Board Thread:Special Projects Division/@comment-25867149-20160606090859/@comment-25867149-20160705124214

Heh, yeah.

Apparently One Cause didn't have any voice actors in the first series. That kind of explains why the second was so short. I had a watch through the first 8 episodes and, well... Frankly the writing leaves something to be desired. The action and pacing isn't anything to write home about, there are some glaring logical flaws in the plot, and don't get me started on the dialogue. Episode 1 was supposed to be an epic escape, but that all happens off-camera and most of the episode is spent with One househunting with Mila. Episode 2, aside from introducing Mila's brother Kichi, has One and Two swordfighting outside a 7-11 and all around town, supposedly beause Two wants One to come home. When Mila accidentally distracts One and Two knocks him down, he takes Mila instead. Mila, who has nothing to do with the Projects. Mila, who just happened to be there at the time. HE WAS AFTER ONE!!!! WTF!!!!! Ahem. Anyway. Episode 3 makes even less sense, though that's largely due to the fact that it was all an illusion created by Three. Everyone seems shocked by the revelation that One is unhappy, and Mila seems shocked by the revelation that One is a robot. Then - PLOT TWIST! - he's not, he's just the creator's (aka Aya Kawisawa) brother (aka Naoki Kawisawa) who knocked his head on a tree whilst they were escaping the RTT in a confusingly-edited flashback. Next thing you know (episode 5), Mila's friend (who has no character whatsoever and just seems to be there for the sake of it) just happens to show up just as the creator comes round his house with Two and Three and tries to explain everything. One doesn't like being called Naoki but Mila trusts them. Meanwhile, none of them realize they are being spied on by a spy, name of Aletta Mangrove. I'm still not sure who she works for, but I'm steals the project plans and trashes Naoki's rear end in a swordfight, and the RTT use the blueprints to create Project Reaper, who then goes around the town with Mangrove blowing up sh*t, and One/Naoki's like "No, you can't create a Project! You can't do that, it's impossible, it's not true!" and Aletta be like "Yo dumbass, that's what the blueprints where for! Oh yeh, maybe we got some help from a friend of Aya." Cliffhanger! Next episode some random person gets kidnapped by Reaper for attacking Reaper for attacking the village for some reason for some reason. One is totally chill about the whole thing and goes back indoors to tell everyone (who don't seem concerned about all the noise going on outside) what he just learnt. Rather than go sort out the Reaper like sensible people, everyone except Mila and her characterless friend (who can't even seem to remember her own name, she's so superfluous) go on a pleasure cruise - conveniently they get free tickets because they know somebody in charge of the boat - on what appears to be the Titanic, allegedly to go find Aya's missing friend Calla, whom they think was captured by the RTT. Mangrove and co. are also on board by a massive coincidence, along with Calla and the woman they captured last episode, the one who looks like she has what Jordan describes as "Hitler's mustache", who escapes and gets washed overboard along with Kichi, who was a stowaway anyway, by the storm. Oh, did I mention there was a storm? There was a "strom" as Aya put it. The captain tries (and fails) not to panic people, and the whole next two episodes turn into the Poseidon Adventure when the ship capsizes. In the final episode, Kichi and the woman wash up on a beach, a half-arsed S&R comprised of one helicopter decides to call it a day, all of the survivors gang together to find a way off, and Aletta seemingly kills Three and makes it look as if he drowned (or whatever robots do in water). And that's series 1 in a nutshell. I haven't started season 2 yet, but I will do.