Archives for November, 2011
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This week we recover from Thanksgiving with Turkey Day Fights, stolen semen, XBOX TV, CW super heroes and more!
Created by Hasbro Studios
Starring Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Jeffrey Combs, Ernie Hudson, Steve Blum and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Is this latest outing for Optimus and company a start to a good series or a piece of slag in disguise?
The Series
Optimus Prime leads a small band of Autobots stranded on Earth, keeping an undercover lookout for any Decepticon activity after some supposedly-final confrontation three years ago. Needless to say, now is when Megatron, Starscream and the rest of the baddies choose to emerge. With a teammate missing and three Earth kids to look after, the Autobots may have more than they can handle as Megatron comes knocking with an undead Transformer army.
This five-part miniseries kicks off the series to a good start. Presented together as a full-length movie, it’s an easily digestible introduction into this new incarnation of the Transformers franchise. The show adapts the look of the Michael Bay films, albeit in a simplified and more cartoonish fashion. Also adapted are plot elements, such as Optimus and Megatron originally being brothers in arms before Megatron defected to the Decepticons. While the Bayformers films have their share of detractors (often myself included), we can all put our biases aside as this is a good cartoon.
The Transformers themselves share the spotlight with their human companions instead of being overshadowed by them. This series brings some great talent to the mic. Peter Cullen and Frank Welker reprise their roles as the original Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively. Just as in the recent films, Cullen sounds noticeably older and somewhat tired, but it works well for this battle-hardened Prime.
Joining the cast includes the always great Jeffrey Combs as the cranky know-it-all medic Ratchet, giving the character far more personality than the films ever did. Ernie Hudson did a good job as the US Government contact Agent Fowler. Even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson pulled off a good Cliff jumper for his cameo appearance. The rest of the voice cast, while not as well known, is just as strong actors.
The three children characters – Jack, Raf and Miko – are actually entertaining and don’t detract from the Transformers. The only real drawback is Raf falling into the tired cliché of being a little kid who’s a super-genius hacker. If he were the same age as the older kids, it would work a bit better.
In fact, the only knocks I really have are the super smart kid cliché, the low count of actual named individual Transformers, and Soundwave not having an actual voice (especially if Frank Welker is already here doing Megatron).
This film is full of fun action and dialog between the Transformers and surprisingly humans alike. The Transformers get plenty of screen time, dedicated both to action and to actual character development (with no horrible racist stereotypes). The animation isn’t half bad. The action and transformations are clear and exciting. The devious Decepticon plot is a legitimate threat in the world of the show. And Optimus Prime is a badass as he should be. This is a good cartoon for any fan of Transformers, robots in general or anyone looking for a classic tale of good versus evil.
9/10
The Video and Audio
The video is presented in widescreen and the audio is clear. The CGI is fluid and decent, and while I prefer a more traditional design to the Transformers, this simplified version of the live-action films is a good middle ground. The soundtrack uses some of the same background from the movies, and it works to keep the show feeling serious and dramatic.
7/10
The Packaging and Bonus Features
As mentioned earlier, the miniseries is presented as one feature film. Everything is on one disc in a regular DVD case. The cardboard casing duplicates the DVD cover.
Bonuses include character and set concept art, as well as a storyboard animatic of the first episode accompanied with the voice work and some sound effects. No background music or noise makes for an often quiet view. The animatic is neat for one viewing, but these aren’t going to keep you revisiting the bonuses after one viewing.
5/10
Overall
I’m actually pleased with this series. It’s a good incarnation of the Transformers franchise that should please most die-hard and new fans alike. I would wager that this miniseries would come with a more featured season one box set, whenever that is released, but this is worth a good viewing to see if the series would quench your robot battlin’ thirst.
8/10
The Review
The Film 8/10
The Video and Audio 7/10
The Packaging and Bonus Features 5/10
Overall (Not an Average) 8/10
Written and Art by Evan Dorkin
These spoiled rotten dairy products may upset your stomach. Probably out of spite.
The Story
Plain and simple, this is the story of a milk carton and cheese wedge being assholes and running amok. That doesn’t sound so bad if there were more to it. Something like a plot. Or maybe good jokes. Instead, Milk and Cheese spend their time experiencing random events, from going to the movies to voting, from joining the war on drugs to protesting just to cause civil unrest, from getting ready for The Phantom Menace to mindlessly rioting while shouting “Merv Griffin” for no discernible reason. And it’s not really funny.
