1st March 2004, 1:42 PM
Well then, you should see it. It's not what lots of people assume anime is, that is to say, someone fighting across the land to meet the final boss eventually. It's a genre that rarely gets the spot light stateside, for anime anyway. To be honest I hate it when people call all anime "action cartoons". Sure there's lots of those, and yes as can be expected from a really overcrowded market there are lots of piles of steaming ... karp. However, in a lot of the best ones they do an excellent job of melding a compelling story with great action sequences, using the action to convey emotion and such. Watch Trigun for instance, and don't let the first episode or two fool you. It improves a LOT, and the later episodes fully justify the first episodes and make them actually important to the story at that. Basically I'm saying the first episodes BECOME great in retrospect.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)