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? =/
The Animanachronism said,
July 31, 2008 at 7:50 am
I found the narrator disturbed my immersion in the story too, but I thought it helped: the show has unpleasant rich people watching Kaiji suffer for enjoyment, and the narrator reminds us that we’re sort of watchinig Kaiji suffer for our enjoyment too.
Rebecca said,
July 31, 2008 at 10:26 am
Yeah, I’m just hoping this’ll be one of those things I get over sooner or later. Hopefully because it really detracts from the show.