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Villhelmya



Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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Location: London, England
PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:46 pm Reply with quote
Today i just brought helising and noir's 1st dvd's. I couldnt help notice a distinct lack of character emotion from both. Not so much in noir ( however sometimes i couldnt belive her tears and lonlines). But helsing lack of emotion was terrible, especialy victoria her face hadnt changed atall when
1.met a undead enemy which she probaly had no knoledge of existance
2.saw all of her mates die
3.saw all of her mated live again and try to kill her
4.saw a telaporting maniac sclise through a woman
5. and final being held by a bloodsucking preist

This hapened throughout the other 2 episodes too, and it completly unmoved me, i'm not saying helising was bad, infact i will buy the other dvd's but you just cant relate to the characters feelings (sounds wimpy but it's all subconcously why we think a anime is truly amazing).

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about the anime's i described or had any emotionless anime to disscuss, or on the other hand have a truly moving peice (e.g grave of the fireflys) to redeem the others?
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Zalis116
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:30 pm Reply with quote
With Noir, Mireille and Kirika are hired assassins, and Kirika has select issues of her own, so I think that not displaying emotions is the name of the game for them.

I never really thought about that in Hellsing; maybe Victoria was just in so much shock through all of it that she couldn't react. I thought there was some reaction early on, when she was talking about, "I don't want them to keep calling me 'kitten' forever

If you want lists of more shows with emotional content, read through these two posts:

animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17636
animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7866

often, but not always, emotional reaction in the viewer is keyed to emotions displayed by the characters, so threads like these or the "Most Memorable Death" thread that's currently running should provide some good ideas.
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BoygetsfireD



Joined: 03 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:53 pm Reply with quote
I've never seen the Hellsing anime, but in Noir I think the emotions (or relative lack thereof) fits really well into the mood of the piece. Besides, they open up a little more (especially Merielle) as the series goes on
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Villhelmya



Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:08 am Reply with quote
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Besides, they open up a little more (especially Merielle) as the series goes on


thats good ,as with other anime, when a character opens up slowly over a period of time, it just captivates me and i cant stop watching. Then everything else around me becomes insignificant. thats when you know youve found somthing
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