Hello there. You really have to hand it to the Japanese. Where
else in the world will you find a ‘cartoon’ that covers such storylines as a
holy war against blue eyed blond haired soldiers? Terrorists thinking they are
doing the work of their god. The corruption of a military state. Finally a
child’s soul bonded to a suit of armour by his older brother who suffers from
small man syndrome during a botched attempt to bring their mother back to life.
The lose of childhood and parents is a very strong tread
that runs throughout the whole series. All this sounds like it would make for a
very heavy show. But likeable characters and funny moments lighten the mood
from time to time. But personally I could have done without the overuse of
deformed comic cartoony heads and sound effects from a second rate Tom and
Jerry.
They are used far too often, they offer amusement sometimes
but often get in the way of the story and clash with the violence and gory body
horror that is shown.
The blood shed towards the end goes way over the top, stop making the villains so unkillable. It makes the heroes look weak if the villains pop up time after time.
It’s a case of ‘Oi Batman! Just grab The Joker and snap his
neck for once in your life. All the murders he has committed are blood on your
hands, buddy’.
With this show the heroes hate to kill people. But some are vile monsters who their own mother’s couldn’t love. The final battle is over about twenty episodes, thank the lord of anime for the box set. I couldn’t sit and watch it week after week on TV.
Saying that I watch Games of Thrones on TV rather than
waiting for the box sets and that has as many characters to keep track of as
this does. Speaking of which, for a few episodes the story goes to a huge defensive
wall in the North of the land built to keep invaders from the snowy wastes out.
Very interesting. Pure coincidence I’m sure.
This is a far cleaner and crisp show to those that have gone
before and this should be made as the benchmark for how anime is made.
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