I practically agree with the last two reviews. Age had an average beginning, awesome middle, and craptastic end. My main problems stemmed from Kio's arc- the only reason I was watching it was because I'd watched so far already. The Big Bad seemed like a mentally retarded 12 year old with a Live Journal account instead of a mastermind. Followed by severe character derailment from most of the developed characters, shallow characterization from the new characters, and my willingness to say the Eight Deadly Words just skyrocketed.
However, it did have some good points. For one, the mecha designs and battles were always nice. Plus Asemu was awesome as always, even though he is quite possibly the worst father to ever grace the franchise. I could count on one hand the things I actually liked about the last arc; namely, Natora and Seric. There were like four good episodes of that whole arc. Saddening, really.
All in all, I would give Gundam AGE's Kio Arc a 3/10. I hope the next series is of a much better quality.
Then again, I suppose if it weren't adapted from a videogame, and instead just a standalone anime, it would have been much different, and perhaps, enjoyable. Here's hoping Super Robot Wars can make this trainwreck a lot of fun.
Eh.
I practically agree with the last two reviews. Age had an average beginning, awesome middle, and craptastic end. My main problems stemmed from Kio's arc- the only reason I was watching it was because I'd watched so far already. The Big Bad seemed like a mentally retarded 12 year old with a Live Journal account instead of a mastermind. Followed by severe character derailment from most of the developed characters, shallow characterization from the new characters, and my willingness to say the Eight Deadly Words just skyrocketed.
However, it did have some good points. For one, the mecha designs and battles were always nice. Plus Asemu was awesome as always, even though he is quite possibly the worst father to ever grace the franchise. I could count on one hand the things I actually liked about the last arc; namely, Natora and Seric. There were like four good episodes of that whole arc. Saddening, really.
All in all, I would give Gundam AGE's Kio Arc a 3/10. I hope the next series is of a much better quality.
Then again, I suppose if it weren't adapted from a videogame, and instead just a standalone anime, it would have been much different, and perhaps, enjoyable. Here's hoping Super Robot Wars can make this trainwreck a lot of fun.