Ok ok I know I promised you guys a Top 10 Anime Sluts post that should be pretty funny hopefully and I am working on that I promise (more comments would give me more motivation) but it's not often that I do an off-the-cuff post like this. I just read a very negative review of
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control with which I disagree wholeheartedly, so I felt the need to post about these two awesome anime.
Deadman Wonderland:
This is an absolutely disturbing, sick, yet awesome and riveting anime about inmates in a prison called 'Deadman Wonderland' which is not only a prison, but an amusement park for civilians. The prisoners take part in various dangerous events, likely to get them killed, such as deadly obstacle courses where the obstacles are high-voltage electricity, swinging axes, several story jumps with a bungee cord that may or may not be too long, floor tiles falling away to reveal massive spikes, ect. This is the "entertainment" aspect for civilians. However, that's just on the surface
SPOILER!!(kind of) deeper down the prison is really a research facility utilizing inmates they call 'Deadmen', inmates who have the ability known as 'Branches of Sin' which allows them to control their blood and use it as a weapon. Anything from blades to whips to bullets to shields, these people can do it with their blood, making them essentially killing-machines. They are pitted to fight against each other and the loser takes part in a "game show" in which they are strapped to a table, spin a slot machine-like device and whatever body part it lands on gets removed.
END SPOILER!!
Yeah ok I must sound like a total creep for liking this, but I have a thing for anime...or any work of fiction really, where the lines between "good" and "bad" are blurred. In this anime the protagonists are death row inmates, cold-blooded murderers and the like. However they're portrayed as good, and the antagonists are the prison officials and guards, who are truly sick, messed up people. In that aspect it's similar to
Death Note,
Code Geass and
Zaregoto Book 2: The Kubishime Romanticist by Nisioisin. There is no clear "good" and "bad", or normally "good" people will be portrayed as "bad" and vice versa. Love stuff like that. Along with that the fight scenes were really good and the characters were very interesting. Most had some form of a back-story, the most interesting and heart-wrenching being Nagi's. Their escape plan at the end and seeing it attempted was really awesome too, very well thought out and it was even more nuts to see it thwarted. Shit got
really sick with that stuff in the last several episodes with the Undertakers and such.
The only thing I honestly didn't like about it was Ganta's constant whining, but that was compensated for by the array of other cool characters such as Shiro and Senji. And the ending...or lack-there-of...there really was no ending to speak of. Hopefully there'll be a second season of this epic anime where stuff will be cleared up. I highly recommend watching this one to anyone who doesn't have a problem with blood and gore, cuz I must say, I usually don't care either way for that stuff but
Deadman Wonderland is very good and well worth the watch.
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control:
Cross the stock market with the Roman Colosseum and throw in a dash of moral struggle and you get this interesting gem of an anime. With the most originality I've seen in a very long time, there's really only one bad cliche that this falls into and its that "normal boy trying to get stronger to save the world" scenario. But even that isn't too bad here given the originality of everything else here. At first the anime started out extremely trippy, with that purple-haired creeper to the left, Masakaki. He looks creepy, has a creepy voice, and just decides to come out of nowhere whenever he feels like it, desks, floors, ceilings whatever...however the one thing it looks like he needs to come out of however never has on screen, is a closet...yeah ok that joke sounded a lot better in my head. But on several occasions he creeps on Kimmimaro and honestly at some point I was half expecting him to be like "Hello there, I'm your friendly neighborhood child molester".
ANYWAY though lol, this anime takes place in 2 dimensions, the real world and the Financial District, the financial district is...well the stock market of sorts where "deals" are battles using ones "assets". An "asset" is a summoned being that is the embodiment of a entre's (the people in the Financial Districts) future. The entre's fight along side these assets and whoever loses the deal loses large sums of money in the real world and if they go bankrupt in the Financial District, a large portion of their future is lost. It's really quite interesting how this unfolds and puts economics in an interesting perspective. Again, really original, and contrary to what a lot of reviews will say, I find that you don't need to know too much about economics for this to be enjoyable, it helps, but it's not mandatory. A lot of the terms used (ie. Microflation, Mezzoflation and Macroflation which are the asset attacks) aren't even true economic terms...and if they are...well 1. they're weird and 2. I'm ignorant of that and I still enjoyed it. The fight scenes are definitely flashy, with all the 'flations' that I previously mentioned, which makes up for the somewhat drab design of the Financial District. Again, with this one as well the only thing I can complain about is the ending, not that it was
bad per se, it was just unmemorable. If you asked me how it ended, I honestly couldn't tell you.
Anyway, I highly recommend both of these. And sorry my life's been so busy and conflicting with my posting as of late.
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