Review: Guilty Crown

So we have another anime about some weird mecha and rebel vs goverment thingy.

We also have a high school dude with the mysterious waif, and the childhood friend. Oh let's not forget about the classmate who has a crush on the main guy.

Great... it's Code Geass all over again.

Studio: Production I.G.

Unfortunately Guilty Crown isn't as good as Code Geass, of course. I think I only watched this because there weren't many action genre during 2011 fall. And then you have a very addicting OP song by Supercell entitled "My Dearest".

In GC we have a guy with a low self-esteem who accidentally stumbles into a pink haired slut who gave him some kind of sciency magical thing that made him able to extract weapons out of people's hearts. They're called VOIDs. And from an unexplained logic only people below 17 years old can produce these Voids, and hence the rebel army consists of a bunch of teenagers who just want to kick adults' arses. High school kids have an excuse to rule the school or something. Also, the most interesting part is each person has a unique Void; it can be a sword, a camera, bandages etc... and each has its own property.

And then this slut shamelessly barged into the boy's house, and not to mention he lives with a MILF who's completely okay with the slut living together. And eventually, as predicted, they fell for each other probably they were attracted to one another's insecurities (let's not consider that as a spoiler). The boy was obliged to join the rebel army (Funeral Parlor) because he has the power that was meant for the fukken hot blonde leader. This blonde guy can see Voids within the youths so they have to work together to make their terrorsit mission effective.

So all this chaotic thing is due to the Lost Christmas which happened 10 years prior to the story (it must alwaaaayyyyssss be ten years ago). Useless boy, hot blonde and slut seemed to be related to it, just that one of them experienced amnesia (oh this is so uncommon!). And since then some kind of magical cancer that turns people into breakable crystal started to spread. There are also science facility, which makes me question IS THIS REALLY SCIENCE FICTION with all your magical Void and magical cancer stuff??

you'll have a mahou shoujo transformation scene in a sci-fi show... and it makes me wonder where did she get those clothes?

Towards the end the supernatural magical part becomes even more ridiculous. I don't even want to mention it here lol.

pfft- i have nothing else to say about the plot. So I'm moving on to the characters a bit. Some of them are really great, but unfortunately for the main hero, he isn't anything special. There isn't much improvement in his character, but he did went downhill in the second half. Pink haired slut isn't anything special either. I don't feel anything between them, the so-called romance part, that's why i'm just guessing the attraction is due to both being boring characters. When hot blonde is the leader, all the tactical war stuff was superb. Then the low self-esteem guy takes the lead, things became stupider. But he has his 'shadow king', codename "Sugar". He's a bit of a scumbag but I kind of liked him. And also the seitoukaichou girl deserves to die, rather than that particular helpful girl... :(

Let's not forget the girl in the wheelchair, the GAR-est character in the anime, and the best partner for the useless guy if she's not always with the neko-girl. I also love the other blonde guy who sides the gov, he reminds me of Draco Malfoy, and it's really too bad he isn't given enough time to... like... join the good side because I think he's really a sweet boy.

in GC you control mechas by sleeping, and once you get attacked you'll experience some kind of orgasm lol. So where's Daryl's version...

Art and animation are pretty. Just that I'm most disturbed by slut girls impractical combat costume. Yeah i know she's an idol in the story (but that doesn't seem to be a big deal, and then she has no personality) but that doesn't mean it's completely okay to dress like a whore while you're fighting robots. Not gonna get started with why only the girls are given fanservice-y costume compared to the guys lol. Now let's move on to the mecha - not very memorable. I'm no mecha fan but from the very few robot themed shows I know a good mecha when i see one (I think? LOL).

I know some may enjoy this show but the overall quality isn't that great. Well, if the show is that terrible I would've dropped it halfway. But I successfully finished it, only to provide a negative review for those who stumbled upon my humble blog.

Gai and Daryl. I'm not even gonna bother putting Shu here cos he looks as boring as his character is muahahahah

Review: Steins; Gate

Since I heard that this anime was good, I decided to try it out. At first I was reluctant because it was based on a visual novel. Note that I usually find VN or Light Novel adaptations rather dull.

Studio: White Fox

Also note that, though I am a science student, I am not a fan of science fiction... especially when it comes to time travel. You know, being fed with logic makes you think time travel stories are shit, no matter how good they are, and I have no guilt concluding that before even watching/reading them (no offense to Dr. Who fans). And it was all DragonBall's fault, really.

