I think the writers wanted to portray the robot immortal characters as complicated and deep by showing that they're not single-handedly focused on solving slavery and have their stuff going on but it just backfires.

@karu

Ай бұрын

imagine not being single-handedly focused on solving slavery

@skullbash8862

Ай бұрын

@@karu hahaha

@skullbash8862

Ай бұрын

@@karu xD 7:07

@marcusaaronliaogo9158

Ай бұрын

I mean va11halla can make the robot characters literally be very sapient with how they do their daily lives

@JackDout

Ай бұрын

@@skullbash8862 Dam the caught in 4k

I remember watching the trailer for this at Anime Expo and getting so hyped, just be realize that it's another one of those "good premise" but the author suffered a writer's block and decides to use "random bullshit go" for the rest of the season to make deadlines... we all got baited.

@karu

Ай бұрын

people on reddit say that they were supposed to make it 24 eps but they were cut short. Either way, a tragedy

@justinragusa2356

Ай бұрын

@@karu If that's true, then it would probably explain why there are so many plot twists in such a short time. They were probably supposed to be introduced more slowly and fleshed out, but the length got halved and the writers had no idea what to do.

@AnomalousVixel

Ай бұрын

@@karu yeah, every episode felt like it should've been two...

@srcoeiu6100

Ай бұрын

​@@karuDefinitely feel people are being too harsh on it, the final result wasn't great but it wasn't just wasted potential it was killed potential

@hafirenggayuda

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this remind me to Witch of Mercury. Seriously wasted potentials

Bro cooked the story so quick 😂

@ReigoVassal

Ай бұрын

Imagine planning to make a *5 dishes but your best cooking is burnt overeasy egg to charcoal.

naw, Sakamoto Days DID NOT miss out on a Studio Bones adaptation for this 😭

@AjayiDaniel-xu9tj

Ай бұрын

Tms better do a good job😭😭

@Subpar1O1

Ай бұрын

Sakamoto Days fans RISE UP

@DestroyTheWokeBrainrot

Ай бұрын

SD is trash anyway.

I'm 100% convinced that Bones is the Japanese equivalent of Dreamworks in terms of consistency in the quality of its shows/movies.

@panjinurfadillah2489

Ай бұрын

DreamWorks has a lot of miss and hit movie but when they have a hit Its a homerun, they REALLY hit it.

@srcoeiu6100

Ай бұрын

That's a lot of studios This hits different because it was a celebration though

@jamesrusso6812

Ай бұрын

The animation studio usually doesn’t write the story

@justahumanwithamask4089

Ай бұрын

I would argue that's trigger. They either drop a masterpiece or garbage. Bones is consistent tbh

@jasonmp85

Ай бұрын

This is a huge insult to Bones

"oh look a mecha anime from the modern day that isnt real robot OR shitty cgi. " "oh no the story is terrible" i hate that cliche

@FireFury190

Ай бұрын

I don't think super suit robots counts as mecha. That's more henshin hero genre. Hell we even got an actual mecha anime in the same season with Bravern.

@GuiltlessGear

Ай бұрын

@@FireFury190 their designs are just scaled down EVA units. at this point i'll take what I can get.

@pablocasas5906

Ай бұрын

​@@FireFury190yeah, it's more in the vein of series like Guyver. Kinda of like a henshin-hero show like Kamen Rider, but in animated form, not precisely a mecha show But yeah, it's a shame that such great armor designs done in 2D doesn't have a good story

This is why slow pace yet good story is a must.

@RaginCanadian-gx2zl

Ай бұрын

Can be hard to do on 12 eps

@DameOfDiamonds

27 күн бұрын

​@@RaginCanadian-gx2zl then do it in 24

@RaginCanadian-gx2zl

27 күн бұрын

@@DameOfDiamonds thatd be great if you could just choose how many episodes you want. But the business doesnt work like that.

