Unfortunately I have somehow managed to get myself obsessed with another series in the meantime... Tiger & Bunny. (Let's see how good I am at reverse-recs!) It's a Sunrise show, which means gorgeous backgrounds and fluid fight scenes. They stick the main characters in power suits so they can get away with using CGI mecha animations on fights.
The real draw is that it's a genre-crosser, combining buddy-cop, American-style superheroes, and a reality show. I'm loving it partly because of its ridiculous attention to detail. The English has mostly been really good in it (no Engrish!), the plot lines are far more intricate than they appear at first (starts slowly, but you can tell there definitely was a clear structure for all 25 eps after about the halfway mark), and the design of the futuristic neo-New York itself is gorgeous.
The cast is full of characters that could have been terrible stereotypes but have actually been very well-developed and given serious backstories for, especially the main leads. The one thing I can't really get behind is the name for the show - "Tiger & Bunny"? Seriously?!
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Date: 2011-08-09 11:30 am (UTC)Unfortunately I have somehow managed to get myself obsessed with another series in the meantime... Tiger & Bunny. (Let's see how good I am at reverse-recs!) It's a Sunrise show, which means gorgeous backgrounds and fluid fight scenes. They stick the main characters in power suits so they can get away with using CGI mecha animations on fights.
The real draw is that it's a genre-crosser, combining buddy-cop, American-style superheroes, and a reality show. I'm loving it partly because of its ridiculous attention to detail. The English has mostly been really good in it (no Engrish!), the plot lines are far more intricate than they appear at first (starts slowly, but you can tell there definitely was a clear structure for all 25 eps after about the halfway mark), and the design of the futuristic neo-New York itself is gorgeous.
The cast is full of characters that could have been terrible stereotypes but have actually been very well-developed and given serious backstories for, especially the main leads. The one thing I can't really get behind is the name for the show - "Tiger & Bunny"? Seriously?!