Good, bad, Horney – 3 anime, which are worth talking about

At first I wanted to devote this blog to some subject and tell about the corresponding titles, but I did not decide to torment myself too much. Therefore, I simply chose 3 series, about which I wanted to tell: something of this is a well-known continuation, something to anyone who had not surrendered Title, and something retro about the distant future, which is the past for us. I will not delay the entry anymore, especially since it is not the only. Unless finally warn you that I will try to avoid particularly important spoilers, or hide them, but I promise nothing.

Live. Die. Tea.

Ah, fantasy world! Magic, epic battles, adventures and beautiful elf girls-the dream of almost any young man. And what will happen to such a young man if he got there? It will die. And then again. Whipped with a knife, torn apart, die off from the cold, and it will be repeated time after time. And start “Life from scratch in another world” (“Re: Zero”).

Job Tappei Nagatsuki, or rather her adaptation from the studio White Fox, where the main character gets into another world and receives the ability to unwind time back after every death, I remember. Observing the attempts of a protagonist to overcome, it would seem, hopeless situations and the stressful stress was interesting. Honestly, the series did not hook me at the first acquaintance, even seemed very mediocre, but after reviewing my opinion about it improved greatly, although some complaints left for me. Therefore, I wanted to see a continuation, about which nothing was heard for a long time. And now, after 4 years of jokes about the “curse of the second seasons”, “Re: Zero“ Finally returned. At that moment, a credit of trust was formed to Title, and I was sure that the continuation would be at the level of the first season, or even better. It was a mistake. The season was very disappointed, and the miracle of revision, as it happened with the first, did not work: the opinion only strengthened. Why did everything work like that?

Let’s first talk about the tie: remember what happened in the first season and where the second begins.

The main character – Subaru Natsuki. He lived his usual life of a Japanese schoolboy, when he suddenly moved the world to fantasy. There, Subaru met a girl-elven Emilia (I know that she is only half an elf, but for simplicity I will not celebrate this every time), at first glance falls in love and begins to spend time with her. And at the end of the day they are killed. It was then that our Japanese woman learns about his new ability, and decides that he should prevent the tragedy and save Emilia.

The elf from the attack of the Assassin was saved, but the problems were not going to end there: from the attack of the Zvezerodemonov to the attack of the cultists, and between all this, the graters associated with the struggle for power. Despite numerous difficulties and no less numerous deaths, Subaru manages to recapture all the misfortunes, and at the same time many innocent lives were saved. At the end, the cultists get merit, and the protagonist is left alone with the elven.

Now let’s talk about the events of the second season, which begins very rapidly: the cult was so simply not behind and almost immediately attacked again. As a result, reputation is in a coma, and all other characters forgot about its existence, except for Subaru. The hero tried to prevent this by succeeding, but he did not get into the desired segment of time: now nothing to fix. They don’t give a grief for a long time, because you have to go to a certain Shelter, Which is fraught with something, and the characters need to hastily understand all this, because even in such a place with a very speaking name their lives is threatening something.

It is upset that the tie of the second season is slightly depreciated by Subaru’s work done at the end of the first, but even so it began to be interesting, throwing out the expositions about the world and the little things. However, over time, there is a feeling that there is too much of it: they tell us everything, tell, and nothing really happens. And then they sharply begin to disassemble everything, in a hurry to reveal the things mentioned earlier and along the way some action proceeds … and then they say something again, they say. In short, the pace of the narrative is not even even. This was especially felt in the second half. Something similar was in the first season, but it seems to me there it did not show itself so brightly. Perhaps the point was that then they told less and not so often went into details. And here we have the past of Subaru, and the background of Emilia, and the ENT “Witches of Sin”, and the story of Roswell with Beatrice, and the problems of asylum and some of his individual inhabitants, and about Oh Lord, stop. In addition, in the first season, all this happened within the framework of several arches, and here we have one big. It feels like the author of the original novel at some point said: “Finish“-and he, because of all his might, tried to fully fit all his developments. Then the Nagatsuki recalled that he was informed about this on April 1, but it was already impossible to stop him, and the White Fox decided to take it, and just roll out this plot com.

