Heartless_cz's Blog

Nov 30, 2008 12:05 PM
Anime Relations: .hack//Sign, Beck, Mai-HiME, Tsubasa Chronicle, Noir, ef: A Tale of Memories.
Beck

This is it! Beck has reminded me why I started to watch anime. I wanted to see worlds full of interesting characters I would like to meet. Worlds where I could share with characters their lives even for a while. Experience & Emotion. That is it!
Beck kindly welcomed me and let me enjoy absorbing story. I do not want to spoil here so just visit Beck yourself.
I have to point out that I do not listen rock but Beck was so convictive that I mostly enjoyed all songs even if they repeated 3-4 songs on every concert;)
Characters are (after row of plain, simple series) various and I guarantee you will find your fav.
Overall: Yesterday I was convinced about 10 although story was not properly ended - there could have been more than 3 epizodes for proper ending or actually whole season! Main relationship was not ended and I am really mournful about it. It reminded me my own story...ah bittersweet memories^^ Right now as I am listening OSTs I just have to rank it as masterpiece and add Beck to my Hidden-Anime-Pearls.


Tsubasa Chronicle

One french-word review: Cliché ^^
Oh my beloved Yuki, do you know how much I suffer for your music? Lets say that .Hack was ok but Tsubasa almost killed me. It is true that I do not like CLAMP visual style (I said do not like? I hate it!) but this anime looked on the average. More importantly this whole story, each arc, each epizode was full of cliché, tens of hollow phrases about important people in heart and nonsense. One example for all: In the first world a dead sorceress claims to her daughter that there is no way to revive someone with any power. Bay guy offers that he would revive her mom with that super feather of memories and is kicked down with answer that is not possible. However in last epizode Sakura without any problem revive half of village...I do not want to mention that horrible arc about MMO world, it was very sad. Fights were sooo static, you could have skipped 10 seconds and he would have still done same attack -.- as bonus Syaoran & Sakura gj for names...
I know there is sequel but I wonder how many pages you could write about plot of these 26 epizodes...1? 2? If you carefully think back - did anything happen in whole story?
But what is most annoying Kajiura adjusted her music to this anime...what a pity. I have to check OSTs for proper rating.
Overall 6 (even FMA was better and it is quite shame^^) for anime and 1 for music (but this is just fan's point)

.Hack/SIGN

Well, I watched it only cause of Kajiura Yuki's music so it did not disappoint me;) But overall this anime is slow-paced, VERY talkative and missing good action (=ANY action). Although you have to survive so many dialogues, characters are plain, because we CAN'T see more of their real life. That could have been pretty interesting!, but damn no, we have to watch as they mostly wait for each other and talk about stuff which latterly happens in last 2 epizodes...
I do not even want to mention about the ending, because there is not the ending. I know about .Hack/games but I do not intend to play them so next time give me some ending, please.
So only music was flawless;) but sometimes music was a bit too loud so you could not hear characters talking...what a bad luck^^
Overall 6 for anime and as usual 1 for music.

Noir OST I & II & III

One word review: EPIC!
3 OSTs and 2 single albums mean over 60 tracks! Yuki Kajiura brought me to this series. It is slow-paced anime with some interesting battles but all around I can not rate it more than 8. Remaining point is of course for music which boosted up every action and significant moments. I would say it is even better than Mai-Hime music. Style [especially church music style!], pace and atmosphere are same and I am glad for it. Now I am heading to Hack/.sign for more awesome music! Offer to this Goddess!
Overall 10/10

Mai-Hime OST I & II

Yuki Kajiura is my new Goddess of Music and I do not think only about anime. Not only that opening, ending and BGM are beautiful but generally both soundtracks are balanced, I mean that you can find more than 1 or 2 tracks which are memorable. [In my wmplayer half of songs have 4 and 5 stars.]
Overall 9/10

ef~tale of memories ~espressivo~ OST

Last week I finally had time to listen this OST. I consider ef music as one of the best in anime. However I was very very disappointed -.- There are over 30 tracks but most of them take about 2 minutes and I can not feel from them any relation to those wonderful ef~memories. Of course, singles as brilliant opening and endings are not included or only in tv size, so whole OST is more or less boring, repetitious. But I still looking forward to seeing sequel!
Overall 6/10
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