http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php?blog=1&disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:41:03 +0000 Marc McKenzie [Visitor] c432@http://www.colonydrop.com/ To Ben: Oh my God, I have to agree on the grendade golf interrogation scene! I was laughing like mad while thinking, "Are they really doing this?!"<br /> <br /> I had read the manga, but the anime was a little better. It was also very, very funny. And who could forget Anipuma and Yunipuma?
I had read the manga, but the anime was a little better. It was also very, very funny. And who could forget Anipuma and Yunipuma?]]> http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/06/08/area-88-dominion-tank-police?blog=1#c432 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:03:13 +0000 Dave [Member] c304@http://www.colonydrop.com/ we'll give it our best shot http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/06/08/area-88-dominion-tank-police?blog=1#c304 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:54:57 +0000 Ben [Member] c303@http://www.colonydrop.com/ My best memory of Tank Police would have to be the ahead-of-their-time enhanced interrogation techniques employed by the Tank Police. Both the grenade golf scene and the knife-throwing quiz game segment are still some of the non-ironically funniest scenes of any anime I've watched. <br /> <br /> It's almost a shame the series is only four episodes long, although it's perhaps a bigger shame that Shirow never expanded much on the source material because he was already quite comfortable making his money off of interchangeable artbooks of skinny vinyl women, presumably so he could buy more electronic devices to use as his own masturbatory aids. There has never been a doubt in my mind that Shirow is literally sexually excited by technology. I'm not kidding. I get the feeling that the man beats off to robotics trade shows. His technofetishist tendencies really undermine his work for me; he gets so damn caught up in waxing poetic about the awesomeness of cybernetic posthumanism, automatic weapons, and in-universe technobabble that he almost invariably forgets that he's supposed to be telling a reasonably intelligible story. <br /> <br /> I believe that aside from the generally abysmal takes on Appleseed (not even Shirow's strongest work to begin with), most of the people who adapt Shirow do him far too much credit by making his stuff both smarter AND more watchable (GitS springs readily to mind). Even lightweight stuff like Dominion isn't an exception to this rule.
It's almost a shame the series is only four episodes long, although it's perhaps a bigger shame that Shirow never expanded much on the source material because he was already quite comfortable making his money off of interchangeable artbooks of skinny vinyl women, presumably so he could buy more electronic devices to use as his own masturbatory aids. There has never been a doubt in my mind that Shirow is literally sexually excited by technology. I'm not kidding. I get the feeling that the man beats off to robotics trade shows. His technofetishist tendencies really undermine his work for me; he gets so damn caught up in waxing poetic about the awesomeness of cybernetic posthumanism, automatic weapons, and in-universe technobabble that he almost invariably forgets that he's supposed to be telling a reasonably intelligible story.

I believe that aside from the generally abysmal takes on Appleseed (not even Shirow's strongest work to begin with), most of the people who adapt Shirow do him far too much credit by making his stuff both smarter AND more watchable (GitS springs readily to mind). Even lightweight stuff like Dominion isn't an exception to this rule.]]> http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/06/08/area-88-dominion-tank-police?blog=1#c303