Twinkle Nora Rock Me!

Yesterday I watched what is undoubtedly the greatest animation ever made. The fluidity of movement in Twinkle Nora Rock Me is disrupted by the intentional two frame per second staccato that the director uses to throw the viewer off-balance. This may be off putting to the more casual viewer, but connoisseurs will be quick to notice that the effect fits perfectly with the themes of the film. The seemingly random nature of the plot perfectly mirrors the shaky jump cuts that have come to define the film.
Nora is ultimately a meditation on the chaos of the universe and the inevitability of humanity’s surrender to it. ... Nora’s powers, back story, profession, and even clothing change from scene to scene for no reason because Nora cannot be contained. She is immutable change, and as such remains in constant flux. There can be no definitive plot about Nora because Nora is the ultimate level of abstraction. Any sequence of events that would seem logical to the human mind cannot coexist with Nora, because Nora represents the distortion of those very sequences.
What isn’t apparent, even after multiple viewings, is why such a primal and chaotic force is regarded as the protagonist. In any other film we would likely follow mere mortals trying to resist Nora’s power, vainly attempting to escape the inevitable madness she will bring upon their minds. So why in this film is Nora the protagonist? It is because Nora isn’t meant to be human. While almost every story we create centers on the human experience, Nora is a film of Cosmic proportions. Nora isn’t a protagonist that represents the struggles of humanity, she is a more universal protagonist. Chaos is the ultimate destroyer in this universe, but it is also the ultimate creator. Much of the material that comes within the gravitational field of a black hole is not consumed but shredded down to its barest elements and flung to the far reaches of space to form new and wonderful things. In the same way Nora is a protagonist that obliterates the human mind, leading to near total ego death, aligning us once and for all with our truest selves. Thus, while the film is incomprehensible to most, it is this very incomprehensible nature that makes it worthy of very film award and our eternal praise.

The show is so bad that it is good, but it is like watching a PowerPoint as at some parts it goes from smooth footage to choppy which ruins the atmosphere and the story as you really wouldn't understand what the characters would be doing but it makes it funnier in a way, which adds to the enjoyment as you laugh at it. the story is basic and the characters are somewhat funny.



The dance scene is hilarious and the voice acting is just the best, it is rather bland in some parts and a bit cliche but it adds to the comedic value. would not ... mind watching this show again.

Time to review a truly legendary anime. I think at this point, most people have seen clips of Nora. It's garnered some real infamy on Youtube. However, to actually watch it in its full 30 minute glory is a different experience entirely!

This last season wasn't the greatest. All the top reviewers are scrambling to write 1/10 and 2/10 reviews for God of High School, SAO part 9 and whatever bland isekai was shat out this season. The sad fact is that if you took all 10,000 anime ever made, those are all probably more accurately in the 4-5 range. You wanna know what real 1/10 ... shitfest looks like? Welcome back to the 1980s. There's no internet. There's no way to know what anime are good or bad. You pick out a random laserdisk or VHS with a hot anime waifu and hope for the best. Some lucky folks managed to pick out stuff like Gunbuster, but others grabbed something like Nora. It's a little cheaper than other laserdisks and the girl looks kind of cute. How bad could it be?


The first thing I'll say about Nora is that it has a surprisingly catchy soundtrack! Oh...and it's also the most poorly animated thing I've ever seen. EVER! They axed all the in-between frames to save on budget and used only key frames. Nora is 30 minutes and runs at a rate of 2-3 frames of animation per second for large portions of its runtime. I don't think you can even really call Nora animation at that point. It truly is more akin to a powerpoint presentation. Even the people at Dingo Pictures would look down on Nora's animation! You have to laugh at the sheer audacity of the people who released Nora on to store shelves in the state it was in and charged money for it.


Nora has something special about it beyond the horrendous animation though! It also breaks a general trend of anime. Nora is OP beyond all reason. She is hands down the biggest Mary Sue I've EVER seen in the medium, which means Nora can claim to be the strongest character in the history of anime. Usually, Japanese comics are written by 1 person and have a beginning and ending. Japanese readers have always expected characters to be somewhat human and struggle to achieve their goals. There are some exceptions like Duke Togo, or joke characters like One Punch Man, but this has historically limited power creep in manga/anime. American comics are the polar opposite. They run forever with often over 100 authors contributing to the history of a character. American readers love the concept of their hero being the strongest and Superman in issue 2101 is expected to be a little stronger than he was in issue 2100. It becomes this childish pissing contest of "Nuh Uh, my character can run at infinity plus 1 miles per hour!" For example, DC is so childishly, stupidly broken at this point that over a dozen characters have speed or strength described as beyond infinite and those aren't the top tier! The top tier of characters are those that can annihilate the multiverse in an instant, then remake it from scratch, then destroy it again.

What does this have to do with Nora? Perfect waifu Nora achieves the power journey that took most DC characters 90 years in 30 minutes. In half an hour, Nora displays telekinesis, teleportation, time dilation, pyrokinesis, reality warping, flight, and that's not even all her powers. She's some kind of Elder God for no explained reason. Shonen battle kids can argue all day about if X character in Dragonball can beat Y character from Bleach. I can laugh and say Nora would just blink both of them out of existence. She could just rewrite the timeline so they never existed. She's THAT broken! If Nora got a 13 episode anime, she'd be as strong as DC's Lucifer Morningstar. I kind of love the sheer absurdity of a space bounty hunter with no explained origins being that powerful for no reason.

The whole anime is free to watch on Youtube, but if you want to own a piece of anime history, the original laserdisk is for sale on ebay in heavily used condition for the low price of 330 American dollars! Shipping and sales tax not included!