Kaiji – 7
Can I just say something here? I watched the first six episodes awhile ago and then took a break for multiple reasons. One of them was that I suddenly had a lot less time to watch anime. Second reason was because of the narrator. He really starts to get on my nerves now. It makes the whole show turn from mystery/detective to game show all of a sudden and it kind of breaks my mood. He doesn’t even say anything remotely important. He only repeats what all the viewers already know.
“The air around shrinks them.”
“The space begins to suffocate them.”
Isn’t this a classic ’show us, don’t tell us’ situation? =/
Red Garden – 3
This is really a creepy show. Apart from the creepy character designs, especially that Lula woman, sometimes near the end of the episode, one of the girls will start singing a sad and creepy song and it just is a little scary watching this. Other than that, I’m hoping the girls will get over their ‘I can’t believe I’m dead’ phase and stop screaming all the time. I know it can’t be helped but seriously, a lot of screaming is no good to me.
So I’m curious. These girls that Lula and that other guy pick have lost the will to live, so she says. So is that the only criteria in how she picks the girls? It’s interesting what happened. Lise was kidnapped I suppose and brought into some mansion. Lula went to find her and so did the four girls (don’t know why though) and that’s where they were killed by what looks like Lula’s partner and some other guy. Then she revived the four girls so that they could live on borrowed lives and during a car chase, only Lise was taken. So now, monster-men things are going to come after them (I guess because they’re dead now?) and their only way to stay alive is to kill. Alrighty then. What will next episode reveal, although I’m not sure how long I’ll keep up with this?
