KAI wrote:
Urasawa+Watanabe=Hype
Ok, better. But Watanabe seems more comfortable with Dandy/Bebop-esque material, no? Pluto is like Agatha Christie meets Columbo meets Metropolis.
It's a tall order for any director, that's for sure.
On other things, I've read almost everything Jiro Matsumoto has done now. I've turned junkie for his unusual style.
Uncivilised Planet:
Quite good, if a little simple. The strange wartime, gypsy, european blend with sci-fi dreaming is compelling. It wasn't much on Freesia, but more like a novella anyway. And oh, all that filthy rape. I blushed.
A City for Honest and Heretics:
Set of short stories in which the first is the best, rest are blah.
Keep on Vibrating:
Much better set of short stories! The second best collection with some excellent diversity and seriously tripped-out themes. The sniper story was a surprise - I can't remember the time he's produced something with a positive ending.
A Revolutionist in the Afternoon:
The best set of short stories. Really accomplished and the least smutty - although somehow Jiro's sexual stuff never feels like proper hentai, raw, violent and explicit as it is, because everything else around it has such equal attention. It seems to fit somehow.
This set, including two stories on Revolutionists, the life of a teenage Vampire, and a naked desert witch.
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