[Anime] Xenosaga
Jan. 11th, 2005 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, apparently there's this hot game for the PS 2 that I've never herd about called Xenosaga, and now there's an anime out for it. I watched Episode one, and push my buttons, I am certain, it's actually pretty good. I like the character designs, although it's obvious that the initial penciller comes from the Manga world; there's a lot of attention given to eyes and so forth, giving it a realistic sense, and even if the frames are computer filled it must take a lot of work to get that look.
It's also mixed with a lot of CGI for the background. Starships are blended with hand-drawn mecha in the battles, and it all's not quite so seamless as it could be.
The plot is straight anime S/F. Humans face a threat from an alien species, the "Gnosis," who apparently know a lot more about the nature of hyperspace than humans, and can phase through walls and get into starships. They're only attackable when they're firing their weapons or engaging in hand-to-hand. The opening episode features a human combat fleet which is heavily populated with "Vector Corporate" ships. Vector apparently makes AIs and robots, one of which is supposed to be the "ultimate anti-Gnosis combat robot."
The Gnosis have a sneak attack, and the "anti-Gnosis combat robot" (who's a babe, by the way-- hey, it's anime), which has so far not been well-tested, gets loose.
I actually like it. It's space opera on a vast scale, there's actually decent treatment of robot rights, and the super-pilot who can kill Gnosis with his teeth is an anti-robot bigot who doesn't seem like the type who'll be redeemed of his opinion by the end of the story. Oh, and the heroine AI developer is the librarian-with-glasses type. Yum!
It's also mixed with a lot of CGI for the background. Starships are blended with hand-drawn mecha in the battles, and it all's not quite so seamless as it could be.
The plot is straight anime S/F. Humans face a threat from an alien species, the "Gnosis," who apparently know a lot more about the nature of hyperspace than humans, and can phase through walls and get into starships. They're only attackable when they're firing their weapons or engaging in hand-to-hand. The opening episode features a human combat fleet which is heavily populated with "Vector Corporate" ships. Vector apparently makes AIs and robots, one of which is supposed to be the "ultimate anti-Gnosis combat robot."
The Gnosis have a sneak attack, and the "anti-Gnosis combat robot" (who's a babe, by the way-- hey, it's anime), which has so far not been well-tested, gets loose.
I actually like it. It's space opera on a vast scale, there's actually decent treatment of robot rights, and the super-pilot who can kill Gnosis with his teeth is an anti-robot bigot who doesn't seem like the type who'll be redeemed of his opinion by the end of the story. Oh, and the heroine AI developer is the librarian-with-glasses type. Yum!
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Date: 2005-01-12 03:33 pm (UTC)It's eating my brain already and I don't even have the game yet.