Birthday • 1990-05-20 Gender •
Female Location • Koreatown, Chicago (seriously) Member Since • 2005-10-16 Occupation • recently promoted to Ultimate Fangirl :3 Real Name • H.L.
Personal
Goals • To become mature enough to accomplish something in my life. Hobbies • Dolls, photography, films, music, and anything even remotely artsy. Talents • Writing, occasionally being very creative, and thinking I'm funny.
myOtaku.com: bellpickle
Thursday, June 22, 2006
take the wine and take my hand and fly
According to ANN: X Japan founder Yoshiki will join MUCC and Nana Kikada at Otakon...
You have got to be kidding me. First it's announced that Romi Paku, CLAMP, and Mana are attending AX, and now this? To anyone attending AX or Otakon: have fun, you bastards!
This is a very, very intriguing anime. The first thing most people probably notice is this series' incredible production values. The animation reminds me a lot of Texhnolyze, but with a certain theatrical level of quality that Texhnolyze doesn't quite reach. (Actually, the series as a whole reminds me a lot of Texhnolyze, except more comprehensible and with a little more action.)
Besides the animation, the sound effects, music, and directing are all top-notch and handled with a lot of care. Also, the more suspenseful scenes are brilliantly executed; as morbid as this sounds, any scene involving PROXY and killing is guaranteed to look amazing. It's truly an excellent series on a technical level.
If all the Texhnolyze references haven't clued you in yet, Ergo Proxy is a very dark series. Some of its scenes even border on horrific. I think the settings express the tone of the series best, especially in the desolateness of the "outside world."
One of the few aspects of Ergo Proxy that could potentially drive viewers away is its slow pace. A lot of interesting events happen even early on, but I can easily imagine others becoming bored with the long bouts of expository dialogue during the first couple episodes. Though, once the story really begins moving and once all of the strange terms they use start to mean something, it quickly becomes very involving.
The series has an incredibly well-made opening--probably the best I've seen. So, instead of the usual screencaps, I'm posting a vid of the opening. We'll have to settle for Youtube quality, though it can only be fully appreciated in the high-quality downloads, and I can only imagine how good it will be on DVD.
