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Sep 14, 2024
The best non-UC gundam so far
(having watched gundam in release order until here + witch from mercury)
It follows along the same trail as tomino's work about newtypes, but with a different approach to it.
Where tomino insists newtypes are not tools of war, but rather connection, and this tragically fails because of war, hence we never see them outside of it, gundam x, shows us again and again newtypes in context where they are not fighting, and rather are being entirely fought over, used as a political cathegory, removed from anything they actually are, because a designation of a cathegory to abhore or revere, idealogically depends
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on convinient exclusion. Puppet lacking a body.
The characters are really genuinely charming, with both really in depth, or just downright cute bits of development. Jamil is the best captain any gundam show has had, like a softer, older, quatro bajeena, but with a very different motivation, similar experience leading him to fight against appropriation of newtypes. Enil is cute and has strangely really earnestly written bad straight woman energy, the main couple of Garod and Tiffa is earnestly charming, and even more minor characters tend to come with good smaller bits of charaterisation, or reallly good dedicated episodes.
The actual ideological exclusion and manipulation being such a core thing is really deeply compelling and probably one of the more unique parts of the show as well, since it's somehow something obvious that tomino never eallly went into depth with, and here it is the core of the conflict.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 5, 2018
The (nearly) perfect adaptation.
This show is a love letter to Devilman, covered in blood and semen and delivered wrapped around a brick though someone's skull.
Reminiscent of the crudest of 90's OVA, half-way between a brutal gore-flick and pornography, Crybaby revels with self-indulgent ecstasy in the smut and violence of the original, ramping it up even higher, with brilliant production quality and several good reasons for its inclusion it is a feast for the eyes where tender introspection and character moments come between the most extreme abuses of the human form and this series' invention of the airborne-murder-rape.
It is hence in spirit extremely faithful to
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the original, it updates heavily in setting, elaborates on some ideas, includes new characters, cuts some bits out and overall is a much more focused piece, and were it not for the last episode, it would have been the perfect adaptation, anything I could have ever wanted, but alas, while even that episode is a thrilling and interesting one, it makes, with slight deviations from the manga, the only few changes that actually hurt it in comparison, and this is alteration of some of the final conversations, which undercut much of the show up to that point.
But aside from that one little blunder, it's nearly sheer perfection, it's pace is fast, it's gripping beyond belief(I have watched the entire series back to back while drooling and laughing maniacally) and overall one of the single most pleasant experiences I have had with any work of cinema.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 3, 2017
Hakujaden is an interesting case, the very first Japanese animated feature film in color and somewhat of a hallmark in Japanese animation. So much so that the thing that actually got me to watch it was it's being selected as the no.1 anime of all time by the anime magazine Animage.
Dated is probably the best way I can describe the film, it has some quite wonderful, fluid animation, stunning even. Interesting use of colour, blurred objects in the foreground, and baring a few jaring cuts and character expression it looks simply great, often taking much from both traditional and modern art creating a unique aesthetic.
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The other aspects however lag behind significantly.
It is an adaptation of an old Chinese legend merged with a book name of which I can't remember and as a result, the story comes of as rather basic. The characters act as is usual in a legend or a fairy tail of that period and that is to say that they lack said character, they simply move along with the plot as the plot moves along with them. The villain of the story is somewhat of an exception, as he really is only the assigned villain, never really operating from malice or any kind of evil intention, but rather trying to help our hero Xu-Xian with what he sees as a haunting and a problem, where a problem is really not. The story is told primarily through rather intrusive naration, detailing things we already know on several ocasions and in that sense again feels like a relic of it's time.
The sound is all rather choppy and unclear due to the movie's age, and the voice acting ranges from passable to bizzare. Music however is quite nice, if not very memorable.
With the main cast all being bland and uninteresting, genuinelly the most engaging characters are the animal comic relief, quite obviously inspired by disney. Their designs are great, their animation allows for a wide range of movements and unlike the main cast they exert at least a little character of their own. There is one genuinelly wonderful and entertaining fightscene where a tiny panda beats up a bunch of animals and becomes their leader, and the movie is worth a watch just for that, and as a case study to see how anime has developed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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