Anime Discussion Thread - Page 953

On July 28 2010 03:20 Ecael wrote:
The movie was infinitely better in being a show rather than a bad slapstick comedy that tries to insert occasional moments of seriousness, its biggest failing might well be the lack of time to explain the gap between the series and the movie. Honestly, all the things I read of that gap was far, far, far more interesting than the series itself. These folks set out on a serious mission, and everything about the nature of the mission and the theme that the show focuses on was serious, but they wanted to establish that amidst of all that, it is possible to have a lighthearted normal life for the crew. In fact, the director of the anime mentioned that they wanted to do everything and simply ran out of time, and that if they had the chance to do it again, they would have taken a much different path. So yeah, the series itself, other than the few episodes that does deal directly with what the focus should have been, boiled down to Ruri being awesome and me loving her bakabaka.

FMP was anything but a light hearted mech anime when you get down to the second season and most of season, at that, we had the discussion like a hundred or so pages back about how season 1 and 2 differed and covered briefly how things are. You really shouldn't count Fumoffu, as the purpose of that particular season was solely to bring in the entertaining material from the short stories.