Not Red Reviews

Does it count as a bad omen that the first actual post I’m writing on this blog will unavoidably turn into an angry rant? I’ve been translating Symphogear since episode one, and although the simulcasts catch up this week, leaving me without a job, I’ll continue following the show just to see it through to the end.

I don’t know how much fun this anime is to watch with subtitles, nor am I going to rate any specific group’s subs for it (especially considering my undeniable bias). I just want you to understand why I consider Sympogear the trainwreck show of the season. But before that let’s just see what’s good about it. First, the animation. I’m not an encoder, even less an animator, but in the episodes I worked on there were no scenes that would be memorably bad art-wise. Then of course there is the music. Symphogear was marketed as a show focused heavily on music, and though that definitely isn’t the case, I wouldn’t call the music bad. Just don’t expect Macross grade composing (or focus on music). However…

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