Comments on: RideBack 10 – 12 (2009): Review http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed anime - manga - sci-fi - art Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: tim http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-569 tim Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:11:24 +0000 http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-569 Thanks Davi3d! Have you read the manga? I've managed to track down a fan-translated copy online, and am going to try and sit down and read it over Easter. It'll be interesting to see how closely the anime sticks to it, if the manga is as realistic and whether the plot goes any further... Of course I'll post my findings and thoughts up here when I'm done... Thanks Davi3d!

Have you read the manga? I’ve managed to track down a fan-translated copy online, and am going to try and sit down and read it over Easter. It’ll be interesting to see how closely the anime sticks to it, if the manga is as realistic and whether the plot goes any further…

Of course I’ll post my findings and thoughts up here when I’m done…

]]> By: Davi3d http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-568 Davi3d Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:05:24 +0000 http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-568 What struck me about this series is its plausibility and lack of "mecha for mecha's sake" treatment that so many anime fall into. There is a scene in Full Metal Panic (Season 1) in which Chidori is launched high into the air by an explosion, and is saved by being caught by running mecha. As if falling several hundred feet to the ground would be fatal while the same fall landing on the metal palm of a mecha only a few feet above the ground would be harmless. However most of the antics of the ridebacks are almost believable - especially of a few hundred pound (motorobot? Mechacycle?) machine given what we see these days with self-balancing riding machinery such as the Segway. All and all a very enjoyable series; I hope the anime makers enjoy enough success to persuade them that a second season would be well-received. Thanks for an interesting review, one with which I concur almost entirely (and no nitpicks, either! . -Davi3d What struck me about this series is its plausibility and lack of “mecha for mecha’s sake” treatment that so many anime fall into. There is a scene in Full Metal Panic (Season 1) in which Chidori is launched high into the air by an explosion, and is saved by being caught by running mecha. As if falling several hundred feet to the ground would be fatal while the same fall landing on the metal palm of a mecha only a few feet above the ground would be harmless. However most of the antics of the ridebacks are almost believable – especially of a few hundred pound (motorobot? Mechacycle?) machine given what we see these days with self-balancing riding machinery such as the Segway.

All and all a very enjoyable series; I hope the anime makers enjoy enough success to persuade them that a second season would be well-received.

Thanks for an interesting review, one with which I concur almost entirely (and no nitpicks, either! .

-Davi3d

]]> By: RideBack 4 - 9 (2009): Review at Tim Maughan Books http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-565 RideBack 4 - 9 (2009): Review at Tim Maughan Books Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:46:44 +0000 http://timmaughanbooks.com/2009/04/07/rideback-10-12-2009-review/#comment-565 [...] (Note: This is the second part of an ongoing review of RideBack. The first part can be read here and the final part here.) [...] [...] (Note: This is the second part of an ongoing review of RideBack. The first part can be read here and the final part here.) [...]

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