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Ok, so as my last batch of free trial Netflix DVDs, I included the first disc of Full Metal Panic.
It's Jack Bauer. In high school. With mechs.
It so is. I am super, super serial, you do not ever realize. (Sorry, watched South Park last night.)
Anyway, it's about this kid Sousuke, who's a teenage agent for Mithril, some international organization fighting terrorists or communists or something, I'm not really sure. (It appears to be an alternate present, with the USSR still existing. Also with mechs.) He and his group are assigned to protect Chidori, a Tokyo high school girl, from the KGB or whoever wants to kidnap her. They don't know why, and I don't really, either, except she's "Whispered" or something. I don't know. I don't really ask anime to make sense straight off.
So, Sousuke has to pretend to be a regular high school kid to guard her with his two cohorts providing backup support and background bickering. The usual misunderstandings and cries of "pervert!" ensue, but then in episode 4 things really pick up. The plane they're on for their school trip gets hijacked [and as I type this there's an ad on TV for United 93 and now I feel just terrible and... oh, wait, it's a beer ad now, I'm good] because the evil man wants Chidori for evil purposes.
This was where the "OMG! Teenage Jack Bauer!" really set in because Sousuke goes all stealth and sneaks away and finds a bomb in the cargo hold and then stealths off the plane and pulls out a communication set-up out of his backpack (precursor to Jack's manpurse of holding) and calls Mithril's super secret submarine (CTU underwater). Then he takes out some terrorist dude and gets his gun and starts sneaking around random industrial containers and was totally, totally Jack Bauer. And then he angsted over whether to follow his orders and focus on the hostages on the plane or to go after the girl. And of course he goes after the girl, because Jack Bauer takes orders from no one!
And now I totally need more discs.
In all seriousness, though, I am perplexed by United 93. I see that it's getting good reviews, and I was reading them earlier and they all seem to basically say, "It's well made, respectful... but... why?" I know it's improper to talk about something controvertial like this without having seen it, but after reading the reviews I don't really see why I'd want to see it. I don't know, it's weird with all that my Photo Theory prof has been saying about death and photography and I don't know. It's so weird! I don't know why I started talking about this. Stupid Comedy Central and their badly juxtaposed commercials...
It's Jack Bauer. In high school. With mechs.
It so is. I am super, super serial, you do not ever realize. (Sorry, watched South Park last night.)
Anyway, it's about this kid Sousuke, who's a teenage agent for Mithril, some international organization fighting terrorists or communists or something, I'm not really sure. (It appears to be an alternate present, with the USSR still existing. Also with mechs.) He and his group are assigned to protect Chidori, a Tokyo high school girl, from the KGB or whoever wants to kidnap her. They don't know why, and I don't really, either, except she's "Whispered" or something. I don't know. I don't really ask anime to make sense straight off.
So, Sousuke has to pretend to be a regular high school kid to guard her with his two cohorts providing backup support and background bickering. The usual misunderstandings and cries of "pervert!" ensue, but then in episode 4 things really pick up. The plane they're on for their school trip gets hijacked [and as I type this there's an ad on TV for United 93 and now I feel just terrible and... oh, wait, it's a beer ad now, I'm good] because the evil man wants Chidori for evil purposes.
This was where the "OMG! Teenage Jack Bauer!" really set in because Sousuke goes all stealth and sneaks away and finds a bomb in the cargo hold and then stealths off the plane and pulls out a communication set-up out of his backpack (precursor to Jack's manpurse of holding) and calls Mithril's super secret submarine (CTU underwater). Then he takes out some terrorist dude and gets his gun and starts sneaking around random industrial containers and was totally, totally Jack Bauer. And then he angsted over whether to follow his orders and focus on the hostages on the plane or to go after the girl. And of course he goes after the girl, because Jack Bauer takes orders from no one!
And now I totally need more discs.
In all seriousness, though, I am perplexed by United 93. I see that it's getting good reviews, and I was reading them earlier and they all seem to basically say, "It's well made, respectful... but... why?" I know it's improper to talk about something controvertial like this without having seen it, but after reading the reviews I don't really see why I'd want to see it. I don't know, it's weird with all that my Photo Theory prof has been saying about death and photography and I don't know. It's so weird! I don't know why I started talking about this. Stupid Comedy Central and their badly juxtaposed commercials...