import all reviews

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/anime/review/gyo/document.en.rest.txt b/src/anime/review/gyo/document.en.rest.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d6a930
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/anime/review/gyo/document.en.rest.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+=====
+ Gyo
+=====
+
+Walking fishes! Stinky fishes! Fishes everywhere!
+=================================================
+
+:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 19:40:32
+:Id: anime/review/gyo
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 2.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/gyo-tokyo-fish-attack
+
+This is a horror movie. You know because there's people with terrified
+faces, the main character is a Plain Girl that's in over her head,
+she's got two friends, one's a Bookworm and one's a Slut (sorry,
+technical term here, haven't you seen Cabin in the Woods?), there's a
+Journalist in search of the Truth, and a Mad Scientist. There is also
+millions of fishes of every size, coming out of the sea and walking
+all over Japan on mechanical legs, but really, you'd label this
+"horror" even without seeing any of the beasts.
+
+Yes, it's quite trope-heavy. It's also rather undecided on what it
+wants to be. At the beginning, you may think it's a near-parody of the
+genre. Then it continues in a more standard tone; the first serious
+attack happens while the Slut is having fun with two random guys,
+there's contagion, panic in the streets. It then nods to hentai, with
+near-tentacle-porn at least twice. You may even think there's some
+sort of social commentary, seeing as most of the people are shown
+carrying on with their lives even in the midst of the invasion: at the
+airport and at the train station, everyone is checking their watches
+and the departure boards, while the monstrous fishes are just a few
+metres away. Or maybe it's an old-style horror: the fishes are the
+result of a military experiment, says the Mad Scientist. Or it's
+really an allegory: the infected people are not totally mindless! Oh,
+it's mystic: the gas that fills the monsters has a personality! No, it
+was aliens!
+
+And then it ends. Seriously. No resolution, no insight, not even "and
+so humans went extinct". Just… the end.
+
+I'm clearly not a lover of horrors, so I may be doing some injustice
+to this title, but I really couldn't get into it. Not just because the
+premise is quite absurd, that's sort of par for the course, but also
+because of quite a few internal inconsistencies: none of the
+"explanations" given by the characters has much bearing to what
+they're seeing, for example; or, why only people turn green, and not
+the fishes or other animals? It just feels like a set of random ideas
+thrown together without much sense. Even the animation is not
+particularly good, with the CG parts jarring against the mostly flat
+shading of the drawn parts.
+
+Lovers of horror movies, or staunch proponents of the "so bad it's
+good" school, may find this interesting and even rewarding. Me, I'm
+off to watch something else.