10th April 2004, 12:50 AM
I actually found it to be horribly paced, though the writing is pretty good. I noticed that anime directors are taking huge steps in making anime in to something totally unlike film, as in proper editing methods, proper structuring and scene orientation. It has a fresh feeling to it (Ghost in the Shell) and to me, is almost a sandwich of a few different animes put together. But in the end, it's a fun cyber-mystery anime.
And what's with every anime making reference to the Predator-esque cloaking? Every single bounty hunter, modern ninja, assassin, gun-for hire etc has to use it and it's getting annoying. What makes those actual people so cool is that they can do their jobs right in front of your face without you knowing it. They dont need to become invisible, if that tech existed; EVERYONE could be the world's greatest assassin! The Predator can use it, Joanna can do it for a few minutes (as long as she doesn't fire a gun) and Kevin Bacon died using it and Claude Rains brought it to a visual life for the first time in 1933 and i'm even okay with Grey Fox and Otocon using it but DAMMIT, it ends here! It ends NOW! Do you here me anime writers!? No more invisible killers! make them turn in to dark vile shadows, or angelic water, or luminescent fog (but no pirates or i'll kill you with my John Carpenter collection!), or flames or animals or liqued metal that can restructure itself in to different things, I dont care! ANYTHING except INVISIBILITY! I'LL BE WATCHING YOU, ANIME WRITERS. DONT MAKE ME GET THE BELT OUT.
FUCK
And what's with every anime making reference to the Predator-esque cloaking? Every single bounty hunter, modern ninja, assassin, gun-for hire etc has to use it and it's getting annoying. What makes those actual people so cool is that they can do their jobs right in front of your face without you knowing it. They dont need to become invisible, if that tech existed; EVERYONE could be the world's greatest assassin! The Predator can use it, Joanna can do it for a few minutes (as long as she doesn't fire a gun) and Kevin Bacon died using it and Claude Rains brought it to a visual life for the first time in 1933 and i'm even okay with Grey Fox and Otocon using it but DAMMIT, it ends here! It ends NOW! Do you here me anime writers!? No more invisible killers! make them turn in to dark vile shadows, or angelic water, or luminescent fog (but no pirates or i'll kill you with my John Carpenter collection!), or flames or animals or liqued metal that can restructure itself in to different things, I dont care! ANYTHING except INVISIBILITY! I'LL BE WATCHING YOU, ANIME WRITERS. DONT MAKE ME GET THE BELT OUT.
FUCK