There is still a certain rehearsal. In the first season, the hero tried to solve different problems within several temporary cycles. Throughout the second season, Subaru will solve them in one cycle, and the problems are simply layered here one to another, in order to deal with everyone at the end. And although the authors were clearly very trying to smooth out the corners in this regard, trying to move quickly to the moments where the hero would act differently, but they could not completely cure the ailment. Contributes to repetitiveness and scenery: for the most part, everything happens within the refuge and a couple of other places, and look at the same places for 26 episodes is not very interesting.

Although, in principle, the plot itself is interesting, because it reveals a lot of entertaining details of the world and gives new materials for discussion and speculation. The latter is more, but it is understandable: the story is still far from the end at this stage. For example, they tell more about Satell and more or less an idea of ​​why she transferred Subaru and gave him this ability, but nothing is still known about her past, although they threw muddy hints. And everything would be nothing if not for one “but”: the main characters.

If in the first season I generally liked the characters and I had questions for them only in some points on which you could close my eyes, then in the second season darkness with them. The logic in their actions is not always traced, the arches of some are very uneven, and the moments that should show them from the best side do everything exactly the opposite. I’ll clarify that in this regard there are bright moments and this does not apply to all characters, but even in this case there are enough problems.

Take it Subaru. In the first season, his past was not affected, and it could be assumed that in our world he was a typical Hikki-Zadrot, because he did not have such reasons to remember his life in his native Japan. But, as a result of some events, this moment devoted time and talked about his life in Japan and about his native protagonist. It turned out, surprisingly, very heartbreaking and a little even dramatic.

On the one hand, this is not Hilo so reveals the character, and indeed I really like similar touching plots.

On the other, why did the hero not remembered this in the first season? Why not even mentioned about this moment even semi -items? If it were in other Iseches, where the main character was a closed Hikki-Zadrot, obsessed with anything but games and anime, an orphan without relatives, obsessed with an office clerk or someone else, would not have arisen, because in these cases they do not affect the topic, and it is not difficult to think about the relationship of the hero with his environment in his native world. But here they decided to note this, and I can’t understand why the hero seemed to score on an important component part of his life? For such a lively and positive guy, such behavior looks very unnatural.

This can be attributed to the fact that he was not up to it: something forever threatened, he constantly paid his attention to other things and generally needs to think at important moments not about the family. In general, it sounds logical, let’s say.

From the third, the devil knows from which side, it is not clear how it will play in the future. Because now he will have to at least sometimes remember the past, not to mention the fact to think at least for a while to return back to Japan, and maybe for good. In the meantime, this is more like a workpiece, though I have a feeling that nothing will happen, and everything will turn out to be a zilch for the sake of tears, because the segment with relatives in the second season is no longer mentioned at its end. Maybe then he will still play his role and in the future a character will have a complex dilemma. In short, it is not clear that the next seasons should be waiting here, and in general it may be a matter of me and at a certain angle there are no problems here.

In short, Subaru at some point became very clogged due to the fact that he could not live up to the expectations of others, and even stopped attending school. However, father and mother Subaru did not put an end to him and always supported their son, hoping that he would cope. In the second season, we see them in the form of projections straight from the memoirs of the hero with whom he talked heart to heart. I really hope that this topic will still be raised, because the dilemma between the native world and fantasy can become something interesting, and then such a workpiece will make sense. At the same time, this can only be the last opportunity to say goodbye to parents, but in this case this topic is unlikely to raise and recall in the future. In addition, the last farewell to real and living parents (the last moment is very important, because in a different situation I would sing differently) and their illusion are felt very differently.

But I can’t develop the character stagnation. Secondly, the season is raised by the topic that Subaru should not act alone, try to self-flagrant, but somehow ask your friends with friends for help. This is all very good, but there is one problem – it was the same in the first season. I would not mind if the topic was revealed from the other side or returned to it in later arches (maybe with another state of the hero and the events that take place, she would be perceived differently, I don’t know), but no, they told everything in the same form back in 2016 And nothing really changed. Because of this, a couple of attempts by the hero in the reasoning between everything that happens look stupid. In particular, his speech at the end of the first part of the second season (why suddenly the series began to share this way?) caused only a desire to stop watching the episode.

