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REVIEW: BBK/BRNK: The Gentle Giants of the Galaxy




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Parsifal24





PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:22 pm Reply with quote
I wasn't expecting much from this but none the less it was entertaining this and the second season of Active Raid both felt kind of lost in the shuffle. of what came out in that year
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:00 pm Reply with quote
I loved this show, but I agree that the second half was disappointing. I feel like this suffered the same problem as Sword Art Online where spoiler[the best character spent the entire second season imprisoned and powerless] Instead, we got the sister character, who was extremely annoying unlikable. I also thought the new villain sucked, and felt shoehorned in. Plot issues aside, I mostly enjoyed the show. The style and energy was more to akin something from Trigger (They're actually in the same building). This and Ajin proved that it's possible to make a high-quality CG series.[/u]

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diadumenian



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 5:51 pm Reply with quote
Holy crap Epizo is THE MOST ANNOYING character from 2016. I was really hoping he'd be killed off. The other Americans are fine, but Epizo is such an over-the-top, unlikable lame-ass, I don't get how he's a leader of any sort. Reoko I can get into, but Epizo is such a turn off I don't know if I can tolerate of full season with him around.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:44 am Reply with quote
I enjoyed the first season a lot but the second season just felt too melodramatic to me and it just felt like nobody had any good reasons to be fighting in this show. I just found myself picking apart everyone's reasons for helping Guy and none of them felt justifiable to me at all.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:57 pm Reply with quote
v1cious wrote:
I loved this show, but I agree that the second half was disappointing. I feel like this suffered the same problem as Sword Art Online where spoiler[the best character spent the entire second season imprisoned and powerless] Instead, we got the sister character, who was extremely annoying unlikable. I also thought the new villain sucked, and felt shoehorned in. Plot issues aside, I mostly enjoyed the show. The style and energy was more to akin something from Trigger (They're actually in the same building). This and Ajin proved that it's possible to make a high-quality CG series.[/u]


I agree, I really quite loved this show. Despite some flaws it always felt like it was trying for something. I think it's true the first half was stronger and more complex though the second still had some very good stuff and was a pretty worthy watch. Like one of the points the review mentioned, it might have helped if they had been able to work in Guy a bit earlier somehow (which would have been tough given how packed the first season was) or changed him somehow to have more interesting motivations to where they wouldn't have needed to quite "start over" the dramatic build from scratch as much as they did since he was pretty obvious. I actually kind of liked the sister, Kaoruko, especially once we learned she was pretty much left behind, though I wish the show had given her more payoff in the last half/third of the season (like Azuma got with the overall bonding of his team in the back half of season 1) after she finally came around, in order to balance out making the audience that thought she was annoying deal with her ego early on before we had a better picture of why she felt she needed to stand out so much with some stronger payoff where the fans (particularly those who didn't like her before) could get more of a chance to root for her with more of a chance to shine toward the end if she'd been more integral like Azuma (and Reoko).

Oh yeah, I'm definitely another person that thought in many ways this show felt very much like a Trigger/classic-Gainax show. The energy, the action style and effects used in both the hand-to-hand and robot fights, and the camera framing style, not to mention some of the outfits like Hiiragi's with the star and Kinoa also often had a Ryuko feel. Probably also further helped by the art director being the guy who did Kill la Kill (and director being a former assistant on stuff like the recent Eva movies according to the encyclopedia), I could totally feel his great style in this show in the coloring, background art, and the way the final CG looked with the effects surrounding them (and how shots were framed).

I agree, this and Ajin did a great job pushing CG further in the right direction and making some good stuff with it. Also Sidonia and Expelled From Paradise. I think we've seen some pretty good strides in it. I think it's underrated and I think if this had gotten high budget traditional animation while retaining this very Trigger style, quite a bit like KLK, it could have been very well received since many probably wrote it off right away just because it was CG.

Had no idea they were in the same building, that's really cool.

Need them to do a soundtrack release for both seasons already too.
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