I watched all of Basquash 2, but I think I fundamentally bailed on it when the tiresome angsty backstory was immediately followed by a soulful montage backed by SHIT pop music and moe girls beamed on the surface of the moon.
There were still a few moments to like, but the stuff that grated last time grated more, and robot basketball is still fucking dumb.
I bitch a bunch about anime that don't fucking introduce their central conceit until the end of an ass boring first episode, but there is a small subset that kick off episode one with a concept that is waaaaaaay more entertaining than what the actual series is about. A series about fucking street level robotics part thieves? How did no one notice that THIS was what the show should have been about?
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Fucking robots playing fucking basketball
Seriously.
Shoji Kawamori is someone I try and at least pay attention to, even if he hasn't done a fucking thing worth watching since 2001.
Basquash! flew completely under my radar, and I only watched because I happened to see his name attached. Pretty much went into it blind.
Wildly uneven, to say the least.
Even dismissing standard anime horseshit like the unlikeable shonen spaz hero or the sex pot with the voice of a gratingly cute 10 year old, this fucker is all the god damn hell over the place on a second by second basis.
I mean, what the fuck are those things, and why are the police stopping to let them pass?
Then there's the world's dumbest fucking premise, and the production values that actually make that shit work. And the bad ass steampunky future city largely ruined by the fucking pedo idol singers broadcast onto the fucking surface of the moon. Or the randomly awesome incidental character moments (lots of cavities is on the hero's list of crimes) clashing with embarrassing anime stereotypes (I can live with fat dudes that are always eating, but do they have to use the fucking comedy fat guy voice? No real human being has ever talked like that) or the comedy bits that totally work (every line an old man is overhearing from inside sounding so brazenly sexual it make a dumb old gag pretty damn funny again) to the cheese-tastic metaphorical goals that make a big swing as 70s manly jovianism and wind up sounding like dated horseshit instead (the hero believes all things wrong with life will be righted if he can just get to the moon) and ultimately, fuck it, it's god damn terrible and entertained me more than anything I've seen in months.
Good start to the Spring.
Shoji Kawamori is someone I try and at least pay attention to, even if he hasn't done a fucking thing worth watching since 2001.
Basquash! flew completely under my radar, and I only watched because I happened to see his name attached. Pretty much went into it blind.
Wildly uneven, to say the least.
Even dismissing standard anime horseshit like the unlikeable shonen spaz hero or the sex pot with the voice of a gratingly cute 10 year old, this fucker is all the god damn hell over the place on a second by second basis.
I mean, what the fuck are those things, and why are the police stopping to let them pass?
Then there's the world's dumbest fucking premise, and the production values that actually make that shit work. And the bad ass steampunky future city largely ruined by the fucking pedo idol singers broadcast onto the fucking surface of the moon. Or the randomly awesome incidental character moments (lots of cavities is on the hero's list of crimes) clashing with embarrassing anime stereotypes (I can live with fat dudes that are always eating, but do they have to use the fucking comedy fat guy voice? No real human being has ever talked like that) or the comedy bits that totally work (every line an old man is overhearing from inside sounding so brazenly sexual it make a dumb old gag pretty damn funny again) to the cheese-tastic metaphorical goals that make a big swing as 70s manly jovianism and wind up sounding like dated horseshit instead (the hero believes all things wrong with life will be righted if he can just get to the moon) and ultimately, fuck it, it's god damn terrible and entertained me more than anything I've seen in months.
Good start to the Spring.
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