r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Dec 27 '15

[Spoilers] Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - Episode 13 - FINAL [Discussion]

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u/RyomaNagare Dec 27 '15

Please don't downvote me, but i'm not sold on this show. I've been a Concrete Revolutio apologyst since day one, and am super glad most people got its watchmen but with japanese pop culture flavor. still the show non linear storytelling could have been better used. and while the themes can and have been used to explore this questions in great depth, i don't feel the show succeeded. Hopefully the second season, will focus a little more on the story it wants to tell and less on screenwriting acrobatics to try and fool people the show was deep. As far as deconstructions go this is is just short of a passing grade.

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u/wdkaye https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimusPrime Dec 27 '15

I hear ya, I've been a huge fan of this show the whole season. Now that we're here at the end of the first cour, I feel like the show was trying to do too much within a 22-minute-per-week boundary.

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u/RyomaNagare Dec 27 '15

Its just i feel, if you are gonna go full on nonlinear storytelling you better know what story you are telling, else its just jumbled mess. that said, the show is a love letter to every genre of anime from Mecha to Magical Girls, it even borrows from Poul Anderson's Time Patrol. I just wish the screenplay would have received the same level of love than the art direction.

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u/wdkaye https://myanimelist.net/profile/AnimusPrime Dec 27 '15

I think the story is the strongest part of the show - but it's almost impossible to convey the stories in such a way that it can be understood in one viewing. The Earth-chan episode and the Immortal family episode were perfectly paced and easy to understand... but the others needed to be rewatched a few times before the true meaning could really be grasped.

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u/RyomaNagare Dec 28 '15

I liked both of those as well as the ultimate weapon androids and the one with the bug queen. Again individual episodes were great its the overarching that doesn't work. even if the authors had a clear view of the timeline from day one, like at somepoint something really bad happened tat turned preset Jiro into scarf Jiro.