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Just got done watching this. I watched the first four episodes as Mishicorp released them (well, I found Mishicorp's fansubs right after 03 was released, so, something like that), and then wound up accumulating them and watching the rest of the show yesterday and today.
1) Wow, this REALLY feels like someone smashed the Matrix together with Battle Royale. Or, more precisely, like someone watched Battle Royale and decided to make exactly the same kind of allegorical commentary, only after they mainlined the Matrix trilogy. (Oh, interesting note: in reading the English translation of the original Densha threads, apparently The Matrix -- even just the original movie -- is really opaque to Japanese people, near as I can gather. And I thought some anime was obscure.)
2) Martial arts FTW. And great usage of CGI, too -- almost all of the fights between Peace and Ema rocked hard.
3) That ending SUCKED. We don't even know what happened to Professor Ootomo, which seems pretty damned important. The ending after the ending mitigated it, but it also made me go, "So, WTF was the point?" At least, to some degree.
4) I spent every episode of the series until we saw absolute confirmation that Tsuyoshi is intended to be a male (as in, when we saw him in his school uniform) waiting for an "OMFG GIRL" moment. Never happened.
5) Conversely, I was a bit disappointed, on a perv level, that we never got to see Tsuyoshi getting physical with either Ema or Asagi :disappoin I mean, it was a male character, even if he was played by a girl...
6) Overall? Damn, that was cool, even if the ending was a let-down.
And there's a manga, too. My wife is annoyed, now, because she probably could've gotten it from the Kinokuniya (or whatever the name of the chain is) back in Singapore in the original Japanese. Anyone know of a scanlation project? (I'm kinda hoping for more depth -- I'd love to know more about Ema's background, in particular, and what made her snap and go nuts. Given that it only appears to be one volume, though, I'm cognizant that it probably isn't there.)
Also, while I appreciate Mishicorp doing the subs, can someone please teach their encoder how to, um, encode? Seriously, it's really not that hard to hit a consistent file size -- if those monkeys* at TVN can do it, I'm sure anyone can.
*I'm not actually certain everyone at TVN is a monkey, but KingRanger doesn't provide a terribly positive example, to put it extremely effing mildly.
Just got done watching this. I watched the first four episodes as Mishicorp released them (well, I found Mishicorp's fansubs right after 03 was released, so, something like that), and then wound up accumulating them and watching the rest of the show yesterday and today.
1) Wow, this REALLY feels like someone smashed the Matrix together with Battle Royale. Or, more precisely, like someone watched Battle Royale and decided to make exactly the same kind of allegorical commentary, only after they mainlined the Matrix trilogy. (Oh, interesting note: in reading the English translation of the original Densha threads, apparently The Matrix -- even just the original movie -- is really opaque to Japanese people, near as I can gather. And I thought some anime was obscure.)
2) Martial arts FTW. And great usage of CGI, too -- almost all of the fights between Peace and Ema rocked hard.
3) That ending SUCKED. We don't even know what happened to Professor Ootomo, which seems pretty damned important. The ending after the ending mitigated it, but it also made me go, "So, WTF was the point?" At least, to some degree.
4) I spent every episode of the series until we saw absolute confirmation that Tsuyoshi is intended to be a male (as in, when we saw him in his school uniform) waiting for an "OMFG GIRL" moment. Never happened.
5) Conversely, I was a bit disappointed, on a perv level, that we never got to see Tsuyoshi getting physical with either Ema or Asagi :disappoin I mean, it was a male character, even if he was played by a girl...
6) Overall? Damn, that was cool, even if the ending was a let-down.
And there's a manga, too. My wife is annoyed, now, because she probably could've gotten it from the Kinokuniya (or whatever the name of the chain is) back in Singapore in the original Japanese. Anyone know of a scanlation project? (I'm kinda hoping for more depth -- I'd love to know more about Ema's background, in particular, and what made her snap and go nuts. Given that it only appears to be one volume, though, I'm cognizant that it probably isn't there.)
Also, while I appreciate Mishicorp doing the subs, can someone please teach their encoder how to, um, encode? Seriously, it's really not that hard to hit a consistent file size -- if those monkeys* at TVN can do it, I'm sure anyone can.
*I'm not actually certain everyone at TVN is a monkey, but KingRanger doesn't provide a terribly positive example, to put it extremely effing mildly.
Yes, I know the first AVIs from the first two DVDs were off and I know I forgot to deinterlace one of the two DVDs (or was it both?) What do you expect from not having encoded in six months and having learned encoding from KR? LOL
