Weekend Anime
by Chris on Aug.28, 2006, under Anime
Damn! I watched way to much anime over the weekend. I’m not feeling well today, actually since Friday, so I got to finish the third show of the weekend. In order I watched the end of Spiral, some Tekkaman Blade, Black Heaven and just finished Blue Gender. Black Heaven and Blue Gender were excellent shows. I’m going to do a couple of mini reviews for them, while the others can wait. :p
Black Heaven is a show about a washed up rocker who is asked to go into space and use his “sound” to power an ultimate weapon in a war against a powerful invading alien race. It’s a great look at the hum-drum existence most of us face in our day to day lives… and the dreams we leave behind. It’s defiantly an adult show, not because it’s got fan-service (it has a little) but just because it’s a look at the world from a 40-something guys point of view. If you don’t have a day job you would never appreciate the story.
Rating: Very Good, don’t miss it!
The second show I’m going to review is Blue Gender. This was a great sci-fi show with a powerful story line. If you like movies like Aliens then you should like this one. It’s basically about a time in the future where strange giant insect creatures called the Blue have destroyed most of the cities on the planet and devastated the population. Very few people are left on the planet itself, while a small population of humans are living in space, trying to recapture the planet from the the Blue. The story basically tells the tale of the two main characters Marlene and Yuji and could almost be classified as a space-romance story, but there is really a lot more to it than that. Again, this is defiantly one for adults, it has gore, nudity and a couple of sex scenes (not graphic, think R rating in the US, 18 in the UK). Overall, even with the gore/nudity/etc, it’s still very tastefully done and not at all over the time.
Rating: Very Good as well, I really liked this one and hated having to actually go to bed and break up the story..
