Just when you thought you could relax after three blissfully songless episodes, they’re back. I don’t want to dwell on it but I do find the inclusion of the songs strange. They’re too short and inconsequential to make this a fullblown musical anime and just come across as a bit odd and out of place […]
Red Garden’s jazzy opening song is really quite catchy, and the visuals are fairly striking too; the combination has something of a seventies vibe. Normally I’ll skip an anime’s credits without a second thought but there are a few exceptions and this is one of them, though the rap-metal ED is another matter; nice riff, […]
It’s been bugging me for a while now: every time Kuroda appears I get the feeling I’ve seen him somewhere before. Today I realised who he reminds me of: Leonard Bernstein.
Bernstein look-alike Kuroda
Maybe there’s nothing in it but, given Red Garden’s Broadway leanings and the fact that Bernstein is the composer of a rather famous […]
After the first two episodes I wasn’t really sure about Red Garden but episode three has convinced me it’s going to be a good, worthwhile series. So far things seem much less episodic than is usual for anime. Much as I love the medium, a lot of shows have the feeling of being thrown together […]
What’s the “hmmm-ing” about? In a word, ambivalence. The series presents a fairly intriguing scenario but it also has some idiosyncrasies that are a little off-putting. Whether the scenario will be put to good use or not remains to be seen (for those of us not completely up-to-date, at least), but the problematic stylistic choices […]
