{"id":6956,"date":"2014-12-14T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:59:29","slug":"18-months-later-suisei-no-gargantia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/18-months-later-suisei-no-gargantia\/","title":{"rendered":"18 months later: Suisei no Gargantia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finally finished Suisei no Gargantia after stopping at episode 11 way back in June 2013<\/a>. I forgot almost everything about this show and got it confused with Aquarion Evol for a while, and for the longest time I didn’t know why I didn’t want to spend an hour of my life to watch two episodes of anime.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I realized why: Suisei no Gargantia is an incredibly mediocre show.<\/p>\n

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With a great and peaceful setting ideal for slice-of-life and an opening episode that hinted at epic battles and shit, Suisei no Gargantia looked like the successor to Eureka Seven. But why, damn it, why??? Why did a robot<\/strong> become the main character? Why did the last episode revolve around the character development of Chamber, and not around Ledo?<\/p>\n

Gurren Lagann was cool because Kamina sacrificed himself and Simon went all out fist-fight in the end. Eureka Seven was cool because we got to see Eureka and Renton’s relationship flourish.<\/p>\n

It’s not cool if you take Eureka, turn her into a machine, and then sacrifice it! I don’t care about ChamberxLedo! I don’t care about Chamber’s sacrifice! I just want to see men in big metal death machines fighting other big metal death machines and acting like badasses!! I don’t want to have Ledo’s character get overshadowed by Chamber’s development!<\/p>\n

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Gargantia rushed its ending, hopped back and forth slice-of-life and MECHA ACTION way too much, and introduced terrible characters like Bevel. But it would have at least been decent if the last episode didn’t make a robot a martyr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally finished Suisei no Gargantia after stopping at episode 11 way back in June 2013. I forgot almost everything about this show and got it confused with Aquarion Evol for a while, and for the longest time I didn’t know why I didn’t want to spend an hour of my life to watch two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New post - 18 months later: Suisei no Gargantia","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-shit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-1Oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7799,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}