ITT: Underrated greatness.

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>>11750031
>captain earth
>anything other than extremely boring

Even most bad mecha can be enertaining but Captain earth is a whole different level of garbage.

>>11750040
Thanks for the opinion, now let's hear from people who have actually watched it.

>>11750031

The magical girl was great, yes, but Raraya is being the better retard right now.

>>11750031
Captain Earth was generic bones shit and you are shit.
Are you the same anon who's been posting all these Captain Earth threads? Stop forcing this shit.

>>11750049
I will fite you.

I waited literally every episode for this shit to get going because I liked the main mech and you're saying I haven't seen it.

>>11750061
It's better than that other guy who makes the same Valvrave shit posts over and over. Positivity is nice sometimes.

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Captain Earth was really bad.
Everything wrong with modern anime, the awful mannerisms of the characters being the most prominent issue.

At least it was pretty.

>>11750031
I liked it too. Not perfect, but still excellent. One of the best shows of the year.

Pay no mind to the shitposter.

>>11750067
You certainly haven't truly watched it if you think nothing happened over those 25 episodes. You're probably the same kind of person who thinks Cloud Atlas is hard to follow because no Michael Bay explosions 24/7.

>>11750031
I thought it was Bone's best mecha show in years. Well done except for a few miss steps like Salty dog.

That said I realize it's an extreme minority opinion.

>>11750145
Positivity is one thing
'EVERY DAY UNTIL YOU LIKE IT' is another entirely.

It's great to like it, OP. But if you're the one behind all the other threads, dial it back a little. Let one or two of them breath and ease off before you make another.

>>11750874
Fuck you, I do what I want.

>>11750031
Well I thought it was fucking great. Fuck the haters

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>>11750031

>>11750942
Forgot your trip, VF.

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>>>11750961

>>11750031
Meh, would've been better if the fights were more interesting
Earth Engine looked fucking cool but it didn't really do much.

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>>11750031
Majestic Prince

>>11751036
This is a troll thread. Posting MJP would be on topic

>>11751044
We can just call MJP Hijack.

>>11750049
>now let's hear from people who have actually watched it
It was boring.

>>11751157
Yea, this. I even liked it. Didn't suffer usual BONES retardation though.

>>11750961
Were did he go anyway? Haven't see him post for a long time, last thing I remember was that he was helping making a game

>>11750031
It was boring as fuck

>>11750031
I wish I could get that skin tight spandex in real life.

>>11751314
>I wish I could get a girl to wear that skin tight spandex for me in real life.

fixed to the max

>>11751331
Nope, I want to wear skin tight spandex that is unnaturally shinny.

Well, what can I say? Better than fucking Gundam 00.

>>11754537
What does Gundam 00 even have to do with anything in the thread?

>>11754537
00 is a masterpiece compared to Captain Shit.

>>11754550
>>11754559
People bitch endlessly about how Captain Earth is "boring" just because they can't stand a show with a focus on plot over action. So then 00 gets praised for having a lot of action even though its plot is complete nonsensical garbage and that means the action is shit too because it's all for the dumbest reasons ever. On top of not being that well done in the first place, but oh man, there's a ton of it, so apparently it's great!

00 fans have ruined this board.

>>11754583
I'm not even a Gundamfag let alone a 00fag.

You went into a thread to shitpost about a random, completely unrelated show and I called you out.

People who are so far gone in obsessive hate that they obnoxiously shitpost about shows they don't like to stunt and derail discussion are far more pathetic than fanboys.

>>11754583
>its plot is complete nonsensical garbage
except it's not
eat shit and die, bonesfaggot

>>11754583
>00 fans have ruined this board.

Fllay detected. The board is much better off without you, so you can safely go back to /a/ and take your weird obsession with 00 with you.

Shitposters like yourself have ruined this board. No fans of anything have.

00 rarely even gets discussed here. Boogieman much.

>>11754583
>So then 00 gets praised for having a lot of action even though its plot is complete nonsensical garbage and that means the action is shit too because it's all for the dumbest reasons ever.
What.

>>11750874
The other threads aren't me btw. Nor is >>11750885, obviously.

>>11750031

I thought it was basically a more boring version of Star Driver. They kept throwing around all these high-concept terms, and the sheer weight of terminology gets boring after a while.

More, no-one actually got killed, and the final boss was barely animated. He just hovered around and spouted dialogue. This show just felt amazingly clumsy, for want of a better word: It's not bad by itself, but it has the problem of coming after Star Driver. Which did all the stuff with less clutter.

>>11754736
Felt like it went nowhere.

>>11754736
>Which did all the stuff with less clutter.
Pfffffhahahahaahahahahaahahahaha

>>11754736
>the sheer weight of terminology

You mean the extremely easy to understand terminology that they made a point of explaining clearly in case there was anyone who was too dumb to understand it based on context? Yeah man, must be tough.

