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Anonymous No.283073525 [Report] >>283073717 >>283073767 >>283074112 >>283077652 >>283078109 >>283079582
Why did Urobuchi make a bajillion mecha anime
Anonymous No.283073717 [Report] >>283073941
>>283073525 (OP)
Robots are cool, and so is Chamber (Chamber is a robot).
Anonymous No.283073767 [Report] >>283073806 >>283076674
>>283073525 (OP)
>Urobuchi
He wrote like, 1 episode, that's why the series was good
Anonymous No.283073806 [Report] >>283073979
>>283073767
Doesn't Aldnoah suck though
Anonymous No.283073941 [Report] >>283074105
>>283073717
Chamber was so damn good
Anonymous No.283073979 [Report]
>>283073806
It does, but Urobuchi only did the first 3 episodes of that, and those three episodes are actually good. Its everything after that where it goes to complete shit, because the writers they brought on to finish the story couldn't handle doing the premise as described, because that would require actually clever problem setup and payoff.

The first three episodes are about setting up an enemy with a unique power (a robot that surrounds itself with fields that absorb anything they touch, erasing buildings just by walking through them and even negating lasers harmlessly), revealing the logical limits of that power (the fields can't possibly have 100% coverage, the robot is blind because light and radar cannot reach it directly, so it sees with remote drones with cameras on them that feed it data, but that means that there has to be a transmitter that isn't covered by the fields. Also, it must be vulnerable from below because it doesn't fall into the earth and erase its way into the mantle) and setting up a trap to show where to hit it and manage a win (lure it into a bridge, drop it into a river, spot where the water isn't getting fizzled out of existence and land a killshot in the gap in its field coverage). The protagonists genuinely feel powerless until they figure out what is going on, and manage to cheat their way to victory in a way that feels earned.

The next episode as them fight a robot with the power of... plasma blades on its arms. They defeat it by using a crane to what it with a bunch of steel bars tired together in a surprise attack and then they kill it.

You can see how there's a pretty fucking massive creative downgrade there.
Anonymous No.283074105 [Report]
>>283073941
Best character. And one of the best representations of how AI would actually work in fiction: Chamber never once wonders if he has a soul, because he's not a person trapped in a little box. He never goes insane and declares war on humanity, because no one would design an AI that works like that. Chamber is a very intelligent operating system, designed to help his user. And he does that. He's a bro, but he is very clearly a computer program and not a person. I say this not as an insult, but just as a recognition of what he was and his self-stated purpose of being.
Even chamber's sacrifice at the end of the show was him mathing out how to accomplish Ledo's stated goals: how to defeat Striker AND have Ledo survive to return to Gargantia.
This was a good strategy. It worked. It didn't technically *require* Chamber to use his final moments to call Striker a bitch while he was at it, but I'm not complaining.
Anonymous No.283074112 [Report] >>283074173 >>283075918 >>283081859
>>283073525 (OP)
Mecha is the best anime genre and it's not even a question. It is the o0nly genre to have it's own 4chan board and it is one of the best, schizo-less boards on 4chan.
Anonymous No.283074173 [Report] >>283075419
>>283074112
that board is dead as shit though
Anonymous No.283075419 [Report]
>>283074173
Zoom
Anonymous No.283075918 [Report]
>>283074112
>best anime genre
>posts gundamshit
NGMI.
Anonymous No.283076674 [Report]
>>283073767
Urobuchi wrote the first and last episode of Gargantia and also worked on the overall plot with the director.
Anonymous No.283077652 [Report]
>>283073525 (OP)
maybe his butt hurts
Anonymous No.283078109 [Report]
>>283073525 (OP)
Anonymous No.283079582 [Report]
>>283073525 (OP)
Because he hasn't succeeded yet. Only took him one puppet show and one mahou shoujo.
Anonymous No.283081859 [Report]
>>283074112
>/m/
>schizo-less
lol
lmao even