Hawk’s Babble-Log

Good and not-so-good… or just okay.

My roomie and I took a few weeks and watched Gasaraki all the way though. All 8 discs worth. C’mon! There were very few special features, they could have put more than three episodes on each disc. _Eight discs?!?_ What were they thinking?

The good stuff:

- Good characters. There are many, many speaking parts, and they are all pretty good as far as being true to their characters and as far as acting is concerned.
- Good action scenes. It’s amazing, but there is very _little_ computer generated imagery in this animation. I say this is amazing because of all the machines. But all of the machines and pretty much everything else is traditionally animated. And they did a pretty darn good job. The action scenes are good, you can follow (mostly) what’s happening, and it’s easy to get absorbed into it.
- Good, broad, global impact in the story.

The bad stuff:

- The story takes _forever_ to get _anywhere_.
- The ending made me say, “Uhhhh… huh?” But hey, this seems to be a running theme in Anime that I’ve seen lately. So don’t expect an ending which makes sense, ’cause it won’t. Also, not much is resolved in the ending. It’s like it’s only there to confuse you so that you don’t notice that not much has been resolved.

So, overall, I kinda liked it; but I’m not going to buy it as I don’t really want to see it again.