This Is My Kind of Denpa Anime
Mission-E expands on the setting told to us through Code-E.
But what’s really strange is this is the setting Gunsmith Cats told us through … Gunsmith Cats.
Or was it El-Hazard?
Just gimme my 80s rock and transformable motorcycle already!
Momoi’s got it right–it’s got a good, easy feel, and we agree.
I think most people will still find Birdy up near the top of the list as their primary form of old-school, action anime entertainment this season, because Kazuki Akane is just better at this as a director and Studio Deen…is not the best group of people to be animating action-packed stuff. But Mission-E is 12 episodes ahead on the character development and making sure that omo will find Chinami totally adorable right off the bat. If you’ve seen Code-E already, you owe it to yourself to see how things turned out a few years down the road and have a bite at that dangling carrot hanging over our collective heads last summer. This was what most of us were half-expecting!
Of course I guess more of you didn’t watch Code-E, and that is okay. You can always go back to it; it’s slow and meticulous and mostly a romantic comedy that is more fustrating than romantic and more weird than funny, but it wasn’t bad. It definitely paid off for me, but it might not be worth your time anyways.
Actually, I take back one thing–Studio Deen does one kind of action well: car chases.
Okay, okay. Maybe I’ll watch Code-E. It was just so mediocre and blah when I watched that one episode while it was airing that I didn’t care to continue, despite the pedigree.
I do like that ending. Momoi <3
Not to toot my horn, but unless you are a fan of the source material I don’t think many people will be able to like both Code-E and Mission-E. Mission-E has a lot of mass appeal, though.
I watched all of Code-E and I found it pretty mediocre and blah.
But if Mission-E is significantly changed over its ‘prequel’ then maybe it will be worth trying out.
I’d say so. But what was left unchanged are notable as well as what did change.