Robotics;Notes Discussion Thread

[ookamigirl]

Sister Centipede met her end.
Misaki still Kimijima's puppet.
She's stuck even worse now that sister Centipede is gone.
Kimijima continued with his wicked plan.
Super GunPro-1 was finally finished with some style.
Kai piloting the mecha fight, nice!
OMG! Kai's confession to Aki was kinda sweet.
The kiss was perfect... ^///^

[FUNiOP]

Oh yeah, the romance. That was pretty similar to the corresponding scene in Steins;Gate, and it wasn't as good, but was still one of the better scenes. Geji's farewell scene with Airi was pretty nice as well.

And Kai gets a switch to turn on his superpowers at a huge risk. I imagine things will work out pretty well anyway.

That music during the middle part of the episode was really well-used as well.

[Damius]

- Sayonara, Sister Centipede... that scene with Airi was really good.
- Now that Sister Centipede disappeared, he wants to make Aki's sister his puppet.... No!
- Aki... why do you care for that guy... why did you kiss that guy... Yeah, I know unfortunately it was inevitable. At least, it gave us a really nice Frau's reaction.

[Buckeye]

- Everybody is making great progress on the robot.
- Need some data, and Airi gets it. And Kai is having a seizure thanks to that device.
- Kimijima attacks, and he is much different than what Airi remembers. The droids shoot themselves instead.
- Super Gunbuild 1 is complete. And a moment of reunion between Aki and her father.
- Time to talk strategy. Seems like the device will trigger Kai's slow-mo whenever he wants.
- It may end up killing him, but Kai has to pilot the robot. Five billion lives are counting on it.
- The day of reckoning has arrived. But first, a confession of love between Aki and Kai.
- Looks like the rest of the original club members were spying on them.

Nice romantic moment here, and it's great to see the real life Airi doing something useful here as she was acting cute through this process. And of course, the worst-kept secret is out as Kai and Aki have declared their love for each other. Now the stage is set for the final episode where Kai and the Kimijima-controlled Misaki fight, while the armed forces and JAXA security goes off to stop the launch from happening.

[Nikopol]

Originally Posted by Damius

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- Aki... why do you care for that guy... why did you kiss that guy... Yeah, I know unfortunately it was inevitable. At least, it gave us a really nice Frau's reaction.

Well i have to say one thing: i was about as surprised by his outright confession at this point as Aki herself. Where did that come from all of a sudden. LOL

The show doesn't connect emotionally with me very much, just casually watching so i know how it ends. As a result i have missed the reason why the bad guy in the intertubez wants to kill everybody (at least i think that's his plan). Guess i need to go back a few episodes, so i know what's going on.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by Nikopol

The show doesn't connect emotionally with me very much, just casually watching so i know how it ends. As a result i have missed the reason why the bad guy in the intertubez wants to kill everybody (at least i think that's his plan). Guess i need to go back a few episodes, so i know what's going on.

The difference with this show and most of the shows I watch is that for example, I like Frau's reactions, I like Aki's enthousiasm, but didn't connect with the characters.

[ookamigirl]

Finally, some serious action!
It was pretty cool watching the mecha fights.
Who knew their plan would work using a giant robot.
That Kimijima Kou was a real pest.
Seems like they made a lot of desperate moves.
They were lucky some of those actually worked.
Nice final episode with some drama.

[Buckeye]

- First move, holographic clones to fool the missiles. Whoops, one of them saw through it.
- Kai is an arm down, but with Slow-Mo, that's all he needs. The good guys win...
- Uh, oh! It's Kimijima shedding skin, and now the external power source is busted.
- The trump card has arrived: a program to erase Kimijima from the net. But first, Kai needs to reboot.
- And while he reboots, Kimijima is on the attack. Buit some sister-to-sister talk puts him to a halt.
- Slow-Mo is activated once more, and it's the knockout blow. The program is ready to go.
- See ya, Kimijima! Good always triumphs!
- And the launch is aborted now that Kimijima no longer controls the launch site.
- Welcome back, Misa. None of this was your fault.
- So long, Kill Ballad. It has been fun.
- Kai, Aki, and Misa grow up to be astronauts, and Gunvarrel is a champion of justice.

That's a great way to end this series. It's nice to see that the sisters reconnect the way they did once again after Kimijima took control of their lives. Certainly, the first half of the series was slow and hard to watch, but all of that led up to this great ending as it could not have ended any better. There were some things still unexplained and stuff, but given the 22 episode limit imposed by Noitamina some things had to go. While it doesn't compare to its predecessor Steins;Gate, it is still a nice show to watch in the end, certainly much better than Chaos;Head.

[FUNiOP]

As it was when it began, it ended up definitely better than Chaos;Head but still nothing compared to Steins;Gate. Not that it's really fair to think anything would be, but this was my one hope. I guess I better stop expecting such things. Normally I'd say it was my own fault for associating them more than they deserve to be (and to be fair, that was still a big part of my problem with it), but when one of the major characters is straight from Steins;Gate, it's hard to force a total mental disconnect between them.

By the way, was there anything else like that? I thought I read that there would be more returning characters than just Nae (maybe even from Chaos;Head as well). I guess the IRUO replacement followed Daru's naming conventions, but was that it?

Anyway, I guess that's the end of the Science Adventure series for now. No matter how bad Chaos;Head was or how relatively disappointing Robotics;Notes ended up being, it will always be a very special universe for Steins;Gate alone.

[Damius]

Well, this show gave us a good final episode. Both sisters are back together. That gave us a nice scene. I probably won't remember much about this show, I will remember Frau that for sure, I will remember how adorable Airi was. I will forget about the "We may die let's kiss right now" kind of kiss. (they didn't even kiss at the end!). This was a good enough show to watch until the end, but not more than that.