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| TV,
Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F2
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Now you don’t get a lot of exploding heads on TV these days, and that’s a shame because exploding heads are GREAT. This Japanese animated series, first banged together waaaay back in the eighties, has enough pulsing, vein tearing bonces to make up for 10 years of the lack of that sort of stuff. This cheaply put together piece of trash follows the story of Ken, an oversized bullet-headed hunk of a man with deadly martial arts arms, who soul purpose is to wander the post apocalyptic landscape bashing the bejesus out it’s outlaw inhabitants. And I mean REALLY bash ! – half this program is just Ken squaring off against tattooed evil punk guys, there’s a bit of witty repartee, and then WHAMMO ! – the brains begin to hit the fan.
There’s great dialogue, and a few nice stylish scene transition bits, but it’s pretty dim stuff on the whole. As always, fun for one episode or so, then you get bored becauseĀ
nothing..happens. If you want a bit of animated ultra-violence by way of Samuel Beckett then this might just do it, otherwise I can this predict this won’t be packing them in on the sofas.
The real pity here is that there’s a lot of great animated stuff out there yet we still get cobwebby stuff from the vaults like this. And they still shove it in a graveyard slot like this bloodshot eye-inducing Sunday bill, sandwiched between those bloody irritating CGI comedy skits. Ugh. No fair. So given all this show’s irritating formulaic plot-lines and endlessly repeated animated sequences, it’s still the only Manga on TV – so it’s ‘essential’ viewing, ahem.
Channel 4 Sundays (Mon am) 2.10am
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