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+==============
+ Towa no Quon
+==============
+:CreationDate: 2013-01-21 21:15:22
+:Id: anime/review/towa-no-quon
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/towa-no-quon-complete-series-collection
+
+Someone at Bones has been reading the X-Men.
+============================================
+
+Bones is a big name in anime: Escaflowne, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain,
+Scrapped Princess, Ouran High School Host Club, Soul Eater. They've
+spanned several genres, but some of the "signature traits" are very
+detailed animation and a preference for character-centric stories. On
+the animation aspect, Towa no Quon does not disappoint: people,
+backgrounds, monsters, cyborgs, even the "shadowy powers" who seem to
+be pulling the strings, they're all drawn and animated with care and a
+very good sense of mood and atmosphere. The story, on the other hand,
+feels too familiar and phoned in.
+
+What's the story about? Well, there are mutant people with
+superpowers; when such power awaken, most people can't control them
+and they become dangerous to themselves and those around them. An
+organisation called Custos employs assault troops and cyborgs to
+capture them, and either study or eliminate them (it's not completely
+clear).
+
+Quon is an exceptionally powerful mutant (strength, speed,
+regeneration, energy weapons, some kind of telekinesis…) who fights
+Custos to protect a large group of (mostly young) mutants, and the
+help them learn to control their powers. He's been around for a very
+long time (regeneration will do that, just ask Logan), and after
+losing his entire village (including his brother Towa), he is
+determined to "save everybody". "Saving everybody" has become so
+common in anime that it's usually a flag for lazy writing…
+
+Custos is apparently controlled by The Order, a vaguely-defined power
+group whose members appear via tele-presence as shadowy figures. If
+this does not remind you of the relationship between Seele and NERV,
+let me add that The Order only talks to the head of Custos, Kamishiro,
+and that he's got his own agenda which is probably not aligned with
+either Custos's purpose, or The Order's wishes. He's way less likable
+than Gendou, though: he's not just manipulative, he's clearly
+power-crazy and evil.
+
+Final pieces on the board, the cyborgs used by Custos are very
+powerful (they can go head to head with Quon and hold their ground),
+but have some interesting emotional instabilities. I don't want to
+spoil the only interesting part of the story, but let me say that some
+of the cyborgs are the only characters showing actual development.
+
+In the end, Towa no Quon's story is just not very good, and the
+characters feel very flat, to the point that not even director IIDA
+Umanosuke (飯田 馬之介) could make the show work, and he was not
+without experience: he directed Gundam: 08th MS Team, Hellsing, and
+Origin: Spirits of the Past.
+
+I did not notice the music, which is apparently written by KAWAI Kenji
+(川井 憲次), one of the greatest anime musician (from Maison Ikkoku to
+Ghost in the Shell to Eden of the East). Either the music was very
+well coupled with the scenes, or there was not much of it. I should
+probably skim the episodes again paying more attention to the
+background tunes.
+
+In summary: nothing particularly original, an adequate presentation,
+plenty of fights. Not a bad product all in all, but very average.
+
+(Linguistic curiosity: Quon (久遠) means "eternity", and Towa (永久)
+means more-or-less the same with a sense of "immortality"; the title
+of the series could be read as "immortal eternity" or something like
+it).