I wonвЂ™t go on so this doesnвЂ™t start to sound too much like a rant, but for all of these reasons, Gunslinger StratosвЂ™ plot is among the worst of the worst. From beginning to end, it is entirely unclear to the viewer what is going on. Each and every plot device introduced raises questions that demand answers, are extremely confusing and need far more fleshing out, and/or connect to nothing at all in the rest of the story. This show will info-dump and info-dump and info-dump and info-dump, yet you never actually learn anything.

Clearly there was some sort of conceptual story in place, but they could not have gone about conveying it to the viewers in a worse fashion. ItвЂ™s actually hard to believe that people who clearly donвЂ™t have the foggiest sense of even the most basic elements of storytelling were getting paid to animate this trash. The plot, setting, and characters are all an absolute muddle of incompetence that leave you awestruck out of sheer incomprehensibility. Not good oleвЂ™ Gunslinger Stratos though! Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about this showвЂ™s writing and directing is an absolute disgrace. Usually anime that donвЂ™t make sense have a passable script that was poorly executed or an awful script that was executed averagely. So in case that synopsis didnвЂ™t clue you in, the biggest and most glaring problem that Gunslinger Stratos has is the fact that it makes NO sense. There are two parallel universes with completely arbitrary differences, the inhabitants fight each other for no reason whatsoever, and people turn into sand sometimes. Ladies and Gentleman we have been gifted this season with one of those remarkable anomalies that defy all human comprehension. A show that is so awful, it feels like an accomplishment. A show that lacks so much as a single redeeming quality. A show that quite literally could not be worse than it already is. Moon, you may stumble across a special show that falls into that remaining 1%. Or maybe the show just provided some mindless fun at times. Maybe that comedic relief character was actually funny occasionally. It doesnвЂ™t matter how incoherent the plot is, how god-awful the characters are, how piss poor the animation is, or how maddeningly awful the sound effects are there is almost always SOMETHING that you can take away from a show. Despite that fact, 99% of anime created over the course human history have at least some sort of redeeming quality. In summary, the outer story is okay, the inner story is far, far better.LetвЂ™s face it: There are a LOT of bad anime out there. It is not really a spoiler, but the final reconciliation is a nifty tear-jerker, and has a beautiful bit of bite that is amusing. As just a shoot'em up it is barely better than average, but with the inside story, the relationships in each of the two worlds, and how the two worlds are each real in different ways- that really works. We don't want preachy 'look inside yourself' stories, but add weapons and violence and emotional buffering and battering, and you can slip the inner story under the threshold and make it something to consider. Yes, it goes overboard sometimes, but it also needs to do so as a means of camouflage as the inner story unwraps.

In this case there are two very different environments, and those different environments combine with different versions of the same friends as they wrap around the inner self to create paired different versions of all of the characters. Our environments shape us to some extent, and to some extent we are shaped by the people around us, and to a small degree we have some innate core of self that interacts with the environment and people around us to create the person we are. Two versions that do not like each other. In this case Gunslinger Stratos shows a surface battle and fantasy and science fiction package, but underneath it is really the story of how there are two versions of us living inside us all the time.

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