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WTF Anime?!?! (#1) - Black Lion
11 years ago
Welcome to my first installment of my new posts of WTF Anime. Where I post about anime movies or series that could be better, why its so bad, and what I feel could make it great. So come with me now while we take this ride.
Our first anime is the 1992 OVA called Black Lion. If you never heard of it don't worry not many have, no I am not kidding there's little to NOTHING know about this OVA not even on Wiki. Go and look when I typed in "Black Lion Anime" All I it page with the title but NO information at all. The most information I could get from this is a small plot summary on Anime News Network....That's it!
Now don't get me wrong this is a good action show. Its got top notch fast fights and good sword gore. If you into this then this is the show for you. My issue is that from the start and at the end of this and a few parts in between there's this Big epic story with possible time travel, and alien races, with Robots, Tanks, Cannons, and Fucking NUKES...in the year 1580 Japan and from all this we get a revenge film, yes its a revenge film where the Ninja's attack an immortal that is later found to be a alien robot Samurai but still they could have had so much.
Let me tell you all the stuff I metioned before with the robots, nukes, time travel talk and shit...that all clocks in show time wise and this is true....2 minutes of the Movies! -_-
I have to ask if they didn't plan to give us a big epic story, cause there's no information I could find to prove this was going to be more then it is, why show so much that says their could be more to this? Yeah this show gets frustrating with all it could have been.
Now to my view on what could have been if this was given a chance to be better.
This movie did a pretty good way of establishing a start to a good In the past Sci-Fi series even at the end of the OVA you could see the seed of a amazing and epic series begin. The glowing aliens (good ones) could have enlisted the Ninja's to fight for them and take down over time the evil Lord that is using the evil Alien Tech to take back Japan from falling into darkness.
I feels its one of the great loses to anime that this never came to be. There was even talk of a secret group of old Ninja Masters that had a hand in deeper things that could have worked into the series as well. But no never happened total gone forever! T_T
Well I thank you for reading this, please leave a comment if you have seen this OVA yourself I would love to hear what you have to say. WTF Anime #2 is coming soon, thank you.
Our first anime is the 1992 OVA called Black Lion. If you never heard of it don't worry not many have, no I am not kidding there's little to NOTHING know about this OVA not even on Wiki. Go and look when I typed in "Black Lion Anime" All I it page with the title but NO information at all. The most information I could get from this is a small plot summary on Anime News Network....That's it!
Now don't get me wrong this is a good action show. Its got top notch fast fights and good sword gore. If you into this then this is the show for you. My issue is that from the start and at the end of this and a few parts in between there's this Big epic story with possible time travel, and alien races, with Robots, Tanks, Cannons, and Fucking NUKES...in the year 1580 Japan and from all this we get a revenge film, yes its a revenge film where the Ninja's attack an immortal that is later found to be a alien robot Samurai but still they could have had so much.
Let me tell you all the stuff I metioned before with the robots, nukes, time travel talk and shit...that all clocks in show time wise and this is true....2 minutes of the Movies! -_-
I have to ask if they didn't plan to give us a big epic story, cause there's no information I could find to prove this was going to be more then it is, why show so much that says their could be more to this? Yeah this show gets frustrating with all it could have been.
Now to my view on what could have been if this was given a chance to be better.
This movie did a pretty good way of establishing a start to a good In the past Sci-Fi series even at the end of the OVA you could see the seed of a amazing and epic series begin. The glowing aliens (good ones) could have enlisted the Ninja's to fight for them and take down over time the evil Lord that is using the evil Alien Tech to take back Japan from falling into darkness.
I feels its one of the great loses to anime that this never came to be. There was even talk of a secret group of old Ninja Masters that had a hand in deeper things that could have worked into the series as well. But no never happened total gone forever! T_T
Well I thank you for reading this, please leave a comment if you have seen this OVA yourself I would love to hear what you have to say. WTF Anime #2 is coming soon, thank you.
