Quick Summary: The Yaoi art version of a gay step son of Hellsing and Trigun, with bad recylced
Gonzo cg, and bits of stupid and over-used plot devices thrown in.
My take: To be honest, I was expecting a really bad yaoi fangirl fwap fest from all the
bishounen art that's in this show, and I'm not that far off-base. Yaoi fangirls must be flocking to this like they did to Weiss Kruez, Saiyuki, and Gay Backers.
Anyway it's by gonzo, which means it has bad CG and probably a lame ending.
Now that I think about it, it seems like half the shows I've reviewed so far are gonzo, and they all suck.
The opening song is pretty good actually. So the story seems to take place in the far future after
humanity has caused Armageddon to happen. I thought that was really novel; no one has every used that as a plot device in anime before.
The animation is really funny because parts of it look really high quality and parts of it look SUPER low
budget. Gonzo has also reused a lot of designs they must have thrown away for Last Exile and Gankutsuou,
since lame airships abound. Hell you can see bits of reused character design in every character, even a 1:1 copy from Chrno Chrusade.
Moving on, the main character is some faggy bishounen who drops his pants for yaoi at any sign of male ass.
Well ok, maybe only in the yaoi fanfics that are being written as we speak by 300lb fan girls,
but that's what he looks like. His name is like Abel Nightrod or something. Nightrod just sounds like a yaoi
character's name, so even if that's not, I'm leaving it. Just think about the joke potential.
"Yo man, check out my ABLE NIGHT ROD, AROD got nothing on this!"
So someone explain to me the attraction to effeminate male lead characters?
Edit: Thanks to mikedude. He informs me that gay guys who are closeted like himself,
like to pretend that the man they're fantasizing about sodomizing resemble a woman.
This is so that they feel less guilty for not being openly gay. Anyway, you know the main character is a fruit;
what kind of man orders tea with 13 sugars?! ZOMG It's the matrix!!1! Teh Vampirez control the matrix!!1
OK there's some gay shit at the "Vatican" (I think, you can never tell with spoken Engrish),
having to do with blowing some ship out of the sky because it has been attacked by a vampire or something.
The "pope" guy seems to be a wimp and he has a bishounen looking older sister,
and a gay looking older brother advising him to take two different courses of action.
I get the feeling that off camera the 3 of them have some kind of incestuous orgy.
Jesus Christ, they just played the "lost technology" card from every sci-fi anime ever™.
I had started listing all the anime that had used lost technology, but the list was like 40 entries long.
Where is the goddamn originality? The dialogue is god awful as well. Zomg super plot twist time,
Abel is a vampire who drinks other vampires' blood or something. Yeah. Ok.
This sounds like a plot device Taishi would jizz uncontrollably over. Actually I have no idea if he would or not,
but I couldn't just end a review without bashing random fansubbers. Anyway, apparently Trinity Blood has a yaoi fangirl abbreviation,
ToriBla. PSA: like I said earlier, if you use japanese abbreviations like this,
and you don't speak japanese on a daily basis, you are a faggot fan boy.
That means you Taishi. That means you Ele. Anyway back to the show.
ZOMGWTFBBQ where did he pull that huge ass staff from; it's not like he has Spawn's cape to hide that shit in.
That must be his NIGHTROD 1. No wonder all the yaoi fans are all over this,
if he can pull a staff like that out of thin air, imagine what he can pull out of his pants.
This show being a complete ripoff of Trigun, he'll have 2 more Nightrods, 1 in his pants and...well I'll leave the last
Nightrod upto your imagination. Bleh, the final fight was pretty lame =/. OOO Missile versus gunship! And that ends the ep. Surprisingly, no overt yaoi.
The ending has all sorts of yaoi-style art even though it's a "man" and a woman; the song is tolerable, but nothing special.
Verdict: Gonzo has another loser that will be quickly licensed.
If this show could be any more trite, it would need robots and exploding cross symbolism.
I'm sort of expecting gonzo to introduce those in episode 2. Which I won't watch.
Score wise, solid 5, only because of the action, because there's a fair amount of it to keep it entertaining between the recycled plot elements.
Might be worth watching, but honestly the chance of it not sucking is similar to the odds of finding
an asian girl who's both cute and not fucked in the head. I did some rudimentary calculations and
figured there are only 5000 of in existence out of 1 billion.
