Lupin Zero ep4-6 [end]
It might have benefitted from being 10-12 episodes instead of 6, I think giving Lupin and Jigen more screentime to bond as friends would have made their partnership more believable, but on the whole this was pretty solid, and I feel it’s a shame that I’ve seen so few people say they watched it. I think a sequel is unlikely, but I’ll be interested to see what they do next with the franchise; this feels like they’re testing the waters to see how feasible it is to sell Lupin to a different audience.
Nier Automata ep1
I could live with the shonky CGI work if the scenes using it were better directed - the opening part with the aerial battle felt almost comically static. Did like the little post-credit scene with the puppets though, that was cute.
Armitage III (1995) OVA 1
One of my friends went on a cyberpunk media binge recently and mentioned this as something he’d enjoyed, so figured I’d give it a shot. I’d seen bits of this years ago, but other than the design for Armitage herself, it didn’t leave much impression on me. Coming back to it now, it amuses me to see that this was a writing credit for Chiaki J. Konaka, it certainly seems to be touching on a lot of the same themes and motifs as Parasite Dolls, albeit with a bit more levity here. That aside, I don’t have much else to say about it at the moment - it’s a decent romp that captures that 90s cyberpunk b-movie vibe well, but I don’t think it’s bringing much to the table we haven’t seen before.