*Sigh* Boring side stories are boring. Can we get to a bigger picture here?
I don’t’ have much to say about this episode. It was about Mikoto and Kuroko’s dorm lady and her unrequited love and blah blah blah. Seriously, even the producers didn’t think this story was important enough, they didn’t even give the dorm lady a name! Seriously they make a whole episode about a character who doesn’t even have a name!? What the hell is that? It makes it even worse that I’ve just caught up with the manga story, and I must say the Sisters arc is so good! I wanna see those fights animated! I don’t wanna see nameless characters get stood up by old ladies! Oh well, nothing I complain about will change the fact that we’re not getting the Sisters arc animated (this series anyway). I just hope that the series takes a more serious turn soon.
Oh yeah, one interesting fact about this episode: Not only does Pizza Hut support Lelouch’s rebellion, now they also support Academy Citys espers! Ah, anime product placement at its finest!
It is the year A.D. 2307. Fossil fuels on Earth have been depleted entirely, with mankind turning to the next available power source: solar energy. During this time, 3 orbital elevators with solar power generation systems are built, each under control by the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (formerly United States of America), the Human Reform League (Russia, China and India) and the Advanced European Union. However, not all countries are able to enjoy the benefits of this system, leading to widespread resentment and war. Arising out of the conflict, a mysterious military organization known as Celestial Being appears, dedicated to end all warfare using Mobile Suits called Gundam. This begins the stories of Gundam Meisters (pilots) Setsuna F. Seiei, Lockon Stratos, Allelujah Haptism and Tiera Erde as they are thrown into conflict between the 3 superpowers and the various other factions.
episodes: 25
Aired: August 06, 2007
Genres: Action, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-fi
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Age Rating: R – 17+ (violence & profanity)
Type: X264 MKV
Audio: English
Size: 49-70Mb
Password: wasd-utkidestiny-
“Daybreak’s Bell”
Episode 1: Celestial Being (61 MB)
Episode 2: Gundam Meister (61 MB)
Episode 3: The Changing World (51 MB)
Episode 4: Foreign Negotiations (59 MB)
Episode 5: Breakaway Limit Zone (51 MB)
Episode 6: Seven Swords (50 MB)
Episode 7: Unrepayable Soul (50 MB)
Episode 8: Indiscriminate Retaliation (49 MB)
Episode 9: A Powerful Nation`s Dignity (51 MB)
Episode 10: Operation Gundam Capture (50 MB)
Episode 11: Allelujah (50 MB)
Episode 12: Towards the End of Doctrine (50 MB)
Episode 13: Return of the Saint (49 MB)
“Ash Like Snow”
Episode 14: Dawn of the Determination (50 MB)
Episode 15: Broken Wings (50 MB)
Episode 16: Trinity (50 MB)
Episode 17: Throne Strikes (50 MB)
Episode 18: Spearhead of Malice (50 MB)
Episode 19: Bonds (50 MB)
Episode 20: Blade of Revolution (50 MB)
Episode 21: Road to Ruin (50 MB)
Episode 22: Trans-Am (50 MB)
Episode 23: The World Stands Still(50 MB)
Episode 24: The Never-Ending Poem (50 MB)
Episode 25: Setsuna (55 MB)
A.D. 2133: as the Bioroid-run Olympus (a utopian city governed by humanoid cyborg’s with troublesome emotions like anger and fear removed) invites the rest of the world to join with its satellite network to usher in an era of global peace, something or someone has plans of their own and is mind-controlling cyborgs to get it.
6/10
Once again, as with Appleseed (CG), the strongest scene opens the movie with a notably cool action sequence inside a cathedral sprinkled with neat ideas. The remainder doesn’t make much sense but at least you do know what the heroes are doing and the technical concepts come across clearly. The problem is that the baddie’s plans make no sense at all (SPOILER especially the shooting himself in the head and dying bit) but, as I say, you do know what everyone is doing so you can easily follow events. Technically, this is brilliantly designed (Deunan’s two Prada-designed outfits are impressively eye-catching) and has a lovely look that keeps itself out of the uncanny valley by having a very simple colour style, especially for character faces.
