Audience reviews
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Mulahey
Do you like space battles?
If you like space battles, you will like Starship Operators. It takes these seriously, has its own sci-fi concepts, and tries to bring a range of styles and tactical options into play. If your into milscifi, give it a try.
However, it has other issues. It tries to adapt an entire light novel series in 13 episodes; character arcs, just like the ship, can surpass light speed. It sometimes has difficulties balancing its mix of tones.
Most significantly, the politics underlying the war and situation are actually well thought out. But you don't find this out until episode 10. Its a bizarre decision that undermines half the series, as they are fighting a war you don't understand.
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An example of how deceiving poster can be. What kind of admirer of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, especially Heinlein's juvenile science fiction novels, would suspect in an anime hiding behind a poster with kawaii girls a plot worthy of Robert himself? If you look at the poster you’d probably suspect that it’s another miserable harem in the space opera genre (which is certainly not) with swaying "oppai", lusciously slobbering pseudo-romance, giant humanoid mecha, extremely imbecile behavior and stupid motivation of characters, as well as close combat within line of sight (sic!) in outer space. However “Starship Operators” (I just wanted to write “Starship Troopers”), minus the kawaii girls, is genuine early Heinlein - here you also have space cadets - young geniuses who are growing fro…
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I’m sure there are interesting and well-done strategy-focused and/or politics-focused SF series out there. This is not one of them. The soundtrack is pretty good. That’s… that’s about it. The art quality is cheap looks-nice-at-first-glance-and-only-first-glance. And then there are the boob and miniskirt uniforms, the few characters with rather ridiculous anime hair, and the lack of movement or expression outside of really bad mouth animations on most characters that make this look like a bunch of screencaps with moving lips. There’s some cute guys in it and at least one sweet romance? If you want to watch a really low-quality version of a strategy space navy game, that’s… about all the story you’re getting. Also no, the sweet romance is not the protagonist’s.
The first real dialogue we ge…
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Okay Lion Tamers! We try to review "Starship Operators".
Starship Operators, was created in 2005. And while there has been better productions, in terms of production values (especially things made in 2005); this one stands out for a number of reasons.
1). Story
For those of us that like a good story, with a great plot, and an excellent sense of the politics connected with it; Starship Operators is very difficult to beat.
The plot, while not new, is not the same as common. It involves a ships' crew that refuses to surrender when their country (in this case a planet) is conquered. They proceed to prove themselves in battle against the enemy, creating so much political pressure (as a result of public broadcasts of the battles on television) that a number of politicians and planets find the…
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Starship Operators is one of those anime that was adapted from a light novel. As such, the story has more depth than most and the characters are less exaggerated and a tad more believable. As with most such adaptations, it is the original work peeking through that makes you keep watching, but what you see is only a shadow of what the story should be.
To my knowledge, the Starship Operators light novel has not been translated into English and so I will not have the pleasure of reading it any time soon. But, it is clear where the anime falters in the execution of its story. Many of the explanations are hard to follow, especially while reading the subs and trying to watch at the same time, and the majority of the story telling elements fall flat. Occasionally it feels like you are watching p…
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This is my first review, and likely my only one, since I'm not good at reviewing (consequently, I expect the number of people finding it helpful will be low). But if my review helps even one person to decide to watch the show, I'll have felt it worth it.
I saw this show some months ago now, watching it in a single sitting, and I'll be yet another person to say that this show was underrated. Yes, it had many flaws, (and I wasn't too fond of the veiled anti-Americanism near the end), but it also had a lot of good points, in my opinion.
I liked how they used a lot of realistic physics, realistic weapons, how most of the battle strategies were logical and believable, and many of the characters made believable decisions/actions, although some of the characters (esp the villains) made very un…
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Ok, to start off, I would like to point out I am not fond of writing reviews, but I just felt like it for this one, mainly because I sat through whole show with only a few short breaks.
STORY:
When I first read description for this show, I thought to myself: "Just like Infinite Ryvius", and I was partially correct. But only partially. Story about young kids fighting whole kingdom on their own, being rejected again and again is nothing new, but it's the way story was told that made it enjoyable. It may not be the best story ever, but I find it to my liking.
ART:
Another show I noticed similarities with is one of my favorite shows "Crest of the stars". Now, what I expected from this show was something similar in terms of graphics and style. What I got pleasantly surprised me. From the…
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Short series. 13 episodes over 3 disks. I almost did not finish it because the premise was almost too unbelievable (yes, I like Anime's to have some sense of reality). Artwork was very good (Animation mixed in with CGI). The thing that kept me watching was how realistically the creators portrayed the world in which the show takes place. The physics of space, maneuvering, battles, all the way down to how a teardrop should behave in zero-G made this series very interesting. Yes, yes, there is an occasional space warp, but space battles are not fever-pitched like most SF shows. The ships actually take days to approach and fire their weapons and beams from great distances. The Anime is more about the young crew and how they deal with the political situation they find themselves in. The treatme…
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I must admit that I started this show because one of my favorite singers performed in it (Mami Kawada). Though I do enjoy the science fiction genre so Starship Operators seemed to be a perfect match. So let’s get on with the review!
The story is mixed for me. This is a serious story that for the most part is pretty good. It does a good job of giving you an overview of the universe in which the plot takes place in and moves along pretty steadily. The story revolves around a group of cadets for the military of Kibi on their last training cruise, when their home planet is attacked by a rival known as the Kingdom, the cadets are left to fend for themselves when their instructors all abandon ship and surrender. (Ja I thought that was silly too). They decide to fight and their struggle is docum…
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Starship Operators is primarily a space opera and as such follows the events through the eye's of the crew members of the spaceship Amateras. The story has an original twist compared to other titles for the genre because the crew members rebel and decide to take on the entire invading military estabilisement single-handedly in their state-of-the-art vessel. In addition, the young crew is corned into making a deal with a TV network in order to gain funds to finance their campaign by accepting to be filmed 24/7 - much akin to reality tv.
- ANIMATION -
The series typically uses CG to handle their spaceship animations, but it isn't overused and is pretty much reserved to animating their communication displays and panels. In terms of consistency, Starship Operators does a fine job with crisp…
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