Based on my viewing of the 1st season, I think they wanted to get that smart-edgy-sexy GoT vibe that was really big at the time with a hint of Neon Genesis Evangelion but ended up writing a story that was so dumb and amateurish that it ruined the potential fun of a mecha battle cartoon show. The writing felt like it needed a few more passes or something to add depth to it
I never saw the second season though so I could be wrong. can anybody give me a QRD of Season 2?
Throwing money at the writing team isn't an inherent fix, especially if the core team and leads are still shit writers. Though ultimately overpriced actors are never much of a positive besides appealing to normalgays who'd never watch your show in the first place, but maybe money could've gone towards making it not look like it was dated 10 years ago.
>have everything needed to make it succeed
Uhh, how was the animation and the designs?
Because those two things are probably the most important aspects of any mecha series.
Those character designs sure don't inspire confidence.
They siphoned money from RWBY's budget, blew it all on voice actors, and then ended up with garbage because the Gray was a fricking hack. And then for season 2 they got new writers and directors who were tripping on bath salts and it was just a fricking mess.
Oh I loved that they cultivated an audience of weirdos and then had a character literally commit suicide because she couldn't handle a teammate's death and then posted a suicide hotline at the end of the episode
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What happened with Gen:Lock?
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It was made by people who fricking hated mecha anime while trying to make one.
Seriously they had a plaque in the office about how Gen:Lock would be, unlike mecha anime, about the characters and in season 2 showed cartoonishly misogynistic mecha anime so they could do some weird fricking thing with the male asian pilot having breasts in their VR simulation.
I'm not a weeb, but honestly it seems like some people just fricking hate the Japanese these days and not from a PEARL HARBOR TOJO DEM FRICKIN' NIPS direction either
>Oh I loved that they cultivated an audience of weirdos and then had a character literally commit suicide because she couldn't handle a teammate's death and then posted a suicide hotline at the end of the episode
Is that an actual thing from season 2? Was it the Bunny girl?
I don't remember, but after the asian guy dies the second his weird fricking arc is over, one of the female pilots submits herself to getting deleted by nanomachines
It turns out, if you can pilot mechs, you don't die and turn into an AI nanomachine god, though. So she doesn't die and it's fine
It's ironic that the writers harped on about "this is a mech show that focuses on the PEOPLE instead of the ROBOTS" because that's what killed my interest in it. I don't care about what melodrama these useless buttholes get up to in their free time, I want to see giant robots beating the shit out of each other and bullying armored columns
Oh I loved that they cultivated an audience of weirdos and then had a character literally commit suicide because she couldn't handle a teammate's death and then posted a suicide hotline at the end of the episode
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It was made by people who fricking hated mecha anime while trying to make one.
Seriously they had a plaque in the office about how Gen:Lock would be, unlike mecha anime, about the characters and in season 2 showed cartoonishly misogynistic mecha anime so they could do some weird fricking thing with the male asian pilot having breasts in their VR simulation.
I'm not a weeb, but honestly it seems like some people just fricking hate the Japanese these days and not from a PEARL HARBOR TOJO DEM FRICKIN' NIPS direction either
>Seriously they had a plaque in the office about how Gen:Lock would be, unlike mecha anime, about the characters
I don't know anything about the show or too much about what goes on at Rooster Teeth, but I remember an anon said it was the CEO's dream project. So there was literally no one who could tell him no about anything, and to not redirect all their money towards it.
In 2018 Rooster Teeth announced this shit at an Anime Expo panel and you had to wait like 2 hours just to get in the building. I never watched this shit and just know WB forced it to premiere on Toonami and it was really badly-reviewed.
As someone that has no interest in watching the series I appreciate the sex and nudity.
It was shit and ruined the entire tone.
Based on my viewing of the 1st season, I think they wanted to get that smart-edgy-sexy GoT vibe that was really big at the time with a hint of Neon Genesis Evangelion but ended up writing a story that was so dumb and amateurish that it ruined the potential fun of a mecha battle cartoon show. The writing felt like it needed a few more passes or something to add depth to it
I never saw the second season though so I could be wrong. can anybody give me a QRD of Season 2?
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>blowing all your budget on VAs
Idiot move.
i think
has the right of it
>remove money from VAs
>add money to writing team
Seems like VAs is still the core issue
Throwing money at the writing team isn't an inherent fix, especially if the core team and leads are still shit writers. Though ultimately overpriced actors are never much of a positive besides appealing to normalgays who'd never watch your show in the first place, but maybe money could've gone towards making it not look like it was dated 10 years ago.
Terrible writing can’t be fixed with good actors.
>have everything needed to make it succeed
Uhh, how was the animation and the designs?
Because those two things are probably the most important aspects of any mecha series.
Those character designs sure don't inspire confidence.
only saw a bit of the first season and apparently season 2 was even worse.
it just looks really bad and the writing is awful
They siphoned money from RWBY's budget, blew it all on voice actors, and then ended up with garbage because the Gray was a fricking hack. And then for season 2 they got new writers and directors who were tripping on bath salts and it was just a fricking mess.
Oh I loved that they cultivated an audience of weirdos and then had a character literally commit suicide because she couldn't handle a teammate's death and then posted a suicide hotline at the end of the episode
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It was made by people who fricking hated mecha anime while trying to make one.
Seriously they had a plaque in the office about how Gen:Lock would be, unlike mecha anime, about the characters and in season 2 showed cartoonishly misogynistic mecha anime so they could do some weird fricking thing with the male asian pilot having breasts in their VR simulation.
I'm not a weeb, but honestly it seems like some people just fricking hate the Japanese these days and not from a PEARL HARBOR TOJO DEM FRICKIN' NIPS direction either
>Oh I loved that they cultivated an audience of weirdos and then had a character literally commit suicide because she couldn't handle a teammate's death and then posted a suicide hotline at the end of the episode
Is that an actual thing from season 2? Was it the Bunny girl?
I don't remember, but after the asian guy dies the second his weird fricking arc is over, one of the female pilots submits herself to getting deleted by nanomachines
It turns out, if you can pilot mechs, you don't die and turn into an AI nanomachine god, though. So she doesn't die and it's fine
>meanwhile RWBY had a $7 budget and used rooster teeth employees as voices
Is this the show that ended with some surreal sex scene?
None of those actors are stars.
The age of the movie star is over.
It's ironic that the writers harped on about "this is a mech show that focuses on the PEOPLE instead of the ROBOTS" because that's what killed my interest in it. I don't care about what melodrama these useless buttholes get up to in their free time, I want to see giant robots beating the shit out of each other and bullying armored columns
>this is a mech show that focuses on the PEOPLE instead of the ROBOTS
not people, leftist
all the relationships are bizarre sexual identities ptsd multiculturalism and depression
>Seriously they had a plaque in the office about how Gen:Lock would be, unlike mecha anime, about the characters
Isn't most mecha anime about the characters?
You don't get it, it's anime so it's bad. Our faux anime will be good 😀
It was a mecha show made people who hate mecha shows.
>Greentext on twitter
I don't know anything about the show or too much about what goes on at Rooster Teeth, but I remember an anon said it was the CEO's dream project. So there was literally no one who could tell him no about anything, and to not redirect all their money towards it.
In 2018 Rooster Teeth announced this shit at an Anime Expo panel and you had to wait like 2 hours just to get in the building. I never watched this shit and just know WB forced it to premiere on Toonami and it was really badly-reviewed.