Low budget? Weird. From promo material and screenshots I thought it looked pretty decent. Character designs were quite detailed and decently designed.
Working on a manga. With pictures! All feedback welcome!
It's not *bad* they're pretty decent at what they've got to work with, but you can tell they're not putting ALL THE MONEYZ on this one.
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I still have a vain hope that it'll turn out Argevollen will be completely incidental to the course of the war (although it might still help out our particular squad of misfits)
It just feels a little bit to "real" to have this one suit be a war-changing weapon on its own.
edited 2nd Aug '14 4:18:01 PM by Arilou
"No, the Singularity will not happen. Computation is hard." -Happy Ent
Quite. Which makes you wonder about the company that built it — surely they made this super powerful prototype with the aim to sell it eventually (prototype => testing/field trials => military contract => mass production is how it usually works), but to who?
edited 2nd Aug '14 5:01:24 PM by myssarei
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Based on the reactions of various in series people pointing out how useless it is overall, I wouldn't be surprised if you were right.
I feel like making a mech that only one person can ever use is not a good business model for selling it to the military. Unless only the prototype has that issue.
As someone mentioned in the main summer season page, this reminds me of Broken Blade. Mainly the super powerful mech piloted by a not great pilot. The victories basically come down to how much better the mech is and not the skill of the pilot.
edited 2nd Aug '14 9:54:07 PM by jedi1113
Given the extra gubbins' that prototypes in anime have, I'm sure the mental imprint thing is going to be one of the functions that will be dropped if mass-production happens. Kind of how in Gundam the G Ms didn't even have beam rifles, just spray guns, had a single saber, and a single head-mounted vulcan.
I think the assumption was always that the person who activated Argevollen would also pilot it. However, remember in the first episode, it's likely that the person who was supposed to do that was the guy who got killed sitting beside Jamie. Also, see what Jamie did — she started up Argevollen half-way, then stopped when she noticed that Tokimune was a military pilot.
Well, they could have compressed the pointless buildup last episode, ended it with Jamie setting out and had time to show Argvollen stomping the base or something. Going from "jamie starting argvollen"—>"they won" just seemed like a bit to much of a jump. It just really felt like it could have been handled better.
I liked the
. I wondered when he was gonna figure out that he could do that.

Huh, I was wondering how this seems to have flown under the radar for people, at least here. I mean, it's obviously less bombastic than Aldnoah Zero, but surely someone has to be following it? Or is it way too formulaic, hmm?
Now before anything else, I like to state the obvious: airpower. This universe doesn't seem to have it for some reason.
Anyway, this week's episode has obviously the team we're following land itself in a massive pickle, though I have to say, it's aaaaaaawfully convenient that their area was the only one whose flare went up. As I mentioned in another place, I smell a rat, and it's not on the other side of that forest clearing.