Symphogear is a series that is often a mess, to put it kindly. I think the show’s animation got a bad rep. The fight scenes were usually solid, and the final battle is legit one of my favorite scenes of the year. However, I suppose I can’t blame people too much when there’s embarrassing shit like this as the counterargument. The story is also the kind of nonsense you can get only from anime. Despite all that, Symphogear charmed me due to its relentless optimism (that stuff gets through to me every once in a while) combined with its batshit insanity.
That is no more apparent than when the Obvious Villain finally does away with her Obvious Disguise and reveals her True Plans.
You see, the main villain is an ancient entity known as Fine who tried to give God a, “What’s up? How’s it hangin’, Big Guy?” To reach God, she (and many others, I presume) built the Tower of Babel. God, however, wasn’t having any of that shit, and he blew the tower up good. And, of course, as the story goes, God also fucked with humanity’s communicative abilities and introduced multiple languages so that people could not understand each other. Kind of a mean thing to do, but hey, that’s God for you.
That’s only where the story begins, however. Fine has been biding her time, hopping from one famous historical figure to another, getting resurrected and furthering her plans in each age until she ends up in the era where Symphogear takes place. From there, she finalizes her plot: She’s somehow secretly used a massive underground base to build a giant phallic laser cannon, Kadingir, to blow up the moon, which is what keeps the curse alive. Then Fine can take over the world or some such.
It’s truly ridiculous, but fuck it, that’s Symphogear. To think it all started with idols . . .
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WHAT THE FUCK ?????
lolololololololol
Is that tag a reference to that short movie about the rocket hitting a moon in the eye, as shown by the movie “Hugo”?
It’s actually a reference to the popular song “That’s Amore” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Amore), which is most well known as sung by Dean Martin.
I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT WALKING ANIMATION!!!
Holy shit this show was so dumb
South Park tribute maybe?
Aw fuck that it’s just horrible.
Yes, but it was the moe kind of dumb.
Anime is such a magical place.
The most magical.
You mark spoilers for Fate/Zero but not for a show that was so much better in every way?
First off, good on you for recognizing obvious quality. Secondly, all the spoiler stuff is after the cut, and my sentence before the cut is basically a giant spoiler warning!
I didn’t paid too much attention of the animation…
Well, that show was really fun ! I don’t really ask more of Anime.
Anyway, one more proof that Moe can lead to awesomeness !
I mean, you can’t read awsome without moe, right ?
When it finally got to this point, I knew this was destined to be one of my favorites of the year.
Every time she said something in English I just about died of laughter. I think I needed the subtitles for that more than the Japanese.
Funny thing is I think Miyuki Sawashiro did a bit of study in America and has a decent grasp of English. Half the lines uttered in Symphogear would probably sound mad coming from any of us, I bet.
What… what did I just see.
Magic, my friend. You saw magic.
I still remember watching that moment well.
“I’M GOING TO DESTROY THE MOTHERFUCKING MOON!!”.
I loved it somewhere in my heart, and I’m pretty sure somewhere or another I got wind of another season…. Nah… that couldn’t be true… Could it?
http://myanimelist.net/anime/15793/Senki_Zesshou_Symphogear_2
Oh my.
I was happy to hear about this. I have no idea what could even happen in a second season, but I was happy to hear about it.
It was like the band from Spinal Tap was asked to write an anime series about Idols, Super Powers and an Ancient Evil. This was the result.
It was terrible. And so very, very awesome.
If only Stonehenge had been worked into the anime somehow. Perhaps in season two.
Symphogear added to plan to watch.
Just as planned.