Thread 283366163

Is Symphogear good?

>>283366163 (OP)
Debateable, since the quality can swing between seasons. But what an honest assessment CAN say is that there is nothing else like Symphogear, or which scratches the same itch. It is doing its own thing, and you can fell the passion in it. Especially season 2 onward, where they had a real budget to work with and the animation quality jumps up.
Symphogear is either a show that you watch and think is the dumbest thing ever, or a show that you watch and think it is the hypest shit that is made just for you. There's little middle ground.

>>283366163 (OP)
I loved it, but can understand people who don't. It meanders a lot in between seasons, but when it reaches the high notes, man is it good.

>>283366304
Not OP and I feel like I would be the right audience for this. But I just don't like the singing.
It's not just the songs themselves, but just the fact that they sing in-person. During the actual show. This diegetic singing.
It just throws me out. Maybe it's a matter of getting used to it.

>>283366163 (OP)
No

>>283366163 (OP)
Nana wills it.

>>283366503
See, thats the thing. I *love* that shit. All of the little flexes and strains and grunts as part of the vocal work in the song as the fight plays out makes it so much cooler. To me, the studio renditions of the songs are always worse than the in-show versions, because this is the part of the song where Hibiki is screaming her lungs out because she is in the middle of throwing a car and the studio track is just... a song.

>>283366163 (OP)
Yes. After early S1 it got more enjoyable for me.

>>283366628
I get it, it feels very real.
>>283366693
Yeah okay, I'll give it a try (not even OP).

>>283366163 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys099qG3HVY
Depends, does this seem like the sort of thing you would enjoy? Because this is what you can expect from an average Symphogear fight.

>>283366163 (OP)
Did someone other than commie sub it yet? If not then no.

>Infantile shonenshit x idol culture
No.

>>283366163 (OP)
Yes.

>>283366163 (OP)
It's not necessarily "good"-good, yet at the same time it actually is that great. Hard to explain. It's one of those series that you don't think much of it in the moment as you're starting off, yet you realize it's still living rent free a few days later. Like the other anon said, there's not a lot like it. It's a very "anime" anime.

>>283367025
I think the best way to describe it is that if analyzed critically, its nothing special. The writing isn't very deep, they make up the lore as they go, etc. But in terms of audience experience, its great. Every scene they ask themselves "whats the coolest thing we could do in this moment?" and then they do that thing.
If you are signed up for this ride, you are going to have a great time. You'll be cheering your head off and with a big smile on your face that makes you feel like a kid again. Its stupid, but its fun, and you can tell that the people that made this were also having fun doing it and that passion shines through.

Anime has Aoi Yuuki in it? I watch
Simple as.

The girls are all really cute.

>>283367167
Honestly, I'd go so far as to say that its Aoi Yuki's best role. She has a lot of really good roles that show off her range (the fact that Hibiki Tachibana, Madoka Kaname, and Maomao are all the same VA is nothing short of impressive) but Hibiki is a very difficult role to do in specific. When you think about not just doing that voice but singing it in, and then having to do the action-take lines of the song while still keeping up the voice? That's got to be hard as shit to keep up. Thats so much more demanding than most VA work is.

>>283366503
That's one of the best aspects of it and imo one of the things that makes it unique.
>>283366628
>the studio track is just... a song
very hype songs though

>>283366163 (OP)
No but yes

Is it the best anime I've watched? No
Is it one of my favorites? Yes.
Obviously the music direction is a highlight, which is to be expected with how the show premise is
The story can be kinda sloppy and the visual direction while flashy and cool cuts out such a thing as good symbolism, but it just works
They make the main character go through the same arc at least twice but the character interactions are good and the characters are never ruined

>>283366503
That's unironically the best part and what makes the show memorable at all.

I am fully aware that by any reasonable assessment it is completely ridiculous for the most part, but man do I love it. Like >>283367025 said, it is very anime and I think that is a large part of what makes it good.
One thing Symphogear does well is that there is a very good balance of cool and cute, which is in my opinion is a very important part in making a good anime.
As long as one does not take it too seriously, it is very enjoyable.

I can't say it was objectively good, but Symphogear threads are probably the most fun I had on /a/ in the last 15 years.

>>283366163 (OP)
It's pretty good but you can see them flanderizing the characters for the fans by the later seasons. S1 is the best one and while it stays pretty good, it does loose that original magic it had but instead of it being gone right away it's a steady slow fizzling out

It's still a wild ride even with all those flaws

>>283367326
This. I love Aoi Yuuki as much as anyone in this board, but no matter what role she gets, to me she will always be Hibiki, singing her throat out for 60+ episodes.

SYMPHOGEAH?

Discuss

>>283366163 (OP)
It's fun.
Anything with Vercingetorix and Carol is fantastic.

>>283367326
>>283367839
Same. Symphogear is the series where I can't separate the characters from the actors in my mind.
And seeing Aoi grow up alongside Hibiki at each live concert was truly something.

>>283367326
I literally just started watching the series actually (barely just finished episode 2) so I haven't really gotten to experience this yet, but now I'm really looking forward to it.

Eh? Symphogeah?

>>283367744
>It's pretty good but you can see them flanderizing the characters for the fans by the later seasons.

In their defense, they never expected to go that long. Every season was planned to probably be the end of the show with the exception of AXZ, where they knew that XV was around the corner. You can't blame them for not planing arcs paced over a timeline they never expected to have.

>>283368344
SYMPHOGEAR THREAD... DATTO?

>>283368265
Buckle up anon, because you are in for a ride.

>>283366163 (OP)
I kept dropping every season after the first halfway through because the plot is always the most contrived bullshit ever but then I always picked up the next season anyway because there's nothing like it

what the FUCK am i watching??

>>283366163 (OP)
Yes but no

morbid stuff

Now I kinda want to rewatch S1

>>283366163 (OP)
The first couple of seasons are good but then it drags on and on.

>>283369408
this shit is cray

>>283370701
It's funny how anons chose the exact same screencaps back in the day

>>283366163 (OP)
I was only in because of Sugita, I left with my HERO.

Maria Gungnir = Best Gungnir.
>>283367839
>to me she will always be Hibiki
Pretty much.
>>283368109
>Anything with Vercingetorix and Carol is fantastic
Especially "kyaroru.exe stopped working" when Dr. Ver appears.

>>283370824
great minds think alike

Symphogear is the one of the greatest animes of the 2010s.

I wish I could've watched back when it was airing

Look at this dumbass

Chris is erotic

>>283366163 (OP)
RIP Shirabe

>>283373554
this show bashed americans too much

>>283372952
look at this jobber

>>283373656
Evidently not enough.

>>283366163 (OP)
It's really good. Until it isn't. But the good parts are good.

is this show yuribait or are some of these girls gonna lock lips at some point? i'm gettin hella yuri vibes.

>>283374040
Very OVERT bait without any conformation officially. Very overt.

>>283374107
>>283374115
damn that's so rude, they lay it on thick and no payoff? the doujins must be intense.

>>283366163 (OP)
4 of its 5 seasons are

>>283366163 (OP)
Yeah. It’s very fun.

Yes
>>283366503
I love that and we need more. Love Healer Girl too because of it. After the first season too they have the singing actually change based on what happens in the show, so for instance if they get hit or stumble the singing changes to reflect that.

>>283367147
>The writing isn't very deep, they make up the lore as they go, etc. But in terms of audience experience, its great. Every scene they ask themselves "whats the coolest thing we could do in this moment?" and then they do that thing
this reminds me of akudama drive

>>283374148
The doujins are all basically boring routine drug or tentacle rape. AKA The "we didn't actually watch the show but saw it was popular and wanted to cash in" special

>>283374148
You won't get a kiss, but it's essentially canon yuri with how thick they lay it in the show and omakes.

>>283374040
There are a lot of scenes that make way more sense if you assume Hibiki and Miku are dating, to the point that I largely forgot that I was assuming it.

