Review of Texhnolyze

Positive: Good looking male lead and a beautiful ending song by Gackt Negative: Coma inducing I just put this anime in my to watch list and decided to take a look at the first episode because I can't sleep. I thought I'll watch maybe two episodes and hopefully go to sleep but after watching one episode i have to say that the only thing really keeping me awake is that I want to write this review with this anime fresh on the brain. The anime started out okay, just showing the male lead looking at himself in the mirror, no big deal, wiping blood off the mirror, okay,woman comes in, whispers something to him, whatever, other random scenes of food cooking on a burner, okay, man putting food in mouth, alrighty, woman is looking up, then down, then up, then shots of hands and hanging hair, then she is straddling him, okay they are doing it, she digs finger in his eye, okay thats odd, he knocks her off, good move, more random shots of stuff, then male lead lays in the sewers and looks at money, more shots of stuff, girls shows up in a mask, looks at guy.....

17 minutes later, we get some dialogue.

Seriously, was this anime made by freaking turtles? Was it written by those slow a$$ trees on Lord of the Rings? Everything in this anime is soooooooo sllllllloooooowwwww. Turning a head in slow motion, an eye moving slowly, woman getting knocked off in slow motion, male emo lead looking at cash slowly, girl stares at man for a looooonnnnngggggg time.

About 10 minutes in I kept looking at the timer on the screen because it felt like I was watching a full length film. I found my eyes closing, which was the only reason I didn't switch it off. Then out of nowhere they try to add some action scenes but it consisted of gunshot sound effects and crumbling pipes here and there and loads of heavy breathing, as if the character's heavy breathing alone is supposed to tell you how dire the situation is. I knew right away that I wasn't going to watch another episode of this garbage. Then when I come here I see a recommendation to watch LAIN if you like this anime, then it all made sense! This is just pretentious, uninteresting emo trash like lain.

I gave it a 2, one for having some eye candy and one for the ending song, I've heard this song a long time ago and was never able to find it and because of this anime I was able to find it again. :D