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| Ready For Some Robot Action! |
This anime season is over, and Hazard must say it has given
us quite a few gems. There were some shows I would have loved to make weekly
posts for. Sadly, I am only human.
What I can do now though, is make a few Spotlight posts. Two
of them.
With that said, Spotlight Start!
The Story
In the Future mankind has reached space.
They also have giant robots because why wouldn't you have
giant robots in space? Space without giant robots is like coffee without
caffeine.
Now, as usually happens, mankind is at war. Not with each
other but with an alien species, the mysterious Wulgaru.
How are our combined armies doing
against this menace from space? Not well.
Enter the “Totally not a Military
Organization” MJP.
The MJP has developed all new,
JURIA System. Cutting edge technology that greatly increases a giant robot's performance in battle, and who better to pilot such advanced machines than the
worse team in the academy, the Fail Five!
The Setting
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| Introducing, Savage Char |
As stated before the
bulk of the show takes place in space, and its main focus is on the war between
Earth and the Wulgaru.
On one side of the war
we have the army. The officers of the army range from competent underlings to
one Too Dumb to Live superior officer.
Overall, the army leans
more towards the incompetent side with a few exceptions.
The Wulgaru are noted
for having fewer numbers compared to the Earthlings. Despite that, their
battlefield superiority is incredibly clear. Planet Earth has been getting its
ass kicked rather badly until our protagonists step in.
It should also be noted
that while Earth’s machines are all metal and circuits, Wulgaru’s weapons and
robots have an almost organic feel to them. It makes for a nice contrast which
only increases as we find out more about the Aliens.
How It manages:
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| Our Heroes! |
Pretty well. It doesn't
have the sheer WTF-ness of Valvrave or generates as much debate as Gargantia,
but it is a nice mecha show in its own right.
Certainly not as
disappointing as Gargantia.
Now the show does have
some pacing problems. Sometimes it goes too slowly, but it manages to cope with
this due to one very important factor, the characters.
Izuru is our “I want to
be a Hero” guy. Asagi is the cool one. Ataru is the military otaku. Tamaki is
the boy crazy one. Kei is the sane one.
Sure, they are one step
away from being yet another Power Rangers team, complete with the appropriate
colored robots, but the show goes out of his way to make you care for them and
damn it, it does a good job at that.
The Graduation would
have been a boring episode where it not for the fact that you genuinely feel
for the kids. You really feel something is ending for them, and that’s great.
Another factor is the
battles. They are awesome.
Seriously, the fights
are plain awesome. Whether it is a good old fashioned sword duel in space, or
an army vs army battle where people actually remember space is three dimensional and thus coming from above or below the enemy is perfectly possible, the
battles don’t disappoint.
Majestic Prince is a
rather straightforward giant robot show, but it is a good one. Nice comedy.
Good action. Likable characters.
Final thing, with
Gargantia, Hataraku Maou-sama, and Valvrave now finished, Majestic Prince will
step up to fill one of the slots.
Final Final thing,
expect a lower number of posts this week.
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