April 19, 2005
Sousei no Aquarion Episode 3 - Element School
OP - Sousei no Aquarion (AKINO) - the song is awesome, the animation...I'm not sure. There's a few bits of footage from the first episode and so on which slightly spoil the effect, but there are some great moments in there.
Two new Element Candidates, Tsugumi and Jun, arrive at DEAVA headquarters and settle in to classes at the Element School - Apollo joins in at the same time, however, and things get off to a bad start when their first pilot simulation session goes completely bonkers. Afterwards, as Sophia attempts to penetrate Apollo's wild exterior as Silvia eavesdrops, another Cherubim attack forces Reika, Sirius and Silvia into action - with Apollo along for the ride in Silvia's Vector Machine. When Reika flashbacks once more, Pierre is called in to replace her, and the three combine to form Aquarion Mars (with Sirius at the head wielding a sword). While they defeat one Cherubim, another escapes with its harvest of humans, reminding the Candidates that reality and simulation are not the same thing.
Oh, who cares about the stupid moral of the episode. This episode is just filled with incredible levels of idiotic dorkiness and coolness alternating throughout. To go with the shounen ai we've now got some yuri vibes between Tsugumi (who fulfils the meganekko quota for the series...is there a male term for blokes wearing glasses in anime?) and Reika, the whole simulation scene cracked me up something rotten (even if it was terribly predictable) and the cheesy goodness of the mecha battles ("MOERUUUUUUUU!". Pierre is an idiot.) thrills me silly, and on the flipside we got some interesting character development for a lot of the cast alongside the usual awesome animation.
Needless to say, I seem to be able to turn all the fundamentally awful things about Aquarion into positive aspects in my head - mainly because it makes me laugh so much. The show is settling down a bit - Silvia is getting less annoying, a big plus point - but there's still so much dorkiness it's really not for everyone. But hey, I love it, and that's all that counts for me. Plus I defy you not to laugh at Sirius throughout most of this episode - "Formation Codename - Form of Beauty!" *hairflick*.
Posted by BluWacky at April 19, 2005 12:04 PM | TrackBackI want to watch it too!! Darn this job and its daily requirements for me to show up everyday. I agree that you need to be thoroughly immersed in the universe of Aquarion in order to turn its gawdawful cliches as see as them beautiful. But that's why it's great! I'm not watching this show for philosophical insight about the universe -- I'm watching it because it's entertaining and pretty and if it happens to make me laugh, so be it!!
Terrific review. I'm as hot as Pierre to see it tonight! XD
Posted by: Reika at April 19, 2005 06:07 PMI agree on the dorkiness thing, although it is worth watching for the great animations and frequent laughs (Although it's occasionally painful when the show takes itself too seriously)
Has anyone else noticed that the first five or six minutes of every episode tends to kick ass, but then the quality nosedives around the time the Vectors/Pierre show up? (Jesus christ, I hate Pierre...) Think about it, first there's the cool fight scene against the police robots, and then the Thoma awakening/Apollo interrogation scene. It's like they have a different director to do the first part of the episodes or something! If only everything in the show could be that good....
I think I'm going to burst into hysterics every time I see Sylvia in that Op sequence ^_^;
I really like this show, actually. I'm just hoping we get plenty of time for some non-Aquarion fight scenes during the series - I want to see flaming footballs and stuff, and the fighting clips in the OP look really cool.
Posted by: DiGiKerot at April 19, 2005 09:06 PMLMFAO. Same here. SAME here. This show is HILARIOUS!! Really! HILARIOUS!
And the opening song is so bloody catchy. Damn you Yoko Kanno, I can't concentrate on my plasmids!
Posted by: wao at April 20, 2005 07:55 AMOh, and the male term for 'glasses-wearing character' would probably end up being 'otaku' - and Jun is one in the stereotypical sense, in the next ep preview he's at his computer with a fanservicey figurine on top of his monitor...
Posted by: wao at April 20, 2005 01:42 PMFirst yaoi then yuri!
XD
I'll wait for the subs.
Anyway I think Sirius is being to much with his beauty atitude. Someone ought to slap him or something.
Posted by: iron2000 at April 20, 2005 02:03 PManyone no when the 3rd episode will come out subbed
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