...and then, that "Fake Town, baby" OP got me from the throat and brains and now I'm here.
I saw the entire "& Beyond" season before even a glimpse of season 1 or mangas.
... so, my opinion is based almost entirely on Season 2 itself. I'm barely reachin' ep. 3 at Se01, by now.
And here it is:
Nightow is a genius.
Nightow is nuts.
I didn't think so in Trigun ( I haven't watched Gungrave) ... here he has made that very clear to me.
HellSalem's Lot is the most absurdly immersive city than I have experienced in an Anime exceptis excipiendis Otomo's Neo-Tokyo; practically another character of the plot with a greater weight than most of the human/demoniac ones.
This serie is like a Garage Rock song performed by the London Philharmonic under a bipolar Bushman producer ...
... and I'm falling short...
He managed to integrate 3D in a way more subtle fashion he did at 1st season (so far I saw it) and worked on light and environments 'til obsessive levels.
There are scenes I must replay 'cause I was so caught up in the ambients I barely knew what the characters were doing
The endless mix of multicultural meta-references permeating art, music, dialogues and even "extras" walking the streets is soooo exhausting ... I am unable to follow them all or remember them all ... my poor wits utterly fail.
In addition; dude enjoys getting the audience into rhythm and emotion roller coasters using narrative ways odder and weirder than a purple dog with Balrog horns.
In the 1st season looks like everything was more linear; here we got a bunch of autoconclusive OVAs, alternatively starred by each one of the Libra (including the butler and some-guy-that-happens-he-was-around-there-for-no-reason).
Not too clear where anything is goin' on; more alike the original manga, I've been told.
The polyglot battle techniques (originally spelled in Japanese, English, German and Spanish)... they are perhaps what I like the least ... my bad; action is dynamic and spreads adrenaline until splashing the 4th wall.
OST easily into my Top-3 of the Year:
Each song and theme has been specifically composed, played and delivered just for a precise moment of the show.
Each song and theme goes from "More than Average" to "Great!"
Bizarre, asymmetric, chaotic, plain, lisergic, delicate, raw, world-wider, stupid, genious...
Say more; you'll probably be right whathever the adjective you choose.
I could go on for several more pages, but I am a compassionate man and we are at Christmas Times.
So Happy New Year to all of you.