In fact, the dialogs in general strongly upset me, because sometimes the conversations of the characters seemed to be some unnatural, overloaded and monotonous, as if they were sometimes written by a neural network. And the problem is not in the actors, they just tried and played out their roles, this aspect of me both in the first season pleased and in the second.

I also have a complaint about the whining of Subaru. I will make a remark: he ached both in the first season, and he had, and in general, he still has excuses in the form of what is happening horror around him, as well as the conditions for activating his ability, to which no adequate person would be used to. Yes, damn it, just “getting used to death” sounds absurd, and therefore I had no problems for the character and his suffering on this basis. However, in the second season to see how the protagonist continues to completely scream and sob without any changes, no longer causes sympathy or experiences. In addition, the authors on all these tantrums have focused too much, devoting a lot of time in different scenes and taking the corresponding angles. See just after time the character instead of pulling himself together, begins to lower them again – not interesting, even with the above circumstances. Moreover, returning to the topic of repetitiveness, from it he again came out not his efforts, but with support from the side. Unless this time instead of a nice blue -haired maid of otto … is also nothing option!

I was often reproached by some hypocritical attitude to others. Like, says one protagonist, but acts differently. And sometimes it seems to try to impose on some people his opinion that, again, he is knocked out of their character (I’ll clarify, we are not talking about those manipulations associated with attempts to change time-linen and prevent threats), and somehow I don’t want to worry about the character. Against his background mentioned Otto It looks much better. He has an understandable and moderately worked out backstory with his cockroaches, for all his screen time acted more than logical, and in general it was pleasant to observe. I also liked that he became secondary from the third -stage character: in the first season, his role was insignificant, but here it was already more noticeable. When this happens, there is a feeling that the significance has not only the main cast, and even the statists can be something more, as if the world is more living. No, it is far from rare that suddenly the character has a screen time, and he even begins to do something significant. It’s just that often later the hero suddenly dies and forget about him in 5 minutes that I don’t really like it. However, here the young merchant does not leave (at least not for good) and, apparently, he will continue to appear according to the plot. Something slis was distracted by Otto, back to our rams, the problem of which is not only in one Subaru. I will even say this: he is not the most neglected case .. Frames.

Finally, the older sister was given the opportunity to reach the forefront and prove oneself. And at first there were no questions to her … Exactly until the moment of revealing her feelings for Roswell, in which there is no logic. Because of this scene, the frames tied to the attachment of the frames to this weapon simply do not work. She amusingly tears Subaru during the season and in general there are cool moments with her, but this moment simply outweighs all the advantages.

It turns out that the hero of the attack on the native village of twin is Roswell, it was he who set up everything. And Ram knew about this, for which she hated him. However, at the time of the first and second season of this rage in relation to this crazy magician we do not see. Moreover, she is in love with Roswell. How and why? I have no answer to this. With what fright the RAM fell in love with the killer of her relatives, because of which she lost her horn and his strength, they never told us. The only reasonable explanation that I found for myself – Stockholm syndrome. No, I’m not trying to go to the irony now, I really have such an impression. And if this is really because of him, then I have no questions, and I can call it this complete nonsense, which is portrayed as true love without any doubt. Such a combination of circumstances, in addition to bewilderment, does not cause anything. Or I don’t understand something in romance, and modern couples begin their relationship with the fact that someone is kidnapping someone?

I also have complaints with the rest of the main characters, but everything is not so bad with them, or I have personal graters for them, or in no way.

