Long time no blog! I will try to do a better job keeping this up to date, I've just been busy with other things. Today I want to talk about anime. Anime frequently start running filler episodes, and/or have episodes filled completely with humor that has a target audience age of around 10-12 years old. This sucks. A lot. It turns a genre of shows that I really like into childish crap. Many shows hit this snag and they turn into kids' shows rather than great adult television. Gun Sword doesn't go there, and therefore I love it.
Gun Sword has a story to tell, and it tells it. The show only has about 26 episodes. It completes the story and its over. It doesn't have a load of filler crap, or episodes dedicated to fart jokes and fluffy clouds for 10 year olds. I watched the entire show in 3 days, and I was sad that such an epic story was so short, a blessing and a curse. The world Gun Sword establishes is amazing. It has a lot of attitude, and the mechs are awesome. The characters are believable. Van isn't just some happy hero going out to do a great deed for the glory of justice. Van has a score to settle, revenge against the Clawed Man, and he is going to MESS HIM UP. Van can be related to, he is flawed and makes mistakes. The fight scenes in this show are great (its mostly mecha battles).
The story of Gun Sword focuses on a man named Van, who we learn possesses a powerful mecha. He starts off as a rather mysterious character, and all we know to start with is that he is out for revenge against the Clawed Man. Van saves a town early in his travels, and a girl there accompanies him to search for his brother. I thought this young girl would be the bane of my existence with this show, as they frequently become the center of the childish elements that ruin so many anime shows. I'm not going to claim there is never a childish moment, but Gun Sword stays away from this MUCH better than most animes I've seen.
Gun Sword is a great ride, and it was streamable on Netflix when I watched it a few months ago. If you enjoy anime and get the chance to watch Gun Sword, give it a try, I promise you won't regret it.
When I saw the title "Gun Sword", I thought for sure this was going to be about Spoony's review of FF8.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what's the point of attaching a gun to a sword?!!
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FF8 is gunblade not gunsword. It isn't a terrible concept, it was just done poorly in FF8. No spot for the bullet to fire from, and the grip is like a regular gun which would insta-break your wrist if you hit something with the sword.
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