Posts tagged Star Driver
power to the dream
thus sprach nekki basara
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In the previous post I mentioned how, after robot anime, I really like swordfight anime. Over on twitter, my friend Iknight noted how he doesn’t think animation handles swordfights as well as live-action.
I actually agree, which is why I value the small number of shows that do it well (or passably).
Star Driver 03 gives an example of how even when a show animates a swordfight with some fluidity, there are still things that we can view as problems. If one can imagine a continuum of swordfight anime similar to the real robot - super robot continuum, Star Driver (or at least the swordfight in this episode) would be in the super side of the line.
I would imagine Revolutionary Girl Utena to be somewhere in the super side of the line as well. In Utena’s case the finishing moves and their resolution do not resemble anything that happens in the physical world, not to mention the super powers of the sword, and the in-fight possession by the Prince over Utena.
In Star Driver everything seems fine if obviously stylized, until the Galactic Pretty-boy calls out his final attack, very much an anime/manga conceit.
It’s the ‘super’ part of anime sword fights that make me agree with Iknight (beyond limits of budget in making choreography fluid) that anime can’t handle sword fights as well as live action can. Of course, unless, one actually enjoys these super attack shenanigans.
(I dropped Sengoku Basara season two for this reason).
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To the glory of the Glittering Crux… and to the destruction of the Galactic Pretty Boy… Glittering Star!
Glittering Crux Brigade, Second Section, Banishing Age Leader, Head
Star Driver episode 02
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Lots of intelligent impressions re Star Driver, but I do notice that all the intelligent discourse I’ve read about it are skeptical at best.
It would seem that those who are genuinely fired up for this show did not use much of their critical faculties, or perhaps they’re/we’re the ones who aren’t particularly discerning.
Well, I loved it. I think it evokes some of the wild spirit of the creators’ past works (Ouran Host Club, Revolutionary Girl Utena) and I want to see a lot more of this. I want to hear more singing, I want to see more flamboyant fighting. I want to see a male version of the idol in a robot show.
The thing is, I don’t consume shows on the database level alone (I have SRW OG: The Inspector for that). Part of what attracts me to Star Driver is the ambition that I expect from it, given the pedigree of its creators. I want something transcendent!
Maybe it won’t be RahXephon, or Eureka SeveN, but I want it to be at least more enjoyable than Xam’d, and definitely better than Heroman and Wolf’s Rain among the shows I’ve seen in the Studio Bones filmography.
Yeah, George Honda did remind me of Saionji Kyouchi.
