JAPAN GIVES GIRLS AWESOMER ANGSTY ORIGINS AND THAT'S THAT!!!

[meganbmoore]

So, I am 20 minutes into the jmovie Azumi and have officially added Azumi to the shortlist of Supremely Awesome Angsty origins.

So, Azumi is found on the beach as a little girl with her mother's corpse.  The guy who found her was collecting kids to raise to be assassins.  Apparently one of the Tokugawa shoguns (ah...uhm...I was lazy and didn't note which!) told one of his warriors to find kids and raise them to be assassins and wipe out all the warlords who opposed them.  This was so urgent that it could wait a good 10-15 years.

ANYWAY!

Azumi and one of the other kids, Nachi, do the whole "childhood angty true love hanfholding" thing and walk off together and grow up into Ueto Aya and Oguri Shun.  Possibly I understand now why youtube is often filled with shipper fanfic vids of those two, as they have pretty decent chemistry.  Azumi is stoic angsty and Nachi is sweet and open angsty.

As a final lesson, their master tells them to pair up with their favorite other assassin in training, and then tells them to kill their partner.

OH NOES!

ANGST!

So Azumi and Nachi stand there staring stares of angsty denial at each other while there's a slow montage of their friends killing each other, and then Nachi says they both want to live  to get revenge and one has to live and get revenge for both and then Azumi kills him and stands there with his blood splattered all over her while he gives her a necklace as he dies that I'm sure will be very important later.

Oh, and then the survivors burn down their cabin to make sure we understand how tragic and angsty it is!

...

Ok, fine, typing it up, I realize it is more generic in words than it is awesome as you watch.

But the entire cast of Claymore still proves the subject line to be true!

Comments

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

Yeah, come to think of it, that was a pretty good opening section! I watched that back in the days before I knew who Oguri Shun was (yes, back in the Dark Ages, that was), so I can't say that he himself left much of an impression on me. My main memory of the film itself was that it was a very solid piece of cheese :-), and I quite liked it.
I've gotta get onto more Claymore; I've only seen the first episode of the anime to date, and you always make it sound so good.