tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323543890331313328.post7975749339472194697..comments2024-02-14T05:37:12.373+00:00Comments on Hanners' Anime 'Blog: Viper's Creed - Episode 1Hannershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02789149333914200143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323543890331313328.post-69503503557760233922009-02-23T10:48:00.000+00:002009-02-23T10:48:00.000+00:00I wholeheartedly agree that Viper's creed is a rat...I wholeheartedly agree that Viper's creed is a rather "dumb" action premise of a show.<BR/><BR/>I was actually expecting more depth first of all being Aramaki, a seasoned vet despite some of his failures (looking at you Megazone23#3)and seeing the show had no less than 4 (!) script writers this just falls very short.<BR/><BR/>The heavy Megazone 23 influenced mecha-designs are very nice however and I wouldn`t have expected anything less from Aramaki but I don`t know if it`ll be enough to carry the show. <BR/>Episode 2 was allright, but the characters are flat and I have a feeling the action`ll get repetitive too.<BR/><BR/>The Eva comparison is a bit too far out tough, I`d rather compare it with the Aestivalis from Nadesico that relied on wireless power transfer, Trexx's BGC comment only remotely makes sense if you pull up BGC 2040 who`s "power armors" used portable battery packs as opposed to virtually no power rstraints in the original BGC show.<BR/><BR/>It isn't really the flat characters that bother me the most about this show tough.<BR/>It`s the typical 200x cheap digital anime style of having everything look so bland, boring and sterile.<BR/>Backdrops the characters move in are always too clean and empty without any real character to the sets, a common problem these days.<BR/><BR/>Still, I`ll keep this on my watch list .. for now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2323543890331313328.post-42130307629779825332009-02-08T02:38:00.000+00:002009-02-08T02:38:00.000+00:00"limited battery life of the mechas once they're o..."limited battery life of the mechas once they're off the road has obvious Evangelion comparisons"<BR/><BR/>Bubblegum Crisis too, although they were power-armour rather than mechs.Trexxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17339956175073689971noreply@blogger.com