Season 2 aka Knight of the Twin Moons is a 12 episode season that picks up right where Season 1 left off. With Loise and the boy from another world (Modern day Japan) , Saito.
Agnes, royal guard captain probably gets most of the character development in this season. I guess the initial concept of Familiar of Zero aka Zero no Tsukaima drew me in back in 2007 but I wanted more. The steady development of the main relationship, an evolution of Saito's ability. Just something.
The use of WW II fighter was really stretching it for me. Teenage boy knows how to make repairs to the war plane after it was just in a rough landing. Fixed it with metal and items found in a Medieval world. Sort of reminds me of "Army of Darkness" to be fair to FOZ. One was about a making a chainsaw and "boomstick" usuable while the other is about a flying hunk of metal...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Monday, June 29, 2015
Started Watching: Infinite Stratos
Having recently just finished watching Hi-sCool Seha Girls I decided to go with a Mecha show that I initially skipped over due to bad reviews I was seeing online even among the hardcore robot/mecha fans online.
What intrigued me about the show is that the Mech angle in this show revolves around "Power Armor" that only the female gender can activate and operate. The only exception being out main protagonist named Ichika Onimura. This actually reminds me of two other shows from the past. Macross Frontier and Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. The slimness of the power suits remind with of Macross Frontier in the way how the Pilot school suits allow students to fly and had a strong school setting. Dual! features a man being able to fight in a robot mean for a female pilot.
Only a few episodes in an the Fanservice is really difficult to ignore. Happens often and the "camera" likes to focus and linger on the moments. It doesn't help when the main focus of the plot is how Onimura is the only guy in an all-girl school. Every girl in his class (an in the school at points) are always trying to get Onimura's attention. The real saving point for me so far is that the Power armor suits are interesting to look at and mech designer actually makes the fighting suits have different color schemes and combat systems.
Having paused my viewing at episode 4, there is a more serious sub-plot going on that I hope develops in the 8 remaining episodes. Something that adds to the combat-sport use of the mech suits.
What intrigued me about the show is that the Mech angle in this show revolves around "Power Armor" that only the female gender can activate and operate. The only exception being out main protagonist named Ichika Onimura. This actually reminds me of two other shows from the past. Macross Frontier and Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. The slimness of the power suits remind with of Macross Frontier in the way how the Pilot school suits allow students to fly and had a strong school setting. Dual! features a man being able to fight in a robot mean for a female pilot.
Only a few episodes in an the Fanservice is really difficult to ignore. Happens often and the "camera" likes to focus and linger on the moments. It doesn't help when the main focus of the plot is how Onimura is the only guy in an all-girl school. Every girl in his class (an in the school at points) are always trying to get Onimura's attention. The real saving point for me so far is that the Power armor suits are interesting to look at and mech designer actually makes the fighting suits have different color schemes and combat systems.
Having paused my viewing at episode 4, there is a more serious sub-plot going on that I hope develops in the 8 remaining episodes. Something that adds to the combat-sport use of the mech suits.
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