Then Stein;Gate brings science fiction to a whole another level, and this, is so far the only and the BEST time travel themed story I've ever seen. And the theories used made me forget that S;G was really an adaptation of a dating sim game although it's clear that there are girls who are after the main guy, Okabe Rintarou (codename: Hououin Kyoma). If I want to mention who the harem girls are; then you have one genius who's a mild tsundere, one derp girl for a childhood friend, one not-so-epic trap, one idiotically loyal yandere, a moe-moe maid ojou-sama and... John Titor...

John Titor also makes a cameo. Instead of IBM we have IBN, instead of CERN we have SERN.

i remember doing this in the microprocessor lab....

So the story is about an aspiring mad scientist, who apparently isn't going to school or perhaps he was on a summer break, and he has a Future Gadget Lab which is basically just a rented apartment. His lab partner is Daru, the programmer/hacker guy... and for some stupid reason he recruited the derp childhood friend. Thanks to her derp-ness, Kyoma found a way to practically time travel. And seriously this made me smile like an idiot whenever I'm holding my phone in front of the microwave. And we also can joke about irl conspiracy theories with D-mail. Owait, what is a D-mail? Oh it's just a text message we can send to the past in order to change history... it's common in time travel stories, desu ne? But there's something else in S;G that makes this history change not really a change. 

Anyway, thanks to his discovery SERN decided to hunt him down. Before that there was a lot of past changing stuff, which is rather touching in some cases. And sometimes annoying and frustrating. But I gotta tell you that there are a lot of plot twist, which I think makes the story even more intriguing.

However, suddenly the ending looks like just another typical time travel thing... maybe it's the stuff about avoiding peril in the future kind of problem. Well, if that's just easy then why not time travel to prevent all these wars and massacre from happening?

Yet that doesn't change my mind about how good the anime is.

i love being a physicist XD

oh man this is just another lame review huh....

Review: No. 6 (anime)

[WARNING: May contain Spoilers]

Important reminder; my blog contains an incredibly useless reviews cos it sounds more like an opinion. I don't rate the story, character, art, etc aspects as it may seem biased.

that awkward moment when fangirls go "omgwtfbbq they look like Yuu Kanda and Allen walker kyaa kyaa!" when i think they totally look different from that pair...

I’m intrigued due to the genre – sci-fi, but is not related to space battles or robots. And to my surprise there’s a great deal of politics and hierarchy system in this story. And goddamn conspiracy theories.

And let’s not forget about the target audience.

No.6 is an adapatation of a 9-volume mini novel, about a utopian city called No.6 (apparently in the future, humans evolved into people who no longer have the ability to think of epic names. We can see the transition in this age where numbers are used for each growth of iPhone series). And utopian cities often has it’s dark secrets, so the story is obviously about that. But it centres around a genius boy and an eccentric slum-boy, together they find out the secrets of the government.

So it started when Shion, the boy living in a privileged area with his mom due to his intelligence, provided shelter to a runaway boy called Nezumi. All he did was to innocently help the poor guy, but then the officials found out that he cooperated with a criminal, he and his mom were immediately shoo-ed out of the elite area. In spite of that, they lived a pretty okay life, and Shion is pretty much fine without the intellectual environment. Four years later, bees started to pop out of each person’s neck and they die afterwards. Shion was arrested on suspicion of insubordination to the city, but before he could go to court, Nezumi came back to save him.

And then, the bromance starts.

So they managed to get out of no.6, and Shion can see the outside world where the life was rather horrible. Well, didn’t look so terrible, but I guess they had more freedom to do anything. Okay, maybe except for the citizen erasing scene where the corpses are later dumped into a science facility? Shion and Nezumi lived together for a while, and along the way Shion had a scar which looked like a snake wrapping around his body.

Uh… how did the story go again? Right… Nezumi wants to rebels against the no.6 government, but Shion is naively trusting the higher ups while at the same time fascinated by his friend’s fabulousness. Long story short, No.6 is DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

highlight of the anime

Then the story diverts to supernatural shit, I think there’s a mother nature goddess thing, and I’m starting to think that the story is losing its grip. Owait, there has been superatural stuff since the beginning anyway. You have one guy who can control rats and also another guy/girl(?) who are good with dogs. Also there’s this girl who proposed to the guy she likes by requesting for his sperm. Why I mention this is that it's not a realistic or natural thing to do, I guess her personality is rather supernatural too.

So the story ends rather boringly imho. There's pretty much less impact in the bromance (compared to the upcoming anime I will soon review) moreover when the relationship felt so one-sided. Not that I have a problem with it but it's rather forgettable.

