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I like this character so much i actually draw him lol he so cool! 3rd degree burnt man my favourite

I would assume the reason the blue are not able to be killed off with sheer force is birth rate, growth rate, and the ability they possess to rapidly evolve to new environments and change their biology to defend themselves. It's clear earth had high technology we don't currently have but still are beaten at their strongest point with all logistics still in place to manufacture new equipment easily. It would be logical to assume that because of overwhelming number of blue on the planet the few humans left in space wouldn't have the logistical capacity to commit the resources needed to even get a project started. You'd need a supply chain so long and complicated that the few people that are left wouldn't be able to maintain it. Each point of the chain would have to be secure enough that it could safely produce whatever resource at that site, then transport them safely to wherever they need to go over and over again til you have whatever the finished product would be. If they did manage to make the bases the loss of any single resource shipment would be extremely detrimental and the loss of any base could end the entire supply chain. It's one accident away from failure.

"Engaging" is truly the best way to describe this show. Absolutely agree with you that one does not need a PhD to enjoy it, because the show presents a series of philosophical ("religious" would've been a better word here) problems into stories and engaged the viewer to sense the dreads that the characters were going through. How often do we hear philosophers discuss the topic "Do we really want the truth?" in such an understandable way? I would go as far as saying that the pretentious ones are not the production of this show, but the philosophy PhDs. I loved the way you pictured the 3 main character as a family and how each one of those matured during the journey to mosque. Although, saying that the show is about 3 young adults achieving enlightenment through their own efforts would've been a disservice to a very well crafted story like this. The entire plot is really about the struggle of reconciliation with the truth and who Vincent truly is. "What was once divided must again become whole."

Alan has always been my very favorite Big O character.

There's also a theory that Blue Gender is in the same Universe with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 😮

I like to think that Schwarzwald is simply a narrator. Big O is, effectively, a play. You can see it even in the intro. Everyone has a role, and has to play that role. You have the detective, the butler, Dorothy as an android and, ultimately, a supporting character, and Roger as both the negotiator and effectively a protagonist. Schwarzwald habitually shows up to narrate the current events as they're ongoing, as if he's either the writer of the play giving context for anything that's happening, or else a narrative figure explaining current events. It both explains his presence in the story and his metaphysical presence as seemingly ethereal voice. In a way, this doesn't disqualify him from being a prophet. When you write and narrate a store, you know how it'll end. He's both god and king of this world. Maker and master. Everyone's a pawn to his story. I'm not claiming to be 100% correct in this theory, but if I am, it's a masterpiece of writing.

Marlene character development arc was way ahead of its time. She didn't change overnight, but I am confused when she still get a lot of hate after the series ended. I am disappointed that there is no more continuation from other media except the anime. Coming after I finished claymore at least I can continue reading and get a satisfying conclusion

everyone is a critic.

I bet you think you're real clever with that video title.

Fix your mic and the sound processing of your voice.

Still waiting for season 3!

ngas still talking about egro proxy

I don’t ever rewatch it for the same reason I don’t rewatch Psycho Pass. Because I’d enjoy rewatching SAC a lot more. In SAC, the Major falls flat compared to Batou and Togusa when all characters are given some time to be explored. Especially those final episodes of SAC when they’re fugitives. The Major is just another one of Masamune Shirow’s Mary Sue characters. I respect Arise’s attempt to make her a flawed human character, but I feel they went a bit too far for a character that’s meant to be a war veteran. The film feels like a more balanced character, just but impulsive, determined but curious. I could say a lot more, but it would just be praising SAC.

now i dare you to watch SAC 2045

I love the Oshii films and SAC, but absolutely despise ARISE.

Put the title of the anime in quotation marks cuz it looks weird. Imma watch this l8er so it's just a simple suggestion

Two of my favorite anime villains. Legato’s theme song is so menacing.

I have a buuunch of things I have to do for college. Thanks for this <3

So happy to finally get to watch one on Ergo Proxy. I love this show sm. My YT algorithm blessed me today

bruh you got some parts wrong. Most important being Proxy One and his motives. (Not talking about Vincent here.)

Im so glad you've compiled this video together. These retrospectives are the most interesting takes on Ergo Proxy on YT and really satisfy my fixation w/ the story. Most of the videos I've found are barely disguised plot summaries w/ a Nietzsche name drop.

Re-L is also a "failed" attempt at cloning Monad by the powers at Romdeau (to 'get' a purpose back, since their demiurge/god left them). Deadalus "made" her. That's why she looks like Monad (who is Proxy One/ Vincent 'Pair', or companion, like the two proxys at war Vincent stumble upon.), was adopted by the Regent, and also looks like the Monad 'perfect' clone. Also all the people (artificially grown from vats) ARE sterile. It adds to their feeling they have no "raison d'être"/purpose, and it adds to the proxy feeling the same, because they "failed". (But not really since their main purpose was "fixing" the Earth to make it inhabitable again for the people who fled through space, after which the beings left 'behind' seemed to have been meant to all die to make space for the people who came back. One big issue with the show is that much of this was simply infodumped in episodes such as the jeopardy one. It was not well shown in/through the story.

My favorite anime, I'd love to see you talk about Monster and Requiem for the Phantom, two other favorites of my Top 5

Ooooof. You're channel acronym sounds VERY similar to a fascist right-wing conspiracy theory "news" channel, aka One America News network, OAN.

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They way I look at him is he is the character that became aware of the stage and didnt like the character he was playing and went out of his way to make everyone aware of it and change the script, even if the the maincast had not caught on yet. It would have been poetic if we saw Schwartz's character be rewritten, recast and replaced by Alan Gabriel or turned into Alan Gabriel, a character who does whatever is needed to fit the narrative going forward, Doesnt care about the truth or have a need for the truth. Only to be haunted by the memories of who he used to be in big Duo.

