Legend of Duo

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Japanese: LEGEND OF DUO

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 27, 2004 to Dec 1, 2005

Premiered: Fall 2004

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Radix, Marine Entertainment

Source: Original

Genres: Boys Love, Drama, Supernatural

Theme: Vampire

Duration: 5 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 4.85¹ (scored by 4,874 users)

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Ranked: #12864²

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Popularity: #5923

Members: 12,009

Favorites: 13

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Synopsis

It is the early 21st century, and mankind is doomed. Due to a mysterious virus that steals the essence of human life, humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction with only one hope for salvation: the blood of a vampire. Vampires have closely guarded the key to curing the virus for several years, which has led to an immense rift between them and humans and the world's descension into chaos.

A vampire named Duo, having leaked the secret to saving humanity, is now considered a traitor to his race, and the powerful vampire Zieg is on his trail. However, due to Zieg's sense of duty, his heart is torn: should he kill the man who betrayed his people, or will his personal history with Duo sway him to have a change of heart?

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Zeig

Main

Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Duo

Main

Nakamoto, Nobuhisa
Japanese

Stefan

Supporting

Amano, Yuu
Japanese

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Negishi, Hiroshi

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Inoue, Toshiki

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Ishibashi, Daisuke

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Kikuchi, Kouichi

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Oct 26, 2014

Synthiate

Recommended

Legend of Duo cannot be explained with mere words, for it is something out of this world.

A feast to your eyes, like a fish still twitching with the last breath of it's life, as you impale it with your mighty fork and then shove it into your eye socket. A true feast, like no other.

Of sound, what a glorious composition, smoothly flowing in the insides of your head, tuning your brain to enjoy. Oh how could they, only one of the voice actors rose to fame, for all of them clearly deserve it. Such a waste.

I have watched Legend of Duo numerous times, and ...

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Jan 3, 2009

Takai

Mixed Feelings

-INTRODUCTION-

I liked the promotional image and been meaning to watch this series for a long time, and was actually looking forward to it. But I was rather disappointed. ^^;

-STORY- 5/10

The story is okay but extremely predictable. I did not even have to wonder how everything will turn out, it was that obvious. I did enjoy some of the side stories and flashbacks they managed to cram into an hour long series (each episode is only five minutes). It could have been a better story if it wasn't so short and so cliche. There is also a cliffhanger at the end, hinting that Legend of Duo ... might continue, but I think they just threw that in to grab the viewer's attention at the last moment; I honestly don't see what is there to continue, nor do I even want to know. ^^;

-CHARACTERS- 4/10

The characters are unbelievably flat and stereotypical, most of their actions are predictable. Duo is portrayed as a villain for some reason, even though he tried to save humanity. I never did understand why he had to be punished for telling them the "secret". Zeig is a typical good guy who fights for justice; he apparently lacks his own sense of reasoning because he goes to punish Duo, his best friend, on someone's orders (some vampire lord I guess). There are also a couple of side characters whose purpose I'm not sure about, aside from interfering with the two main characters all the time. And lastly, there is next to none character development, except a little insight on how Duo and Zeig's friendship began.

-ART/ANIMATION- 6/10

I loved the character designs, which is probably why I was drawn to that promotional image. If there was a Legend of Duo artbook, I would gladly have it. But the fun ends here. The animation is quite hideous to say the least. There are a lot of still frames and flashy gradient backgrounds. The characters hardly move at all, and I noticed that a lot of the same still images were used over and over on different backgrounds. The death scenes (of humans) were done rather nicely in comparison to the rest of the show; at least these had actual animation.

-SOUND- 6/10

The sound wasn't that bad. I liked the music during the tragic scenes, it was quite fitting. The rest of the show had some weird techno-like tunes playing on the background, and I grew tired of it rather quickly. Overall, the "soundtrack" if I dare to call it that, was on the same level as the rest of this anime.

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It had potential, but I guess the production budget was too small.
Since it'd only take an hour of your time to watch it, I don't think it would hurt you. But don't expect anything great out of it.

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Oct 8, 2023

watashiwared

Not Recommended

Legend of Duo is bad. That much would be obvious, if you looked at the review score. However, it's bad in a way I find quite fascinating. Animation is a difficult field, and when I look at LoD, when I see how many corners somebody had to cut to get an even remotely coherent product out the door, I'm left wondering why this was the form the show ultimately took. What incredible disconnect had to exist, between vision and reality, that made the product that found its way into my hands so catastrophically inept? LoD seeks to tell a dark, suspenseful story about a vampire ... out to destroy his sire, as mankind crumbles around him. The artwork and character design speak of ambition, of a story that *needed* to be told. And yet...

Episodes are only five minutes long, and the show seems to strain under the stress of even doing that much. Fight scenes are resolved in a handful of moves and use jump cuts to mask the fact that animating somebody changing poses is almost beyond the show's capabilities. Nobody moves, is the main problem. The artwork may be fine, but it's static. The show seems, from an outside glance, to be the result of a marginally competent artist running afoul of the many, many problems that come with taking still images and porting them over to a full animation. There is an overreliance on tweening, on taking an image and translating it across the screen without interstitial frames to give movement weight or realism. It gives the whole thing the feel of a mid-2000s independent animation made in Flash.

See, once that idea got into my head, I couldn't get it out. Legend of Duo would have fit right at home on the Newgrounds Flash Portal circa 2004 when it was released.

The fight scenes are ripped straight from the Xin playbook; overly ambitious setups that fall apart once they're expected to actually be made. The 5-minute length would fit in well on a nascent Web2 platform and perfectly encapsulates that indie animator feel of "wrapping things up quickly once the thrill of making a thing starts to be replaced by the tedium of having to actually do it." The plot of the show (revolving around a one-sided depiction of humanity as broken and irredeemable and protagonists that act aloof at each other while wearing cool outfits) is exactly the kind of teenage edgy shit that fucking *thrived* on Newgrounds. If LoD was released on Newgrounds, it would have easily been a cult classic, uncritically loved by fans for its above-average still art and ambitious episodic feel.

And yet, that's not the timeline we live in. Legend of Duo was created by a Japanese anime studio, for money. It was a professional job, done by people who either didn't have the technical skill to make something good, or... simply didn't care enough. And make no mistake. Even if it *had* released on NG, it still wouldn't be good. Above average, compared to its peers? Perhaps, but there are plenty of things that came out of the Flash era, plenty of works by talented, passionate creators, that hold up far better than LoD. Teenagers in their bedrooms made better content than professional animation studios, and released it for free. That is the universe we live in.

This isn't even a review. This is just an essay on why Legend of Duo is an interesting failure. Anyone nostalgic for the good old days of Godlimations, give this show a watch. Imagine Duo being voiced by Edwyn Tiong. For everyone else... no, not really. It's just bad.

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