[Anime Reviews]
17 Jul 2008
Posted by Martin [Tags: Daughter of Twenty Faces]
Whut? Another Nijuu Mensou no Musume post when I’ve yet to even finish Library Wars? Yep, The Daughter of Twenty Faces takes priority over even that and the new summer season for me right now. For a show that slipped onto the aggregators with barely a murmur, it’s strange to see it right next to Frontier at the top of my watchlist. Well, something had to replace Kurenai I suppose.
What can you possibly say at a time like this?
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Reading stats: 881 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 3:31 mins
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[First Impressions and Retrospectives]
08 Jul 2008
Posted by Martin [Tags: Daughter of Twenty Faces]
I can understand part of the reason why Nijuu Mensou no Musume, a.k.a. The Daughter of Twenty Faces, has been a sleeper title this season. I know anime show writers have a knack of coming up with weird titles (untranslated or otherwise) but it’s a bit of a mouthful and sounds odd as opposed to exciting. Furtheremore, the first couple of episodes have a decidedly un-Japanese 1900s-1940s European setting and lack the sci-fi or high school themes of most other shows at the moment. I’m always one to accept the occasional recommendation of something A Little Bit Different however, so this made me all the more curious to start my belated introduction to the show. It really is a sleeper title, but a fascinating one into the bargain.
The story seems to be set in a post-war period, but whether this is post-WWI, post-WWII, or even something completely unique to the NMNM universe, I’m still unsure. It is almost steampunk in some ways because of this alternate historical timeline (in a similar way to Allison to Lillia actually, only without that clumsy narrative and those annoying plot holes) and has some great old-school technology like vintage submarines, double-envelope airships, and ruins of giant tanks and planes; the latter reminded me of those hulking aircraft from Nausicäa actually. Can you tell I’m liking it already?
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Reading stats: 835 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 3:20 mins
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