Blue Gender Volume 7

Created/Updated 2003-01-11



Animephile Rating: D (6.5)


Comments:

I read Mike Toole's review of Blue Gender recently. For those who don't know, Mike Toole's one of the very few anime reviewers I respect (See www.animejungle.com). I see he loves this show. I can see where he comes from. I would also love this show if it were made in the 80's and I were watching it then. The show has that dated feel and the lameness to go with it. Emotional outbursts are completely unrealistic and story is way too predictable. Don't get me wrong. This would work wonders on a 10-year old boy. Oops, suggested age is 15+? That's too bad, isn't it?

And frankly, character animation is horrendous unless I were to believe that this were done in the 80's. It's got the extremely exaggerated facial expressions, which I hate, as well as jerky character movements. Note that jerkiness and low-frame count are not related! Anyway, these are the reasons I hate old robot shows. I grew out of my boyhood long time ago. That is not to say that I'm all grown up, as I still consider myself a child at heart, but I'm definitely not boyish. I don't think I ever were much of a boy, actually. I did watch a lot of the robot anime, but I don't think I enjoyed them all that much. I enjoyed shows like Minky Momo and Seri far more than Mazinger Z and Grandizer.

Admittedly, I do think that the creature (Blue) designs, mecha designs, and action scene animation are superb, again in the traditional 80's fashion. Too bad. I don't care much for that.

Blue Gender is a great show. It's just some 20 years too late. I will watch the last volume one of these days, but I don't know when. It's on my low-priority list.

P.S. Not really caring for old robot anime doesn't mean that I don't understand them. If I didn't understand them, I wouldn't have put Nadesico on my best of the best list.


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