I Must Be the Only Person Actually Looking Forward to Blassreiter
There is one reason alone I can’t wait for Blassreiter: its story is being done by Nitroplus. Anyone has read the blog for a while will know that I absolutely love Nitroplus, even more than Type-Moon. They have the uncanny knack of mixing together the most diverse elements into something awesome (Lovecraft, mecha, and loli books for Demonbane; Angels and John Woo gun-fu for Angelos Armas; werewolves, androids, and maids for Gekkou no Carnevale). Blassreiter is looking to include zombies, demons, and fucking kamen riders! Admit, how can you go wrong with zombies and kamen riders?
As for the CG work, admittedly Gonzo doesn’t have the best past with CG, but I’ve seen worse CG from other studio and Blassreiter is looking to be one of Gonzo’s better CG efforts. I’ve lived through Demonbane and Dragonaut; a little CG isn’t going to hurt me. I’m hoping Blassreiter will be the dark henshin hero series I’ve been wanting since Skull Man ended. Kiva’s good and all, but I need a little more substance to my superhero fun. And, yes, this as close to a preview post as you’ll get from me. I’m too lazy to copy lists of shows made by other people when I’ll be watching the first episode of everything anyways.
You’re not alone. Nitro+ = win.
Comment on March 19, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
My opinion. I LOVE Nitro+ aswell and all (very excited about the Saya no Uta translation).
But overall I think this can go either really well or go the regular Gonzo path. I will try it out of course. The only Gonzo work I really have liked at all (and plan to watch more of) is Speed Grapher.
But someday I want a anime adpation of one of Nitro+’s visual novels that’s 26 episodes long.
“(Lovecraft, mecha, and loli books for Demonbane; Angels and John Woo gun-fu for Angelos Armas; werewolves, androids, and maids for Gekkou no Carnevale)”
bishi-insane-samurai, dark terroristic future, and total warefare for Hanachirasu.
total-anti-cyborg-killing action, Metropolis Shangai, and cyborgs for Kikoukugai
Comment on March 19, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
The fighting in the trailer has me creaming my pants. If they can have some of that in the actual show, even if it’s a repeat of what’s in the trailer, I’m totally in. Epic choreography is something that’s been sorely lacking in a lot of action shows.
That being said I haven’t played enough Nitro+ games to have a say in this area but I do know a few of their games are related to other stories, like Demonbane, and the western one, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I’m curious as to what they might implement in this one.
All in all, definately one of the very few animes on my list for the coming season.
Comment on March 19, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
I forgot to mention Nitro+ females are always badass, another of the attractions. Cute winged girl at the end.
Comment on March 19, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
It actually looks quite good, thanks for bringing it to my attention. But what really has me going is the music. Any idea whose doing it? Can’t say I’ve heard a lot of Industrial/EBM-ish music in anime, so I can’t even begin to guess who it is.
Anyhow, I don’t have a lot of shows coming up that interest me, so hopefully this’ll turn out good enough to tide me over fairly well.
Comment on March 20, 2008 @ 4:27 am
I don’t know who’s doing the music yet. My best guess would be ZIZZ Studio, since they’ve done the music for every Nitroplus game and this is a joint project with Nitroplus, but I’m not sure at all.
Comment on March 20, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
i thought Zizz has nothing to do with Blessreiter?
Anyhow, you’re not alone, i think there are some great expectations for it, though unfortunately the fact that Gonzo’s running the show does turn people down, especially when the action’s in CG. I personally don’t mind it, but I know a lot of people do.
Mah, I’m looking forward to it, but if it’s as shitty as Dragonauts, I’m dropping it instantly, that show taught me to never give a show a second chance, or a third, or fourth…
Comment on March 20, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Given that I’m a sucker for bikes, guns, ’splosions et cetera I might give this a try. Especially since the word on the street is that it might be streamed internationally legally?
My main worry (as with Macross Frontier) is that this kind of thing can sometimes feel too much like watching someone else play a computer game (happened sometimes in KARAS). But we shall see.
Comment on March 21, 2008 @ 12:17 pm