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- seen: 1-25 of 25
- type: TV
- grade: flawed
- people: Hayashibara
- made: 1994
- Review created: A while ago, i'll revise it eventually.
- mod: none
A wasted opportunity caused by poor writing and character design, which cannot be saved by Megumi Hayashibara or good animation. The base plot is a demonic race intruding on to earth, a young girl as saviour or source of damnation, and the human response to this threat. The problem is quickly evident, the damsel has a power that will get her into trouble (which she always does) and is then useless. The human team are from the shooting pop-gun's at godzilla school of logic and are in general so useless that we don't care about them. If it were not for a rebel from the demonic side, and a great number of saves, the series would be over in the first episode. There is a dark underplot, but the complete inability of `our' guys to even understand what is happening, let alone affect the outcome steals any interest. Also uses the `wonder-weapon of the week' that is forgotten the next week as a plot device, gack.
Apparently there's only actually two volumes in the complete manga story. This may help explain why the story in the anime seems a bit `stretched'.
The fine people at THEM are having none of it, calling this "one of the most intellegent series to come out in the last 10 years" and a rival to evangelion in this review. I think the fact that evangelion is still winning fans after this one has sunk out of site makes it clear which was really the more interesting of the two titles.
Words by Andrew Shelton, Web by Ticti, Last Compile: Wed Aug 5 12:39:15 WST 2009