But then I haven’t read the (translated novel), so I don’t really know how good it really is. I heard it's so depressing that it makes a pretty good story.

Review: Deadman Wonderland (Anime)

“I will be your deadman, with nothing but this blood on my hands”

First of all, I love the OP. It was performed by a Japanese band, Fade, but with perfectly good English. Though it reminds me of Coldrain.



Studio: Manglobe
Original Author: Kondou Kazuma, Kataoka Jinsei

The story sets in a prison called “Deadman Wonderland”. What a contradicting name. You might think that the prisoners are referred to as deadmen, and they had to work as circus performers to visitors, hence ‘wonderland’. At least they’ve got a job. But their job can be pretty gruesome especially when they had to go through a violent contest in front of the audience, who had no idea that the violence is real. And when you win in one of these contests you’ll get the candy which keeps you from dying after a few days. Because each prisoner has to wear a collar, which would poison him if he runs out of candy. So they gotta work hard to get them.

This is indeed a really fun way to torture criminals, imho.

Anyway, I watched this a year ago, so I have forgotten most of my feelings towards this anime. But I remember how cool it is to use your blood and construct them into weapons. Before I forgot to mention, DW has a secret facility that’s doing experiments on chosen humans who have the ability to control their blood. These are the real “deadmans”. Funny thing is, each individual has their own set of attack patterns. Anyway, they seem to have appeared right after the earthquake which occurred somewhere in Japan (duh, where else?). And the fight between the Deadmans, is a gambling entertainment for the rich people. Losers would have to sacrifice a part of their body, and the body parts lost still hold the properties of the original Deadman.

This is my favourite Deadman, Senji Kiyomasa. The BRO of the group. Ex-police officer who's awkward with women XD

The story centers around Ganta, an innocent kid in his preteens who suddenly had to witness his classmates being slaughtered. Then a horrifying guy whom he called the “Red Man” sort of inserted something into him, and it caused him to have super powers also. Then he fainted, and the next thing he knew is that he was sent to court and to jail. Jail is where he meets the mysterious albino girl, Shiro, who claims to be his childhood friend. So why is his childhood friend doing in some kind of jail too?

Since it’s only a 12 episode anime, a few modifications needed to be done. Hence the court scene didn’t make much sense, and the ending was like… oh you know what happens to animes adapted from an on-going manga.

So for those who hasn’t seen this, I recommend you to just read the manga… at least you get to the point from where these Deadmans really originated. Unless you want to hear more Hanazawa Kana, then go ahead with the anime.

Review: Level E

Kiss me.. k-k-kiss me. Infect me with you love and fill me with your poison~

[Please be mindful of spoilers]

[image does not belong to me]

Level E, is about… Extra Terrestrials living on Earth disguised as humans. Ironically, most of these aliens are harmless and the aliens have many different races. The story starts off with a guy who switches school to train baseball there and met a strange blonde bishounen in his new apartment (OMG BL!). He also befriends a plain looking girl next door who is a daughter of an alien scientist. Apparently, some people are looking for the strange blonde guy who is actually an alien prince. The baseball guy reluctantly tries his best to protect the mischievous blonde alien from being recaptured.

["Ehh nande~?"]

Now I don’t really fancy alien looking exactly like humans, but I guess Baka Ouji is an exception *winks* (Plus it’s Namikawa Daisuke!)

The first episode ends with a suspense… the moment 2nd episode starts FARK TROLL! Then more trolling happens until the third episode… where we’d get slammed with an epic TROLOLOLOLOLOLOL scene.

[puppets that served no purpose]

Unfortunately, the rest of the episodes lost its epicness as the trolling keeps getting more and more boring. But I’m particularly interested with the colour rangers (no not because of the boys of course~) and they had to go into a video game setting to fight evil! But still it was depleting.

[COLOUR RANGERSSS]

Then comes the last 2 episodes… here I thought things are getting serious and the plotless anime of randomness finally has a plot (and climax)! It was intense! And I was finally about to believe that the aliens are indeed gonna harm our dear planet Earth but I BELIEVED in the alien prince. I believed he could find his way out with his genius mind but but but-

HE GOT COUNTER TROLLED!!!

The ending truly makes up for its mid downfall.

Moral of the story, aliens are trolls… or trolls are indeed aliens!

Ok there wasn’t really a specific story. It’s just full of trollfest. I heard the manga is better but there’s TL;DR text.

