Anime in focus: Outlaw Star Episode 2

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Well, since I was at a friends house doing a anime watching spree with some friends, I had to watch the second episode of this series immediately after the first. I had no objections to this fortunately.

This episode starts with a flashback talking about growing up and the effects it has. Then we get back to where our main characters were originally, running away from some freaky wizards, hiding in a farm, realizing that the suitcase they were protecting had a person in it.  Unfortunately, the wizards that were attacking them are able to track them down. To make things more difficule, they are running low on wizard penetrating ammo, forcing James and Hilda to go out and get help, so they can escape the planet. This triggers a flashback with Gene showing the last time he was in space, and his father was killed, causing him to avoid space after that.

Anyways, the group winds up escaping the planet, now with the addition of the creepy chick in the suitcase, although barely, and with no shortage of EXPLOSIONS. This leads the characters to Hilda’s ship, where we hear some exposition on SPACE politics.

Episode ends with the main character’s hiding out in a hotel, then getting attacked. No resolution on this, leaving a “to be continued”. I like that attitude, since it pretty much forces you to come back with the promise of violence. Kinda like how School Days does things. Needless to say, I’ll be watching the next episode sometime soon.

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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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