Tamaya is the Top!? Spread Legs Form

This is not a joke. That is Rideback 02’s title.

Giggling at unintentional innuendo aside let’s talk about Rideback because it’s still awesome.

Things happen, and the gruff, manly acting blonde bombshell challenges brunette ballerina to a showdown in the rideback club’s innapropriately Christmas-colored ridebacks.

Rin once again pilot’s rides the semi-intelligent spanish motorcycle droid, and Tamaya (here on out referred to as Butch) rides the RBZ, a generically named machine that is seemingly an exact carbon-copy of Fuego, minus the brain and Latin-American name (making it 100x less cool).

The story so far seems to be heading in a rather lame “Aim to be the best in Japan!” sort of direction, but I still have hopes. RIn doesn’t seem to be super-competitive, or boast a lot, so it might not be painfully lolpowerlevels and stuff. I also  still harbor a deep desire for the military Ridebacks in the OP to be a clue that the story veers away from the direction it’s heading and on towards a (hopefully) much more interesting one.

A list because I can:

• Glasses girl is so loud it warranted me turning the volume on my system down. Nice going.
• Butch couldn’t sound more like she was trying to be a man if she was on a steroid regiment.
• Soundtrack, when not being drowned out by glasses girl’s fangirling, is very super-good. I hope there’s an OST release soon. The OP/ED aren’t bad either, but omfg the OP sounds like Kotoko instead of Mell.
• Oh yeah, Aniyoshi is subbing it too, so there’ll be a good quality release to archive. Stoked.

3 Reasons Rideback is Awesome

I’ve always loved lists. So here’s a list of why Rideback is awesome.

1. It’s aired in HD. This is important. I use a 24″ 1920×1200 resolution screen. Unless something is at least 1280×720 then when I fullscreen the video I can see every blemish and every blocking artifact. Not a showkiller but it’s always so much better when you don’t notice the huge amounts of blocking and choppy gradients.
2. The CG is fabulous. If you wish to contest me then watch from 18:40 to 19:00 of episode 1 again. Maybe I just have the bar set too low. Last Exile is the threshold for bad CG in my opinion, and it’s hard to be worse than last Exile.
3. Skating mechs. My favorite things about the knightmares from Code Geass were the skate things they moved around on and how they had almost lifelike movement. That’s why I was disappointed when all of the battles started taking place in the sky and they just shot HEUG lazers at each other. Fuego has a similar skate/wheel setup when it’s in it’s humanoid form and I loved it.

Pretty shallow list, yeah? Well I can’t exactly comment on the story since there wasn’t much to comment on in episode 1. “Ballarina girl is emo about her broken ankle to the dismay of her harem of squeeling fans and finds solace in a dancing rollerskate-bot. There is was also a war and stuff. FYI”