On a block with Slowpuden, I can't hate on a show moving fast, even if it's unreasonably, oddly so. I'm much happier with that extreme rather than "Guuureeeen, Guuureeeen, Guuureeennnnn?" Week after Week after Week.
Anime is visual entertainment first and foremost, and Dimension W serves that. It's also no where near as frustrating as the stupidity of AGK. It's not even annoying me as much as the pity-party that parts of Casshern Sins felt like after a time.
- I don't feel like Loo's "death" was an unfair bait-and-switch.
- I don't feel like the lake case was so worthless that I didn't expect what we learned from it to come back up.
- I don't think it's hard to understand Kiyoma's reluctance to accept the fact that he's not getting his friend back.
- I don't even really hate Kiyoma and Mira's relationship, as she understands why he's mad / constantly fuming at her existence, and he's coming to terms with how it's wrong, and how it's justified.
- Unlike Bleach, I don't even really mind the fact it's introduced a bunch of characters, and spent time on ones I didn't expect for it to.
Maybe it's because I was a fan or series like Eatman 98, or any random time I pick up a Lupin the 3rd series?
These stories often move at weird clips, and play like they expect the watcher to take the work as a supplement to a manga or previous series they already observed. But that doesn't keep me from enjoying what I'm seeing.
Heck, even Mira's sometimes scrawny-body fanservice kinda feels nice. All the weird of Dimension W at least isn't focused on the same Shonen "big boobs, wunderkind barely-teen, creepy evil, useless underling, eternally unrequited love" stuff that so many other Toonami-flavor shows exhibit.
Geeze, with the loss of Bebop, GITS, and even FMA to the block, it's so hard finding heroic (and probably even villainous) characters that aren't highschool / early college age.
Champloo helps with this, but as cute as Fuu is, she does lower our general protagonist age even lower (and even our male leads are younger than anyone you'd see in a GITS).
So yeah, woOt for variety, and for finding it in a show that isn't over a decade old.