I think some of the biggest problems with Metallic Rouge is that it went nowhere with what it was trying to tell, also that it was an anniversary anime for the whole studio and they screw it up which is sad because Bones had a decent track record with some mecha stuff and most importantly the other mecha show that was airing around it release Bang brave bang Bravern was something it couldn't compete agaisnt

@pablocasas5906

Ай бұрын

Isn't Eureka Seven the only major mecha series made by Bones? I don't know if your referring to sci-fi shows with hi-tech armors. I mean, Bones was founded by many of the staff that worked on Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne at Sunrise

@devilbringer1102

Ай бұрын

@@pablocasas5906 Well there's also Captain Earth and others i don't remember well but still like you pointed out they have experience with sci-fi soo seeing them do basically nothing with Metallic Rouge is heartbroking

Good staff, anime original and a cool ost. An absolute fumble and the ending lol

@karu

Ай бұрын

fumbled it so bad i had to step in

@pablocasas5906

Ай бұрын

I'd also like to add that the dub, specifically the Latin American Spanish version is the one I watched, was pretty good, with Rouge being voiced by the same VA who voiced Abby in Great Pretender and Amber in Invincible, while Naomi being voiced by the VA who voiced Kiruko in Heavenly Delusion and Karuko Tenkawa/Magia Sulfur in Mahō Shōjo ni Akogarete

My glorious king, Karu, returns.

@karu

Ай бұрын

i've come

@Sethio_0

Ай бұрын

@@karu bro wft dym by that💀

@karu

Ай бұрын

@@Sethio_0 i've come

@Thuu_huhu

Ай бұрын

He has come y'all

@Sethio_0

Ай бұрын

@@karu fr u have

I feel like they wanted too much but had too little time and didn't want to compromise on any ideas so they just bullshited a lot of stuff that would have made sense if the show went on for longer and had time to explain. Same thing happened to darling in the franxx I think.

This is a common thing for a lot original anime, seems like studios need a manga writer to write the story first for it to be good.

@DanielJoyce

Ай бұрын

Unless you are Kyoani.

@massgunner4152

Ай бұрын

The problem is that if you tell a manga artist to write a finale their bloods comes out of their ears and they spontaneusly combust.

@Xanegoh

Ай бұрын

@@massgunner4152 nah, that's only because the industry forces them to continually pump out chapters.

@massgunner4152

Ай бұрын

@@Xanegoh generic exploitation doesn't explain why they f#* up the ending, i mean one of them dragged an arc for multiple volumes then rushed a terrible ending because he was tired of writing comedy manga.

@pablocasas5906

Ай бұрын

Making original anime is always a huge risk, most of the most popular original anime like Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass and Tiger & Bunny, which were all made by Sunrise, had the benefit of having a lot of merchandise attached to the show, I think the same thing applies to all Gundam series, but Gundam is a franchise on its own. Even some of Studio Ghibli films are based on books

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed The witch and the beast. Loved the setting, art style and characters. Will continue with the manga. edit: The manga has phenomenal art. The only good thing I can say about Metallic Rouge is that the OP is a banger.

@downhill18

Ай бұрын

Also the insert song ' Crimson Lightning ' that was good too

@karu

Ай бұрын

happy you enjoyed it! makes me look good too

@gobihoukou1

Ай бұрын

Same here, I liked that one.

@aryabratsahoo7474

Ай бұрын

The witch and the beast has probably my most favorite explanation of necromancy i've seen in a fantasy world in anime. The fact that you can bring someone from the dead but have constantly maintain their body to behave in a sentient way otherwise they'll become a zombie.

@Zephyr_Prashant

Ай бұрын

@@aryabratsahoo7474True. Who would've thought that 2 episodes not featuring the main leads following a different plot would be even better than the rest of the show.

Random unrelated comment: Yknow all the isekais where the mc wakes up with a 16 yr old body that looks similar to his original body. Is there a manga or whatever that shows the life of the original owners before the swap. There could even have a character that is supposed to swap with a truck-kunned teenager but somehow manages to not swap and instead tries to understand what causes isekais to happen. Would be a cool idea, i hope its already been made

@wpelfeta

Ай бұрын

I don't get it. If you don't swap then there's no isekai. How would you know you were supposed to swap?