Roswell they opened well, www.coincasino-pro.co.uk but there is a feeling that in the first season he had another background. That is, the hooks that hinted at the same facts about his past, eventually turned out to be broken, and the character of the character was taken to another path. But what these unknown stories do not tell, and since in the second season its main motivation and purpose revealed, then the meaning in those hooks seems to be lost. But maybe something is good here. Then there is Garfiel, who has so sharply changed his character and purpose that against the background of the so -called “Naruto therapy” This will seem flowers, because his character arch is felt some kind of unfinished. It is impossible to say something good, but unlike the protagonist and the insane maid of such a negative he did not cause me. Pro Beatrice I have little to tell me, because I was not remembered at all, although it took a lot of time in its arch in the beginning. Here the problem is not in the character, but in me. A similar situation with Emilia. They devoted a lot of time to her, told the background in detail, gave a lot of interaction with other characters and generally tried to develop in full, but emotions did not appear when observing it. True, if I don’t know with Beatrice, what is my problem with her, then with an elven one is a little easier. In my eyes, Emilia is a character-function, and specifically motivation for Subaru. If you both really liked them, I can only envy.

The only exception is mainly caste – Echidna, I have no complaints about her: very charismatic, with her frightening characteristics of character, and which does not seem to do anything in the season, but in fact it turns it all, as she wants. I want to separately highlight her actress: half of the charm of the character as I worked for me thanks to my efforts Maai Sakamoto. In short, I have a positive attitude towards her.

And I want to say the same thing about secondary characters. I like many of them more than some of the main caste. I said about Otto, so I can highlight the Ryuza, which deservedly receives the title of sweeter loli-grandmother. What does it mean? I will not say, as about her difficult fate. I can single out Minerva, who has … an “angry” character, but at the same time a kind soul is unable to harm anyone … even if she wanted. One interesting moment is also connected with her, but, again, it is not clear what he will lead to. One could insert another spoiler where I would tell about them, but I really want to leave the intrigue in their stories, and there is enough for you every time to open the tabs with the text.

Otherwise, it is difficult for me to scold the second season.

Visually, everything looks beautiful here: I do not remember many places where the eyes of the rice is corporal. They are, I can separately highlight the moments of using CGI rabbits, but basically the picture pleased, especially when faces took close -up. Compared to the first season, they took a step forward here, and this despite the fact that there was no problem there this aspect. It is a pity that the scenery themselves, as mentioned earlier, does not change much often, but even so here in abundance of well -set and drawn personnel.

There are also no questions with animation: it is quite spectacular and colorful. The use of magic, hand -to -hand contractions and that other look epic, and in more calm segments, too, everything is lively, but I liked it more, how they worked in places on the facial facial expressions. Sometimes there was a static, the effects were not twisted somewhere, and once noticed how they were talked with installation, but it was rather nit-picking.

The moment lasts literally 3 seconds, but I really liked something

With the audio component, everything seemed to me done within the norm. As I said, the actors play their characters well. Probably, you can still highlight Seiyu Emilia, many praised her, and even I noticed her efforts in places. I liked the music in opening and ending, especially the track Nonoc – Memento.

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It is worth talking separately about the thriller component and about stress. Here, as before, there is enough any related to the heroes of plot twists, as well as pressure that you are in a hopeless situation. However, the tension was more because the characters broke: someone had this behind the scenes, for someone we watched from and to, but in all cases it looks terrifying and even sad in a good sense. It was enough like that in the first season, but it seems to me here to deal with this element better. The moments of sudden piano in the bushes, which can easily dispel tension, disappointed. There were few of them, you can argue with some, but at least one caused me such bewilderment that I thought that somewhere I missed the episode with the preparation of such an unexpected. But no, I did not miss anything.

I can’t help but note that I am not a fan of thrillers, so this component in “Re: Zero” never really pleased me. I got a certain pleasure, but, let’s say, not for this I watched the series.

The conclusions were not comforting for me. There are no scenes and other complaints to the technical component, the production of scenes, but the narrative component was not particularly pleased with. There were, in fact, to him some more questions, like the logic of the use of local magic, but I wrote off that I did not understand. Also, some storylines are in a limbo, with which it will be clear in the future seasons, and it is not clear to me how to relate to them. I cannot recommend the second season, but with 100% confidence to say that it is worth missing, I can’t. It will become more and more clear to me if the new trend continues next season, then I would definitely suggest the series not to touch further than the first season. If anything, I scolded Title not because I wanted to crap him, and even more so I have no complaints about those who liked it. It’s just that I myself could not love the second season, see what you can, it’s difficult for me. In any case, he left me a resentment behind me, because before that it was better.

