TOA - 103 through 106
103 and 104 were clip episodes as I said earlier. More annoyingly than 93's clip episode, they pulled in clips from very early episodes which served to remind how bad they could get at times.
Happily 105/106 was a pretty good two-parter.
TOA: Beautiful Dreamer - Watched
'Twas good. I don't really understand the setup completely, though. All the people still involved after the turtle shows up are asleep and in the same dream (at least until they get shunted into their own subdream, where appropriate), sure, but what about all the people which were around before that? They don't get turned into stone (aside from Cherry and Onsen), and if people are able to just be evicted without being turned into stone, then why was anyone turned into stone at all?
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis - Watched
Pretty and entertaining. Ending scene is kind of dumb. As I understand things there was a post-credits scene cut out of the version I watched.
Given a number of events I expected things to lead into anti-discrimination messages, but they didn't really. And the most discriminating character of all essentially saves the world, for all his intentions at the time were nothing of the sort.
Utawarerumono - Through episode 10.
On the upside, we have tactical stuff (although they haven't done anything too heavy in this regard yet). On the downside, we have a scene where a tiger attempts to breastfeed from a young woman and then implies that she is underendowed. I need to apply some standards to my purchasing.
Some of the background character graphics in the show seem odd, as if they're 3D models which 2D foreground characters have been pasted in front of.
