MECHA-UDE (TV)

DESCRIPTION

CAST

OVA ActionMecha-ude
MANGA ActionMecha-ude
MUSICVORTEX

REVIEWS

• 

  Sheklon

  55/100
  Endearing cliché (positive remark). Suffers from untapped potential.

  These are more so extended personal notes rather than a thoroughly planned review, so it won't be exhaustive.

  First of all, this passion project is a small miracle of animation (especially considering it's short staff) and, needless to say, it's hilarious that this aired together with Blue Lock's 2nd season (it goes to show how badly big projects can fail). Unfortunately, however, the art style of Mecha-Ude is cut down to the bare bones of absolutely essential lines of objects, giving it sometimes a very "flat-land" feeling. Yet, to some extent, this is done to account for the constantly fluid and clean animation. There is definitely no static scene in this show — your eyes will be busy. Admittedly, this can cause some scenes to have poorer readability, but I would also nitpick this about any show with busy animation, so this is not much of a problem.

  On another hand, it's kind of unsettling how there is next to no shading throughout the show. Still, the detail given to movement, both from the camera that rotates around to cover the entire playing field of the action, as well as from the bodies and objects themselves, is a fair artistic choice. The show also gladly received Hiroyuki Sawano's music, which, albeit nauseating at this point, cannot fail to push an anime's presentation a few steps up in score. Being emotionally invested in the fights is generally not a problem. And I could not skip the catchy OP even once!

  Furthermore, everything about its inspiring atmosphere and the vivacity of its characters (brought about mostly by their voice actors and how they deliver some amusing dialogue lines) grants the viewer a generally positive experience; though never quite chilling. Sadly, the runtime for this series is too short and poorly used. It provides no real statement about anything, while also leaving us with characters that are too simple to be worthy of mention (if charismatic). Our protagonist is an "unchosen one", who is thrown into a supernatural situation and just happens to be too kind to walk away from it — even when everyone else tells him to.

  This heroic character works along with Alma, the most important individual out of the Mecha-Ude creatures, since he holds a fundamental ability for their grand objective of reestablishing the Mecha-Ude's previous status quo of reality, and thus, in the process, also free themselves from certain groups of humans who aim to control and suppress their minds. Naturally, you would expect some themes of oppression, deception, coexistence of living beings, friendship and heroism to result from this setting. And they do, but they are all helplessly cliché — you might have already figured out some of them in your head just from reading this. If you watched shounen anime before this show, you have watched this show. It cannot stand out.

  For instance, the Mecha-Ude are presented as alien-like sentient beings, but those beings are incapable of being anything other than humans (with a different skin). Their behavior and thinking is too anthropomorphized, to the point of being ridiculous when it comes to certain characters, such as Ayumi. Not to spoil much, but imagine a stereotypical futile high school girl, speaking in modern slang and acting all chatty; this is exactly what she is, despite having lived for who knows how many centuries (and, until recently, being stuck in an indefinitely long slumber).

  The plot is also too obvious and unsurprising. It doesn't makes bad diversions, but it also doesn't take interesting turns. Nearly every single thing about it is predictable, to the point that I genuinely cannot talk about it without risking spoilers. It follows the shounen sci-fi formula too close to a tee. With that being said, in terms of story and characters alone, this show is skippable, unless you're a fan of some fun, action/comedy driven sci-fi anime who is looking for a comfortable watch. As for the production side of things, with its hand-crafted and ambitious nature and quality, this underrated piece very much deserves a chance.

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• 

  BillyBoii

  80/100
  type shii fr fr, at least it ain't horse shit ong

  __Intro__

  I was introduced to this series by a random Youtube Video and decided to give it a go because it was type shiii and it is an underrrated piece in my opinion. I went into it without having any expectations so I am pleasantly surprised that it was not a load of horse shit.

  My Overall Thoughts
  Simply put, this follows a very typical stoyline of every other action/sci fi anime out there. Not Particularly something amusing but also nothing to be disappointed about ; the protagonist gets a hold of an ultra cool power set and goes on a rapidly moving adventure. The characters are portrayed well through out the series, whether it be in their development and their voice acting, completely solid in my books. But what makes this show so much more compelling to watch is most definitely its stellar animation combined with a polished (in my eyes) art-style. Tbf, I am not a hard person to please in entertainment but it was certainly a cut above many anime in this genre. The Pacing of the series is quite rushed at many points but its kind of understandable since they are trying to fit in as much context in a short time frame. All in all though. I would be lying to say that I did not thoroughly enjoy it as it was a refreshing and memorable show I'd watched in a while!

  __Certain Gripes/ Critics__

  1. As told before, the pacing of the show is rushed at certain points. This effectively makes the show lose a lot of untapped potential and also possibly more in depth fight scenes that could have elevated the show so much more.
  2. Certain Backstories are introduced purely because it could give a very cliché understanding on whats going to happen ( Specifically in Aki and Fubuki 's Case)
  3. The Evolution of Some of the Mecha-Ude Transformations are heavily underwhelming for the buildup they are given which gave off a "ekh" feeling in me ; Sinis and Dex barely did anything in the fight scenes, Ouroboros was way cooler in my opinion than whatever Arkraptor it was called in its complete form and Amaryllis was just blatantly annoying every single time to look at.
  4. Lastly, this is my personal take of course, but i did find the final scene a bit underwhelming to what I envisioned it to be. It doesn't really take off much from the series because the animation is just wonderful but yh, it was kind of skibidi ohio for me.

  __Concluding Points And Takes__

  Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms is well worth the watch for anyone who enjoys a quick action package. Having the perfect balance of action and comedy, it was certainly a breath of fresh air to me. Its not perfect obviously, but same goes to every other show tbh. What I am trying to convey is, Its good! Its worth the measly 3 hours of your lifetime!

  (Hehehehehehehe dont fight me! Ong I got no idea how to write a proper review type shiii but yh hope this was fun to read)____

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