#Armored spear girl anime movie#

Like with the action drama part of the show, I do remember one episode of this part rather clearly, probably because it was better than most of the slice of life portion. This is partially because the seem to forget the terrible crisis the world is in, but also due to terrible direction, poor clichés, poorly defined characters, and conflicts that are contrived far beyond what one normally puts up with for slice of life anime and manga. The slice of life parts are also kinda shit. I guess the action doesn't look bad, so if all you are looking for is just some dumb action to put on in the background, it might work, but then again it wont be very consistent due to the constant switching to slice of life mode, which, on the subject of that. Surprisingly though, the show does kill someone once, but -a) its hard to take the moment seriously because you can see their JPEG body just spinning and flying into the sky in the silhouetted shot, and -b) like less than a minute later, they switch to slice of life mode, forget it ever happened, and never bring up the death even though it happened in a pretty fucked up manner that would normally be some kind of a plot point. They either feel like they have had the stakes taken out of them, or you are so used to the stakes being taken out of them that you don't feel like the show has the balls to actually do something significant. The dramatic action moments of this show never actually feel properly dramatic.

#Armored spear girl anime movie#

Either or both of these might actually work if they had the time to make them work, but neither really do, not in a actual quality sense, or in a campy B movie sense. The show constantly switches from trying to be a tense dramatic tale of once normal people ripped from their comfort to fight in a war, to a slice of life anime about the problems of making friends in a new environment. If you are a fellow like me who is into the EDF franchise of video games, and saw the first episode of this because you found out this show existed and thought it would be funny to watch it, and thought, 'This is kinda cool in a B movie kind of dumb way which reminds me of Earth Defense Force,' don't make the same mistake as me and keep watching it until you are so far into it you basically have to finish it to not feel like you wasted your time. That doesn't matter though, because even if the CG animation in this show isn't insulting my eyes, everything else around the CG animation in this show is insulting my eyes, including the direction of such animation. so it makes since since they probably have experience and can make something that at least doesn't look terrible, but also I don't know for sure if that's how anime production works since I think animators are contracted, so I dunno. From the tiny amount of research I did, and by that I mean I listened to a friend of mine while he researched, the studio responsible for this minor war crime, A-CAT, has done a lot of work doing CG for other anime and games, (Just a heads up I sometimes say some bad words here, I don't think anyone cares but if that is against some policy, just remember the review guidelines didn't say anything so sorry(?), also sorry to people who don't like that)Īll right bois, I'm gonna say it: The CG in this show is actually pretty good. Soukou Musume Senki narrates how the unit endures the trials and tribulations they face, developing unbreakable bonds along the way. After learning about Riko's predicament, the group decides to recruit her into their combat unit-'Soukou Musume.' As she flees away from these monsters, Riko is rescued by four other LBX-equipped girls. However, on the ground, she encounters the Mimesis, lethal metallic creatures that invade world after world. While she falls at terminal velocity, an exosuit based on the LBX Assassin materializes around her, saving her from the descent. Upon opening one of the boxes labeled 'LBX Assassin,' a temporal rift manifests itself and transports Riko into the sky of an alternate Japan. Mana urges Riko to purchase one, and although initially declining, Riko soon avails a few LBX kits for her father. While they roam around the shops of Ikebukuro, Riko spots a billboard about an event related to the Little Battlers eXperience (LBX) line of toys. Riko Morisawa, a young girl from Tokorozawa, goes on a trip to Tokyo with her friend Mana.