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+===================
+ Berserk - movie 3
+===================
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:34
+:Id: anime/review/berserk-3
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/berserk-movie-3-the-advent
+
+Third and final part of the "Golden Age" arc, this film shows the end
+of Griffith and his Band of the Hawk, precipitated by Guts's decision,
+near the end of the second movie, to leave Griffith to pursue his own
+life.
+
+After the `previous <../berserk-1/>`_ `two <../berserk-2/>`_ movies
+had covered about 20 chapters each, this third one covers from chapter
+40 to about chapter 90 (volumes 9-13). There are 28 more volumes to
+adapt (the first three, that depict events after the eclipse, and the
+volumes after the Golden Age arc, currently 25): that may probably
+take 6 more movies, although the pace of the manga gets slower in
+later chapters, so they could be adapted to a shorter overall screen
+time. The Golden Age movies were released between 2012 and 2013, but
+from what I can see nothing was released this year: it may be some
+time until we get the whole of Miura's work on the big screen.
+
+(I'm not even going to say anything about the animation style and
+quality, I've already expressed my opinions in the other two reviews.)
+
+At this point in this series of movies, I can't honestly write much
+without discussing plot points and how they've been adapted. If you
+haven't read the manga, the best I can say is: there's blood, and
+monstrous beings, and dismemberment, and rape. If you still hadn't
+realised how nasty Miura's world is, the events shown here will drive
+the point home with all the subtlety of a broadsword. But if you liked
+the first two movies, you really have to watch this one as well, to
+see how far Griffith's ambition will go, and how easily evil
+influences can twist the meaning of acts of love.
+
+On the other hand, if you have read the manga, or don't mind some plot
+spoilers, read on.
+
+To compress 50 chapters in less than two hours, the authors have
+skipped several parts that may be considered secondary, to concentrate
+on the big events: how the Hawks rescue Griffith from the dungeons,
+how the budding relationship between Casca and Guts plays into
+Griffith's helplessness and jealousy, the summoning of the God Hand,
+the eclipse, and the rebirth of Griffith as Femto.
+
+Some scenes feel a bit disconnected from the main narrative, like the
+attack of the Bākiraka, or the fight between Zodd and Skull Knight,
+but even in the manga they make sense only in the larger context of
+the machinations of the God Hand and the Kushan invasion.
+
+The horror of the eclipse is shown with lurid colours and vivid
+imagery, you can feel the terror that overpowers the Hawks, and the
+disregard of human life by the God Hand. The scene where Femto rapes
+Casca is particularly horrifying, you can see how little of Griffith's
+humanity is left in Femto, and you can understand why Casca's mind
+breaks (the rape should contrast with the lovemaking scene between
+Casca and Guts earlier in the movie, but that scene is so badly
+directed, and the expressions so badly rendered, that the contrast is
+almost ruined).
+
+Despite the minor flaws, this conclusion of the first big story arc
+confirms the overall quality of the adaptation, and I'm eagerly
+awaiting the next arc.
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+==========
+ Colorful
+==========
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:15:30
+:Id: anime/review/colorful
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/colorful
+
+First person visual, our point of view / protagonist is in what looks
+like a train station: souls of the dead collect their ticket and
+shuffle toward their transport, for the afterlife, or reincarnation.
+Our point of view is intercepted by a boy, clearly not one of the
+souls; he says that the protagonist has been selected for another
+chance at life, and they can't really refuse: take it, or never again
+be reincarnated. He'll be the guide, not quite a guardian angel, not
+exactly a judge. The protagonist takes it, grudgingly, and falls
+toward the world, toward the body of a just-deceased boy who's
+committed suicide, Makoto Kobayashi. The not-dead boy opens his eyes,
+and his crying mother and father are overwhelmed by joy.
+
+Our protagonist then has to settle down into the life of Makoto,
+trying to turn it for the better (he killed himself, he clearly didn't
+think his life was that good), and also figure out what they did in
+the previous life, what their sin was.
