Witchblade on IFC
Yesterday Jeri Rowe dropped a package on my desk from the Independent Film Channel.
Inside were two DVDs of Japanese Anime.
Not usually my thing -- I think anime is an acquired taste that requires a very specific sensibility or a lot of acid (or both) -- but these caught my eye.
One of them is an anime version of the Top Cow comic Witchblade, which was already a failed live action series with talk of a movie in the works.
No surprise -- the Witchblade (a sentient alien artifact that bonds with human women making them into superheroes) of the anime also makes the female wielder dress like a stripper from space.
Some things remain, whatever the genre.
Am going to have to put this on and try not to have a seizure as the strangeness of the original witchblade concept melds with the weirdness of anime. I guess in way the two are made for each other -- the Japanese have a strange fetish for scantily clad women being persecuted by monsters and that's sort of what Witchblade is all about.
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Oh, god. You're going to need help with this one. From a single image I can tell this will contain the worst clichés Japan has to offer, and you don't have the background for it.
Posted on January 18, 2008 1:01 PM
Ha!
Luckily I have a buddy who's an expert.
Posted on January 18, 2008 1:04 PM