The setting was nice but the characters and overall story was ... just not for me.
How so? You liked it when it was about the thieves stealing stuff, but not when it's about Chiko and her friends solving mysteries and (soon, but probably beyond whichever episode you stopped at) fighting superpowered opponents? That's understandable, but it mostly is still the same (mixed-quality) show, it just gets weird (no longer grounded in a semi-plausible world) later and some people didn't like that about it. Maybe try it again sometime in the future... but definitely don't put off Lain or Haibane Renmei any further, they're the best TV animes ever made for a reason!
PREACHJUNA 5
What kind of person actually looks at water and says "Oh no there's fluoride in this, it isn't artsy at all." I mean seriously, that's who the writer is: that nutso who was worried about bodily fluids from Dr. Strangelove. This entire episode is like this. Observe:
THIS HAMBURGER TASTES LIKE DEFORESTATION!!!! Meanwhile, SEED, the good guys, have apparently released a virus that causes paralysis if you eat GMOs. These people are actually eco terrorists. Eco terrorists who are busy mind raping a teenage girl into doing their bidding. Oh and hand sanitizer is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL.
Query: does CGI that is the visual equivalent of ethnic cleansing help the environment?
Fuck you and your feelings mom! The environment is trying to teach us a lesson by making this hamburger kill my not-boyfriend! I don't give a shit about human beings! GMOs, mom! G MOTHER FUCKING Os.
And now medicine is poison. I'd just like to point out that this show is actively encouraging teenagers to not use medicine. I mean, sure, sometimes people take a pill for everything, but teaching people that they can get along without relying so much on the artificial, but teaching people that medicine is poisoning them is seriously problematic.
And that's the problem with Arjuna. More than the message, its the delivery. Nothing can be done in a subtle way. The idea that Arjuna can't eat city food after enjoying delicious natural food could work and send the message that maybe we should eat more delicious natural food and less manufactured food (or whatever), but making Arjuna scream after barely biting a burger and making medicine and burgers kill Tokio is just way, way overboard.
To be perfectly honest, I'm sort of annoyed with the idea that food and medicine make Juna freak out, but not clothing, which is just as mechanical. Not that I honestly want to see Juna naked because she probably doesn't shave because its killing hair or because razors are Satan's swords or God only knows I mean hand soap has already been shown to be evil.
CorvoSol: It's more about the rampant overuse of anti-biotics and the attitude that all bacteria are bad. Now, you might wonder why wasn't it more clear about this and why didn't it go about things differently, but then it wouldn't be Arjuna.
A lot of what the show brings up are valid and important issues. The show is just incapable of handling them well.
Yeah, the overuse of antibiotics, particularly on animals but also on people too (as seen in things like antibacterial soaps and hand cleaners) is a huge, huge problem. However, Arjuna the series never manages to figure out how to address its issues well. And this part of the series, episodes 1-8, is the
good part of the series, too! It falls apart after that, but I did find the first eight episodes interesting. The show brings up some important issues, and even if the presentation is deeply flawed and Chris is a completely horrible person, I did find the first eight episodes interesting and sometimes good, despite their definite problems and the always-weak handling of the issues at hand that Hito accurately mentioned. After that, though, as I said, forget it. Ep. 9 was pretty disgusting, and the last arc was just stupid.
Before that, though, CorvoSol has things to look forward to such as the episode when the series takes on language! Fun stuff.
Well yeah, like I said, I don't think the message is what pisses me off. It's the delivery, specifically that every single thing is overblown. Why couldn't Tokio just feel ill? Why does he have to be dying?
The series' philosophy has to be something like "anything worth doing is worth massively overdoing", or something like that. Every episode is completely excessive in some way, even in the episodes where the issues are relevant and noteworthy. I guess the idea was to make the problem clear by going completely overboard in showing its consequences, and that is a valid choice, but it definitely didn't always work.
Episode 9 is going to break Corvo.
Episode 9 broke all positive feelings I'd previously had for the show, for sure.
I don't think I read this, but Hiroyuki's
Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to (The Comic Artist and His Assistants) will be getting an anime adaption.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-04/hiroyuki-comic-artist-and-his-assistants-manga-gets-tv-anime This is the artist behind
Doujin Work, and others may recognize his art from this meme.
I really hope the Drama CD seiyuu are kept.
Seiyuu can be found under the Credits section.
Or...
Crunchyroll has the Drama CD cast.
I've read the manga; it's a moderately amusing (at times) harem series. Will I watch an anime, though? Eh... I don't know. If it's anything like the manga it won't be anything GOOD, for sure. Maybe?
