It reminds me of stand alone episodes of Ghost in the Shell SAC. Having said that once I'd settled down into the idea of this episode I really got into it. Even as a static picture, a single frame, it has amazing artistic value.Īfter the last episode I thought this one was going to be about the AD police hunting down the Knight Sabers for murder so I thrown a bit when it became apparent this was a stand alone episode and the AD police seemingly dont care about Masons murder anymore. Look at the light itself, the simple highlighting on the CRT screen that gives it shape. The way light and shadow are represented so simply and starkly but so beautifully. This, right here, is possibly the most perfect example I could ask for to represent what I miss about quality cel animation. And can we take a moment just to appreciate this: Even if brief, these scenes give us a sense of who they are (Sylia spending a lot of time inside her own head, Linna being houseproud, Priss searching for some companionship). It's a balance I do particularly like and now that I think about it, tends to be present in some of my favourite shows. I do like how between the action we get to spend some what almost feels like slice-of-life time with the girls, which does properly feel relaxed and not rushed through. Unless he owns 24 of them, like this chap. In car news, Linna is a confirmed ****box driver, Mason's Lagonda survived but obviously needed a new paint job. It's obviously not something she relishes having to do, despite the suffering he's caused. The action in this episode was absolutely top-notch, one thing I had forgotten though was just how pained Sylia looks both during and after killing Mason. Poor Nene seems a bit hard done by here though, but I know she gets her episode to shine later. Is Linna in fact the best fighter of the bunch? I'm not sure anyone's even landed a decent hit on her yet (herself excepted, see above). I mean I guess he's painted as a very powerful and wealthy individual, so there's no reason he wouldn't be driving around in a 50+ year old luxury classic, but then you'd think he probably wouldn't want to loan it to his underlings to run people down in.īubblegum Crisis: Episode 3 - Stop Hitting YourselfĬertainly an action-packed and fairly gory (RIP that one particular guy during the opening) episode this one, as befits its title. The fashion is amazing, and I had to chuckle at the fact the car which pursues Linna and Irene (and which is seemingly very quickly fixed up to serve as Mason's getaway vehicle at the end) is very obviously just a contemporary Lagonda. but the '80s never ended" aesthetic with its trips into more mundane spaces like shops and restaurants. This episode also does a good job of showcasing the show's "It's the future.
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While we might not get to learn a whole lot about her, I do like that we get little visual hints (as we do with other characters too) like the front bumper of her car being utterly mangled, either a sign she's not the most careful driver or that her car keeps getting towed like it does in this episode (plus she has her name on the back of it, and that's just adorable). It's yet another testament to BGC that I find all the main characters in an all female main cast likeable and not a single one of them to be annoying or irritating - Today's character archetypes seem to have been flanderized to the point that's rendered almost a certain inevitability. Part of that is probably her design, which is awesome, but she also has a sort of quiet strength - She isn't as brash or outspoken as Priss (or even Nene) and she's not as cool and composed as Sylia, but she's not a weaker character than any of them for it either. Whether they had any subsequent success with their singing careers seems difficult to determine, but I certainly hope so. The only ones who (sadly) never seem to have worked as VAs again were Kinuko Oomori (Priss) and Maiko Hashimoto (Vision). But while we're talking sound, another of the many things I like about BGC is that it has some great VAs in the lead roles, or at least certainly ones I enjoy listening to - Nene's VA Akiko Hiramatsu went on to play Miyuki Kobayakawa in You're Under Arrest, Linna's Michie Tomizawa was Roberta in Black Lagoon(!) we have the ever wonderful Yoshiko Sakakibara (Haman Karn in Gundam, Shinobu Nagumo in Patlabor) as Sylia and of course good old Toshio Furukawa (Ataru Moroboshi in Urusei Yatsura, Asuma Shinohara in Patlabor) as Leon.
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