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Feb. 4th, 2022 08:34 pmI have been depressed and miserable for much of the past week or so and yesterday was particularly bad, so I called in sick today and played hooky for my mental health. I spent the day alternately knitting and playing Pokemon, and then spent this evening watching more Armored Trooper Votoms. It's been good - hopefully I will feel much better by Monday.
Votoms is extremely good, you guys. The first arc was "Chirico the traumatized mech soldier comes to the city to discover the truth about the secret mission that got him kicked out of the army, shoots a bunch of evil cops, and gets forcibly adopted by a trio of petty criminals against his will" and all of that is delightful. But the second arc ("what if Vietnam, but with mechs and grown-in-a-vat brainwashed supersoldiers?") introduces a secondary villain who immediately became my favorite character on the show so far - Ypsilon, who is the supersoldier the villains created, trying to recreate the first one whom they stole from the army. (The first supersoldier, Fyana, is the whole secret truth at the heart of the first arc and also Chirico's love interest).
Ypsilon looks like he escaped from an 80s Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld comic* and has a personality like an angry cat and I love him. All he wants to do in life is to be the best at fighting wars in giant robots and also to kill Chirico for taking his sister** Fyana away from him. I like Chirico a lot but I'm still kinda rooting for Ypsilon. He is very clearly not going to survive the show, but he at least survived this arc. I hope he manages to murder the evil priest in charge of brainwashing the supersoldiers before he dies.
*I have some questions for the person who developed Ypsilon's character design which basically boil down to "please tell me everything about how this brainwashed grown-in-a-vat supersoldier got his ears pierced, I need to know."
**It's possible that I am supposed to read Ypsilon's attachment to Fyana as romantic? But a) I am extremely aro-ace and thus often do not assume romance when I'm supposed to***, and b) I like it better on several levels if they're siblings, so I choose to believe that's true until I am conclusively proved wrong.
***NGL, the reason I haven't finished The Black Company series is because I spent most of The White Rose really enjoying what I thought was the strong if weird platonic friendship between Croaker and the Lady and then it turned out to be a romance. I will get over my disappointment eventually. Probably.
Votoms is extremely good, you guys. The first arc was "Chirico the traumatized mech soldier comes to the city to discover the truth about the secret mission that got him kicked out of the army, shoots a bunch of evil cops, and gets forcibly adopted by a trio of petty criminals against his will" and all of that is delightful. But the second arc ("what if Vietnam, but with mechs and grown-in-a-vat brainwashed supersoldiers?") introduces a secondary villain who immediately became my favorite character on the show so far - Ypsilon, who is the supersoldier the villains created, trying to recreate the first one whom they stole from the army. (The first supersoldier, Fyana, is the whole secret truth at the heart of the first arc and also Chirico's love interest).
Ypsilon looks like he escaped from an 80s Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld comic* and has a personality like an angry cat and I love him. All he wants to do in life is to be the best at fighting wars in giant robots and also to kill Chirico for taking his sister** Fyana away from him. I like Chirico a lot but I'm still kinda rooting for Ypsilon. He is very clearly not going to survive the show, but he at least survived this arc. I hope he manages to murder the evil priest in charge of brainwashing the supersoldiers before he dies.
*I have some questions for the person who developed Ypsilon's character design which basically boil down to "please tell me everything about how this brainwashed grown-in-a-vat supersoldier got his ears pierced, I need to know."
**It's possible that I am supposed to read Ypsilon's attachment to Fyana as romantic? But a) I am extremely aro-ace and thus often do not assume romance when I'm supposed to***, and b) I like it better on several levels if they're siblings, so I choose to believe that's true until I am conclusively proved wrong.
***NGL, the reason I haven't finished The Black Company series is because I spent most of The White Rose really enjoying what I thought was the strong if weird platonic friendship between Croaker and the Lady and then it turned out to be a romance. I will get over my disappointment eventually. Probably.
