July 27, 2008 – 5:32 pm
Macross Frontier on hold because I can’t be bothered to watch it. It just doesn’t feel very exciting. Until someone comes out and says the story progresses really well to its conclusion, it will stay in limbo.
Watched one ep of Koihime Musou, because it was supposed to be yuri. I think it will be the only ep I see. *shudders at chara designs*
Blade of the Immortal looked pretty good from the first ep. Production quality is high, probably because Bee Train had help from Production IG. I think Bee Train still lacks finesse in the more upfront sort of action scenes, and the ep felt awkward at moments. I wish they would make another surreal girls-with-guns anime featuring Kajiura Yuki, it’s what they are good for :P
Might try Ultraviolet. Started watching Utena again, this show is absolute genius.
Ugh, finger hurts from too much Monster Hunter.
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July 27, 2008 – 5:14 pm
It’s rather sad, but Mnemosyne, an anime that started out with quite a bit of potential to be a nostalgic throwback to the 80′s girls and guns era, has wound up a muddled mess.
Although the series, up till ep 4, was rife with plot holes, extraneous service, and middling art quality, it was still watchable if you took it at face value. After seeing ep 5, and especially the finale of ep 6, I cannot be so kind. It was a train wreck, plain and simple.
Ep 4 jumps 20 or so years into the future. Rin is gone; in her place is a woman who looks like her but has no memories. Rin-who-is-not-Rin lives a normal corporate life, has a lover who wants her to marry him. Mimi is a now a Buddhist nun. Teru cleaned up his act as is now boss of a very high profile conglomerate. The latest generation of Maeno is a pretty young thing who’s gutsy, great at manipulation, and forever pining to her boyfriend that there are no good men in her life. I like her :)
I thought the setup of this episode was quite good. It was cool to see Rin be given a normal life, and then to see her reaction on regaining her memory. She says, “It’s been centuries since I’ve had a lover. It was like living in a fairytale”. That’s pretty deep, to me anyway. Rin, who has no innocence left, was given a chance to taste it again. The plot also unfolded decently, although Apos’ use of Laura is getting old. Apos himself is shown to be the worst kind of villain, the one who personifies the trope “Rape the Dog“.
So far so good… The part I have beef with is just the gratuitous scene in the middle of nowhere. You know the one I’m talking about. The one with Mimi and the other immortals, in the monastery, which served zero plot value, and negative service value, because it was so bizarrely placed anyway. I’d have given this ep 3 1/2 stars without the scene, and 1/2 a star with. Bleh, I say.
And as for ep 6. Well, all’s well that ends well, Rin saves the universe and becomes God, literally, Apos is banished to eternal suffering (I think, I couldn’t tell), Mimi lives on, alone, and Mishio becomes yet another follower of the cult of Rin… and I don’t care one whit. Ah, you see, obviously they tried to tie it up into a whole with now loose ends. You know, leave no mysteries, explain it all, etc. Well, it sucked. Badly. This sounds like something a 4th grader would come up with. It’s horrible. It’s so bad, Mnemosyne will have the dubious honour of being the only anime series in which I, out of protest, refuse to buy the final DVD.
Now that I think about it, perhaps they also intended to follow in the old 80s tradition, showcasing an anime that sucks just as well as some of our other terrible classics did. Begone.
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