25th October 2011, 8:28 PM
Mardock Scramble
Nothing cleanses the palette quite like some dark, serious, intelligent, cyberpunk scifi, which is exactly what Mardock Scramble is. It remind me of the old OVAs from 80's, short and to the point with lots of nudity and violence along the way. But it does this in a way that doesn't feel like its unnecessary or pandering, by virtue of taking it's plot very seriously and dealing with some pretty heavy issues. Animation-wise it looks great, barring some CG here and there that's a bit jarring. Stylistically it's dark, dark, dark, but that fits quite well. My only complaint is that is needed to have been twice as long [60 minutes just isn't enough] and it ends on a huge cliffhanger. The second movie came out last month in Japan, so hopefully an R1 DVD isn't too far away.
It does a nice job of feeling the void left by the unfortunate absence of new Ghost in the Shell in recent years.
Nothing cleanses the palette quite like some dark, serious, intelligent, cyberpunk scifi, which is exactly what Mardock Scramble is. It remind me of the old OVAs from 80's, short and to the point with lots of nudity and violence along the way. But it does this in a way that doesn't feel like its unnecessary or pandering, by virtue of taking it's plot very seriously and dealing with some pretty heavy issues. Animation-wise it looks great, barring some CG here and there that's a bit jarring. Stylistically it's dark, dark, dark, but that fits quite well. My only complaint is that is needed to have been twice as long [60 minutes just isn't enough] and it ends on a huge cliffhanger. The second movie came out last month in Japan, so hopefully an R1 DVD isn't too far away.
It does a nice job of feeling the void left by the unfortunate absence of new Ghost in the Shell in recent years.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.