Back to -Ikki's Profile -Ikki's Profile

Yo!
Well for this review i will be doing a spoiler free.

Zaregoto is a light novel writes by Nisio Isin who is mostly noticed for writing Monogatari and Katanagatari. Basically this guy can shit out and serve it to the people and they will eat easily. (Im included lol )

Nisio has an unique way of writing and make this happen in his own little world. Normally his characters are more humanized and stereotypes who are used on a way that makes them more interesting.

For some reason he likes to make stuff about geniuses. Yes. Zaregoto is pretty much about that. He took a ... basic premise of a mystery novel and putted in his unique characters and way of doing shit.

So ... I like zaregoto? Yes i like a lot, pretty much one of my fav novels of all time. But this time i will talk only about the adaptation to anime who did nothing but a mix of feelings for us, people who liked the novel before it came to OVAs.

The OVAs do well in certain way
Shaft certainly done the visuals gorgeous as possible to people who never heard about the novel interested in it. ( and believe in me, it works )
But ... adapting the history this shit fails and fails A LOT.
Most part of the development of it came from Inoji monologues ( Inoji = Ii or Boku if you prefer ) and in this OVA, simply all of them are erased, like the shit never happened. Now you ask me "Ok, but it matters so much?" YES, it matters. All the stuff who happen are connected and unique.

The story in a nutshell is about that. A boy who is depressed is involved in a murder. You do not care about murder, but what the characters are going to do to solve all of this, so taking away that little bit of development affects not only the story but also the relationship the characters have with the person watching . It's as if I gave you ice cream, only without being cold.
(by the way, not just the boy is depressed, every SINGLE ONE in this novel have some kind of issue)

((Also i mention it before but the genius part is kind of important so don't forget that.))

In short, the anime is not as good as the novel and as a gateway serves well, but not as a definitive way to take a 100% experience of what Nisio did.

Ok then. I am gonna start saying that "Wangan midnight" isint just a dumb car anime, like people think.
Wangan for who dont know is basicaly highways in japan, who are famous beacause its the stage of A LOT of ilegal races.
Most of the people want to compare wangan to Initial D ... and belive me, its a huge mistake.
Initial is about drifting, but wangan abord races in high speed ... like 300km ( curiosity ... 300km its the dream of all wangan racers )
But ok ... lets talk about the anime.

------------------------

Like i said before, wangan its a ... highway, and the anime explores it ... in the best way possible.
The races are to good, and with de OST in the back give such emotion that i can describe in words.
The characters .... hmm, they are pretty ok.
the protagonist ( Asakura Akio ) its the best in there so far, beacause his love for the Z ( car that he drives in the series ) its so big, that he can easily die driving.
The Z has a problem tho ... but, u has see the anime to understand that.

So its over ... the hating in overall is : 9
i had pretty much fun watching ( and reading a little bit of the manga ), and for a huge car fan ... its more than valid give it a try.