The Dark Myth

hexkads Oct 1, 2023

2

Painfully boring, but has good ep and ed.

Thrawn Sep 24, 2018

2

Story: Heh, Dark Myth is a highly intellectual religious piece that masterfully combines Shinto, Buddhasm and Hindu with geographical Japan and extensive historical facts into one exemplary euphoric piece that requires a intellectual to fully comprehend as well as knowledge in comparative religious studies to fully understand the metaphysical story that juxtaposes the past with the present and neo-future. It's an extremely intellectual series like Richard and Mortimer except for this one you need to be well-versed in the aformentioned religions with an explanatory dump that's broken up by intervals of partial explanations and quite frankly, people doing things that lead to more exposition dumps and more lessons in religious histories and dark mythologies, hence the quite accurate title. You would also need a notepad to keep track of all the names, places, more deities, more names, more names of places and events as the dub does not neuter the translation by naming in quick succession incredibly Japanese names. It's a machine gun of terms and you would not keep up unless again, you have a major in comparative religious studies and are well-versed in the hisotrical notation and syncracies of Susano-o, Ant-Man, Takeminazuchi and 27 other deities and heroics. What this sums up to is an incomprehensible mess to most people would simply not understand and to be quite frank, one does need to have a rather significant amount of intellect to comprehend Dark Myth. Why, just today (At the writing of this) a group of avid watchers of questionable anime and I watched this in its entirety. Constant comments on how baffling this is while I sat there, contemplating the deeper philosophical meaning of death and rebirth, cycle of Shakespearian revenge juxtaposed with cosmic horror and self-identity of a messiah figure that would uncover the depeer meaning of life at the expense of his earth life and saving it at the same time. I cannot blame the masses for not understanding it, for it is an excellent portrayal of the gradual declne of society as a whole. Animation To compliment the religious overtones, there is an excellent usage of superior art-house animation techniques that you would expect to see in indie hits you would simply never have heard of. A white scenery juxtaposing the main character Takashi as he travels to somewhere was an excellent scene that utilized minimalism and other high quality and high intellectual art styles. Otherwise, the art is pretty good. And some good gore to show the futility of fighting demons as a regular human and the fragility of the human psyche and physical meat space bodies. Sound The music is surprisingly good, works well with the sense of wonder the show offers in the religious themes and grand-spanning story. A bit of a sci-modernistic vibe but the best part of the sound. Otherwise, the dub is as you'd expect from a 90s OVA, heightened with the masterful mix of Japanese names and terms that highly contrast the english of everything else, to the point where feeble-minded non-intellectuals would become lost when the expositions happen. Characters Like Richard and Mortimer, these characters are far too deep to explain to any mere non-intellectual so it's quite inefficient to go into detail about these slap nut peanut wads who have little to no characteristics beyond anything supremely generic. But Takahashi or whatever that milquetoast puss' name is, is a total gasping pussbag who is a massive wuss. Overall I wouldn't expect many people to truly comprehend this masterful piece of work and in the end, I didn't get it and nnor will you because it's a pile of crap made by a guy wanking all over it with his degree in Contemporary Religious Studies with a Minor in Mythological History. Bottom Text.

neutrino Jun 24, 2010

2.3

This anime is just bad.  Not campy bad, just bad. You pretty much need a religious degree to comprehend any of what's going on.  The story itself feels like obtaining a religious degree--boring.  The story is superficially pretty cliche--a young man feels drawn to some ancient artifact, only to discover he is the reincarnation of something or another.  That's basically all I could really glean from watching it. The animation is passable, but nothing to particularly capture the eye, except maybe some of the backgrounds, which are nice.  Some of the ancient art is cool to look at, as well.  The character designs are bland and boring. The voice acting of the dubbed version is truly awful.  Some of the actors don't even pronounce the character's names right!  The narrator drones on like a bored professor and drops relgious terms as if everyone knows what they mean.  The background music is fairly inane, sounding like 80s or 90s corny music. Characters?  Mere cairacatures.  No real depth or explanation for why they know what they know, or why they are even there.  Boring. Overall, Dark Myth is just boring.  Its worth is not much, even if you DO have a religious degree.  Steer away!!