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meganbmoore The makers of Azumi decided that falling sakura petals were passe in conveying angst. Instead, our assassins are showered with dead leaves as they embark upon their bloodstained path.
It's beautiful.
This is the best thing since Death Trance, Taitei no Ken, and Dororo!
It's beautiful.
Oh, the shounen angsty crack, let me show it to you:
When realizing the nice man she's discussing fishing with is her target, Azumi covers him with a white sheet so that she can't see his face while she kills him. This is her first kill after her Childhood Friend and First love, Nachi.
When watching a village get slaughtered, Azumi has a flashback and sees herself crying over her mother's corpse in her own village. Don't question why the flashback had her and her mother in a village, but the opening scene had them on a beach.
Naturally, she becomes torn! Are her victims really evil? OH! THE MORAL DILEMMA!
Later, one of her friends gets sick from poisoning. When their master is going to put him out of his misery, Azumi pulls her sword to stop him, and suddenly everyone's sword is pointing at someone! Master then tells Azumi that she cannot kill a fly anymore, and is no longer ana assassin, and leaves. Sick Friend feels left out, and slits his own throat in a fit of angst. Meanwhile, one of the other guys brought a cute girl home, and she was standing against the wall all "ok, we're marrying into my family, not his!"
Later, Friend and Girlie are going to her village, when they are waylaid by a pale, effeminate assassin waving around a rose. When he saw that one of Friend's swords was broken, he made his underling loan Friend one so it would be a fair fight. I was depressed when Assassin fought with a sword instead of the rose. Assassin also said he hoped the next fight was more fun after killing Friend in about 30 seconds. I think it was boring because he used a sword instead of the rose.
After they buried friend, Girlie understandably told Azumi they were all nuts.
There was also this random band of shounen villains. They were introduced by having the leaders arm wrestle with an axe on one side and a 2 inch wide dart on the other. After skewering his hand with the dart, the loser wondered if he should get a hole in the other hand so he'd have a matching set.
Now, if you'll excuse me, the Evil Underling who looks like a monkey and the ninja who acts like one are fighting.
When realizing the nice man she's discussing fishing with is her target, Azumi covers him with a white sheet so that she can't see his face while she kills him. This is her first kill after her Childhood Friend and First love, Nachi.
When watching a village get slaughtered, Azumi has a flashback and sees herself crying over her mother's corpse in her own village. Don't question why the flashback had her and her mother in a village, but the opening scene had them on a beach.
Naturally, she becomes torn! Are her victims really evil? OH! THE MORAL DILEMMA!
Later, one of her friends gets sick from poisoning. When their master is going to put him out of his misery, Azumi pulls her sword to stop him, and suddenly everyone's sword is pointing at someone! Master then tells Azumi that she cannot kill a fly anymore, and is no longer ana assassin, and leaves. Sick Friend feels left out, and slits his own throat in a fit of angst. Meanwhile, one of the other guys brought a cute girl home, and she was standing against the wall all "ok, we're marrying into my family, not his!"
Later, Friend and Girlie are going to her village, when they are waylaid by a pale, effeminate assassin waving around a rose. When he saw that one of Friend's swords was broken, he made his underling loan Friend one so it would be a fair fight. I was depressed when Assassin fought with a sword instead of the rose. Assassin also said he hoped the next fight was more fun after killing Friend in about 30 seconds. I think it was boring because he used a sword instead of the rose.
After they buried friend, Girlie understandably told Azumi they were all nuts.
There was also this random band of shounen villains. They were introduced by having the leaders arm wrestle with an axe on one side and a 2 inch wide dart on the other. After skewering his hand with the dart, the loser wondered if he should get a hole in the other hand so he'd have a matching set.
Now, if you'll excuse me, the Evil Underling who looks like a monkey and the ninja who acts like one are fighting.
This is the best thing since Death Trance, Taitei no Ken, and Dororo!
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Date: 2008-07-13 07:10 pm (UTC)