First impressions from Aquarion EVOL and comparing it to Genesis of Aquarion.
Quite an amount of parallelism.
From the score alone, it's the same from Aquarion.
Sora and Mikono can be considered as the opposite of Apollo and Silvia.
Commander Fudo is back or is it a look alike?
Cayenne and Reika powers looks a bit the same.
So first impressions.
The art of art:
The visuals are greatly improved and as in Aquarion, the mechas are beautifully designed and a decent improvement. I love it.
Because I watched it at 10-bit, colours are richer, higher levels of contrast but not what I would consider realistic.
The landscapes are in general, a vast improvement over the original.
The characters art is also improved, giving it more of a today's anime look but also consistency is greatly improved over the original which suffered quite a lot. But then, the character designs is also worse for me because they gave it a more generic style while the original has something that feels different and unique. A generic style might please a lot more people but it's easily forgettable.
Emotions stir the soul:
Well since it's the first episode, I should only analyse on Sora and Mikono.
General voice acting is improved but I don't know, it feels that the dialogue is too cliché. It feels like it's another love story because Sora falls in love with Mikono without a solid reason while on the original Aquarion, it gets away by implementing a reason on why Silvia might fall in love with Apollo on the first episode. In EVOL, it feels a bit slap bang on your face while the prequel is hinting but not showing proudly.
The story tells:
Right now on the story. I might not be quite far on the story so I'll look on the general ideas for the plot first.
It's not bad but it's less symbolic and way less beautiful than Genesis of Aquarion. I know it's a totally different story but it still makes me feel a bit disappointed. In GoA, it has lots of biblical, Greek mythology references and it shows that they put an effort to making a complex but beautiful story. In the first episode of EVOL, well it feels like there's quite of fan service going on such as big breasted women and cute characters. I know that stuff sells but it's not going to make it better for the story. The idea of separating the male vector pilots and the female vector pilots is stupid in my opinion but hey, at least it gives something and also Vector Type-M (Male) and Vector Type-F (Female) (shown in first episode) that's quite rubbish for a name is it? I also find it a bit strange with the idea of harvesting women. A bit unimaginative I suppose?
So what do I think of it? Well I'll keep watching it and I just hope it will get better because I don't want to drop it like I did with Guilty Gear and Mirai Nikki. I hope it'll move me like No. 6, Bounen no Xam'd and Blassreiter.
Angel Beats last episode was sooo sad. Leave it to KEY to make a person like me tear up.
