Anime: Yukikaze, Texhnolyze

[rachelmanija]

To set the scene, I spent a day last week in Kelly and Elisa's charming but extremely cold home. Here I am, watching anime while huddled for warmth in a fox hat, with Elisa doing a ninja-like vanishing act beside me:

Comments

[sovay]

End of episode one! Also, end of me watching any more of this.

I'm so sorry it managed to wreck a girl in a fox mask.

[wordkink]

Kelly says not to forget the three awesome episodes of Baka and Test!

Seriously though. That was the worst anime ever. But you forgot the lizard! Sewer lizard!

[rachelmanija]

Oh yeah! I think I'll make another anime round-up post later. I am now watching Noein, which I'm enjoying. (Time travel + last summer before middle school nostalgia + magical girl.)

[thomasyan]

Yeah, I like the series. The kids act like real kids, it seems, complete with slap fights. And oh man, the Shangri-La ships are nicely creepy, especially when they are destroyed.

[mind_the_tardis]

The end of Texhnolyze makes verrrrry little sense, having hung in there and watched the whole thing. I liked the atmosphere and the visual style (I like slow pacing in anime), but it didn't add up to anything except atmosphere. Well, there was something about the need to struggle as essential to human survival, and genetic perfection being a dead-end, I think.

[marzipan_pig]

I think you should wear that fox hat EVERY DAY.

[rachelmanija]

Isn't it adorable? Alas, it was borrowed.

[thomasyan]

I liked Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei, so I was and am curious about Texhnolyze. But on my first and so far only try, I am not sure I even made it to the end of the first episode.

Possibly before I tried, I had already heard that my brother's friends who liked anime had tried or were following it, and so far it was incomprehensible.

So maybe I'll get back to it...after a full decade has passed.