— Duck season!
— Rabbit season!
— Duck season!
— Rabbit season!
— Loli season!1
— …
- Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, Zettai Karen Children, Kure-nai, Soul Eater [marginal]…↩
Вообще, я за то, чтобы уменьшить долю употребления буквы Ё в русском языке. Не упразднить, как предлагали некоторые, но употреблять умеренно, в ограниченном количестве специальных слов. Ей это идет.
И одно из этих специальных слов — ёкай
This anime is not well known. This anime has a reputation of being extremely hard to understand.
This anime gets a lot less respect and fans than it deserves.
It’s just that is has been deliberately aired in reverse order.
To be specific, while the production team have intended for the series to be understood in reverse order, which is evidenced by the inclusion of episode 25, there to clear up the lost points of the plot, the beginning of the plotline is actually in episode 26 and the ending is in episode 1. But understanding it in this manner requires such dogged determination, that those who weren’t fans of the original game did not bother to watch it beyond a few episodes, not understanding a thing.
Which is a crying shame.
If you can’t afford a large memory stack to file plot points away, watch it exactly backwards, starting with episode 26 and ending with 1, but skip episode 25. Watch that one once you’re done to see if you missed anything important.
If you have played the original Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito, or saw and understood the anime1 and remember which side of the book the titles are on there,2 and carefully study what happens in episode 14, which is a direct Yamibou crossover, airing it in reverse order actually makes a wicked sort of sense.3 Because it’s a very, very Japanese anime…
“Только русский человек может смотреть на луну и материться от избытка чувств.”
Так вот, граждане судьи, это оно. Настолько безбашенного… кгхм… аниме, назовем его пока так — потому что стилистика классического стебного махо седзе сентая — я не видал уже лет пять, и это включает Majokko Tsukune-chan и Dai Mahou Touge, потому что это чудо их, похоже, кроет, за счет удивительной наглости.
Слава Thunderbirds живет и торжествует. Я посмотрел первые две серии и хочу такой травы!
Качать торренты тут.
Похоже, любовь к действительно гигантским, т.е. от 50 метров и выше, роботам в аниме возвращается, после того как жанр лет пять был если не в загоне, то по крайней мере не в первой пятерке. Основания? Их есть у меня.
И это я еще несколько штук наверняка пропустил!
This came up in a conversation with Zoi, some of these are mine, some are his. It’s an attempt to give the impression of an anime series in a short sentence, and doesn’t reflect much on whether we really liked it or not, it’s mostly just an attempt at being witty.
Thought #1: An exact cross between Yu Yu Hakusho and Naruto, doesn’t have the extra-long duels of the latter but compensates for it with the great abundance of rather long duels which was the serious disappointment in the former. A tournament where people fight in 5 on 5 teams with each fight taking an episode and 6 matches required to get to the end can take more than 30 episodes this way, which makes one really wish to fastforward the thing even faster. Not particularily surprising, seeing as this series was released between the two and probably represents an important evolutionary step in martial action series.
Thought #2: One of the rare shows that has the hero happily in love since the very first episodes, and has a mother which acts as a mentor, which combination, I believe, is unique to this series. Anime characters tend to have dead mothers, no on-screen mothers or embarrassing mothers of varying types. This one’s not only young and sexy but also pretty dangerous and rather motherly.
Thought #3: The key animators seem to change between episodes, and key animation is rather disappointing in general in some of them, which is not good.
Thought #4: Not as bad as I worried it would be, though, quite enjoyable if you have a fastforward button. If you don’t, you have to be a real fan.
Thought #5: This was probably the last major series before the philosophy of fighting for adrenaline took over martial action genre completely - in here that shows up only near the end and only episodically. These guys still fight for something important, like protecting people, values and objects. This has been sorely missing lately.
Final word: Once again, watch it to the end first before deciding whether to burn it on the media for keeping or not. If you can’t like it enough to see it to the end, probably you don’t need it in your archives anyway.