Ranked #6143

Legend of Duo

Where do I begin? Legend of DUO is about an hour long series filled with pain for your eyes, your ears and all your senses.

The animation ALWAYS takes the cheapest way possible (though the design i probably the best thing in the series), the stroy is a mess, the characters are bland and annoying, there is no action whatsoever (though, it makes patetic attempts), the dialouge (which is the core of the series) really sucks and as whole the series never impressed me in any way. Legend of DUO is probably the suckiest show I have ever been unfortunate to complete and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Not even shounen ai-fangirls would like this for the vague "love" between Duo and Zeig, trust me.

If this would have been a part of a visual novel from the mid 90s and maybe then it would have been acceptable but as a standalone series in 05, what the hell where they thinkig? Sure they used some pretty nice effects but they didn't help at all, it was more like "so yeah I really don'f feel like drawing this character again so lets just add an effect instead to create the illusion that he moves". Im not kidding.

Don't do the mistake and spend an hour of your life of this, just don't. It's not even bad in the way that it is funny (like another horrible show *cough* Root Search). I will pray to god that the makers of this never make a sequel which the "to be continued"-text in the last episode makes us belive. read more

Vampires in anime are, surprisingly for me, few and far between, with the biggest standout being Hellsing. So when I discovered Legend of Duo had vampires, I figured I could at least give it a try. After all, what's the worst that could happen? I found out how bad it could truly get in just one hour.

Where do I begin? For starters, the animation is pretty pathetic. Every single trick in the book is used, and none of them prove to be useful. Still shots and long sweeping pans? Check. Camera shaking? Check. Large supplies of reused stock character images with only the mouths moving? Check yet again. Every visual cue screams low budget. I will, however, give this anime one thing. The static art, which is frequently seen throughout the series, is rather nice and detailed. It's a shame that it has to be paired with such attrocious animation.

Other low budget anime, such as Violinist of Hamlin, are at least able to make up for the lack of animation with a moving and engaging storyline. LoD, however, cannot accomplish the same, though one can say that this is because each episode is only five minutes long. Too much story is crammed into too little time, making the series feel downright rushed and sloppy in execution. I found myself struggling to care about what was happening to the characters on the screen, not to mention their names afterwords. The music used in LoD did nothing to help, with what seemed like only two tracks being played in each episode: one for intensity and one for drama.

To put it simply, Legend of Duo is nothing short of awful. Never before in an anime did five minutes seem like an eternity. Perhaps this is the reason why vampires don't make more appearances in anime. read more