Is there a translation of The Blank of 3 Years anywhere? I finished watching the series but I can't bring myself to watch the movie without at least knowing wtf happened
I finished the series earlier this month and I couldn't find ANY info on the plot of the game beside one 10 year old gamefaq post. I also find a link to a geocities fan website that was supposedly more detailed, but it was obviously down.
I had even less luck with the dreamcast follow up to the movie "The Mission", I straight up couldn't found anything regarding the plot of this one, guess I'll have to stick with SRW to find any form of closure to this licence.
I finished the series earlier this month and I couldn't find ANY info on the plot of the game beside one 10 year old gamefaq post. I also find a link to a geocities fan website that was supposedly more detailed, but it was obviously down.
I had even less luck with the dreamcast follow up to the movie "The Mission", I straight up couldn't found anything regarding the plot of this one, guess I'll have to stick with SRW to find any form of closure to this licence.
The game isn't the treasure trove it's hyped up to be. There's basically no solid explanation.
I don't like the movie because it feels incomplete, like the middle movie of a trilogy.
And no, from the summaries I read of Black of 3 Years, that doesn't actually explain anything other than one route having the shuttle explosion that was thought to have killed Akito and Yurika.
Things like why people are surprised by certain other characters being alive despite nothing implying they might be dead before turning up.
And yet the first part of this wannabe trilogy has the antagonists completely defeated.
Is there a translation of The Blank of 3 Years anywhere? I finished watching the series but I can't bring myself to watch the movie without at least knowing wtf happened
I finished the series earlier this month and I couldn't find ANY info on the plot of the game beside one 10 year old gamefaq post. I also find a link to a geocities fan website that was supposedly more detailed, but it was obviously down.
I had even less luck with the dreamcast follow up to the movie "The Mission", I straight up couldn't found anything regarding the plot of this one, guess I'll have to stick with SRW to find any form of closure to this licence.
There's a pasta on here about B3Y that gets posted every once in a while but it's not really a codex that helps PoD make sense because nothing could help that shitheap of a movie.
I've read that there was going to be a trilogy of Nadesico movies meant to conclude the series as a whole. I don't know how bad PoD performed, but apparently enough that it discouraged interest for the series completely.
Fans hated the movie because it ruined the series they loved and killed all goodwill by sucking away the likeability because it was at released a year after EoE and wanted to recreate its grim tone hopelessness; basically experimenting by implanting that dark shit in what was previously a light-hearted satire on mecha. It's basically what AO did to Eureka Seven, but in a movie form.
You guys are exaggerating; the movie is darker than the show but it isn't that dark. Even the fricked up shit with Yurika had a self-aware and theatrical presentation with the villains using shoujo manga to do it. Akito is the only one got done dirty because he got completely fricked up and became a single-minded revenge killer, but otherswise the movie has shit like the idol concert used to distract the enemy soldiers, the propaganda theme park tour at the start, or Seiya's lampshaded convenient appearance. The worst part of the movie is the unresolved sequelbait and that it doesn't address the lingering plot points from the TV series like the plate the ancient aliens gave Aoi.
>Akito is the only one got done dirty because he got completely fricked up and became a single-minded revenge killer
Even that's a parody. Honestly the only part of it that really felt dirty was screwing up his sense of taste. That's just cruel.
No the movie sucked because >woo everyone get ready for waaaagh >suit up, battle station one wooo >Ruri then just 1 shot EMP'd everything
what the FRICK were they thinking
I dont get why people hate Prince of Darkness and treat it as one of the worst things to happen and also pretend the OG TV Nadesico was a show that was constantly happy 24/7, it seems people forget that everyone on Mars died, Gai died, the old moron that shot him comitted suicide in a panicked state and blew himself up, Tsukumo died.
Not sure if /m/ is blinded by nostalgia and watched the movie years later.
It's a very persistent opinion that I have never understood, for basically the reasons you listed. My biggest issue with PoD is that it's basically missing at least one act. The sad/happy balance isn't too far off from the show's, even if it is a bit more edgelordy.
>The sad/happy balance isn't too far off from the show's, even if it is a bit more edgelordy.
Well see here's the thing. Movies and TV shows are very different beasts. You can point to the TV show, say it jumps around tonally a lot and you wouldn't be wrong, but as a TV show you're giving a week between episodes to process shit. Events can settle more because you're not being whipped from scene to scene as fast. And yeah even the episodes could turn on a time but usually if something big and bad happened in the show it was an end of episode stinger or something so you'd get that week buffer before having to process the consequences.
Another major thing is how time within the story itself moves. From episode to episodes there's the assumption that time passes between episodes so we can accept some shit happening offscreen a bit easier. We don't really need to see the details following Joe's death to feel the weight. That's not to say movies can't also do time jumps but you're usually more cognizant of the more pressing issues time wise.
