07.20
Yeah I’m still watching this dreck. Want my thoughts on Episode 1? Go read the Clusterfuck.
...your wrists!
So Hajime’s first battle goes kinda weird as she ends up sparing the MESS-Bus. This royally pisses off Sugane (as if he wasn’t annoyed by her enough already). However there’s no time for that now, we’ve gotta move into the Gatchaman dorm! Hajime’s bizarre antics continue to wear down on Sugane and fellow roommate Paiman as its becoming clear she’s more interested in using her cell-phone to participate in the online network GALAX than hanging around with these prudes. Sugane is eventually dragged into the world of GALAX and Hajime’s community of fellow GALAXters (OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE KENJI NAKAMURA!) with a meet up of collage makers on a train. Why this is happening I don’t know.
Let the shojo-ai begin.
MEANWHILE… Jo Hibiki does his own thing, and by that I mean drinking and smoking like some other character from a Gatchaman ripoff. Utsutsu just stands around and does her day job of amusement park groundskeeping. JJ Robinson acts all cold and aloof while making multicolored paper birds (hahaha nice try) and blows them off into the distance. OD keeps… od’ing on us but not before revealing that your NOTE is basically a representation of your soul, and if it gets destroyed you di-WAIT A MINUTE THIS IS FUCKING MADOKA AGAIN!!! GODDAMMNIT!!!!!!!!
This isn't going to end well is it?
Yup.... I was expecting that.
…where was I? Oh yeah. Berg Katse shows up again for no apparent reason other than to say “LOOK AT ME! I’M BERG KATSE!” And we get another mysterious character… Rui…. who’s a crossdresser… and maybe the evil mastermind behind everything. Greaaaaat. Eventually Hajime comes to the conclusion that if they annoy the MESS enough to shrink them to the size of a regular Rubic’s Cube, Not-chaman can be lead to the location of the humans that are being abducted by the MESS. Sugane thinks that’s bull but he’s got nothing better to do so might as well humor the Shortbusser.
You gotta be kidding me Nakamura. >_<
Crowd’s second episode is pretty much identical to the first one in both structure and content. We have a short somewhat anticlimactic fight followed by a lot of stupidity and Kenji Nakamura’s signature weirdness. None of the characters make any sort of development outside of Jo and Utsutsu since we get to see their “day jobs” for the first time, so Hajime’s still an annoying dimwit, Sugane, a boring underwritten sketch of a man, and OD an over-compulsory weirdo. Rui may be an interesting character but since he only appears in the last two minutes, all we know is he really loves his Guilty Crown cosplay for some reason.
Yeah that's a BRILLIANT IDEA!
Ultimately the problem with this show is that Nakamura is more infatuated in crafting his usual blend of hipster weirdness than actually making Gatchaman. Most of the references in the show (and there were a lot more this week) still come off as lip service to appease hardcore Gatcha-fans so he can get them to overlook everything else that’s wrong with this show (its badly paced, the characters are annoying, and the designs are just fugly and inconsistant).
Yeah it reminds me of a better show OOOOOH SSSSSSSSSNAP!
Its regrettable that this show seems to be stagnant in its development. Considering how the first episode was as terrible as it turned out, I fear for the next ten weeks having a further downward trajectory. 1/10.