Review: Gundam 00 Season 2

[from left: Lockon Stratos & Cherudim, Tieria Erde & Seravee, Setsuna F Seiei & 00, Allelujah Haptism & Arios]

[WARNING: This review may contain spoilers!]

After a tragic end in the previous season, the important members of the Celestial Being got seperated. Including Sumeragi, who went back to her unsuspecting exboyfriend and soaking herself with alcohol. Tieria was the only one left in the team, while the grown up + sexier Setsuna lurked for Sumeragi and the 'reincarnation' of Lockon Stratos for a reunion. The only thing left to do is to rescue Allelujah Haptism from some sort of rehab, although he is already 'cured' from his manic depression (he's new hairstyle proves it!).

The main objective is no longer eradicating war, since the godly Veda is already hacked and then..... I dunno what really happen cos I really suck at understanding politics lol. But I do know that there's still war among the people. And the major group citizen erased some middle eastern capital, that totally reminds me of what happened in the real world. Godammit, deja vu! Those future people don't learn anything from history, don't they? They sure have fun bombing the desert. But now the main antagonists are the Innovators; androgynous humanoid who claimed to be more high classed than human. Yet they have human-like personality and because of that, they act like Greek deities who can't really work together in spite of their 'godhood'...

[The innovator faggots lol. it's funny that i don't like 'em]

Really... I hate villain organizations that went f*cked up like that. Two of the Innovators ended up in Celestial Being... so it's easy for the Innovator leader to find out their location in space. And since the show provides point of views of different sides, there's no suspense/mystery factor to keep viewers curious. However, what I like about the season 2 is better character development. Yes, frankly speaking, I like season 2 better than season 1.

We were forced to see lame-ass civillan's point of view in season 1; a couple of university students oblivious to the war until they saw a tragedy themselves. Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy, I hated them in the first season... but then I realized that the role they play reflects the ignorance of the people not involved in the world's conflict. Then they returned in the second season, matured and finally contributed their sweats in the battle. Saji is still the peace loving dude, while Louise attitude got a 180 flip - which I think it's cool except for her occasional emo-ing. The new Lockon (although physically the same) is more attractive than the previous one, and Allelujah broke my heart because of Soma Pieres/Marie. I actually liked Soma at first, but when she becomes Marie I'm a jealous b1tch! Tieria, although he becomes a joke in one episode, is still not as 'hot' as I expected him to be. Setsuna remains colder than Tieria, even after he met a few girls (namely Marina, Louise and Nena) but the best part is fighting against Mr. Bushido (another wapanese!!). What Setsuna and Mr. Bushido have in common is love for Gundam *hint*hint*

[pic for the lulz]

More people die, but the sad scenes are not up to par with fellow mecha anime - Code Geass. then the bad guys team and good guys team (depends on which one you wanna define as good or bad) worked together to save people from a collapsing orbital elevator (SEE I TOLD U IT'S NOT STABLE!). Then they have the Gundam Peace theme song called "Tomorrow", which I personally think isn't as touching as "Fields of Hope" of Gundam Seed Destiny. Just looking at the title gives me the chills, and I didn't even watch GSD when I first listened to the song - even more spine chilling when I did. Even without knowing the lyrics I could sense the sadness in a war and the 'hope' they look forward to. "Tomorrow" is a little too cheerful and idealistic; because Marina Ismail is a hippie who can't even pull the trigger (ala tembak sikit pon tak boleh ka?? Thus, genocide princess Euphemia wins!).

Yet again, I love the Gundams. Lockon's Gundam Cherudim is so cool with its GN Shield bits which can served as automatic ammo blocker in defense mode and shoot beams in offense mode. Allelujah's Gundam Arios... well, I didn't see much difference from its predecessor though it's still cool cos it can transform into jet. But it has an add-on now; Soma's Gundam Archer (suddenly she's a meister too??) which hugs Arios at the back (now I'm even more jealous!!). Tieria pilots another bulky one, Gundam Seravee, which is pretty nasty cos it hides extra hands in its limbs and sneakily attack foes while being blocking enemy's advances. It also has a child called Gundam Seraphim, that kinda helps its mommy to rape her opponent at the backside.

Last but not least, the star of the show: Gundam 00... let's say it's something 10x better than Setsuna's previous machine. It's equipped with twin GN drive, that creates its own GN field (go google what GN is... the engineer dude theorized it's photon decay). 00 also have an add-on, which is the 0-raiser, unwillingly piloted by the hippie Saji. When combined, well duh, the abilities enhances, 00 can teleport or quantized (SCHROEDINGER EQUATION APPEARS IN MY HEAD!!), and when in Trans-Am mode, everyone near the warmachine becomes naked!