The cover art says these characters hate what you hate, which seems to be the book’s hook. These characters are supposed to be the reader’s aggression and anger played out, but they go much further than that. Maybe I’m just not that angry right now. An angsty teen (or angsty comic book writers quoted on the back of this book) may find this to be a cathartic release, but I don’t and I don’t see many people doing so as well.
The characters also make a habit of breaking the third wall and insulting the readers and mainstream comics. This is very much that cynical and edgy dark comedy of the late ’80s early ’90s, but there’s no heart or character in the writing. At least it knows it’s a one-joke concept, which it points out in its in-character FAQ comic strip in the middle of the book, but that doesn’t forgive anything.
The series was originally published individually in magazines, eventually being collected in batches for full-fledged comics, which were then further compiled into trades like this hardcover collection from Dark Horse. This becomes a bigger problem than one would think. The unadulterated hate and hostility of Milk and Cheese might be bearable in short bursts, funny even to some (although I don’t see it). Compiled together, back to back to back, the series becomes an increasingly downward spiral of repetitive rampant destruction. All the reasons and light plots melt away as the book becomes one long violent tirade.
Instead of just being short annoying bursts, this is instead a terrible book with unbearable characters, a painful chore to read all 200-plus pages. If Milk and Cheese hate what I hate, then they have some serious self-loathing issues.
1/10
The Art
The art is simplistic, reminiscent of a high-school/college amateur. All the strips are in black and white, with varying line thickness, sharpness and detail. The panel placement is all over the place, with half the panels being overcrowded scene-to-scene Milk and Cheese waging senseless destruction. After a while, it all blends in together into one large mess.
3.5/10
Overall
There’s a point where Milk and Cheese fake their own deaths in order to increase fan fervor, and of course no one cares. Sometimes real life imitates art.
2/10
The Review
Story 1/10
Art 3.5/10
Overall (Not an Average) 2/10
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Hopefully you are recovered from the food-induced coma that your Thanksgiving meal brought on, come on now it’s been three days. If not, hurry up! there are leftovers to be had today and surely another satisfying coma awaits us. This may be the holiday that is responsible for the millions of New Years resolutions of “I will loose 15 pounds or I will go to the gym at least 4 days a week”. …continue reading
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This week we shove our hands up a puppets butt and talk Muppets, Arrested Development, Ender’s Game, and Stron Man! Oh yeah, Happy Turkey Day!
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There’s nothing like that feeling of seeing a loved one open your gift and realizing that you literally managed to get them the perfect gift. In fact, the gift is so damn perfect that you wish you had kept it for yourself. You sit there watching them as they brag about it, thank you countless times and fondle the gifty goodness of it, all the while your plotting their murder in order to get the gift back for yourself. Ok, so not murder, but there has to be a way to get that gift back right? Sure you could just go buy another one but it just won’t be the same as having that first one you bought right?
So, in order to avoid a possible near murder during your holiday festivities some of the writers here at CineGeek have put together a list of the must have geeky gifts for the holiday season. This way, you can buy that first one for yourself and if you are feeling generous you can pick up a second one for that special someone.
Niko’s List
George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire) [Print] [Mass Market Paperback]
Thanks to the popularity of HBO’s Game of Thrones series, George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series which spawned it has shot up in notoriety. Season two won’t air until spring 2012, but you can revisit the first season and read ahead with the first four books of the popular franchise. Myself being only up to book three, I can tell you the series maintains the level of intricate characters, political intrigue and mysterious wonder found in this swords-and-shields fantasy series.
Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 1
Marvel Comics have been regularly releasing portions of the infamous and divisive ’90s Spider-Man Clone Saga. With The Complete Ben Reilly Epic, the titular character breaks out into his own. First trying to succeed as the blue-hooded Scarlet Spider then going back to his roots as a redesigned Spider-Man, Ben Reilly is the first to show us it doesn’t necessarily have to be Peter Parker in the webs (even if he kind of maybe was Peter Parker anyway). A must have for Clone Saga apologists like myself.
