How KADO Went off the Deep End
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2017
- Diving into what exactly make's KADO: The Right Answer's recent developments so frustrating.
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Lost it's potential when the God/alien became just another cardboard stand up villain. Then the revelation the lead chick is also a god/alien. Kind of like eating a great banana split and finding a hair at the bottom.
The least "anime" anime became the most "anime" anime in a matter of just one episode. I loved it because it felt like a breath of freash air; we don't get shows like this very often. I've seen some people say " Well it needed some sort of conflict to MAKE it interesting". NO, it didn't! How the hell did it keep my interest untill then than? Did aliens in Arrival get off the ship and started killing people "Mars attacks!" style? No, because it didn't need that! It relied on human conflicts to create the drama, just like Kado did...but NO it had to get weird and make that bitch in to a super hero.
Oh no...
I was like 7 episodes into Kado and loving it for what it was doing. Now you're telling me that zaShunina was a villain all along?! I thought the show was trying to present that girl's philosophy as the wrong answer! Oh how I fear experiencing the rest of this show for myself now...
Hey, maybe it won't be as bad for you - I know some people don't mind it. Disappointing nonetheless though.
I just caught up, and it was *bad*.
I think it would have been more interesting if ZaShunina simply offered all humans the "choice" to ascend to the anisotropic if and when they so desired, just like the rest of his "gifts", while staying benign. Then the series could have a final arc with the same political gambits and back-and-forth debates/negotiations trying to manage the gift and sudden advancement, while continuing to explore elements of human nature as it had been - you know, all the stuff that made 2/3 of KADO so engaging in the first place. Whether individual humans or humanity as a whole chose to ascend or not it would have solidified the show's themes and made for a fitting finale. Turning it into typical good humans vs evil alien with ZS deceiving and forcing humans into his agenda just doesn't fit with the rest of show at all. It abandons all its strengths for anime/sci-fi tropes we've seen time and time again.
Okay, so I wrote that before seeing the final episode... holy crap that finale was SO BAD lol I can't stop laughing at it as I type this.
I think forcing things is actually Z's entire style. Remember the whole thing started because he encapsulated an entire plane of civilians in the cube to begin with. Only through negotiation did he agree to release the innocents. His plan was self centered from the start, there was no greater selfless motivation towards humanity - he was toying with them.
I was confused as shit when the alien turned into a villain.
I was fucking furious when i saw "the right answer" turn out to be a mary sue and her magical girl daughter.
I hated that the alien was revealed to be the 'villain'....
does that make me the 'villian' cause I actually agreed with his ideas? ......Even when I found out that he had selfish attentions?
I actually still wanted the humans to not stay on earth but rather have all humans go with him to a different dimension and everything.
i think humans would have not survive on earth anyways cause of how dumb we are.
I don't know, I fully expected bishoujo space Jesus to fall in """love""" with the main character from the start. Just as you said, "seemingly good aliens helping humanity" is way to common to not consider it playing out. Despite all of this the show, instead of keeping things simple introduces an out of place love triangle (that is gonna turn into some 37 Dimentional shenanigans, once the titular Kado develops feelings).
I don't really mind the """"love"""" element. In fact I think it could be rather interesting if executed right (and is one of the reasons I am still curious how they will wrap the show up), it's simply the drastic change in character and tone of the show that upset with zaShunina suddenly becoming a not-so-multifaceted villain.
I'm still a bit on the fence about the twist. Some kind of conflict needed to happen and I prefer this to some random military uprising, but it still feels strange. I actually kinda like how zaShunina's character started to change, because he seems like humans/Shindo was rubbing off on him. It makes it feel like now they actually have a change of negotiating with him rather than at the start of the show where he might have just flat out rejected them.
The thing with the romance was that although it had no real chemistry, we saw hit coming so it feels better for something to actually come out of it rather than it just lingering there like most shows would. Not really good, but better than nothing.
