anime: Melody of Oblivion eps 1-2
MoO is about...uhm...ok, I think this is what it's about: In a near future Japan, monsters who look like humans rule the world, but most people don't realize it. The monsters leave the humans alone as long as they're regularly offered sacrifices in the form of children. There are warriors known as Meros who want to overthrow them, and they ride what appear to be sentient motorcycles and shoot magic arrows. Apparently, the world will be saved if everyone can hear a melody they've forgotten, which seems to be a girl with red hair. Our hero is Bocca, a boy with strange hair and eyes who wants to be a Meros(I think) and whose childhood friend disappeared one day, having been made a sacrifice. When he learns a mechanic he's friends with knows the Meros, he meets a Meros named Kurofune, and watches Kurofune fight a monster, who is also the local mayor. Leter, the mechanic makes Bocca a Meros, just in time for him and Kurofune to rescue Bocca's friend/girlfriend from becoming the monster's victim. Later, Kurofune gives him the "you aren't cut out for this" speech and takes off, and bocca and Sayoko, a young runaway with some connection to Kurofune set off to find him, leaving best friend/girlfriend pining for him.
This, as near as I can tell, is the plot. But between the crack and the "WTF? Did you just do what I think you just did?" I kinda kept forgetting to pay attention to it.
Ok. The mayor/monster is designed to be your basic badboy bishounen. Actually, he kinda looks like Ban Midou(Getbacker's) evil twin.) When he hits on a secretary, she literally swoons from lust. Err...I think that's what happens. Ah...it may have been more. I'm not thinking about it. Later, she's being dragged out by the other office assistant, but at first, it doesn't look like dragging is what's going on. The, secretary and office assistant turn into moving dolls with pictures of human faces attached to the heads. There's a bird(parakeet?) who watches all this, then flies off.
Bocca's archery professor teaches them to shoot with the spirit of the heart, then mocks Bocca for being able to hit a bullseye. He then tells Bocca to try to shoot an arrow through the wall. Bocca makes a huge dent and breaks the arrow in half from the force, and the teacher thanks him for showing how futile it is to shoot with real arrows.
The active their magic arrows, the Meros draw the arrow along a tattoo on their upper arms, like they were playing a violin or fiddle.
Bocca is failing his tests, and to inspire him, best friend/girlfriend kisses him, then tells him they'll continue after he passes the tets, and he's annoyed he has to work for more. There are also lots of jokes about how he's always looking at her breasts. As this was at the beginning, it should have clued me in to weird kinky stuff. (I feel I should note here that mayor/monster probably raped her when she was unconscious/zombified/brainwashed/whatever...it says a lot about the sheeer WTF-ery that I had to remind myself of that.)
Mayor/monster has a bulljeep. As in, it has horns and legs, but the body of a jeep. It runs very fast and does battle, and he rides around standing on top of it, looking sinister. I have no words.
I have caps, but no time to upload them.
This has the potential to surpass Gundam Wing in certain regards.
This, as near as I can tell, is the plot. But between the crack and the "WTF? Did you just do what I think you just did?" I kinda kept forgetting to pay attention to it.
Ok. The mayor/monster is designed to be your basic badboy bishounen. Actually, he kinda looks like Ban Midou(Getbacker's) evil twin.) When he hits on a secretary, she literally swoons from lust. Err...I think that's what happens. Ah...it may have been more. I'm not thinking about it. Later, she's being dragged out by the other office assistant, but at first, it doesn't look like dragging is what's going on. The, secretary and office assistant turn into moving dolls with pictures of human faces attached to the heads. There's a bird(parakeet?) who watches all this, then flies off.
Bocca's archery professor teaches them to shoot with the spirit of the heart, then mocks Bocca for being able to hit a bullseye. He then tells Bocca to try to shoot an arrow through the wall. Bocca makes a huge dent and breaks the arrow in half from the force, and the teacher thanks him for showing how futile it is to shoot with real arrows.
The active their magic arrows, the Meros draw the arrow along a tattoo on their upper arms, like they were playing a violin or fiddle.
Bocca is failing his tests, and to inspire him, best friend/girlfriend kisses him, then tells him they'll continue after he passes the tets, and he's annoyed he has to work for more. There are also lots of jokes about how he's always looking at her breasts. As this was at the beginning, it should have clued me in to weird kinky stuff. (I feel I should note here that mayor/monster probably raped her when she was unconscious/zombified/brainwashed/whatever...it says a lot about the sheeer WTF-ery that I had to remind myself of that.)
Mayor/monster has a bulljeep. As in, it has horns and legs, but the body of a jeep. It runs very fast and does battle, and he rides around standing on top of it, looking sinister. I have no words.
I have caps, but no time to upload them.
This has the potential to surpass Gundam Wing in certain regards.