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sirjared
Ok, I've finally watched all the way up to episode 12, and I'm still not sure why everyone is raving about it. It's definitely better than 90% of anime out there, but I can't quite put my finger on why...maybe it's how they throw reason to the wind and unapologetically go all out with stylish action. Still, while the story and setting started out unique enough, it seems like they've slowly fallen to using some of the old cliches. The self-indulgent emo stuff after Kamina dies was tolerable enough, but stuff that happened during the 1st half of the beach episode was so played out that I thought it was intended to mock beach episodes, yet nothing really tipped me off to that being the case. Also, Nia's typically quirky motions that pop up now and again annoy me. I wonder if I would watch it if the animation wasn't top notch, and if Simon's character design wasn't different. Still, I find myself curious about what's going to happen next (and I hope the next episode isn't a recap).
Oh, and I know the theme of the show is to stop over analyzing things, let go of inhibitions and throw caution (and reason) to the wind, but I still wonder how you expand an underground village if there's no way to deposit the dirt on the surface...that, and all the Villages speak the same language (and use occasional Engrish, at that).
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