Tytania

[Kraco]

Let's hope this will make Fan finally do something. To speak the truth this episode made me think this show isn't worth watching if all the dude is made of is one battle won and then nothing but lazing and running and avoiding all sorts of responsilbities and work. The dukes are interesting enough people but since Fan gets plenty of screentime, it would be painful to watch that kind of stuff much longer.

[Yukimura]

I've been having delusional hopes that Fan would just quietly fade from the show only to be remembered as 'the guy who initially started the ball rolling towards whatever the real plot of the show will be. Fan just doesn't do much for me, he's too 'regular' for lack of a better word to inspire me to see him any better or worse than any other run of the mill neutral character. He's clearly more clever than most other characters but I don't have much faith in the idea that he could lead another large tactical force to victory against Tytania, possibly because he seems to have similar feelings about himself.

[masamuneehs]

I think Hyulick is still the guy to stick it to Tytania. I have no doubt that the rivalry between the dukes will be a main plot, but I can't help but think that somewhere, somehow, (maybe next episode) Hyulick takes that step and decides to go into the ring.

I actually like that he's a "normal" guy. The Dukes are interesting in their own way, but they're also so very stiff it's almost like they're robots. They do have a few characteristics that set them apart and give them personality, but it's still hard to relate to them.

Besides, Hyulick and his crew makes me chuckle sometimes.

[shinta|hikari]

@Yuki - that is precisely what makes Fan so special. He doesn't think of what he has done as any major achievement. That means that he does not pride himself for defeating Tytania, probably because that battle itself is nothing astounding, and he himself is aware this. If he started bragging about his victory and attributing it to his skill, it will imply that his strategy before was the maximum of his tactical ability.

This awareness and humility signals to me that Fan is capable of more things, and he knows it. He simply does not have the drive to use it at present.

[Kraco]

Episode 12 - ANBU


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Wow, this episode sucked majorly. The plot to get to the planet was the only good thing but otherwise you have to look at Naruto fillers to find as bad script writing. If Fan had so little motivation to get anything done at the mansion, why did he travel to "save" Lira in the first place? The man sucks beyond redemption. I wish he will die soon and somebody better takes the lead in this series or this won't be worth watching much longer. If he's this miserable at the core, that is, when the life of the girl he liked was at stake, I doubt he manages to do anything at all even if he now supposedly begins to hate Tytania. He's nothing but a loser, who was lucky just once.

[masamuneehs]

i really liked the part with Zarlish, Ajman's talk about mothers and sons (some kind of prelude to a personal backstory?) and Zarlish's subsequent anger and guilt about his relationship with his little brother.

Bal'ami, you have become a bitch. Officially.

Jouslain looked more than ever like he was really going to be the sucker to fall for the stubborn little Elbing princess. I'd expected a more dignified, noble way for him...

Wow. Big, huge, butch woman adds a whole new extra kick-ass level to the psychological warfare known as 'good cop-bad cop' that Hyulick pulled off to get past the standard security twerps. Sure, they didn't look like much, but if any one of them had done their job, it would have been over for Hyulick.

Emmental is a thriving economic port, so sending a "huge" fleet to draw out their forces while a small infilitration team uses the confusion and chaos at the ports to sneak in is good theory, but what about the fact that the Honest Old Man has been ID'd by Zarlish's pursuit team before? Did they use a different ship to get in? And nobody has visuals on what Hyulick or his people (including the ex-leader of a country that's now a resistance group directly tied to the key hostage) look like to give to the common guard staff? At least a mask or two would have been in the cards...

However, the use of the Emmental Resistance army and their land-locked military resources to deploy a blitzkreig seige of the Count's personal estate as a distraction for the actual infiltration, is, coupled with the "THEY'RE ROCKS, ZARLISH! ROCKS!" fleet tomfoolery an excellent, excellent tactical move.

Alses, that's the trouble with surrounding yourself with beautiful young boys solely created to serve your sexual desires... god forbid they resent you for it...

However, I don't care how light you are on personnel, you HAVE to send someone with Hyulick to secure Lira. I wouldn't even let the weak bastard go near the mansion. A good platoon of ground soldiers would do the job much better... and safer...

De Bohr. In a show where half-decent people are hard to find, you still manage to make all of them look incredibly noble.

Kudos to the Emmental Resistance Front Major. Knowing when the good fight has been finished, that is some excellent quality for a military leader.

