Comments on: Genius Party - 02 - Shanghai Dragon Review - 80/100

by: Silverya

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:24:18 +0100

They understand each other because one of the guys (non-bald, not the guy called Sai) set up a two-way translation with the device on his arm :)

by: Ilsa

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:42 +0100

for me, this was one of stories that leaves nice and warm feeling inside. and i had a good laugh, too. also, hearing kids speak in chinese (it took me a while to believe my ears:)) was added bonus!

by: Reiter

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:34:21 +0100

What an awesomely epic and cute story! The little kid is pretty adorable (geez, just how much snot can come out of that boy’s nose?) and the part where he draws his own Ultraman/Power Ranger suit to fight off the evil mecha was both funny and made of pure win. Another great scene was when Sai (the bald cyborg) drops in to save the day with nothing but a cigar and his six-shooter.

The premise behind this one short episode seems like light years ahead of what many of today’s mainstream anime shows have to offer. I for one wouldn’t mind at all finding out what happens to the kids and their futuristic guardians. The cute happy ending certainly leaves it open for that.

I also really liked the fact that kids actually spoke Chinese as opposed to what other shows have done with characters speaking supposedly different languages but still manage to revert to Japanese or some really bad Engrish (Black Lagoon is guilty of this). I’m fairly sure the creators were also trying to make some sort of commentary by equating the kids with innocence and imagination and the adults with soulless technology that’s grown out of control.

Overall, I really enjoyed this ep of Genius Party!

by: Denizen

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:09:56 +0100

I loved this episode so much, it felt like an epic movie crammed into 20 minutes, which was nice.

by: senerikfred

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:42:32 +0100

Subbed version assists well for details-they DID have trouble understanding each other at first, but then the guy who wasn’t Sai (Chinkuro, I think?) activated some sort of translation device thing he had.
I actually liked the use of CG here, and didn’t find it intrusive. So many awesome fight scenes. Meh, opinions.
How is everything ‘imagination’ related? Several are, strongly, even Doorbell as a stretch. I have a hard time saying that for Baby Blue, though.

by: omo

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:59 +0100

I really like this clip…but I don’t know if your estimate on budget is true or not. It seems as if most of the background in the show are CG to begin with, and they added that extra fuzzy CG to differentiate it from the others.

Given how fluidly this is animated compare to your average Macross Frontier episode, I would think the budget (and resources spent in general) was much higher in it than anything from MacF.