![]() ![]() Horror Review: The Walking Dead Season Two.Horror Review: Yahtzee Croshaw’s Chzo Mythos Part 1 – 5 Days a Stranger.Horror Review: Yahtzee Croshaw’s Chzo Mythos Part 2 – 7 Days a Skeptic.Sci-Fi Review – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (dir.One can watch it on Youtube on their streaming service, yet I recommend that people who have a huge HDTV (especially the latest 4K screens) watch it on that to see hand-drawn animation at it’s best. Redline might not the be the greatest story ever told in anime, but for pure-adrenaline action from beginning to end there’s none better. The two share similar traits and follow that racing creed that the Vin Diesel franchise has popularized: “Ride or Die”. ![]() The latest Fast and Furious films are attempts to make a live-action version of Redline. Some have called Redline as the anime version of the latest Fast and Furious films (mainly the last two), but I disagree with that assessment. There’s so much action going on in the film that one could easily lose themselves in all that kinetic energy to forgive it’s story’s basic simplicity. It’s all about the action and animation that makes this film one of those anime that people really should be watching. Yet, it’s not the story that will hook and pull in anime fans both veterans and newbies. ![]() Redline barely brings the main leads past being cardboard cutouts as characters, but the story gives the two enough backstory to make them easy to relate to. The story revolves around the main characters of Sweet JP, with his ludicrous pompadour (the subject of many jokes in the film) and 50’s-style Greaser leather jacket, and his main rival and love interest in Sonoshee. It’s a story about the a futuristic race that uses the greatest groundcar racers in the galaxy (instead of the current hovercar this world has turned to using) to tell a story about the underdog fighting against adversity to win not just the ultimate prize but the love of a girl who also happens to be one of his main rivals in the film. The plot for Redline is really not that complex and for some it’s too simple that it became a flaw. It’s a film that showed many of Koike-san’s artistic influences from his mentor Yoshiaki Kawajiri (well-known for classic anime titles as Vampire Hunter D and Ninja Scroll) right up to the thick lines and heavy blacks of Frank Miller. This was a project that pushed the animation to it’s limits with the film using over 100,000 hand-drawn pages of animations that at times looked like it was something that looked more computer-generated. Redline was directed by Takeshi Koike and it took him and his crew of animators from Madhouse a total of seven years and millions of dollars to finish the project. It’s a wall-to-wall scifi action film that combines futuristic setting and world-building with the speed freak action of the racing genre. One recent anime that pretty much takes this hyperkinetic style to a new level was 2009’s OVA (original video animation) title from renowned anime studio Madhouse simply called Redline. Where Western animation has a much more flowing style that tries to mimic realism in the artform with anime we get intense action in the animation no matter what genre. I haven't seen the film in a couple of years, but Redline certainly isn't a film I'd describe as amazing.more a mildly diverting experience which only really stands-out on account of its relatively fluid animation.Anime has always skewed towards the hyperkinetic imagery that most Western animation rarely, if ever, put on the screen. Plus, although the film is well animated.there's a certain grotesqueness to the animation style I find slightly off-putting. I think in many respects it's a rather shallow film. It's fluidly animated and there's a lot of frantic creativity when it comes to its visuals, but the story at its heart is pretty hackneyed and uninspiring, in addition to its characters.who are more sort of bland archetypes than fully dimensional, engaging characters in their own right. Someone earlier described this film as more "style over substance", and I think that pretty much hits the nail on the head when it comes to Redline for me. a hugely positive or hugely negative reaction) that they're asked to expand upon their perspective, but I guess I'm happy to oblige. It's usually when they have a more extreme reaction to said piece of entertainment (ie. Haha, well.I've never really found that people have to justify a middling opinion when it comes to their subjective view on a piece of entertainment. ![]()
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