@pototidot3789

Ай бұрын

@@wpelfeta didn't explain this but i feel like the swap should be like an out of body experience thingy, where the original body owner is looking at his own body and they must do something like remove the isekaid person from his body to prevent the swap. This could in turn make the isekaid person take the body of someone else instead - possible someone dear to the original body owner (like a friend of family member) which could motivate him to discover the truth of isekais and find a way to get his loved one back

@pototidot3789

Ай бұрын

Key: original body = Ob (from the isekai world) and main character = Mc (from earth) Tldr: Ob removes Mc from body in some out of body shit, Mc takes the body of a family member instead. Ob tries to find the truth of isekais to get them back.

@constant8339

Ай бұрын

lol prob not

@ndu-sx3ns

Ай бұрын

lord of the mysteries pretty much. Try looking at manhua, manhwa and light novels.

"Oh hey cute girl"

At least I was interested enough to watch The Witch and The Beast till end and the manga is immaculate art wise. Metallic Rouge other hand i dropped after ep 9, it had 2 good opening episodes and the rest was either 'meh' or 'ehh?!'. The OP, ED and the insert song were great though in my opinion, still listen to them every once in a while

@karu

Ай бұрын

it still brought us some good in the end. Crimson Lightning is a banger

@leaflizard8485

Ай бұрын

I actually like The Witch and the Beast. Was it amazing? No. Did I have fun? yeah mostly.

You know how people sometimes complain about Marvel having characters who are objectively correct in ideology, but then they like, bomb an orphanage or something so they're the bad guys? It sounds like they did this. Like it reminds me of that Scales movie that Danny Gonzalez reviewed where it's like "oh yeah mermaids can cure any disease, even incurable chronic ones" and they just stay in the ocean and you're supposed to think they're the good guys. Like, when you mentioned the one guy seeing the harsh conditions and believing death to be the freedom, i think thats an interesting idea to use, but like, all the other characters need to have a similar thing going on for me to believe the protagonist DOESN'T want to stop the slavery business. Like, that's actually pretty down to earth to agree with the basic goal, but not trust the people on an ideological level because of their philosophies they hold. It happens all the time in real life.

hearing you sum up the idea of the story makes it so sad knowing the writing is ass 😭

so basicallyt a dumbed down version of og bladerunner mixed with detroit become human?, how do you mess that up?

The opening is a banger thou XD

@karu

Ай бұрын

all fact no lie

these robo modes be lookin like warframes ngl

Anime has good idea but bad writing 😔

@sex_lover

Ай бұрын

they should take notes on how edgerunners did the cyberpsychosis thingy and implement it with the nectar, like i felt the show really hit the mark with creating a unique problem for the society for the world building but lacked the proper execution to actually make the world building really good/interesting.

@dibowrks

Ай бұрын

I think the anime has a nice idea but the writing is kinda bad

Bro can start his own anime studio 😐👍

@karu

Ай бұрын

let's be honest, i'd only get the shitty isekais

This anime's story actually reminds me of the Detroit become human game like if you don't know about that game make sure to check it out

I decided to watch it. Liked it a lot,then the puppet guy got introduced and the anime became just a bunch of half-flashbacks and weird stuff. Animation is good,though. 7/10

I think The Witch and the Beast was phenomenal. The manga is also incredible. But regarding Metallic Rouge it had sooo much potential the art was spectacular IMO, but they fumbled so hard with the plot. I didn't even know what I was watching after Ep.7/8 Also something I think you (or I) missunderstood is the fact, that the blue haired Rouge clone is also part of the immortal 9.

unironically when i was watching this I felt like it was a chore. Like "yeah sure the idea is cool enough and I saw some funny clips of it so why not". Nothing you said when describing the plot was wrong, from what I remember it makes sense but when you mentioned Aes's hypocrisy in fighting Rouge I realized I entirely forgot that happened because i just didn't care anymore because nothing made sense. When Naomi was revealed to be the ambassador, origin nean, whatever the hell, I just DIDN'T CARE because it kept pulling out so many damn plot twists. It reminded me of a Sci-Fi book called Cinder, based on Cinderella, that similarly kept pulling out bullshit plot twits so much that I just stopped caring and hated the book. it was always just: ->start watching episode >the feck >sure i guess that makes an iota of sense >end episode >forget 90% of what happened immediately >okay time to watch an episode of something else that released this season good idea, it started being absolute bs fast

Cooking so hard it get's overcooked 🤣🤣🤣

04:05 FUGA: melodies of steel ost- elegy of winds jumpscare

I love that you actually took the time to propose something more interesting plot-wise. I also do it myself 😅