On the character development front, I thought it was excellent that not only did we have Lira raging against being called "Hyulick's girl", but Hyulick completely trying to act cool in front of her by saying that it was Miranda who forced him to come rescue her. This kind of relationship, if you take out the teary reaction by Lira and the stupid, long embrace in a totally exposed position, is the kind I really dig.

I lol'd at Hyulick making a point of Alses finally remembering his name.

Holy shit. Lira. Wow. Jumping Alses, into the pool. that is the kind of selfless sacrifice that, sorry Kraco, is worth an entire season's worth of Naruto non-filler episodes.

Alses. Wow. At first I was pissed that he survived at all, but having him be disifigured instead is a much more gripping plot twist. His little loyal servant even managed to add the precise amount of tension to the scene.

I seriously can't figure out what more you'd want from a show. Sure, the pacing is sorta bad, but how the hell would you build a relationship between a love interest and the main character when they're seperated by star systems, only to have them re-unite and the girl die? Really? That's the stuff of Naruto filler? I don't think so. To me that's the stuff of epic legend. It makes Hyulick completely resolved to bring down Tytania, it gives us a jusitifcation for the future to hate Idris, and it gives you that real-world character development that people easily write off as 'cliche' and 'tried' but really continues to show up again and again throughout time and place.

[Kraco]

Hey, I had nothing against Lira sacrificing herself to save Fan. That's not my point. My point was:

However, I don't care how light you are on personnel, you HAVE to send someone with Hyulick to secure Lira. I wouldn't even let the weak bastard go near the mansion. A good platoon of ground soldiers would do the job much better... and safer...

Seriously. This man is supposedly a genius and he was expecting to meet no guards inside the lord's mansion? He didn't expect the lord himself to oppose him rescuing the hostage (I guess it didn't visit his mind, either, why the girl had been taken a hostage, eh?). The dude is a bigger fool than Naruto in the fillers, because at least Naruto didn't drop his weapon on the floor the first moment an enemy appears. What pisses me off os that the dude just marched into the mansion thinking of nothing but Lira's sweet smile, with no plans, with no intention of fighting... Was it even his purpose to save her?

Nobody is that stupid.

[Yukimura]

I found it hard to buy that the security guards hadn't been briefed on Hyulicks appearance. It seems like Fan should have something akin to Osama bin Laden level status inside Tytania, especially the little pocket of Tytania where a trap has been specifically laid out for him. Unless Alyses is a complete moron he should have known that Fan might try something sneaky and made sure all his men knew who they were looking for. The fact that a guard at a spaceport didn't recognize the face of possibly the most wanted man on the planet was too much for my suspension of disbelief unless it's supposed to imply Alyses is actually that big of a moron. While I'm not about to equate the series with Naruto fillers because there are things I actually like about it I'm not particularly impressed with the overall flow of events in episode 12.

[MFauli]

You know, the series may have flaws, but it´s one of my favorite shows right now. There just arent such epic adventure-anime anymore. Heroic Age, Toward the Terra, vision of escaflown, utawarerumono, and so on.

just emo-kids with supernatural powers...though i like Index :P

[Kraco]

The Tytanian way:

Episode 13 - ANBU

[masamuneehs]

Tytania 13 - ANBU - mkv






It was almost sad to see how pathetic it ended for Alses. I'd think that Zarlish, or someone, would reprimand Idris for how he handled the situation... He didn't even get a shot at Hyulick at all... His plan to lure him out was good, but he should have struck eariler, while Hyulick's fleet was still focused on destroying the Aurora.

Hyulick is like a totally different guy now. Wonder what his next move will be...

I think Ajman is going to bite it pretty soon. That'll throw all of Tytania into chaos, with fighting for the top. It'll create a huge amount of opportunity for Hyulick to find new allies.

...or looks like Ajman's brother will just kick-start the trouble next episode... I still can't figure out what the hell Bal'ami is doing narrating the previews...

[Kraco]

Enemy of Tytania:

Episode 14 - ANBU

[masamuneehs]

[01:01] <Mune> oh christ zarlish
[01:01] <Mune> fucking christ
[01:01] <Mune> i totally understand why you're doing it
[01:02] <Mune> but you're totally fucking everything up
[01:05] <Mune> he's so blunt and straight-forward. a terrible mind, but a marvelous and terrible soul.
[01:05] <Yukimura-San> at least he loves his mom

[01:14] <Mune> oh FUCK
[01:14] <Mune> Jouslain did that?
[01:14] <Mune> OMFG indeed
[01:15] <Mune> i think i wrote him in as a different kind of character too early

