One thing that I’ve noticed about a lot of Mari Okada’s anime original scripts: the one thing she has trouble with is being interesting while building up. Especially in the first halves of her longer series have these flashes of brilliance intermixed with dull slice of life. Take Hana-Saku Iroha’s long wring of random episodes, [...]
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Episode 22 + 23- …What in the world is going on in this series? Aquarion has never really been the epitome of storytelling, but the story is really going crazy with its plot twists and unexpected plot developments. I mean, Amata and Kagura being the reincarnations of an ancient dog? Zessica being taken over by [...]
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Aaand Mikono, you fail at being a romantic love interest for Aquarion Evol. This was supposed to be your chance: this episode delivered all of the background for this series. This was your chance to be relevant. But no, you’re just mentioned once in the entire story as a sort-of afterthought. Your role as a [...]
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One down from debut day, but it’s still good overall, having sold 13,345 units in the Oricon index.
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Next week’s episode of Aquarion Evol: that will be the time for you to show yourself, Mikono. That will be the time where you need to show that you’re more than a damsel in distress. You have been guided, you have been trained, but so far… you haven’t really done anything. You are very close [...]
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Episode 20 + 21 - Aquarion seems to be getting rather serious in recent developments, with the revelations about Amata particularly significant (which admittingly wasn’t much of a surprise). There’s Amata’s mother issue, where her disappearance left behind a traumatized child that has yet to get over her. This issue eventually transitioned into the revelation [...]
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… and the showdown begins. As expected, the split was due to Mykage’s meddling. That fucking bastard… Seriously, that fucking bastard! Poor Zessica. Poor, poor thing. Pretty sure that ‘promise’ probably involves backstabbing the guys at some point after the Legendary Aquarion gets activated. Would have been better if she died last week T_T. Entertaining [...]
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I hope someone has unscrambled this mess already. It's basically just anime Aurabesh.
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AKB0048… I…. give up… I want to hate this show. I want to rant about what an incredibly stupid and pandering premise they settled with. But I can’t. I have no clue why, but this show has this amazing energy and charm. The idol shows did it again, even though I hate idols and J-pop. [...]
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Well-deserved, in my opinion : )
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Really Aquarion, this is more like it. Finally your plot is developing significantly. Ideally this episode should have been earlier, allowing for more time for all of the things to develop, but this was nevertheless glorious. I am really surprised at Andy by the way. He started out as the typical best friend: the guy [...]
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Episode 19 - Hrm, well it looks like Aquarion is providing some actual reasons for the supposed lack of women on Altair, with something that seems to be akin to a disease that ravages all females that pop up on Altair. The “pain” that Zessica and Yunoha have in their throats are obviously signs of [...]
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… poor Andy. Seriously, fuck you Mykage. Fuck. You. Man, Aquarion reaching drama critical point now. And ZEN is still fucking around as usual… Stalker ZEN was pretty LOL though. Now I keep looking behind my back to see if he’s really around. Also this episode was named wrongly. I mean, a third of the [...]
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Draggle, a wonderful writer who I frequently refer to (see the end of this article for links), graciously offered the following write-up as a guest post on this blog.  We both felt it appropriate for this site.  Enjoy! You shall die. You speak incorrectly; say I will finish dying and you will be correct, because ever [...]
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Draggle, a wonderful writer who I frequently refer to (see the end of this article for links), graciously offered the following write-up as a guest post on this blog.  We both felt it appropriate for this site.  Enjoy! You shall die. You speak incorrectly; say I will finish dying and you will be correct, because ever [...]
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Bandai is going to release the Figuarts Zero Zessica Wong ( ゼシカ・ウォン ) non-scale PVC figure from the anime “Aquarion Evol ” ( アクエリオンEVOL ). Will be released in August 2012. Around 160mm tall, 4,500 yen. Mikono Suzushiro (left), Zessica Wong (right) Here comes Zessica Wong, the second figure from the anime “Aquarion Evol ” [...]
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Okay. This episode caught my attention. Last week I noted that I had gotten bored with this series. After watching this episode and thinking a bit more about it, I’m able to explain a bit more accurately why that happened. It’s got a lot to do with the structure of this series, and mostly my [...]
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… never forget. Wow seriously what the fuck? I’m not even sure why they had to pull this twist off. Well it explains why there are no more girls on Altair I suppose, since everyone got genderbent to male. Zessica and Yunoha better get the fuck out of there… pronto. I don’t want to lose [...]
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Episode 18 - Aquarion has really been a rather strange series to follow. It’s a series that loves to get absurdly silly and goofy, yet transitions to serious bits of plot that are overstuffed with heavy amounts of drama. It’s a combination that has worked well earlier, but now I can’t say I’m as thrilled [...]
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I hate to say it, but I’m starting to lose interest in this series. This episode was the final nail in the coffin for me to admit that. This was the episode when the main plot returns again after the string of bizarrre filler lately, but what we got for it… I can’t really say [...]
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