While
I usually try to talk about shows that I like rather than trash shows I
don't like but every so often I should post some negative reviews to
remind everyone that I am not some Pollyanna sunshine who likes
everything. This is especially depressing given that Coppelion is a show
that looked liked it could be a genuinely good show but it turned out
that this wasn't the
case.
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| That winning smile |
The
show has several problems and not the least of the fact that even
though there are three main characters only Ibara seems to be capable of
anything. Aoi is particularly annoying and useless in this
respects, perhaps to the levels of Willie from Indiana Jones and the
temple of doom. Thinking about it while I am all in favor abolishing
traditional gender roles turning Aoi into a typical love interest
character would actually make her more useful to the show in general. It
almost makes want to look into Coppelion Yuri (guess who is looking
into Sakura Trick next season).
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| Like a less fun version of Outbreak company |
In
a more general sense Coppelion has a problem with matching the
expectations that the show presented at first with the content the show
has presented.
To put it bluntly one should not expect a show that has a psychotic
school girl with electric powers who plans to blow up the world with
nearly as much seriousness as Coppelion expects the viewer to take said
show. While I have heard several people complaining about the tone
change of Samurai Flamenco, the tone dissonance of Coppelion is
something that can not be explained by turning from a parody of a genre
to a straighter portrayal of said genre.
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| It's not post apocalyptic until fashion sense goes down hill |
As
of this article Coppelion is clearly a tin rated anime show with few
prospects of making it up to bronze. A lack of good characters and the
tone of the show which presents itself as a hard science fiction show
with the internal consistancy of a super hero comic.
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