Xenosaga Vol. 1: Enter the Gnosis
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Xenosaga Vol. 1: Enter the Gnosis description
Based on a popular PS2 game, the broadcast series Xenosaga (2005) is set in the far future, 4,000 years after humanity abandoned Earth. Mankind is locked in a deadly struggle with the alien Gnosis over the possession of the mysterious monolith, the Zohar. Shion Uzuki runs a training program for anti-Gnosis fighters, whose ultimate weapon is KOS-MOS, a super-mecha that takes the form of a voluptuous woman. When the Gnosis attack the Federation fleet, KOS-MOS helps Shion and her friends escape. The mecha forces the wild 'n' crazy crew of a rogue salvage ship to pick up the refugees. At this point, the already tangled story simply falls apart. Characters appear and disappear as they hatch plots and counterplots involving ships, foundations, governments, secret research, military programs, and, of course, the Zohar. Xenosaga might make sense to fans of the game, but non-players will find themselves lost in a tangle of elements borrowed from Evangelion, Gundam, Outlaw Star, et al. (Rated TV 14 V: violence, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon |
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Amazingly horrific
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Short and to the point.
This is disc 1 of a series that failed to survive its first season running on TV Asahi in Japan.
The animation is far from impressive. The palletes they use are incredibly dull and lack any real diversity. They often skip using animated scenes for stills with voice overs or incredible still shots with only the character's mouth flapping like a sheet in the wind. (see virgil in ep. 1) They cut from these dull poorly animated sequences to clips taken directly from the game which make the discrepancies stand out all the more.
The pacing is chaotic.
They didn't use the same voice actors as they did in the games. I didn't expect them to, but I did expect them to cast the parts in a half decent manner. They did not.
A previous reviewer said this would be a great option to introduce people to the story who don't have time to play the game. This could not be further from the truth. If you haven't played the games, you'll have basically no understanding of what is going on even after the end of the first disc. And the resolutions at the end of the series won't do anything for them either.
If you've played the games you're not going to care for the plot changes that had to be changed due to time compression since the series only lasted 12 episodes before being cancelled.
Run a search for Xenosaga anime on google and look up some reviews. I challenge you to find a professional reviewer that has something decent to say about this series. As a huge fan of the game series and an anime otaku for 9 years, I'm seriously shocked at the level at which something great can be made into something so horrifically bad. |
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