Gilgamesh

Last review is very old so... for me? One from best anime i've watched - it was like 4/5 times a watched Gilgamesh - like 4 times few years ago, close to 2007 in TV when i was little bit young - and i watched it some time ago again and it still is so goood to watch. Characters are really cool, the good ones and the bad ones - all of them seems really enjoyable to watch - the dark in whole anime with amazing soundtrack (and the piano one

This is probably one of the best shows that no one has seen, yes it can be slow, it's dark and it can be dreary. But to me it was one of the best shows I ever saw. Obviously this is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. First of all this show should definitely be watched in English, the English dub is phenomenal, more specifically the show's dub is generally made better by the addition of Alice Fulks playing the Countess, there was nobody who in my opinion could have played this role, she is a very confusing woman and I think that Aliceherself managed to allow an air of mystery to wash over this character. Anyway, the art of this show is not very vibrant, if you were looking for vibrant and gorgeous colors you will not find it here, a lot of this show has lots of black and white all over it, that might turn people off. But truth be told, I have never seen a dark noir-ish feel pulled off so well since The Big O. The sound for this show is also top notch, there are lots of explosions, lots of teleportation and a good helping of fighting as well. Character Development is key to any show, generally all the important characters evolve in one way or another throughout this show, I can't go into detail how this happens because I would be spoiling and I do not want to do that. This show has been one that was generally ignored and tossed to the scrap pile, with critics complaining that it was dull or dreary, little did they know that if they had bothered to sit though the entire show they would have seen a very tragic story that in my opinion will bring anyone to tears once the show ends.

This was a horrible series, what more can I say? Well plenty, I checked this out because many anime review sites gave it overwhelmingly positive scores (I mostly check for how the ratings change on a per disc basis and Gilgamesh's scores for the most part went up from the first volume to the last). Now, I try not to let other reviews flavor my opinion of what to expect from the show, but at the very least I was expecting something actually good. The story was just horrible, I popped in the first disc and saw the first 5 episodes and found myself with areaction I'd never had before: wtf did I just watch? There have been plenty of times where I pop in the first disc and see the first 4 or 5 episodes and go "this looks promising, looks like it will improve" or "that was average and looks like it'll only get worse" or "that was great, next disc please!" or even "that was god awful, I can't believe I even finished the disc", but this was a resounding "I'm not really sure wtf this is, I can't even tell if it's going to get worse or better" and that pretty much describes what I felt during my entire viewing of the show. If I hadn't paid actual money for it, I probably would have just thrown it away after the first 10 episodes or so. See, from time to time, the series would introduce a single plot idea or point that I thought could lead on to something more interesting, which at the very least kept me watching, only to disappoint me by either just letting it trail off, explaining the plot point away with horrible writing, or just making a mess of it. And it would do this every other episode or so. The characters were slightly better if only because they had to talk to each other. But by no means could I call the characters "good", they ended up being as dull and interesting as the plot most of the time with most of the enjoyment coming from being curious about why they have psychic powers (and no, the explanation for that wasn't good either). It was nice to see the four teens act like teens from time to time and that was clearly where they were the most interesting and had some capacity to develop and watching the show didn't feel like a chore, but in the end both the characters and story just felt like an unrewarding mess. It was like being teased with a $100 bill on the end of a fishing rod and chasing it in hopes of getting it only to find out that it's a $1 when you finally get it after all that effort. The ending was clearly the $1 bill here and I've heard that the ending is love it/hate it type (although I really say that about the entire series) and in my case I didn't enjoy the hurried explanations of the plot points and the sudden introduction of characters like the writers thought the audience was actually expecting them to appear all of 10 minutes before the end of the show and deus ex machina everything to death. The series just failed at every emotional turn that could've turned out well, there was a particular incident about 3/4 of the way through the series that could have been very emotional and perhaps would have made me hate watching this less if they didn't feel the need to make what happens afterwards with it so incredibly creepy and nonsensical. Nonsensical is certainly a word I'd use to describe this, sure anime is rarely based in any sort of recognizable reality, it's just the nature of the medium and you can get all sorts of incredibly innovative and great things without having them necessarily make perfect sense when applied to the real world, but sometimes even suspending your belief won't help because it still makes no sense internally within the show itself and that is certainly one of (but by no means the only) probably with the entire script: no one checked it for logic at any given point. Now, you'll be able to follow along with this pretty well, the script isn't that over the top hard to follow, but you'll end up questioning every revelation the show makes anyway because it's honestly difficult to see where most of the conclusions come from. I'll give credit where it is due though, sound was pretty good, meaning mostly music here. Sure, the dub was competent, but it sure didn't make me care anymore for the show. Unfortunately, the fairly catching opening (combined with good reviews for it in the A range) was what made me buy this hunk of junk in the first place so while it may be pretty good, you might as well call it false advertisement because the show will never be half as good or interesting as either its OP or its score in general. I've still heard better though and it's hardly worth watching just for that. Art's another mixed bag, I kind of hated it, you could see cheap animation cuts in every single fight, but a few things were done fairly well from time to time. Character designs just creeped me out, but I'll admit I don't watch too many shows with designs at all bishonen like. You might get more mileage out of it, but it also would have helped if everyone didn't always constantly wear the exact same facial expression at all times. Overall, I give this a 4 out of 10. It has just enough going for it to not actually slip off into the realm of the truly horrible but at the same time it's never going to be good enough to be anything more than bad-average and it's certainly not worth rewatching. A few episodes went by pretty quickly for me, but overall, it kind of felt like getting your teeth pulled, you can always use anesthesia to help it along, but it's pretty painful all the same.

This anime promised awesome, the trailer told you it would be awesome. And I can say for a fact that its did not deliver this apparent awesome. I watched the whole series waiting for something cool to happen, when all it was, was a mess of nothing. I cant believe i sat through it all, watching every episode waiting for something to happen. All i got was lame aliens and genocide. I feel almost as disappointed in this anime as i did in the dragonball movie.

Merchandise

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