>>11754781

Don't knock it, it's true. Star Driver had like five phrases you had to remember. ('Approvise', 'Cybody', 'Samekh' and 'Cybercasket'. Later, 'Samekh'.) Captain Earth had a whole goddamn lexicon.

I still don't know what 'Neoteny' means.

Bones.

>>11750031
>ITT: Wasted potential
FTFY. It wasn't in any way a bad show, but it wasn't stellar either. It had a great setting, awesome designs and some cool characters, but the plot itself was really generic, and the pacing was all over the place.

Also, the battles were predictable as fuck - every time an Impacter fought a Killtgang there was a few minutes of the Impacters jobbing, and then winning through some asspull. Though at least the final fight was cool.

>>11754798
How can an asspull be predictable?

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>>11751007
>Captain Earth will never be the big heavy hitting brawler that it appears to be

Seriously, fuck them for making that thing out of paper

>>11754805
I assume when something is so stupid and contrived yet predictable of bad writing at the same time.

>>11754787
Then you're a fool. All Neoteny meant was "the special people who could use the Livlasters". And then the Livlasters were just the gun things they used to pilot their robots.

I suppose it's easy for an idiot to get confused by the way they nested it, but every single piece of terminology in CE could be explained with a few simple words.

>>11754791
Easily one of the greatest anime studios. I'm glad that they refrain from using much CGI in an age where it has become too prevalent.

>>11750307
> haven't truly watched it
Nice No True Scotsman there m8

Only on /m/ can you call an anime good and be accused of shitposting.

>>11754807
Such a waste...

>>11754851
While I can't say if he's right in this case, it's not as though we haven't seen people on this board who've made it clear they either didn't watch a show or didn't actually pay that much attention for the glaring shit they miss.

>>11754894
You aren't allowed to like things I don't like.

>>11754894
You've never been to /v/ apparently.

/m/ sadly picks up more and more of its board culture as the years go on. Add that on top of half-assed moderation and this place is becoming near unbrowsable.

>>11754736
>no-one actually got killed
Confirmed for not seeing the ending

>>11754805
You can predict that there will be an asspull. Not what the asspull will be.

>>11754935
You sound a little salty.
Did it ruin your day that someone on the internet called your favourite show shit?

>>11754940

Why? The blue-haired guy is explicitly alive at the end of the show. They literally say "Yeah, he stepped out." and it's not an euphenism, because his charred corpse would be lying in the pod if he was dead.

>>11755037
I wasn't talking about Amarok

>>11754787

A Neoteny is a juvenile that displays one or more properties usually reserved for an adult.

Like a tadpole that has legs.

From the perspective of a Kiltgang humans (which are supposed to be nothing more than food) wielding the power of the livlaster are special exceptions making use of a level of power that should be beyond their class of being.

>MJP

Ewww Hirai face.

How would I fix Captain Earth? Quite simply remove the whole Salty Dog politics bullshit. And just make it a generic mecha story about space monsters and how they have to use the Earth Engine to stop threats from entering the atmosphere. And get rid of Logicaru Logicaru, or have her do the math wrong and get blown the fuck out of orbit via Matt Damon in Interstellar.

>>11755179
A quick Google search shows that it's the other way around: Neoteny is the retention of juvenile features in adult animals. Captain Earth probably got it the other way around: the Kiltgang view themselves as the "adults" who are functionally immortal and can utilize orgone, while Earthlings are the juveniles who don't have access to such abilities.

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>>11755179
>A Neoteny is a juvenile that displays one or more properties usually reserved for an adult.
Neurofag here. This is backwards. Neoteny is delayed maturation, seen as retention of juvenile traits (large head-to-body ratio, delayed sexual maturation) in an adult. That is, the adult displays child-like traits which goes by the term paedomorphism and is hopefully the only time today I'll have to use that word.

This is particularly of interest in encephalization, or how a species increases its cranail capacity: by delaying the onset of a larger body frame, the cranial cavity to body ratio remains higher, allowing for significantly greater surface area (after infolding, since neuronal layers are static and adding more depth is not fruitful).

>Captain Earth
>Good
I really, really wish I could like it
I really do
The problem is that it took too long to get anywhere and when it did, it was really underwhelming
Which is a shame, because it has great girls and great mechs

>>11754980
I'm pretty salty, dog.

>>11754851
What the fuck? Do you like just throwing around terms you learned in middle school or something? Because that doesn't remotely apply to this.

>>11755186
Yes, the idiots who said this missed out on a pretty great show. Good riddance, they don't deserve it.

>>11755264
Stop typing like this
It is very annoying
And does nothing to enhance your point
You fucking tool.

