This post is titled by author SoulJah. It seems that you guys, (yes, the two of you) wants more than light loading, notepad layouting shenanigans. Daym... Now I have to go to intense layout making mode... First results may come out sometime this week... Or the next... I guess you'd know when you see it...

Oh, just got Animatrix DVD (which was supposed to come out in June) and the stuff looks awesome. The first four episodes I already reviewed, namely the two Second Renaissance episodes, Program and A Detective's Story. The other nine looks mighty awesome too... Especially Final Flight of the Osiris, which, to be honest, should be looking like a million bucks considering the Producer of that episode worked on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the underrated Square epic. [Yes, people shun away stuff they are scared of and stuff they don't understand. (Case in point: Reign of Fire, apocalyptic disasters scare the bejeebers out of the average movie goer...)]

Back to the Animatrix... The five episodes look like absolute gems, where all of the episodes are produced by the most talented Anime Producers and Directors. Beyond, for example, animates flawlessly, even though some might not like the main protagonist's character design. Matriculated, helmed by the same Producer that made Aeon Flux, that short lived anime on MTV, also has the same character design and animation quality as Aeon Flux. A Kid's Story's drawing philosophy, if you can call it that, is 'sketchy'. Close up, you can see each frame of the character looks like it's been sketched with pencil, but the animation still as fluid as it comes. World Record is the odd one out, though. The character designs looks very much inspired from 'American Anime', for lack of a better term. Every muscle over emphasized, every movement exaggerated, character design different, yet stylish. FInal Flight of the Osiris looks like a Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within beater. The character's skin is far more detailed and less subtle than Final Fantasy. The part where the two main protagonists kissed, it looked mighty real that I swore they used real actors for that part.

Five out of nine of these episodes ties in directly with the Matrix movies, while the other four merely serves as a sidestory set within the Matrix Universe. Final Flight of the Osiris, and A Kid's Story leads directly into the Matrix: Reloaded, with Final Flight of the Osiris going through the game, Enter the Matrix first before the story is passed on to the Matrix: Reloaded. Program ties in with the first Matrix movie, while the two Second Renaissance pretells the story of the whole Matrix shenanigans.

Oh... Yeah... Already figured out the purpose of the Oracle yet?

Posted by SoulJah at 2:34:00 PM

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