29th July 2010, 1:05 PM
I started watching The Third: Girl with the Blue Eye this week. It's been out forever and I've been wanting to watch it forever, but just never got around to it.
Having watched the first four episodes, I really wish that I'd gotten around to it sooner. It's a really good show, lots of energy, fun character [for the most part, more on that later], and the animation is really good. I also like the setting, post-apocalyptic-ish wasteland with some extra scifi added on top.
The bad? Well there's a bit. The main male character is just too plain and inoffensive to be interesting. It's not like a harem anime male lead, not quite that bad, but he just doesn't really bring anything to the table in the early going. This does appear to be changing slightly as the series progresses, but first impression isn't positive. Also, although the main female character, who is also the protagonist, looks about 12 [though she's said to be 17, go figure] does become the subject of fanservice on occasion, although really only overtly so in one episode in particular so far. It's not all the time in your face, but it is there.
Those two things aside, it's been really good so far and I can't wait until Netflix ships volume 2.
Having watched the first four episodes, I really wish that I'd gotten around to it sooner. It's a really good show, lots of energy, fun character [for the most part, more on that later], and the animation is really good. I also like the setting, post-apocalyptic-ish wasteland with some extra scifi added on top.
The bad? Well there's a bit. The main male character is just too plain and inoffensive to be interesting. It's not like a harem anime male lead, not quite that bad, but he just doesn't really bring anything to the table in the early going. This does appear to be changing slightly as the series progresses, but first impression isn't positive. Also, although the main female character, who is also the protagonist, looks about 12 [though she's said to be 17, go figure] does become the subject of fanservice on occasion, although really only overtly so in one episode in particular so far. It's not all the time in your face, but it is there.
Those two things aside, it's been really good so far and I can't wait until Netflix ships volume 2.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.