Honestly, I really don't think this show needed conflict of that nature at all. Episodes 1-7 worked perfectly and they had no violence whatsoever, I don't see why that couldn't be maintained for 5 more episodes. (My friend ManMode in the comment above pretty much sums up how I feel about that.) What was interesting about the show was the conflict of ideas, not strength. I am looking forward to the final episode though since we're going to have an actual negotiation (this show seemed like it was gonna focus on that aspect more, but it's been pretty sparse).
Kor Reviews This violence is a bit different since it's decided early on that it's not going to solve the problem, just facilitate negotiations. I can live with this.
Tbh the show was so beautiful that I laughed on the ending instead of being frustrated .
I liked the twist but I agree about Saraca. And I see where are you coming... for me it didn't broke this anime and as a whole I`m still really interested in it.
I'm gonna stick it out till the end. I still don't think it's a bad show, but this development just took away what made it special to me.
ok I watched last episode... wow this wasn't a terrible ending but rushed as hell, pretty bad. I still like this show, but it got from strong 9 to 7. Good at least Tsuki ga Kirei didn't surprise me like this and stayed great to the end.
caramba1995 I do plan on doing a bid on Tsuki ga Kirei next :)
I was so disappointed too...The first few episodes were so engaging.
Admittedly I am more interested in an evil alien lying about Utopia to further his own goals than a benevolent alien bringing no conflict. The conflict had to be brought in somehow, and apparently this particular lesson still has to be learnt in modern society.
The MOST BEAUTIFUL ANIME WITH THE STUPIDEST BULLSHIT ENDING! Sheesh, the political debate became one stupid love triangle with Shindo showing off his daughter and Zashunina getting pissed like hell... SARAKA's philosophy is bull and every character ended up with the wrong answer and they crushed their own premise when everyone literally stopped thinking as well, and the ending turned out ambiguous. Now we have Shindo, Zashunina and the daughter floating somewhere out there with space dust. Toei should just rewrite Mazinger Z rather than attempt to be profound and destroy all the beauty of a good idea. Zashunina 's genius went to waste becoz in the end, Toei just made him out into a rejected obsessed gay lover for Shindo... I hate the bad gay alien theory. Anime should NOT portray gay love like this, it's so offensive...
I love the show. Way better than most anime
I guess I did the same video, but to late.
And not as well.
Interesting. What ruined the show for me was the plot twist that comes moments after that. I really hope some studio person was meddling in the shiw, cause i refuse to believe the author whrote something THAT stupid.
Hehe :-) 3:29
Years later I still love the premise but resoundingly HATE the execution. The anthropocentrism in this anime is DISGUSTING. Like, [SPOILER] how did they know Saraka and Shindo's daughter could defeat ZaShunina? Because she's half human? That sounds contradictory because existing in that form limits and reduces the anisotropic form. Once again, we're putting humans in the center of the universe, just by virtue of BEING human it somehow puts us above a powerful extra-dimensional being. As for Tsukai Saraka's "Naturalist Philosophy," I also think it is GROSS and it quickly falls apart if you just analyze it with Marx's Conflict Theory. Could you imagine how much suffering would be alleviated if we mainstream the anisotropic across the globe? Lastly, I despise the fact that they "humanized" what is otherwise an enigmatic alien being, and gave them such shallow intentions. The alien moral system and human moral system were just never cross-examined deeply against each other, it just presents the human one to be superior and preferable. The anime feels like another monument to shallow human exceptionalism and it is absolutely reprehensible.
Im just saying.This anime have a most bulshit randon ending.
c'mon... what I noticed so far it's a love triangle of a straight dude with a straight/tomboy goddess and a gey god... glad the straight dude and goddess made love
Just binged 12 episodes, 4 hours of my life gone. Now ive seen endings I didnt really like, most were honestly pretty good. I just personally didnt like them. This ending? Dirty nasty poopy shit ending. Bad. Awful. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.