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Eureka 7

Hisdon wrote:

v1cious wrote: Josh7289 wrote: Personally, I think Eureka 7 is a rip-off of Evangelion, but that's just based on the fact that everything that has happened in the series has happened in Evangelion (more or less). everything that's happened in ANY mecha series post 95 has happened in Eva more or less. that or Ideon. pretty much. Rah-Xephon, Evangelion and Eureka 7 are all in the same lil family and all got a lot of things in common. However if you asked me to the pick the best, that's a very opinion based question, but Evangelion gave me the most lasting impression after finishing it, which is also probably do to watching it first. Regardless, it still remains my personal fave of the few because of that feeling it gives the viewer as oppose to say, Rah-Xephon, that felt a lot more hollow (the action w/ mechs was pretty poor as well imo) in the symbolism, and Eureka 7 is a very well done love story with the best mech action scenes I've seen so far.

Why does it matter if they do have things in common? Of course they might share some basic elements. If something works and is popular of course it will be emmulated. That's basic martketing for you. If something sells then use it until it doesn't sell anymore. That's just how it works. Now even if it does borrow frm other shows why should it matter? If you like the show it takes its ideas from you should be happy others like it enough to emulate it in their own works. I personally do not see the relation or similarities to Evangelion, except for the fact there are mechs in it. That's just me though. The comment that anything in post 95' series happened in Evangelion is not true though. There are plenty of mech shows with original aspects. The problem is once something has been done everything seems like a copy. You can't have 2 original ideas. Besdies, anything pre or post 95' can be said to be a rip off of Robotech (Macross), Gundam or Patlabor. Shoot, even Voltron was way before most mech animes. You should just enjoy the show for it's differences and similarities and judge it based on it's own merits, not anything they maybe have been influenced by another source.

How far are you into the series so far? The later fight scenes were absolutely amazing. I can't even imagin the amount of effort put into coriographing them as oppose to other mech fights. They rivaled a lot of the Hellsing OVA fights (which have been simply Shocked so far) and I can't really think of many scenes that match up to them.

Hisdon wrote:

How far are you into the series so far? The later fight scenes were absolutely amazing. I can't even imagin the amount of effort put into coriographing them as oppose to other mech fights. They rivaled a lot of the Hellsing OVA fights (which have been simply Shocked so far) and I can't really think of many scenes that match up to them.

I've been following the series on CN so no I have yet to see the entire show. Even if the end battles are great, that doesn't change the fact that there is little to no fighting throughout most of the show. And when there is a battle, it's not much more than the LFOs dashing through the grunt bots (hardly a battle at all). If the later fights are anything like Renton's first encounter with Anemone then that's not saying much. There have been some pretty fantastic mecha fights over the years and I have yet to see how Eureka 7 will be able to soar to the top of that list (given the Nirvash's Seventh Swell, my prediction is those last fights will be reminscent of Turn A).

Why does it matter if they do have things in common? Of course

they might share some basic elements. If something works and is popular of

course it will be emmulated.