Idol Master: Xenoglossia

[Njr Scrawl]

Has anyone bought the DVDs, especially LE/FP versions of each volume?

CDJ says Take your base from the hit game "The Idol Master," combine it with the creators of "My HiME" and "My Otome" and what do you have . . . a brand new bishojo robot anime like you've never seen before! Directed by "Mushishi" and "Honey and Clover II" director Tatsuyuki Nagai. Volume one includes episodes 1 and 2 plus bonus "Idol Master" detective booklet (8 pages, subject to change).

Are there the songs from Idolm@aster game, or new ones? Are the seiyuus the same as the game? What was the bonus DVD with FP like?

I doubt this show will get licensed for R1, R3 is more likely, but CDJ's description & my growing interest in Idolm@ster has piqued my interested. :keroro:

[DiGiKerot]

It's nothing like the game at all. It's basically a complete re-imagining of the series, and very, very much in the My-HiME/ZHiME vein. It's a pretty decent show, but being a lot like everything else Sunrise has produced in recent years it wasn't really fresh enough to garner a following (I think it was Fencedude who said that every character reminded him of someone in another show he liked better), and the pacing is a little more sedate than most have come to expect from Sunrise.

Keeping in line with everything being completely different, the voice cast is all-change from the game as well. Xenoglossias voice cast comprises largely of a mixture HiME/ZHiME veterans and a few newcomers - go look it up on ANN if you are really interested, but there are a few of the modern big names like Yukana, Mai Nakahara and Yui Horie in there. There's no real significant musical content in the show.

The DVD with the first volume was about forty minutes worth of interviews with the shows voicecast, interspersed with some footage from the recording studio. It was pretty nice, though there are quite a few spoilers on the disk (even if you can't understand what they are saying, the main menu gives a few future developments away).

Aside from the last volume, the rest of the first pressing bonuses are rather rubbish, though - some magnets, and a desk calendar thingy (and a pretty bad one at that). The last volumes FP was an artbox, and a set of postcards featuring the artwork from dotanime exclusive swimsuit-variant DVDs covers.


If you are after game-specific iM@S anime, your only real option is the Live For You! OAV, which came with the LE version of, well, Live For You! on the 360.

[Fencedude]

(I think it was Fencedude who said that every character reminded him of someone in another show he liked better),

I actually ended up finally finishing the show and found out I liked it far more than I expected. It turns out to be a roaringly epic mecha show that was way better than it had any real right to be.

It is somewhat similar to HiME and ZHiME, but in general pulls it all off much better. Though it really needed a better epilogue.

Also how much you like it will depend on how much of a tolerance you have for a love story between a girl and her giant robot.

[Njr Scrawl]

Also how much you like it will depend on how much of a tolerance you have for a love story between a girl and her giant robot.I'm fine with that :) Noa & Alphonse in Patlabor (& similar, Leona & Bonaparte her tank, in Dominion).

[Fencedude]

Also how much you like it will depend on how much of a tolerance you have for a love story between a girl and her giant robot.I'm fine with that :) Noa & Alphonse in Patlabor (& similar, Leona & Bonaparte her tank, in Dominion).

I haven't watched either of those, but for the record, I'm not being figurative.

The main romance plot is between the main character and her mech.

[DiGiKerot]

Also how much you like it will depend on how much of a tolerance you have for a love story between a girl and her giant robot.I'm fine with that :) Noa & Alphonse in Patlabor (& similar, Leona & Bonaparte her tank, in Dominion).

I haven't watched either of those, but for the record, I'm not being figurative.


I've seen both, and, yeah, Haruka and her Imber-love is a totally different kettle of fish to Noa and Leona.

[Njr Scrawl]

More like Deunan & Briaraeros, or is that too far the other way? Cobra & "Lady" (but that wasn't really love)
If its Hime/Otome-type more like the Hime-child relationship?

[Fencedude]

More like Deunan & Briaraeros, or is that too far the other way? Cobra & "Lady" (but that wasn't really love)
If its Hime/Otome-type more like the Hime-child relationship?

No.

Haruka loves Imber. Romantically.

Yes, its very strange.