I wonder if the POD story would have worked better as a second TV series. It probably wouldn't have looked as pretty but I wonder if the story might have been conveyed stronger. Anyways hears Ruri in a cat suit skyping from the inside of a meat locker.
People usually don't take well to a tragedy that undoes a happy status quo happening off-screen. The movie's balance of humor and seriousness also just doesn't work, unlike in the show, with the return of the humor when they gather the crew feeling out of place. And then you also have how nothing is really resolved.
Regardless of how poorly everything was handled its still a Nadesico product thats for me is entertaining enough, I really wish we would have gotten the trilogy but acting like the movie destroyed Nadesico's legacy (which it didn't at all, not even close to 1%) and its one of the worst things ever is just childish.
I am not strawmanning anything moron, go to any prev thread about Prince of Darkness and there this constant sentiment from certain anons that PoD shat on "TV's Nadesico lightheartedness and comedic take on the mecha genre" whatever buzzwords those morons spout.
PoD sucks because the radical change of status quo has no payoff, unlike all the events you have listed. Akito becoming an edge master could work, it does in SRWs that bother to do anything with him besides popping up to deal with the baddies that Ruri takes down effortlessly anyway.
To continue, the entire movie is a cash in that has Endless Waltz formula of "have new faction of baddies pop up, to gather the cast again and deal with it". But even EW bothered to give some sort of development for its main characters (excluding Duo and Quatre), while PoD either makes them miserable offscreen (Akito, Ruri, Yurika) without giving proper resolution to that, or keeps them exact the same (everybody else).
It was kinda fricked up how they were manipulating her in the movie.
> Doesn't understand why Nadesico exists at all.
Ruri is the real star according to a lot of fans. That's why she's the focus of the movie.
The hair framing her eyes makes her look like an alien with a bulging skull. Always found that offputting.
>making reaction character the star
I love that since Ruri was no longer a e-girl, the movie made a new one to fill the void.
Christ, just pretend the movie doesn't exist. What a shitshow.
Dead IP. In an ocean of forgotten mecha series, Nadesico is lucky to still get into recent SRWs.
Wasn't Nadesico generationally popular during its run?
>generationally popular
The moron frick does that even mean?
Yurika needs a sequel.
I've been watching Vandread, its pretty much Nadesico but with babymaking euphemisms
Meia best girl
I always thought that was a neat show.
I was always fond of Barnette, even though she's a raging dyke.
I think she'd roll with a three-way
This is now a Vandread thread
nope
>90s ass
That's just asian women in general.
Sounds like an invitation to be proven wrong
Is she the best /m/ captain? She has a lot of stiff competition to deal with.
I would give her my stiff competition if you know what I am saying...
>Is she the best /m/ captain?
Well I don't mean to brag...
Well I don't know about best..
smug
I want to lay my head on Yurika's lap.
Is there a translation of The Blank of 3 Years anywhere? I finished watching the series but I can't bring myself to watch the movie without at least knowing wtf happened
I finished the series earlier this month and I couldn't find ANY info on the plot of the game beside one 10 year old gamefaq post. I also find a link to a geocities fan website that was supposedly more detailed, but it was obviously down.
I had even less luck with the dreamcast follow up to the movie "The Mission", I straight up couldn't found anything regarding the plot of this one, guess I'll have to stick with SRW to find any form of closure to this licence.
The game isn't the treasure trove it's hyped up to be. There's basically no solid explanation.
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/4683054/
I don't like the movie as it destroys the ending
I don't like the movie because it feels incomplete, like the middle movie of a trilogy.
And no, from the summaries I read of Black of 3 Years, that doesn't actually explain anything other than one route having the shuttle explosion that was thought to have killed Akito and Yurika.
Things like why people are surprised by certain other characters being alive despite nothing implying they might be dead before turning up.
And yet the first part of this wannabe trilogy has the antagonists completely defeated.
There's a pasta on here about B3Y that gets posted every once in a while but it's not really a codex that helps PoD make sense because nothing could help that shitheap of a movie.
The mystery of the ancient civilization and the plate Aoi gave to her adult self is still unresolved.
What mystery but?
I've read that there was going to be a trilogy of Nadesico movies meant to conclude the series as a whole. I don't know how bad PoD performed, but apparently enough that it discouraged interest for the series completely.
I can't imagine why a movie that stuffed best girl in a monolith performed badly!
Not just that. It ruined basically all of the characters and feels like a completely different series.
We live in a strange-thinking world.
The true ending of Nadesico
there is no ending to nadesico
Fans hated the movie because it ruined the series they loved and killed all goodwill by sucking away the likeability because it was at released a year after EoE and wanted to recreate its grim tone hopelessness; basically experimenting by implanting that dark shit in what was previously a light-hearted satire on mecha. It's basically what AO did to Eureka Seven, but in a movie form.
