Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5744

I'd prefer the better chef simply winning, i wouldn't mind if hayama won simply because he was better, but the whole 'the dish reflected the chef as an individual' thing is honestly just bullshit to me.
"Oh even if your dishes were equal his dish more accurately represented his style of cooking, so he wins", what kind of reason even is that, the dishes should be judged based on the theme and the dish itself, not based on what the chef typically cooks. It will never not seem like a weak as fuck excuse to have one character win without setting the three 'rivals' apart in terms of actual skill, such a shitty way to conclude a tournament imho

this episode also reminds me how fucking retarded the recent manga developments with hayama are lmao

Desler is alive? WTF? HOW? I don't even...what is this?

Let's begin with the ending because I seriously think it's retarded. I mean the whole show featured quite a few Deus Ex Machina moments, yet it still kind of made sense and was enjoyable. The end however was completely absurd. First Desler survived his exploding ship. Maybe he still lives after exploding a second time? Who knows... Then they have Kodai's brother reviving Mori which was a selfish decision to chose a single person over all the other people _after_ all those hardships. But then? Hey, another miracle and they can still save earth. My gosh, way to run a show into a wall in the end. Which wasn't even necessary at all. All they had to do was sending a few of Desler's guys after the Yamato for revenge or something. They didn't need to revive Desler for that. Oh, and just let Mori die. If they wanted to have a happy end, Okita should have survived, which would have at least made sense in some way.

Ok, putting that aside I really enjoyed this show. The struggle of the crew was great. It featured interesting events, cool fights, a range of bad to cool villains and a great adventure. All of this was supported by great graphics, decent animation and an absolutely amazing soundtrack. The only thing that bothered me a bit was the inserted fan service because it really seemed out of place. E.g. the beach episode and the moe blob ice eating scene.

I can't anymore with this denseness. Someone please spare me. Naho legit puts me in pain

At this point I am genuinely only continuing to watch it because it is bound to end in tragedy one way or the other... and I want to see how that unfolds.
Either Kakeru dies anyway, or something happens to Suwa who is still in love with Naho and knows that they would end up together if Kakeru were gone.
Whenever someone says "only Naho can make him happy", reconsidering suicide seems to be a viable alternative.

It's been a long time since I watched 2199. I remember liking it a great deal when it first came out. I think everything with Domel was the high point of the series, and it all went downhill from there. The finale was very obviously rushed, with a bunch of time spent trying to make the Garmillas Empire more sympathetic. They failed miserably on that point.

Overall, it was a fun ride, but I don't think I'd ever rewatch it. The ending was too bad for that.

Some plot elements are necessary because this is a remake, Okita's death being one of them. Being such an old series, there's also a lot of weird stuff that they need to work around. For instance, Dessler appears in basically every single Yamato series, so he might actually still be alive in the 2199 universe. Who knows.

For this and other reasons, I don't really have much faith in the writing of the 2199 sequels.