{"id":3227,"date":"2009-07-12T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2009-07-12T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T05:22:37","slug":"i-emerge-from-my-e7-shelter-halfway-through-the-show-to-offer-some-commentary-that-you-probably-wont-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/i-emerge-from-my-e7-shelter-halfway-through-the-show-to-offer-some-commentary-that-you-probably-wont-read\/","title":{"rendered":"I emerge from my E7 shelter halfway through the show to offer some commentary that you probably won&#8217;t read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090711235051.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090711235051.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes Eureka Seven good? \u00a0<strong>I have no clue<\/strong>. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not going to try and write lengthy essays on the appeal of the series, either. \u00a0You people who&#8217;ve already written lengthy essays on E7 will probably shoot my speculation boat down with your criticism lasers, so it&#8217;s not worth it.<\/p>\n<p>But I do know one thing: Eureka Seven is, as of episode thirty-something, my favorite anime of all time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well, I do know more than one thing, actually. \u00a0Or else I&#8217;d&#8217;ve stopped this post before this line.<\/p>\n<p>Eureka Seven isn&#8217;t perfect. \u00a0I can probably name off a hundred different things that could be used to support an argument that E7 is pretty shitty. \u00a0(Of course, this may be saying something about my powers of nitpicking and\/or drawing proof out of my ass.)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so we&#8217;ve got it down that E7 could be considered bad (just pretend we did). \u00a0So why would I call it my favorite anime? \u00a0I&#8217;m not even done with it, and endings mean a lot to my views on anime (just look at After Story&#8217;s deus ex machina ending!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090623010341.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3230\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090623010341.jpg?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My liking of anime is like Renton&#8217;s liking of Eureka: love at first sight. \u00a0Or something along those lines.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, making an incredible first impression on me doesn&#8217;t hurt. \u00a0Eureka Seven made the best first impression on me that any anime has ever made on me (pardon the shoddy english). \u00a0Whenever somebody recommends me an anime and I see that it&#8217;s generally considered good, I have a tendency to try and attack the series in my quest to become a maverick. \u00a0But the moment I double-clicked on &#8220;episode one,&#8221; I was hit by the real-world equivalent of a Seven Swell.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renton Thurston&#8217;s introduction<\/li>\n<li>Renton Thurston&#8217;s description of the town that he doesn&#8217;t like<\/li>\n<li>The board-fixing guy who doesn&#8217;t appear ever again in the show<\/li>\n<li>Grandpa Thurston<\/li>\n<li>SUDDENLY, EUREKA APPEARS<\/li>\n<li>Awesome stuff<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So in a nutshell, you plunge into an epic world head-first. \u00a0Eureka appears, Renton&#8217;s family history is revealed, Renton&#8217;s dreams and hopes are revealed, etc. \u00a0There isn&#8217;t anything as retarded as kicking the show off with a ridiculous battle for the shock and awe factor, nor is there anything equally retarded as kicking the show off with a total filler episode explaining everything flat-out. \u00a0You get a show that&#8217;s half laid-back with the somewhat slice-of-life aspects of Renton&#8217;s life and half actiony with Eureka&#8217;s sudden appearance.<\/p>\n<p>And then the show kept that feel. \u00a0Never before have I seen or heard of a mecha show that&#8217;s also slice-of-life. \u00a0You&#8217;d think that that&#8217;d be one huge recipe for failure, but Eureka Seven pulls it off well. \u00a0I&#8217;m around three-fourths through the show, and I&#8217;ve seen the slow but steady transition from slice-of-life mecha to epic show of awesomeness.<\/p>\n<p>You could say that Gurren Lagann also achieved this, but that show went above and bey0nd the limits of reason. \u00a0Somewhere along the line, the epicness became ridiculous. \u00a0E7 doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0It starts out good, gets better, and hopefully ends at the pinnacle of its glory, atop the throne of all anime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3233\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090708023331.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3233\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/snapshot20090708023331.jpg?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">...to watching more E7!  Blogging takes a lower priority!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>tl;dr Eureka is awesome, and I have a figure of her in front of my monitor.<br \/>\nThe figure is actually kind of distracting me from the show. \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to watch a show when a character from the show is staring at you.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this was pretty half-assed, but halfway through typing this, I got bored and wanted to watch E7.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: NEW BANNER LOLS!!1one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes Eureka Seven good? \u00a0I have no clue. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not going to try and write lengthy essays on the appeal of the series, either. \u00a0You people who&#8217;ve already written lengthy essays on E7 will probably shoot my speculation boat down with your criticism lasers, so it&#8217;s not worth it. 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