Ayashi no Ceres Vol.6
Created/Updated 2001-09-20
- Catalog Number : BCBA-0592
- Manufacturer : Emotion (Bandai)
- Series : Ayashi no Ceres
- Printing Date : 2001-03-25
- Region : 2
- Price : Y5,800
- Play Time : 93 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 2
- 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: F (3.5)
- Video Scan Type : interlaced-TV (-2.5)
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -0.0
- Video Separation : -1.0
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
- Other : -3.0 -
Same as disc1. Either blended or the compression was done VERY badly.
Comments:
I know it's stretching a bit, but I'm inclined to say that if you watched one
of Watase-san's works, you've seen all of her works. Of course, it's not
really that simple. Come to think of it, a lot of the writers are that way,
most of the time. For example, take Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha. They're set in
completely different worlds and yet the main characters act similarly because
that's the way Takahashi-san creates stories. Now, take Fushigi Yuugi and
Ayashi no Ceres. Not really going into the fact that stories are similar --
female main character in an unusual situation enduring hardship and so forth
-- the way that the characters are handled are fundamentally the same because
that's how Watase-san writes. For one thing, they suffer a lot. So much so
that fans ask her if her next work will have suffering characters. If I may
make a generalization, it seems that more kawaii the character, more suffering
he/she endures. Heck, most of them are killed off. I suppose this is part of
what draws female audience. It is, after all, a shoujo title.
Having said that, I must say that I prefer Ayashi no Ceres over Fushigi Yuugi.
Fushigi Yuugi moved too slowly. Ayashi no Ceres goes too fast at places and
feels jumpy and even incoherent at times. Some scenes feel very unnatural.
This has nothing to do with Yatase-san, of course, as it's all
animation/direction issues. It reminds me of how unnatural some scenes in
Mugen no Ryvius felt. For example, I hate it when they drag out the really
emotional moments in realtime. What I mean by that is that emotionally
intense moments take forever to complete to the characters in the film. It's
obviously meant to make the emotional moments sink into the viewer's hearts
and that's perfectly fine. The problem is that these moments really shouldn't
take that long to the actual characters experiencing them. It makes the whole
event feel unnatural to the viewers. The right way to do is to slow down the
time within the animation so that only the audience is affected by the extra
long moments. This is much better done in Ima Sokoni Iru Boku. Daichi-san is
awesome!
In closing, Ayashi no Ceres is just about 50/50 good and bad. I wouldn't
regret buying the DVDs if it weren't for the horrible blending video problems.
I would recommend Watase-fans to get the cheaper versions (Region-1 release
for example) when they come out.