2025.9.22
Context: Infinite Stratos
I must be getting old. I didn't get any sense of accomplishment after finishing it - it almost felt like a chore (not unlike watching ecchi shows...). Like I've said before, you must take the fact that it's released in 2011 into consideration: 2011 is right at the dawn of the transition between eras. That being said, the show is still terribly generic. Is it supposed to be a mecha show or a purely harem show (since it focuses so much on the harem part)? I was somehow stuck in this bizarre situation that I have to ignore the mecha part in order to get even just a little bit of enjoyment out of the rest. "Yasashi" male protagonist who somehow get all the bitches with zero effort and "just being himself" - I suppose things didn't work that way in the past, but they certainly don't work that way now. Could the change of society (and thus the range of the background conversations can exist under) be eroding the possible basis one's required to have in order to accept, understand or even appreciate shows like this? The fact that one of the main girls had the exact same voice actor (w/ the exact same voice) as Seitokai Yakuindomo
certainly didn't help either - through her voice I was kept being subtly reminded about how good the latter was...