Sep 30, 2009
HATE FUN 2001! Angelic Layer
And now we are getting to shows that I’ve written deliberately bland descriptive synopses for in my old job!
A CLAMP show with clear echoes of Plawres Sanshiro, the impression I got from writing those synopses (and never watching the show) was it was “CLAMP does Pokemon”. However, by making it miniature robots fighting they are taking the genre back to its roots (Plawres Sanshiro seems like a key historical series from this point of view).
Director Hiroshi Nishikiori (Ayakashi Ayashi, Gad Guard) is always as good as his material, and sometimes better than the material deserves. I can never see him being anyone’s favourite director, but can give polish to the most average material and bring out the best in good material (as we shall see later).
This was enjoyable: pretty standard stuff, but the fights were unusually well-done. I know it kept me watching, in any case.