Comments on: Final Thoughts: Mokke

By: Karura

Karura — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:30:00 +0000

Martin, Michael: The thing is, there were a handful of episodes I enjoyed, and the rest was just anime white noise for me. It’s why I can’t really recommend it unless you have a lot of time on your hands.

TheBigN: I love slice-of-life, but it has to be good slice-of-life. I know not everything can be happiness and light, but Mokke seemed overly determined to ram its message home for me.

maglor: Although the visuals were an issue, I never consider them the be-all and end all of a series, so I was focusing on other aspects too. I guess ultimately it just didn’t click with me when there are better examples of episodic supernatural series out there.

By: maglor

maglor — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:58:18 +0000

If you concentrate on the visuals, Mokke is not your thing. I was very engaged by how they tried to deal with many difficult issues in real life. It also had one of the best OP and ED song for last 5 years, and I have found the series to be very enjoyable.

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:34:13 +0000

Despite all the “sinister” aspects of what the sisters had to deal with, Mokke was actually a good way to relax for me. I don’t think the outlook was that pessimistic at all, but just that in terms of learning how to cope with the powers they have, they’re bound to come into less than wholesome elements. And there wasn’t that much of a focus on those aspects save for the first episode I thought. I focused more on the slice-of-lifish elements of the series, so there’s probably bias with that, but even with grandfather letting the sisters know that they should be wary, the warnings had a parental tone to them. The lessons learned weren’t necessarily kind on them, but I don’t think the negative aspects dragged the show down.

I guess it depends on how you look at it though. :/

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:25:13 +0000

While I am fond of pessimistic novels, I am not very fond of it when it comes to anime. Anime, after all, for me needs to entertain primarily before it informs or elucidates on different issues in this world. I’m currently downloading it, but I’ll probably just check on the first episode. I trust your reviews, and this article doesn’t seem to bode well for the series.

Of course I’ll still check it out. Thanks for the forewarning, though.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:55:08 +0000

Sounds like I did the right thing by dropping this one then. You’re dead-on with the idea that it’s a show “you use to fill time when there’s nothing better to do” - sadly I had too damned much to do while Mokke was airing, and coupled with the subbing group whose video quality was higher dropping it as well, my interest fell away.

The said video quality was a real problem for me - it was a pretty-yet-plain show that lacked real sparkle. Another unfortunate case of ‘not bad but could have been so much more.’