Heroic Age Episode 4 - The Planet Titaros
The Argonaut docks at the planet Titaros (not a Greek word, just one they’ve made up that sounds Greek) to refuel etc., but the Silver Tribe sends a Nodoss, Carcinos (which means “crab”! Hee!), to test Age’s strength. Vehicular leaping and slightly ropey animation ensue.
What happened to the beautiful look of the first episode? Presumably they couldn’t keep it up everywhere. Shots still look good (the moody green lighting used for every time Deianeira sits in her psychic pod, for instance) but most of Age and Carcinos’ chase and fight in the streets looked a bit dodge. It doesn’t help that Carcinos has one of the ugliest faces I’ve ever seen on an anime character that’s not designed to be specifically disgusting…
Anyway, one thing the show is doing very nicely is revealing dribs and drabs about the other Nodoss (Nodoi?). Unlike Chevalier D’Eon (same chief writing dude) Heroic Age doesn’t have an overly original or intriguing plot (I’m not sure if Chevailer does any more…) but aside from the slightly dull Age himself and the Cutesy Twins HA is doing quite nicely on the character front. It would be nice if we could have both an awesome plot and awesome characters, though, but this is only the fourth episode after all.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Don’t you think they were referring to Τάρταρος? I doubt it has any relevance to the plot, but the similarity between Titaros and Tartarus is undeniable.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
actually, Titaros is a mountain in Greece, at the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, next to the Olympos.
It is mentioned in greek mythology (one of the argonauts is said to come from there, and it seems it’s mentioned with Homer as well)