Hige briefly looks over episode two of Kemonozume. God my backlog is huge...
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When I first heard about this, I thought it'd be some creepy thing and thought I'd stay away from it. Well. It certainly wasn't what I expected. Too bad it wasn't a drama about a woman who was born with a dino-arm and finds love in some unexpected place, that would've been my kinda [...]
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The moment I clapped eyes on its highly evocative promo art, I knew I'd love Kemonozume. It just looks so damn cool, completely in another league to the typical "doll face" anime style; here characters look and move like real people, the fluidity of movement and facial expression oddly fascinating. Forget following the narrative- simply watching Kemonozume in full flow is enough of an immersive experience, the animation is wonderful. Like Noein, where the sheer visceral speed of the moving characters somewhat deforms their cliché an..
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OP - Over Blue (Katteni Shiyagare) - jazzy! Also much screaming and abstraction. Me likey. ED - Suki (Santara) - nice enough song, pretty images, fairly unexciting but it does nicely. Toshihiko is the eldest son of a family demon-hunting business, the Kifuuken; demons walk the Earth disguised as humans, and they hunt them down with [...]
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You had me at kemono. The premise of a demon hunter falling in love with a demon appealed to me. The picture on AniDB also interested me in some strange, passionate way. Despite being about love, there's no romance. Unless spur of the moment sex is considered romantic. Speaking of sex, who showers with [...]
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The uber-high definition raw of Kemono Zume was released recently, and I had a chance to check it out. In my Summer 2006 anime preview, I figured this anime would resemble Blood+. My predictions been totally off this season… In the world of Kemono Zume, there are Shokujinki (cannibalistic were-humans), and Kifuuken, a counter-Shokujinki fighting group. [...]
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Do the Summer 2006 Anime Preview ever stop? I hope not. Here’s the third of the anime preview trilogy (which might have more than three parts!): Kemono Zume Kemono Zume is the tale of two star-crossed lovers; A monster, and a monster hunter. Such cruel fate! It’s like Romeo and Juliet, except with swords and claws! So [...]
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