Broken Blade

Synopsis



Original Creator: Yunosuke Yoshinaga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Mecha

Airing Date(s)-
Movie 1 (Hour of Awakening): May 29, 2010 | DVD/BD Release: July 23, 2010
Movie 2 (Path of Parting): June 26, 2010 | DVD/BD Release: August 27, 2010

i have been waiting months for this to become and anime.........im pretty excited about this

so its gonna be a movie and not a series hmmmmm thats strange

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I'll be checking this out. Thanks, it seems good.

yeah I thought this is series too but not..

I was expecting this to be a series too. But at least we get mecha anime with the lack of mecha anime this year. Haven't seen the movie yet so I'm not sure if it will cover the entire manga. Even in the manga the main mech full capabilities are yet to be fully discovered.

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I've been waiting for this.... enjoy for watching and downloading this movie..
"it takes me 5 hours to download this.."

Lol, the words, "Jesus Yamato" come to mind. It's like Gundam all over again, except in a different timeline and using quartz instead of gundamium alloy. Rygart is voiced by Souichirou Houshi, the same seiyu who voiced Kira Yamato. The fact that the series starts almost parallel to Gundam SEED (falling into the cockpit in midst of a battle and learning to pilot it on the go) screams irony. The difference is that Rygart's a bumbling idiot with some luck whereas Kira's a born genius.

Nevertheless, having never read the manga, I was impressed with the first release. Crisp animation, good voice-acting, and good plot development. More character development will probably occur in the next release. Good OP/ED music too.

And I'd bang Queen Sigyn anyday.

personally, i preferred the manga's names as to the anime sub's...

Lygatto sounds way better than Rygart.

You know, I was expecting Kira-level antics, but instead we got something not much better than Evangelion episode 1 level. He didn't even destroy one Golem. I would like to say that piloting a mecha comes off as something complicated, but Broken Blade made me realize that once you experiment a little, you can have a good grasp of what to do. Case in point, Rygart discovers that moving the foot pedal moved a foot. Pretty obvious, right? Forwards = forwards, backwards = backwards. So it's actually not surprising now that a first timer could pilot a mecha (even assuming he had no Golem operating instructions when in military school).



It's not irony, it's not a parallel ... it's a trope. Gundam, Macross, Vandread, Nadesico, and others all have the main character winding up in a situation where they pilot the series' mecha (not all of which are Gundam-level mecha). So really, Gundam SEED has nothing to do with it. Well, it does have that "we were best friends but now we're enemies" thing, but that didn't start with Gundam SEED either.



Agreed on all points. It was better than I expected going into it.



Indeed, although that fanservice was random (see-through shirt? What's the point of even wearing that?) considering the rest of the time she is practically dressed antifanservice-style with the exception of the gap in her robe that reveals her short shorts. Also, I'm not liking the implied love triangle since I'm not a big fan of the "I married this guy I don't love even though I wasn't forced into it, and now I want to marry the other guy and they are best friends" scenario.

Yea, I also realized that Rygart wasn't really a genius but a person who used common sense. Unlike Kira, who rewrote the Gundam's OS in a matter of minutes to increase the speed and reaction time of the gundam, Rygart just kinda worked the golem on the fly and being awkward with it. You have to give him some credit since he sorta disabled one golem before it regained its senses. That first battle was due to much luck and a dash of common sense. I was also hoping for more ownage, too.



Now that you mention it, you're right. A well know anime plot device indeed. As for the best friends thing, I thought that started with Gundam SEED, unless it was some other series? In terms of using that friend vs. friend concept in mecha series, I mean.



Ever heard of night gowns or negligees? They're see-through allright depending on what you buy. But hey, I'll take any fanservice in a series that is mostly devoid of that stuff. Other times, the overused fanservice in other series makes me wanna retch. But as for the loved triangle, I think it was a forced marriage, or else who in their right mind would marry someone they didn't love? Dunno, I need to read the manga to figure that one out, or maybe the next theatrical release will explain what exactly transpired between the good quartet of friends.

I know at I've seen at least two pre-SEED mecha anime that used the "friends on opposing side of a war" concept, but for the life of me I can't remember their names. But SEED certainly did not pioneer the concept.



I know what they are (though I would say that what was shown wasn't really either of those but that's neither here nor there). My problem is that the fanservice was rather random, and at a fairly serious turn of events, and I feel that the fanservice would have been better served if she was just nude or only wearing panties to mitigate what I see as being ridiculous.



Well, I thought about that. Sigyn has no royal blood, so an arranged marriage seems unlikely. And Hodr may also have had to deal with the "you can't marry someone outside or royalty/aristocracy" thing. Neither of them seem so dumb that they would marry each other without love. Assuming what I just said to be true (which it may turn out not to be), a love triangle will make Sigyn look like a horrid bitch. And I would rather not have that.

That's still fanservice... nude and all.



It still wouldn't make sense if they weren't forced to be married together because Sigyn doesn't look like the type to betray her friends, indicated by the nonwearing of the rings. Sigyn might not be royal blood, but she could be part of the aristocracy. If so, an arranged marriage isn't out of the question. Unless she's trying to bed Hodr to make Rygart jealous... but even that doesn't make sense because a marriage to Hodr would mean ruling the nation as the queen, and that isn't something to be taken lightly.

My train of thought is 'Marriage of Convenience'. Hodr needed a Queen, and Sigyn being married to the king would give her ample opportunity to pursue her interests. So I imagine it was 'Hey, lets get married, it should work out for both of us' 'oh, sounds good I guess'. Since they were already friends, it just kind of made sense.

@Oneshott: still wouldn't make sense. I wouldn't marry someone I didn't love unless I had no other choice or if I get a billion dollars and I can abscond with the money later.

Man, I'm having problems phrasing things how I want to.


Okay, I think I've sorted it out. The fanservice itself bothers me, but it also bother me more in the sense that-

You know what? Forget it. I shouldn't have even bothered to bring it up; it's so insignificant. It's a "can`t see the forest for the trees" thing.



Actually, that could be seen as a betrayal in a different way, couldn't it? Well, I can't remember if Hodr wore his wedding ring. If he didn't, that would actually point towards a "marriage of convenience"-type situation.



I really should have added in the "aristocracy" to my post since I was including that in the whole "royal blood" situation.