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| First and foremost this was not an anime for everyone, which will hopefully make it a good one for the club's first discussion thread. I'm absolutely certain that no one in the club feels quite the same way about this anime. At least part of this is thanks to the straightforward storytelling. The anime itself (with a few exceptions) simply presents the story, and doesn't necessarily fill you in when it's a scene you should be rooting for or when it's a scene you should be crying over. The viewer's got to figure that out for themself. That, for me, was one of the major positive features of the anime. The other being the abstract, yet precise storytelling present in the first arc of the anime (all the way up to the point where they killed off Yoshii). Even after Yoshii's death, the story went on in a good fashion, with Ichise joining up with the Organo and getting taken under Oonishi's wing. Somewhere along the way, the blue-haired guy showed up and his master plan hijacked the plot, seemingly to thrust it toward a conclusion. I thought the last third of the anime to probably be the weakest part, although this could have been that I already spent a large portion of my attention span for the night on the first two thirds of the show. It seems like he fully texhnolyzed a lot of people in a very short period of time, and then set them loose on Lux for seemingly no reason other than to force his ideals on the rest of the city. This lead to a bunch of seemingly wonky, sort of bland things. It also led to two very neat things (in my opinion): 1. The two episodes or so that the viewer got introduced to the surface world, and got a feel for how Lux came to be what it is. 2. The conclusion of the anime, which was a much stronger ending than I expected from what was leading up to it. One thing that really catches my attention right now that I didn't entirely notice while we were watching it: this anime does not feel like it was made in 2003. We've recently watched several "dark" anime from 2005-2007 or so, and they all looked bland and uninteresting, while Texhnolyze actually looked good. It was consistent, and interesting visually throughout the entire show. This could just be that Studio Madhouse is infinitely more competent than GONZO or whoever the heck animated Tokko. I enjoyed this anime (moreso in the first half than in the second half), and I realize that this is probably not the group consensus. It had plenty of faults, but it would probably take another full watch for me to really be able to point them out confidently, instead of just grasping at things I didn't understand the first time around. |
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