Chocolate Underground (ONA)
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Director: Takayuki Hamana Screenplay: Kiyoko Yoshimura Original creator: Alex Shearer Original Character Design: Aiji Yamakawa Character Design: Takayuki Goto Art director: Seiko Akashi Animation director: Takayuki Goto Mechanical design: Etsunobu Iwanaga Sound director: Takuya Hiramitsu Cgi director: Kenji Isobe Director of Photography: Kenichi Dai Color design: Misako Akama Editing: Junichi Uematsu Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa | Fumie Mizusawa as Smudger Moore Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Huntley Hunter Mikako Takahashi as Louise Bubby Katsuyuki Konishi as Director of Headquarters Keiji Fujiwara as Ron Moore Kenjiro Tsuda as Joe Crawley Maaya Sakamoto as Carol Hunter Rie Nakagawa as Kylie Moore Tatsuhisa Suzuki as John Blades | |||||||
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Japanese Seiyuu and US Voice Actors Panel
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Viz Media
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Bandai Entertainment
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Vertical Industry Panel
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Funimation Industry Panel
Opening Ceremonies
2009-09-25
This week, the dried-
Spit and polish notwithstanding, you're better off sticking to the television series.
Nearly smothered under outlandishly risqué costuming and retread story ideas is some surprisingly entertaining content which mixes humor with a semblance of true sentiment and actual plot. Although still far from great, the series is definitely better in its second half than it looked like at first.
Ah, Darkside Blues…that 80 minute refugee from the good old days of violent, post-
The problems with this second half are not enough to derail the show, but the experience is way less satisfying than it should be. Such is the power of its characters that I still can't help but love the whole package.
The manga version puts the focus back on the most interesting character: the Count himself. As a result, the plot reaches full steam in a very powerful way—but sadly gets derailed in the later chapters.
It's a film that defies any and all expectations of both medium and genre, that makes us marvel and has really little time to do much else.
The clues it contains about the future direction of Guts' journey—and the relentless monster action—ultimately save it, but unless the series regains its bearings soon this will begin to qualify as a genuine slump.
A teenager finds himself piloting a robot in an alternate world and ends up questioning the reality of his own world in a series that replaces quality storytelling with a virtual-