Tales of Abyss episode 1 ~ Tear! Tear! Tear!

So moe that I died

I confess, I have never actually played the game for myself before ever since my PS2 was stolen back a few years ago so I can’t really claim myself to be a fan of the title…but I am going to do it anyway. This has got to be the most eagerly anticipated series for me for one reason; and that would be because of Tear. Isn’t it just a wonderful thing when you fall in love at first sight? But being the next best thing to playing the game, I decided to read some chapters of the manga before coming to this series…at least that is something a fan would do? Right?

Kurogane No Linebarrels (The Experiment To Destroy Gar Forever….Or Perhaps Just The Real Robot Genre)

It’s Like….He’s Both Shinji Ikari And Gai Daigouji At The Same Time….Yet He Makes Both Look Like The Greatest Characters In The World

Calling it right now, Kurogane No Linebarrels is a conspiracy to try and forever destroy the image I get whenever I picture gar pilots and real robot mecha anime.  Normally everytime a character starts making speeches about justice I immediately go into a muscle flexing tic and fall into a trance.  With Kouichi my only response was, “……Is this guy for real or is this some sort of joke”.  No, unfortunately this guy is for real…..I think, and I get the sense that whoever was in charge of coming up with the concept for this character decided to mash the two most overused tropes in mecha anime leads into one dude and see how it worked.  Unfortunately unlike Simon the Driller it doesn’t.  At least not yet, that’s for for damn sure.