With this, I’m sure: Un-Go is along with Chihayafuru my favourite show of the Autumn season. What can I say? I’m a sucker for episodic shows done right.
This season has a lot of creative series with creative premises and backgrounds. Un-Go is no exception to this, but what sets it apart from all of the other sis how it uses its creativity. I really like how much the creators managed to cram into just two episodes. This episode in particular was just chock full of neat ideas, creative twists, science fiction. I in particular love how well this show manages to use its apocalyptic setting as the basis for its murder mysteries. That’s what managed to turn this into a unique mystery.
What’s more: it also seems that this series understands what it means to be a Noitamina series. Leaving Guilty Crown aside with its 22 episodes, the pacing in this show is really fast, but not so rushed that it takes away from the storytelling. The decision to focus more on storytelling and setting than on characters had an interesting effect compared to C: the creators really can cram in as much as possible into just one episode. This definitely is not an easy show to watch: you need to be constantly paying attention in order to keep up with all of the revelations. It’s great to see another one of those series where you have to put in effort to really understand everything that’s going on.
In any case, I was looking forward to this show right from the beginning, thanks to the staff who are behind this show. Un-Go had definitely the best pedigree out of any of the fall series, and that’s saying something in a season with two Sato Junichi shows. Of course the director of Oh Edo Rocket and the first Full Metal Alchemist series is a plus, but what immediately sold me was that this thing is written by Shou Aikawa. This guy has written a truckload of original stories for anime, most of which sparkled with very inspired writing and creativity. This is the guy who came up with Oh Edo Rocket, Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi, Nadesico, and even Simoun, of all things.
What’s more: the producers got themselves a sound director who really knows what he’s doing. The music in this series doesn’t just feel like random background noise, but is really well timed for each of the scenes. In particular the tracks of the idol songs were perfectly played in according to what went on on the screen (which especially sounded nice during the download scene). What also surprises me is that the creators actually showed the difference between J-Pop idols and people who can actually sing well: the voice they got for the girl who was supposed to play for the part of the dead girl really was significantly better than the other members of the idol group, who were just in for their looks.
One complaint about this episode: continuity. One moment the male lead has scars on his face. A few scenes later, they’re completely gone. Also, the characters still aren’t the strong point of this series, but it has more than enough to make up for that.
Rating: ** (Excellent)]]>
Un-Go – 02
If you are referring to those bloody hand prints Inga left on Shinjurou, we see him wash his face in the next scene!
I was more concerned about how he got the full soundtrack of her song despite never properly recorded it.
I thought he was scarred at first too, but he is shown washing his face, and after that the marks are greatly diminished. It could be as @gurogami said, that those were bloody handprints. Exactly what happened there is still quite mysterious.
@Evil Sex God of Doom – He recorded it when they’ve met, you can see how he stopped the recording when they closed the gate
@Evil Sex God of Doom
If the Dol-Pli program is anything like the vocaloid, then all Shinjuro had to do was obtain the lyrics and the melody. It’s just An’s voice data being played, I’m sure.
I’ll take a stab at the mystery behind the bloody scar on his face. We clearly see that the scar was completely gone after he washed it. He probably possesses an ability to heal really fast. He probably obtained this from Inga when he was dying and coughing blood from the accident shown during the beginning of episode 1.
I’ll take a stab at the mystery behind the bloody scar on his face. We clearly see that the scar was completely gone after he washed it. He probably possesses an ability to heal really fast. He probably obtained this from Inga when he was dying and coughing blood from the accident shown during the beginning of episode 1.
I’m a bit confused. Was Osada An arrested or let go of? If she was let go, was it because Kaishou felt sorry about using her voice when she was young during the war and she wasn’t allowed to sing when she grew up? And what was Kaishou doing on his computer about the uploading? Who actually killed Aramaki?
Aramaki killed himself and it did look like they let Osada An go – perhaps as a deal; she walks free so long as she doesn’t expose the truth behind the singer and the tape i assume? anyway i’m enjoying this so far its got potential.
That ED is tooo good.
@dj
I think so too! The piano bit at the start reminds me of something else that I’ve heard but I can’t think what for the life of me.
Umm weren’t the marks on his face just from being grabbed so hard? We see that he is pain and crying after he is dropped. There wouldn’t be any permanent scarring and the flushed features would go away if cooled down with cold water.