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Kurenai
Tatsujin:
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--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 17, 2009, 04:33:59 AM ---Yea everything was great, until the last episode ... it shits over your feelings. Please man, there was ZERO DEVELOPMENT for the girl's story and they decided to just "hey, we're gonna throw this at you. bye!" in the last episode. Junk series ... if you plan on watching this, don't get your hopes so high ... I heard the manga is good, but what's so good about something that has no animation and no music and no voice acting?! That's one of my reasons for not reading manga. I like momentum.
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I try to go into every series with an open mind, so I am not easily disappointed.
As to the manga reading bit:
*Tatsujin opens a large can of worms.*
No animation - made up for with A LITTLE IMAGINATION.
No music - PUT ON YOUR FAVOURITE TRACKS.
NO VOICE ACTING - How did everyone live in the days of no TV, or no radio or no language?
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You're not the only one who told me that. Unfortunality, I am not a manga person. My reasons are valid enough. Anime > Manga.
And I am going to watch Kurenai again to give it another shot, but really ... There was no development for the girl what-so-ever and all the sudden some new shit pops out of no where on the last episode .. on the last episode? How many fucking anime out there that actually come up with that conclusion and it ended in horror/disaster for many watchers? It ended just like that and my opinion, the ending sucks major ass. Flawed ending.
Edit @ GoGeTa -- It's going to end as a 3/5 on my website, not recommended.
zherok:
--- Quote from: dbml on May 17, 2009, 05:12:00 AM ---Totally overreacting about the end -_-
(click to show/hide)The way the father (err... the older guy... I think it's her father iirc) acted at the end, and started treating her like a normal girl and not someone who's just supposed to pop out kids was a good sign. I personally thought that he'd give up on that idea and let her live a (somewhat) normal life. At least that's what I'll always think *looks at the ending as a half full glass instead of half empty*
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I think it kinda amounts to the punchline at the end of this comic.
(click to show/hide)Yes, its a marked improvement over an incestuous relationship perpetuated unto the next generation. That doesn't absolve him of his previous actions though. Someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong. I wouldn't start handing out "World's Greatest Dad" coffee mugs to the guy yet.
Wikipedia suggests the anime deviates from the original source in tone, specifically in its slice of life focus. Since that's pretty much what made the show interesting, and its all the other bits that dragged it down, I suspect it could have been rewritten with a less specific tone and been more enjoyable as a more traditional slice of life series. Boring maybe, but at least not retarded. I don't even think its a fault of the original source, so much as its an issue of not having enough of it within the series to have a clue what's going on whenever they bring up those details. So many of the characters have backgrounds but you're never told enough to care. And the way the ending is carried out its hard to take the (click to show/hide)"Old Boy" twist style plot seriously.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: zherok on May 17, 2009, 07:10:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: dbml on May 17, 2009, 05:12:00 AM ---Totally overreacting about the end -_-
(click to show/hide)The way the father (err... the older guy... I think it's her father iirc) acted at the end, and started treating her like a normal girl and not someone who's just supposed to pop out kids was a good sign. I personally thought that he'd give up on that idea and let her live a (somewhat) normal life. At least that's what I'll always think *looks at the ending as a half full glass instead of half empty*
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I think it kinda amounts to the punchline at the end of this comic.
(click to show/hide)Yes, its a marked improvement over an incestuous relationship perpetuated unto the next generation. That doesn't absolve him of his previous actions though. Someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong. I wouldn't start handing out "World's Greatest Dad" coffee mugs to the guy yet.
Wikipedia suggests the anime deviates from the original source in tone, specifically in its slice of life focus. Since that's pretty much what made the show interesting, and its all the other bits that dragged it down, I suspect it could have been rewritten with a less specific tone and been more enjoyable as a more traditional slice of life series. Boring maybe, but at least not retarded. I don't even think its a fault of the original source, so much as its an issue of not having enough of it within the series to have a clue what's going on whenever they bring up those details. So many of the characters have backgrounds but you're never told enough to care. And the way the ending is carried out its hard to take the (click to show/hide)"Old Boy" twist style plot seriously.
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I still don't understand ...
(click to show/hide)The thing that's in that kid's arm. He is dead but resurrected? And the only thing that is keeping him alive is whatever that is inside his body? BTW, I totally liked the girl's bodygurad (whatever her name is) and she was by far one of my favorite characters in the series; totally would bite her ass and lips. But again ... lack of story, lack of content. Hmph.
Insanity:
Kurenai?
This is the only thing that comes to my mind when I read kurenai
>.>
So out of curiosity, what does Kurenai mean in japanese?
zherok:
Kurenai (紅) is Japanese name meaning crimson.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 17, 2009, 07:29:33 AM --- (click to show/hide)The thing that's in that kid's arm. He is dead but resurrected? And the only thing that is keeping him alive is whatever that is inside his body? BTW, I totally liked the girl's bodygurad (whatever her name is) and she was by far one of my favorite characters in the series; totally would bite her ass and lips. But again ... lack of story, lack of content. Hmph.
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(click to show/hide)He was involved in a hostage situation during his early childhood that had him witnessing the deaths of his parents, and Benika rescues him and that basically gives him something to do with his life. Hes taken in by that assassin chick's (Yuno) family, where he learns his martial arts and somewhere before the start of the series gets the blade installed, implied to be some technique part of the the school he's trained in, although the series doesn't go into any details about it so it is a bit vague.
I'm not really sure where you got the dead thing. The blade is just sorta some weapon he had installed and he comes to realize he doesn't want to rely on its power or some bullshit. It might just be exactly what it looks like, a blade sticking out of his elbow. The story never lets you in on the significance of the elbow assassin blade.But yeah, you're never given enough details about the setting for anything to make enough sense to get to a point where you care.
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