>>283376280
Yeah, Hibiki and Miku are basically just fucking married in S1 (they SLEEP IN THE SAME BED UNLESS THEY ARE FIGHTING) which makes the whole premise of them dancing around the issue in S5 completely absurd.

Is GaoGaiGar Nanoha Sentai with Idol songs as they piledriver punch/giant gigasword breakdance/gatling/missile barrage the fuck out of bad guys good? Idk, but it's sure fun as hell.

>>283374040
Chris was fucked by Latin American men

>>283368265
What I would do to watch Symphogear for the first time again. Then again, watching it as it was airing with /a/ was some of the most fun I've had on this board.

>>283366163 (OP)
Not trying to toot my own horn, but you can check out at their general here
>>>/m//sgg/

Does anyone have Hibiki's "I'll come back alive even if I'm dead" long pic?

>>283376914
Thanks anon

Is the BD version of Kirika's transformation sexier

>>283377361
We'll never know anon
it's lost to the annals of time

>>283367193
They're all babes

>>283366163 (OP)
I barely remember anything that happened in S4 and 5 and I remember feeling as they aired that they were phoning it in, trying to just push it out for the fans. Most I recall was Chris having trauma about that kid that got his leg cut off and the fucking Munsters cast as villains in S5 being total jobbers.

That being said S1-3 are a wild ass ride and some of the most fun times watching a show I've had. I actually stood up and WOOOOOOOOO'd irl at the S2 ending when Miku comes running, grabs the cane and throws it containing the final boss as it explodes all while the OP is playing

it's writing becomes a bit funky later on after the first couple of seasons, but it retains its silly cheesiness and the good music, so iI'd say it's still good
new movie when btw

>>283366163 (OP)
Watched it this year too actually. Yea it was enjoyable, has some questionable parts here and there(mostly GX/the third season) but nothing that straight up ruins it.

>>283373852
Mamacat a qt.

>>283378596
That's not a babe, that's a lady.

>>283375483
They're magical girls, it can't be helped.

>>283367147
If anything it's a show that exposes the disconnect between "critical analysis" and whether something is actually good.
Yeah you can't write pretentious articles or 20 hours analysis videos about Symphogear without coming across as a complete buffoon, yet you can very confidently state it's fun, cute and cool.

>>283366693
I felt that first ep line.
But I find it hilarious with the full context now, they were clearly taking the piss out of M*doka there.

>>283366661
>filename
Well done.

>>283366163 (OP)
I like the action, but I'm not into yuri.

Peak unapologetic "mahoushojo(feat. idol songs) but for boys". Understands its audience and delivers most of what they might be looking for. Could use a little more SoL stuff since it's very plot-driven almost to a fault at times.

>>283379912
One could but they won't simply because it would require discussing copyrighted music, meaning they could not monetize their slop.

I barely remember it but I remember enoying it. I remember Top Dad.

>>283366503
It's incredibly good. The lyrics and the way they're sung can be incorporated into the action scene and what it means for the character. There's this minor scene of Chris fighting noise in S2 with interspersed monologue and lyrics, and it ends on this part of the song concluding both monologue and the action scene. Tons of great examples, possibly better than this.

The series is just too full of great, subtle stuff. It can be very bad in some seasons and parts (I fucking hate GX and XV despite rating XV a 7 or so) but it never misses on that front. Every song is full of puns, callbacks, references, the characters have lots of interesting growth.

>>283367147
>analyzed critically
I question the premise that writing the coolest shit possible isn't something you'd reward under a "critical analysis". Hell, a critical analysis would actually highlight a lot of strong, solid touches in Symphogear's writing (mainly through songs, undertones and such). At least for the good seasons.

It's not pretentious, that's for sure, but calling it a trashy flick that's only good in a guilty pleasure kind of way isn't an accurate picture.

It's the Metal Gear Revengeance of anime

>>283366163 (OP)
Freemason apologist propaganda. Absolute trash, and I was a fan at first before the bullshit began in GX.

>>283381813
To be fair, the quality of the writing will fly over the head of most people who only watched once with bad meme subs.
I too love the multilayered dialogue and lyrics but it is not the kind of thing that traditionally gets considered "good writing" by "critics", regardless of how much skill it takes to pull off.

>>283381935
>It's the Metal Gear Revengeance of anime
You ever worry that Kojima predicted a surprising about of stuff in his Metal Gear games that seemed absurd and insane at the time, and then turned out to be surprisingly accurate... and then he made Death Stranding?

>>283382067
Refer to >>283381935
"critics" and "traditionally considered" are fucking bullshit and miss so many important points

For instance, there's a substory being told through Hibiki's G song. At first it has these "suicidal" subtones in the lyrics because that's what she does in a lot of G, burning herself because of this compulsive need to save people, which stems from her survivor trauma and the bullying that ensued. That's paralleled with the Gungnir cancer. But in episode 6, after she recovers from the traumatic bullying flashbacks and jumps straight back into fighting, she sings the second verse of the song when she fights, the one that says "I don't need to be a hero", which is the second part of her season plotline, explicitly even, since she saves the day by connecting with people rather than carrying the battlefield, and learning to be less self-destructive.

Is this some 15/10 complex writing or something? No, but it's solid, it's a nice development with interesting and satisfying execution. It's that kind of stuff that would get glossed over for "traditional" criticism about some dumb shit that doesn't actually matter.

>>283382235
>for "traditional" criticism about some dumb shit that doesn't actually matter.
Like what?

>>283382314
Usually they'd just call things "dumb" or "wacky" without really specifying. Basically refusing to engage the show's very premise seriously. They might try to nitpick at some internal mechanics/"plotholes" that don't really matter much if at all (especially if they're trying to apply a "realistic" reading to a series where a submarine can rise to the surface to be a jumping platform for your power armor magical girl). Then there's slightly more justified criticism, like maybe some characters should have acted differently for their plan to have better chances of success but that shouldn't really be what makes or breaks this kind of work.

>>283382235
Critics provide an unbiased view, you are a fanboy and can't be taken seriously on the objective qualities of the work.

>>283382489
Lol. "Critics" just means "another faggot" you choose to trust over your own judgement. I have plenty of criticism for Symphogear, some seasons like GX are outright bad. I don't need a critic to provide me with their gay opinion that completely misses the mark.

>>283381935
Not saying you *can't* write up a critical analysis on it, but most likely the critic in question will get caught trying to point out weak character arcs, plot holes, and possibly bash the main gimmick with the girls emitting songs during fights.

>>283382526
I still think Symphogear should have been a JRPG like the author's previous work. He did a crap job transitioning from vidya to anime

>>283382555
Depending on the season it's going to be hard to shit on the character arcs. Of course if you're talking about XV or GX you can point out character regression or meaningless meandering, but if we're discussing S1 and G I don't think there's anything significantly wrong. Maybe you could call Chris' vision on war in S1 pretty juvenile (it is) but it doesn't last very long to have an impact

>>283382602
makes sense Chris is a manchild bc she had contact with the outside world and was a child slave all her life

>>283382638
Yeah it makes sense. Still a bit awkward, I can understand if someone isn't on board with the way they wrote it

God, why did I have to get into this series after all five seasons have been released? With no new season to look forward to, what is the purpose in living? I would sacrifice an organ just to be able to hear a new Hibiki song that makes me feel like G-Beat.

>>283382841
There's the movie but fucking never

>>283382841
There are the songs and stories from XDU, the Symphogear gacha game. Its global release didn't make enough profit to keep it going, but there is a decent amount of content and even new songs there.

We have also been told that there is a new Symphogear animation project... sometime. Its been a couple of years since the announcement and there hasn't been anything said about it since that I recall.

>>283382880
Are we completely sure that the whole "Symphogear NEXT" thing wasn't referring to Princession? I really feel like we should have heard something by now.

>>283383004
>Princession
No, that is so trash... would be suicide fuel if true

>>283383004
https://symphogear.fandom.com/wiki/PROJECT_SYMPHOGEAR_-next-

Looks like they have been doing a number of concerts and promotions, but no word on the movie itself yet. Some new songs and other music, promoting the characters and VAs, comiket booths, etc.

