Robert Seeberger wrote: > > Soap opera. Samurai Champloo: Rocks tha' hizzouse. > > Kurosawa goes toon.)
> Also soapy, but the action is awesome. I can't wait for > Jin and Rap-Bastard to get into a fight again.<G> Good show, and the warning at the beginning of the show was just funny. The beat-box samurai thing was hilarious. > > But there are a couple of sterling anime examples they've > > been retransmitting. FLCL, at just six 30-minute episodes, > > is arguably the strangest, but definitely the most creative. > > The storyline is more or less standard alien-invasion fare, > > but the series makes bold experiments with the toon genre, > > breaking into "maga style" just for kicks, for instance, and > > the end titles are set to "Ride on Shooting Star", an > > interesting and energetic example of the punk genre as > > interpreted by a Japanese mindset, capably rendered > > by The Pillows. > I like the music, but everything else about this series sucks IMO. There are occasional fun things in the show. I particularly liked one "behind the scenes" scene, where the "actors" were back in their trailer, complaining about filming a stunt sequence that had just happened on the show. At one time, the Adult Swim bumper comments for this show said it was just a way for the animators in the studio to blow off steam, and that makes sense. There's no real storyline, just a bunch of experimental gags strung together. I notice a lot of Plimpton influence, with all that weird stuff about pulling things out of your head. > > Paranoia Agent is weird too with its story centering around > > a rollerblading boy with a metal bat who begins by stunning > > people who are at the ends of their ropes -- and who becomes > > something much more sinister. > I haven't missed an episode. Very addicting and the plot > twists are tasty. It's a very weird show, but it's a weird show that makes sense. If you pay attention, there is an actual storyline there, and it came together nicely in last night's final episode. I'm still pondering the old guy with the chalk, and how he might have tied into history. Now that I think about it, wasn't he in the opening sequence, laughing with a mushroom cloud in the background? I shouldn't say any more without spoiler warnings, though. > I think my favorite is FullMetal Alchemist. The backstory is > complex with interesting social implications and with every > episode I want to chew chew chew. I agree completely. Back when it and Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex premiered together, I thought I would like Ghost more, because of the style and subject matter. FullMetal turned out to be much more interesting than I thought from the previews. > But have you been watching Justice League Unlimited, Zatch > Bell, and One Piece? Is Justice League Unlimited dead? Or maybe the team that's been making these shows since Batman: The Animated Series? I say that, because the last episode sure looked like a goodbye. The title, "Epilogue", sounds like it, but that's not all. It wrapped up the Batman Beyond storyline. The way it told stories about Batman reminded me of a funeral. It also ended with a scene that mirrored the first scene of Batman: Animated: heavy clouds over Gotham, two cops patrolling in a floating police vehicle, and a mysterious bat figure flying by. I think the cops' dialog was even the same. The two scenes showed two different eras of Gotham, and the vehicles were different (a police blimp vs. some kind of futuristic antigrav car), and the bat figures were different (Man-Bat vs. McGinnis as Batman), but there was an obvious homage there. Maybe it's just a way of passing the torch to The Batman. The Batman isn't a bad show, but it's not even remotely as good as Batman: Animated. The villains are much more shallow, for one thing. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store ..... http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