+
+Thus starts "colorful", directed by HARA Keiichi (原 恵一) from a
+novel by MORI Eto (森 絵都). The premise is interesting, but the story
+feels weak: the protagonist seems a bit of an idiot, at times
+considering Makoto's family and schoolmates as strangers, at times
+taking what they do very personally, holding Makoto's grudges without
+having actually experienced the slights. Yes, you can argue, knowing
+how the story ends, that there are reasons, but I still wanted to
+throttle the protagonist for not *doing* something to connect with the
+family, to make friends, instead of isolating themselves. Then again,
+I have that problem with quite a lot of characters from many anime and
+manga…
+
+The rest of the characters get just as much depth as needed for them
+to support the protagonist's discovery of Makoto's and their own
+lives: the bullied girl, the girl who can't settle into a simple
+persona, the boy who's friend with everyone, the distant father, the
+doting mother, the introverted brother. There's flashes of interesting
+personalities, but they're not developed enough for us to get attached
+to them.
+
+Not having read the novel, I don't know how much of these issues
+come from it, and how much are a result of the adaptation. Hara said,
+in the Q&A after the first showing at the ICA in London, that he had
+to cut something out to fit the story in 130 minutes, but he also said
+that the whole part about the trains (easily 15 minutes long) was his
+own addition, so I can't discount the possibility that the parts that
+didn't make it to the screen could have improved the film.
+
+The animation is quite good, and although the character design is very
+simple, it's functional to the story: Makoto has intentionally a very
+generic face, for example (Hara confirmed this).
+
+Overall I found the message to be quite bland ("have a life, forgive
+others, make friends") and bluntly delivered. It reminded me of "It's
+a wonderful life", but with all due respect to Hara (I really like his
+"Summer days with Coo"), he's no Frank Capra.
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+==========
+ Durarara
+==========
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:15:56
+:Id: anime/review/durarara
+:tags: - anime
+:rating: 4
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/durarara
+
+I almost gave up on this series after the first 4 or 5 episodes. They
+are slow, mostly concerned with introducing characters (and there's
+plenty of them to introduce), and making sure we're clear on the
+setting. Ikebukuro, 2010 or thereabouts, with street gangs,
+thugs, underground semi-criminal life, high-schoolers, and an Irish
+headless rider.
+
+Had I stopped there, this review would essentially say "go away, this
+is boring". Thankfully, a friend of mine insisted I keep watching, and
+I have to say, she was right: after the introductions, the rhythm
+picks up, and a story starts happening. All the characters and events
+are connected, the puppet master is revealed pulling the strings for
+their own amusement, some plot lines get resolved, some characters are
+happier, some are not, and I was overall glad to have known them.
+
+Durarara is not easy to categorise cleanly: there's high school life
+and romance, there are supernatural elements, there's gang fights,
+there's high-speed chases on motorcycles, there's stalkers and otakus
+and yakuza and human experiments. But none of these elements is
+dominant throughout the series, they all blend together to produce
+something quite bewildering but also intriguing. For once, the
+characters avoid talking to each other about their problems with some
+subjectively good reasons, not just because "Japanese people don't
+talk". Most of the characters' choices make quite a lot of sense when
+examined via their limited knowledge and their goals, so even when you
+know bad things will happen, you aren't really driven to shout "what
+are you doing, you idiot!" at the screen. This is, sadly, not the norm
+in fiction, and I appreciate it when I come across it.
+
+The story comes from a light novel series written by NARITA Ryougo (成
+田 良悟), who also wrote Baccano, and the director and character
+designer of Durarara worked together on the Baccano anime series as
+well (and, unless my eyes are mistaken, there's a semi-hidden
+reference to that work in this series). After the first few
+introductory episodes, we have three main story arcs, each building on
+the previous ones, plus a couple of one-shot stories that help "catch
+our breath" between the arcs.
+
+The director is OOMORI Takahiro (大森 貴弘), who also directed Hyper
+Police, Fancy Lala, `Kuragehime <../princess-jellyfish/>`_, and the
+very recent Samurai Flamenco; he also assisted on Haibane Renmei; all
+in all, a very good pedigree, which helps explain the quality of the
+direction here.
