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And as far as the roto making it look creepy. I have only vaguely looked into the manga, but its supposed to be a dark psychological drama if anything. If I recall this is the one where they try to commit double suicide at one point? So its not like I think it really contributes anything to the story either.

Rotoscoping creep factor is better off served with something like Paranoia Agent or something from Satoshi Kon.

So I don't think its fair for you to somehow acuse people of overlooking a good work due to the art style when there is a legitimate question as to why they changed something that really does not fit with the work in question. To me you are taking away from the story with this ridiculous art style not adding to it. The focus is taken away from the story.

Fencedude5609 wrote:

angelmcazares wrote: I am also seeing some people insinuating that episode 5 had some sort of plot development. Nothing worthwhile happened; it can be skipped by those uninterested in bikinis. Wow, how's the future treating you?

Yeah. You guys can skip it if you want but I guarantee you are gonna be pretty disappointed in episode #13 when the show does its big reveal that the key to Ledo returning to space and defeating the Hideauze was in Ridget's cleavage all along.

You have two sides fighting with battleships, and I think the incongruity comes in when you look at the second battle and we don't give a second thought to the fact that people are no doubt being killed as artillery slams into other boats. The general (not just in this anime) thought is that in a "war" scenario, "soldiers" die, that's their "job", but the tragedy comes in when "civilians" die. The juxtaposition created in episode two is that NONE of the "earthlings" are real "soldiers" as proven when Ledo kills the pirates.

While I understand that the brutal efficiency displayed would be off-putting and in-fact quite terrifying, the fact DOES remain that as the second attack shows, one method protects the Gargantians with ZERO loss to their own side, and the other method injures both sides. I agree that the immediate thought would be "how long till he turns on US", but that's a Watchmen-esque argument for another angle (and is in fact the angle that Ridget is worrying over), but that's not the larger consideration. The "bureaucrats" in the fleet command consider turning Ledo over to the pirates as "appeasement", which would only make THEM stronger.

I'm also kind of wondering why they dubbed over some of the original actors' voices with other voices.

T3rm1n4t0r, thank you for your kind words!

The easiest way to track down my thoughts on those series are by looking up the series in the Encyclopedia, and more often than not, if you scroll down the page a little, you'll see a link to columns (either Shelf Life or The Stream) where they were reviewed. Not all of the columns are linked (I got a little lazy with the linking), but most of them should be accessible to some degree.

As for Penguindrum, you should check out this ANNCast with me and Zac where we spend the entire time talking about it. animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2013-03-26

The characters can never just have a normal conversation. Everything is delivered in dry quips, and even though that kind of banter is okay every once in a while, when it makes up a large portion of a show, it gets really dull.

If you get attacked in the street by a dog, and passerby shoots it, you would be appalled, even if he just saved your life or limb(s).

When you kill someone, you become a killer, and many wouldn't want to sink to the same level as a bunch of pirates.