21st January 2011, 4:14 AM
Madoka Magica 03... woah. This is most definitely not a standard magical girl show... I never expected THAT to happen in just the third episode! Indeed now I see why the ED wasn't in the first two episodes... it'd have given away the dark turn the series takes here.
I mean, really... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV9PNx7RtU The screen's mostly black, base-heavy music... fitting with what happens in this episode, but not showing it until now does up the impact of finally seeing the end credits.
Dragon Crisis 02 v. Infinite Stratos 02 - Dragon Crisis is "better". That's not saying much though, considering how bad IS is...really, why am I watching this? The first episode was awful. This episode was no better, I hated it pretty much beginning to end. I was happy to see that our annoying, unlikable hero lost, surprisingly, but it was only because he's an idiot and knows nothing about the mecha suits, not because his skills were weaker. Other than that, generic flying mecha-people fighting, generic harem antics, generic quite unlikable main character guy (I get it, he's a moron, it just makes me like him even less), generic stereotype girls. So bad.
(Samurai Girls is better than this. That wasn't a good show, but I didn't hate it while watching it nearly as much as I do IS...)
As for Dragon Crisis, most of the episode was surprisingly tolerable. It's more about plot than harem antics, which is good. The dragon girl's completely passive and useless so far, though. Considering how strong the dragon guy is, I'm sure that over the course of their generic adventures she'll eventually get powers, etc, etc, this stuff almost writes itself. The show still isn't really explaining itself (in medias res here all the way) but some things are starting to make a little more sense. Make no mistake though this is a bad, generic show. (Oh no, I wonder if our determined but powerless hero will manage to save the kidnapped dragon girl!
) It's just not quite as bad as IS. That still leaves it pretty awful overall, though.
I mean, really... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV9PNx7RtU The screen's mostly black, base-heavy music... fitting with what happens in this episode, but not showing it until now does up the impact of finally seeing the end credits.
Dragon Crisis 02 v. Infinite Stratos 02 - Dragon Crisis is "better". That's not saying much though, considering how bad IS is...really, why am I watching this? The first episode was awful. This episode was no better, I hated it pretty much beginning to end. I was happy to see that our annoying, unlikable hero lost, surprisingly, but it was only because he's an idiot and knows nothing about the mecha suits, not because his skills were weaker. Other than that, generic flying mecha-people fighting, generic harem antics, generic quite unlikable main character guy (I get it, he's a moron, it just makes me like him even less), generic stereotype girls. So bad.
(Samurai Girls is better than this. That wasn't a good show, but I didn't hate it while watching it nearly as much as I do IS...)
As for Dragon Crisis, most of the episode was surprisingly tolerable. It's more about plot than harem antics, which is good. The dragon girl's completely passive and useless so far, though. Considering how strong the dragon guy is, I'm sure that over the course of their generic adventures she'll eventually get powers, etc, etc, this stuff almost writes itself. The show still isn't really explaining itself (in medias res here all the way) but some things are starting to make a little more sense. Make no mistake though this is a bad, generic show. (Oh no, I wonder if our determined but powerless hero will manage to save the kidnapped dragon girl!
) It's just not quite as bad as IS. That still leaves it pretty awful overall, though.
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