Archive for the ‘Anime’ Category
The Cartoons of Katou Kunio
Well,I’m home for xmas so I ’should’ either be spending time with the family or doing my dissertation *shudder*.. So what am I doing? Watching odd Japanese cartoons. They are pretty cool though…
‘The Apple Incident’
‘The Diary of Tortov Roddle’ - The Melancholy Rain
Granted,they are a bit heavy on atmosphere and what plot there is in the cartoon’s I’ve seen so far are limited,but still,if you like these there are plenty on youtube…
Witchblade: The Anime
The first episode available for free viewing here on IGN
But is it worth the watch even if its free? It’s not a bad show, very ‘porny’, watch the opening credits alone and you’ll get that! Its a bit distracting from the rest of the show, but hardly too much of a change from the source material in many ways. Lots of ’standard’ ideas from Anime - vaguely fascist governments, shadowy government agencies with dodgy methods, if not necessarily aims, destroyed Tokyo and so on. There are a few plots that are kind of weird; I mean I know the photographer is trespassing but surely it’d be better to own up to that than get accused of kidnapping? Also, the action sequence is kind of ‘easy’ - I mean, it is kind of obvious that the Witchblade has taken over our heroine when she fights the ‘Pulveriser’ but that she beats him so easy? There is such a thing as overselling your hero…
Anyway, its not that bad, though I’m not sure on the strength of this first episode that I’d bother looking for more. But if your an Anime fan at all, its 22 minutes of show and is probably worth a look before they take it down..
Optimus Prime Lives!
‘Lets go fuck Galvatron up the ass… not literally!’ - why couldn’t my saturday morning cartoons have been this funny?
Update; This one is even better - it has Shockwave, and man, is he the Universe’s biggest loser or what…. Read the rest of this entry »
Perfect Blue
Just watched this ‘classic’ Anime - its been one of those films that I’ve been meaning for years to watch and seeing as I had the day off today thanks to the bank holiday I figured I had nothing better to do.
And to be honest, it wasn’t really worth it. The film isn’t exactly ‘bad’ - its just not very good. It has the same basic problems I have with a lot of Anime - the plot either is too basic or it doesn’t make any sense. In this case it actually manages to do both. The basic plot is a pretty basic, to the point where I’m sure I’ve seen it in an Inspector Morse/A touch of Frost/any other generic mystery show episode somewhere. It follows the lead character as she quits her band and then becomes an actress - where she starts to feel guilty about spending most of her time in rather ’seedy’ roles. On top of this she begins to get a stalker who it appears is starting to become violent.
And that’s it.
The rest of the film (which is fairly short) simply is more confusing than interesting. While it is a time-honored tradition in films where theres a ‘are they crazy or not?’ vibe to screw around with the audience this film goes waayy too far in its attempts. The end result is that I just stopped caring. But still it was only 80 minutes so if your looking for a fairly ok thriller you can do worse I suppose.
Anyway, I found this clip for a fake trailer for the movie on youtube. Done as a ‘romcom’ it’s actually more entertaining than the fillm: