Review of Texhnolyze

The story is about a guy with speech impairment, that is really into punching. At first he kinda sucks and fails a lot, failing sometimes means getting hit by swords too, but he persist, and later he gets very good at punching, and do that for living. He truly punches till the end. He barely say any words through the whole series, he is more about grunting and screaming, he kinda just want to throw some punches randomly. It's by episode 10 that he starts acting less like a rabid dog, and more like semi functional and emotionally unstable human being. It's good that even himcan't comprehend his motivations, because it's very hard to find a more obnoxious protagonist.

The main female character doesn't fall behind. She also barely say any word, and barely do anything. Actually, not many people say much, there wasn't much more than four full sentences in the whole first episode, it was more about very long and slow scenes, grunting, intense breathing, and some screams... the first episode was supposed to get you hooked on the series, right? Well, here the first episode is more like "gosh, I guess I will give one more chance before dropping this", and you probably will, because the art, animation and the music is quite good.

There is some quite decent interactions between the factions in the show, also some quite good stuff going on, but as Lain (where most of the guys here also worked) the story is soooo slow paced that the whole series would probably fit in a single movie and that movie would be awesome. The story goes like "in this episode the guy is lost", "in this episode the guy is in pain", "in this episode the guy is confused", rarely more than one thing happens... it changes by the mid of the series, when sh*t goes down, but it becomes sloooow again in the end, like, even the walking is slow... you see? That's all to add deepness, Texhnolyze went so deep that they found oil and now the USA wants to bring freedom to it!

But again, you see, this reviews makes the series look very boring, but pay attention that I gave it an overall score of 8. It's not just the art and music that's good, because the story goes so crazy that it gives a Kubrick's feeling. By the end, it becomes so insane that they are now going balls deep... the story develops slowly, but it's so f*cked up that you will get frustrated, because you just can't imagine what's going to happen. The ending will give you an emptiness feeling, which I think is very positive - to not be apathetic about it.

Maybe it's pretentious, most probably it is very pretentious most of the time, the slow pace is annoying, but maybe you will be amazed by their "artistry". There is some good action, but I really like the unpredictable plot, but I also kinda hate the whole thing, as you can see by my review... but also loved it.