+
+The character designer KISHIDA Takahiro (岸田 隆宏) has had a very
+varied career, working on Master Mosquiton, Lain, Noein, `Madoka
+Magica <../madoka-magica/>`_, Btoom. He gave us very distinctive
+designs, each character being clearly recognisable without any of them
+looking like caricatures.
+
+All in all, an interesting set of stories told in a dynamic and
+engaging manner. I only have two criticisms: first, the introductory
+episodes are really too many, and second, the women's motivations are
+too often linked to their relationship with men. Mika and Namie
+motivations are all due to Seiji, the only reason Anri gets out of her
+self-imposed isolation is because of Mikado and Masaomi, even Celty
+often acts because of Shinra. At least, Anri and Celty have other
+motivations, and this makes them more interesting; probably not
+accidentally, they're the only two women in the series who get to talk
+to each other.
+
+In conclusion: I'd recommend Durarara to most people with some
+interest in anime and/or fantasy in urban settings.
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+=================
+ Garden of Words
+=================
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:15:39
+:Id: anime/review/garden-of-words
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/garden-of-words
+
+SHINKAI Makoto (新海 誠) became famous a decade ago with Voices of a
+Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe ほしのこえ), a short (25 minutes) about a
+long distance relationship (across interstellar space and relativistic
+time distortions).
+
+He went on to write and direct longer movies (The Place Promised in
+Our Early Days, 雲のむこう, 約束の場所, 2004; 5 Centimeters per
+Second, 秒速5センチメートル, 2007; `Journey to Agartha, 星を追う子ども,
+2011 <../agartha/>`_), trying with various levels of success to keep
+the attention of the characters' emotions and inner stories, more than
+on the overall plot and action.
+
+With "Garden of words" (言の葉の庭), Shinkai returns to a shorter
+form, which I have to say seems to be more congenial to him: his
+longer movies felt slow and diluted, and it was hard for me to stay
+engaged (ok, "5 centimeters per second" should probably be counted as
+three shorts instead of a long movie, but I honestly had problems
+staying awake during the first one). A 15-year-old boy skips the first
+few hours of school when it rains, spending the time in the Gyoen park
+in Shinjuku, designing shoes. Yes, he wants to be a shoemaker when he
+grows up, and he's already made a pair of moccasins for himself. In
+the park, he meets an older woman, who seems to have some problems she
+doesn't talk about: she eats chocolate and drinks beer, she reads, and
+not much else. They start talking to each other, and this will help
+both of them to grow and overcome their problems.
+
+As I said, the story is not much, but the gorgeous quality of the
+picture, the subtle music, and the impressive voice acting carry the
+work perfectly. If you like Shinkai's work, you don't need any
+prompting; if you had given up on him after Agartha, Garden may make
+you think again: I know it did to me.
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+===================
+ Giovanni's Island
+===================
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:25
+:Id: anime/review/giovanni-island
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/giovannis-island
+
+This is a story of death and loss and friendship and of life carrying
+on. It's a restrained depiction of the effects of war and
+occupation. It's about the power of dreams and imagination.
+
+Japanese people on a boat nearing the island of Shikotan, off the
+north-east coast of Hokkaido. It's the first time since the late
+forties that they're allowed to go back to what used to be their
+home. Two of them reminisce of the events of that time.
+
+Jumpei and Kanta are about 10 and 6 when the Emperor broadcasts the
+surrender of Japan: they may not understand the full impact of that
+event, but they know that their life is going to change. Their father
+is the chief of the island's defence force, but not actually military:
+in Jumpei's words, he's the head of the fire brigade. He loves Kenji
+Miyazawa's novel, "Night on the Galactic Railroad", and the children
+have read aloud from it since they learned to read. Jumpei and Kanta
+often imagine themselves as the characters in the book their names
+were even chosen to resemble: Jumpei for Giovanni, Kanta for
+Campanella. The novel was also their dead mother's favourite, and its
+message that the souls of the dead get transported to the sky to
+become stars has helped all of them to cope with her loss.
+
+With the end of the war, comes the Russian occupation. Soldiers come
+to the island, occupy the houses and the school, take away the
+soldiers. A difficult co-existence begins, but while the adults of
+each nation are suspicious and resentful of the others, the children
+do their best to be children and forge friendships, across the
+barriers of language and status. We follow in particular the story of
+Jumpei and Tanya, and how they cope with the upending of both their
+worlds.
