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diff --git a/src/anime/review/gyo/.gitignore b/src/anime/review/gyo/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08d33d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/gyo/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +/document.en.du.xml +/document.it.du.xml 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. diff --git a/src/anime/review/gyo/du2html.xsl b/src/anime/review/gyo/du2html.xsl new file mode 120000 index 0000000..371d03d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/anime/review/gyo/du2html.xsl @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../../../../templates/du2html-review.xsl
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