It's Miku!

Finally got around to watching anime again after working on the site for a day and a half, then taking a nice long nap. I just took a quick look at Rideback and I’m not really sure what it’s supposed to be about. The story is supposedly set in the near future where the world has been taken over by some terrorist group and is orderly because everyone is scared of the guys with the guns. Some random girl (I didn’t even bother paying attention to her name, I think it was Ogata something) who was really good at ballet injured herself and quit because she didn’t feel like doing ballet anymore. She started going to college and stumbled across a strange bike with arms that also can transform into a humanoid kind of shape. She rode it because of some kind of wierd accident and she liked it. Episode one end.

I really don’t know what the show is supposed to be about! The main character woman keeps saying something like “the world is changing”. This and the summary on wikipedia which says more stuff about terrorists and oppression make me think that she’s suddenly going to take her new mecha and start to perform armed interventions around the world. The feel of the show kind of reminds me of Over Drive though, how the main character just finds something they really like, so I’m also under the impression that she might join some kind of bike-with-arms racing contest.

Apart from the storyline, the animation looks ok. The shape of the face looks a bit strange to me (just like how all Nishimata Aoi girls look fat/wide to me). I think it’s something about the chin. If I keep watching I’ll get used to it though and it won’t bother me anymore. Tengen Toppa gave me that kind of feeling when I first watched it too because the drawings were kind of spiky, but I love it now. Except episode 4. One thing that puts me off is the 3D CG of the bike. I do not like 3D CG in my anime. I’ll probably watch the next episode and give the show another chance but I am quite inclined to drop it. The bike with arms doesn’t really appeal to me and I’ll be busy in a month or two when uni starts. I made it into pharmacy! Yay!

3D CG = do not want