Madlax - Post-ending
Funny how you can get attached to make believe anime characters… that’s what I thought during my run today, musing on how Madlax (the character, and not the anime) has continued to grow on me in the days since I finished the series. She’s so cool, a killer, unstoppable and brutally efficient, but who bears the sin of another and carries that person’s pain. For some reason I just can’t get that phrase out of my mind, “yasashii hitogoroshi” (”the gentle killer”).
I especially like the first part of the opening where she turns around slowly as a drop of water flies across the screen, then suddenly falls back as if shot just as the water touches her forehead and breaks into a spray around her. Awesome direction!
Okay, now that that’s out of my system, I can get back to Noir, the other Bee Train series. You know, these guys really have a thing for guns. The loving detail lavished on each firearm must be collectively worth half the art budget.
PS, you can find a great blog on Madlax at Cinnamon Ass, an anime blog that also looks really cool. I unashamedly took the color scheme and line designs, yes. My apologies to the original blogger, hope you’re not pissed, I was just too lazy to come up with my own at the time.
