So over 2-3 months I rewatched Elfen Lied and Welcome to the NHK! Only this time with English dubs, which was a tolerable, if not preferable, experience - there's always one or two particularly annoying voices.

Elfen Lied. Its human characters are fine, the animation is good and I've always been a fan of its violence - there's lots of it sure but it doesn't have the detail to make you feel its really over the top. It's what wee should expect from a girl with that kind of power. I always loved its ending, specifically how things are concluded between Lucy and Kouta. Fourth time seeing it now and I don't doubt I'll end up seeing it again.

Welcome to the NHK. Not so much reliant on tropes but playing to them instead ... the amplification of peoples misery for humour ... the repeated abandonment of hope and an inconclusive ending. Perhaps its right that it ended that way? The show was just teasing hope for Satou all along anyway.

(This post was last modified: 08/11/2015 06:30 AM by S7*.)