20 minutes of incredibly trite shoujo drama then 3 minutes of the sickest fantasy mech action you've ever seen
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in reply to @Iro's post:
it's so good. it's trying to do everything at once and sometimes it even succeeds
completely non plot relevant 5 second shot of two people with pillow-sized files sharpening escaflowne's mech sized sword
Yeah I'm feeling the urge to watch sick fantasy mecha where can I find this without paying Trudeaubucks
i watch like 99% of my anime via The Old (But Not THAT Old) Ways [torrenting] so if you want to know like what streaming service it's on i can't help you chief
I'm not opposed to sailing, I've just been more on the streaming sails over torrent sails lately.
i don't hate it but i am definitely amused by how comparatively Standard it is, if that makes sense
But Iro how can we possibly tell which of these impossibly pretty boys she will end up with?!
I wonder -
I can't disagree with anything you've said aside from affectionately, for the record, but
I wonder how much of it is Standard because that was the standard, and how much of it is Standard because it set that standard. It's been a while since I watched anything roughly contemporary to it aside from Fushigi Yuugi, so I don't have a lot of period isekai to compare it to, and I was laboring under Gender Stereotypes at the time so I don't have a lot of shoujo experience from that point in my life.
This might have to be a post-move project that is totally not an excuse to rewatch Escaflowne again.
i suppose i do not normally associate shoujo love triangle medieval drama stuff with mecha anime so i assumed Escaflowne was not really inventing or codifying them other than the part where it is synthesized with mecha (what if this deposed prince yearning to recapture his homeland from the evil empire was not just wearing armor, but BIG armor??), but i am not so well versed as to make this claim with certainty lol
(for example, Berserk was drawing on those sorts of tropes during the Golden Age arc - citing stuff like The Rose of Versailles and Aim for the Ace - at least a couple years before Escaflowne landed)
also gotta remember most of the shoujo stuff was not originally in the plan for Escaflowne until Imagawa dipped to direct G Gundam. the new director Kazuki Akane decided to add more traditionally girl-oriented tropes to broaden the target audience
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...usually it's only about 15 minutes of incredibly trite shoujo drama, 2 minutes of rushed and dense political drama, 3 minutes of introspective psychodrama and THEN 3 minutes of the sickest fantasy mech action you've ever seen