I know I never update here but I'm nearly through an anime called Xam'd- Lost memories (weird name, I know) and I felt like rambling about it a bit so why not?
First of all, it struck me as basically all of miyzaki's movies put together, plus some other Ghibli films (looks like a little grave of the fireflies snuck its way in there). I can't quite place it, but the way the characters are... characterized, and the way they interact feels a lot like it.
There's a lot of sappy morals being thrown around, and a lot of colorful sparkly and downright goofy effects in this show, so much so that it's sometimes pretty easy to forget just how utterly bleak it really is. The main theme seems to be based around people's losses to war, the damages of arms races, and essentially the systematic genocide/social crushing of an entirely innocent bunch of people. Also, laserbeam-shooting monsters being punched out by plastic warrior-dudes (er, Xam'ds). Heavy!
The laserbeam monsters are called Humanforms for the obvious reason that they're the only non-human formed characters in the show. If that made any sense to you, please go check into the nearest mental institution until it doesn't any more.
Every now and then during the 26-or-so episodes, the show takes a sharp turn, and jumps into entirely different plotlines- but somehow it works. It's a bit disorienting, but they manage to take it in interesting directions, so I'm cool wit' dat.
I'm quite enjoying it, and I recommend giving it a shot.
As a side note I'm still trying to decide if the new Full Metal Alchemist show (based more closely on the books, apparently) is better or worse than the old one. The new one has a whole set of different characters and plots, and some really interesting stuff going on, but I think I prefer the changes the old one made to the books, and it felt a lot easier to care about the characters during that one. I muchly prefer the direction the old one went with the homunculi, it's a lot more horrifying to the broskis when they find out their secret 'n all that. (though I guess they could still go that way with the new one, it's still running and I ain't read the books so I dunno where they're going with this) On the other hand, the ending sucked some incredibly major salty balls, and the movie only made it worse.
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Lazy - Watching: guess.
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