moves on earth (Zeon)>Capital Army, a faction with powerful legal connections (Titans, A-Laws)>G-IT Labs, a faction that builds all the latest and fanciest technology (Anaheim, SNRI)>Rayhunton faction/ Megafauna, a rag-tag group with people from every faction trying to keep the setting from burning down (AEUG, Freeden, Three Ship Alliance)
>>23518011He's a big hypocrite that saw Earthnoids as primitive for their warfare (which he partially instigated as well) but saw war as something good for Spacenoids.Basically like how Treize talks about the tragedy of war but assassinates all the peaceful people and surrounds himself with warmongers and war criminals.
>>23515978I understood that Belliri failed to fuck his sister.
>>23515978I loved it but paused and rewatched dialogue when it wasn't clear.
