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Jul. 30th, 2011 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaWEISS KREUZ
Genre: Drama and Miscellaneous
How much seen: one disc/four episodes (subbed)
What it's about: four guys with Incredibly Angsty Backstories, belong to an organization that gives them cat code-names and sends them out to assassinate people as deserve it. Oh, yes, and their day job? Florists. (I'm told there is also another group of assassins who are Weiss's official enemies/rivals/opposite numbers, but they have not yet appeared in the episodes I've seen, so I shall leave them to one side for now.)
This was one of the very first series that Kay showed me, back when she and Stef were systematically introducing me to all sorts of anime. I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a beginner anime: the art tends to be, mmm, erratic, and both plotlines and backstories tend to be sufficiently over the top that I was sort of left blinking: wait, so he -- and then he believed him? Seriously? What the hell. It's got four pretty boys, and plenty of ass-kicking, but that wasn't enough. The proportion of angst to ass-kicking wasn't enough, at least not for me who didn't particularly care about these characters.
So then we went on with life and anime fandom, and Kay introduced me to Initial D, and I fell in love. And she oh-so-casually pointed out that three of the main characters have the same voice actors as three of the boys from Weiss. Shinichiro Miki is both Yohji (from Weiss) and Takumi (from Initial D); Takehito Koyasu is Aya (from Weiss) and Ryousuke (from Initial D); Tomakazu Seki is Ken (from Weiss) and Keisuke (from Initial D).
I haven't yet become one of those people who will follow a favorite seiyuu and watch any anime where they voice a character. But I can feel myself slipping over the line.
Overall opinion: Damn you three and your sexy voices. At the moment, I don't intend to watch more, but with two friends who love the series, and the presence of favorite voice actors, I can't be sure I'll hold out. :rueful:
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The big problem of a dog in this sort of situations is that while very cute, he doesn't tend to so much do small discrete cute things, as just sort of sit there or stand there, and look at you with big cute eyes. ...okay, the part where he was apparently attempting to herd Kay over to sit on the couch with the rest of us, when she was sitting on the floor, was kind of funny, bu that's just one thing. We still have hours more to go.
Genre: Drama and Miscellaneous
How much seen: one disc/four episodes (subbed)
What it's about: four guys with Incredibly Angsty Backstories, belong to an organization that gives them cat code-names and sends them out to assassinate people as deserve it. Oh, yes, and their day job? Florists. (I'm told there is also another group of assassins who are Weiss's official enemies/rivals/opposite numbers, but they have not yet appeared in the episodes I've seen, so I shall leave them to one side for now.)
This was one of the very first series that Kay showed me, back when she and Stef were systematically introducing me to all sorts of anime. I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a beginner anime: the art tends to be, mmm, erratic, and both plotlines and backstories tend to be sufficiently over the top that I was sort of left blinking: wait, so he -- and then he believed him? Seriously? What the hell. It's got four pretty boys, and plenty of ass-kicking, but that wasn't enough. The proportion of angst to ass-kicking wasn't enough, at least not for me who didn't particularly care about these characters.
So then we went on with life and anime fandom, and Kay introduced me to Initial D, and I fell in love. And she oh-so-casually pointed out that three of the main characters have the same voice actors as three of the boys from Weiss. Shinichiro Miki is both Yohji (from Weiss) and Takumi (from Initial D); Takehito Koyasu is Aya (from Weiss) and Ryousuke (from Initial D); Tomakazu Seki is Ken (from Weiss) and Keisuke (from Initial D).
I haven't yet become one of those people who will follow a favorite seiyuu and watch any anime where they voice a character. But I can feel myself slipping over the line.
Overall opinion: Damn you three and your sexy voices. At the moment, I don't intend to watch more, but with two friends who love the series, and the presence of favorite voice actors, I can't be sure I'll hold out. :rueful:
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The big problem of a dog in this sort of situations is that while very cute, he doesn't tend to so much do small discrete cute things, as just sort of sit there or stand there, and look at you with big cute eyes. ...okay, the part where he was apparently attempting to herd Kay over to sit on the couch with the rest of us, when she was sitting on the floor, was kind of funny, bu that's just one thing. We still have hours more to go.