Anime film wows all
General Mars
Craig Eisenberger
Issue date: 1/7/05 Section: Entertainment
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I realize that publicly admitting this will reduce my slim chances of getting a date from one millionth of a percent to a percentage based on the weight of an atom ... in metric tons. However I really do not care about that, as I enjoy having my weekends free to sit and watch something wonderful, something amazing, something Japanese - ANIME.
Now, I know what some people are thinking. "Anime. Isn't that cartoons or porn or something like that?" Well to the ignorant out there, anime is a form of art that does utilize drawings to portray a story, but calling it a cartoon is like calling a Tom Clancy novel a storybook with a bunch of pretty pictures.
Still for those of you who enjoy anime, let me tell you that I have witnessed the next evolution in anime and its name is Appleseed.
For those of you who know about it and are jaw-dropped that I was able to see it (as it only came out on DVD in Japan recently and its American release date is set for Jan. 14, 2005) I can only smile. I watched the entire movie with the joy of subtitles, though each of these proved to be a daunting task.
Getting the movie was one thing, but I will not go into details here. We can all take a guess how a college student at Drexel with an uber-fast internet connection does things.
Once I got the movie, I realized one thing. They were all speaking Japenese. Now this normally isn't a problem, but when there are no English words at the bottom, things stop making sense.
Especially when there are all these mechanical things running around, fighting between this chick who looks like something crossed between the dude from Splinter Cell [Sam Fisher] and the chicks from Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Aside from the sweetness of that, having her wear a sleeveless shirt actually proved useful because in one scene our main character, Deunan, uses a Sharpie to mark her shoulder with X's, indicating the number of enemies that she killed.
The movie also has this bad-ass named Briareos who is basically a person within a mechanical body. Unlike Vader, it's sleek silver instead of black. And he doesn't kill people with his mind, but his bare hands.
Now, I know what some people are thinking. "Anime. Isn't that cartoons or porn or something like that?" Well to the ignorant out there, anime is a form of art that does utilize drawings to portray a story, but calling it a cartoon is like calling a Tom Clancy novel a storybook with a bunch of pretty pictures.
Still for those of you who enjoy anime, let me tell you that I have witnessed the next evolution in anime and its name is Appleseed.
For those of you who know about it and are jaw-dropped that I was able to see it (as it only came out on DVD in Japan recently and its American release date is set for Jan. 14, 2005) I can only smile. I watched the entire movie with the joy of subtitles, though each of these proved to be a daunting task.
Getting the movie was one thing, but I will not go into details here. We can all take a guess how a college student at Drexel with an uber-fast internet connection does things.
Once I got the movie, I realized one thing. They were all speaking Japenese. Now this normally isn't a problem, but when there are no English words at the bottom, things stop making sense.
Especially when there are all these mechanical things running around, fighting between this chick who looks like something crossed between the dude from Splinter Cell [Sam Fisher] and the chicks from Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Aside from the sweetness of that, having her wear a sleeveless shirt actually proved useful because in one scene our main character, Deunan, uses a Sharpie to mark her shoulder with X's, indicating the number of enemies that she killed.
The movie also has this bad-ass named Briareos who is basically a person within a mechanical body. Unlike Vader, it's sleek silver instead of black. And he doesn't kill people with his mind, but his bare hands.
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