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so, as i pray...| Jan 17 2009 |
Rideback is the Outlaw Star of Motorcycles |
It's categorized as Anime.
It's tagged over nine thousand things, including: Code Geass • defiance • extrange • innocent venus • outlaw star • rideback • shit • that. What a slut.
At least it only has 16 comments and 2,014 views.
I come from having just watched episode one of this “Rideback” thingy. Would be better if it were called “Piggyback” or “Autobots” but I guess I can’t have everything.
So. My first thoughts when they were showing us the “history” segment were “lolol Code Geass” because you have the same thing: some self-righteous bastards have some new technology that they’ve somehow managed to develop completely in secret, and that technology is humanoid robots on wheels, and they use this technology to take over the whole damn world.
For the record, “lolol Code Geass” is not the same as “lolol this is ripping off Code Geass”—I’m well aware of which work was first conceived in the chronology of creation. It’s more like… “lolol this turned out so well last time an anime did this.”
Psst. Sarcasm.
But I digress. The next thing I thought—still in that scene with the rideback drop pods carriers—was “… Innocent Venus.”
For those not in the know (IV is shit, so it might be obscure), Innocent Venus features a cool Yousei Teikoku OP, a cast of shitheads, and rollerblade mechs the armaments of which are too inaccurate to deal with infantry[1]. Obvious parallels here…
… but then, in reading some post somewhere[2], I realized: Outlaw Star! These are grappler motorcycles. Yep. Hella original, RITE?!
Discuss.
Oh also, if I could say “typical” over nine thousand times in a row, that might almost describe this show.
Footnotes
these notes are like lelouch's head to the boot of this post's suzaku- There’s this great scene where a guy misses a group of infantry with his RPG launcher, opens his cockpit, jumps out with an assault rifle, and mows them down. Good stuff. [↩]
- “This one is slender and and looks more like a normal motorbike….that is, if motorbikes had robotic arms attached to the sides.” – Extrange [↩]
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Agreed.
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But Outlaw Star was awesome, so what’s the problem? :p
ReplyNazarielle — 1/17/09 @ 11:13 am | #Link
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Humanoid robots? I HATES HUMANOID ROBOTS D;
Really I hate 90% of all Mecha Anime out there. And sports. Place them together and I’ll start to facepalm. Code Geass was different for me in the way that they had a backstabbing Suzaku and a guy who thinks like Light Yagami.
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Sonnya! Outlaw Star is awesome!
Also, Rideback is win and you should read the manga too.
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If your interested in where this show is going: http://theeasternstandard.blogspot.com/2009/01/ride-back.html
Replydigitalboy — 1/17/09 @ 11:52 am | #Link
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@IcyStorm: you always agree with me, bitch.
@Nazarielle: was it really? Hm. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to finish it.
@Aizen: but Code Geass was also trashy to the max.
@Sasa: pffft.
Replylolikitsune — 1/17/09 @ 11:54 am | #Link
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Empire first deploy Knightmares in the conquest of Japan? I thought they conquered the rest of their territory without mecha.
Admittedly, to its original audience Japan may have been the only part of the world whose conquest actually mattered.
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I’d like to see IcyStorm write up a post wherein he explicates to some degree of detail his beef with the show, though in my view grappling robot arms a la Outlaw Star isn’t quite enough to constitute “typicality” or, for that matter, “redundancy” (i.e. ROLLERSKATE MECHA OH SHI- BLUE GENDER/GEASS).
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@IKnight: did they only introduce mechs in taking over Japan? I thought the fighting in Japan was special because Japan managed to make some mechs of its own (unlike the other countries)? In any case, the similarity remains.
@lelangir: note the “also”—the robot arms don’t make it typical. The typical comment was an aside. I can go into what makes it typical if you want, but the “omg outlaw star” thing was mainly meant as a joke (also, contrary to what my earlier comment would have you believe, I like Outlaw Star).
Replylolikitsune — 1/17/09 @ 4:03 pm | #Link
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@lolikitsune: If by trash = the mecha, I agree :o
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@Aizen: not just the mecha… also the high school romance/comedy/drama, the constant plot twists, the hilariously over-dramatic character direction, etc…
Replylolikitsune — 1/17/09 @ 6:18 pm | #Link
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@lolikitsune: You should finish it! The ending is kinda… weird, but it was a fun show. I actually watched it so long ago on Cartoon Network when it aired, finally got around to watching it properly in Japanese a little while ago. Definitely worth a watch, although it wasn’t nearly as good the second time around. I think I was even easier to please back then than I am now, if that’s possible.
ReplyNazarielle — 1/17/09 @ 7:55 pm | #Link
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I do intend to… at some point.
Replylolikitsune — 1/18/09 @ 8:43 am | #Link
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Your mom is the Outlaw Star of… your… face shit I lost that one before I even had it.
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THROUGH THE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!
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