Sunday, March 12, 2006

Review: Paranoia Agent

The Netflix recommendation system showed itself to be pretty trustworthy with this 4-disk anime series. If you liked Perfect Blue, you would most likely also find Paranoia Agent enjoyable. First, it has the kind of opening that you don't mind watching before each episode; great song, great visuals. Then, each episode follows the stories of different characters, sometimes linking them up (yes, one of those). It's entertaining at the beginning, entertaining and confusing in the middle, and the final episode doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it ties everything together and wraps up the series quite nicely.
So, liking it really just depends on what you usually look for. If you like a good story, good direction, and excellent style you'll probably like this anime. If you are pretty stuck on believability, I don't know why you are watching anime in the first place.

1 comment:

DD said...

"THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! And that chick has a tail! This is the worst cartoon ever! No ponies!" - 89.76% of America