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[meganbmoore]

Anyone have any opinions on the following:

Banner of the Stars
D.N.Angel
Elfen Lied
Gantz
Serial Experiments Lain The f-list, it disapproves.
Speed Grapher
Vandread

Also, Blue Seed OVA: Yes? Maybe? "Think 'Slayers OVA'?" Etc?

Please put major spoilers under this code: <span style="color: #333333;background-color: #333333">Spoilers here.</span>

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I love GitS(series, at least, though movise are good, too) but am not familiar with the others.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Well, hmmm, let's see. In the slower bits of GITS, did you ever find yourself thinking "shut up about all the philosophizing about the nature of human identity, and go have a kickass action sequence instead?" The more often that happened, the more likely you are to find Lain slow and tedious and confusing. OTOH, if you ate that stuff up with a spoon, you might enjoy Lain quite a bit. The mindfuckery here is a lot more like the quieter bits of GITS and less like, say, the ending of Wolf's Rain or Utena when it starts going all weirdly psychosexual and symbolic; it's also fairly slow-paced and takes a while before you start to figure out what's going on, although since you liked Mushi-shi I don't think that's an automatic strike against it...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I was...mostly neutral about it. And I have no real issues with the ending of Wolf's Rain, beyond sadness of what was done to Darcia's character(all of which I completely blame on Jaguara...What? *spoilery-d* his *spoiler* and then that whole poisoned knife bit...) Though Utena did lose me...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Well, if you didn't find those bits deeply tiresome, you might at least not hate Lain from the get-go...but I'm not sure if you'd ever feel much more than a neutral "well, that was kind of interesting" about it.