Mazeith

I stumbled across this show on Now TV one evening and while I'm very familiar with Gaiman's work after a few episodes I realized he is the creator behind this drama series. Upon viewing the first episode it was apparent there's a very arty symbolic nature to his work (similar to Coraline) and I was absorbed quite instantly. The stories all feel bite sized and not too drawn out, they have such a wonderful simplicity whilst maintaining an air of mystery and dread within them. The dialogue and scenarios feel very familiar which really puts you into the show, as such conversations you can come across people talking about in your local cafe/bar, but with a heightened uncomfortable undertone in each episode. I look forward to re-watching this show and wish Gaiman would create a second series- if you're a fan of black mirror I am pretty sure you'll want to check this out.

Being a massive fan of animation and having studied it at uni surprisingly I haven't watched much Anime.

Firstly what impressed me was its beautiful background art, for me this really makes the movie and takes me out of my environment and makes me think I'm in theirs.

I like that the film is 3 separate stories and each are quite different to another, I was half expecting them to tie in together in the final part of the movie however this is not the case, its still a fun and flowing movie all the same.

My only niggle is the background people in scenes are completely static which left me with a sense of cheapness and for me to really believe the stories I feel the background humans should have more movement.

The music and detail in this movie is superb and the animation overall is very good, it might be more simplistic than other animated movies but i feel it works for the movies style. Am sure will watch this again some day-

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