Short Synopsis: The metal-age and Atlas get attacked by a mysterious party.
Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good)
Okay, so I’m obviously not going to blog the beyond ridiculous Hanasakeru Seishonen, but I’m pretty excited about Gonzo’s new series of Shangri-La.It may not be the most solid series, but it’s got enough of one thing: creativity. It now is the job of the creators to fit this creativity properly into only 24 episodes, but with the guy behind Noein and Birdy the Mighty’s series composition, I think that we can expect some great things from this show. The director himself doesn’t really strike me as anything special or unique, but he has potential, having worked at many different staff position for many different series in the past, and I’m trusting on the experience of these guys to make this series work.
My only complaints about this show so far is just a bit of nit-pickery: in this episode Kuniko and Momoko for example are discovered by the enemy and have to run away for their lives, and while doing so they casually start to talk about golden balls. That doesn’t exactly feel appropriate in that situation, does it?
Nevertheless, there’s lots of nice stuff in this series. I like how when a building gets destroyed, it remains destroyed. The music also rocks, and I also really like the different and varied character-designs. There’s some definite chemistry between the characters, which promises a lot of potential for this series’ second half. All in all, it’s a very fun episode to watch, and yet the darker themes of the show regarding the carbon emissions, military oppression and the dystopian-esque setting don’t lose their impact.
I’m glad to see you’re blogging this, it does seem like a show with lots of potential – and flaws as well, but like CG it could actually be fun for that reason.
Judging by the first episode, I can see the whole “talk about irrelevant things in the face of terror” thing becoming a reoccuring theme, which could actually be quite nice.
I like the show, but one thing that I dislike is that Kiniko is 18 years old. That is her age on the Shangri-la webpage. She doesn’t look older than 14 years O_O
pgal: well, take a look from the other direction: at least she now isn’t an angsty teenaged girl, but an actual adult. 😉 There are girls of her age who really look that young, and this really isn’t the most extreme case of this *coughluckystarcough*.
Agreed, at least she’s quite different from the usual action lead. I loved how despite not really wanting to inherit the leadership when shit hit the fan she jumped right in as the leader during the conflict, no whining no nothing.
With two episodes in, the soundtrack is simply stunning in my opinion.
I also think that piece that played during the chase would be glorious during a big action piece later in the show.
Since I mentioned the ep 1 music in the comments in the post a week ago, regarding the new ep 2 tracks, in addition to the one I mentioned above, I also thought the exploration music when they went out to investigate was incredibly good and that haunting airy piece at the end was as well.
I can’t wait for actual soundtracks to hear the music clean.
Damn that queen (not talking about the fag) and the heterochome loli are being blown up as MAD EVIL. How about some subtlety…
The whole “girl of the people” thing is also tedious.
I like the soldier boy and the hacker girl; and the fag is surprisingly unannoying. Doubt this will be great, but it’s watchable.
heterochrome loli
“I like how when a building gets destroyed, it remains destroyed”
lol
Your screenshots are giving me major Real Drive vibes.
It’s disappointing that the narrative was not focused just like the debut. And we have now have a haxor Dratini… what will they think of next?