2009-10-31, 00:55 | Link #43 |
Seishu's Ace
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
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That was rather interesting. I actually found it insanely hilarious at times, believe it or not. What totally made it work for me was the completely deadpan behavior of the characters and the minimalist use of camera movement and BGM. The whole thing is utter absurdity presented in a completely matter-of-fact way, with no effort whatsoever to explain any of it. That dichotomy worked for me.
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2009-10-31, 00:56 | Link #44 |
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Singapore
Age: 32
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Hmmm, it was pretty good, but I think the first trailer seemed so much better. It was weird that the first trailer had footage not in the movie. Too bad it was too short, add in 30-45min more of character backstory/explanation and action scenes and it would have been much more awesome.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Washington
Age: 35
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2009-11-01, 04:23 | Link #53 |
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 37
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Personally, that was the beauty of it. We didn't need to know the whole story, you just enjoyed the 30 minute experience. We don't need to know anymore, just focus on what's going on. That's what i did, and i fully enjoyed the hell out of it.
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2009-11-15, 02:46 | Link #58 |
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Yeah. It was what it was. Better than most things. Outstanding animation. Enjoyable weirdness. More or less a complete story, if you don't need to know where everything came from. Good music (ryo/supercell, who did the Bakemonogatari ED). Excellent voices -- Hanazawa Kana, Shimono Hiro, Kimura Ryohei (Takizawa in Eden of the East) -- creating interesting characters. That's enough. I don't need any more.
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2009-11-15, 05:16 | Link #59 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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LOLOL. So true.
I don't have too big a problem with shows not having complete stories and all, but to me, a sci-fi sort of lends itself to at least try to show off its world and how its world works. That's the cool part of sci-fi. The world that is so different from ours. It's just happens so that we really only did get a small taste and I have to sort of side with the folks who almost feel like shortchanged since there was potential for more. Then again, one of my favorite short-series efforts is Alien Nine and fans of that OVA + Manga knows how mysterious the backplot still is even with the manga involved. But even that effort was longer and more fleshed out.. |
2009-11-16, 21:25 | Link #60 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Maybe the "auteur" is an animator, not a story-teller, and wasn't that concerned with filling out the context. I thought he did a pretty good job of implying a big enough picture to make it meaningful, but the larger background really wasn't there, for sure.
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