12 days of blatant pandering, day 11
Eureka-ism
This one’s still fresh in my mind. Xam’d: Lost Memories aka Bounen no Xamdou aka Bonen no Zamned is proving to be one of the year’s finest shows. And honestly that doesn’t surprise me much. After RahXephon and Eureka Seven, Bones should command attention when they create an original mecha series — especially with Sony forking over a small country’s annual budget to get it made and shipped out via PS3. As this is still the current episode, I won’t post a picture and I won’t even talk too much about it. Suffice to say… episode 19.
There are those who thought it was too much, but there are those who didn’t like Diebuster either. For me, a tribute is a fine line — Macross Frontier was 26 episodes of tribute, and while it was mostly enjoyable, I’ve made my overall opinion known so I won’t go on and on. But a beautiful, seat-gripping moment like this one? I’ll take a tribute. Especially considering what it did for the story and mood of Xam’d.
Aside from their consistently high production values, unique recognizable style, and obsession with western aesthetics, there’s an even stronger mark of a Bones production (at least of their grandest projects): their stories’ unshaking faith and optimism. Hope and love are Bones’ hard work and guts.