So either they are raising funding over time, or they know they want to do SOMETHING with the franchise going forward but don't have clear idea what yet.
Personally, I would be okay with a Symphogear: Next Generation style thing where the cast we know takes a backseat role as new gears step forward to be the protagonists. I like these dorks, but we all know that their storylines are essentially played out, sometimes multiple times, and if they want to do more Symphogear they need new blood to work with to make that not a fanservice rehash of what we have already seen.

>>283366163 (OP)
Shirabe is good for my dick

>>283383130
If they introduce new Symphogear users, what kind of weapon types are even left? Fists, swords, polearms and guns are all covered.

>>283383146
this little spinster ended up being the biggest semen demon of them all

I began as a Chrisfag but... I am fully converted to Shirabeteism now.

its saint seiya , gay ass fuck but yuri

>>283383172
Hammers, knives, other types of swords and polearms, bows, kicks, funnels, staves

I want to get into this series, but the amount of seasons makes for fragmented released by different encode groups.

>>283382489
Critics write reviews and reviews are explicitly biased opinion pieces.

>>283383146
Best girl and it's not even close.
Lots of competition for second best though

>>283383316
Literally just pick the highest seeded release on Nyaa

S1: Deetruck (default)
S2: Crunchyroll (not default). All other subs butcher a lot of songs and dialogues, even the best episode ending
S3: anything but Crunchyroll (they didn't even translate the fucking songs). Just stick to Deetruck (default) probably
S4: Deetruck (default) since they seem to all be using the same script except Crunchyroll which sucks here
S5: YameteTomete seems to be better than Deetruck+derivatives (same script), which shits on Crunchy (didn't even translate the songs)

Symphogear is one of those gems where you could argue that each season is a 6, 7 or 8 but overal it's a 11/10 series

>>283384444
I'd argue S1/G can be rated 8-9 despite a few issues

>>283382082
Actually we're at the "You know, they predicted all of this in MGS4" point in the timeline https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5sG0TuVLOI0

>>283383146
sex

>>283383172
Lots of options. Especially when you remember that what counts as a weapon is fluid, Carol fought with a harp and Shirabe was buzz saws + yoyos. Personally, if tasked with making a team of 4 new gear users, I would do:

Swords, dual wield build. Straightforward attacker based on speed and power.
A miko-coded character that fights with fans and talismans. Basically a magician/priestess instead of a straight brawler and might even be able to do magical healing.
Spear/Javelin, capable of fighting close range but also throwing them as ranged attacks
Motorcycle. As in, her armed gear *is* the motorcycle. It transforms and has hidden tools or weapons as needed. The Chris of the group, that gets all the cool toys.

>>283376561
Must be why she is the token non-lesbian

>>283385948
>>283376561
She wasn't rape, that is just something 4chan edgelord came up with, they just forced her to do physical labor in the mines

>>283386001
Yeah I'm sure that's all they did with her.
It's obviously implied

>>283386029
after a week she gets immediately saved by Fine
it says so in episode one on a newspaper Miku's dad is reading

>>283386001
>>283386029
Considering this is Symphogear we are talking about, this retardation is very plausible

>>283386064
You don't need more than a week to rape a little girl

>>283386116
Chris never faces any trauma or references sexual abuse in the entire franchise.

>>283386143
It just went over your head

>>283370824
It's not exact. It's tv vs bd and the timing is different.
But of course the notable moments would be the ones screenshot.

>>283386151
are they raping the little boy prior to Chris? >>283376561

>>283386166
Who knows

Mexicans rape Chris
Fine rapes Chris
Other Geah rape Chris

she is just rape b8

>>283386199
Can you honestly blame them

>>283367326
Also in mecha ude recently she was great.

Can't rape the willing

>>283381935
>>283382067
>>283382235
a lot of people have trouble recognizing that something can be both silly and actually great
there's this expectation that for anything to Count As Art it has to be subdued and grounded and that's simply not true at all
related to this is the mistaken view that the academic "meaning" of a work is what really counts, but symphogear actually does quite well on that score if you start digging into it
actual critics are generally much less likely to make these mistakes than armchair critic laymen, but anime doesn't really have actual critics in the west

>>283386199
>Other Geah rape Chris
Never happened. Chris rapes Tsubasa and that's the only way this goes.

>>283386400
>Never happened.
Miku and Hibiki have Chris as their pet

>>283386415
Only in S1. I don't think that Miku and Chris even speak to each other from season 3 onward.

Didn't the creator of the show explicitly say she wasn't raped? I don't have the source, but I remember something about that.

>>283386460
Yes but that's more like a retcon. I mean it was never explicitly said she was raped but there were clear undertones and the dialogue clearly hinted at it. So while it's not an actual explicit plothole to say she wasn't, you just know it was done on purpose once the series grew in popularity

>>283386368
What even has "actual critics" in the west?

>>283383146
The token flattie in a cast of tittymonsters
How could she be anything but best girl?

What do we think about si-vis?

>>283386503
film and music do, literature does
i'm not really using "actual critic" here to mean something super stringent and aspirational and impressive, i just mean there's a variety of people doing criticism and a variety of institutions paying them to do it, which isn't true of anime in the west. the only americans whose jobs could reasonably be described as "anime critic" are youtubers.

>>283386879
looks gay

>>283366163 (OP)
It's fun in a "turn your brain off" kinda way. Don't think about the plot, don't think about how the characters are written, just look at the cute girls fighting and singing.
Except XV. That one was genuinely bad.

>>283366163 (OP)
Honestly I really enjoyed Symphogear simply because I was watching it with /a/ at the time.
Still a fun watch though

>>283387014
S1 and G aren't "turn your brain off" seasons I think. That's for the last 3 seasons

>>283387014
XV is ok. Worse than the first two but works for a final season.
GX was more of an issue.

>>283387081
XV has Noble Shit so it's automatically the lowest.

>>283387138
This

>>283387081
XV has a lot of weird missteps that don't make any sense to me. at one point there's a fight between two gear users where neither one of them is singing. what the fuck? also noble red sucked. GX has some problems but carol and the autoscorers carry it through those.

>>283387138
Nah. It's not worse than fucking up multiple main characters in GX.

>>283366163 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE1tC2p7pbk
still the most fucking metal opening of an anime ever, gx will forever be my favorite

GX had
>Radiant Force
>Dr. Ver
>sex dolls
Nothing can top that.

>>283387138
Noble Red is horrible but XV has some really strong highs as well. It only truly irredeemably dropped the ball right after episode 8 with Tsubasa's resolution and Noble Red getting a retarded redemption and being the focus instead of Shemmy/Fudo (taken out in one episode, aborting the entire subplot he was building up with Tsubasa). But before that you'd get some of the best action scenes and character songs, as well as a... decent plot, not S1/G levels but the intrigue was unfolding well enough.

GX is kind of bad all the time, with a few really strong highs early on (episode 1, episode 6 with the Carol fight) and maybe one or two Autoscorer fights being nice

>>283387231
G had Dr. Ver too and Shirabe sexo

>>283387244
Actually I'll apologize to GX because >>283387231
>Dr. Ver

He really did save the GX ending. A true highlight.

>>283387248
G is the best season so that's unfair.

>>283387266
>G is the best season
Bless.
>He really did save the GX ending.
Also actually yes, but I'm not going to apologize to the rest myself.

>>283387231
Nothing beats seeing Dr Ver actually becoming a HERO

Chris vs Tsubasa + Kirika vs Shirabe was the peak of the series

When did you realize Symphogear G was just the Sonic Adventure 2 of anime?

>>283374107
Sword getting bullied was the highlight of the last season.

top 3 songs, fight me

>>283387365
Isn't that Heroes?

Despite all its shortcomings I feel like GX is the season I enjoyed the most.
Best dad can go hug a Noise though.