+
+Giovanni's Island carefully avoids demonising the invading forces,
+without discounting the effects they had on the lives of people who
+had little or nothing to do with the war. Narrating everything through
+the point of view of children allows writer SUGITA Shigemichi (杉田 成
+道) to show clean, raw emotions but also avoid tearjerker tropes. The
+animation seems to be a mix of computer-generated backgrounds and
+hand-drawn characters, which is a bit jarring at times.
+
+There's no way this movie won't be compared with Grave of the
+Fireflies (1988, director TAKAHATA Isao, Studio Ghibli): both are set
+in the same period, both tell the story of two young siblings, both
+show the tragedy of war. Although I consider Grave to be overall a
+better work, I can't usually recommend it to people: on the one hand,
+it's extremely tragic; on the other, Seita's behaviour is upsetting
+and borderline criminal. By contrast, Jumpei's and Kanta's story is
+full of hope, and none of the characters (not even the Russian
+soldiers) are shown as malicious or homicidally stupid: Giovanni's
+Island goes into my list of recommended historical films on post-war
+Japan.
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+==============
+ Kill la Kill
+==============
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:00
+:Id: anime/review/kill-la-kill
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/kill-la-kill
+
+At Honnouji Academy, the student council rules supreme: its members
+wear special Ultima Uniforms that give superhuman strength and combat
+abilities. Thus is the will of Student Council President KIRYUUIN
+Satsuki carried out.
+
+But a new student appears! MATOI Ryuuko, carrying a scissor sword and
+a vengeful grudge: her father has been recently killed, and she will
+find the people responsible, and make them pay.
+
+Of course, Ryuuko gets to Honnouji, and after she tries to fight her
+way through, Satsuki tells her that yes, she killed her father.
+
+Ryuuko has no hope of prevailing against the super-powered guardians
+of the Academy, until she discovers, under her burnt-down house, a
+school uniform that her father left her: the sentient God Robe
+Senketsu. With this, her combat spirit, and the moral support of
+classmate MANKANSHOKU Mako (and all of Mako's family), Ryuuko will
+discover the truth, have her vengeance, and save the world.
+
+I'm still not sure why I watched this series: it has all the marks of
+the standard fighting anime, that I usually try to avoid. Every
+episode is mostly fights, character progression is measured in terms
+of combat power, half the dialogue happens between people who're
+beating up each other. But I watched it till the end, and I'm almost
+glad I did. "Almost", because many of the interesting aspects of this
+series are counter-balanced by sadly over-used tropes.
+
+There's about 20 named characters, all of whom take active roles in
+the plot throughout the story, but in practice only three of them
+really count, each of the other ones is subservient to one of them.
+
+There's a big plot twist that completely changes the perceived
+motivations of the main characters, but the way they explain their
+past actions stretches credibility to the breaking point.
+
+There's a level of nudity (both male and female) that feels motivated
+more by the standard fan servicing than by the plot, even if the plot
+(and the big twist) does revolve around clothing and the effect it has
+on society. And the level of creepy, incestuous, sexual harassment
+(only directed at the girls, *of course*) is really uncalled-for.
+
+What else? Mako is funny, and she's not just a comic relief character;
+the music is good, although some themes become a bit repetitive after
+a while. The pacing is good, but I think 24 episodes are a bit too
+much.
+
+In summary, those of you who like fighting anime will probably love
+this series. The others may well like it, as long as you can ignore
+some of the disturbing aspects I listed above.
+
+Oh, and if you notice a strong resemblance to recent Gainax work, like
+Gurren Lagann: Kill la Kill was written, animated and directed by
+ex-Gainax staff, who left and founded their own company, Trigger.
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+=================
+ Patema Inverted
+=================
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:47
+:Id: anime/review/patema
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/patema-inverted
+
+Patema, a young girl, explores an underground abandoned industrial
+warren of tunnels. She reaches a large vertical shaft in which dust
+falls *up*. When she sneaks back in her room, the Elder of the
+settlement scolds her because she broke the rules: that area is
+forbidden and dangerous, and being the daughter of the deceased Chief,
+she should be more careful and set a better example.
