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LeaT · 03-05-2008, 05:29 PM

As to not confuse my actual opinion about the anime and the review, I found the anime quite mediocre. The backgrounds are plain boring and not very thoughtout for being an online game. Monsters have boring designs and look too plain. The Knights also looked incredibly boring, falling somewhere between realistic and cartoonish. The only real energy was spent on the main characters. Considering the sort of love relationship Tsukasa also developed to Subaru it quite turned me off at the end. Not because I didn't find it realistic as such but whether it seemed to claim their feelings for each other never changed which just felt so completely illogical. Not that it isn't in that sense but when you believe Tsukasa is a male, it doesn't make much sense (or at least didn't to me). Then I would have loved to get to know more about his background but we never do, we just see those incredibly dark and hard-to-watch scenes that flashes by at times and that's all to it. The plot itself is also rather slow. Mind you, I don't dislike animes that are character or dialogue driven but I do mind it when characters don't change and nothing seem to really happen than when they sit down to chat each other once in a while.

I had no expections for it and I took it like it was but I was still midly disappointed in how it dealt online gaming. While it did arise a few questions (think between B.T. and Crim) how relationships work in online gaming I just think it didn't explain it well enough. Then of course as previously mentioned, the animation was also a huge drawback. I am a gamer at heart and have been playing ever since I was old enough to hold onto a hand control of sorts but to see such boring backgrounds and monsters for a so called anime trying to depict an online game, no, it doesn't bulge it. In the end, I ended up watching it almost solely for the sake of Yuki Kajiura's magificient background music. She has definitely written one of her best pieces to that anime, especially the incredibly wonderful and beautiful Rain and Storm that manages to touch me how many times I listen to it.

03-05-2008, 05:29 PM	#22 (permalink)
LeaT Narumon Z Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 19	Re: .hack//SIGN As to not confuse my actual opinion about the anime and the review, I found the anime quite mediocre. The backgrounds are plain boring and not very thoughtout for being an online game. Monsters have boring designs and look too plain. The Knights also looked incredibly boring, falling somewhere between realistic and cartoonish. The only real energy was spent on the main characters. Considering the sort of love relationship Tsukasa also developed to Subaru it quite turned me off at the end. Not because I didn't find it realistic as such but whether it seemed to claim their feelings for each other never changed which just felt so completely illogical. Not that it isn't in that sense but when you believe Tsukasa is a male, it doesn't make much sense (or at least didn't to me). Then I would have loved to get to know more about his background but we never do, we just see those incredibly dark and hard-to-watch scenes that flashes by at times and that's all to it. The plot itself is also rather slow. Mind you, I don't dislike animes that are character or dialogue driven but I do mind it when characters don't change and nothing seem to really happen than when they sit down to chat each other once in a while. I had no expections for it and I took it like it was but I was still midly disappointed in how it dealt online gaming. While it did arise a few questions (think between B.T. and Crim) how relationships work in online gaming I just think it didn't explain it well enough. Then of course as previously mentioned, the animation was also a huge drawback. I am a gamer at heart and have been playing ever since I was old enough to hold onto a hand control of sorts but to see such boring backgrounds and monsters for a so called anime trying to depict an online game, no, it doesn't bulge it. In the end, I ended up watching it almost solely for the sake of Yuki Kajiura's magificient background music. She has definitely written one of her best pieces to that anime, especially the incredibly wonderful and beautiful Rain and Storm that manages to touch me how many times I listen to it.