Comments on: Bee Train: All stills and not much else?

By: pete

pete — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:58:27 +0000

.hack – um, //dusk (LOTT), IMHO, was the most enjoyable. //sign was too boring for my taste.
noir – a very good series, would’ve been better if it were a little more BLOODY.Okay,so there was a total absence of blood despite its violent scences,but hell,i’d take it over madlax any day.
TRC – should’ve stuck to the manga.stupid filler.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:35:45 +0000

Really, of those animes on the list, Noir was the only one I finished, and that was back in my early anime days.

None of them are really that good. I dumped .hack//SIGN because /nothing was happening/. I’m sure it got better toward the end, but it was a bore to watch.

I’ve read some of the Tsubasa Chronicles manga, and found the story really engaging. Surprisingly enough that was after watching maybe 10 episodes of the anime and dumping it.

Perhaps I’m just too hard to please, but it feels like they can’t make truly interesting and gripping anime. One sign I look for when watching an anime is whether or not I’m checking to see how much time remains in an episode at various points throughout the episode. If I’m doing that, then it’s usually time to dump the anime and find another one to sink some time into.

By: Necromancer

Necromancer — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:01:59 +0000

“I’m hoping the R2 box set will get cheap secondhand pretty soon.”

There isn’t a R2 box set for SIGN yet (unless you mean japanese R2, lol), I have the 7 UK R2′s with the artbox, one of my faves :D (and I paid £15 a vol, lol)

By: Hige

Hige — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:50:38 +0000

My experience with Bee Train only really extends to the first few .hack//SIGN episodes, two Noir and spots of Tsubasa.

All of which, to be honest, I found tedious. I really want to give SIGN another chance, though, as it has Sadamoto’s designs and the underlying ideas seem appealing (now I’m over the ‘where’s the action? This is an MMORPG…’). I’m hoping the R2 box set will get cheap secondhand pretty soon.

By: Karura

Karura — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:20:13 +0000

Yes I do, thanks for asking.

By: Pinoy

Pinoy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:17:37 +0000

i love madlax! Do you have more screencaps

By: Karura

Karura — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:53:48 +0000

I’d forgotten about conversations with SSS, but now that I think back the ones I saw were funny. I’m afraid Madlax just wasn’t for me, though; by volume four I was starting to fall asleep in front of the TV, and the rest just required a little too much suspension of disbelief (plus I felt there were a lot of better storylines that could have been made from the initial setup).
Also, Limelda was a just a bit too laughable a rival for me. It was all “I’ll get you, Madlax!”, but when she had the chance to shoot she’d just stand motionlessly until Madlax escaped, before exclaiming “Damn! I’ll get you next time!”

Anga: I watched the first fourteen episodes of Roots thinking “all right, so this week wasn’t so great, but next week the plot will get going.” Eventually I cottoned on to the fact that it wasn’t ever going to happen, so I just made up my own plot for the parodies.

By: KT Kore

KT Kore — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:03:48 +0000

I liked Madlax, as well. More than Noir, actually. It, along with Noir, are the only two Bee Train anime that I enjoyed through and through, in fact. Do better Karura. :P

By: cclragnarok

cclragnarok — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:57:09 +0000

I also really liked Madlax. I think Noir is a little better overall though, if only for Kirika’s cool assassination scenes.

The music was by far the best thing about both series, but they had other good points too.

By: Tallon

Tallon — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:49:48 +0000

Im with the very-tiny majority thats said so at this point, i really liked Madlax. Its not SUPPOSED to be an ZOMAITHATSSOWREAL1z! show. Its basically .hack and Noir smushed together into one thing, actually its pretty much EXACTLY that.

Besides, on the US dvd’s you get conversations with SSS for an extra (which is really surprising seeing as how theres rarely any real extras on anime dvd’s anymore) on every dvd. Those are worth the purchase of the whole show all on their own. O:

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