I think this story has a good idea, but I think a lot more could have been done with it. It has potential if they had just developed it more. The main character is rather annoying and there are some things that just don't make any sense. The graphics aren't exactly amazing either. The characters as a whole are rather shallow and simple.The only character that managed to surprise me a little was Abelia. Turns out, she wasn't all that she seemed after all.
The main character is rather naive and simple minded for sure. So much so that I didn't really like him very much. The plot is basically this. There is a girl, Lala Rue who has possesion of a pendant that holds a gigantic amount of water that only she can release. When soldiers from the future come to take her back, Shu, the main character, tries to stop them and ends up getting taken along with the girl. He ends up in a place called Hellywood, run by a childish crazy man. While trying to help Lala Rue, they get separated and he ends up with her pendant. Afterwards he loses it. Shu is beaten and tortured as the woman who took them tries to find out what happened to the penant. When it is decided that Shu doesn't know where it is, she forces him into being a soldier. The soldiers are children who were stolen from villages across the wasteland that is this futures world. They are taught to fight and kill, but Shu has no intentions of killing and continuously tries to stop the soldiers. This gets him into trouble and he becomes a prisoner again. After that, well just find out for yourself.
Lala Rue is needed because this futuristic world has very little water and for the ship, Hellywood, to run, it needs water for fuel. Now how the king convinces anyone to do anything, I'm not sure. He is seriously like a child with frequent temper tantrums.
The person who refuses to kill being put in a situation where he needs to kill, it's been done before and I imagine it will be done again. My favorite characters were actually Nabuka and Boo.
Spoiler Alert - sadly, both died. Both Nabuka and Boo were soldiers. Boo obviously didn't like the killing from the start, and for all Nabukas talk, he didn't want to kill either. They both tried to follow their orders in hopes they could go back to their villiage at the end. Unfortunately, the king had never intended to let them go, and even if he had, the king had the villiages destroyed after taking what he wanted, so there was nothing to go back to. In the end, both did what was right. Boo managed to help Nabuka see clearly and Nabuka did the last thing he could to help Shu. In the end, Abelia delivered the final "blow" to the king.
The story was rather shallow and plain, but it wasn't too bad. Like I said before, it had potential. In the end, it turned out okay. I probably wouldn't give it more than 3 out of 5 though, if even that. Still, it's not a bad show to watch sometime if you have nothing better to do. It's not super exciting, but it's better than some things I've seen. I would certainly pick it over watching something on the current Cartoon Network. Then again, sometimes I think I would prefer just about anything over that....even if it meant reading Twilight, or worse.....Into Thin Air. That's off topic though. My point is, it's not a waste of time to watch, just don't go into it expecting too much.
The main character is rather naive and simple minded for sure. So much so that I didn't really like him very much. The plot is basically this. There is a girl, Lala Rue who has possesion of a pendant that holds a gigantic amount of water that only she can release. When soldiers from the future come to take her back, Shu, the main character, tries to stop them and ends up getting taken along with the girl. He ends up in a place called Hellywood, run by a childish crazy man. While trying to help Lala Rue, they get separated and he ends up with her pendant. Afterwards he loses it. Shu is beaten and tortured as the woman who took them tries to find out what happened to the penant. When it is decided that Shu doesn't know where it is, she forces him into being a soldier. The soldiers are children who were stolen from villages across the wasteland that is this futures world. They are taught to fight and kill, but Shu has no intentions of killing and continuously tries to stop the soldiers. This gets him into trouble and he becomes a prisoner again. After that, well just find out for yourself.
Lala Rue is needed because this futuristic world has very little water and for the ship, Hellywood, to run, it needs water for fuel. Now how the king convinces anyone to do anything, I'm not sure. He is seriously like a child with frequent temper tantrums.
The person who refuses to kill being put in a situation where he needs to kill, it's been done before and I imagine it will be done again. My favorite characters were actually Nabuka and Boo.
Spoiler Alert - sadly, both died. Both Nabuka and Boo were soldiers. Boo obviously didn't like the killing from the start, and for all Nabukas talk, he didn't want to kill either. They both tried to follow their orders in hopes they could go back to their villiage at the end. Unfortunately, the king had never intended to let them go, and even if he had, the king had the villiages destroyed after taking what he wanted, so there was nothing to go back to. In the end, both did what was right. Boo managed to help Nabuka see clearly and Nabuka did the last thing he could to help Shu. In the end, Abelia delivered the final "blow" to the king.
The story was rather shallow and plain, but it wasn't too bad. Like I said before, it had potential. In the end, it turned out okay. I probably wouldn't give it more than 3 out of 5 though, if even that. Still, it's not a bad show to watch sometime if you have nothing better to do. It's not super exciting, but it's better than some things I've seen. I would certainly pick it over watching something on the current Cartoon Network. Then again, sometimes I think I would prefer just about anything over that....even if it meant reading Twilight, or worse.....Into Thin Air. That's off topic though. My point is, it's not a waste of time to watch, just don't go into it expecting too much.
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