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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The last one isn’t helped by my distaste for jazz music. I appreciate it’s quite big in Japan, but it’s just discordant noise over discordant visuals.

I do like jazz music in general, but the juxtaposition of free style jazz music with the violent imagery was a very bad idea. It would be like putting the heavy bass music of an action scene in a quiet romance movie or replace the fantastic soundtrack of the Village Bride/ Lost Ones (to remain on Visions) with some heavy metal music. It just doesn't fit.

^^^^ Never saw Gundam: Thunderbolt

Did someone say Gundam: Thunderbolt?!




Especially now that the manga has concluded to have a rather great ending, I'm more miffed than ever that Hathway has taken priority over further animation of Thunderbolt's story.

Forgot to review the rest of these last week. Overall I can't say anything other than the first one hit the highs of Vision 1 for me. They felt more like full episode constructions rather than the OVA shoot the moon madness of the originals. Trigger being so restrained was definitely a disappointment, though I did definitely enjoy the characters and story, it felt very safe.

That might be my overall complaint. The middle 5 episodes are all good, solid, fun episodes with characters I enjoyed and want to see more of, but I probably won't get a chance to so they just kind of are what they are even if they are solid entertainment.

The two at the beginning and end stand out a bit for me. Payback is the standout for me. It's just really good all around. Four Wings would fall into my complaints with the rest if it didn't go wild and silly at the end to make itself memorable. Bird of Paradise was interesting and I do think I would have liked it as the finale.

So that leaves BLACK which hasn't been well received here and while I didn't particularly hate it, as a big fan of this kind of thing I wouldn't say I loved it either. Usually these kind of things build to something or go weird places and change up the music and tone and pacing to make it more of a ride. This one is just kind of 13 minutes of the same themes looping over and over and never takes you anywhere you don't see from the beginning. Its neat, but could have been about half as long and moved up to episode 6 or so as a palette cleanser instead of the finale.