>>283387323
>fall of trust
>bodies tangled
>loving embrace
>double injection
I CAN ONLY GET SO FUCKING HARD

>>283387412
Radiant Force
Rainbow Flower
Todoke Happy Utazukin

reject common sense, fight badguys, symphogear

>>283387425
I really didn't like how Kirika and Shirabe were held back for an entire season because muh linker, right after joining the party from G.
That, and Hibiki having a meltdown about the most retarded shit possible as fucking if she wasn't punching shit left and right for 2 seasons straight.

>>283387425
>GX
Garie was best doll

>>283387419
Same shit

>>283366163 (OP)
Yes. It gets better as you go on (though I seem to be in the minority with this opinion)

>>283386879
are those fucking dudes? hell no.

>>283387515
watch the new Pokemon, the MC has same hair and style

>>283387667
It's true for S1 > G, and technically GX > AXZ. The problem is G > GX, it's not going to make you drop it but you will feel it.
XV is weird but not really bad imo, lots of absolute kino.

tl;dr
G > OG > AXZ > XV >>>>>>>>>>>>>> GX

>>283387212
kek that was fucking ridiculous and cool

if you're going to have insane powers this is the shit to do with it.

>>283387212
This is what anime was made for

Nymphogear...

Shemmy love

symphogear threads on /a/ were the most fun iv had in ages, the /m/ threads are nice but just not the same

>>283388109
Sad that I missed them. The show is gud though.

>>283388217
I was there, they are overrated. Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V and Pokemon XY threads were the REAL DEAL tho

>>283388109
>>283388281
all these 3 shows were made by the same people or share people who worked on them

Heavenrend

I wonder if docking-kun is still alive.

>>283388217
most of the threads were asking for subs, it wasn't as fun as they make it out to seem. It is only with GX that we had stable subs, and then AXZ was the same asking for subs all over again once Crunchy dropped that season. XV was filled with people bitching about Noble Red or casuals and it wasn't fun at all.

>>283388281
you hate fun

>>283388062
We were robbed of her space shark form

>>283388459
I like fun but Arc-V threads were like Symphogear on steroids and it went on for months, and YEARS. Symphogear was just 13 episodes etc. Same director btw

We are an incestious fandom

>>283388440
It was fun for me and I hate you personally

>>283388507
symphogear threads are still alive to this day on /m/, i havnt seen an arc v thread in ages

>>283388585
Yu-Gi-Oh Go Rush ended this year, wait till the new anime. It has general on here. They re-watched GX and 5Ds recently.

it is objectively great GIVE ME THE FUCKING MOVIE

>>283388585
Arc-V ended like garbage, it literally killed the studio and the brand. It was so shit, think GX ending but a hundred times worse. With top dad and everything but a FUCKING BABY aded as the shit cherry on top. One of the worst anime ever made, period.

>>283388701
There are a lot of references in between both btw

i still need to watch the ovas

>>283387824
Genocide and Glorious Break are so fantastic that I still thoroughly enjoyed the worst season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDUnM2vpGRc
GLORIOUS BREAK~

>>283388846
To be fair, it is the worst season but in a good anime overall. The baseline is at least 7/10, and GX is that when the rest is 10/10 and 9/10s

>>283388846
I can understand why people dislike GX, but holy shit when it goes, it goes hard.
On the other hand, AXZ plot is maybe less retarded, but I slept through the whole season.

>>283389000
AXZ for me was a good example of "shitty premise, great execution", which I ultimately consider a compliment because how things played out was still more entertaining than what GX did, despite having a better premise and two pretty memorable characters included.
Carol&Autoscorers got fully redeemed in XV though, really cool.

>>283387412
Synchrogazer
Trust Heart
Ressou Gungnir
Honorable mention: Rainbow Flower

>>283387515
Where does the dick go
Don't say the mouth

>>283389575
Somewhere near the joints.
She can't guarantee your safety though.

>>283389575
in the vagina retard.

>>283387515
milk me garie...

>>283387412
Radiant Force
Zettou Ame no Habakiri
Meteor Light

>>283366163 (OP)
You read Him'el's tweets right?

I don't understand why people don't bash AXZ as much as GX. Adam doesn't have enough screen time to be interesting because of the other Illuminati. And those other Illuminati consist of "muh justice" Saint-Germain and two literal whos. The only memorable parts of AXZ to me are the foreshadowing for XV and the parts where the Illuminati were shocked at how easily their plans got foiled by Bikkie.

>>283390829
Better execution, AXZ eps are actually fun to watch

>>283387446
erotic yuri love in freefall

>>283390829
>What happened to the whole invicibility thing?!
>You're looking at her!

Noble Red deserved worse

Noble Red did nothing wrong

>>283390919
They deserved better writing
>Woe is us, for none treat us as humans!
>kill 100,000 people
>Why must society treat us like monsters? :(

>>283390985
they murdered innocent Tsubasa fans

>>283391001
Quote a Japanese tweet
>To do something like this and then say stuff like "I want to go back to being a normal person~" is just too monstrous, isn't it?

>>283391006
(and Maria)

>>283391006
>innocent Tsubasa fans

>>283391006
That little slut was asking for it

>>283391024
>when you find out you've been judged by the content of your character all along

>>283391006
Everyone did that at least once in their lives.

>>283391006
Tsubasa has an infinite number of fans lining up to die at her concerts

>>283391001
This would have been fine as long as they got called out for being selfish and hypocritical.
You could turn around the writing on Nobel Red in like one scene. Have Elsa genuinely believe that the three of them are misunderstood victims, but realize by the end that despite the horrible circumstances that created the three of them they are not the same. Elsa is an innocent victim of mad scientists creating and discarding a monster, and in theory so is Millaarc. But Vanessa is one of those very mad scientists who would have been 100% okay with all this if she, herself, was not badly injured and became an experimental subject herself. Millaarc has the same origins as Elsa, but Millaarc enjoys hurting people and Else does not.

Elsa being the one genuinely good one among the three, while the other two are using their shitty pasts to justify their bad behavior, would have been a good moment of realization. Nobel Red is correct that the circumstances of their creation does not make them monsters. Thats true. But for Vanessa and Millaarc, they ARE monsters because of their ACTIONS, and thats something they are responsible for. The fact that they are nice TO ELSA does not make them good people.

Bam. One simple change, and you get to let Elsa herself have a moment of realization followed by perhaps a small redemption, without asking the the audience to feel bad for sadistic murderers.

>>283391229
good point, you would figure they would have banned them after the first 2 times by now

in reality they are Judaic blood rituals

>>283391229
Imagine how fucking good Tsubasa's music and PR has to be that concerts of hers have turned into horrible monster attacks *multiple times* and she can still fill stadiums.

>>283391006
>>283391290
I mean, they get what they sign up for

>>283391247
Truly, the dog did nothing wrong

It is as long as you're not looking for an intelligent story & you're just here to enjoy the action, music & cute girls.

>>283366163 (OP)
Yes. It's absurd in a good way.

Amazing how fast one normie Twitter user can ruin a fanbase.

>>283391760
I still can't believe he had more of a reaction to Adam kicking the one character absolutely nobody cares about than to Millarc's massacre

>>283391760
I have no idea what you're talking about, so you're probably full of shit.

>>283391247
Honestly the main problem is how gleefully batgirl killed a person. I'm sure that's the only actual kill in the entire series that isn't Noise/Symphogear related, plus how unnecessarily bloody it was. Like how am I supposed to feel sorry for them after that?
I would've been fine if they just killed people with Noise, like how Chris and Maria/Shirabe/Dess did because there's a layer of detachment there, completely different to batgirl disemboweling person just to taunt Tsubasa.

>>283390582
who? what does the dead frieren character have a twitter?

>>283390562
Would repopulate a Ukrainian village with as my lawful wife

>>283390562
Best geah, and there's some really stiff competition for that seat.

>>283392103
I just can't bring myself to like Maria as much as the others. Yeah, she's smokin hot, and yeah, I do love Yoko Hikasa, but she just feels so redundant. I'd rather the episode focus on any other character over her.