You guys are exaggerating; the movie is darker than the show but it isn't that dark. Even the fricked up shit with Yurika had a self-aware and theatrical presentation with the villains using shoujo manga to do it. Akito is the only one got done dirty because he got completely fricked up and became a single-minded revenge killer, but otherswise the movie has shit like the idol concert used to distract the enemy soldiers, the propaganda theme park tour at the start, or Seiya's lampshaded convenient appearance. The worst part of the movie is the unresolved sequelbait and that it doesn't address the lingering plot points from the TV series like the plate the ancient aliens gave Aoi.
Too bad they weren't self-aware enough to realise shelfing both the leads for the reaction character was a bad idea.
>Akito is the only one got done dirty because he got completely fricked up and became a single-minded revenge killer
Even that's a parody. Honestly the only part of it that really felt dirty was screwing up his sense of taste. That's just cruel.
>screwing up his sense of taste
Is it so fricked up that it makes him think PoD is good?
I thought that, as well as much of the movie is played straight and very seriously.
No the movie sucked because
>woo everyone get ready for waaaagh
>suit up, battle station one wooo
>Ruri then just 1 shot EMP'd everything
what the FRICK were they thinking
I think that no matter which Nadesico girl you like best, me I'm a Ryokogay, we can all agree on one thing
Megumi is a c**t and worst girl
I'm surprised she wasn't killed off between the show's end and the movie.
just might rewatch the series now
I dont get why people hate Prince of Darkness and treat it as one of the worst things to happen and also pretend the OG TV Nadesico was a show that was constantly happy 24/7, it seems people forget that everyone on Mars died, Gai died, the old moron that shot him comitted suicide in a panicked state and blew himself up, Tsukumo died.
Not sure if /m/ is blinded by nostalgia and watched the movie years later.
It's a very persistent opinion that I have never understood, for basically the reasons you listed. My biggest issue with PoD is that it's basically missing at least one act. The sad/happy balance isn't too far off from the show's, even if it is a bit more edgelordy.
The main problem with PoD is that it was part 2 of 3.
>The sad/happy balance isn't too far off from the show's, even if it is a bit more edgelordy.
Well see here's the thing. Movies and TV shows are very different beasts. You can point to the TV show, say it jumps around tonally a lot and you wouldn't be wrong, but as a TV show you're giving a week between episodes to process shit. Events can settle more because you're not being whipped from scene to scene as fast. And yeah even the episodes could turn on a time but usually if something big and bad happened in the show it was an end of episode stinger or something so you'd get that week buffer before having to process the consequences.
Another major thing is how time within the story itself moves. From episode to episodes there's the assumption that time passes between episodes so we can accept some shit happening offscreen a bit easier. We don't really need to see the details following Joe's death to feel the weight. That's not to say movies can't also do time jumps but you're usually more cognizant of the more pressing issues time wise.
I wonder if the POD story would have worked better as a second TV series. It probably wouldn't have looked as pretty but I wonder if the story might have been conveyed stronger. Anyways hears Ruri in a cat suit skyping from the inside of a meat locker.
People usually don't take well to a tragedy that undoes a happy status quo happening off-screen. The movie's balance of humor and seriousness also just doesn't work, unlike in the show, with the return of the humor when they gather the crew feeling out of place. And then you also have how nothing is really resolved.
Regardless of how poorly everything was handled its still a Nadesico product thats for me is entertaining enough, I really wish we would have gotten the trilogy but acting like the movie destroyed Nadesico's legacy (which it didn't at all, not even close to 1%) and its one of the worst things ever is just childish.
Don't forget that girl that gets fricking obliterated in the Christmas episode.
>also pretend the OG TV Nadesico was a show that was constantly happy 24/7
Literally nobody has ever once done this you strawmanning pseud.
but, they have
>"they"
I am not strawmanning anything moron, go to any prev thread about Prince of Darkness and there this constant sentiment from certain anons that PoD shat on "TV's Nadesico lightheartedness and comedic take on the mecha genre" whatever buzzwords those morons spout.
I've been on here since the weekly Destiny threads. You're full of shit, c**t.
PoD sucks because the radical change of status quo has no payoff, unlike all the events you have listed. Akito becoming an edge master could work, it does in SRWs that bother to do anything with him besides popping up to deal with the baddies that Ruri takes down effortlessly anyway.
To continue, the entire movie is a cash in that has Endless Waltz formula of "have new faction of baddies pop up, to gather the cast again and deal with it". But even EW bothered to give some sort of development for its main characters (excluding Duo and Quatre), while PoD either makes them miserable offscreen (Akito, Ruri, Yurika) without giving proper resolution to that, or keeps them exact the same (everybody else).
Also there was literally no reason to get the old crew back together since they did nothing.
Yeah. In EW every character does something. Here, we spend time on finishing manga just for the battle to end with Ruri hacking everybody.
The movie was better than the series, but that's just me.
That cliffhanger though