Let's talk about
Sword of the Stranger.
When the director of
Sword of the Stranger started talking about wanting to make a manly anime with swords clashing, I was instantly reminded of Daikichi Komusubi in Eyeshield 21. There is communication in every action, every grunt and every stance. "Real men don't need words to communicate".
As you can see, I like the macho stuff. Triumph over adversity. No need for exposition (and lots of exhibition). More action less words.
Sword of the Stranger is manly. There is a lot of blood and killing, and there is a dog -- man's best friend. I rather enjoyed the film. The pacing was good, the blood was red, and for some reason there was a giant blonde-haired, blue-eyed man working for the Chinese in feudal Japan.
But there's more manly stuff out there than that. Look at how other series benefit from their hot injections of manliness.
Blazing Transfer Student without the climactic ring battles would just be a shorter
One Pound Gospel. The Zeonites in
UC Gundam were Real Men and Real Women engaged in a real struggle.
Gurren Lagann has a man punching out a mecha with his bare hands! His bare hands for Bob's sake!! Conan only punched out a horse!
Anyway, I'm getting carried away. But still, there isn't enough of this kind of stuff coming out today. Can there ever even be enough? This writer says NO!
words from aldo, 2009-06-02 02:28:01, los angeles
