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Content rating: 7
Posted 2003-03-14 by StupendousMan Endorsed by kurt on 2003-04-16 15:11:00
One of my earliest encounters with anime involved
the first few episodes of the original Bubblegum
Crisis series. I remember fondly the "Hurricane"
theme song. About a year ago, I found a copy of the
first VHS tape in the series, and tried to watch it.
Bleah -- I quit after about 40 minutes. The animation
was too weak to carry the action.
Although the remake, Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040,
suffers a similar malady -- too many static frames --
it does manage to hold my interest in other ways.
One is the soundtrack. Each of the main characters
has her own distinctive ambience. As Sylia lounges
by her aquarium, soft tinkling bells and tones play
in the background. Priss is never far from the
growl of a guitar. One of my favorite anime tunes,
Ame, hasn't yet appeared in the show, but
is featured in the menu. Other people have mentioned
the precise click-clacks as our heroines walk across
the screen in their hard suits. It's attention to
these small details that makes up for lackluster
animation (which is worst in the club scenes, in
my opinion: the motion just doesn't match the music
at all).
I am intrigued by the characters, too. Sylia is
my favorite, I think: she seems so calm most
of the time, but on rare occasions snaps into
violence. What is her connection to
the evil Genom corporation? I'm not so fond of
Priss, perhaps because the producers seem to
have marked her out as "the cool one" and
given her most of the attention; but I do wonder
just what she see in Linna. Hmmm....
My brother lent me his copy of the "Perfect Collection,"
which comes in a single multi-disk case. I'm giving
poor marks for the design because I really don't
like the cover. Our girls are shown in very
strange head-first poses, drawn in monochromatic
blue on top of a vague grey-and-white background.
Why? It looks like something a freshman in
art class might put together as a warped tribute
to Nagel. Not my style at all.
Equipment used when writing this review:
Sony DVD player, JVC 27-inch TV, stereo speakers.
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