Argevollen #02 — Gender Inequality in Camera Work

July 10th, 2014

  

You’d think there’d be more camel toe and balls with the form fitting suits.

Semi-Impressions:

Honestly, I just wanted to make fun of the crotch shot. She’s in the cockpit (giggle) for about five seconds, and the camera is shoved right up the cooter burger and begins glowing. Stay classy, Japan.

I pretty much mentally checked out around the halfway point. It didn’t help that the start was “This is a super special state of the art thingy that only he can now pilot because we design these things like morons,” then followed by the enemy (as you can tell because they have beards) of soft spoken dour men saying “So they have a super special state of the art thing, huh?” That took a third of the episode. I flipped forward at that point to see some bad CGI robots clonking around in tunnels and hitting each other with rocket swords and nipple guns, again remarking “Is that the super special state of the art thingy we were talking about earlier?” It’s less exciting than I’m sure I’m making it out to be. I wasn’t convinced to go back at any rate. It was probably all the boyish gasping and panting.

Next Episode:

More of the same.

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Atmo says:

    Someone will die, I know they will! And it will be bloody and ofensive as hell!

  • algorithm says:

    How did they manage to make a mecha show so painfully dull? Also the male and female leads also happen to be the most annoying ones of the bunch.

  • FlameStrike says:

    No comments on how SLOOOOOOOOOOOW this episode was? Or how the two main characters conveniently got amnesia and FORGOT how to pilot a mech they knew how to pilot only a few minutes ago?? God that was such stupidity for the sole reason of stalling the show that I face palmed. I mean she clearly shouted “ENVISION IT!” at him like a zillion times the first episode, and he did it. Then in the second episode she has to wait 2/3s of the ep to remember shouting “ENVISION IT!” at him again. adsfjkladsjf;kladsjf