Yeah, there are lotsa naked scenes in the anime. +10 points lol~

I dunno what else to blab... so overall, summing up both seasons, Gundam 00 is an okay story. I mentioned before that I can't bring myself to watch it continuosly; only watching when I had the free time. G00 lacks memorable moments, lacking something that makes you wanna go "NO WAYYY WHY DID THIS HAPPEN??" (except for Lockon's case) or "OMG I HAVE TO SEE THIS AGAIN". It's not even awesome enough to have a popular meme, unlike Code Geass (spinzaku, 'nani nani mai hani', C.C.'s pizza obsession, fake Zeros, Nina's table-fap... whoa that's a lot) yet I can lol at Setsuna's "I am Gundam!" and Graham Aker's obsession for the 'shonen' XD. oh yeah, I am comparing it with Code Geass, cos CG have a lot more than just srs biznez and raeps ur emotions. So anyways... I like it... but I can't fall in love with it as much as how I felt for CG. The main attraction to me is, ironically, not the bishounens, but the Gundams. For the first time in my llife, I developed a desire to collect the mobile suits (quite different from the desire to own Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann figurine).

[OHNOES WHUT HAPPENED?]

Before I end this rant, I'd like to express my love for the second ED, "Trust you" by Yuna Itou. I think it's a love song like none other for it sings... "I love you, I trust you". Most love songs will say 'I need you' or 'I want you', but expressing that the persona 'trusts' her lover is so rare that I can't help loving it!

btw, my apologies if my words are harsh and offending. But this how I do it. I might sound biased to you, but this is my opinion (and you can't make me change my thoughts about it). Thanks for bearing with me ;3

Review: Gundam 00

[from left: Lockon Stratos and , Allelujah Haptism, Setsuna F Seiei, Tieria Erde]

[WARNING: This review may contain spoilers!]

I wrote this before... but because I made a mistake on accidentally deleting all the text I typed for one whole day and blogspot autosaved it... the blank space! So I kinda sulked. Now I finally have the guts to rewrite the review.

I never thought that I'd actually watch a Gundam show. I'm not a big fan of mecha, but I can still entertain myself watching Code Geass, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Magic Knight Rayearth. But... Gundam... there's a whole bunch of Gundams out there and I think it'd be biased if I only like the giant robots from one series.

The series is set in 2307 AD, and by this age fossil fuels no longer exist cos people of our generation had used it up. They depend on solar energy as their source of power. Freakin' big and billions of solar cells are mounted on three orbital elevators that goes as far as outside the earth's atmosphere. WOW, they must've dug up a lot of Silicon on earth. Mind you, I did this experiment on solar cell and study its process. And I understood why the power blocs have to be that big. However, only the Union, Human Reform League and AEU along with their allies have more priviledge. So a war erupted between the three major groups and countries which relied on fossil fuels. Guess where?? The middle east! (Maybe Malaysia was involved too... but then by this era the country names around Arab seemed to have change so South-East Asian countries might have remained the same. But the big countries we know now still exist).

In order to eradicate this goddamn war, a free group called Celestial Beings are formed to save humanity! The members are chosen by Veda, for some reason, but too bad that it's such a small group it seems powerless when the major organizations starts calling them terrorists (omg sounds familiar??). They fight with Gundam mobile suits, only four of them. But they're technology is waaaaaaaay more advanced than the earth's war-robot technology that time so it's no problem lah. But then, when surrounded by a bunch of normal mechas on earth, that's a big problem.

***

The four major characters, are the Gundam Meisters (good looking guys!! Beautiful and manly at the same time!)

1. Setsuna F Seiei

- of Krugis Descendant... apparently from middle east. His real name is Islamic , but is probably a closet wapanese so he chose Setsuna as a codename. He pilots the Gundam Exia, a melee type machine. He used to be a terrorist kid, and due to the misfortunes in his past, he lost his faith in God (assuming that he is Muslim before he converts to Gundam-ism lol). I can't blame the kid though. He's still a kid in this season, which makes him cute but he's rather sour-faced and is quite philosophical despite of his age.

