What is the ideal suit for a pilot?
I think a stillsuit(dune) would be good

>We did all that we could to prevent the Colony drop.

Why haven't you moved to the superior chan yet? Don't tell you want to be a SJW /m/?

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.

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.

>Archive Foolz has officially 410'd

Good night, sweet prince.

Valvrave sucks.
It's really bad andjust shows how High school hijinks and mecha does not mix really well and why having a main character as a Beta guy just does not work. I'm still dumbfounded by the stupid plot and scenes and other things. It's on "bad fanfic" level of stupidity. It almost felt like they wasted the money on the OP singers and 3D model, and doesn't have anything left to pay the writer to actually care in writing a good story.
Heck, even Japanese watchers at niconico considers this as shit.
The mecha designs are outright bad, it's waaayy too busy. It's a design that would make any 2D animator ragequit (which is why they used 3D) and any plamo designer curses the heavens (which is why the kit is a sticker hell and the full impact equipment is totally black :v ). The 3D models are bad as well (who the heck designed Kirschbaum's color scheme?) and is animated on a bad framerate for a TV series (I don't know why most anime TV series 3D animation tends to have shitty framerate), the battle itself is boring, and for some reason, the attacker and the defender rarely appear within the same screen. The beta guy suck really hard. He is basically Shinji but more whiny, less action, and no reason or excuse to be whiny.
School shit and beta and 3D are ruining mecha anime.

So is it true Code Geass is better-appreciated once one is exposed to a lot of Takahashi Ryousuke and other Taniguchi works? Back when I watched CG in 2006 I was your typical anime noob who didn't really know shit.

Now I've seen a lot of mecha anime - Takahashi's one of my favorite directors. Love Votoms, Layzner, etc.. It's my understanding Taniguchi is a pupil of sorts to Takahashi and they worked on Gasaraki together. How much of this plays into Geass? I recall there being some grounded combat, especially in the first season.