2008-10-30, 17:19 | Link #121 |
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2008-10-31, 07:56 | Link #124 |
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Good episode some pieces are starting to come together but damn these guys are going to be fucked in the end if they screw Kuro. Never get between a man and his true love. As Kuromitsu said she and he are closer than any man and women on earth and he would walk through hell (which he kinda has already) to be reunited with her. Really liking the series so far i just feel myself being very sad for these 2 they are always being chased and end up apart. Living for all eternity without the one you care for is hell in its self.
This little surprising Gem just made my top 5 of the season cant wait for more
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2008-10-31, 12:56 | Link #125 | |
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Indeed, this series is one of the gems for the season
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Speaking about ep 4, I finally managed to get some time to watch it (yay~~). The series is unfolding pretty well and I am quite glued to the seat with my mouth shut waiting for the next events to unfold. As far as I can get it, Kuromitsu's secret is no longer a secret and an evil army body is after her. This isn't to say the "normal people" organisation isn't "evil" as well for trying to trick Kuro like that (Kuro remembers, he never forgets when his waifu is stolen in front of his eyes ). I will be keeping an eye out for both sides of the war. I really should get going and type something up for this season so far, I'm sure this series will score pretty high on my list.
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2008-10-31, 14:16 | Link #126 |
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Awesome series is awesome. Tied with Casshern Sins now for top serious anime series this season. Need to watch all the eps again, but after ep 4 twice, still I'm maybe confused. Using spoiler, as most popular subs aren't released yet (and it really needs the HD to look good on a big screen).
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2008-10-31, 14:47 | Link #127 |
Dansa med oss
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I haven't found ultraviolence to be this compelling since GUNNM - various body parts flying around is actually part of the storytelling, which is very rare. The art and the atmosphere is hauntingly beautiful, which blends as well as contrasts with the aforementioned dismemberment to create a mesmerizing, unsettling mood that influences you to believe that just about anything can happen. The first episode is the best example of this so far.
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2008-11-04, 18:50 | Link #130 | |
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As for this show itself... I like it, but I'm still not 100% sure it's the greatest of the season. I... still have my doubts about the possible cheesy routes the plot could lead to. You know, evil army, vampires, mystical powers? Sounds like the plot of some poor vampire/nazi mixup. I still believe it's being pretty good for now. And I absolutely love anachronistic storytelling. More of that, please!
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2008-11-05, 22:49 | Link #133 |
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Guys... I am so LOST on what the hell is going on. Dreams, past, present, I can't tell a damn difference. Someone help me out! Lol... Do I really have to rewatch all the eps... for some reason I don't think that will help.
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2008-11-06, 00:11 | Link #134 |
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^^ its like that in the manga too. you just have to deal with all of it. basically:
he "turns" they run away together for a long while WWII, they're still together "Colony drop," they're still together 20 years later, they're separated. his memory is just incredibly patchy. |
2008-11-06, 00:58 | Link #135 | |
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2008-11-06, 13:40 | Link #137 |
Beautiful fighter.
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Episode 05 was yet again another visually stunning episode. Those scenes between Kuro ad Kuromitsu were absolutely beautiful. I'm loving everything about this series so far, though it's those scenes between the two were my love originates from. They're just so superb.
This has got to be the first episode from this series that didn't leave me with loads of unanswered questions. The only confusing scene is what happened after Karuta left Kuro alone on that room. That was a funky scene. Really did leave us hanging with a cliffhanger. I hope the battle we're about to see isn't one that only lasts a few minutes --- also it could possibly end up with Kuro going up against that general again. Can't wait.
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2008-11-06, 16:04 | Link #138 |
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Well I can pretty much accept the plot jumping around since there seems to be a method to the madness. We're learning things as Kuro remembers them, I just wish he would hurry up and remember how his head keeps getting re-attached to his body At this point he seems pretty invulnerable to be able to survive something like that so all the action is basically empty threats.
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2008-11-06, 18:22 | Link #139 |
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episode 5 has such a dreamy undertone to it, prolly due to its large part being
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2008-11-06, 21:57 | Link #140 |
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Can anyone translate "Kurozuka" for me? It doesn't translate as anything when I push it through Google's Japanese-English engine.
Having watched the first four episodes at least three times each now, let me suggest answers to a couple of questions left hanging in this thread. First, I think the guy hanging upside down in episode one is the samurai thief in episode two. If you look carefully at the couple wearing hats who arrive after he murders his initial victims, they look like Kuro and Kuromitsu. Later when the thief witnesses the conversation between Kuromitsu and Kuro's head, she refers to the thief as the person who cut off Kuro's head. (I don't think she's referring to Benkai in this conversation.) This scene does raise serious questions about the order of events, though. Kuro meets Kuromitsu in episode one and sees her drinking from the suspended corpse. If the corpse is the thief, how can he have cut off Kuro's head and already be dead? I'm still confused about this. Kuro seems to lose his head quite often in this show. I assume he's been lucky enough to have it lying nearby so he can reattach it his body as Kuromitsu reattached her arm. It doesn't appear that they regenerate missing body parts the way that, say, Albedo does in Xenosaga. I take it Kuro loses his memory whenever his head is severed from his body? Isn't there some meme about decapitation being one of the few methods that will permanently kill a vampire? I'm not a vampire aficionado so others have to chime in here. I guess decapitation isn't "fatal" for Kuro. As far as I can tell, we've seen three distinct historical periods so far: the original Heian period with Kuro as the historical figure Yoshitsune; a brief glimpse of 1945 as the Americans fire-bomb Tokyo; and the post-apocalyptic period after the missiles fly. Am I missing any? I'll just say I can't understand why studios feel the need to have such inappropriate (and unappealing) OPs for shows like this. The rest of the score is so subtle and intriguing; the OP is anything but. It reminds me of Real Drive where both the OP and ED were totally unrelated and unpleasant when compared to the rather lovely background score. At least I can enjoy the ED for Kurozuka and don't need to hit stop once it begins as I did for Real Drive.
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