Mobile Suit Gundam Complete Collection 1
One of the most seminal giant robot cartoons to make its way out of Japan, the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV series finally makes its bilingual US DVD debut. Previous releases only have the English dub track and come in individual volumes. This set (with the pending release second and final part) allows fans to easily purchase one of the first series to combine the fantasy of giant robots with the realism of war, politics and the shattering of childhood innocence.
Telestrations the Telephone Game Sketched Out!
This fun party game merges the Telephone Game with Pictionary. Get in a group of friends and pass your dry-erase notebook around and see if you end with what you started. The recommended age is 13+, but that age may need upping depending on the players and some of their… mature artistic interpretations. Requires 4-8 players. Dry erase cleaner is recommended with regular use.
Grid-It Ultimate Organizer
It’s hard to keep up with the tiny little trinkets you take with you. The Grid-It organizer helps keep all your small items tidy and in place. Pull up one of the elastic bands to hold your travel tools in any order you want. Great for holding down small electronics, toiletries or whatever other random items you need, making it a useful little tool for convention trips.
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There’s nothing like that feeling of seeing a loved one open your gift and realizing that you literally managed to get them the perfect gift. In fact, the gift is so damn perfect that you wish you had kept it for yourself. You sit there watching them as they brag about it and thank you countless times as they fondle the gifty goodness of it, all the while your plotting their murder in order to get the gift back for yourself. Ok, so not murder, but there has to be a way to get that gift back right? Sure you could just go buy another one but it just won’t be the same as having that first one you bought right?
So, in order to avoid a possible near murder during your holiday festivities some of the writers here at CineGeek have put together a list of the must have geeky gifts for the holiday season. This way, you can buy that first one for yourself and if you are feeling generous you can pick up a second one for that special someone.
Mike’s List
Oscium iMSO 104 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope
When they say there’s an app for that, they aren’t kidding. There’s even one that turns your iPad into a Mixed Signal Oscilloscope that you can download free from the App Store, of course it does require a bit of extra hardware, but the hardware will only set you back less than three bills. Speaking of the hard ware it’s really just a dongle that you plug the probes into. The Oscium iMSO 104 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope doesn’t just work on the iPad but will also plug into your iPhone, and iPod touch. According to Oscium it’s perfect for hobbyist and students and will come in handy for field sales and application engineers, but there’s a market I think they are missing. The demographic that I fall into, the total poser. I don’t have a clue how to use an oscilloscope and only have a dark inkling of what you even do with one, but I find myself seriously lusting after this thing. It’s got one eight bit analog channel and with a 1x and 10x selectable 100 MHz probe. There are four 4 bit digital probes with a 12 MSPS sample rate, whatever the hell all that means. I’m just trying to memorize it all so I can regurgitate it all when I whip this out at parties, after all if I don’t know how to use it I need to at least be able to cite some specs, you know what they say, “fake it till you make it.”
LomoKino
Remember film, you know the old fashioned stuff that you had to buy at the drugstore, load in the camera, take the pictures, take back to the drug store, wait a week with crossed fingers that you loaded the camera correctly, got the exposure correct and the plane carrying the film didn’t crash and burn (that actually happened to all of the film my parents took on their first trip to Hawaii). Yeah I love that stuff, but so far I’ve limited my addiction to still photos. I’ve not yet been sucked into the analog world of moving pictures, but that may be changing. Lomography’s new LomoKino allows you to shoot, I keep wanting to say video, but it’s not video of course it’s film, on regular 35mm film which you can still actually find at the corner drugstore, well most of them. The way the LomoKino gets more than a second of film out of a roll of film is both simple and clever. The simple part is that is only shoots three to five frames a second. The clever bit is that is actually squeezes 144 frames on to a standard 36 exposure roll, that’s four images into one frame. That sounds like it would be a bad idea, but a 24mm x 8.5mm image on film will still give you a pretty good image, but it’s still only thirty to forty five seconds of film. It’s dead simple which you can also read as not very flexible. It’s just got three aperture settings and a close up and infinity focus settings. This is not a practical camera and I mean that in the best possible way.
