Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2184

Well its been a very long read and Im glad I did it. I guess ill sum up my thoughts on the series starting off with the bad and ending with the good. Muv luv extra and even unlimited where pretty bad and it was painful at times to get through. The charaters didnt seem to have alot of depth and the MC was just dense and dumb. Also Bot unlimited and Alternative took way to much time a effort explaining Bullshit science. I dont mind science fiction explinations but the concepts were way to abstract for me to enjoy being explained. The MC in alternative and everyone else at times love to rant on shit and charater develpments we already knew. It was tedious and painful at times.

The good. The production and action is the best I seen in a VN, tho I only read two others lol. I got seriously pumped and absorbed in every action sequence even tho they where just moving pictures around lol. I also said this before but the MC improves and developed drastically. I thought the psdt arc was done beautifully. Its really easy to get aggravated or even hate the main charater for being so whiny but you could really feel his torment in the psdt arc and they just nailed it. After the psdt he had such strong resolve that you really rooted and respect the guy. The story was pretty good. You really felt desperate to stop the beta and there was alot of sacrifices to do so.

The attack on the original hive was really intense. It really made you care a feel like every chararter is a badass (cept Chizuru). All the charaters gave it thier all and you could defiantly feel it. My favorite during that mission was Meiya, Kei, and Mikoto in that order. Keis' especially surprised me seeing her rage in emotion while being a badass. Mikotos was cool to cause u never seen him that serious. In the end I liked the characters alot (besides Chizuru) and thought the ending in alternative was well done. The ending showing him in EXTRA tho i didn't feel was needed or necessarily liked. I would of preferred that he died in the ALTERNATIVE world. So im glad I read it. It was really good tho this will be the last VN I read probably.

Agree with you on a lot of points, though I thought Unlimited was pretty good. When it comes to all the different death scenes, Meyia's is the best (the fact that it's the "epic finale" to our 50 hour+ adventure doesn't hurt, I guess), imo. All the others were well done too, but for some reason Sumika's just didn't... well, I think it's because she was the 00 unit already... should have had greater impact on me really, it's still on par with the others, but... ah, fuck it. I really preferred Sumika over Meyia in Extra, but Meyia is way better in Unlimited/Alternative than she is in Extra, so I liked her the most there, which is why her scene had an extra impact on me, I guess. Hayase's was also good. Maybe I'm just a sucker for blue/purple hair >.>

Gantz was interesting at the beginning, but this (final?) arc is one hell of a trainwreck. Many chapters wasted by fighting larger-than-life bugs with zero purpose to advance the plot. Chasing after that girl gets annoying: yeah save the girl while the world gets destroyed. The weapons are also getting more and more ridiculous.

Sumika never got a proper goodbye. She just died. I think they maybe could of done that better to make it more impactful. Meiyas death was great and again my favorite. And I fully agree with you on the meiya extra vs unlimted. I said before when I finished unlimited that I liked meiya alot because she wasn't on your dick like she was in extra. Her personality really came out and showed in unlimited, And I also find it funny you mentioned Hayase since I thought her and Meiya where my favorite characters. Sumika would be there to but I felt even tho she was 00unit she didnt change much at all really. Shes still like 4th favorite tho.

send the reversal d-mail to continue on the main storyline or decide not to send it to enter that heroine's ending

Meiya's death scene kind of bothered me - the whole time I was like, "hurry up and shoot; the longer your wait, the more she suffers D:"

Ayamine and Tama, both very fitting and awesome death scenes

Also just want to randomly add, I liked Akane in both Extra and Alternative, wouldn't have minded having her in more scenes.

I personally really enjoy long in-depth sci-fi explanations, but I guess that's a YMMV thing

Some lectures were fine, others weren't. Lectures involving Yuuko were bad since it was all essentially BS for the sake of the plot, but Captain Isumi's lectures really helped the world-building.

Incidentally, I thought Meiya's death was ridiculously dragged out. But then again, I had very little attachment to most of the characters in the series because I'm a heartless bastard. Thus their deaths, despite being badass, had little emotional impact.

Also, I was of the opinion that Isumi and Hayase were both cooler than the entire main female cast, so it pissed me off a fair bit when they were killed off relatively early.

The science explanations were usually handled pretty badly. Realism is fine, but for whatever reason they decided to put in those half hour long lectures. I like sci-fi well enough, but it's not a good enough reason to ruin immersion. An example of sci-fi done well, for instance, would be something like Gunbuster. Their explanation of relativity was very short, and basically boiled down to the faster you go, the more time passes. If you understand the science, that's great! You got something more out of the show. If not, no big deal, it's just a plot device.

I mean really, within reason, "It works this way because I said so" is a perfectly valid explanation.