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alas_a_llama) wrote2012-03-19 12:53 am
alas_a_llama) wrote2012-03-19 12:53 am
Garo Makai Senki 23.
We rejoin our ragtag band of people with no common sense as they begin their siege of Leo's Awful Idea.
Okay, the theme tune is yellow. I'm not sure why, it's just covered with a yellow haze. I actually thought there was a problem with the video file at first.
To start the battle rolling, Ganon uses Leo's Awful Idea to summon an army of Horrors. Um. Okay. Why is that one of its functions? Just because? You designed this thing as the ultimate Horror killer, Leo, it should not be summoning them.
Oh good, boys, you've remembered that you all have magical suits of armour. That's fortunate.
Leo, did you just impale someone on your helmet's horns? Harsh, man. But also kind of awesome, I've gotta say. It's nice to see those horns of yours aren't just decorative.
Sigma is apparently imprisoned, still alive but tormented, in Ganon's skirt. I. I don't. I'm not even sure what to say to that. Just refer to my previous thoughts on how the villains in this series are all really weirdly sexual.
Amemiya, having Ganon just slide into the frame makes it look like you edited this with Macromedia Flash.
Leo, you don't have to look like you're in love with Kouga. We all know your true love is Rei. We all saw the looks you gave him. And Kaoru. And Rekka. And Tsubasa. Your love is cheap, Leo, you give it to anybody who happens to be within a twelve foot radius.
Okay, guys, you didn't really expect cutting off a leg to work, did you? I could've told you it was just going to regrow.
Big damn heroes moment in the real world! By a guy we've met once, but has a brush the size of his leg. Someone is clearly compensating. But he brings with him every Makai Priest ever! Pay no attention to the fact that their clothes are markedly less intricate than any main character priests! Ignore the fact that the main characters only notice them when they enter the frame, as if they were invisible beforehand!
Their plan is apparently to keep Leo's Awful Idea from moving by en masse creating a beam of energy to blast it constantly. That's not a bad plan, but is that guy wearing a stripey fleece? You're not selling me the 'ancient class of mages' angle, Amemiya.
Okay, so the fate of the universe apparently rests on Leo. So long as this doesn't involve building anything, we should be fine.
Tsubasa arrives, and as the theme tune starts playing, all three armour up and summon their celestial robot horses. The horses are, actually, the real stars of this episodes, and I like that. A lot of this episode is basically robot horse action porn - beating up monsters while riding them, riding them up walls, using them as catapults, using them as gigantic, burning projectiles catapulted off giant swords. We'll get to that last one later.
A lot of the stunts in this action sequence are impossible. We have horses doing sideflips, just to start.
Ganon, meanwhile, proves two can play at the 'powerful beam of energy' game by blasting all the priests trying to stop her. Well. That Big Damn Heroes moment worked out well, then. But we have another Big Damn Heroes moment, from the knights! All of which look really generic, which is odd. Kind of shooting your worldbuilding in the foot there. What, GARO, ZERO, KIBA, RODO, BARON, BADO and DAN are all unique, but everybody else just has a standard armour indistinguishable from anyone else? That makes no sense.
Leo has a plan! We don't get to find out what it is, but when he sends word to Jabi about it, she is alarmed. It might be "I'll build a bigger, even more horrifyingly destructive and evil robot, and we'll use that to destroy the current one! :D?" because that would alarm me.
Oh, good, iceskating horses.
For the crowning moment of 'whuh' in this episode, Kouga enlarges his sword to a massive size, has his horse land on it, imbues it and horse with magical flame, and then throws both into Leo's Awful Idea. For context, this is clearly meant to one-up the Beast of the Midnight Sun miniseries, where Kouga enlarges his sword to a massive size, throws it, and then lands on it and surfs it into his enemy. One-upping here, apparently means that this time there's a horse surfing it, and everything is on fire.
No preview for the next episode. Disappointing.
Okay, the theme tune is yellow. I'm not sure why, it's just covered with a yellow haze. I actually thought there was a problem with the video file at first.
To start the battle rolling, Ganon uses Leo's Awful Idea to summon an army of Horrors. Um. Okay. Why is that one of its functions? Just because? You designed this thing as the ultimate Horror killer, Leo, it should not be summoning them.
Oh good, boys, you've remembered that you all have magical suits of armour. That's fortunate.
Leo, did you just impale someone on your helmet's horns? Harsh, man. But also kind of awesome, I've gotta say. It's nice to see those horns of yours aren't just decorative.
Sigma is apparently imprisoned, still alive but tormented, in Ganon's skirt. I. I don't. I'm not even sure what to say to that. Just refer to my previous thoughts on how the villains in this series are all really weirdly sexual.
Amemiya, having Ganon just slide into the frame makes it look like you edited this with Macromedia Flash.
Leo, you don't have to look like you're in love with Kouga. We all know your true love is Rei. We all saw the looks you gave him. And Kaoru. And Rekka. And Tsubasa. Your love is cheap, Leo, you give it to anybody who happens to be within a twelve foot radius.
Okay, guys, you didn't really expect cutting off a leg to work, did you? I could've told you it was just going to regrow.
Big damn heroes moment in the real world! By a guy we've met once, but has a brush the size of his leg. Someone is clearly compensating. But he brings with him every Makai Priest ever! Pay no attention to the fact that their clothes are markedly less intricate than any main character priests! Ignore the fact that the main characters only notice them when they enter the frame, as if they were invisible beforehand!
Their plan is apparently to keep Leo's Awful Idea from moving by en masse creating a beam of energy to blast it constantly. That's not a bad plan, but is that guy wearing a stripey fleece? You're not selling me the 'ancient class of mages' angle, Amemiya.
Okay, so the fate of the universe apparently rests on Leo. So long as this doesn't involve building anything, we should be fine.
Tsubasa arrives, and as the theme tune starts playing, all three armour up and summon their celestial robot horses. The horses are, actually, the real stars of this episodes, and I like that. A lot of this episode is basically robot horse action porn - beating up monsters while riding them, riding them up walls, using them as catapults, using them as gigantic, burning projectiles catapulted off giant swords. We'll get to that last one later.
A lot of the stunts in this action sequence are impossible. We have horses doing sideflips, just to start.
Ganon, meanwhile, proves two can play at the 'powerful beam of energy' game by blasting all the priests trying to stop her. Well. That Big Damn Heroes moment worked out well, then. But we have another Big Damn Heroes moment, from the knights! All of which look really generic, which is odd. Kind of shooting your worldbuilding in the foot there. What, GARO, ZERO, KIBA, RODO, BARON, BADO and DAN are all unique, but everybody else just has a standard armour indistinguishable from anyone else? That makes no sense.
Leo has a plan! We don't get to find out what it is, but when he sends word to Jabi about it, she is alarmed. It might be "I'll build a bigger, even more horrifyingly destructive and evil robot, and we'll use that to destroy the current one! :D?" because that would alarm me.
Oh, good, iceskating horses.
For the crowning moment of 'whuh' in this episode, Kouga enlarges his sword to a massive size, has his horse land on it, imbues it and horse with magical flame, and then throws both into Leo's Awful Idea. For context, this is clearly meant to one-up the Beast of the Midnight Sun miniseries, where Kouga enlarges his sword to a massive size, throws it, and then lands on it and surfs it into his enemy. One-upping here, apparently means that this time there's a horse surfing it, and everything is on fire.
No preview for the next episode. Disappointing.