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Cosmowarrior Zero
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Animation - 5.3 |
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Sound - 4.7 |
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Story - 4.0 |
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Character - 4.5 |
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Value - 2.5 |
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Enjoyment - 3.0 |
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Average - 4.0 |
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| Average |
3.8 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
0 |
| Story |
3 |
| Character |
4 |
| Value |
3 |
| Enjoyment |
3 |
| This series is about a Captain Zero who works for the terrestrial something or other organization that is now in charge of space law. After some sort of battle between humans and man-machines, there is now 'peace' throughout the galaxy. However, rogue pirates such as Captain Harlock, are seen as a threat and Captain Zero is assigned to hunt him down. Along the way, he and his crew meet various troubles from internal racial strife to non-compliant characters to sabotage to life or death choices. The triumph of troubles one after another is basically what this anime is about.
Personally, I have never watched a single episode of Captain Harlock, so I didn't really have qualms with Harlock not taking a large role in this series. It was also kind of interesting to see a Gun Frontier character make an appearance - even though Gun Frontier is a lousy anime. The sad thing about Cosmo Warrior Zero is that it lacks intensity or believability. The story just feels like a basic backbone is laid out and stuff is then haphazardly piled on top of it. The characters don't have much of a direction for development and the goal is so direct and simplistic.
Of course, around halfway through we have some sort of feeling about the 'truth' of the situation... the evil ones aren't Harlock but the cosmic government 'organization'. Some evil shadow is behind pulling the strings blaming stuff on Harlock. Overall, Cosmo Warrior Zero is a really unoriginal anime that can safely get a 'pass this stamp' on it. I don't know how great this Captain Harlock is in the original series, but in this series no particular character is that impressive.
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| Average |
4.3 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
5 |
| Story |
4 |
| Character |
6 |
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| Take Harlock out of Harlock and what you get? Garbage or in other words Cosmo Warrior Zero.
As my reviews tell I'm not a fan of Harlock or Matsumoto. But I admit Harlock has balls as big as an ox's. In CWZ the main point is to replace Harlock with a look-a-like. Without the balls or the scar. I feel I must have slept over a some crucial bit of information that explained his confusing behaviour. Ok, I understand he wants everybody to live peacefully together but sometimes I just wanted to shake him to take action and ask if his ideals were really worth the losses. He controls a crew of humans and mechanized men that clash constantly. Not too surprisingly the crew welds together during the series. When it's made with cliched happenings that show how similar they really are despite appearances, one can only shake his head and hope something interesting and novel would happen.
Never fear, the story is mostly about some crazy emperor wanting to rule the galaxy. To get to that you have to first follow a series of random adventures that make Zero and Harlock mortal enemies. So they could join again later. More of this originality please. The main point seems to be a planet that somehow controls to destiny of the mankind and mechanized men. I don't think there was an explanation on how that actually works but hey! Since Zero, Harlock and their buddies are ready to die for it, it must be important. Let's just culminate all into this crazy big space battle that lost any reason in the first 10 seconds. Why care about logic? What good has it ever done to anyone?
I see this is supposed to be an OVA from 2001. It doesn't show. The animation is simply crappy with bad computer effects. The opening animation makes me want to cry for mercy. Music isn't much hotter either: some oversentimental ending song and standard pompous battle musics.
Yup, CMZ is all about chucking different Matsumoto characters together with a standard plot and hoping it will work out in the end. It doesn't and the series mostly made me sleepy. I really have a new appreciation of Harlock after this crap. Avoid and watch the original Harlock or Endless Odyssey for your retro-scifi needs.
P.S. Would somebody please shoot Battlyzer! I thought Jar-Jar Binks was annoying but it seems I didn't know anything.
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(2005-05-20 11:15:37) 2005-05-13 15:53:13 |
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| Average |
3.2 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
5 |
| Story |
3 |
| Character |
3 |
| Value |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
2 |
| Vielleicht muss man ein Fan von Leji Matsumotos Werken sein oder einfach etwas mehr Hintergrundwissen zum Harlock-Universum mitbringen um sich an diesem Anime erfreuen zu k?nnen, denn für mich als Nicht-Fan und ,in Sachen Harlock, “Neulandbetreter“ war dieser Anime, um es vorsichtig auszudrücken, nicht gerade unterhaltsam. Cosmo Warrior Zero fehlen 2 immens wichtige Dinge die relevant sind um den unerfahrenen Zuschauern was Harlock & Co. angeht für diese Side-Story begeistern zu können: Zum einen ist das vor allem eine spannende Handlung und zum anderen die fehlenden Hintergrundinformationen zu vielen Figuren die innerhalb der 13 Episoden nur einen Kurzauftritt haben und wohl auch nur integriert wurden um Matsumoto-Fans zufrieden zu stellen. Wer sich nicht zu diesen Leuten zählen kann sieht sich von einer Menge an Fragen umringt die nie beantwortet werden und tappt von Anfang bis Ende im Dunkeln. Besonders schwer wiegt diese Tatsache da gerade diese Charaktere noch bei weitem die interessantesten der gesamten Serie sind. Mir zumindest waren die eigentlichen Protagonisten schon wenige Minuten nach den Auftritten von Harlock, Emeraldas und Tochiro vollkommen egal, da sie im Vergleich zu diesen Charakteren die, wohlgemerkt, nur Nebenrollen übernehmen einfach um einiges weniger faszinierend sind. Dieses Manko, gepaart mit dem zähen und nur behäbig Fortschritte machenden Plot, ist das praktisch das Todesurteil von Cosmo Warrior Zero. Es wurde immer mehr zur Qual die nächste Episode anzuschauen und gleichzeitig frustrierend mit anzusehen wie langweilig der Plot vor sich hin kriecht ohne nennenswerte Höhepunkte oder überraschende Twists während die Charaktere die ganze Zeit über durchsichtig und berechenbar daher kommen. Die Motivation liegt nach wenigen Episoden leblos im Keller und alles was darauf folgt wirkt heftigst einschläfernd. Auch wenn Matsumoto einige Botschaften a la “Verurteile deine Mitmenschen nicht bevor du sie nicht kennst und lerne sie schätzen“ mit dem allseits beliebten Szenario "Das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine" durchzudrücken versucht um damit dem Plot von Cosmo Warrior Zero eine tiefgehende Bedeutung zu verpassen, scheitert der Versuch damit einen emotionalen Einschlag zu verursachen in einer eher kläglich, stereotypischen Durchführung. Obendrein ist das seit GITS und Armitage einfach nichts besonderes mehr und kalter Kaffee. Ich kann diesen Anime beim besten Willen nicht empfehlen, es gibt weit bessere Alternativen im Sci-Fi-Genre. Man nehme zum Beispiel “Seikai no Senki“ und vergisst am besten ganz schnell das dieses Wrack hier überhaupt existiert!
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4.5 |
| Animation |
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| Sound |
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| Story |
6 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
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| Enjoyment |
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| Ugh. This was such a poor matsumoto series that it i could barley get myself to finish it. The story dosent center on any of the characters you think it would. Instead, we get to follow captain zero and his ragtag bunch of crew members as they try and capture Harlock. Harlock, in this series seems very 1 dimensional to me compaired to his other aperances. In addition to that we are given very brief interactions with Maetel, Tochiro, or Emeraldas. MIDI soundtrack and overly-cheap computer assisted animation makes you feel like this was some kind of independed job. Very dissapointed.
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