Wowowowow. I know this is Gonzo stuff, but someone forgot to write in the stupidity. From what I have seen so far, this is not just pretty like usual Gonzo material; the art so far is just absolutely gorgeous. I know it’s heretical, but the only word I could think of to describe it was Ghibli. I felt like I was watching Mononoke-Hime or something with the way everything blended together so perfectly (even the 3D parts). Anyway, before I go on with my raving, I have absolutely no knowledge of the material that this series is based on, although I am assuming that the original did not include giant robots and mechanized samurai warriors.
A few years back, some evil robots took over the Earth because they wanted our rice (and our women, too). Although we had samurai who could slice entire spaceships in half with their katana (ummm….), we still lost. Now farmers are forced to give up their harvests to these robots or die. One village in particular has decided to try to fight against the robots by hiring a samurai. They send their dowsing priestess Mikumari Kirara, country bumpkin Rikichi, and Kirara’s little sister Komachi to search in the city for a samurai powerful and hungry enough to help them. Two seem promising: there is a young bishie fellow who helps them recover their stolen rice (Okamoto Katsushiro), and there is a big dumb brute of a mechanical samurai who chops everything in his path (Kikuchiyo). The dowsing crystal, however, points them to a third warrior: the battleship splitter from before (Shimada Kanbei)! He’s playing hard to get now, but once he finds out that he will be paid in rice, mochi, and daifuku I’m confident he’ll sign right up.
I wasn’t anticipating this to be that great, but after I watched the first episode, I very badly want more. I don’t normally associate Gonzo with great storytelling, but I believe that this story was lifted from some famous writings, so there is still hope. The art and the music are fantastic, and I especially love the flow of the preview sections. If this is done right, I think that we could have a killer love/action/epic story that will be among the season’s best. Worst comes to worst we will have…. Bakuretsu Tenshi with samurai boys.
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Wowowowow. I know this is Gonzo stuff, but someone forgot to write in the stupidity. From what I have seen so far, this is not just pretty like usual Gonzo material; the art so far is just absolutely gorgeous. I know it’s heretical, but the only word I could think of to describe it was Ghibli. I felt like I was watching Mononoke-Hime or something with the way everything blended together so perfectly (even the 3D parts). Anyway, before I go on with my raving, I have absolutely no knowledge of the material that this series is based on, although I am assuming that the original did not include giant robots and mechanized samurai warriors.
A few years back, some evil robots took over the Earth because they wanted our rice (and our women, too). Although we had samurai who could slice entire spaceships in half with their katana (ummm….), we still lost. Now farmers are forced to give up their harvests to these robots or die. One village in particular has decided to try to fight against the robots by hiring a samurai. They send their dowsing priestess Mikumari Kirara, country bumpkin Rikichi, and Kirara’s little sister Komachi to search in the city for a samurai powerful and hungry enough to help them. Two seem promising: there is a young bishie fellow who helps them recover their stolen rice (Okamoto Katsushiro), and there is a big dumb brute of a mechanical samurai who chops everything in his path (Kikuchiyo). The dowsing crystal, however, points them to a third warrior: the battleship splitter from before (Shimada Kanbei)! He’s playing hard to get now, but once he finds out that he will be paid in rice, mochi, and daifuku I’m confident he’ll sign right up.
I wasn’t anticipating this to be that great, but after I watched the first episode, I very badly want more. I don’t normally associate Gonzo with great storytelling, but I believe that this story was lifted from some famous writings, so there is still hope. The art and the music are fantastic, and I especially love the flow of the preview sections. If this is done right, I think that we could have a killer love/action/epic story that will be among the season’s best. Worst comes to worst we will have…. Bakuretsu Tenshi with samurai boys.
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