25 Aug 2007
Texhnolyze episodes 1-6
“The lives we make never seem to get us anywhere but dead…the day I tried to live I wallowed in the blood and mud…”
The above song lyric quote exemplifies the overall feel of this series: bleak, grungy, harsh yet strangely compelling. As you might expect with character designer Yoshitoshi ABe on board it’s a highbrow, cryptic and arty effort that probably doesn’t have much mainstream appeal; personally I really like the unconventional, pretentious complex storytelling and deliberately cruel and inhospitable environs of this show.
A view of Luckuss