And if Re: Zero 2 unexpectedly upset me with his quality, then with the next Title a completely different story. Speech about “Divine Idaten in a peaceful generation” (“Heion Sedai No Idaten-Tachi “).

For all the will of God

Let’s start from afar. The first time I heard about this Title when I was looking at the list of future studio projects Mappa, And I saw this poster:

Then I thought that this is some kind of low-grade Etti comedy, and did not attach any meaning to it. Over time, he began to hear more often about the series, but he still did not cause confidence. Suppose when I found out the fact that one of the authors – Cool -kyou Shinja, Behind the shoulders and “Dragon-horned mistress Kobayashi “, And “I don’t understand what my husband says “, Despite love for them, he did not add confidence, because he was engaged in drawing. And the work of the second author, Amahara, They did not cause confidence in appearance. And even if we assume that Cool -kyou Shinja helped with the plot, he also had his own quirks associated with eroticism.

But then I saw the first trailers and they looked good enough. And then I came across an opening in the recommendations:

“Classes look … persuaded”

As a result, I watched the series, and now let’s figure out what kind of beast this is, starting with a tie.

Once upon a time, demons appeared on Earth and began to terrorize all of humanity, and therefore people turned to the gods so that they would give them salvation. Suddenly, their prayers were heard and warriors of incredible power, light speed and indestructible resistance – advanced against the demons – Idaten. The messengers of heaven overcame the demons, and the latter representatives were sealed with magic, sacrificing themselves. Since that moment has passed 800 years, There were no people of humanity left, however, the Idatena continued to sometimes appear on Earth, and this new generation did not know what the struggle with the demons was. But the monsters returned, and the next confrontation of the divine warriors and wicked creatures begins.

At first glance, everything is simple: there are good Idaten and bad demons who fight each other. You can even say that everything sounds so trite and hackneyed that even about 100 years ago, this would be called boredom of mortal. But in reality it turns out not so simple. Idatena only at first glance look like defenders of people, but in reality they are more likely to be interested in the murder of demons and order on Earth in any form, and humanity itself does not care so much. More precisely this: the main thing for them is that it does not die. Although it is worth clarifying here, because all under one comb will be overwhelmed. In the series at the time of the main events of only 6 Idatenas: Hayato, Rin, Paul, have been issued, proponete and one more, which I will keep silent about. The first two are mostly interested in training for the fight against demons, and they actually do to people to one place, as well as what is happening in the world. U Rin There is still a task to protect sealed demons, but more on that later, and Hayato really wants to defeat his master, who is just Rin. Then there is Paul, which just helps its friends. And here Have been settled And Pruntea Already interested in the same “order”. Well, in addition, they are lovers of dissection: be it demons or people. As an example of their worldview, at some point he looked at the tops of one state and began to tell them about how they wash the brains with their religious propaganda, use their influence for personal enrichment and, in general, about their complete rotation. But, do not understand the wrong thing, the character does not condemn such actions, but rather praises, because thanks to this territory they flourish, and the minimum of major wars and harm to the environment. Simply put, the gods are satisfied! But the tongue does not turn to call them evil, rather they rely too much on the cold calculation or their attitudes, and with empathy of the problem. This applies to all to one degree or another, but they cannot be called insensitive robots. Let’s get back to Rin. She is the last representative of the Idatenas who once stopped demons in ancient times. But then she was not such a harsh warrior as at the time of the main events. She was very saddened by the loss of loved ones, at the same time, the thought that demons could get out to freedom were terribly frightened. Actually, when Rin realized that nothing threatens her, the girl began to harden herself physically and spiritually, to be prepared for a possible threat. But, as shown in one of the scenes, her spiritual wounds did not heal.

