Whilst I fear nothing can save this series from regularity anymore, let's, for RyougaZell's sake, hope for the best!
Episode 4 - GNU-Shinsen
Whilst I fear nothing can save this series from regularity anymore, let's, for RyougaZell's sake, hope for the best!
Episode 4 - GNU-Shinsen
LOL Kraco.
Yeah... episode 4 was so-so... not the way I was expecting it to 'begin'
Anyway... I just picked two shows this season, so I'll keep seeing it anyway.
But I hate GNU partenered with shinsen...
Well I've decided to watch it just for the shojou-ai tension, I've been missing that ever since the Third ended. Also Luchia's dual colored eyes are sexy and hopefully they'll get shown more.
You got that right! Too bad they are really saving those moments for special moments. While that is good in a way, I could watch them a little more without the effect losing any impact whatsoever. But I guess it's all connected to the power of the covered eye.Originally Posted by Yukimura
Anyway, like RyougaZell, I wasn't expecting the beginning to be like that, but on the other hand, I wasn't negatively surprised. It was pretty cool. Actually better than anything we have seen so far. Although I wish they had shown Sumire attack Lucia after her first transformation (and after killing first the hairy virus).
Well, at least we can now keep guessing how long it takes before Sumire's secret boyfriend is turned into a virus, who will surprise Sumire and give her some moral dilemmas.
Still waiting for this series to be awesome. E1 was pretty good, set up an interesting premise, and now we're waiting for the story to get going.
Yay, I almost forgot about this series. Despite the fact that the episodes don't feel too impressive on their own, the story progression has me intruiged. I have a feeling Sumire is going to be going through (and dishing out) a ton of punishment.
... I've been attracted by the name of this series, and have started checking it out. I grabbed all of those anime-rg releases...
I'm not sure what your definition of "better" is ... but ... this group's editor, translator and qc people all completely fail at concepts like natural language, tenses, and plural forms.
I don't know how GNU is, but I know I consider Shinsen to be a fairly mediocre group, in terms of quality. I have never seen them make the sort of blatant script fuckups that a-rg's first episode is loaded with. Comparing my average level of expectations to what a-rg brought to the table the first episode is like comparing a $8 pizza to overcooked cheap ramen missing the seasoning pouch. The pizza's not great, but it's not bad either. The unseasoned ramen ... is pretty bad.
Quality gripes aside, the first episode was a little disappointing. The viruses seem ... stupid and comically grotesque. They're fiends without a remaining shred of humanity, things that invoke neither interest nor empathy. Caricatures of villainy, if you will. And, as caricatures, they have some mild comedic value, but there's really not a lot of drama to be had there.
Maybe it'll improve over the course of the series, but it certainly starts out pretty poorly.
Last edited by complich8; Sat, 03-24-2007 at 04:44 AM.
So far viruses have just been a means to give the main charachters a reason to interact. I think the story is going to be more about Sumire and Luchia and they're respective strange powers then the Viruses they fight.
Who cares about viruses? I just want to see Luchia's eyes; both of them in their full heterochromatic glory!
complich: I meant better than Shinsen... anything is better than Shinsen-slow-as-hell-Subs.
He knows you meant that. He said that a-rg is worse than Shinsen. So he wanted to know your definition of better. For him better is better quality, for you it seems that better simply means faster.
GNU-Shinsen episode 5
GNU-Shinsen episode 6
GNU-Shinsen episode 7
GNU-Shinsen episode 8
... I guess I could watch another ep or two of this series ...
is Shinsen still using the full screen version? cause Anime-RG uses the widescreen version of this show.
Gnu-Shinsen episode 9
Pretty sure they're still using the fullscreen version. For completeness, here's the anime-rg's up to now:
Anime-RG episode 7
Anime-RG episode 8
Personally, I still contend that using a better raw and being a better group are two very different things. I'm going to stick with the group that clearly passed 9th grade English composition over the group that clearly didn't. On the other hand, the "speed > everything" argument seems to have sort of gone away, now that gnu-shs is a bit ahead of a-rg...
Indeed.
In favor of keeping the subs from the same sub (and cause I prefer the widescreen) I'll keep with Anime-RG.
I was very dissapointed with Shinsen when they took so long to release .hack//ROOTS that the series got licensed so personally I really don't see me downloading from them.
Gnu-Shinsen episode 10
Gnu-Shinsen episode 11
I'm still on episode 4.
Just watched the last four eps of this series (finally) and... I didn't understand anything...
To those that saw the full series... did Sumire 'die' leaving behind only her berserk persona? Did Lucia destroy herself to 'save' Sumire or did both die?
WTF?
Wow, I forgot about this so fast after the last ep I'm almost shocked at how I don't remember the final episode at all. I think I remember a happily ever after ending where both lived, not too sure about that though.
=/
Well... it seems there will be an ep 13 on last dvd... oh well. Will have to wait.
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