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I just finished watching Samurai 7, which I watched because I watched Seven Samurai, not the other way around as Michael is afraid of. All in all, it was pretty decent. The first season, if a bit stretched out, was gold because it was so faithful to the source material, which is to say it was the movie, which is amazing. So, I mean, even if you look at the sun through sunglasses, it's still bright. You guys get that metaphor, right? Right? Number one problem with anime: Toshiro Mifune has been turned into a robot:
This is a robot. This is not a famous Japanese actor.
This is a famous Japanese actor. This is not a robot.
Seriously, there were way too many robots in this anime. I understand that it's the future (YES THE FUTURE!) and all, but really, at some point, you have to think to yourself and say, "Are there too many robots in this anime?" Then you have to say "Yes" to yourself because there are. There are way too many robots. The bandits were robots; in the interest of children, anything that got killed was a robot; a samurai was a robot. Too many robots. The characters were really distinct and finally I could tell the difference between Heihachi, Shichiroji, and Gorobei, which was kind of hard in the original movie because they were all fat and Japanese, plus it rained a lot.
The second season was simply silly. Sure the village is all saved and stuff, is there a need to go beyond that? SPOILERS Does there have to be some vast imperial plot behind bandit attacks? Really? There does? Oh... NO MORE SPOILERS I think the second season is best summed up as one thing: a quest for more money. Sure it was still okey dokey, especially the last few episodes, but if you're going to take a cinema masterpiece and turn everyone into a robot, the least you could do is NOT extrapolate the heck out of it. Seriously, if they hade made the arc of the first season longer, I would have approved more, I think. It's not like the original movie did poorly or anything!
So right, this has officially made watching anime the one thing I do most often here. Which is okay, since there's pretty much an unlimited supply. I'm going to borrow Death Note from Allan Talbott (whose name I probably misspelled, my bad) next. I've read the first bit of the manga, and Allan says that it gets better after where I left off so there you go.
And a doop doop doop and a doop doop doop.
This is a robot. This is not a famous Japanese actor.
This is a famous Japanese actor. This is not a robot.
Seriously, there were way too many robots in this anime. I understand that it's the future (YES THE FUTURE!) and all, but really, at some point, you have to think to yourself and say, "Are there too many robots in this anime?" Then you have to say "Yes" to yourself because there are. There are way too many robots. The bandits were robots; in the interest of children, anything that got killed was a robot; a samurai was a robot. Too many robots. The characters were really distinct and finally I could tell the difference between Heihachi, Shichiroji, and Gorobei, which was kind of hard in the original movie because they were all fat and Japanese, plus it rained a lot.
The second season was simply silly. Sure the village is all saved and stuff, is there a need to go beyond that? SPOILERS Does there have to be some vast imperial plot behind bandit attacks? Really? There does? Oh... NO MORE SPOILERS I think the second season is best summed up as one thing: a quest for more money. Sure it was still okey dokey, especially the last few episodes, but if you're going to take a cinema masterpiece and turn everyone into a robot, the least you could do is NOT extrapolate the heck out of it. Seriously, if they hade made the arc of the first season longer, I would have approved more, I think. It's not like the original movie did poorly or anything!
So right, this has officially made watching anime the one thing I do most often here. Which is okay, since there's pretty much an unlimited supply. I'm going to borrow Death Note from Allan Talbott (whose name I probably misspelled, my bad) next. I've read the first bit of the manga, and Allan says that it gets better after where I left off so there you go.
And a doop doop doop and a doop doop doop.