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jennariaPEACEMAKER KUROGANE
Genre: Historical and Alternate History
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: Kay described as, "Pretty, with swords." Well, then. As might have been expected, it's about the Shinsengumi, and a 15-year-old boy who is bound and determined to join them so he can get strong enough to avenge his parents' deaths. Naturally, this works out about as well as you'd expect: Tetsu gets his ass handed to him, impresses the extremely lethal (and extremely pretty) Souji less with his skill and more with the sheer determination that keeps him getting back up after being knocked down, and then is directed to a place where he can watch Hijikata take down a would-be ambush, single-handed. "The only thing you'll learn here is how to be a demon," Hijikata tells him. But still Tetsu is determined.
Overall opinion: On the one hand, I do love a good sword-fight. On the other hand, I have no faith this is headed anywhere that isn't depressing, no matter how good the sword-fights are. Without word that this really is worth it - for more than just the subtext between Souji and Hijikata (and boy do I hope that I identified the characters correctly) - I'm not going to watch any more.
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More soda. More caffeine. There's still a lot of hours to get through.
Genre: Historical and Alternate History
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: Kay described as, "Pretty, with swords." Well, then. As might have been expected, it's about the Shinsengumi, and a 15-year-old boy who is bound and determined to join them so he can get strong enough to avenge his parents' deaths. Naturally, this works out about as well as you'd expect: Tetsu gets his ass handed to him, impresses the extremely lethal (and extremely pretty) Souji less with his skill and more with the sheer determination that keeps him getting back up after being knocked down, and then is directed to a place where he can watch Hijikata take down a would-be ambush, single-handed. "The only thing you'll learn here is how to be a demon," Hijikata tells him. But still Tetsu is determined.
Overall opinion: On the one hand, I do love a good sword-fight. On the other hand, I have no faith this is headed anywhere that isn't depressing, no matter how good the sword-fights are. Without word that this really is worth it - for more than just the subtext between Souji and Hijikata (and boy do I hope that I identified the characters correctly) - I'm not going to watch any more.
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More soda. More caffeine. There's still a lot of hours to get through.
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Date: 2011-07-30 08:47 pm (UTC)That said, the subtext turns into text-text at least once. Depressing text, but text. Unfairly hot, too.
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Date: 2011-07-30 08:50 pm (UTC)