And this is why we get very few original anime... If you haven't written it trough completely before starting production, don't start the production. If you are given 24 episodes, and suddenly are cut short, then just end on a cliffhanger and hope that you get the rest you needed, don't try to shove it in shorter time than planned... And to whom ever cut the anime shorter: eat shit! :(

@pablocasas5906

Күн бұрын

Yes, making original anime is always a huge gamble, that's why most of them have at least some backing in the form of merchandise. The anime made by Sunrise are good exapmples, like Code Geass, which had a ton of re-writes and had to tell a its first season story in 25 episodes when they director originally wanted 50 like Gundam SEED, but they succeeded against all odds.

6:18 that "Watch me cook" line was absolute fire 🔥🔥

"Crimson lightning" gave me chills I don't feel since "Don't lose your way" from klk.

I feel they tried to do something like Andor were the main character is morally gray and he doesn't give a fuck about the rebels and the empire only to survive the day.

That Ape Escape music is low key genius considering the story line of Spectre wanting to free the apes from captivity and take over the world.

I need to thks you for make me free of watch this anime ending, i already feel something wierd in that story from that circus cap and you confirm my worst fears about that story with your video about where was going all, so thks buddy for taking that bullet for me and the boys 😌👍🏼✨💻👍🏼✨

your channel is a death trap bro ive been binge watching you for hours

This is megaman with extra steps no seriously....it's just a more elaborate version of mega man's plot

3:10 Ah, yes, the "beat the sh!t out of people" reasoning approach. Always works in KH! 8:00 omg, I can't believe you put that one song there lol Dude just doxxed his own age

The rewrite at the end feels like a mix of Kill La Kill and Metal Gear Reveneagance

Gotta hate it when a really nice production goes to waste on a mid-at-best show, even worse when it had potential, it's also been pretty common this year like why?

So happy I’m not missing out on anything.

Yeah, I had feeling something was off from ep 1, but I wanted to stick around due to the influences from tokusatsu (aka Power Rangers/Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, etc.). Probably a mistake seeing how convoluted the plot became. TBH, I'd suggest to watch Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song if you want to see a well-executed, emotionally-gripping story about the same things Metallic Rouge failed to address.

@rubixn00b71

Ай бұрын

i felt something was odd the moment we got its battle song in ep 1, its . . . . . to good, it sounds like a song that should be reserved for something special, like something that as been built up to for a huge part of the story, like when the mc has finally grown or become the hero they weren't until now. you know what i mean? it feels inappropriate for just the "we fight now" music

@krraika1847

Ай бұрын

@@rubixn00b71 I think I was okay with the song, but I can see where you're coming from and I can agree with you. My main issue with the fight in ep 1 was the lack of proper build up and characterizations. To also have a great song for a rather "eh" fight (in terms of story and characterization, despite the nice animation) was out of place.

im pretty sure Casshern Sin was in the same ballpark and hit the emotional notes this series was trying to in places

Finally he's back

@karu

Ай бұрын

LOL

Bro hearing the Magic Knight Rayearth music at the beginning just sent me on a nostalgia trip 😂

aint no way you're not making a video of the dangers in my heart

my man really used the hub world music from ape escape...GOATED!

apparently, this anime was made by their E studio, the newest studio, led by Makoto Watanabe and mainly known for the Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution trilogy

Dam this was anime I was going to try cause it looked cool in the clips I saw…. Thanks for the video cause god dam this is a mess

This honestly seems on brand with Bones. If you look at their track record, anything that isn't an adaptation (or og Eureka Seven) is bound to fumble the story so hard. I've watched plenty of other original shows from Studio Bones, from Rahxephon, to Kurau Phantom Memory, to the many E7 clones, and pretty much all fall short of being truly great. There's a lot of good ideas but poor execution. They all have this overly ambitious feel that ultimately can't meet these high expectations.

@pablocasas5906

Күн бұрын

It's kind of ironic that Bones was founded by former employees of Studio Sunrise who worked in series like Gundam X, Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop, because they wanted to tell original stories, aside from working in manga adaptations, but most of their original anime seem to try to recapture the success of Cowboy Bebop and Eureka Seven draws a lot of things from Gundam X

Well, the opening is just beautiful and another song Crimson lightning

Honestly I really liked the henshin hero transformation part, it gave the show a unique part

there is a reason why the gay super robot was the highlight of the season last season.

