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So I was sitting here playing Final Fantasy II (the original Final Fantasy II for NES, not Final Fantasy IV as released in the US under the name Final Fantasy II) on ROM on my computer this afternoon, trying to think of old animes that have long been on my list that I've never seen. Well... Of course The Vision of Escaflowne comes to mind. So I downloaded the first episode. At the start I'm thinking... Oh no... high school girls in sailor suits with mini skirts... athletics... girls mooning over a boy...
Couple that with noses drawn so that the tips come to such an extreme point that they actually look rather like those curl tipped elf shoes we all know and love. Well, other than that one thing the art style is actually quite beautifully done. I often wonder why an artist would take a beautiful style and ad something bizarre like that all the characters have to have super long ultra pointed noses with loopty loops on the end. What's up with that?
Anyway, so I get about halfway through the episode and I'm thinking.. ok... if this stays in high school for the whole episode there so will not be a second one downloaded and I will wonder forever why I have heard people rave about this anime. Well thankfully this main character redeems herself a little... first by the fact that she knows how to use the tarot, and second by the fact that she has and to some degree understands her visions. Next redeeming factor was the ultra dimensional teleportation that happened, and the dragon was enough to bring me to a second episode. So yah... I guess I'm must going to have to put aside my feelings about those curly noses. Now five episodes in, I find that I actually care about what happens in this world, and want to see it.
Edit: Why is it that the first five episodes of this anime were in the proper Japanese, but now all I can find is English Dubbed... and it's not even marked as English dubbed. What's up with that? The VA's aren't as bad as some in this one.. I've seen worse. One thing I would like to know though is where in the world do they find these people that every L and R they say is a hard L or R? Who in the world still stresses them so harshly like that? ARRR! Come on... I Live in the midwest, home of the hard stressed R... and nobody I know pronounces them like that.
Couple that with noses drawn so that the tips come to such an extreme point that they actually look rather like those curl tipped elf shoes we all know and love. Well, other than that one thing the art style is actually quite beautifully done. I often wonder why an artist would take a beautiful style and ad something bizarre like that all the characters have to have super long ultra pointed noses with loopty loops on the end. What's up with that?
Anyway, so I get about halfway through the episode and I'm thinking.. ok... if this stays in high school for the whole episode there so will not be a second one downloaded and I will wonder forever why I have heard people rave about this anime. Well thankfully this main character redeems herself a little... first by the fact that she knows how to use the tarot, and second by the fact that she has and to some degree understands her visions. Next redeeming factor was the ultra dimensional teleportation that happened, and the dragon was enough to bring me to a second episode. So yah... I guess I'm must going to have to put aside my feelings about those curly noses. Now five episodes in, I find that I actually care about what happens in this world, and want to see it.
Edit: Why is it that the first five episodes of this anime were in the proper Japanese, but now all I can find is English Dubbed... and it's not even marked as English dubbed. What's up with that? The VA's aren't as bad as some in this one.. I've seen worse. One thing I would like to know though is where in the world do they find these people that every L and R they say is a hard L or R? Who in the world still stresses them so harshly like that? ARRR! Come on... I Live in the midwest, home of the hard stressed R... and nobody I know pronounces them like that.
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