This is a new regular feature for FanCruft. As I’m watching anime, I’ll write down raw notes and observations and post them here. Be aware that these these notes will contain mild spoilers, which may be more sever if you haven’t watched previous volumes of a series.
Ok, so I’m watching Noein. I know virtually nothing about this series other than the fact that my friend Scott “Silence” says that it’s good. The opening has a very “WTF” feel to it. There’s some guy name Karasu, and he’s fighting a giant mechanical battleship thing with a freaky looking face or two. I dunno.
There’s a lot of 3D CGI here and there, not perfectly blended; hopefully it clears up like in DNAngel. There’s a kid talking about how things won’t be better when he’s an adult, so maybe this is a coming of age story.
There’s a bunch of dramatic chanting in the soundtrack. The music is a bit repetitive here and there, but it’s really good.
We find out that the mysterious figures that we’ve seen are Dragon Knights from some place called La’cryma. They seem shady, at best, and it seems they work for aliens or something. They say they’re working to save their “screwed-up” dimension. There’s some rebellion here, and there’s obviously not a perfectly unified team.
There’s some sort of love-triangle subplot; I wonder how big an element it will be as the series progresses. It sort of seems resolved right away, which is unusual.