2. Lockon Stratos

- Is an Irish dude, who lost his family (except for one sibling) in a terrorist attack when he was young and consequently led him to join Celestial Being. Lockon Stratos is also a codename. Lock on target. Stratos is a name of a cloud type. Perfect codename since he snipes in Gundam Dynames in outer space. An orange Haro assist him in his piloting, probably just to warn him about incoming foes while he was busy looking through the telescope thing to shoot. Although he's the team leader, he's the most laidback fellah in the team... too bad he isn't given the chance to experience character development :(

3. Allelujah Haptism

- Used to be a Super Soldier experimental subject, and due to that he has a split personality, where his other self is dubbed... HALLELUJAH! This character is my personal favourite, not only because he's soft-spoken and gentle but also because of his psychotic alter-ego. And he does remind me of my (undiagnosed) personality disorder. He pilots the Gundam Kyrios, which has the ability to transform into a jet (yay transformers!!). Allelujah is the first character that impressed me, after he saved the lives of many people in spite of fighting with other self, and in spite of doing something outside Veda's mission. He becomes the main reason why I keep watching the show :3

4. Tieria Erde

- Is the actual reason why I am intrigued to watch this anime (it's his androgynous look! It's my weakness!), but he's too cold and more ego than an average male tsundere. He prioritize missions more than anything, and does not even care about bonding with his colleagues. But it's okay that he seems not so human because he's an Innovator (some sci-fi creature who has undefined gender). Then there is a point where he softens up but it's seems a bit too late. He pilots the bulky Gundam Virtue, that shoots nuclear blast thingy which makes his mecha the slowest one in spite of the meister's graceful appearence. Hidden inside Virtue is the female looking Gundam Nadleeh which I call... GUNDAM BERAMBUT.

***

Truth be told, I couldn't watch the anime in a marathon. I only watch it during... erm.. breaking fast and sahur, if I'm not mistaken. There wasn't anything that made me feel like... i must know what's going on next! But i did finish it anyway. But I like the concept of stopping war between two parties. Then comes the question... how can they stop a war when the Gundam Meisters are using deadly weapons as well? Wouldn't they be the same as the filthy warmongers on earth? What is Veda's true purpose? If Veda's ideal world is achieved, then what would become of the Celestial Beings? DUNDUNDUUUUNNN

Another turn off is the character development. Well, the characters are rather bland. And the girls in the crew aren't exactly the type I want to look up to. Even Sumeragi Lee Noriega (another wapanese), the supposedly tactical analyzer of Celestial Being isn't nearly as great as Lelouch (Code Geass). There was only once that she impressed me, but then she went back to being vague. The female character I like most is Kati Manniquin, so-called Sumeragi's rival, and also Soma Pieres for being a true soldier and lovable daughter of Sergei Smirnov. Even the Gundam Throne meisters seem kind of pointless, although they did something to contribute to the next season... and the sadistic Wang Liu Mei - whom I thought was interesting but end up being boring anyway. But I think I can understand the lack of character development, because G00 focuses more on the storyline. Yeah, the main point is to deliver the message they're trying to give via this anime. The consequences of war and all.

Okay, as a science student majoring in Physics... there are a few things I'd like to criticize (I know it's all fiction, but they did try their best to be logical. Like the solar energy source thing);

1. Orbital elevators... the train can easily penetrate the atmosphere region to outer space. For a rocket to get into space, it needs to exceed escape velocity... and if I'm not mistaken the path of the rocket is slightly curved instead of straight.

2. Well, I did wonder why the orbital elevators can stand that tall since the towers are obviously unstable from earth view It seriously needed bigger base or support. Then I got to know that the elevators seemed to be connected somehow, and Saji (one of the observing underrated characters) explained about the electromagnetism process that made the construction stable, I think I'm able to accept it.

3. The most repetitive mistake in mecha-space themed anime.... is during the battles in outer space. KABOOM! POW! CRASH! um.... guys.... sound waves cannot travel in vacuum. Sorry.

***

I can't wrap up this review yet, because i'm going to continue writing the review for the second season later. I'll comment on the overall series in the next review. But what I want to say now is that... for those who don't have an open mind, do not watch this anime. in b4 somebody sez 'pesong akidah' (Setsuna's Gundam-ism, Princess Marina Ismail?? and the terrorist called Ali Al-Saachez). But for mecha lovers, IT IS A MUST. Non-mecha lovers can watch too, and I'd tell you to pay attention to the moral values. For a non-mecha fan like me, I actually fell in love with the mobile suits. I drool at the Gundam 00 models at Jusco and dream of collecting them.

Thumbs up to the first OP of th series; Daybreak's Bell by L'arc En Ciel. I'm never a fan of Laruku, although I like their songs and I can't deny that they're awesome. But this is one of the songs that I love listening to repetitively, the intro is sexy. "nee konna...." is even more irresistable!