And if someone thought that demons are still good in history, since Idatena here is far from Painki, then you are very mistaken. Their main goal is survival, And for the sake of her they will go to everything, mercilessly killing any threat or a person unwanted to them … But not everything is so simple here. I don’t want to go into details, but, let’s say, in comparison with those completely brainless and wild demons with which the first Idatians fought, the current ones are much more reasonable and, moreover, some have a fairly pronounced humanity.

In general, in the series, the idea is the idea that both races are not the same that were before, and they can now coexist, but because of various factors and banal hostility, they cannot stop this bloody conflict. And people, not particularly resisting, dance under the tune of both of them. It looks a little ironic here Gil, An ordinary person and generally a church sister who suffered from the actions and inaction of both sides, but still believes in the world between all. Unfortunately, fate is not favorable every time to her. Why? Well, what can she do? Mir-world, however, by clicking his finger cannot be achieved, and she does not have the possibilities and influence of demons and divine warriors. Although, it is still worth noting that sometimes she can go to extremes with her pacifism, because of which he herself sometimes does not know what exactly she wants. True, the anime ends on Cliffhenger, so it is not yet clear what it will turn around … although this is closer to the end.

Surprisingly, a well -prescribed conflict that affects different ethnic moments, but the main thing is shown quite interesting characters. Although this can not be said about everyone: the floor, as for me, behaves too passively and just follows the flow, but it is rather an isolated case and we can assume that its time has not yet come.

And probably some have a question, looking at the images of Title and described above: “And I definitely did not confuse the series?” Fortunately, no, because all this good is seasoned with humor. Often, very black and slightly bizarre. Although just funny scenes are more than enough here too. I recall a scene right away, where Rin finds it, which before that ran away from it because of very stringent training methods (breaking all his body and all the insides; literally: Idatenes are very well regenerate). Waiting for the worst, the missing student did not find anything better than just apologize. And earlier the harsh teacher burst into tears with happiness. I can’t help but smile. In terms of fun, the design of the characters is also felt, while their appearance turned out to be quite memorable and well characterizing heroes. Cool -kyou Shinja He does not cheat on himself, let him in his images and gives it to caricature. What he also does not change himself – this is in the nudity and vulgarity, which are abundant here. More precisely, it will be like this: There are a lot of different shock-content. People tear off the boshka, slavery, brainwashing – the Title fully works out its age rating … But at the same time they still censor in cockroaches and figs … Priorities! For some of this kind of content there is too much (no, we are not talking about cockroaches), or that it exists only with the aim of shocking without characterizing neither characters nor the world of Title (T.e. shock-content for the sake of shock content), and on this their acquaintance ended. Well, maybe in some places they could overdo it, but given that they show the contexts of what is happening right, you can’t call it too much. But if you are not sure whether this is suitable for you, then the series in the first series will show you a group rape during the invasion of the church, it will become clear here.

I would like to highlight the action and local battles separately. They are not in them as such a tactical component, but they are dynamic and spectacular. Observe how tentacle -like demons or pushing on incredible physical strength and speed of the Idaten are fighting – one pleasure. In their broken characters and in their broken bodies, brutality is felt, and the impact from the blows is well painted.

Animation is also at the level. It is quite dynamic and does not lose at a pace. There were sagging, but really bad animation did not notice here. One has only to guess how much bags appeared under the eyes of Mappa workers this time.

At the same time, the battles of minds are also present here, and closer to the end they will show themselves best: it is not enough for the parties to just win each part – they want to completely exterminate each other, and therefore they think out tactics, although often they are brought up about each other’s capabilities.

It is also worth touching the visual. A lot of bright and rapidly changing colors with some kind of acidic filter, because of this, the picture can slightly strain eyes. I had no problems with this. I paid attention, but it seemed to me that it gave a style and a corresponding mood to the scenes. However, I can believe when someone is talking about Burned eyes. I myself can note that in some places the picture turned out to be not the most detailed and the backgrounds in places looked painful by state employees, although stylization often saves.

