I have been reading the spider manga for awhile, and having not watched the anime it's wild listening to people talk about it because the other kids do not figure into it fucking at all
It's post-spider leaving the labyrinth, but it's still firmly 100% about the spider
I was caught up on the manga at the point where the anime started and watching it was just non-stop "wait, who the fuck are these boring assholes? No, go back to the main character! And why are you fast forwarding through all the chapters where she is weak and struggling, that is the best part of this isekai!"
Gonna be disappointed if the Shin Sei's rep isn't Suletta's mother and they pull some "aha, it's a completely different character with a prosthetic arm, haha tricked you!" nonsense.
From the short story we know that mom wants revenge, feel like the plan is to undermine Delling by getting all the other corporations interested in gundam tech? Loving this hellscape capitalism corporate espionage stuff, interested in seeing where this goes.
Also big fan of Miorine venting stress by locking herself in the bathroom and playing games on her phone, she just like me fr
Great second episode, still cannot believe that they literally put a human version of Utena's Chu-Chu in this show.
Edit: oh, also there is a short after credits scene this time, before the next episode preview.
Nothing major plot wise, but watch out for that if you skip the ED like a monster.
Ah, figures, the witch from mercury episodes are on youtube but region locked for NA, where sony presumably bought exclusivity for it for crunchyroll. Yuck.
Gonna be disappointed if the Shin Sei's rep isn't Suletta's mother and they pull some "aha, it's a completely different character with a prosthetic arm, haha tricked you!" nonsense.
From the short story we know that mom wants revenge, feel like the plan is to undermine Delling by getting all the other corporations interested in gundam tech? Loving this hellscape capitalism corporate espionage stuff, interested in seeing where this goes.
Also big fan of Miorine venting stress by locking herself in the bathroom and playing games on her phone, she just like me fr
Great second episode, still cannot believe that they literally put a human version of Utena's Chu-Chu in this show.
Edit: oh, also there is a short after credits scene this time, before the next episode preview.
Nothing major plot wise, but watch out for that if you skip the ED like a monster.
Sunrise did that last scene as a pure mic drop budget moment.
i read the spider novels and i'm not sure why they kept in anything about anyone who was not spider
none of it was as good
My guess is:
From a standard storytelling perspective, the Spider is the villain, so there needed to a "hero team" for contrast.
It’s probably more that for the first long, long stretch, there would be no character on the screen except the spider. They were probably worried that a single character’s inner monologue couldn’t stay interesting for the entire show.
And honestly, the split timeline stuff wasn’t horrible in the first cour. It was the second half when it was all generic isekai crew that it didn’t work. At all.
We have a strong contender for worst anime dad of the year.
Also a person in a mask whom you almost certainly shouldn't trust per Gundam rules.
Unless she's your mom.
I did not see spoiler coming, but I'm all on board for it
I feel like I should have seen it coming, especially with the
"Prospera" and "Aerial" names
Like I'm actually kinda embarrassed it took me until the end of the episode to realize that this entire thing is just literally Shakespeare's The Tempest
aka the play where the wizard Prospero, who has a magical fairy helper named Ariel, retreats to a distant island and plots revenge against the king that murdered his wife, eventually scheming to have his daughter get engaged to the king's son.
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i read the spider novels and i'm not sure why they kept in anything about anyone who was not spider
none of it was as good
My guess is:
From a standard storytelling perspective, the Spider is the villain, so there needed to a "hero team" for contrast.
It’s probably more that for the first long, long stretch, there would be no character on the screen except the spider. They were probably worried that a single character’s inner monologue couldn’t stay interesting for the entire show.
And honestly, the split timeline stuff wasn’t horrible in the first cour. It was the second half when it was all generic isekai crew that it didn’t work. At all.
I was super impressed with how they pulled off the split timeline.
Even in the novels, Shun and co. were present from Volume 1. They cut a lot of the human side stuff out, actually.
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I read the manga where it's literally only the spider and it's vastly more interesting.
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I read the manga where it's literally only the spider and it's vastly more interesting.
A manga format, which only takes a few minutes to read per chapter, is a lot different than having to watch and listen to a 24 minute one spider show for 12-25 episodes.
I read the manga where it's literally only the spider and it's vastly more interesting.
A manga format, which only takes a few minutes to read per chapter, is a lot different than having to watch and listen to a 24 minute one spider show for 12-25 episodes.
Weirdly the same thing happened whenever the episodes focused entirely on the spider.
Funny how that works.
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Having not watched a Gundam before Witch from Mercury, this show seems to define Gundam as a very specific type of giant robot, in this case I think it means giant robot that can drain your life force to surpass normal limits? Is that right?
Is that true in other Gundam series, or a distinction created for this one?
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there are a couple other shows that have played around with the act of piloting the gundam having debilitating effects on the pilot, but generally gundams are just robots that are more powerful than other robots in the setting, be they built from better materials or equipped with super special weapons systems or what have you
I am not the biggest Gundam watcher, but my general impression is that Gundams are Gundams because they are Gundams, and arguing over which Gundams are actually Gundams is something of a hobby for the fandom.