I would have liked Noble Red better if they didn't spam those teleport crystals

>>283387667
>Yes. It gets better as you go on (though I seem to be in the minority with this opinion)
I thought most people agreed that season 1 is the weakest?>>283387667

>>283392260
Sadly true. Maria kind of needed to die or something in GX or a later season to free up space in the cast/story and establish stakes are real. I don't dislike her as a character, but she has nothing she does. Even Kirika/Shirabe have more they contribute to the team dynamic than her.

>>283392270
i'd commit so many crimes

>>283392343
>Maria kind of needed to die
Wow rude

>>283392260
(You) problem.
I will give that her episodes get very redundant, though. Feels like she comes to terms with her weakness 3, maybe 4 times.

>>283392340
lol no

Maria needed to keep the cape

>>283390582
I hate his tweets. They're not even surface level takes, he's just paraphrasing the fanbase and its memes all over the place. Not a single original thought there.

>>283393217
>Adam kicks the one character absolutely nobody cares about
>"WHAT A MONSTER ADAM NEEDS TO DIE"
>Millaarc's infamous concert massacre
>"Woah, kinda like season one"
Like, I cannot emphasize enough how absolutely nobody gives a shit about Tiki
XDU had alts of every villain except her
And Adam's was the best

Please don't bring e-celeb drama into geah threads, thank you

>>283393316
Tiki really wasn't compelling in any way, I had almost forgot about her.

>>283391760
How did it ruin anything? Twitter Symphogear was always horrible. Everything good about the series is replaced with an endless spam of "GAY GAY THEY'RE HOMOSEXUAL GAY GAY THE WIFE SHE WANTS TO FUCK THE WIFE". This website remains one of the few places where you can actually kind of discuss this series with less retards.

>>283393405
She's so cool

>>283393633
The true crime of Noble Red wasn't anything they actually did, it was them taking screentime away from Shemmy.

>>283392854
Damn right. Should have at least given her a new sweet cape in Airgetlám.

Anyone else got geah CDs? I nabbed these while I was in nipland last year.

>>283392270
Nah they were a complete mistake. Season 5 needed 4 unashamedly evil villains. 2 male and 2 females :
> Devoted nutjob with a crush on Shemha who kidnaps Miku and acts as a recurring mini-boss. Ultimately dispatched by Chris.
> Sadistic batshit (no pun intended) girl with meme-y antics and no sad back story. This is the one that crashes Tsubasa's concert and kills her fans. Tsubasa goes rogue to kill her, she wants her to have a brutal death but doesn't want to involve the others because this feels personal. Maria supports her and beheads the bitch when she tries to talk no jutsu Tsubasa.
> Ideologically driven noiso-mancer type that bodies Kirika and Shirabe at the start of the season. She trashtalks their coordination being predictable sothey start blaming each other for their poor performance but make up later during the season before defeating her for good.
> Strongest martial artist type dude. In charge of keeping the Kazanari clan in check. Epic 4 way battle between Genjuro, Tsubasa's evil grandfather, this guy and hibike. Hibike, being who is she is, tries to stop the 3 from fighting and manages to do that in an epic sequence. This guy just wants to fight strong people and dies satisfied.

See there you go, better antagonists than Noble shit. The problem with this show's later seasons is that it lost the edge it had in the first two. Most villains should not be redeemed.

>>283366628
>To me, the studio renditions of the songs are always worse than the in-show versions
I like the studio versions for the most part, but Kirika's songs suffer from this hardcore. They totally lose their edge without all the fighting emphasis.

>>283366503
As much as I like Symphogear, I dislike that part too. Ar Tonelico did it right, and nothing can really compare.

>>283397003
be nice!

>>283397082
They are just walking her home gently

>>283387412
Genkai Toppa G-Beat
Genkai Toppa G-Beat IGNITED
Exterminate

Symphogear is the answer to the question of what happens if you take all those rapey eroges about magitech magical girls getting raped into all some of deviant ways and then proceed to play all the magical girl tropes straight.
>>283397003
Rubio is gonna tomahawk you if you don't delete that pic you evil not-veneca.

>>283397308
I like Chris channeling her ameri/k/an side.

I really enjoy Symphogear, both its episodes, action scenes, and music.

Regardless of how many criticize it, saying the concept of an action musical is absurd, but knowing that the vast majority praise horses shaped like anime girls, I find it ironic.

So, I don't care; for me, this anime is good.

Also, Biki Best Girl

short answer: no not really
slightly longer answer: the first season is great, the second is alright, third is worthless trash and the last two are utterly mediocre. last one in particular suffers a bit cause you've learned the franchise's tricks by that point but they still think they're going to surprise you by doing the same shit you've seen four seasons in a row

>>283397529
It's not absurd. It's just that it could have been implemented much, much better.

>>283367326
I love her as ibiki, Maomao lumine etc but Aoi Yuki was MADE for evil women. Her evil voice is just so much fun.

>>283397977
This. IMO her best role was either in Yuri Kuma Arashi, or Dance in the Vampire Bund.

Man I really want to rewatch this series, but I still regularly go rewatch my favorite scenes. I need to stop so they fade from memory a bit.

>>283387412
It's hard to sort them, but some of my favorites are
Edge Works of ZABABA
Seigi wo Shinjite
Hitsuai Duo Shout
and if we're allowed to include XDU songs, Kousou Gungnir

>>283397933
Yes, I know, I'm just saying that I've seen some people say that and I disagree because in my case I really enjoyed this anime.

>>283394040
Sounds like shit and even worse. At least you tried.

>>283387231
>Alchanoise
Ruined the entire season

>>283366163 (OP)
Legitimately one of the best anime I've ever seen. It's basically just a toku show but with an all-girls cast. It has more in common with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai than traditional magical girl stuff.

If you like tokusatsu, you'll like symphogear. If you don't, well, you won't like it.

>>283386143
BASED historian-chad

It's a great show.
>>283392794
Maria is a more mature and self-confident Bocchi.

>>283397977
>Aoi Yuki was MADE for evil women.

>>283397977
Underrated game.

>>283366693
Hmm. I dropped this show after five episodes. I might reconsider after seeing this chart.

>>283387231
One of GX's strength over AXZ and XV is the fact that the Autoscorers were basically plot devices with personality quirks. The later seasons suffered quite a bit from trying to balance 6 main characters, 3 minor villains and major villains. GX got away with it by having the dolls be just fun enough when they were on-screen, without having to give them arcs or character development.

>>283390582
I love the irony of this guy getting a bunch of attention from japanese fans and even someone who worked on the anime, despite BLATANTLY watching a fansub release AKA he pirated it.

I liked the alchetrannies especially St Germain

>>283400353
My issue with the dolls is them a lot of the stylish dance stuff after the first episode. Having a bunch of wind-up dance robots vs our passionate, emotional singers was great, and they should have leaned into that more.

>>283387412
for me it's the wild arms song that got lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpG0-tMcMB0

>>283397977
has she ever used her master samurai jubei voice again? it doesn't even sound like the same person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFU0upfcgTg

Remember how Tsubasa's grandpa was also her dad?
That was something.

>>283401769
I remember him being fucking awesome as a villain and a I huge highlight of XV.

>>283397321
One of the things I liked about it is definitely how the setup makes you think they want to do something completely different: be it Madoka-style grimdark shit or an elaborate excuse for degenerate hentai, but then what actually happens is really just SM-style magical girls with a mecha skin.

Tsubasa's high-pitched voice in the first season

>>283366163 (OP)
I stopped at axz, maybe I'll watch xv someday. It has interesting ideas but they don't have good enough stories to bridge those ideas. I always dread shirabe's episodes because they tend to be shit.
Also I don't like how silly the morphing weapons can get. Chris' guns morphing into crossbow and gatling guns are pretty cool, but giant surfboard and scarf turning into a giant fists is where I draw the line.
Feels like the fight choreography peaked at G and they never tried again.

>>283391869
G had the Americans kind of shoot at civilians. GX had the dolls kissing a couple men to death. AXZ had the alchemists do some type of magic shit to generals in Val Verde. NR is shit because they're jobbers who ate up way too much screentime.

