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Oct. 29th, 2007 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetSocchan: *has just finished watching the last few minutes of the final episode of Gurren Lagann*
Socchan: *twitches*
Socchan: ...THE HELL DID I WATCH THIS ANIME FOR ANYHOW.
Okay, I'm better now.
This post used to be a lot more full of vitriol in general, but once I got it typed out I felt better about myself and worse about the writing, so I deleted it. Mostly right now I'm frustrated with the Japanese cultural need for unhappy/ambiguous endings, so as far as I'm concerned, the series ended/diverged after Coco-jii gave the dress to Nia. At that point, yet another giant robot fell out of space and all the "dead" people got out of it, where it became apparent that they had only been trapped in another dimension because they had been "killed" trying to utilize spiral energy, but they'd drilled their way out. And then (almost) everyone lived happily ever after. The end.
A girl can dream, can't she DD:
...Oh yeah. And I finally have a favorite character that I'd re-watch the series for. Go me. It only took twenty-six episodes, too!
*sigh* I need cake.
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:32 am (UTC)I just kept crying.
Also, watch this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9kJIRl_dsWE)
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 12:36 am (UTC)LALALALALA, I can't heeeear yooooou!
I. Will have to watch it tonight and get back to you tomorrow DD: Unless it can be understood without sound. Then I could watch it now.
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:38 am (UTC)You can watch it without sound. THEN SPAZZ OUT AND WATCH IT WITH SOUND.
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:38 am (UTC)I shall have to see that sometime. So I can deny it. *accepts the smoothie and drinks deep* Mmmmm, tastes like forgetting...
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:39 am (UTC)XD Okay, that works. Soundless watching to begin shortly!
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 12:56 am (UTC)Also, have watched without sound! Have little/no idea what's going on, but am greatly intrigued by sheer awesome.
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Date: 2007-10-30 12:58 am (UTC)this post (http://ofearlessleader.livejournal.com/4054.html?mode=reply) kinda compiles my reactions for this opening, but MOSTLY THE DARK ACE KILLED MY DAD AAAAAUGH.
GIP
Date: 2007-10-30 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 01:09 am (UTC)You could have two dads.*is shot for suggesting it* ALSO, WORLD BUILDING. WORLD BUILDING = A+++no subject
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:16 am (UTC)As long as it's not buck-cake, we're good.no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 01:18 am (UTC)...Wait no, he could totally still look like that in a divergent future, NEVER MIND. *continues delusional fantasy*
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:33 am (UTC)buck-what?♥~
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:38 am (UTC)Buck-cake. It, uh. Makes more sense if you've read Tentacle Monsters and the Women Who Love Them (NSFW). Though it also helps if you pronounce it "bukake".♥!
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:49 am (UTC)Enjoy the not buck-cake. >D*
*Huggles!*
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Date: 2007-10-30 01:52 am (UTC)27 didn't make me sad at all, though. I knew because 1) this is anime and 2) this is Gainax, that a 'bittersweet' ending was coming. What got the waterworks going for me was 26 when Simon got to meet Kamina again.
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Date: 2007-10-30 02:04 am (UTC)Well, the foreshadowing helped me some, but I still wasn't happy. Note to self: look up other titles Gainax has done so you can have a better frame of reference than "Didn't they do Eva...?"
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Date: 2007-10-30 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 02:59 am (UTC)HOWEVER, Eureka 7 also has Surfing Robots and GOOD END. I think that they could have trimmed about 10 episodes worth of stuff from the show and made it a lot better, BUT, it's still very good and I definitely recommend it.
IF you're going to check out anything else Gainax and you enjoyed Gurren Lagann, I'd rec Gunbuster ("Aim for the Top!") and Diebuster ("Aim for the Top! 2" or "Gunbuster 2").
There (http://pics.livejournal.com/heebee/pic/000ctgkx) are (http://pics.livejournal.com/heebee/pic/000cwq3h) some (http://pics.livejournal.com/heebee/pic/000cyd1d) obvious (http://pics.livejournal.com/heebee/pic/000cxqc3) correlations (http://pics.livejournal.com/heebee/pic/000czywr) between these series. (uh, some of the links are a bit spoilery for Diebuster but it's NOTHING THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IN GURREN LAGANN ALREADY. Just don't read any of the text and you should be fine. Just matching the visuals here).
The ending of Gunbuster is bittersweet, leaves you crying, but in a good way.
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Date: 2007-10-30 03:35 am (UTC)I could still have two dadsI KNOW SO AWESOME.no subject
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Date: 2007-10-30 02:51 pm (UTC)XD You aren't kidding about the correlations. I may give that one a try.
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Date: 2007-10-30 02:51 pm (UTC)Getbackers:
Date: 2007-10-30 06:52 pm (UTC)Re: Getbackers:
Date: 2007-10-30 08:52 pm (UTC)