-Bloo-,
Yautja,
16 years ago
@Predator: I know you're thinking of something like Pokemon, or some school-girl giggly shit, but that's not what I'm talking about. These things, the chiropterans, are brutal. They should not be attributed to anime like school girls or hyper-active chibi kittens are because anime is just the medium in which they're associated at the moment. They also aren't ridiculous, like posessing the ability to use kinetic blasts or any other psychic ability. In real life, if bats were huge, largely carnivorous and went on human-killing rampages, this is what they would be like.
Sure they're in an anime and being drawn with lines and some cell-shading, but really, after that, you should stop calling it an anime thing.
I'm serious. I know an Alien anime is out of the question, but if there ever was one, it would have to be made by the guys who did Blood: the Last Vampire (production I.G.) because, and I mean this when I say it, they know their shit. They did the animated sequence in one of the Kill Bill movies if you've seen it, and one of the better-looking shorts in Batman: Gotham Knight.
A few other animes they've worked on are strictly that only in name. They don't ever show any typical anime characteristics other than how you'd think a character would be designed, but then you see I.G.'s designs and compare them to other shows and notice a higher quality in work.
The only ridiculous thing about this anime is that the main character, at first, wears a school-girl outfit and is seen with an oddly-shaped katana. I'm not much for regular innocent-looking girls wielding huge weapons, but here it's not done too stupidly.
The best thing is, it doesn't feel like it takes itself too seriously, and so you don't feel ridiculous yourself after watching.
I'm not telling you to watch it, but I'm just saying, it's an anime because it has a cartoon style (though as realistic as it could be) and is animated in Japan.
But back to the chiropterans themselves, it'd actually be interesting to see. I was being serious after that little italic-newbie moment.