Week 3 - Spriggan Bit late this week, but time to check out another sci-fi anime, one I'm glad of the slipcase for cos that's a damn ugly cover! Also I'd have watched it sooner if I'd realised it had an audio commentary from Jonathan Clements - a Clementary is always worth hearing! - ThreadSky

hatmanrich.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Week 3 - Spriggan

Bit late this week, but time to check out another sci-fi anime, one I'm glad of the slipcase for cos that's a damn ugly cover!

Also I'd have watched it sooner if I'd realised it had an audio commentary from Jonathan Clements - a Clementary is always worth hearing!

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hatmanrich.bsky.social•36 days ago

Will be really interested to listen to the commentary on that one, some interesting ideas and some truly stunning animation - especially during the action scenes - but it was a bit visually inconsistent (although that may be the DVD transfer) and the characters were a bit underdeveloped

hatmanrich.bsky.social•36 days ago

Good music though with a real mix of styles - reminiscent of Kenji Kawai at times - and it's interesting to see an anime set largely in Turkey even if it was only really showcased in the first 3rd of the film. Will be interesting to see the Netflix adaptation to see if it fleshes things out a bit

hatmanrich.bsky.social•32 days ago

Week 4 - Emma: A Victorian Romance

Something a bit different this week, picked this up at a convention years ago out of curiosity but never got round to it. Hopefully should get through the 12 episode series in a week, got some far longer series queued up so this is a bit of a test

hatmanrich.bsky.social•32 days ago

Smooth.

hatmanrich.bsky.social•27 days ago

Emma was pretty decent, didn't exactly reinvent the wheel as British period dramas go but then it's not a British period drama - as an anime it's pretty unique. It's kind of refreshing to see an anime approach Victorian-era England straight, and the setting is authentic and meticulously researched

hatmanrich.bsky.social•27 days ago

I could easily see it as a BBC period drama, and though it hits a lot of the story beats you expect from this sort of thing it does it well. An example is Prince Hakim, a character that quickly develops from culture clash comic relief to a counterpoint to the rigid Victorian class structure

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