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| While this episode is decent, I found out that plot would be interesting because of fantasy and journey. Moreover, I am more interested in Guin’s story. |
| Guin Saga 1-3 Despite only just starting its run as an anime, in terms of story this series comes across as really outdated. To be fair, it's not exactly shocking when the story was first released back in 1979. The story is full of what are now common character types: a hero who can't remember anything (Guin), a mentally strong character (Rinda), a mentally weak and all round pathetic character (Remus) and other characters that I know all too well without seeing Guin Saga. And, to make matters worse, the pacing is rushed at important times (the start) and the series has had a character do illogical things (such as helping the main character twice, for no reason whatsoever, and then dying far too slowly) just to allow the main character to win. The dialogue is also very weak, containing lines spoken by a baddie to children like, "I can't hear you!" in a manner you'd expect a child to react to an insult. Even the boss battles have failed. Guin killed one 'tough' guard with a tap, after he'd risen from red water without explanation, and he beat the main boss without even trying. Anti-climatic to the extreme. The music has sucked hard, also. It's all the same uninspiring rubbish over and over. I can't believe it has some of the same music for the opening. The music that played during the death of the illogical plot device (Orro) was poorly placed to the extreme - the best/worst example of the soundtrack of Guin Saga. I'm just not feeling it, despite my love of fantasty stories. I feel so little involvement that I didn't even think why a prisoner would have 20 knives and a whip in his cell to help him escape. An intense experience it ain't. I'll give it until episode five and then drop it, scoring it 6-7 for being semi-entertaining because I like swords and sorcery RPG-esque crap. |
| cute monkey girl feels odd, and the exaggerations are slightly off-putting, as Wakka and noteDhero pointed out, although to the show's defence, exaggerations are not uncommon in anime *cough*FMA B*cough* The direction is slightly lacking, especially in terms of bringing scenes together, using the right shots and music at the right time, but its not bad at all. I can see how much better the show could be with the right budget and the right guy at the helm, but this isn't bad either. In fact, I really liked these three episodes a lot. 4/5 |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
crazy_eights said: did anyone else get utterly confused when the mercenary had a whip and at least twenty knives with him in his cell. I dunno, I though maybe he was hiding the knives up his ass all along. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
| Aww, Sem-chan is so fucking kawaii |
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| I get the feeling that again, they had to cram a lot of content in one episode. Rushed somehow. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| This show has a really epic fantasy feel to it which I'm really fond of. However, the fight with that silver haired soldier was pretty anticlimactic, also wish that guy that saved them put up more of a fight before dying from a single blow. |
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| Okay how did he defeat the one guard who killed Otto? |
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| Rip Orro, he was a real one. Guin clapped the Black Count and also free jumped his way out. Istavan was waiting for them lul |
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