Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[VanceIX]

sundin13 said:

VanceIX said:

HUGE SPOILERS FROM EP 1-5

I'm not really going to defend it, since the anime community itself is divided, with some really liking it and some finding it boring.

I will say this, though. The reason the MC is so good is because he is calm and calculating. Everyone else was either overconfident (the first few episodes) or scared shitless (the last few). You have to remember that almost no one has combat experience, and the few that do are horribly traumatized. There's also no way to communicate with leadership or other squads, so there's no way to give intel or find out weak points and such. Esentially every squad is on their own. The MC just happens to be insanely smart, with a very calculative personality. It allows him not to get caught up in things and fight the Martians with a level head.

And the emperor just lost his grandaughter, and has no way of confirming anything, since he is too frail to investigate himself. Will he believe a trusted Martian noble, or will he trust a Earthling, who is believed by the Martians to be a completely inferior race?

All I'll say is that the anime is 24 episodes long, not even a fourth of the way done. I would say give it more time, but then again a lot of people simply are uninterested with another mecha anime, so it's understandable if you don't like it. 

Yeah, while no one has combat experience, its not like they would logically be sitting on their butts the whole time. They were under constant threat by a people that are much stronger then them (who for some reason didn't just take the earth despite wanting it?). All logic would imply that they would be highly militant and highly trained, constantly undergoing rigorous simulations and training, instead of being the helpless morons that all the soldiers acted like. I cannot believe that one random guy would be able to pretty easily take the baddies down where the rest of the worlds combined might was rendered nearly helpless...

The emperor played the part of "wise man" for a while 5 minutes before devolving into a tool. Sure he just lost his granddaughter, but he should be smarter than just jumping back into war without finishing his investigation of earth, or trying to validate the earthling's claim. There really isn't any rush, so why be hasty?

The logic just seems like an afterthought or a means to an end...

I get that it is early in the show, but it has yet to show me that it really has anything going for it, except the decentMC...I'll keep watching (although I will always be a week behind because I don't have a premium account on Crunchyroll), but I'm glad that I'm watching it one week at a time because I don't think I could marathon this series...

Actually, most people on Earth were completely unaware that they were so far behind. They were led to believe by the governments that they were on equal footing with the Martians, so a lot of them were lax in training and such.

And the grandfather was presented evidence from a trusted source that the Earthlings were scheming about his granddaughter's death. Imagine someone telling you that a loved one you believe dead is alive, but then being presented evidence that the person that brought you the news might be a traitorous spy.

But yeah, still many episodes left, and like many mainstream anime, there will be a large portion of people that don't get the hype, and I don't blame you for it.