I never got around to watching the final season, and I wanna re-watch 1-4 before I start the 5th/final

What is the recommended set of subs/translation I use?

>>283393928
I got the same Chris one, also Tsubasa and Maria

>>283397933
I don't really see what should be different about this setting

>>283401802
Fudo needed way more episodes
Retards hate him

>>283402053
These random Americans got killed or knocked out
The doll were just villains and objects. Carol was getting too many passes but she looks like a child and is acting to avenge her dead father. Way more understandable
Saint Germain was counting every single kill and doing this for the greater good

It's very unique. It's also very fucking stupid and makes no sense.

>>283397529
uma's sports drama is way less retarded than whenever symphogear tried to have something not action related

>>283366163 (OP)
It's a good show but it's hard to explain it's never as great as it could be. It's like Nanoha but more bombastic in every way for better and for worse.

>>283366304
Season 1 was good, just budget constraint.
>>283366163 (OP)
Just watch it already you massive faggot.

>>283402856
They're discussing premises here

>>283366163 (OP)
What's good is watching it with /a/. Threads used to run 8-900 post easily(yes back in the olden days we didn't make a new thread when the bump-limit hit) and were always a wild riot when the stream crashes.

>>283402181
The songs could have been much better in multiple ways.

>>283405166
How exactly?

>>283405188
For example, better writing, better cadence, more variety in genres, less cringe. And I know some of them are supposed to be new to singing so the cringe is natural, but even that exact aspect can be (and has been) done much better.

Chris is the best.

>>283405285
>some of them are supposed to be new to singing
Not a single one of them is supposed to be new to singing. Hibiki is attending a high-school, that is secretly working with the government to look for girls with high potential for phonic gain. Tsubasa, Maria, Kirika and Shirabe were training from a very young to sync with a Gear, albeit in different organizations. Chris is the daughter of two musicians, who was later groomed by Fine to use Ichivail and activate other relics with her phonic gain. The only prominent singer, who can be said to have little experience, is Carol.

>>283405689
>>283405707
>>283405715
The scene in G, where she's trying to have a heart-to-heart conversation with Tsubasa in a family restaurant, while eating like the feral child she is, is the best scene in all five seasons. No, I'm not exaggerating.

>>283405285
>cringe
Fuck off retard.

>>283405926
Even less excuses, then.
>>283405957
I knew someone would get triggered over it, but it's literal in this case.

>>283405971
Speak like a retard, get called a retard. It's that simple.

>>283404936
I've been checking out the old threads while watching it and, man, people really hated it at first

>>283405981
I know, you're part of the fun for me.

>>283366163 (OP)
Its really fucking dumb but I think thats what people like about it.

>>283406071
Was it because of the first eps setting a darker mood? I remember it starts off killing a character, then making Hibiki and Tsubasa fight, the detailing how Kanade basically tortured herself to become a geah. Also the very first thing you know is that Hibiki might die at some point

>>283398623
Please go back to sucking dick.

>>283403143
The show doesn't want to stray too far or tell a real story after G. you already know that the good guys will keep winning and that no one is going to die. It also shies away from violence after G in weird ways. The wounds that the bad guys sustain are pokemon tier. It would have been interesting to see how this show would have turned out had it been cleared to have 50 high production value episodes from the get go.

>>283402118
>>283402118
>>283402118
bump

>>283406249
>It also shies away from violence after G in weird ways.
Until XV for some reason where they really wanted to show one of Tsubasa fans getting killed.

>>283406276
Nigga just use the collection from nyaa witih the most seeds.

Yes

>>283406276
>>283402118
See >>283383767
>S5: YameteTomete seems to be better than Deetruck+derivatives (same script), which shits on Crunchy (didn't even translate the songs)

>>283405954
The mess she made is quite memorable.

>>283373852
I would populate an entire Ukrainian village with Maria.

>>283387138
I love Vanessa and her Bazooka Bazonga’s.

>>283366163 (OP)
is there any brainwashing in this series? If yes then I'll watch it

>>283391001
And the Alchemists killed 73,000
At the end of the day Symphogear is a power of friendship series(and that’s a good thing).

>>283406607
Yes

>>283391006
Tsubasa concerts are like going to a Deathklok concerts. You really have only yourself to blame if you go to one.

>>283406607
Yes

>>283406609
It's a magical girl series(Sailor Moon variety) done by the book, except for males and that's what makes it so great.

>>283406609
Saint Germain counted every single kill, felt suicidal over it, and did that for the greater good

Noble Shits did that for their own interests and complained about being ostracized. Fuck XV

>>283406607
There's a few instances. Nothing major or that has lasting consequences, but it happens in a handful of different ways to different characters.

>>283406609
>And the Alchemists killed 73,000
With Saint-Germain keeping count, because she knew what she was doing was wrong, yet she justified it with her goal of a more just world like most people striving for unrealistic utopia. Noble Red, meanwhile, want to return to being regular people, while committing one war crime after another.

>>283406650
The Miku one is pretty significant if you ask me.

Why is Chris like this?

>>283406690
Napoleon complex

>>283406665
>because she knew what she was doing was wrong
Yeah I’m sure all those dead people would feel better if they knew that. Germaine having lofty goals doesn’t it make her actions less of a warcrime.

>>283406735
>Germaine having lofty goals doesn’t it make her actions less of a warcrime.
You're right. But it does make her character and her actions consistent, unlike Noble Red, which is the point I'm trying to get across.

>>283406735
Well, yes. But thats what makes her the bad guy, not a pure cinnamon roll.
Though, given how long she has been active, it would have been interesting if Saint Germaine has thrown in Hibiki's face "This world you are currently enjoying? It used to be worse, and its only better now because of my actions. You criticize me for my actions, but you've been benefiting from the products of my work since before you were even born. There is still a lot more to be done, but you don't get to look down on my from the peace and stability that *I gave you*."

>>283406735
No one is saying SG gets a pass for everything, SG sacrifices her life and doesn't deny her crimes. She never blames society for mistreating her and her goals are entirely altruistic. NR goals are entirely selfish and they act like bloodthirsty psychopaths, gleefully goring little girls and more

>>283406690
She's been the victim for so long that her first impulse is to reverse the dynamic, because like a lot of victimized people the most obvious form of safety is to be the person wearing the boot instead of being under it.

>>283367737
What is objectively good anyway? Anime should be fun to watch, and Symphogear is fun to watch.

Season 1 was objectively the best season. The characters all had logical arcs, the drama felt intense and not melodramatic, and it had some of the best songs in the series. The animation improved vastly in future seasons but they lost the plot and flanderized everyone.

>>283406911
>Season 1 was objectively the best season.
But G is the second season?

>>283406911
G had equally good or maybe even better character arcs

>>283406926
Vers was the only good part of G. Miku being brainwashed and then everyone shaking off the swan song like it's a minor inconvenience were dumb plot points. G was where started down the shitty path that Nanoha took with bloated casts of increasingly retarded motivations.

>>283406911
I think G is the best, but S1 has the most 50VL and I adore it.

>>283406976
>Vers was the only good part of G
Maria, Kirika and Shirabe were all good additions to the cast, but sure, Ver is true hero-tier.

>>283406976
Mikugeah was one of the best parts of the entire franchise and had some of the development for Hibiki (it had her actual "swan song" in this case)

>everyone shaking off the swan song like it's a minor inconvenience
Introduced early and explained. They used to shake off swan songs since season 1 episode 4 but without any explanation btw.

G doesn't have a bloated cast, GX does, because the FIS gang joined the cast.

>>283406690
Better question, why is Tsubasa like this?

>>283406735
The difference is intent. For Saint Germain it's a necessary evil and she's aware of every life she took, and how she immediately switched sides once Adam reveals his true plan because at her core Saint Germain did what she did for the sake of humanity instead of herself.
Noble Red on the other hand literally killed people for fun, especially Milaarc. Vanessa practically groomed them and was only on their side because she got turned into a cyborg, she never had any problems with how the girls were tortured prior to her accident. The only arguably innocent one is Elsa. There was no reason for Milaarc to kill that girl in front of Tsubasa. It's crazy how they go from happily killing people then crying about people not accepting them.

