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I haven't watched any Godzilla since I was 8, almost 20 years ago, but I used to love them. Would buying these be a good way to get back into the movies? I don't remember any of the movies I watched all that well.
Valvrave was a genuinely bad show. It was a fucking dumb show!
I loathed Shoko and Haruto, but especially Haruto. I'm still certain that there could've been a good show if we had a decent main character. Shoko was just annoying as fuck, and she really should've died.
The one thing I did like about Valvrave was how nasty and nihilistic it was. The main cast actually accomplish very little, if you think about it: They don't really protect the colony of students (Nearly all the students die) and the mission to Earth is a complete and unmitigated failure. The very strange thing about this show is that in the last few episodes, the thing that saved the day were the Nazi boy-band, the guys who looked like a group of Gundam Seed rejects. As super-commandoes, they were vastly more competent and nuanced than the rest of the cast put together.
Seriously, if A-Drei hadn't flipped sides, L-Elf would have been screwed. In fact, A-Drei is the one who kills the psychotic little fucker of the group! The heroes couldn't even manage that! Thunder gets ripped in half when he tries to fight the crazy kid. More, the glasses guy has more reason to fight Caine than Haruto does. Haruto is completely out of the loop.
Thematically, the show is really bizarre, because the main cast is just sort of blundering their way along the path. They don't really have any investment in the story.
It's interesting to note that - at the very end - they did really badly. Haruto accomplished none of his personal goals: He didn't get to live happily ever after with Shoko, he didn't stop his crazy dad from doing...something, he didn't destroy the Valvraves, he couldn't overcome his curse, et al. More, the people on Earth descend into a dark age of witch-hunting and superstition, and peace with the Magus becomes impossible.
Wow this was terrible. The plot is crap and nothing is resolved by the show's end thanks to bad pacing and a rushed final episode. The second half of “Valvrave” still uses many cut-and-pasted elements from “Gundam Seed” or “Code Geass” and unfortunately doesn’t attempt to go down any sort of innovative path, giving the series an overall generic, cut-rate feel. For instance, the launchpad element has been pulled directly from “Gundam Seed,” and several major plot events are taken directly from “Code Geass,” with little attempt at disguising said event.And Haruto was just a terrible character. When Haruto needed to be bold and assertive he was timid and meek. When he needed to stand up for his ideals or to explain his actions he was at a loss for words and easily pushed around by others. It was clear he was little more than L-elf’s pawn for all of the show.
Valvrave is a show that's missing a lot of soul. When you watch a show that tries to achieve that same feeling that Valvrave attempts, I at least feel, it's a show born because the creators wanted the audience to have a little fun. Valvrave feels like it's engineered for the sole purpose of keeping the audience around long enough so they feel obligated to buy merchandise, rather than entertain them. And yes, you could argue that's the purpose of every anime that's ever existed, but still, you're not supposed to be so obvious about it. Valvrave is an empty fireworks show; an hollow mess that's devoid of passion, creativity andsoul, that feels like its very blue-prints was built to pander to the biggest demographic possible. Valvrave is a bad anime. Not self-aware. Not "so-bad-it's-good". Not clever in any way. It's the inevitable result of putting together as many typical tropes of the mecha genre as possible, mashing them together, and hoping that it will be eaten up by the masses. So yes, just... plain... bad.
