![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI just finished watching this anime and it is fantastic. It's a great big non-linear ensemble cast story that's lots of fun and fits together really well in the end. I think I'm going to have to rewatch it to get everything straight in my head, some storylines have their conclusions shown near the start though all the important stuff is repeated. I had to watch the opening credits every episode for some time to try and remind myself who everyone was and how they all fit together. (It didn't help that I rented the four disks over a few months, I recommend watching it all close together if you can)
Baccano! is largely about various groups of gangsters and other criminals and outcasts in the US around 1930 and their various interwoven shenanigans. It does good job of capturing the period (especially with the English dub, which is quite good) while incorporating fantasy elements and surreal implausibilities. The way it flips between convoluted plots, humour, complex character arcs, fluffy cheerfulness and extreme violence reminds me a bit of Homestuck or Full Metal Alchemist, though it's not as epic or serious. Like them it also has lots of well written often morally ambiguous female characters who are taken seriously and get to be awesome.
I wasn't kidding about the extreme violence, though, while ultimately a compassionate and optimistic story it goes to some very dark places. Also having such a large cast means not everyone's story gets covered in great detail, it's possible that even after rewatching there will be niggling gaps. EDIT: Ah but of course there is a wiki, huzzah!
Baccano! is largely about various groups of gangsters and other criminals and outcasts in the US around 1930 and their various interwoven shenanigans. It does good job of capturing the period (especially with the English dub, which is quite good) while incorporating fantasy elements and surreal implausibilities. The way it flips between convoluted plots, humour, complex character arcs, fluffy cheerfulness and extreme violence reminds me a bit of Homestuck or Full Metal Alchemist, though it's not as epic or serious. Like them it also has lots of well written often morally ambiguous female characters who are taken seriously and get to be awesome.
I wasn't kidding about the extreme violence, though, while ultimately a compassionate and optimistic story it goes to some very dark places. Also having such a large cast means not everyone's story gets covered in great detail, it's possible that even after rewatching there will be niggling gaps. EDIT: Ah but of course there is a wiki, huzzah!
no subject
Date: 2011-09-27 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-27 11:15 am (UTC)