What Gundam means changes between series and sometimes even in series but no, that is not what Gundam normally means. Gundam basically just means "a special robot", usually but not always limited to just the 'good guys.' Often Gundams are experimental and are sometimes dangerous to use. Regardless of whether or not they have downsides, Gundams are almost always the best "big robots." Like the standard formula for Gundam is that the protagonists have Gundams, which more powerful than any other giant robot. But to counter that and create narrative tension the protagonists are insanely and ridiculously outnumbered by the antagonists at all times
Basically, if you hear Gundam you should just take away that said giant is particularly powerful.
in a lot of cases "gundam" is just, like, a brand name - e.g. in OG Gundam the Gundam is one of a set of three "mobile suit" giant robots with the Guncannon and Guntank, and thus in future UC series some mechs are called "Gundam" because they're descended from the OG as far as design goes.
the original Gundam is... just a big giant robot that's literally controlled by levers and buttons within the cockpit (which is a jet plane, because toy gimmicks). Zero life-draining going on there.
in Witch from Mercury it's specifically derived from the GUND-ARM robots that incorporated the GUND remote-controlled prosthetics system, though, which is the bit that kills you
I think the GUND format is a good variation on the "this thing either was evolved or developed through technology as an adaptation to allow humans to operate in a space environment, but wouldn't it be great if we used it for WAR?" thing that newtypes originated
Having not watched a Gundam before Witch from Mercury, this show seems to define Gundam as a very specific type of giant robot, in this case I think it means giant robot that can drain your life force to surpass normal limits? Is that right?
Is that true in other Gundam series, or a distinction created for this one?
Basically "A Gundam" is typically distinct from just "a mobile suit" (which is how the series callls the robots in general) but what way the Gundams are different basically is different in every single series. Sometimes the Gundams are magic, sometimes they kill you, sometimes they give you superpowers, sometimes they're just, like, *really* prototype super cool tech...
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They do not. That sort of relationship stuff is very much not a thing.
This series is all about Professor Moriarty bringing down the class structure in Britain. Via murder and crime.
edit: Oh yeah the Irene Adler twist is brilliant.
From the short story we know that mom wants revenge, feel like the plan is to undermine Delling by getting all the other corporations interested in gundam tech? Loving this hellscape capitalism corporate espionage stuff, interested in seeing where this goes.
Also big fan of Miorine venting stress by locking herself in the bathroom and playing games on her phone, she just like me fr
Great second episode, still cannot believe that they literally put a human version of Utena's Chu-Chu in this show.
Edit: oh, also there is a short after credits scene this time, before the next episode preview.
Nothing major plot wise, but watch out for that if you skip the ED like a monster.
Are you sure they're rat ears and not
Sorry, it's been a while
Edit:
Gundam Chu-Chu, for reference
What?
The entire last third of the second episode is Gurren Lagaan.
We have a strong contender for worst anime dad of the year.
Also a person in a mask whom you almost certainly shouldn't trust per Gundam rules.
Hey, if you want to see Sherlock and Moriarty kiss, have I got a Sherlock Holmes TV adaptation for you!
suave, flirty, shaken not stirred, all that jazz
none of it was as good
Sunrise did that last scene as a pure mic drop budget moment.
I did not see spoiler coming, but I'm all on board for it
My guess is:
It’s probably more that for the first long, long stretch, there would be no character on the screen except the spider. They were probably worried that a single character’s inner monologue couldn’t stay interesting for the entire show.
I feel like I should have seen it coming, especially with the
Like I'm actually kinda embarrassed it took me until the end of the episode to realize that this entire thing is just literally Shakespeare's The Tempest
aka the play where the wizard Prospero, who has a magical fairy helper named Ariel, retreats to a distant island and plots revenge against the king that murdered his wife, eventually scheming to have his daughter get engaged to the king's son.
Even in the novels, Shun and co. were present from Volume 1. They cut a lot of the human side stuff out, actually.
A manga format, which only takes a few minutes to read per chapter, is a lot different than having to watch and listen to a 24 minute one spider show for 12-25 episodes.
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Weirdly the same thing happened whenever the episodes focused entirely on the spider.
Funny how that works.
also there is a good adler twist in that one as well!
Oh yeah, interesting witch of mercury speculation stuff
My bets on
Is that true in other Gundam series, or a distinction created for this one?
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Basically, if you hear Gundam you should just take away that said giant is particularly powerful.
the original Gundam is... just a big giant robot that's literally controlled by levers and buttons within the cockpit (which is a jet plane, because toy gimmicks). Zero life-draining going on there.
in Witch from Mercury it's specifically derived from the GUND-ARM robots that incorporated the GUND remote-controlled prosthetics system, though, which is the bit that kills you
Basically "A Gundam" is typically distinct from just "a mobile suit" (which is how the series callls the robots in general) but what way the Gundams are different basically is different in every single series. Sometimes the Gundams are magic, sometimes they kill you, sometimes they give you superpowers, sometimes they're just, like, *really* prototype super cool tech...