This movie contains a single sexual swear word, mild swear words and violence, brief graphic violence.
Classified 12 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.
In an older version of my About page, I included “no robots/mecha” as one of the stringent criteria I apply when choosing anime series to follow.
My distrust of mecha-themed titles has not entirely dissipated, but I’ve been sufficiently swayed by positive reviews of a certain recent film to place an order for it on Amazon.com.
Incidentally, this will be my very first Blu-ray acquisition.
The disc is scheduled for release on 9th March. That leaves me one month in which to buy a player that can actually read it.
Last week on Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, the writers went a little bit deeper into the love triangle between Yoshii, Minami, and Himeji. Well, I hope you didn’t care about the romance, because this episode suspends that as well. Let’s try and make this as painless as possible.
Well... that plan failed quickly.
The episode starts out with Yoshii finding a charm on the street. In true idiot fashion, he puts it back for whoever was looking for it to find. It actually belongs to Hazuki, but before he can retrieve it, traffic conveniently covers the street. He asks the narrator-teacher to approve a summon so he can get it… and then gets hit by the principal’s car. Then, just to drive the failure home, a steamroller destroys the charm. You can guess how Hazuki feels.
How could you make her cry!
Fortunately, the school is holding a quiz/scavenger hunt that day, and a set of charms is one of the prizes. Yoshii resolves to win that prize, but Yoshii and Hideyoshi are his partners. They resort to using the idiot’s multiple-choice pencils to select the answers since none of them can figure out the solutions. The answers point to a place in the air, Himeji’s death bread, and a toilet. In the meantime, Himeji, Minami, and Voyeur’s group visits the ladies’ changing room, where the latter passes out from nosebleeds.
You're on a toilet you found with a PENCIL, nimrod.
Finally, Yoshii has one of his rare bright ideas. They can’t answer the questions, and luck manipulation hasn’t worked, so they should just randomly search for possible locations. The trio fails to find anything, until Yoshii realizes one spot remains: the roof. The prize he wanted happens to be there, but the Class A group encounters them. A battle brews… and then terminates because the school bell rings. Yoshii gets the charm for Hazuki, as well as a bracelet that has a portable battlefield. The principal remarks that even an idiot can do well in his own way, and we exit the episode.
Better pray for Deus Ex Machina to save you.
At this point, I’m just utterly at a loss for what to make of this series. With a 13-episode block, we need some view of where we’re going by now. I don’t have that feeling. First, the battle aspect, which initially sold me on this series, has disappeared. The writers actually revoke the one battle scene because school ends for the day. The bracelet does give me a little hope, since a portable battlefield has some interesting uses. Then they stripped out the romance aspects, and while that isn’t a spectacular plot, at least it can drive the series. What we’re left with is a parody series, which the likes of Pani Poni Dash and Seitokai no Ichizon have already tread and nailed it to the wall. If the producers would just clamp down and point it in some direction, this series could be so much more. Unfortunately, next week looks like the obligatory swimsuit episode.
But goshdangit, it was worth it to see Hazuki smile!
Last month I setup/tested a barebones box/video card I selected on Ebay, for a friend. I tested the card on some sites and didn’t clear the browser history and they discovered anime. I received an email from them last night asking for more–good ones.
Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. and Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig are my first Notable Anime series:
WatchAnimeOnline has the entire Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. (English/Subtitles]
Veoh has the entire Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. [English/Dubbed]
AniLinkz has the entire Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig [English/Subtitled]
MySpace members have uploaded Ghost In The Shell S.A.C. 2nd Gig episodes [English/Dubbed]
Here’s a link to the first episode. Keyword searching (KEYWORDS: Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd GIG Episode 1) will get you the series; increment the episode number.
Producer: John Woo 
Classified 12 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over. 
