Eh?Originally Posted by Archangel
It's very clearly more of a Gundam/CodeGeass vibe to it, but with a bit more of the Gunbuster/MuvLuv-style "Let's Teach High School Students to Pilot Mecha so They'll Meet an Untimely Death When Forced to Fight." With maybe a bit of Valvrave mixed in just because itrecent. It seems to be a fairly open secret that Earth trains students to pilot mechs in preparation for breaking the armistice. The flamboyant authoritative behavior of the enemy "nobility" is flat-out Gundam.
I'm not really getting the Guilty Crown vibes except for realistically fleshed out characters (we'll see if they are squandered through terrible clichés) and the initial interactions between the girls and the main character. I only think about it because you bring it up.
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The Princess is very plainly a Deianeira-type. That makes her very dull as far as I'm concerned. Having some sort of special powers (being able to activate the Aldnoah) combined with being so kind-hearted, selfless, and naïve that she basically has no personality. Ugh. I really hate that character archetype. She obviously survived by summoning the Aldnoah itself that was alluded to multiple times this episode.
In general, I'm very annoyed by the talk of "even though we're descended from Earthlings, no matter how long it may seem..."
- Apollo 17: 1972
- Moon gets blown up: 1999
- Series takes place in: 2014
40 years is not a long time. That's two, maybe three generations. Are you fucking kidding me? For a little perspective, Korean families are still participating in the reunions the North and South occasionally allows. It's been 60 years since the Korean War ended.
Honestly, I'm getting more of a Mars Daybreak vibe from it than anything, and that doesn't fit this story introduction even remotely. That is, does some neat things but is generally forgettable.
Things I very much liked:
- Sayaka Ohara ♥ playing the sister.
- Nina's (the blonde school friend) hairstyle, normal as it may be.
- I guess false flag attacks are at least interesting, due to rarity in anime.
- The fact that the MC was like, "Let's get out of here, I just saw a missile," while being completely calm about it. That was pretty badass. He's a nonchalant dude in general, but he went all icy-veined when he saw the missile.
- Kinetic orbital bombardment weapons are pretty cool, castles with super special techno-magic inertial dampers or not.
edit:
That was a stunningly bad Kalafina song. It's even worse than the horrifically generic and bland Kuroshitsuji II ED. It sounded like both Kajiura Yuki and the three vocalists completely phoned it in.
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