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Jul. 31st, 2011 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaAIRMASTER
Genre: Action and Adventure
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What's it about: "It's all fights," Kay said. This is only sorta true. The focus is street-fighting - specifically an amazing new fighter called the Airmaster.
It takes a little while to get to the fighting. When it opens there are a bunch of (female) friends at the arcade, playing arcade games. Enter a tall girl in their school uniform, who easily defeats the claw game that was baffling them. A couple of guys from the arcade follow them out, objecting to the fact that they beat the claw game, and the tall girl administers a gloriously efficient beat-down.
Unfortunately, she's seen by another street-fighter, who calls himself La Lucha and does appear to dress himself like a Mexican wrestler. He promptly challenges her to a real bout.
Overall opinion: At least in the first episode, the series displays an unfortunate tendency to dwell. La Lucha sucker punches our heroine, and stands over her taunting her for what feels like forever before she regains her breath and stands up to fight him. Likewise, at the climax of the fight, La Lucha goes on and on and on about 'why I fight,' while the heroine just listens. But the fights are beautifully choreographed, and I will admit to a certain childish glee at the fact that not only is the Airmaster a girl, nobody blinks at the fact that she, and the meek, glasses-wearing, big-breasted girl in the friends group, are shyly flirting with each other.
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I always forget exactly how quiet the wee hours of the morning are. This doesn't make me any more likely to stay up until then, but it's still sort of a nice feeling.
Genre: Action and Adventure
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What's it about: "It's all fights," Kay said. This is only sorta true. The focus is street-fighting - specifically an amazing new fighter called the Airmaster.
It takes a little while to get to the fighting. When it opens there are a bunch of (female) friends at the arcade, playing arcade games. Enter a tall girl in their school uniform, who easily defeats the claw game that was baffling them. A couple of guys from the arcade follow them out, objecting to the fact that they beat the claw game, and the tall girl administers a gloriously efficient beat-down.
Unfortunately, she's seen by another street-fighter, who calls himself La Lucha and does appear to dress himself like a Mexican wrestler. He promptly challenges her to a real bout.
Overall opinion: At least in the first episode, the series displays an unfortunate tendency to dwell. La Lucha sucker punches our heroine, and stands over her taunting her for what feels like forever before she regains her breath and stands up to fight him. Likewise, at the climax of the fight, La Lucha goes on and on and on about 'why I fight,' while the heroine just listens. But the fights are beautifully choreographed, and I will admit to a certain childish glee at the fact that not only is the Airmaster a girl, nobody blinks at the fact that she, and the meek, glasses-wearing, big-breasted girl in the friends group, are shyly flirting with each other.
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I always forget exactly how quiet the wee hours of the morning are. This doesn't make me any more likely to stay up until then, but it's still sort of a nice feeling.