Sunday, February 6, 2011

IS: Infinite Stratos: Lack of Compelling Reasons


Currently finished: Episode 4

One of the biggest problems I have against this anime at the moment is that so far they haven't presented any compelling reason why IS is such an important thing in this world. All they've been doing in this academy is to use IS as effective combat machinery, yet there is no clear indication of any current ongoing wars either between nations or against extraterrestrial beings. Then why do any world government invest so much into IS? It's hard to believe they're merely going to use all this destructive power it holds only in Olympic competition.

True episode 4 they finally introduced a possible enemy for this story, but that still doesn't help in explaining why the world is so interested in such machinery with no apparent real usage outside this academy. Maybe when they feel like taking a break from enlarging the harem, we can get a proper explanation on why this world is so fascinated in IS.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The reason why they use the ISs this way is probably the same reason why Russia and the US did so much with nuclear weapons during the cold war... to prevent the other from doing anything stupid. I mean, nobody is ever going to use a nuke, because it would pretty much promise the end of the world, yet many countries have a lot of them.

The Evil Cat said...

If there's such tension out there, why would they come to the same place and train together? In cold war era, you've never seen a nuclear research facility that both US and USSR scientists work together.

yoekix said...

After watching episode 5 my comment was: there is so much story like there are reports of windows that never crashes ...

i'm sure some evil plot is going on behind the scenes, but at the moment they don't bother showing anything ...

The Evil Cat said...

It seems they're only trying to enlarge the harem at the moment, and even trying to extend male harem members.