luke_bale Review of Texhnolyze

Texhnolyze (2003)

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[4/10 · 16 August 2006]

I'm very surprised at the high rating I am especially surprised that this many people got through the first 9 episodes. Once the story got going I did get in to it and there is a lot of fantastic imagery and interesting ideas in this series however to me the story was just a convoluted mess of different ideas and plot twists. Before the viewer gets to the story however you have to sit through the first 9 episodes which are so lacking in dialogue and any sort of explanation of who the characters are and there intentions that much caffeine is needed. To prove my point the DVD I have actually has a special episode between eps 9 - 10 which summarises and explains the events in the first 9. After this suddenly the story starts taking on some continuity and a lot more dialogue, great!!! So what was the point in the first 9 episodes were they just time fillers, 1 or 2 eps of random nonsensical character interaction would have been fine. This series will probably appeal to Lain fans as that also had at least 8 episodes of randomness before anything starts to be explained, this series requires a lot of patience and to be honest I really don't think there is much in the way of pay off at the end only for me the relief of not having to sit through another episode.