There is nothing to say about the sound, although specifically the music in principle turned out to be good. Mostly a combination of electronic music, traditional Japanese instruments and some religious chants in parallel. Sometimes you can hear the guitar. I want to allocate from the whole list of tracks “Speed ​​of Sound”.

I can still only say about wig, but it is difficult for me to allocate someone straight, although each of the characters sounds pleasant. I probably can highlight the demoness Miku, But rather, it is, let’s say, the character’s bizarre.

Still covered

As a result, I really liked the series, and I can recommend it, but to say: “We are waiting for the next season” – not anymore. The lock, to put it mildly, is not very popular and is unlikely to get the necessary ratings. The presence of whole episodes on YouTube hints that the owners of rights to the series are a little purple. But, even if we assume that the series paid for himself, that is, another problem – the source comes out with a turtle speed. Moreover, it is difficult with this: there is a web manga that went out on the Internet somewhere there, then an official appeared in the magazine appeared Young Animal. And then the anime came close to the original source, even the off-manga was overtaken. Actually, the problem is that the last chapter in the web manga came out, like, 2 years ago, that I did not know with a version from the magazine. At this pace, the continuation should wait for 5 years at best, and FIG knows what will happen after so much time. I would like to believe that everything will eventually form, but so far there is only a story far from the end in hand, and this is a little sad.

Stop! Or I will shoot from 75 mm guns!

And finally, I want to talk about how in the next future everything is not going on to God. It’s about OVA -series “Dominion: Tank Police” (“Dominion: Tank Police”).

I often heard about Title and decided to see it when there was a desire to look at some old and not too intricate series. Only when I started familiarization for me an sudden fact: an anime is an adaptation of the manga of the same name 1985 years Behind the authorship Masamune Siro – The original author “Ghost in armor”. Honestly, I was surprised, but while watching some parallels and general features noticed.

And it is worth making a clarification. The fact is that anime was engaged in several studios, and in this blog I want to make out two versions. The first went to 1988 year from Agent 21, which is known by … EEEEM ..

… which existed. The second was made in 1993 year from under the wing J.C.Staff, who have done too much, so we limit ourselves “Young revolutionary Utana” (“Shoujo kakumei utena”) And “Shirts” (“Slayers”) released in the same period. IN 2006 studio DOGA I also released its OVA, but ratings in the region of 4-5 points and a very, very bad computer graphics pushed me to save myself. AGENT 21 came out 4 episodes, and from j.WITH.Staff came out 6. I figured it out, now about the tie.

Events take place in high -tech Japan in 2016. The crime rate has grown so much that “killings occur every 30 seconds”, and “once every 25 minutes – terrorist acts,” and it became difficult to restrain any rabble. In connection with the situation, tank police were formed. No, this is not a metaphor and not beautiful epithets, they really were at the disposal of the tanks. And here about one of its members, Leon Ozaki, And a story is being conducted.

If I understood correctly, OVA from Agent 21 tells not about the events from the manga, but that happened to her: here Leon only joins the tank police department, while the version from J.C.Staff is already adapting … something. What specific material they adapted from manga, I could not find out, because even in English there is no general access, the first 6 chapters and the studio exactly took them as a basis. There is a problem in this, since the events of version 1989 suddenly break off, and we are transferred forward along the time-linen.

In this regard, there is a feeling of crumbling and circumcision of history, which is in fact so. The end of the end of the OVA last series from Agent 21 is led by the situation: it is very open there, and explain what happened in it, j.C.Staff was not going. True, it is still interesting to observe what is happening. World “Dominion“ – Minorly absurd caricature, where humanity has so spoiled the environment that people wear breathing masks, and the cops travel on tanks to prevent crimes, often causing even more damage than suspects. Totl does not turn a serious language, and I want to say that he is not trying, but it will be a lie. Most often, a comedic component prevails, but there is a place for the drama and it is not so few. Mines with inflatable members and a mini-tank, which at some point led to a pursuit with a cat-and-a-cloth, are adjacent to experiments on people, threats of terrorist attacks And political intrigues.

