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major_kerina) wrote2009-05-30 04:07 am
major_kerina) wrote2009-05-30 04:07 am
*Gives up on Baccano*
I swear I have never seen a more haphazard, convoluted, and absolutely incoherent anime in all my life.
First episode has...girl and guy deciding on...a main character for a story while playing a game of points? Meta thing?
Then the Flying Pussyfoot train...with almost a dozen people I don't know doing all kinds of shit. I start to learn a little about a guy and girl who are rather weird and went gold hunting because the guy saw a centipede and thinks it's the god of gold. Okay. Oh yeah and there are ghosts...immortals...people who can't die...etc...
And now another story is starting...
WTF!...It's like some moron took Cowboy Bebop, The Godfather, Fullmetal Alchemist, and bunch of left over story notes into a blender...yanked out whatever words that came out first and called it an anime. I'm sure someone will explain..."oh you're just not "getting it"...if I need to go through all kinds of shit just to "get it"...then I don't want it".
Worst recommendation ever. And this may get "better" as it goes along but for now it's easily the most incoherent and worst "well-drawn" anime I've ever seen in my life.
Characters rambling incoherently about "this is my role and the job of the teller of the tales and form that takes the teller or relating the blah blah blah"...seriously...I give animes some credit for being translations and translating is tough but the verbal diarrhea spewing out of the old man "main character" meta crap...is just a pile of shit unequaled to any I have ever seen in the history of any and all writing (anime or otherwise). It's so bad it makes me feel better about any of my sins of clunky, artificial dialogue..."at least it's not Baccano..." It's insanely incoherent. You could just throw out a bunch of madlips and it would have about the same meaning.
BAH!
PS - The 15-ish character names are incredibly forgettable...except for someone named "Nice Svuturo or something for a last name"....okay....clearly someone on the anime staff has a random name generator...*slight sarcasm but just slight*. There is not a single name that comes up that feels the least bit memorable...it's just...unreal. I've never seen an anime which just frustrates every single way to be enjoyable.
Addendum - I was trying to think of Isaac and Miria (the only two characters I feel anything for)...and here's a decent anime post of the first episode...it makes more sense of the episode than I could.
http://niraikanai.animeblogger.net/?p=63
First episode has...girl and guy deciding on...a main character for a story while playing a game of points? Meta thing?
Then the Flying Pussyfoot train...with almost a dozen people I don't know doing all kinds of shit. I start to learn a little about a guy and girl who are rather weird and went gold hunting because the guy saw a centipede and thinks it's the god of gold. Okay. Oh yeah and there are ghosts...immortals...people who can't die...etc...
And now another story is starting...
WTF!...It's like some moron took Cowboy Bebop, The Godfather, Fullmetal Alchemist, and bunch of left over story notes into a blender...yanked out whatever words that came out first and called it an anime. I'm sure someone will explain..."oh you're just not "getting it"...if I need to go through all kinds of shit just to "get it"...then I don't want it".
Worst recommendation ever. And this may get "better" as it goes along but for now it's easily the most incoherent and worst "well-drawn" anime I've ever seen in my life.
Characters rambling incoherently about "this is my role and the job of the teller of the tales and form that takes the teller or relating the blah blah blah"...seriously...I give animes some credit for being translations and translating is tough but the verbal diarrhea spewing out of the old man "main character" meta crap...is just a pile of shit unequaled to any I have ever seen in the history of any and all writing (anime or otherwise). It's so bad it makes me feel better about any of my sins of clunky, artificial dialogue..."at least it's not Baccano..." It's insanely incoherent. You could just throw out a bunch of madlips and it would have about the same meaning.
BAH!
PS - The 15-ish character names are incredibly forgettable...except for someone named "Nice Svuturo or something for a last name"....okay....clearly someone on the anime staff has a random name generator...*slight sarcasm but just slight*. There is not a single name that comes up that feels the least bit memorable...it's just...unreal. I've never seen an anime which just frustrates every single way to be enjoyable.
Addendum - I was trying to think of Isaac and Miria (the only two characters I feel anything for)...and here's a decent anime post of the first episode...it makes more sense of the episode than I could.
http://niraikanai.animeblogger.net/?p=63
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Just know that what I like very much isn't the same as what you like (which was pretty clear when you went "OMG...WIN!" when the main character's personality was deleted into a perfect girl in Girl in My Dreams and that just utterly turned me off to the story as a whole because any and all character development and personality is down the crapper).
Do you seriously think it's better if I just went *reset button* *Kimi girly girl forever*? That is exactly the evil in Mecchen House expressed through Hitomi. She wants to use the personality reset button at any and all cost to make things like how they used to be (a bad idea).
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I did manage to finish the 4-set of Baccano episodes.
I definitely get a sense that the story is being shown in a very convoluted order. It's beginning to make sorta sense but as it makes sense I get the feeling there's a lot less "there" than the story would like the viewer to think (a bunch of people drank the immortality wine on the train).
The anime definitely has several things that annoy me about noir/gangster movies.
It's called the "Hey! We're the Ronatsus and we hate the Gondor people...and here's some people we captured....let's beat them up!"
It happens all the flippin' time in gangster movies....there some random person of some Family that comes out of the story...no explanation...and then that person gets shot/tortured. Especially the Godfather has this...which is probably why I'm not that fond of it anyway.
Baccano would be a lot more interesting if it dropped this whole meta "how can we tell this story of this Incident on a train?" and instead took its time to focus on the story of the events. I do like how it completely annihilates the "what's going to happen?" aspect of the story for filling in what happened in between...but I can't buy into finding out what happened between points A and G so far as what I've seen so far.
It's like "here's a montage of events that occurred past and future to these people who were on this train when something Happened".
The idea is interesting but the execution just doesn't work for me.