Dec 3, 2009
With all the yaoi baiting, angsting, and forced sexual tension implicit in the tropes of the modern vampire shows being bandied around nowadays, there's sweet recourse in my heart knowing that everything there is to hate about this particular genre is contained in this one, concise, hour-long package.
I hesitate to call this thing “anime”, since there's hardly any true animation. It's more like a middling-paced slide show presentation, spruced up with flashy light effects and recycled sounds. Talking heads and panning still screens are bad enough, but some scenes, like sliding bodies and awkwardly moving heads, made me suspicious whole pictures were just being tilted
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or moved slightly to simulate action, instead of, y'know, actually hassling the show's animators to draw anything.
To be completely honest, I wasn’t really paying attention to this televisual cancer all the time, so the finer details of plot or character motivations, little as they were, might be lost to me. Instead, I’d imagine such scenarios occurring elsewhere in this show's lovingly crafted world:
Doctor: I’m sorry. There's no way to make this easier. You have the Disease of Death.
Patient: …? Disease of Death? What kind of illness...? What are the symptoms?
Doctor: You die.
It's actually not the Disease of Death that plagues this production, but an insidious kind of commitment to ambiguity and laziness that made me want to put a drill into my head multiple times. Yet, there were other moments of ragingly inappropriate actions or sheer ridiculous sound effects that made me roar with laughter.
In short, if you've got an hour, a cooler of beer, and an urge to kill some brain cells (or 2 of the 3), give The Legend of Duo a whirl before you go to the toilet and shit out something better.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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