A New Call to (Mechanical) Arms
Sep. 14th, 2022 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerEmails from long-dormant (and hopefully “complete”) Kickstarters do turn up to get my attention every now and then. Just a few days ago, new messages began appearing about the anime “pilot episode” Mecha-Ude. I could guess at what they were building towards, but didn’t want to let my speculation run wild. Today, though, there was an announcement there was indeed going to be a series developing the story of people with oversized robot arms popping out from under their clothes.
As I’ve already implied it has been a while since I watched the pilot episode, and yet thinking back it did seem to have turned out well enough for me. In pondering how the story might be expanded, though, I’m also remembering that not that long ago I got through a gloomy patch of “anime anticipation” only to be warned anew about things not turning out well. This very season people are indignant about another series adapted at last from a well-regarded manga winding up real crummy. Still, with the age of “Kickstarters to raise money worldwide for animation projects in Japan” seeming to have faded, something moving on from it did increase my recent surprise.
As I’ve already implied it has been a while since I watched the pilot episode, and yet thinking back it did seem to have turned out well enough for me. In pondering how the story might be expanded, though, I’m also remembering that not that long ago I got through a gloomy patch of “anime anticipation” only to be warned anew about things not turning out well. This very season people are indignant about another series adapted at last from a well-regarded manga winding up real crummy. Still, with the age of “Kickstarters to raise money worldwide for animation projects in Japan” seeming to have faded, something moving on from it did increase my recent surprise.