+
+Of course, her curiosity wins, she goes back to the shaft, and falls
+down it… only to come out a hole in the ground, falling *up*, and be
+saved by Age, a boy who's upside-down. Or maybe she's the upside-down
+one?
+
+There's plenty to like about this movie: the drawing and animations
+are great, the music is beautiful and sets the mood perfectly in every
+scene, the way the changing view points are shown is just brilliant.
+Watching it, I was often surprised by the additional layers in the
+story, and generally impressed by the attention to details.
+
+YOSHIURA Yasuhiro (吉浦 康裕, Pale Cocoon, Time of Eve) has written an
+engaging story about differing ways to look at the world, about the
+dangers of isolationism, partisan reading and hiding of history, how
+easily the past can be rewritten to suit the purposes of the people in
+power. It's also a story of friendship and wonder, about how seeing
+new worlds, or old worlds in a new light, can be mind-expanding but
+also terrifying.
+
+It's not without problems, of course: the evil people are too
+theatrically so, the strict society Age lives in is an extreme
+caricature of an absolutist regime, there's some uncomfortable subtext
+of victims becoming oppressors, and the widespread simplistic
+assumption that removing the one bad guy will magically upend
+centuries of indoctrination, especially when seeing the other as not
+really human is concerned.
+
+On the other hand, it can be very good starting point for discussions
+about "others" and how even extreme differences in how we perceive the
+world do not necessarily imply differences to our essential nature.
+
+All in all, a rather good, if ambitious, work, once again highlighting
+Yoshiura's talent in showing us new worlds, comparing and contrasting
+multiple ways of living in and looking at them.
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+=============
+ Psycho Pass
+=============
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:16
+:Id: anime/review/psycho-pass
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 4
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/psycho-pass-complete-season-1-collection
+
+How do you recognise a criminal? How do you make sure that innocents
+are not targeted or even inconvenienced by law enforcement? How do you
+balance control and freedom? These are some of the questions that
+Psycho Pass poses, from the point of view of Japan's current society,
+with its emphasis on conformity, and its very low tolerance for any
+kind of deviation from the accepted way of life.
+
+It's the 22nd century, and the Sybil System can detect the state of
+mind of every person, optimising their lives for happiness, by for
+example suggesting their best career options, but also calculating
+their propensity for crimes. The whole law enforcement system is based
+on this "crime coefficient", and the police is equipped with special
+guns called "Dominators" that will paralyse potential criminals, or
+kill them outright if their coefficient is too high. No arrest, no
+tribunals: if the Sybil says someone's a criminal, that's enough.
+
+This rather direct and violent approach tends to destabilise minds, so
+the police uses Enforcers, potential criminals that have been selected
+by the system, to do most of the hunting down of other criminals.
+Inspectors are tasked with detective work, and supervision of the
+Enforcers.
+
+Tsunemori Akane joins the police straight out of school as an
+Inspector, and has to find her way among her colleagues and
+subordinates, wrestle with moral questions, and avoid letting her
+crime coefficient rise.
+
+UROBUCHI Gen (虚淵 玄) of Nitro+ has written a story with layers: the
+"good" characters are not always as good as you'd expect, and the
+"bad" characters have motivations that at the very least make sense to
+them, and in some cases are indistinguishable from those that in other
+stories are attributed to heroes. This is not a good-vs-evil plot.
+
+There are some issues. The worldbuilding has holes, that may have been
+put there deliberately to provide the hooks for plot twists and for
+more interesting character development and moral questioning, but
+still undermine the consistency of the setting. Some parts of the
+story feel a bit paint-by-numbers, and, especially in the first few
+episodes, there's just too much expository infodumping. But I think
+that it's all forgivable, given the overall result.
+
+I've seen Psycho Pass compared to Ghost in the Shell, and I can see
+the similarities: they're both set in a technocratic future, focusing
+on police work. The questions they ask are very different though: GitS
+(especially the movie version) asks "what's the essence of humanity,
+and what would it take for you to recognise a non-human life form as
+human in spirit?"; Psycho Pass asks "what are you prepared to
+sacrifice in the name of social stability and average
+contentment?". Neither work provides answers, but they definitely
+provide food for thought.
