May15
Captain Earth – 06
Real smooth there Daichi
Woooop Woooop time for Captain Earth! This episode was quite insane because we finally learn the truth about the whole plot of certain groups along with the fate of earth! I am just happy that we can get that part out of the way for the rest of the series.
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This episode kicks things into a new gear as Fosh & I talk about Daichi & Hana, Puck, and the troubles of too manny factions being involved in decision making with their own plans.
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Extra fun with Mecha
Soon you will have an epic battle!
Puck doesn’t lie he just bends the truth…
Teppei-“Dude, I want to be best friends with this bottle.”
So deep she fell asleep.
Preview
Yay boobs!!
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POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Never trust an AI! This is the golden rule of all AIs! Especially the evil ones!
I don’t think I’ll give up on my Daichi x Akari ship. Sure Hana is infatuated with Daichi and his “mystical calling thingy”, but she’a the childhood friend…we all know they never work out.
As for the rest, I have to admit, it’s become a mire of names and agendas and counter agendas. So, next episode is robot fight!? Good! We need some smashing!
POWUH: Meta Resident with 1692 comments
“Hulk smash!” Oh, wait, wrong show.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Hana Smash! Hey, she’s gonna from interdimensional LOLi to Earth Bound Mysterious Brown Bishoujou…who’s to say she won’t do a rage monster!?
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Yep!
We shall see I don’t think there will be much to the pairings other than friendships since all the main characters are still children imo!
Yeah next week more robot fighting~
POWUH: Meta Resident and Werewolf Chaser with 1270 comments
That what I expected for SMT: Strange Journey Arthur…… but it never happens.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
To me, it felt like this was the episode where Captain Earth grew up from a pre-teen shounen robot show to something with actual plot and depth. I like the way it’s going, and like that it’s gotten away from ‘robot fight every week’ and ‘waste time with putting together the Earth Engine’. None of the plot points were specifically telegraphed, but when Moco and Amara just strolled in there, you knew that there was real behind-the-scenes stuff happening before, and when they talked to Puck like old friends, the penny dropped.
I’m interested to see where it goes.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
I am glad things are going well with the story/plot finally and it is refreshing to see them take a break from all the over the top mecha fighting.
Same!
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Well, I think it should be a balance. There are plenty of ways to fit exposition along with combat.
POWUH: and Athenaeum Châtelaine with 2212 comments
You know, surprise, surprise, but again, we disagree. I actually felt the exact opposite of you. I felt that actually this episode was much more kiddy and was beginning to tell me that this series was not going to be the serious show that I had expected. In scenes were boomerangs can save you from bad guys who can’t seem to know how to use a gun, just made me roll my eyes.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
To me that was actually fine. Boomerangs are weapons by history, and if you presume that Daichi is familiar with using one, then he can get it to hit something that he wants. And the bad guy not knowing how to use a gun is not farfetched to me, since that guy is just a general office bad guy, not a usual hitman kind of guy. Most people who haven’t used a gun a lot don’t know how to use them.
I’ve messed with a boomerang a couple times back in college, and know that it will come right for your head if you throw it the right way. The distance between Daichi and the bad guy was easily correctable for this offset.
POWUH: and Athenaeum Châtelaine with 2212 comments
The whole scene just didn’t do it for me. I can understand using a boomerang for a weapon, however the tone didn’t seem set up for that and it just came off as a joke, especially with him hitting his head just a few seconds later.
It just kept telling me what I’ve kind of felt at different level throughout: that this is a less serious, more playful adventure series and that’s it. The villains motivations are cut and dry, the heroes are rather plain (with the exception perhaps of Teppei), and everything seems by the numbers. There’s never a sense of tension for me, or that anyone will come out of this unscathed. I’m having to push to care sometimes.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
To me, the series feels much more authentic than, say, something like Valvrave, which was just out and out stupid and full of ludicrous crap. By not going for the super shock value, not ramping up the OMG factors, CE keeps it a much more believable and relatable experience for me. I don’t mind it keeping the tension down, because to me that feels realistic. 🙂
POWUH: and Athenaeum Châtelaine with 2212 comments
In terms of Captain Earth, I have had a sort of on/off relationship with this series. Sometimes I love it, but other times I get bored to tears or I’m just so jumbled and confused with where the series is heading and the cliches and plot points I can see from a mile away, that I just can’t stand this show. This episode was actually closer to the second emotion than the first.
Firstly, I find Daichi interesting sometimes, but I also sometimes find him as one of the first MCs where he seems to hardly have a lot of connections to the actual plot. He pilots the main mech, but that seems to be it. He’s constantly being saved by others when he does fight, and when he’s not, he’s acting as the avatar for the audience and that’s pretty much it. I honestly find Teppei a much more interesting main character as he seems to be the one who has the real power, he’s the one who has the interesting backstory and the moral dilemma, he’s the one who has quite a bit more character depth as well. The same thoughts apply to Hana and Akari, where I don’t think Akari is the best female character per say, but she is definitely way more interesting than the bland as paper Hana.
As for the plot, I was also kind of disappointed, as I had already guessed most of what they revealed and that many of the antagonists plots actually seem less complicated and mysterious than I had thought they would be when we were first introduced to them. The aliens want to feed on humans, the Arc Faction and Intercept Faction are going in a cycle of self destruction as they are undermining each other despite having the same goal. And even CEO Kube and his Macbeth organization are pretty cut and dry with the same-old “create a new world in my image” plan that we’ve seen a thousand times over. My one hope is that Puck will end up double crossing both Kube and the aliens and that we’ll have an even better villain in him.
I guess the basis of my problem, is that there are no more surprises me. I have a good idea where all these plot threads are going to go, and that makes me sad. We’re only on episode 6 in a two cour series and I already feel like it could wrap up in 5 or 6 more episodes and be fine.
This series has potential to be really good, I just hope they take advantage of it before it’s too late.
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Teppei vs Daichi yeah I would agree that Teppei is far more interesting of the two guys but it was nice to see Daichi actually training instead of being naturally talented at fighting like many other mecha main characters.
Yeah Hana is boring ill agree.
Puck is quite interesting! I love how sneaky he is towards Kube xD