Spring 2013 Anime Chart

[Fetucine]

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I decided to start watching Valvrave the Liberator since I'm a sucker for mecha anime. Pretty standard teenager/mecha fare, though with some weird politics involved. Typical 'neutral nation but with advanced mecha tech' trying to avoid other nations. One nation patterned after Nazi era Germany, and the other after the US in the cold war era is a strange mix.

...Have you only watched the first episode or something? Valvrave is basically a glorious celebration (and parody) of mecha anime post-2000 or so. It is not exactly intended to be taken seriously - stuff like the body pillow, SPACE VAMPIRES, L-Elf pulling an entire battleship's worth of missiles and explosives out of thin air are almost mocking genre conventions while simultaneously playing them straight enough to build a coherent narrative, and having a grand time while doing it.

Basically the show is a comedy with every character playing a straight man to the increasing insanity of the plot and genre conventions. It's really quite remarkable.

 

[nataku00]

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I decided to start watching Valvrave the Liberator since I'm a sucker for mecha anime. Pretty standard teenager/mecha fare, though with some weird politics involved. Typical 'neutral nation but with advanced mecha tech' trying to avoid other nations. One nation patterned after Nazi era Germany, and the other after the US in the cold war era is a strange mix.

...Have you only watched the first episode or something? Valvrave is basically a glorious celebration (and parody) of mecha anime post-2000 or so. It is not exactly intended to be taken seriously - stuff like the body pillow, SPACE VAMPIRES, L-Elf pulling an entire battleship's worth of missiles and explosives out of thin air are almost mocking genre conventions while simultaneously playing them straight enough to build a coherent narrative, and having a grand time while doing it.

Basically the show is a comedy with every character playing a straight man to the increasing insanity of the plot and genre conventions. It's really quite remarkable.

Yeah, I caught on it was a parody of all mecha/sci-fi anime when I started smiling and laughing at how outrageous some of the set pieces end up being. There's the idol singer/pilot thing drawing from Macrosse as well. It's really amusing how they're mashing it all together and it somehow works.