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Digimon Xros Wars and Heroic Age
Sep. 15th, 2010 08:13 amSo, yesterday I watched an episode of Digimon Xros Wars and an episode of Heroic Age.
Digimon... back to the old character design style, back to a younger group of protagonists, and so far I'm entertained. But, holy crap, are there enough references to Gurren Lagann in there? It just can't be ignored! I mean, the little star guy has Kamina sunglasses and everything!
Anyway, I like it so far and will probably watch more. The main characters are interesting. Right now we've got some character stereotypes with hints of issues, which I'm sure will come out when they do the various character arcs and development. That always happens in Digimon. But I wonder if this one will really catch my interest. The last season to do that was Tamers, although Frontier kinda came close.
We'll see, I guess.
Heroic Age was kind of cool. The character designs are obviously done by the same people who did Gundam Seed. Unlike with GS, I am so far not having any trouble keeping track of the characters. That may change, though. One thing I like - which happens pretty rarely, if ever, in serious mecha series - is the fact that the main protagonist seems like a goofball. He's perky and happy. Of course, near the end of the episode he stops being perky and happy and turns into complete and utter freaky, but I'm hoping some of that perky and happy will come back rather than OMG ANGST because the series is about war (what mecha series isn't?) and having a goofy main character would be a nice way to give me a break from all the serious.
The animation is gorgeous, the music is nice, and the action sequences are lovely. The mecha design for Age is pretty cool, too. I'm also enjoying the plot, but we'll see where that goes and how the characters are handled.
Anyway, I came out of that with two new series to watch while working out, so I'm pretty happy about that. There are 26 episodes in Heroic Age, 9 (so far) in Digimon Xros Wars, and the third Tales of Symphonia OVA episode comes out on Sept 23rd.
So yeah, I'm doing pretty good for now.
Digimon... back to the old character design style, back to a younger group of protagonists, and so far I'm entertained. But, holy crap, are there enough references to Gurren Lagann in there? It just can't be ignored! I mean, the little star guy has Kamina sunglasses and everything!
Anyway, I like it so far and will probably watch more. The main characters are interesting. Right now we've got some character stereotypes with hints of issues, which I'm sure will come out when they do the various character arcs and development. That always happens in Digimon. But I wonder if this one will really catch my interest. The last season to do that was Tamers, although Frontier kinda came close.
We'll see, I guess.
Heroic Age was kind of cool. The character designs are obviously done by the same people who did Gundam Seed. Unlike with GS, I am so far not having any trouble keeping track of the characters. That may change, though. One thing I like - which happens pretty rarely, if ever, in serious mecha series - is the fact that the main protagonist seems like a goofball. He's perky and happy. Of course, near the end of the episode he stops being perky and happy and turns into complete and utter freaky, but I'm hoping some of that perky and happy will come back rather than OMG ANGST because the series is about war (what mecha series isn't?) and having a goofy main character would be a nice way to give me a break from all the serious.
The animation is gorgeous, the music is nice, and the action sequences are lovely. The mecha design for Age is pretty cool, too. I'm also enjoying the plot, but we'll see where that goes and how the characters are handled.
Anyway, I came out of that with two new series to watch while working out, so I'm pretty happy about that. There are 26 episodes in Heroic Age, 9 (so far) in Digimon Xros Wars, and the third Tales of Symphonia OVA episode comes out on Sept 23rd.
So yeah, I'm doing pretty good for now.