>>283407065
> G doesn't have a bloated cast, GX does, because the FIS gang joined the cast.

This is true. I like the FIS gears, but we simply don't have time for 6 protagonists AND new villains every 13 episodes. If we had 24 episode seasons we could make that work, but the short runtime means that the larger cast requires everyone to be more thinly spread. This leads to, in the later seasons, scenes that deal with downtime and not fighting the bad guys to almost entirely disappear from the show. There isn't TIME to focus on school characters, relationships, etc when you have to be constantly advancing the plot.

Removing Maria and making Kirika and Shirabe be only able to do gear things like once a season as a treat due to never solving the Linker problem would probably have been the right balance. It also helps raise the stakes a little bit, in that every time you deploy the dorks it means you are admitting that shit has gone so sideways that you NEED to use your emergency backups, who might be forced to fight without Linker if they run out and that has consequences.

>>283407166
13 episodes just aren't enough for post G Symphogear. AXZ kind of tried to make it work and achieved decent results by pairing up geah together in less conventional ways, but still tight.

watch SI-VIS

>>283407137
>The only arguably innocent one is Elsa.
Elsa is still complicit in their crimes, but its true that she doesn't do anything heinous herself. You could make an argument that she was deluded and carried along by the others without stopping to think how down the rabbit hole she was, but that would require the show to recognize that the other two were genuinely awful people.

>>283372952
Why is she so out of shape?

>>283407397
This is out of shape? She just has thick thighs.

>>283407189
I tried, it was boring.

>>283372952
brazilians are so lucky...

>>283401717
kek this sounds exactly like Wild Arms. Nice.

>>283407137
I agree Germaine isn’t a psycho like NR and is more compelling. I just don’t find her guilt and tally count makes her actions less heinous and if Hibiki wasn’t like Jesus and accepting of everyone she would’t have really bought it either.
But that Bikki’s charm desu.

>>283402225
I never got bored of the unexplained power levels of Fudo, Genjuro and Shinji.

>>283376232
totally forgot this, the makings of boobfiend Hibiki were there from the start...

>>283406199
>then making Hibiki and Tsubasa fight,
Hibiki really had that one coming

>>283407932
>Bikki's charm
this is Bikki's charm(point)

>>283408124
God imagine how firm and meaty it is from all of her training.

>In the timeline where Genjuro fucks Fine she's okay
>In the timeline where Adam fucks Carol's dad he's okay
Was all the villains really needed just to get laid?

>>283408242
>Miku gets hands and face full of this ample charmpoint whenever she wants
incredible

GIRI GIRI AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IKENAI BORDERLINEEE OH FUCK MY ASS
>tfw youtube removed this song so you can't listen to it anymore
sad

>>283408505
>edgebiki came from the timeline where Miku moved away
You might be onto something...

>>283408897
good song, wrong franchise.

>>283409003
Ah sorry I clicked the wrong thread.

>>283408124
my
FUCKING
dick

>>283406277
I remember watching this here when it was airing. That scene in particular gave me high hopes for the season. Maybe they were finally go back to what made season 1 great and take some risks. It was also so unabashedly graphic and gratuitous that I thought there was no way they were going to try to redeem the vamp. Unfortunately I was wrong.

>>283407166
This. Your point about the dorks is Maria should have spent at least one season being a supporting character that doesn't fight. The show should also have worked on its script better. G was very action packed, but there's no reason that all the following seasons had to have one fight every episode. Unfortunately, what this show needs the most is an actual story to tell. The characters are fine, but the lore is under developed. GX and half of AZX should have gone full slice of life with some random missions like the shuttle landing.

>>283409224
>I thought there was no way they were going to try to redeem the vamp. Unfortunately I was wrong.
Same. I thought the whole point was
>no Hibiki, you cannot talk sense in those "people", they became actual monsters already
But we know what actually happened

>>283409224
>the lore is under developed
If I remember correctly, they delivered the lore in bite-sized bits on the official homepage, which anons posted in the threads.
Not a great way to do it.

>>283409346
In her defense, Hibiki's belief that people can be redeemed has been consistently validated.

> "Hey Hibiki, you ever wonder if the fact that almost everybody you consider a friend has tried to kill you at some point maybe has given you weird expectations?"
> "Whaaaaat? Nooooo. That can't be true. Sure, Chris started off as a bad guy, but she came around. And the FIS girls were all good people deep down. Elfnein used to be Carol, and now she's on our side! But Tsubasa never tried to kill me."
> "I definitely tried to kill you."
> "When?"
> "Season 1."
> "Oh yeah. Well... MIKU never tried to kill me!"
> "Season 2"
> "Huh. Huh.... Hm."

>>283409521
>> "Season 1."
>> "Oh yeah. Well... MIKU never tried to kill me!"
>> "Season 2"
>> "Huh. Huh.... Hm."
lmao and the last one as well

>>283409577
One can argue that wasn't Miku. Though it would be funny to have the line be "Hibiki, that happened TWICE."

>>283409346
tbdesu if they really wanted to keep the ruthless monster deeds while making NR redeemable then they could have at least shown NR having fucking panic attacks and trauma from what they're doing and constantly doubting if what they're doing is the right response to the Bavarian Illuminati falling apart except for the random department that somehow survived and can resupply Vanessa's robo arms in the middle of XV

>s1
Zettou Ame no Habakiri
>G
Ressou Gungnir
>GX
Rururira
>AXZ
Ewigkeit
>XV
Sforzando no Zankyou
>honorable mentions
Kyoushitsu Monochrome, Hanasaku Yuuki, Defender'Z Brand

>>283409224
>G was very action packed
Honestly not that much. G had lots of episodes that were more plot or drama focused with maybe one noise fight here and there but that noise fight was usually part of the current plot (eg: Americans betraying Maria)

I agree GX needed to be about smaller missions. Hell, AXZ was shining the most early on when they were handling the war zone and saving people.

Noble Red are undoubtedly the worst characters in the series but Mamu is up there too.

>>283411043
Nah she's fine. I know you're going to bitch about muh tomatoes but Mamu was trying to stop the moon from killing billions through terrorism and ancient artifacts manipulation, and changed plans when it seemed they were doing more harm than good (with a 0 kill count btw). Then she gave her life for this end.

You know, we see them get wrecked in massive numbers every time they show up... but we all agree that Noise are fucking terrifying, right?

Unless you are one of like 8 people on the entire planet who have the specific gear to fight them with, if Noise show up you are pretty much just fucked. Even running away *probably* won't work, since they can phase through walls an you can't and they are smart enough to set up traps and ambushes.

You drop 100 Noise into nearly any other show, and you end up with 100 dead humans. No way around it. Your average shonen battle boy punches them once and kills himself doing it. You need a specific kind of magical protection or you just autolose.

>>283411195
>You drop 100 Noise into nearly any other show, and you end up with 100 dead humans
That's assuming they can kill only one human per noise. Would be much higher than that.

>>283411195
>but we all agree that Noise are fucking terrifying, right?
Yes, absolutely. The first season managed to portray their horror in the very first episode, when Hibiki just walks about, looking for a shop, only to turn a corner and be confronted by the carbon dust remains of dozens of people that just got killed.
>>283411269
They do. They also turn to dust, unlike Alca-Noise

>>283387212
I don't think I have ever felt so back than I felt when this aired
I still watch just this part reguraly

>>283411269
Noise Classic are single use weapons. They seek and destroy humans, but they disintegrate themselves at the same time they kill their target. Every Noise is, essentially, a bullet that will chase you down to get the kill.

Alca-Noise can kill multiple people in a row without slowing down, and have a couple of other advantages in terms of shit they can do, but the big weakness is that they don't phase so good. Alca-Noise will burn their way through a wall rather than just ghost through it, and you CAN take down an Alca-Noise with enough steady mundane firepower just because eventually you will catch when its phasing flickers and then it takes damage in that momentary gap in its defense.