Star Wars Imperial Wall Paper
Everybody accuses you of having never grown up anyway, so why not throw it back in their face with this Star Wars Imperial Wall Paper. Now you might be thinking this would be the perfect wall covering for your man cave, but that’s where you are wrong. This hand screened and flocked piece of perfection deserves to be displayed in your living room, den, dining room, bedroom, well you get the idea. It’s designed by Brian Flynn and is officially licensed by Lucasfilm so you don’t have to worry about George showing up at three am and demanding his cut. For one hundred and twenty bucks you get a 27” x180” roll. That’s enough to cover 33.75 square feet. I have no idea how that compares to more mundane wallpaper, but it doesn’t matter because ordinary wall paper doesn’t have storm troopers, Boba Fetts and Darth Vaders plastered all over it and no I am not going to apologize for that pun.
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Kindle Fire 
There are two ways to look at the Kindle Fire. The first is to think of it just as another Android tablet. If you’re looking at just the specs the only number of the Fire’s that really shines is the price. So let’s not look at it that way. Take two, let’s look at the Fire as a portal to Amazon’s products and services, from this frame the Fire looks great. It’s the perfect way to mainline all of your Kindle eBooks including access to the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library for Prime members, all of your music in Amazon’s cloud service, Amazon Instant Video as well as other non Amazon services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus and Pandora. Of course when you put it like that it sounds like your paying two hundred bucks; add this to the eighty bucks a year you’re already paying if you’re a prime member, just to make it easier to buy even more stuff from Amazon. Okay that doesn’t make it seem like all that great an idea either. Let’s try this one more time. The fact is the Fire has adequate specs with a great price, but what sets it apart is the fact it comes from Amazon. I think the Fire is really only going to make sense to the Amazon cool-aid drinkers. If you’re a heavy consumer of Amazon’s digital products then the Fire looks to be the premier way to do it. Sony’s Head-Mounted 3D OLED Display 
Sometimes an idea comes around that seems to make perfect sense, but just fizzles out for one silly reason or another. Way back in the last century it looked like everyone was going to be donning head mounted VR headsets for playing games, watching movies and interacting with fancy graphical user interfaces on our computers. Soon the idea of a couple of people sitting around watching one screen would be as quaint as using horses for transportation. Of course the reality was that the headsets were heavy and uncomfortable, the angle of view was poor, the resolution was abysmal and they made you look ridiculous. Over time they did get better but video goggles or headsets or whatever you choose to call them remained a niche product. This new HD 3D capable headset from Sony just may change that. They’re supposed to be comfortable, they have a resolution of 1280×720 and a forty five degree viewing angle which roughly equates to a 150 inch screen twelve feet way. They also include 5.1 Surround Sound phones. Of course you’re still going to look ridiculous but besides maybe an airplane where would you ever wear these where someone else would get a look at you. span style=”text-decoration: underline;” Get it Here!
There’s nothing like that feeling of seeing a loved one open your gift and realizing that you literally managed to get them the perfect gift. In fact, the gift is so damn perfect that you wish you had kept it for yourself. You sit there watching them as they brag about it, thank you one too many times and fondle the gifty goodness of it, all the while your plotting their murder in order to get the gift back for yourself. Ok, so not murder, but there has to be a way to get that gift back right? Sure you could just go buy another one but it just won’t be the same as having that first one you bought right?
So, in order to avoid a possible near murder during your holiday festivities some of the writers here at CineGeek have put together a list of the must have geeky gifts for the holiday season. This way, you can buy that first one for yourself and if you are feeling generous you can pick up a second one for that special someone.
Stephen’s List
5. Amazon/iTunes Gift Cards
Ok yes it’s impersonal so save this one for that “special” someone you just don’t want to put that much effort into finding a gift for. In all seriousness though, it’s a digital world and these gift cards are good for nearly everything. The Amazon card of course opens the door for much more than just media but if that someone is an iPhone or iPad user then getting a gift of music, movies, or books for their cherished device is a great thing. Of course you can get all of that and more at Amazon. So, it just depends on where that special someone likes to play.