>>11755384
n
o

>>11755391
Now that is just obnoxious.

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M3 needs more love

>>11755562

To this day I still don't understand why this did so bad.

>>11755562
I was going to create a separate thread for that but I didn't want to blow my load just yet so I thought I'd wait a few weeks or so. Perhaps I'll use that image when the time comes.

>>11755566
The ending was some dumb ass shit for one.

>>11755373
I think it's pretty sad that you think missing out on a supposed good show is such a big deal. It's just fucking anime.

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>>11755566

you and me both mate. Shit was great. I loved the spin on the whole UNDERSTANDING cliche


>>11755570

this one is also good

>>11755580

it was fantastic

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best OTP

>>11755566
Horrendous exposition, unlikeable cast, weird pacing. I didn't care how good people claimed it was, I bailed the fuck out after about 4 eps because I couldn't take any more of it.

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>>11756330
>I bailed the fuck out after about 4 eps

so yeah let's not give anyone a chance to grow as characters or let the narrative take it's course. Nope all character development and story needs to be explained in full in 4 episodes

>>11756350
I'm not saying it's bad. Maybe it does become amazing. Maybe not. I'm just not gonna give it a chance for that to even happen after enduring that horrendous start.

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>>11755193
>Hating based Magical Girl

>>11756350
>so yeah let's not give anyone a chance to grow as characters or let the narrative take it's course.
The problem with that is...it takes fucking 13 episodes to reach that point. I'm all for giving shows chances but for the love of god you can't expect people to be patient if the show takes that long to improve itself

>>11750031
Wasted Potential, the series.

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>>11756380
Did someone say belly button?

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It was boring but comfy, with lots of cool shots of rockets and space and shit. Plus, it had a hopeful end. I once heard someone call it a mirror of Evangelion. Boy wants to pilot robot, father figure actually tries to stop him, even a single angel/kill-t-gang could destroy the Earth, etc.

>>11755193
>Quite simply remove the whole Salty Dog politics bullshit
This. It was pointless and all they tried to do was capture Hana, multiple times. It got boring real fast.

>>11755854
It being "anime" doesn't make it separate from other good things you're missing out on. It's just like not having seen a great work of art. Sure, you won't notice if you don't know, but it makes me feel bad for you that your life lacks that bit of greatness.

>>11755580
Yeah, because the ending they wouldn't have heard anything about is totally the reason why people wouldn't be watching the show. While it is still airing. Before the ending exists. You are so smart.

My only guess is that it just wasn't marketed very well and the measured pace put off most of the few people who actually ended up trying it, because people have no patience. There was definitely something weird going on with how late into the season it started compared to everything else.

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I for one was shocked how grizzly M3 got in the end

>>11757048
>because people have no patience.
Or the show took too fucking long to pick up and it's not worth the investment either. M3 like CE is under appreciated for a reason, both shows just sucked at drawing viewers into the world despite not being overly offensive or stupid. We may hate A/Z for good reason but it's appeal makes sense and it was able to capture viewers as fast as it lost them when it was shown that the people behind it had no idea what the fuck they were doing and was just going through a checklist of popular tropes to sell it by in comparison to CE which never went...ANYWHERE and just remained consistently mediocre and M3 which had a really bad start but got much better as it went on and then ended on a somber note where you can't even much recommend it as a whole.

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>>11757104

Id recommend it as a whole, I won't deny it was a slow build but it was dropping mysteries and elements of a larger plot super early

plus shit got weird fast

>>11756451
>Tfw most of the porn is of Hana and not Akari

>>11754894
>I've never been outside of /m/

>>11750031

It was shit. The protagonists were dull and colourless. The antagonists were Team Rocket. The limp humour was cringeworthy. Most of the storylines were flat and uninteresting. It was filled to the brim with stupid terminology, and that's even by the standards already set by mecha and sci-fi in general. The mecha were OK but nothing special. The best thing about it was those awesome unnecessarily complicated transformation sequences.

>>11757104
>investment
I'd call it a gamble. I literally found staring at my wall more enjoyable than to watch the first several eps of M3, and I am supposed to endure 4~5 more hrs of that so that I MAY OR MAY NOT enjoy the good parts of the show? How about I just drop the show that I have no obligations to continue watching?

Worst case scenario I miss out on a potentially good show that in all likely hood isn't gonna be a life changing experience. That and some random guy on the internet who takes his anime too seriously is gonna disapprove. Seems like the better option than to keep watching.

>>11757315
>I literally found staring at my wall more enjoyable than to watch the first several eps of M3
I didn't quite feel that way, but I don't think I've ever felt the same way about an anime that I did about M3.

Every week, when a new episode came out, I was never really excited for it. It always took me a while to work up enough interest to even bother downloading it. But as soon as I started watching it, I would suddenly remember "oh yeah, this show is actually good." It felt like I had to rediscover the show every single week for months. And I still have no idea why.