So Alca-noise can wrack up a higher death count, but its also technically possible to fight them. Vanilla Noise you really can't do anything at all to them without magic and half the time your first warning that Noise is there is that they noclipped through the ceiling at you.

>>283387212
GX intro > S1 > G > everything after the first scene in GX
The Radiant Force scene is a perfect summation of the story and its ideas up to that point, peak Symphogear

>>283411195
They have to be. Otherwise Genjuro, Ogawa, and Fudo would have wiped them out ages ago. Tsubasa would just be a singer, and the whole plot would never happen.

>>283366163 (OP)
Only season 2 is good. Everything else is eh with season 3 being the fucking worst. The last season ending also felt really rushed.
I enjoyed it enough to buy all the blurays though. Also the act mode line is shit.

So who's your favorite minor side character?

For me, it's a tough decision between "This isn't anime"-chan and "Have something warm"-san.

>>283411671
hard to pick between anime for the cute and aoi for the sex

And so... they were both bottom

>>283409521
>Hibiki's belief that people can be redeemed
*that hot girls can be redeemed

It was pure fun the whole way through and I truly miss it. Somehow, even the threads were good.

>>283386143
Didn't she mistake Genjuro for a pimp or something in the first series?

>>283411911
Wow rude hot girls are people too :(

>>283412371
...whats the big syringe for, Hibiki?

>>283411627
Those first few episodes of GX had me really interested in where it would go. Even bringing back Noise right after the last season killed them off worked for me because the new ones started off really effective. I thought Carol made them look like the jobbers on purpose to get the gears to let their guards down. Imagine if Carol was competent and made sensical plans or Arca-Noise mattered

>>283412297
Yeah, but Hibiki only tries to talk to hot girls
Just ask Adam

>centuries old super strong alchemists with magic that surpasses human comprehension
>jobs to a nuke (singular)

>>283412537
Togashi wrote that

YASSAI MOSSAI
YASSAI MOSSAI
YASSAI MOSSAI

If they did reboot symphogear, what would the gimmick be? I'm thinking vtubers.

>>283412873
Princesses

Are you gonna watch Agematsu's new project (that he's been doing since 2018)?

>>283412938
looks gay

>>283412873
Why would they need a new gimmick? Just look up more relics.

>>283412938
Which one's gonna be the true successor? That or Princession?

>>283412938
This >>283412953

i didn't like princess as much as symphogear, the only other show close to it for me was revue starlight

>>283412938
>>283413007
There's also whatever this is gonna be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fktmv-kXlsU

>>283413062
Revue starlight was good, but it didn't have the same tone as Symphogear at all.

>>283366503
The replies to this post sold this anime so hard to me holy shit! It seems so fun!

>>283412938
*pukes*

>>283411195
yeah that kind of thing is par for the course with a lot of shows like this (except maybe the phasing through walls), Toji no Miko aradama can only be harmed with the special okatana, YuYuYu vertex can only be harmed by yuusha with divine blessings, JoJo stands can only be harmed by other stands, etc.

>>283366503
The replies to this post sold this anime so hard to me holy shit! It seems so fun! What's the order?

OTOU-SAMAAAAAAA or DATOSHITEMOOOOOOOOOO

>>283413241
At least with Stands you can always just attack the stand user. They have bullshit ghost powers and insane reaction times so it won't be easy, but typically the stand user is no more durable than a regular human is, the trick is landing that damage in the first place when you don't know how their stand works or even that it exists.
But the majority of stand users can be defeated with a gun.

>>283413261
Symphogear
G
GX
AXZ
XV

>>283413068
anon....that PV is just Ghost Concert again....

>>283413403
Eh? But they look nothing alike...

Will the movie finally give us the Bikki Miku kiss.

>>283413457
This is a blue board

Symphogeah?

>>283366163 (OP)
its best at the start and end, which honestly is more than you can get from most shows
the hype moments made up for all the mediocrity that crept its way in the show for me
>>283366304
its funny because even though S1 has no budget, it has the best moments and is the most clear what vision the team had for the show originally
S2 is still ok but it goes downhill till the last almost makes it up for the rest

>>283407007
I'm still pissed off on how he lost this fight

>>283415480
He's too strong to win

>>283415480
It’s utterly perfect and plays directly into the theme of the show

>Figure out enemies plan before anyone else
Kiri-chan is SMART!

>>283407397
I think she's a very good shape.

>>283415842
Flying, jumping, or holding herself up like this?

>>283412537
Nuke craft is some magical shit to be fair

>>283417570
Why is this mechgirl fighting WWII Panthers?

>>283417614
To teach Man the meaning of the word fear.

>>283417614
Because sometimes you gotta take breaks from fighting ancient aliens to do a round of Metal Slug instead.

Actual answer: breaking the defensive line of a south american dictatorship that has mostly outdated military hardware but also some alchemical superweapons they were given by the bad guys

>>283417614
Because the immortal alchemists of the Illuminati gave a South American warlord the technology to create extra-dimensional monsters that unmake people by touching them.

>>283417570
Little detail, but I like how when she steps forward punching tank shells out of the air, she is wrecking the ground in front of her.

Its just a tiny detail at the bottom of the screen that most people probably never even looked at because of the cool shit going on up top, but I am glad its there.

>>283418065
They call this SOVL

>>283377361
Looks about the same, just without the obligatory for-TV brightness reduction.
https://files.catbox.moe/unv2w7.mp4

>>283412371
Why is Chris always the sluttiest

>>283418928
you know why

>>283418928
She's the most experienced.

>>283418675
holy sexo

>>283415082
I think the ability showcases are better in season 1 despite the shitty animations, maybe it's the change in director

>>283418928
DMJii are the cute ones, Tsubasa and Maria are the classy ones, and slutty just doesn't suit Hibiki. Chris is the only one left.

>>283407166
I've seen this sentiment a bunch of times but I think you got it backwards
They simply have no idea what story to tell so they bring back FIS gears for easy padding

>>283419278
Hibiki is a handholding slut

>>283412371
I appreciate Chris always having cute big red shoes.
She should wear nothing but them desu.

>>283419221
Sexogeah?

>>283418928
>Why is Chris always the sluttiest
Because she's the lewdest gear.

>>283420728
>Because she's the lewdest gear.
Because she's the best gear.

>>283420728
The transformation animation on the gear is so fucking smooth. Look at that shit going on with the braces, goddamn.

>>283418675
>>283377361
Best part.

What ever happened to that movie? And wasn't there some other project in the works? And why aren't they just animating XDU?

>>283420871
>no censor bar
anon fears no mods

>Chris is the sluttiest
>Chris is the lewdest
>Kirika's transformation sequence is literal pole dancing
デス

>>283420871
jesus, anon. this is a blue board.

>>283366163 (OP)
I want to fuck Kirika

>>283411195
for me it's the corncobs

>>283413007
I decided to watch the first episode of Princession and it feels a great deal like Symphogear in places but I am not sure about the setting.
I am not too keen on a magical land where only girls can enter, unless the native inhabitants turn out to be secret perverts. That would be nice.
I will try a few more episodes but this first episode did not grab me and never let go like Symphogear did.

>>283420796
>The transformation animation on the gear is so fucking smooth.
The transformations don't get enough love, especially with how several of them get progressively more complex/better animated with each season.

>>283421796
>starts with arm out to the left
>ends with arm out to the right
It's the little things.

>>283421333
Princession is a slow burn show. Don't expect it to reach the levels of Symphogear, but it does get "bettter" as it progresses, at least in my opinion.

Since there are only a few posts left, gonna dump some transformation webms. No rhyme nor reason to which ones get posted, only whatever I have laying around.

To close: a too-big-for-/a/ Bikki butt henshin. Providing the full clip since the webm is so tiny and has more artifacts that the British Museum.
https://files.catbox.moe/9vtt6j.mp4