Bro literally ascends the trappings of his mortal perspective. Returns to the world from this Nirvana with eyes unclouded with singular purpose "Kill God". Then in the crisis of his defeat and the surreal nature of his being/existence revealed he chooses reality for what its true value is; The small moments of love he felt for his family and his daughter who he never had the ability to understand or come to terms with. I couldn't help but fight tears watching him pick himself up with the mantra "Can I see her one last time?"

I agree, feel like the ending was miss understood and the ending was a not continusous loop with the reset but a reboot and all the characters are in a better place than they were before including the director. If anything the ending leaves the story in a happy ending and honestly opening to a future continuation (if that happened the series timeline can be started with a soft reboot and characters can continue forward.)

The crew of second earth like every one on that planet is contaminated to a maximal or mimimal quantity by the blue so that made them insane to attack Miyagi the sane human leader. I like Yuji but he is just a blue in human form just a milimeter from being like Tony. Gaia or whatever it is its appellation is a pathogen infesting the planet inhibiting humans or any intelligent being that harms its hosts that it parasitizes. If this thing is intelligent or just running on mechanical instinct I do not know even if it is natural or artificial eludes me. Gene-steal infestation or dead space marker signal insanity with necromorph outbreaks is the closest example I know akin to it.

Big kiss for this amazing serie of retrospectives to my childhood anime

Raul’s story is a fucking tragedy and it kills me how underrated he is 😭

Pino is the cutest! And she brought joy in every scene she was in, which was critical in an otherwise bleak setting.

Honestly hated it. The wordlbuilding was more interesting than theme-wanking.

the ironic thing here is that evangelion will eventually do the same with rebuild, basically escapist fantasy with everyone living happy ever after with the msot escapist ending (a complete reset with 3.0+1.0).

Would still recommed slay the princess if you want a more unsettling/weird soundtrack.

Almost 5 and a half hours of solid analysis. That is impressive. The fact that the show still makes very little sense even with that analysis is actually also impressive in its own way. Looking forward to your next video and thank you.

This was a really genuine and very pleasant series of videos. I'd never heard of Rahxephon outside of it's mention/inclusion in some Super Robot related material I saw. I never thought much of it, but hearing your thoughts really makes me want to check it out. Once again I appreciate that you don't hyper fixate on the negative like a lot of other videos. It feels sometimes like people are very eager to write things off as either terrible or fantastic. The fact that you go over that it's flawed, and even frustrating at points, but it still has artistic merit is really refreshing. I believe that kind of approach leads to more genuine, and ultimately more enjoyable, discussion around things. Thank you for your hard work! I'm excited to see go over in the future.

Nobody tell him about the weird sex stuff in the uncut version.

People might want to look up the artwork for this show.

Thank you for these! I personally cannot stand a broken story or fumbled characters and themes so my opinion of this series is pretty low. That said it does have a strange appeal that lead me to try watching it again despite it committing writing sins that would get most other series blacklisted. There was a ton of potential with this shoes concept at least and it is genuinely sad that never flowered.

I always loved this show for being so experimental and esoteric , with a bunch of awesome fighting robots. but one thing always got me. If the event (universal amnesia) was 40 years ago, that makes him (and everybody else) basically 60 or 70 years old. The storyline would make much more sense with the 10-year memory Gap

I've always found it funny and interesting that in SRWs, Big-O is one of the featured mech that gets to interact with all the other series that has similar themes about existentialism. The Super robot series might be colorful but they have always been bleak and grim hence the existence of mighty magical robots powered by the infinite will of the pilot and some "dark energy source" that resembles the concept of nukes. Even with Go-Nagai's Mazinger series, the mech genre has always been dark and that humanity has questioned their existence against the vastness of the universe. Getter Robot would also have the same theme of building power only to cast or create what would be a universe eater. The influence even reached the more "realistic" mech animes like Votoms in which there is a super AI capable of managing an entire galaxy or Gundam in which humans through robots and wars will spell humanity's reset once it reach the peak of human evolution amd peak of technological innovation paved by war. Even Metal Gear has these themes albeit more political. I think Japanimation in itself respects the dreams of a future full of powerful machines that can make the work in our life easier. But such power can be daunting to the hands of the imperfect humanity. The discovery of Nuclear energy is testament to this and Japan itself. There has always been an anti-war and anti-nuclear messages in most of these mech animes. And while Big-O only has this as a plot device, the same concept remains where when a time comes that a big machine weapon becomes a necessity then the world will be meeting its end.

Its been 16 parts? Well, thats... a lot of attention.

One thing that occured to me watching this vid is, did Ayato and Haruka go to the same school or not? In the after credits scene where we see them meet it seems like they don't, but earlier in the series I think its mentioned they did. Small point, but I think indicative of the lack of forward thinking by the writers.

You can see what they were doing with the Meso American imagery, they saw how subtle and on the nose references to religion worked for Evangelion amd tried their hand and failed miserably especially by comparison

Dornkirk biggest sin was hubris.

I think timbre is pronounced with a flatter “a” sound, like the “a” in Baben. At least that’s how I reconcile with it being a French word that I can never hope to pronounce properly. Pronouncing it like “tamper” sounds appropriately American. Also fate can also be a positive theme. Where instead of the struggle being about coming to terms with a cruel fate, the struggle can be about improving oneself in order to accept an important fate and the responsibility that comes with it. Probably in the format of a coming-of-age hero story.

Your point on the romantic relationships is spot on. It is honestly amazing so many problems with the writing in story and themes made it to the final draft. Obvious problems no less.

It makes so much sense, that the creator of Yandere Simulator is a huge fan of RahXephon.