4. Air Hogs R/C Hawkeye Blue Sky
What? Did I literally just hear you say “How old are you?” to me? Yes it’s technically a toy but come on it’s awesome! It’s a badass looking remote control plane that has a built in camera for taking stills or video. Tell me that’s not cool? So don’t play with it like Snoopy does on the top of his doghouse. If it makes you feel better use it for more adult purposes like doing fly bys of your friend right when he’s trying to take a bite of that extra messy hot dog, and get it all on tape. See, so much more grown up! At any rate, the plane is made by Air Hogs and it hits the $79 mark so it’s not exactly cheap, but come on it has a video camera!
3. Star Trek Pizza Cutter
Did we say geeky gifts? Yes I think we did! This one is for the hardcore Star Trek fan. Imagine a night of watching the even movies or checking out some prime episodes of one of the Trek series (except for Enterprise) and ordering in a pizza for you and your friends. What’s better to divvy up that pie with than a pizza cutter that looks just like the Starship Enterprise? The saucer section is the blade of the cutter. This cool gadget from Lego is $28.99 and you can grab it right here! Hey, it even comes in an awesome tin!
2. Star Wars Complete Saga on Blu-Ray
Yes Lucas keeps tinkering with these movies but aren’t they his to tinker with? Well you could argue that he gave them to us years ago so he should leave them be now, and I’d agree with you. With that said, this blu-ray set features all six films looking better than ever on HD blu-ray. There are also tons of bonus documentaries and other features, most notably deleted scenes from the films that have never been released in any other form! The gorgeously packaged set is only $90 bucks, not bad for six movies and hours of extras!
1. LOST The Complete Collection
This has to be one of the most amazing presentations of a television series on home video to date, and it should be considering LOST is one of the best shows ever to be broadcast. This set includes all six seasons of the series on blu-ray, a bevy of bonus features too, a version of the game played on the island, photo book, and even a mysterious hidden bonus features disc that has to be discovered! It’s literally hidden in the packaging! Speaking of the packaging this box is a showpiece for fans of the show. It’s giant so it’s not meant to be hidden away on some nondescript movie shelf. The set retails for $150 on Amazon. You can buy this for yourself and give the gift of telling loved ones how awesome it is!
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In anticipation of the biggest shopping day of the year Dark Horse Comics has announced an ultimate digital comic book deal for Star Wars fans: 134 individual Star Wars digital comics for $100! That’s a savings of over $166! The sale begins on November 25th at midnight and runs for exactly 24 hours. Dark Horse is available in every web browser and as an app in iTunes for Mac and iOS devices. So you can read all of this Star Wars goodness virtually anywhere.
A list of the specific issues hasn’t been released yet but at only $1.34 each these comics will definitely be worth a read. Grab ‘em Friday on you Dark Horse digital comics app of choice or from here: https://digital.darkhorse.com
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Ok so better late than never. Damn you Comcast!! We’re all about Twilight, sort of, then we talk 10 years of XBOX, Kindle Fire, and much more!
Did you like Pineapple Express? What about the original Adventures in Babysitting? well then you may be excited about Jonah Hill’s new laugher called The Sitter, I doubt this is going to be even in the same league as Adventures in Babysitting but that’s just jaded critic rambling. Here’s the official synopsis:
When the world’s most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world’s worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it’s anyone’s guess who’s going to make it home in one piece. The Sitter is a new level of twisted and debauched hilarity from the director of Pineapple Express, starring Jonah Hill.
Now check out the redband trailer:
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The Hunger Games is a feature film based on the popular novel. The film is getting tons of hype behind it and now we get our first real look at the film outside of the really useless brief teaser trailer that was previously released. In case you aren’t in the know here’s the official synopsis:
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Now check out the trailer:
(Editor’s Note: All of this hunger talk is making me want a snack)
Being Human, yet another remake, is actually a surprisingly solid offering from Syfy Channel. The ratings reflect that statement making the show one of the network’s most successful new series. The story follows a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf all living together in a rundown apartment trying to have “normal” lives. The show returns in January and Syfy has already started releasing teaser clips for the premiere. In this clip Josh is still dealing with keeping inside that one thing that sets the three roommates apart. Sally has let something into her world that she’s wishing she hadn’t, and it’s after her. Aidan is still balancing being different like the other two, but he’s decided to give dating another try, and you’ll see whether or not he can keep his fangs to himself this time.
Look for the premiere January 18th at 9/8c!