Suddenly, I had an association with “Futurama”, True, there was still a better juggling comedy and it turned out to be better, but in some places the contrast looks like painfully careless. In this regard, I think that J.C.Staff: they made an excess towards the drama and, in my opinion, it does not work for the benefit of the series. For example, in one of the episodes, the familiar Leona was killed, which we first hear about. For what? So that the heroine has a reason to leave the tank police, because she is not allowed to exceed the authority. But in the end, she again takes on work, as if nothing had happened, and everything returns to her circles. Ironically, but in a less serious prequel of such moments, once or twice, but there they look more appropriate and better staged. And yet both versions are trying to amuse one way or another: whether it is different comical situations or chases and explosions during the next detention, and they generally succeed.

If we talk about humor, sometimes I want to tell myself that it is not as funny as it seems to me, but I can’t help but smile for some reason so absurd:

Although there are more meaningful jokes here. In one of the scenes, the mayor argues with the head of the police, who proved the excellent prospects for providing the police of nuclear weapons. “Since nuclear weapons can stop wars, then crime can be pacified to it!” A few scenes later, police officers interrogate the suspect with the help of a fragmentation grenade and accidentally remove the check. Yes, Nuclear weapons Give them.

The action also turned out to be good: oddly enough, the tanks destroying everything in their path look spectacular, and some scenes are even made tense. From this point of view, the 1993 version copes better, which is generally not surprising.

In general, the technical part of the title looks good: the picture is pleasant enough, and animation pleases the eye. Again, a series from j.C.Staff with this is better, but also OVA from Agent 21 looks worthy. Of course, there are static moments in places, sometimes they can re-use some kind of animation or somewhere not very good to draw backs, but everything is not too critical. Except perhaps the black lanes on the sides, so they interfered with viewing, but there is nothing to be done: do not forget in which years they went out. If you highlight a specific action episode, then I strongly remember the scene with a truck that was stuffed with explosives. He was on autopilot, so it was not possible to stop him. The exit was found as follows: one person, in this case, the captain and a lover of fashionable black glasses, shoots a truck and one of his processors, thereby turning off the navigation system for a short time, and the other should click on the brakes in the transport itself. The missing will not turn off anything, the opened window for the brake is small, any mistake can lead to an explosion of an entire city – in short, classic. Nothing outstanding, but still amuses.

It’s hard for me to say something about the characters: in many ways they are a set of images, but some turned out to be charismatic and with a pleasant design in their own way. The main character can be distinguished, which will bring any to white heat with its firmness, Buaku, a sufficiently memorable antagonist, and Gemini Puma… I have to explain something here?!

I would like to say something about Seiyu, but I failed to find a version with Russian subtitles: for this, the title made only Russian ordino voice acting. Sorry.

To briefly characterize “dominion”, then this typical anime from the 80s and the spirit of many titles of that time can be traced. Whether the title came out with some complex and deep work? Nope. The author is trying to convey certain ideas, but rather satire. This is a cheerful, slightly naive militant of category “b”, who does not claim anything, but does not go to full trash and remains in the usual framework. The truth is also enough of their significant shortcomings in the form of a cut plot and not the best setting. And yet your share of pleasure here can be obtained. I can’t recommend it to everyone, but if you are looking for something easy, then the “dominion” will very much go. And lovers of the Titles of the 80s are very pleased to be very satisfied. More, if you ask me which of the two versions of the Dominion turned out better, then I would give my sympathies First adaptation, because she copes with her task. Let at J.C.STAFF managed to make the series more pleasant to the eye, Agent 21 was able to make a better atmosphere of fun, and in this case it is a more advantageous factor.

Then I already wanted to round off, but suddenly I wondered which of the above titles, after all my stories you had a desire to see you. Or even planned to look at something from this earlier. Maybe you have already watched all three, but there is one favorite. And now I want to know who you are ready to cast your vote (and not because I decided to check personally how voting works, no-no-no). And if there is something to say, I will be glad to read your opinion.