Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito.
Oct. 24th, 2003 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenIt's fairly obvious that the series is based on a hentai game, but not obvious enough for me to drop it. I mean, there's a lot of fanservice, and quite a bit of groping, but it's not very explicit, and it has some interesting (non-H) situations. I'm not sure if I want to keep watching yet, but it definitely has my attention.
The beginning, though, made me think, "So the point of this series is . . . yuri?" But it pulled back from that rather quickly. The first episode was total confusion, and ended on something that should have felt like a cliffhanger, but somehow didn't. There were a bunch of flashbacks, in non-chronological order, all very cryptic, and then suddenly it was somewhere else, in media res, of course, and I was lost all over again. By the end of the second episode, though, most of the small things, the plot points within the arc, had been explained sufficiently, and I was happy. The larger storyline looks to be interesting, although it would help a lot if they would bother to show the time that obviously lapsed between the first confusing part and the second. The gap makes it so that the main character knows a lot more than we do, whereas at the beginning she knew nothing.
Speaking of the main character, she really reminds me of Mai from Kanon. At first it was just the way she threatened the yellow thing with a letter opener, but then she started carrying around a sword, too. She's really emotionless and serious, and she has the motivating blond-haired, kind-hearted friend, too. (Very interesting, having a mute character that spoke in sign language; too bad she went away so soon.) I don't like her as much as I do Mai, though, whom I like best among the Kanon girls. Hatsuki just seems very selfish, and has emotional issues that just don't move me at all.
By the way, is there something in Japanese or general folklore about the oversized hat with an eye on the front? It's a lot like Bebedora's in Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, and Lilith seems to be the same kind of outwardly empty-headed but actually very dark and possessing of much black magic type of character. At least I hope so, because if she's really just empty-headed, I will be pissed. Again, I like Bebedora much better, but that's because she was more whimsical than empty-headed.
Anyways, with the basic story being about having many worlds, each in its own book, things might often be disappointing because there are such interesting characters you meet in each arc, never to see again. At the same time, there are way too many names to keep track of. And who opens a series by introducing you to a Hatsuki and a Hatsumi at the same time? That took me ten minutes to figure out.
But yeah, in general, there's some silliness, and some gratuitous ecchi-ness, and then some interesting plot-ness, so I'll see how it goes. [I always say that. It's part of being indecisive.]
The beginning, though, made me think, "So the point of this series is . . . yuri?" But it pulled back from that rather quickly. The first episode was total confusion, and ended on something that should have felt like a cliffhanger, but somehow didn't. There were a bunch of flashbacks, in non-chronological order, all very cryptic, and then suddenly it was somewhere else, in media res, of course, and I was lost all over again. By the end of the second episode, though, most of the small things, the plot points within the arc, had been explained sufficiently, and I was happy. The larger storyline looks to be interesting, although it would help a lot if they would bother to show the time that obviously lapsed between the first confusing part and the second. The gap makes it so that the main character knows a lot more than we do, whereas at the beginning she knew nothing.
Speaking of the main character, she really reminds me of Mai from Kanon. At first it was just the way she threatened the yellow thing with a letter opener, but then she started carrying around a sword, too. She's really emotionless and serious, and she has the motivating blond-haired, kind-hearted friend, too. (Very interesting, having a mute character that spoke in sign language; too bad she went away so soon.) I don't like her as much as I do Mai, though, whom I like best among the Kanon girls. Hatsuki just seems very selfish, and has emotional issues that just don't move me at all.
By the way, is there something in Japanese or general folklore about the oversized hat with an eye on the front? It's a lot like Bebedora's in Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, and Lilith seems to be the same kind of outwardly empty-headed but actually very dark and possessing of much black magic type of character. At least I hope so, because if she's really just empty-headed, I will be pissed. Again, I like Bebedora much better, but that's because she was more whimsical than empty-headed.
Anyways, with the basic story being about having many worlds, each in its own book, things might often be disappointing because there are such interesting characters you meet in each arc, never to see again. At the same time, there are way too many names to keep track of. And who opens a series by introducing you to a Hatsuki and a Hatsumi at the same time? That took me ten minutes to figure out.
But yeah, in general, there's some silliness, and some gratuitous ecchi-ness, and then some interesting plot-ness, so I'll see how it goes. [I always say that. It's part of being indecisive.]
