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Apr 3, 2024
Sinks into some gender tropes I don't love but this show is so beautiful. Great pacing, lovely audio, atmospheric, great scenery. I love this show most when it lets the drama exist in silent and spare imagery and when it distorts things. Love the excessive amount of fade transitions. Fabulous.
I read the series as being interested in questioning how group identities are constructed, and using main characters' own reconstruction of himself as the foil for this. For the main character to take an equal portion in the story to the larger dynamics at work (who will win total control? Hint: no one, there is no
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such thing) was a nice change of pace.
Ultimately, for me, it says a lot about stories and our relationships to them. How we force narratives to be responsible for our whole sense of self. And how needing to enforce the 'truth' of any narrative on a scale beyond your individual self can be destructive and violent, no matter what the ideology is.
Often in relation to themes like this, a story will obligate itself to show the viewer what is ultimately "real" or not. Oh, the transhumanists were right. The magic people were right. I don't think this show did that to itself either. Everything just sort of happened and kept happening. Something about the way it broke up sequence of events and vascillated between fast pace and stillness makes you lose the time and seems to, not Negate any rationalizing, but simply not preoccupy itself with presenting a throughline until much later when you've already been dipped into the atmosphere of this world.
What is clear at the beginning is at least that this is a sort of science vs religion thing, but Texhnolyze ultimately is like. Why does this question even matter. In the end, regardless of the trueness or realness of any of them, wielded in the same way they do similar destruction.
Anyway. Paired very well with learning about the CIA.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 20, 2023
I've been meaning to write a review for this manga for some years now. This is a story that got me back into reading manga after many years of taking a break.
I'm an art fag, so the first thing that catches my eye is usually the art. The art for this series is absolutely beautiful.
It's not particularly lush, instead it's very simple and direct. I don't remember there being much shading, even--or at least much gradation. Just black and white. This sort of style is really fun and refreshing paired with such interesting and alien visuals. The story mostly takes place in one setting, but
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the way you explore the setting is very much similar to the liminal space trend... as in, its a lot of hallways, corridors, vaguely 'religious' and minimal architecture. Except there's creatures and customs that feel very organic.
I have to say that although this manga is surreal and imaginative, and I do LOVE the setting, it's not the type of manga where you are immersed in a large lush world with a million cities and people and crazy objects. The world is very tight and small, focuses on the same 4 characters more or less. It's like BLAME! In the sense that you only get a feel for the expansiveness of the worldbuilding through suggestion. You're mostly given small bites at a time, but they do add up, and they stay interesting regardless. The story is a bit typically a coming-of-age type boy's story, and a lot of the usual tropes regarding gender and romance exist, but I think something about the ingenuity of the entire thing made it feel much more interesting/fresh than other manga with similar tropes.
I will also say that I give this series a 10 only because it is special to me beyond how much I enjoyed the art or story. I'm sure many people won't see this as a 10. But, it's definitely worth your time and is only 3 volumes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 1, 2022
Listen. The best thing I can say for this movie is that the Art is really beautiful. The light, the spare scenery, simple animation, the limited blue/red palette, really nice. It oozes style.
Here's the thing. Its a trash movie. I love trash movies, but there was nothing I could find no matter how hard I tried that redeemed it. I tend to deal with bad or "underdeveloped" storylines especially at the expense of art or just a good original idea, or some interesting execution of it, but nah. I think the shitty dialogue and kind of ridiculous macho overtones are sort of fun as the
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movie starts, but just get boring as the movie goes on. The corny sounds... Part of me thinks it stands at the very least as an extremely 80s film, just like absolutely steeped in it, and if that's an era you really love or are curious about, this would be of value to you, maybe. But as for me, I'm giving it a big meh. Disappointing.
Oh, btw, it can be kinda sexy, which can be cool if you're in the mood for that, but the fucking old man really slices right through the mood/drama with a dull hatchet. Like, shards flying everywhere. I wish I could say I enjoyed that... Again, nah dude. And this is not mentioning the rape, which also kills some moments... And that dialogue... So bad... I really can't even recommend it as a nice lil cornball thing OR a nice lil hornball thing. Just a movie from a time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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