[01:24] <Kraco> A nice Tytania lord? What's that?
[01:24] <Kraco> Oh, he's the guy in the early grave.
[01:24] <Yukimura-San> it's a dream
[01:26] <Mune> kraco, that's what i thought was going to happen
[01:26] <Mune> Jouslain gets capped, Aryabtha has to step up
[01:27] <Mune> but, man, he sure can act
[01:27] <Kraco> In the end this is the kind of series that anybody could suddenly die, I reckon.
[01:27] <Mune> that whole apology to Bal was so good that i had to go back to the 'smile' and check
[01:28] <Mune> but, that surely is the signature "End Bad Guy Smug Smile" TM
[01:28] <Yukimura-San> he could be genuinely sorry but still not care enough to regret what he played a part in
[01:29] <Mune> i don't buy that
[01:29] <Yukimura-San> Jouslain doesn't seem the type to waste useful people
[01:29] <Mune> nobody smiles like that
[01:29] <Mune> unless they're loving what they're doing

You magnificent bastard, Jouslain.

Can't say the preview excites me for the next episode...

[Kraco]

It was a bit surprising but in the end the dude can't just sit in his office and keep himself busy with only watching over the princess all the day long (even though she's such a handful that it would probably be a fulltime job to look after her). Jouslain doesn't look like a warmonger and doesn't want to identify as a wicked plotter like Idris so behind the scenes manipulations is what's left for him. I doubt you can be a Tytania Lord doing nothing, after all.

And Fan is back to what he's best at: Escaping responsibities and loitering.

[Kraco]

Fugitive's journey:

Episode 15 - ANBU


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Edit: Ho... Pretty dangerous how Fan almost got interested in a little girl. It's a good thing he finally gathered his determination before anything irreversible happened.

[masamuneehs]

i thought it was a little heavy on hope, but i suppose it needed to be. the little girl is a bit annoying, but she serves her purpose as team cheerleader...

Damn, sounds like Berthier really got some kind of nasty end... Poor guy should have just stayed away...

Jouslain keeps buttering up Aryabtha, saying things about how he thinks Bart's the best man for the job, all while planting little seeds of doubt in his mind about Zarlish and Idris. I still can't tell if he's a masterful evil guy, or a masterful good guy.

there is no way Hyulick was ever going to tap that ten year old ass.

[masamuneehs]

Preparing for Trouble
ANBU - Tytania - Episode 16 - mkv torrent



thoughts: pretty good episode. most of this stuff would be left out, since battle/mission preparations usually always fall to the wayside when it comes to animating... I like the interaction between all of Hyulick's crew, except the Doctor is starting to get on my nerves a little.

The plan to get money is, well... Remember "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" ? It can work, for sure, and I'll give it a B for balls, but there has GOT to be a better way... the dude with the wicked stare and the sunglasses has "i'm going to fuck your day up" written all over him...

Jouslain did the little evil smile again... man, I'm still not sold on him harboring evil intentions... throwing his lot in with Zarlish is surely going to anger Idris though...

[masamuneehs]

Money for Nothing

ANBU - Tytania - Episode 17 - HQ MKV torrent

note: this will be my last time bumping this series. i didn't think it'd be too popular here, but if i'm the only one watching it, i'll just keep my comments to myself from now on, as well as cease bothering people by posting the links.

[Kraco]

Nah, I'm still watching this, but I have to say I'm somewhat disillusioned by the latest developments. While I admit the grand politics are quite good in the story, the smaller details and action plainly sucks. Like this latest episode and the escape. The action was so bad it almost made no sense whatsoever. Add to that the fact we have now 17 episodes behind and Fan still hasn't done anything concrete at all to rebel against Tytania, and the only conclusion is that this series hasn't got the slightest idea what it's doing or where it's going.

I'm getting really disappointed. And it's all wrong anyway because the bunny escaped, right?

[masamuneehs]

well i do admit, there was a lot of stupid in this episode. you call surrounding a space ship with ground troops a capture plan? can we get any more cute with the heavy metaphors in the Loli Princess' segments? Did anyone ethink that Kyle's character was so much more badass when he didn't have some nasty backstory that was supposed to make us angry with him? you let an unarmed woman take your leader hostage, then couldn't get them once she killed him?

the only good thing about this episode was that it didn't end well for Fan Hyulick. Mahdi might have messed up, but the whole operation was pretty shitty on the actual jailbreak end (kudos for the execution of the diversion to draw out the garrison forces though).

i'm starting to get pissy because I have no idea how many episodes there will be, and at this pace things would not to escalate damn quickly to be half decent...