So I heard /tg/ likes Five Star Stories?

I tried. Really, I did.

I watched the movie, and it felt like an extended teaser, touching on ideas I wanted to see explored but leaving me unsatisfied, so I went looking for the comic to read, hoping it would provide a more structured narrative.

Instead of finding answers, I just found more questions, and while there's something about the comic's style that I find intriguing, the plot is just too weak to keep me interested.

And, I love the clothing designs, because they look like what a mechanical enthusiast might design with many outfits looking best suited for robots rather than humans, but I don't really love all the mech designs, because many look like what a fashion designer would create to walk down a runway during a robot-themed show.

>>49965227
this sums up my thoughts almost perfectly.

i really like the idea of FSS and i really want to like it but the actual thing has left me disappointed.

It's a very interesting series that feels like it was made for several different pieces of media in mind. Not just a manga, but an anime series, video games, card games, etc. The way it's set up as a manga it is physically impossible to "finish". It feels like more should have been done with it.

>>49965227
>And, I love the clothing designs, because they look like what a mechanical enthusiast might design with many outfits looking best suited for robots rather than humans, but I don't really love all the mech designs, because many look like what a fashion designer would create to walk down a runway during a robot-themed show.

Now that's a different opinion. Usually I see people complaining about the skinny character designs and praising the mecha designs (other than the the Gothicmade stuff).

>>49965227
You know the author was a fashion designer right?

>>49970864
If that's true, that makes a lot of sense.

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>>49970864
Fatimas have cute outfits. The outfits are the best part of Five Star Stories.

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>>49970864
Nagano has worn a lot of hats in his time.

LED Mirage burns Elder God Demonbane with his flamethrower.

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>>49973729
He likes giving them to his robots too.

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>>49973729
>>49974962
Skirts as well.

>>49974995
Here's a preemptive thank you for those nightmares.

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>>49973585
Fatimas are so cute.

>>49974995
They've got nice legs. Especially Ikuhara.

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>>49964891
I KNOW I SURE DO. It's wonderfully nutso and dumb. Nagano's a crazy madman who's impossible to work with and it shows so hard.

The way it tells its stories is weird, but I found extremely engrossing. It's kinda neat the mecha have extensive point-defence weapons, too.

All in all I really like it. I suppose its idea of a nutso feudal future has been an influence on my own creations.

...That, and I wanna marry the jagd mirage. The orange one, specifically.

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>>49968722
>Now that's a different opinion. Usually I see people complaining about the skinny character designs and praising the mecha designs (other than the the Gothicmade stuff).

People who complain about the character designs are /a/ babies who are only used to seeing the same moeblob every year and get turned off whenever they see something that steps outside the norm.

I'm not sure how I would describe the character designs for FSS. They're fairly retro but at the same time fresh and unique.

>>49977024
>>extensive point defense weapons

Every damned notch on the armor is most likely some manner of CIWS laser or something. So many point defense laser banks, it would make a Bolo tank blush.

There, I said it. Even a Bolo tank.

>>49979452
>fairly retro

Didn't Nagano work for Miyazaki at one point? The way he draws is similar to how Miyazaki draws comics, iirc?

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I'm fond enough of it, dunno why, that I'm having a bit of a bother dealing with the lack of translations past whatever volume it was it ends at.

>>49973453
It explains fatima physiology for one thing.

>>49982485
I've heard people link FSS and Nausicaa in spirit, I'm trying to remember if anything was said about employment while they were at it.

>>49982485
No, he was closely linked to a lot of Tomino's projects in the 1980s, especially Heavy Metal L-Gaim which is pretty much the dry-run for Five Star Stories; in fact, it was Nagano's dislike for how the series turned out (him having contributed a ton of material towards it) that led him to start work on FSS.

>>49982485
Gothicmade looks eerily similar to a Miyazaki/Ghibli movie. But I don't think the two have ever worked with one another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5pMBLfobk

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>>49986616
>BD never

I'm still mad.

>>49986616
That scroll was fucking sexy as fuck.

>>49985179
L-GAIM. There's a name to conjure with.

>>49992915
I love 70s and 80s robot show names.

ADJECTIVE NOUN GIBBERISH is the best way to name any robot.