+
+As a note on the English edition, the translation appears to do
+justice to the complex dialogues and ideas, which is sadly unusual.
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+================
+ Robotics;Notes
+================
+:CreationDate: 2015-03-08 16:16:10
+:Id: anime/review/robotics-notes
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/roboticsnotes
+
+When I was in Japan last April, I was on the lookout for interesting
+new manga and anime that may make their way to the rest of the world
+in the near future. The "Robotics;Notes" manga caught my eye for the
+flashy cover and the air of general enthusiasm about giant robots. So,
+when I discovered that not only there was an animated version, but
+that it had already been translated, I jumped on it and watched it
+all. Yes, doing that was a bit hampered by Manga Entertainment
+deciding (as too often happens) to release a 22 episode series in two
+batches of 11 episodes each: never doubt the lengths I'll go to, to
+provide comprehensive reviews :)
+
+This series is vaguely related to "Chaos;Head" and "Steins;Gate", but
+mostly because of the semicolon. The main authors of the other two
+series, Nitro+ and 5pb, had nothing to do with "Robotics;Notes", which
+was developed mainly by SHIKURA Chiyomaru (志倉 千代丸) who produced
+and supervised the other two series.
+
+So, what's it about? In the near future, SENOMIYA Akiho is the
+president of the robotics club at Tanegashima High School. She got her
+passion for robots from her older sister, Misaki, and the very famous
+TV show Gunvarrel (yes, they actually spell it that way in the
+original). Misaki had founded the club some ten years previous, and
+had started building a sort-of full scale replica of Gunvarrel. Akiho
+is carrying on the dream of completing it, after Misaki left the
+island to go work in Tokyo. Things are not looking very promising,
+since the only other member of the club, YASHIO Kaito, spends all his
+time playing an online robot fighting game called Kill-Ballad. To make
+matters worse, the school vice-principal balked at the huge funding
+request that Akiho presented her, and demands the club be
+disbanded. But of course the story can't end there: with the help of
+the grumpy owner of the nearby hardware store, the genius developer of
+Kill-Ballad (FURUGOORI Kona, in my opinion the best character of the
+show), the engineers of the nearby JAXA facility (where Akiho's father
+works), the president of the Space Candy company, and a few
+schoolmates, they will overcome adversity and build their dream
+robot. Or maybe not: Kaito becomes aware of what appears to be a large
+scale conspiracy that has been running for more than a
+decade. Investigating the reports of this conspiracy will lead to
+revelations about the lives of people they care about, and even about
+why Gunvarrel's last episode was never aired. But in the end, the
+giant robots of Justice will always defeat evil and save the world,
+powered by courage, friendship, and a lot of technobabble.
+
+"Robotics;Notes" builds quite a good narrative, with characters who
+feel different than the "stock" figures we too often get: Akiho loves
+robots and wants to show her sister that she's not less capable; Kaito
+looks very self-absorbed and quite rude, but he is curious and cares
+about others; Kona seems to be a caricature of the shut-in pervy
+otaku, but her backstory explains why she became what she is, and
+she's determined and capable (still pervy, though :) ). Even the bad
+guys have some semblance of motivation, and there's a couple of
+interesting plot twists that you'll have to wait for the second half
+of the series to see.
+
+It's really not one of the great works of anime, but it is engaging,
+and I wanted to know what was going to happen to all the people in
+it. Sadly, a few details were handwaved too much, leaving some holes
+in an otherwise consistent plot. I liked very much the idea of a
+"second generation" robot story: young people growing up with robot
+anime, using the technology they have access to, to build giant robots
+like they saw on TV. The fact that they had to come to terms with
+their budget limitations made it all the more interesting. Also of
+note, the setting is real: Tanegashima Space Center is an actual JAXA
+facility, on Tanegashima island, near the southernmost point of Japan
+(only Okinawa is further South).
+
+If you have even dreamt of building your own fighting robot, if you
+like mostly-consistent near-future SF stories, and conspiracy theories
+make you curious, this is really the series for you.
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