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Xenoglossia discussion board, anyone?
Amazing_Grace:
Here's the way I see it:
Xenoglossia is a great show. Its characters get lots of development, they're mostly enjoyable, the mechas themselves are well-designed (but I'm just easily impressed because I can't draw mechas to save my life), the fights are well-animated, the music is AMAZING, and it's overall very enjoyable to watch.
BUT.
As an iDOLM@STER spin-off, it is NOT a good show. The girls' personalities are butchered to the point of no return, a lot of character designs are changed, some girls changed ages, Chihaya and Azusa are RELATED, they introduce brand-new characters instead of including Miki (which I kinda get considering Miki actually was not meant to be part of the original cast)...and overall, it just completely butchers the iM@S name.
So the bottom line is this:
If it hadn't been connected to iDOLM@STER, and had just made entirely new characters, it would have been a fantastic mecha anime. But the fact that it uses the iDOLM@STER name makes fans want to stay away from it, because the girls they're used to don't EXIST. You can't go into it expecting to see the iM@S you know. You have to view it as something totally unrelated, but a lot of people can't do that because they're so attached to the original girls.
That's how I enjoyed it. I was able to stop considering it iDOLM@STER at all and just saw it like a totally separate thing, but most fans just can't do that.
MetalPredat0r:
--- Quote from: Amazing_Grace on February 18, 2015, 06:50:26 pm ---Here's the way I see it:
Xenoglossia is a great show. Its characters get lots of development, they're mostly enjoyable, the mechas themselves are well-designed (but I'm just easily impressed because I can't draw mechas to save my life), the fights are well-animated, the music is AMAZING, and it's overall very enjoyable to watch.
BUT.
As an iDOLM@STER spin-off, it is NOT a good show. The girls' personalities are butchered to the point of no return, a lot of character designs are changed, some girls changed ages, Chihaya and Azusa are RELATED, they introduce brand-new characters instead of including Miki (which I kinda get considering Miki actually was not meant to be part of the original cast)...and overall, it just completely butchers the iM@S name.
So the bottom line is this:
If it hadn't been connected to iDOLM@STER, and had just made entirely new characters, it would have been a fantastic mecha anime. But the fact that it uses the iDOLM@STER name makes fans want to stay away from it, because the girls they're used to don't EXIST. You can't go into it expecting to see the iM@S you know. You have to view it as something totally unrelated, but a lot of people can't do that because they're so attached to the original girls.
That's how I enjoyed it. I was able to stop considering it iDOLM@STER at all and just saw it like a totally separate thing, but most fans just can't do that.
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I think this pretty much nails it on my thoughts and perhaps the biggest reason as to why I can't enjoy this show for what it is
If Xenoglossia was it's own show with original characters and everything, it would probably have a much higher overall opinion as a good or even great mecha anime. The biggest issue is that it shares the name of a popular multimedia franchise that, in the end, it has NOTHING to do with. It felt more like a strange fanfic gone wrong than a good mecha anime in it's own right because of this. It's kinda like Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts. People look at it as a good or decent game as something standalone, but when put as part of its series, it's trashed.
Btw, Miki had absolutely no way of making it because she didn't even exist when Xeno aired, to my knowledge.
Amazing_Grace:
--- Quote from: MetalPredat0r on February 18, 2015, 07:01:10 pm ---Btw, Miki had absolutely no way of making it because she didn't even exist when Xeno aired, to my knowledge.
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She existed, to my knowledge. Miki was part of the arcade version of the games, wasn't she? I know she was in the games before she defected to Project Fairy. But I heard she wasn't intended to be released as part of the original cast, which is probably why they ended up excluding her from Xenoglossia.
Maka:
Miki was never in arcadem@s, Takane and Hibiki were in a super early prototype but other than that nah.
Amazing_Grace:
Right, OK. I kinda thought she wasn't, but I thought she was at the same time.
When was she introduced to the games? It was before Takane and Hibiki. Xenoglossia was made in 2007, so maybe she wasn't around when it was made.
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