Paranoia Agent
Published by Fehed 1 year, 6 months ago
Spent today mostly just cleaning up the apartment and occasionally watching tv when I took a break. I bought an anime I’ve been meaning to pick up for well over a year now, but totally forgot about it till last weekend, titled Paranoia Agent.
I spent my evening watching the first DVD and I quite like it. The art style of each character varies stylistically and it’s not as flat as some anime I’ve seen (animation-wise that is). The last anime I’ve seen which I really enjoyed was FLCL. Paranoid Agent is not as good as FLCL in my books, but I am enjoying it and it’s got me wanting to watch more, so that’s saying something for it in my books. I can’t say if anyone else would like it though. It’s definitely kind of an acquired taste in some aspects. I’ve only watched 4 episodes and there’s another 3 DVD’s to go, so who knows. It might take a turn for the worst. Boogiepop Phantom (another series I bought to watch years ago) kept me interested for the first episode, then after watching the second and third, I just completely lost interest. The rest of the series is still sitting on my shelf unwatched.
I find the opening and end sequences really odd in Paranoia Agent, yet strangely enjoyable to watch. I’m really digging the end theme of it too, which is the soundtrack they play on the flash site for this anime. It’s a very soft and subtle tune that goes well with the ‘sleeping characters in a field‘ sequence. You’ll have to watch it to see what I mean.
Edit: Ah, interesting. I thought when I was watching this, it had a lot of similarities in both story and art direction as Perfect Blue, and now watching the extras, I just realised the creator is the same guy who was behind Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress. No wonder it’s appealing to me so much. Perfect Blue was amazingly fucked up.
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looks funky! FLCL/fooly cooly/Furi Kuri is my fav anime and manga, i have both anime and manga because the story is different in some places witht he manga then to the anime. but otherwise its one of my favorite animes. it sites high up on my shelf along with my platinum box set of Neon Genesis Evangelion (another of my fav’s)
i’ll check out Paranoia agent sometime.
~Riku~
Watched it on Adult Swim, our late night anime block on Cartoon Network. I liked it but didn’t love it for various reasons, but we can discuss that later. But I know I enjoyed the opening and ending tracks and bought the soundtrack, so if you want it…
FLCL is c-r-a-c-k. Before I ever saw it friends would tell me it’s something you don’t really try to understand or explain. Just watch it. And even after seeing it and reading up on it a bit it’s still a WTF anime, though not in a bad way. I don’t think it is supposed to be anything deep or particularly meaningful though — in fact they make fun of the over analysis of Eva in it don’t they? I personally think the creators were more concerned with having fun and trying new things out.
I liked Perfect Blue a bit more than Millennium Princess from what I remember; it was a while back though, and I can’t recall too much about the latter. I may have blogged about it though; time to dig!
The creator of paranoia agent (P.A.) had an interview in newtype USA, damned if can remember what he said though. Anyway I actually enjoy the episodes I occasionally get to watch, and P.A. has been getting rave reviews. About it being an acquired taste is more than true, but I think it is more known and easily embraced than shows like boogiepop, Lain, or betterman. Actually boogiepop is one of my favorite anime; the fact that each of the people somehow are minisculy connected was interesting to me. Also an interesting and fairly un popularized anime that’s pretty good is Jiguko Shojo (Hell Girl) (I may have spelled the name wrong) all the episodes where on you tube the last I checked