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Houseki no Kuni - Another Interesting Start
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Mon, 09 October 2017 21:46 |
Dave Baranyi
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“Houseki no Kuni” is the adaptation of a seinen manga about a far future world where twenty-eight crystal creatures fight Buddhist/Taoist moon creatures who come to take the crystal creatures and make jewellery and decorations out them. Each of the twenty-eight crystal creatures is made from a different stone. Some are very hard stones and make good fighters while others are softer stones that must find other uses. All of the crystal creatures are lead by a monk-like figure. The opening episode revolves around one of the weaker crystal creatures know as Pho who gets assigned the job of creating a natural history encyclopedia.
I've been very careful with my wording in the paragraph above because while the crystal creatures are animated to look like pretty young girls with hair the colour of the stones that make them up, and female Japanese voice actresses provide the voices for all of them, the creatures are supposed to be genderless. This of course, has got those folks who are into “gender/pronoun” things quite excited. But as I see it, essentially the anime is trying to have it both ways – appeal to the traditional fan service crowd and at the same time seem “hip” and “current”.
That aside, the first episode was a fair amount of fun to watch. It's all CG but it has a “soft” look instead of a “shiny” look for the most part. There is a fair amount of action and a lot of mystery. The voice acting was quite good. I was intrigued enough that I want to see more. My initial rating is B+.
Dave Baranyi
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