So I finished up watching two different series'.
First, I finished watching the TV aired episodes of Durarara! with Toony... And it's quite the show, in it's own way!
Someone asked me earlier if I could understand the plot better than they could so I could explain it to them, and I have a reply to you, sir. The answer being: the plot isn't complicated in even the most slight way, it's just stupid. That's probably what tripped you up, since this is the progeny of the same man that made Baccano!, which was actually quite confusing, but fun to follow, and, now that I think about it, also gets really stupid near the end as well.
Now, what are my complaints against it? Well, and I know it's based on a series of light novels, nothing goes anywhere! There's interesting characters, with motivations, and there's tensions between them, but nothing significant happens!
You see, at around episode 16-17, a major plot develops, and the whole city is thrown into turmoil! Suddenly, every character is afraid for their lives! It looks like the literally everything is at stake!... and then it gets wrapped up rather handily by a single, secondary character. I was disappointed, to say the least... and then nothing else significant happens for the rest of the series, which rubbed it in even more.
The second most heinous thing that rubbed me the wrong way, being this scenario I've cooked up in my head that can be the only explanation for what happened during the creation of the story:
"Alright everybody, this is the character spread for our show, Durarararara. We've written a cadre of characters from amazing to the supernatural, with personalities ranging from explosive; to mysterious; to sociopathic and manipulative. They all have rich back-stories and engrossing motivations, and to compliment these motivations are incredible abilities that makes each one a force to be reckoned with, and they will power the entire story the moment they burst onto the front stage, stealing the audiences attention and winning theirs hearts to the show."
"That is fantastic sir! Which one is our main focus?"
"Oh, no, these characters at not the main focus. Our MAIN focus is this punk ass high school brat that is barely interesting, with pitiful motivations, impotent at everything he attempts, and generally just whines about his sorry position in life while ransacking camera time from all the awesome, amazing characters described earlier."
"..."
"Meeting concluded. Get to work gentlemen."
and I think that sums it up quite well.
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Also, just a little bit ago I finished watching Legends of the Dark Kings. I have to say that I enjoyed this more than I enjoy the Hokuto No Ken-universe ALOT more when it's from the perspective of anyone other than Kenshiro. We get to see the world from Raoh's take on things, and how certain parts of Kenshiro's Journey, if you'd watched the main series, came to be.
Really, the only thing that needs addressing is why I enjoyed this as much as I did, and it's because Raoh, Kenshiro's oldest brother, is actually much more interesting than him. Why? Well, Raoh has these things, called character flaws, and these are things that Kenshiro just doesn't have.
It's a breath of fresh air to see things from Raoh's perspective; because we get the privilege of seeing the awesome power of Raoh, the strongest man in the world, while watching him fight and kill and conquer, all towards a goal that we know he can't achieve. Unlike Kenshiro, Raoh is self-righteous, completely selfish, unloving, callous to others, and gets furiously angry when compared to his Jesus-like younger brother.
It's a lot more interesting, and the show in general enriched the Hokuto-universe as a whole.
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