I remember watching the first few episodes since I had this on my give it a shot list. Bones, great visuals, and a great premise? I should e loved it! I fell asleep after episode 2, I was disappointed.

2:29 One of them is Swarthz kun (i think the left bottom) and he is a joke character in Bishojou Fantasy (he is a wannabe nerd, granted the strongest edgiest sword in existence but one-punch platonic best friend Jinguji tops him in every aspect)

I just realized after watching your video that I barely remember anything from this show and I definitely finished it. That shows how bad it was. The OP and ED were slap, though.

I feel drawn to this for some reason before I’ve even started writing (I’m terrible at writing and procrastinative)

This anime sounds like it was made by some AI robot with all the storylines lmao

@karu

Ай бұрын

definitely feels like it pulled tropes from every sci-fi genre

You also made a video talking about Ninja Kamui which also fell off midway through lol 😅

Metallic Rouge was the shovelware anime of the winter season lmao.

By the end, I was wondering who WASN'T a neon

My critic that you left out is the fact they one have that banger ost... as the only ost. Holy shit how many times would they use the same ost across the whole 13 ep? And the answer is YES.

dont even know what this video about but from title i can already say that i 100% agree

I feel like a lot of anime original shows just drop the ball hard

I don't know how people can be so interested in such dead on arrival concepts. Who gives a fuck about robot feelings, we created them, they are only tools, thus "slaves". The real moral question is why people made them with personalities and emotions in the first place. Now THAT is fucked up...

I recommend Unwanted undead adventure, gives off Frieren vibes and just very chill fantasy anime. It’s NOT an isekai but a cool little fantasy anime that I hope gets a second season. It was my second or third anime of the season. It certainly has Best story of the season. Its manga hasn’t been out for too long though it only had 60 chapters when the season ended I think.

It's always hard for me to get in to these sorts of stories, as I really dislike the 'robots as slaves' trope. There's no reason to build a sapient robot just to limit it's freewill. You could just build a robot that wasn't sapient. The entire thing falls apart from the beginning unless you accept that humans deliberately built a group of people just to mistreat and enslave them.

Dude n now I m invested in the karu version

I just gotta say, man I loved Witch and The Beast. Sure, animation got really iffy at moments, but I fell in love with that bizzare world and its characters.

This sounds a lot like the animatrix ngl

Exactly what so genius about Carole and Tuesday with robots?

Hey man what's the background song in the middle? (4:15)

Your re-write plan is good, but you’re overlooking a few things to make it great.

bro really cooked 💀

Your whole channel is based on shitting on anime I'm not surprised, keep it up, we need you to exist 😊

Not everything has to feel copy and paste. If you want something that I think is fresh, try 'Walk Me Home: Dating a Monster Girl'. It's summarised like this: *_"Walking your OP monster girlfriend home is easy. No one messes with you. Getting back on your own? That's tricky. In a city where light-sensitive monsters come out at night, Norman Newman is a normal human ... which makes him a target for everything else. Will parkour, martial arts and a high-powered flashlight be enough to keep him alive on date night?"_* It's not an anime or manga, though. It's an online novel ... that I wrote 😅 ... but so far the reviews suggest that I'm onto something: "I have to say, this is close to the most alien I've ever seen monsters depicted as which is very hard to pull off, and your way of worldbuilding is equally good, both in the sense of the state of the world as well as the relationship between the two leads. [...] Kinda disappointed that this series isn't more popular and very glad I tried it on a whim after seeing the most recent post" "The premise of this story is definitely intriguing. And in the first five chapters at least it delivers characters with good depth and great world building. If the author manages to keep this interesting adding new monsters, new gadgets and more development in the relationship between the characters, this story is heading for great things. I also appreciate that there are no grammar errors that I have noticed." "Dude. Man. Dudeman. You've got a dope story spinning here. Be like water my friend. Fitting words from the Master." "This isnt getting the Attention it deserves, your Worldbuilding is incredible, and your characters are great and fleshed out."

