Why don't people like season 2? If you don't what would you have wanted season 2 to be like?
Why do you like Season 2?
>>23520732Its been awhile so I forgot exactly but I remember loving the whole surreal bizarre mystery slowly unraveling itself as some meta allegorical symbolic thing. Allegorical of what I have no idea. It reminds me of the movie Dark City a bit. More cool bigs.
>>23520729I don't have any real issue with generally. I suppose the swap to digital animation could have been smoother and I think I would have liked it it remain more episodic, as per the directors wish. But hey, he cashed the check.
>>23520793God I miss turning on TV to see endless quality or just entertaining episodic shows before 'prestige TV' and streaming took over. I didnt see the ending of most of them. I wish he could have had a long running Big O like that.
>>23520834I too miss watching a show just for the sake of the show itself and not some ongoing plot or lore reasons.
>>23520793>I dunnoBruce Timm's Batman aestheticAdult protagonistNo school, and setting deliberately far from the Japanese standard.Not only that, it's an "old America" setting, which makes it more alien to the Japanese.Deliberately a superhero show with various other influences. Excellent animationAmazing musical score (a very cinematic orchestra, clearly appreciated by Westerners)Surprise PikachuI'm not surprised that a director would be blown away by Timm Batman, given that they're more open-minded people, but audiences are a different beast.
>>23520729because people are afraid of symbolismIf it isn't literal they don't like it
>>23521493He was talking about it being popular in the US, not Japan.
>>23521543Yeah, and I wrote exactly why Americans liked it, while the Japanese didn't. it's not rocket science
>>23521493>I'm not surprised that a director would be blown away by Timm Batman, given that they're more open-minded people, but audiences are a different beast.Mmmm to be fair I have seen quite the amount of Batman fans in Japan, they probably aren't nearly as many as anywhere else but they exist.
>>23521546Big O seems fairly well regarded by Japanese fans now, it was just on a channel fucking no one had when it first aired. It exclusively was on a paid cable channel WOWOW in the first few years of the channel existing in Japan.
>>23522855Popularity and reception are a funny thing. Sometimes it's quality but sometimes it really is just a matter of timing and network. Gundam's original broadcast didn't so hot either.
>>23521493>audiences are a different beastIf you aren't exposed to something how are you expected to care about it?
That flamboyant assassin guy who's whole climax was essentially >You'll never be as cool as schwarzwaldFelt like such a waste of time.
>>23521546>it's not rocket scienceAw man now I'm sad ae never saw a space faring Big based on old real life early rocket ships (or maybe even retro scifi rockets) to go with the Train/Plane/Submarine trio.
>>23529439But having Schwarzwald to tell him that and picreal made it all worthwhile.
>>23529460While we're at it, can someone remind me what qualities Megadeus looks for in a pilot? Why are some accepted, others ignored, and others deliberately killed?Schwarzwald had offered an explanation, but frankly, it seemed to me that the truth was >You'll never be as cool as schwarzwald >>23529439
>>23521546>Americans liked it, while the Japanese didn'tLiterally every time I've ever heard this I later found out it was a decently popular and highly regarded series. I've heard people say this about shows that popularity polled in the top three of their year of release.
>>23531056Americans got so little anime content before streaming that when a good show got popular over there they essentially took ownership of it. And then when they'd look back at Japan (which has incredible amount of media turnover), they were aghast stuff like Cowboy Bebop wasn't be rerun into the ground like on Toonami.
>>23531171Meanwhile Cowboy Bebop is almost the best selling anime of that decade in Japan.
>>23531056At some point an anon pulled that out of his ass and other anons ran with it because it made them feel superior. "Americans understand anime better than Japanese." "Americans recognize quality while Japanese eat shit." "Anime is always better when it has American cultural setting instead of Japanese cultural setting". "Japanese only succeed when they make anime for Americans"It happens with every anime that has western cultural elements. Americans think Japanese don't like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, or fucking Berserk. They want to believe it was all made for them. Americans are obsessed with being the center of attention and being better than everyone else. The idea that Japanese hated Big O is what they want to hear.
>>23531261I lost you here. What the hell is this delusion?
>>23531261It's popular now, it wasn't popular when it first aired. If it wasn't for cartoon network broadcasting it the anime would have never gotten public recognition. Also the anime was literally made with the intention of getting popular overseas.
Was it well known that Roger piloted Big O? I watched the series a while ago and it seemed to go back and forth weather it was a secret or not
>>23531983It's secret up until midway through season 2.
