Longbow's Anime
take a look at Longbow's Manga| Stinkers▲▼ | Rating▲▼ | Comment▲▼ |
| (The) Animatrix (OAV) | Awful | Wow, the Warshawski Brothers know where to rip off from to make a whole pile of money. Tie in to a tie in? Commercial, marketing crap. |
| Black Jack The Movie | Weak | Started well, decended into predictability with a Deus Ex Machina ending. |
| Crying Freeman (OAV) | Awful | Met my expectations... awful. Production quality was horrid. As evidence, look for the disappearing "tidy whities" early in the first OVA. |
| éX-Driver (OAV) | Awful | Nice cars. What exactly was the point of this... Reminded me of the "Fast and the Tedious"; pretty cars and no plot. |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Individual Eleven (OAV) | Weak | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (OAV) | Weak | |
| Madlax (TV) | Weak | What exactly were the writers trying to do here? Noir started mysterious but hooked your attention (when it wasn't filler...); Madlax started mysterious and went to confusing. What's up with the evening dress? |
| Naruto (TV) | Weak | Not impressed, not my age group either. It's a long series of commercials to get kids to buy the merchandise. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) | Bad | This is a psychoanalytic (in the LITERARY sense) coming of age story. As teens we see challenges and problems in our lives as grand and dramatic. The storyline is that of a teen, Shinji, working through the trials and tribulations as an adolescent exaggerated to the point of the surreal. The Kabbalistic and Gnostic Christian trappings are rather irrelevant, as are the sci-fi. The major problem here is not how the themes were approached, but that too many themes were incorporated in the first place, burying the story. The failure here was that the scope was too broad. |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) | Bad | This was essentially a two hour recap episode. See comment above for "NGE". |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) | Worst ever | Sex, gore and pseudo-religious trappings sell like hotcakes, making this film the ultimate in "fanwank". I was satisfied with the ending presented in NGE TV; DaR and EoE were unnecessary. The only purpose for these two films was to pander to the fans and line the pockets of Gainax, Anno and Company. |
| Saiyuki (TV) | Bad | Huh? |
| Solty Rei (TV) | Weak | Is there a story here? |
| UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (TV) | Weak | What a spiteful, nasty little child. A good spanking once in a while may help that, although that would be at the risk of even more lolicon fanservice... ick... |
| Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan (movie) | Bad | |
| Wedding Peach (TV) | Awful | Holy cow!?!?!? What was I thinking? My eyes may heal, but my psyche will never recover. |