The yellow Immortal was so generically crazy. Like, i watched Gigguk's recent video at the time where he went through some anime tropes and that he said the quickest way to know someone is crazy is just laughing like a dumbass. Cut to Joker's proper introduction, annnnnd he's laughing like a dumbass

Other ideas you could do with the immortal 9 just off the top of my head, not watched this and probably never will: Change the "lol random violence character" into being a violent nihilist/pessimist due to something like "I've already done such horrible things, so why not embrace anarchy and mess stuff up while im at it since the world sucks anyways" Character who is very robotic, similar to... Well... A robot. But they're more cold and calculating, and have come to the conclusion that an extremist approach of trying to force Rouge into making the decision with violence, believing that the wrongdoings of one are worth it for the betterment of them all. Character who is in high up standing among humans (as far as a robot can get anyway) and feels that his high but ultimately subservient position isn't worth trying to risk by breaking the worlds order Make that one girl who wanted to run away then went to go fight robots be actually doing it because of a mental break, basically self delet via a last stand due to her feeling internally overwhelmingly hopeless I feel like the concept of this type of society with robots being treated like second class citizens is a very interesting way you could go into potential people this would end up forming and the mental burden it has on them, idk if this is too heavy but I think the robots offset it enough where you could cover dark topics while simultaneously not turning into a depression thing Could probably write more but I forgor lolol

that history remembers me Pluto, the only diference, it is good

It seemed like it was gonna be a sort of megaman/gunvolt story and i was down for it, but it all fell apart halfway through

Someone give this man an anime to direct

I sorta liked the alien war reveal. The idea that the androids were created by indifferent aliens and given to humans as a military trade. And that the android rebellion we see in the plot was actually instigated and manipulated by another alien faction using the androids to wage a proxy war. If executed right it could be interesting commentary on how inscrutable factions exploit and use people like chess pieces against each other. And a commentary on how easy it is for a justified revolution to get co-opted by malicious parties and create a pointless cycle of violence. It wasn't executed well, and the story was already over bloated by fifty other pointless plot twists and melodrama, but this show could've been saved by another revision in the writer's room.

I've never said "huh? " every 30 seconds like I did watching this

3:39 "just take my nectar away" that's what she said

Thank you for trying to make it look good at the end lol.

So this is like Metropolis but bad instead of masterpiece? That being said, I still have no idea why the robot are given sentience instead of Artificial Intelligence that can only follow but not "think" for themselves.

It was bones 25th anniversary...they just had a fun time weaving stories. It just a cool and great looking show

Hey, 3/5 is a not passing score, but it's higher than 50% atleast, right?

Metallic Rouge definitely fumbled the ball, that's the unfortunate truth. Trying to tell this kind of story in a seasonal 13 episode limit was never going to pan out. They could have at least given it the Back Arrow treatment and given it DOUBLE the episode count to flesh out the story a bit more and give it time to breathe. My solution? (And this likely wouldn't happen due to the poor ratings) Throw it into a Super Robot Wars game. The series is already out in the ether, for better or worse. But SRW has a history of "fixing" plots and writing decisions for both story and character development. Like every time they use Evangelion, they give Shinji a healthy support system with characters like Koji Kabuto from Mazinger Z to make him a more rounded out human being who actually has confidence in himself as a pilot and just... As a person. It would also give us more of a chance to explore the alien war going on if you have the interactions with other space opera mech series.

bro cooked *tried * good enough

at least the opening still bops

I think a longer season would have benefited i thought the story was great but i def was shocked when it ended at 12 or 13 eps. There were a lot of pieces moving and not enough time to take a slow pace. The ending i think was a double edged blade, if it gets a s2 i think no problem but if not then it ends on a massive plot drop with another war etc. But i thought up till after they beat their creator it was a pretty good end.

Let bro cook PLEASE LET BRO COOK

So many plot twists.. What is this, an M. Night Shyamalan movie?

Me and my wife watched episode 1 and immediately dropped it. So so bad, none of it was even remotely coherent.

Gotta admit sounds like a fun ride

so it's bladerunner ideas with the hunger games execution

"Rouge's dad." "Shocked I tell ya, I'm shocked! Never saw that coming!"

this just sounds like Detroit Become Human lol