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>>11757672
>>11757315

if you can really sit down and watch it at once it's a much better experience, it really has a lot of small things that make it interesting that you may forget between the weeks

>>11750031
Captain Earth was shit. If anything is overrated considering it's a bones mecha anime that lowered their standards even more.

I liked it. It was fun. Hana was cute.

>>11757690
I did watch the several ep at once. After which I wanted to kill the entire cast, the writers, and the people who hyped it up. I tried to give it another chance, watch one more ep, and I started hating myself. That's when I just went fuck it and hit shift+delete.

>>11756330
>unlikeable cast
Well, it takes a while for them to realise that they are being assholes and they have to change.
The only characters that was likeable from the start to the end was Iwato and Raika, unsurprisingly.

>M3
Instead of waiting for the good parts to happen, why not apprecite everything else in the show while you watch? One thing they did great was the atmosphere, the setting was effectively end-of-the-world-is-here, and the backgrounds and such reflect that, the town near the area is deserted, there wasn't any people there that wasn't involved in the whole thing.
Another aspect I like is that the characters are fairly logical(and realistic), even the guy in charge of the whole thing went "This is horrible lets not risk the kids" at one point.
The message of the show, that's a good one, and its supported by the events in the show.

>>11757855
>why not apprecite everything else in the show while you watch?
Because it's not particularly interesting

>>11757883
To be honest, I was hooked onto the show after the first episode, I had questions regarding the mysteries and the characters, and the show answered them as it went on.
The tone shift halfway through was so smooth, watching the first episode after the last episode, they felt like different shows, the character development helped massively with that. The show takes unlikeable shits and brings them through lifechanging events, and they come out better people.

>>11757855
I liked the Not- School Food Punishment ED. That's about it.

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>>11757756

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>>11757855

Sue was fucking awesome.

What is with this board? If it had aired in 2007 or something, everyone would have loved Captain Earth. But it's 2014 and every mecha anime is apparently "shit" and everyone's eager to jump over each other to talk about how much they hate everything.

What's next, you're going to say Argevollen is bad? Don't even dare.

>>11759384
I hated Eureka Seven back then. I'd probably hate Captain Earth at that time too.

>>11750031
CE is exactly where it should be.

>>11759384
Captain Earth is a legitimately bad show. I can confidenly say this because I'm one of the few people on /m/ who actually liked Star Driver. Captain Earth has all of Star Driver's weaknesses with none of its strengths. It would be considered a bad show in 2007 or any other year for that matter because it's simply poorly made, with awful pacing, shit characters, and a story that has no idea where it wants to go. Star Driver is a show with plenty of style and almost no substance; Captain Earth is a show with no style or substance.

>>11754980
You know, your attitude just proves his point about this place becoming unbrowsable. Nobody wants to spend time with people who always behave like asses.

>>11759384
> If it had aired in 2007 or something, everyone would have loved Captain Earth
Definitely not. If it had aired in 2007 absolutely no one would have watched it because 00 S1 aired that fall, and for a stretch of almost 2 years this board was 10 (and occasionally 15) straight pages of Gundam, followed by Macross, a bit of Soaring Cake Girl, and more Gundam.

>>11759384
>If it had aired in 2007 or something, everyone would have loved Captain Earth

No, no they won't.

I really try to like CE. It has nice characters & mecha designs.

But it is just... so boring. Either nothing happen or the most cliché stuffs happen most of the time.

>>11759840
There was just as much Code Geass and Gurren Lagann threads.

>>11759834

Not him, but OP was kind of asking for it with a simple and somewhat inflammatory OP like he made.

>>11739926 has a OP with only a small bit more effort put in to it about the exact same show and has been going for two days more with people being pretty civil all around, more than likely for the simple reason that the OP didn't try and make the show sound like an underrated gem that /m/ was at fault for not appreciating but actually just talked about it instead. And got people talking in return, even though the majority opinion in the ensuing thread was that the show didn't bowl them over and could have been better.

>>11759907
Praising a show is inflammatory? Are you serious? Do you even realize how fucking much you're reading into it to get all that out of a two word post? This board is full of paranoid people who call everyone that disagrees with their narrow viewpoint a troll. And that thread has the most neutral OP ever that doesn't even take a stance, so basically you're saying that people shouldn't express their opinions when creating a thread for expressing opinions.

I think that thread has only avoided shitposters because they're all posting in this one instead.

>>11759393
>>11759414
>>11759840
>>11759865
I highly doubt any of you can truly guess what your seven years younger selves would have thought. You underestimate how much a person changes in that time. Chances are, most of you are a lot more cynical than you were back then, for one thing.

>>11762576
that's cool
captain earth is still shit