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Directed by Atsuko Kase
Featuring Voices by Miki Shinichiro, Ueda Yuji and Kobayashi Yu
I know what you’re thinking. No, this is not a sequel or spin-off of the famous Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie.”
The Series
Local Rags Town detective Shu and his agency get wrapped into a mystery about a covert agency making female soldiers that subsequently turn into glass. They discover an amnesiac young girl they name Sara, who has some great fighting potential and a half-decent Emma Frost impression. Unfortunately she’s in high demand, as the secret organization who made Sara what she is wants her back, and Shu’s S&A Detective Agency gets caught in the middle.
The show is supposed to be a sexy noir detective story, but it drags. Some of the show deals with lively gunfire action and mystery intrigue, and those bits work. When there is action, it’s usually energetic and captivating.
However, most of the show alternates between the detective Shu being listless and boring and his staff being too manic and wacky to maintain the dramatic feel. One of the detective agency staff, a teen girl named Manami, is loud and manic as she yells at other characters and yearns to be involved, but she makes decisions that are stupid, annoying and endanger the main characters, losing any possible audience sympathy. And she gets almost as much focus as the detective and the glass maiden.
While the story tries to touch on all of the characters back story, it doesn’t hit enough of a single character to form any audience attachment. The end of the series leaves you knowing mostly superficial, basic knowledge of the characters and the world they inhabit, leaving the audience feeling uninvolved as a spectator only getting snippets of what’s going on.
The show also can’t seem to decide what should be serious and what should be funny. A side character’s death becomes a pivotal point and driving motivation for one character, while the show makes the sad, weepy and screaming reaction of another character into a punch line.
Ultimately though, it’s not that the show can’t decide to be serious or funny, but that it’s neither. It’s simply unemotional. It takes several episodes in, by the second disc, for the first real moving emotional impact that the audience could feel along with the characters. Prior to that, the series is often quiet with monotone conversations interrupted by the occasional obnoxious outburst. There’s nothing substantial that captivates the viewer, and the action is far in between for that to be a hook.
With annoying characters, partial storytelling, indecisive mood setting and simple boredom, it’s hard to recommend this series. It tries too much with its ensemble cast and its attempt at a noir detective story with a sci-fi bent, so it fails at doing a good job on any of its selling points.
2/10
The Video
The show is presented in 19:9 anamorphic widescreen. The visuals are nothing special. There’s some CG work with the actual glass maiden, especially their shattering sequences which sticks out over the regular animation as if layered on top of it. The animation itself is mediocre with plenty of stagnant still scenes and stiff motions.
3.5/10
The Audio
Audio is Japanese 2.0 surround only. The sounds come through clear and fine, but there are some quiet moments that should have had more background music playing. The soundtrack itself has a decently smooth opening song, but everything else is either forgettable or annoying (such as the two-tone number played at the episode number card after opening credits).
4/10
The Packaging and Bonus Features
The release is the standard lackluster fare we typically get from the sister Sentai Filmworks brand of shows. The two-disc set is in a regular DVD case and has no extras save for the clean opening and ending, with the it’s-not-a-bonus-feature-no-matter-how-much-they-say-it-is trailers for other series. It’s not impressive way to kick off a new brand.
2/10
Overall (Not an Average) 3/10
Glass Maiden is ultimately a boring show with subpar visuals and a no-thrills release. I can’t see much reason in owning it. Small trivia, the show was originally called “Crystal Blaze” but was changed for its international release. It sure makes more sense, but I don’t think it helps one way or the other.
This is one of the first titles released under the “Maiden Japan” brand, a sub-label of Switchwork Pictures and basically a sister brand to Sentai Filmworks. The latter is obvious from how the packaging and bonus features are the same standard fare that Sentai Filmworks puts out. It’s definitely not starting out with a top title, so hopefully the other shows out of the starting gate do a better job.
The Review
The Series 2/10
The Video 3.5/10
The Audio 4/10
The Packaging and Bonus Features 2/10
Overall (Not an Average) 2/10
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On this episode of the show we talk Marvel on Nook, voter abuse, TV show renewals, Wonder Woman on the big screen, Under the Dome HBO, tube amps, Spotify sucks sort of, and tons more!
