I lol’d

Resident Evil (5), Nasu-style. Nasu-style includes:

-Mystic Eyes of Death Perception

-Black keys

-SUGOI SUGOI

-Takeuchi recylicing (I saw Ryougi, Kiritsugu, Saber Lily)

-Badass Sakamoto Maaya

-Sex with Noto Mamiko

-Psychopathic Tanaka Rie (srsly)

-Jouji/George Nakata

-Mollusk-explanations (thank you Liang Qi o_o)

Spoilers: This is about how old Ciel really is.

Who knew that all these crazy gun-fu fights, incompetent Americans, badass longcoat villains, biological warefare threats, zombie-like failures, and one character unaffected by it all would be the sequel to a reality-grounded VN released on the Wii? Oh Nasu, you so crazy.

Even so, there’s something strangely entertaining about being thrown into a story where you haven’t the vaguest idea what’s happening; i.e. that’s how Kara no Kyoukai and to an extent the Fate/stay night VN started. I’m not really sure how much Canaan has assumed its audience to know what happened in 428 other than the aspsects of the Ua virus, Mino, Maria and her father’s involvement in Shinjuku, but otherwise Canaan feels like a complete stand alone production until it starts delving into said aspects from 428. And even then, it’s not all that necessary to even pay attention to the virus and it’s importance to just kick back and enjoy the action since the plot never seems to revolve around it other than the two episodes it’s focused on. I genuinely felt excited to watch the next episode as opposed to watching something like Umineko where one spends most of the time wanting something interesting to happen.

What’s wrong Alphard? Got a ‘dead arm’ there? (^^;;)

…right until the final episode. It’s common to feel more disappointment at a series’ ending moreso than it is to feel satisfaction, but Canaan’s seemed a bit too abrupt. Let alone the fact that the big bad, Alphard, spontaneously suffers a breakdown when, after 12 episodes, we’re lead to believe she’s as cold blooded as she appears to be and subseuquently loses to Canaan because of this, but Alphard is effectively out of the picture within the first 7 minutes into the episode while the rest of it is spent with the group apparently not wanting to see each other. I expected Canaan’s and Alphard’s fight to be longer, especially since all areas of the series’ media revolves around their conflict when they apparently only fight each other twice, the first time being an incredibly short and one-sided defeat.

Well, Liang’s objective was pretty simple, she just wanted to GET SOME…from Alphard (also, purple Wii mote triggers explosives)

I expected more resolutions, since I still have no idea why Snake’s previous objective was to create another Canaan through the Ua virus and what Natsume was hoping to accomplish by securing power for Japan, especially since she appears to just be back to office lady status during the epilogue. If they were explained somewhere, maybe I didn’t catch them.

Fucking cocktease.

And I expected Canaan and Maria to kiss since it’s painfully obvious that these two have been craving to suck on each other’s mollusks and transfer mana on multiple judging from the last few episodes, so much that’s that their orientations aren’t even “maybe they are, maybe they aren’t” ponderable anymore.

And the ambiguous end that somewhat hints at a sequel seems unfair, since Canaan isn’t the type of series that could continue, what with half of the cast dying and all. Maybe they’ll make a Melty Blood-style video game sequel…or maybe they’ll just add them to Melty Blood.

Canaan isn’t a must-see series, and I’m sure most of the people who wanted to watch it already have i.e. Type-Moon fags who will suck up anything Nasu’s pen inks out, so I can do very little in recommending others to watch it. For a short time frame, however rushed and short 13 episodes is, it’ll certainly do it’s job in entertaining enough to eagerly watch it the first 12 episodes…then leave you with the words “That’s it? It’s over” escaping from your semi-disappointed mouth. SUGOI SUGOI.

HIGH TENSIOOOOOOON!

-Jay