Anime Ai no Awa Awa Hour 1
Created/Updated 2001-06-10
- Catalog Number : PIBA-7021
- Manufacturer : Pioneer, Gainax
- Series : Anime Ai no Awa Awa Hour
- Printing Date : 1999-11-26
- Region : 2
- Price : Y4,800
- Play Time : 80 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 1
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : Japanese Dolby Digital 2ch
- Audio2 : N/A
- Audio3 : N/A
- Audio4 : N/A
- Audio5 : N/A
- Subtitle1 : N/A
- Subtitle2 : N/A
- Subtitle3 : N/A
- Subtitle4 : N/A
- Subtitle5 : N/A
Animephile Rating: A (9.0)
- Video Scan Type : progressive (-0.0) -
It's kind of strange. For the most part, it _appears_ to be progressive.
It's not completely progressive, so I'll take a point off later.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -0.0
- Video Separation : -0.0
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
- Other : -1.0 -
Because it's not quite progressive enough, it seems.
Comments:
I had a thought that maybe Hideaki Anno is a misunderstood artist, so I got
this series. Hmm. If I learned anything, it's that I don't understand him,
either.
There are three basic story lines within this show. One is "Oruchuban
Ebichu," dealing with dysfunctional couple and... more. Second one is
"Koume-chan ga Yuku!" dealing with a dysfunctional work place. And the last is
"Ai no Wakakusayama Monogatari," dealing with what could be a dysfunctional
family.
I _feel_ that the creators of this show wanted to make a point about Japanese
culture. Perhaps it's not even the culture, but just the problems within the
adult life. The way they do it is to show the audience, in blantant ways,
just what is wrong with their lives, if there really is something wrong with
their lives that is. Maybe it's because I don't have the problems that they
describe, but for some reason, I just can't get into this show. It's pretty
boring. The only one of the three shows I kind of like is the "Oruchuban
Ebichu." The correct word is actually "orusuban," meaning "house watching /
home alone" type thing, but since Ebichu, the hamster, always uses 'ch' sound
in place of 's' sound, it's written as "oruchuban." Imagine one of the more
tasteful animations from "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation." Ebichu
story would almost fit in with that kind of stuff.
Technically, it's very good. It appears to be progressive. It's hard to
technically confirm because the MPEG stream doesn't seem to have proper time
markers. Forced weave viewing reveals very few interlaced frames, at least
within the main show.
There are two images, one from Ebichu story and another from Koume-chan story.
There isn't much to say about them as they're practically perfect.
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