Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Anime in Focus: Outlaw Star Episode 1


Alright, so I was hanging at a friends house, and this show came up. It was agreed that we should watch it, based on the principal that I have not seen it, and everybody else has. This cases dissonance in the group, and prevents people from talking about spoilers, hence forcing them to force me to watch it.

Aesthetically, this show reminds me a bit of Cowboy Bebop. It starts out in a bar, with our two main characters killing of some cyborg nobody. The important thing is that the guy had a price on his head, thus allowing the main characters to get beef with their bell peppers and beef for the night. Oh yeah, and one of the guys hires a prostitute., which allows us to see his wicked-ass scars.

In the morning, our leads, Gene Starwind and James Hawking, wind up getting a shady looking job looking for suspiciously hard to get parts. They decide to take the job, because it would be a really boring show if they didn’t, and pay is good. The job winds up being a bodyguard gig for some farmer looking for moisture evaporators or whatever else they seem to need on the farm.

Unfortunately for our leads, this gig winds up being far more dangerous than they thought, for the person they wind up guarding has an army of ninja wizards after her. This leads to a car chase/fight scene involving ninja wizards using Taoist magic on the leads, as they attempt to get through the wizards defenses. The fact that the group is being attacked by ninja wizards causes Gene and James to ask the person they are protecting what is REALLY going on. Unfortunately for them it looks like their in deeper than they know…

Well, the first episode here is pretty solid. Starts out with a decent fight scene that introduces the characters, and ends on a note that keeps you interested. I would probably keep watching this series even if I wasn’t in a room with a bunch of people who were going to keep watching it anyway.

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