But first... about Blood... This is probably about the shortest movie I have ever encountered... even among movies that I have seen which are not just anime movies this is probably the shortest movie I have ever watched. The anime only span for about 50 minutes roughly give or take...It was certainly very different and the animation is just breathtaking, this is quite paradoxical actually because I hate it for being too gory but at the same time the animations and CGs that have been put into this work of art is just... a work of art basically...
I'll give you a rundown first on the story, for those of you who haven't watched it yet...
A mysterious girl named Saya works for an agency that is dedicated to killing teraptoids... According to the movie the teraptoids are monsters or beings which pose as humans and drink human blood... splendid ain't it? But apparently when you actually read the extra bits from the DVD it actually sorta explain what teraptoids are and where they originated from...
Oh... and something that is very interesting about this anime is how most of the dialogue is actually spoken in English. According to the maker the english language is used around 70% throughout the entire script. Blood sort of broken the traditional Japanese anime with the involvement of english in its original script... I know that this might sound rather dubious and strange but most japanese animes would tend to just use Japanese even though the whole anime is based in another country... but unlike the conventional use of the Japanese language Blood has broken that barrier...
I have to say... that when I first watch the beginning of the movie I was kinda growing a bit uneasy because I'm a bit taken aback by gory things... So... what I did was... (I was watching this by myself actually... in my room!! I know I borrowed it from my couz... but... yeah...) and so I put fluffy pillows all around me and enveloped myself with a thick huge blanket... comfy... and also very protective mind you... ^--^
Overall, even though there are horror themes in this anime as well as blood squirting out of everywhere I thought this movie was EXCELLENT!! yes... you read me right... EXCELLENT!!
In the sense I was actually referring more to the cinematography and the voice actors... as far as the script goes I thought improvement can be made... especially on the character development of Saya...
Interestingly enough too I actually thought that the movie was quite long... there are so many things happening in the movie that I thought the events happened sort of quickly come and goes... But I thought that it was very interesting as well as relevant that the movie lasted that long...
Yes... again... excellent... if you don't mind horror themes, violence, a lot of blood splurting and squirting... then... watch it...
The next one that I want to talk about is...
Witch Hunter Robin particularly volumes 1 till 4... This is an anime that Marina introduced to me and quite honestly I became hooked by it... Although I am sorry to say that what I meant by 'hooked' is actually intrigued by it but not overly obssessed by it... There are six volumes overall of the anime but you may ask why do I stop at number 4? This is because I only have 5 DVDs and so the sixth volume is actually rather delayed :P So I kinda want to wait until everything is sorta finished and ready for me to fulfil my curiosity...I have some problem with the anime actually... in the beginning of the anime there are quite a lot of irrelevant events happening and so I thought that it was kinda a waste of time but in the end I could see that it sort of indicate the timeline as well as the progress that Robin has been making at the agency...
OK... first I need to tell about the story don't I? For those of you who don't know... The protagonist in this anime is a Craft User (not a Witch... completely different according to the story) who can produce fire... she is transferred to a Witch Hunter Agency in Japan... and the beginning is that the agency deals with Witched within the society basically... especially when the Witch realised his/her potential... which can be damaging at some cases... And so they are captured and sent to the Factory...
Anyways... this is basically a sorta a police agency dealing with witches... (the thing that I don't quite get is how they define all Witches as Witches... quite different than Harry Potter's Witches and Wizards...) But the main concern that I got from this anime is actually how the story doesn't really establish an interesting plot in the beginning of the series... I know that this would come up quite brutal but I thought that the beginnings of the series were quite boring and repeated... I thought that the story were rather emotionless and not a strong, especially character developments were clearly established... in the anime there are quite a few number Witches that I thought would be quite interesting to have some sort of development on...Robin Sena is the main character in this anime and she is 15 years old and yet she has this sense of maturity about her which I thought was quite depressing at first because she's only fifteen!! But in the end I thought that the character was better than the normal often too vivacious, too pitiful, too sad and too happy main female characters in most of animes... A great change...
As I have said I thought that the anime was kinda boring at first. But I was very VERY relieved that by volume 3 things started to get VERY interesting... that is when my curiosity started to really kick in... during volume 3... I won't actually tell the story because I thought that it might ruin the fun of having some curiosity towards the anime...
One thing that I am kinda concerned with is the too hard edged graphic... I thought that most of the colours used are too flat and has no certain dimension to it... this is just my opinion but there might be some err... connotations behind the choice of visual... But I have to say that when freeze frame the anime and make it look like a picture instead of a moving frame I thought the colours are great... which is strange...
Oh yea... and one more thing that kinda annoys me a bit is the one strand of hair that seems to hang in the middle of Robin's head... It just annoys me... for some reason... liked Robin's hairdo though... thought it was very different ^--^
Nonetheless it was a very pleasing anime that I can't wait to watch the next one of...
ps. Amon was cute... ^--^ >>
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