Captain Earth - a new anime from Studio Bones

impressions on Episode 2:

that fight was sweet

Salty Dog is an asshole

Daichi was great summoning the Livlaster to destroy the tower sending the pain signal

edited 13th Apr '14 3:27:43 AM by bassgs435

I can understand if they toss in one or two technobabble terms in a conversation.

But when they use three or four of them in every sentence for two or three minutes of dialogue, I just zone out.

Also, I'm getting the feeling that most of Salty Dog Guy's motivation seems to revolve around getting into Hana's pants.

.....

Ok. I'm going to do it now, so that nobody else can say it later:

Does that mean he's really a salty wiener?

~Is bricked~

I Regret Nothing!!!!!!!

...We're gonna need a lot more bricks by the time this is through.

.....

Well then, I guess I'm going to be regretting things after all. 0_0

ALWAYS GO ON MY OWN ALWAYS GO HAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Episode 2:

• That was a sweet punch.
• Glasses Dude. Ugh, so terrible...
• The only going through Daichi's mind was fulfilling his promise and being happy seeing old friends.
• Puck: Supercomputer and matchmaker.
• Salty Dog's gonna get saltier for here on out, no doubt about it.

Really getting Eureka Seven AO vibes from this show.

I've complained a lot about some of the newer mecha series that I've watched, like Valvrave and especiall Buddy Complex. This show looks pretty cool.

This appears to be a competent series that is willing to expand horizons and explore things that other shows tend to either avoid or wind up Narming. Plus, the mechas are really cool, and it's funny that the Kill T. duo is a crazed-up Shinn and Lunamaria.

Of course a guy like Salty Dog is an asshole. Frankly, this should start discussions as to why the Ark Faction wants the Intercept Faction to fail, dooming Earth. Do they have a stake in Uranus, or do they hope to use this attack to found a New World Order (the conspiracy theory, not the pro wrestling stable)?

edited 14th Apr '14 7:33:10 AM by JDogindy

Episode 2: The ability to summon a laser gun is really convenient.

Salty Dog is so nasty it's hilarious.

The fight was great. Dat mecha design helps.

Next episode is out.

Akari is best girl.

CALLED IT. the asshole with the glasses works for the Ark faction. (although he didn't sabotage the Earth Engine, he just manipulated Daichi into launching before the damage from the first battle was fixed).

Yay! Akari! (My computer is my only friend too. )

Of course Hana is an Innocent Fanservice Girl . Of course.

Um, wow. Paper cup phone technology.

We really need to learn what Teppei and Hana's deals are. P.s. I would like Hana a lot more if she had a personality other than Mystical Waif . I'm positive they'll work on that though. To be completely honest with myself, I may like her current self better if she were a loli.

Affirmative.

So Hana is becoming more of a Rei clone by the minute.

Also, I still want to strangle Glasses Dude.

"My restraint!"

I must admit, I do rather like Akari. She's pretty fun.

Yup. Akari's awesome. They see to be shipping her with Teppi.

Best phone ever?

Puck looks like a giant, preverted GLaDOS. Freaky.

Episode 3:

• Akari's the awesomesauce of the show.
• Restraint...lost.
• Paper phones, now with high tech functionality!
• Hana and Teppei grow more mysterious.
• Glasses Douche, doing what he does best.

That paper cup phone was brilliant. It's probably the laser string doing the work. Would it work with a tin can? A conch? Headphones?

Licensing alert!

Captain Earth has been picked up by…Sentai Filmworks!!!

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Yeah, I'm kinda bummed about this. Here's to hoping the dub won't suck. If there even will be one.

There probably will be one, because of what kind of show it is and because of the pedigree, I just hope Stephen Foster doesn't get it.

Who's Stephen Foster? And what do you mean by pedigree?

Just that Studio Bones mecha series tend to sell well, they look great on Blu-ray and so on.

And Steven Foster (spelled it wrong before) is one of the more notorious Sentai dub directors. The shows he directs tend to be miscast, weird line reads are used more often than not, a ton of swearing that wasn't there in the Japanese, characters tend to come off as noticeably more bitter and mean in the dubs and so on. He's not awful, but he's Sentai's main dub director, to the point of doing about half of their dubs, and I have no idea why. He's one of the main reasons Sentai doesn't have the greatest track record for dubs.

edited 26th Apr '14 10:24:42 AM by Zendervai

Next episode is out.

While he has a poor track record it seems he worked on one good dub - Cromartie High School. Though it may just be that it's bad yet it goes perfectly with the show, and he didn't do the script for it.

Also, confirmed and speculated Shakespeare references and some other stuff from /a/.

edited 26th Apr '14 11:38:41 AM by tvsgood

It's not just the names and themes that are references to theater, either. There's also extremely conspicuous stage lighting - usually in the form of spotlights - in certain places; the first new scene and the last scene in this most recent episode, for example. I absolutely love it. The more I think of many of these scenes as part of an elaborate stage play rather than an animated feature, the more eerily the details seems to fit.

edited 27th Apr '14 12:28:23 AM by darksidevoid