Audience reviews
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ItIsMaynard
An odd follow-up to a great series. It's apparent that Affair of Nolandia wants to be a bit of an "event" in the sense that it wants to be bigger, darker, and more serious than the TV Show, but in doing so loses a lot of the original's charm. The more surreal, morose tone is interesting at times, but the plot just doesn't have enough meat to justify the runtime which makes the whole thing feel sluggish. While some of the animation feels more consistently fluid than the show, the action is very low-key, the colors look dull, and the attempt at making the characters look more like real people just makes them look blander and kind of off. The attempts to be a bit more "adult" don't really fit the established tone, Dirty Pair was always a bit flirty and fanservicey, but this one has a couple o…
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This is a bad ova. Ito is way too serious of a script writer for Dity Pair. It feels like the people making this didn't understand the series at all. You could put any stock 80s mecha characters in the same position as Kei and Yuri and it'd probably be a better ova because it wouldn't be wasting two excellent characters. Kei and Yuri don't snipe at each other the way they're supposed to, lots of gross sexual assault themes with the plants, naked psychic children. They got Zeta Gundam in my Dirty Pair and its unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Zeta Gundam. But that's not what Dirty Pair is or has ever attempted to be. This ova has no humour, some okay action, the characters all look wrong just.. feels like a waste of time. Watch literally any other 80s mecha thing cause this i…
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The Dirty Pair is a franchise I'm not super familiar with. I've talked about it before, all of once. This time around, I'm looking at an earlier instalment in the franchise. This one is actually older than me, it was released in late 1985. Let's take another look at this classic franchise.
Story:
We open with a young girl being told to use her power. This quickly results in a plane crash. Shortly after, our heroines are being sent to a planet with only a small habitable area to find a young girl. They find her missing and take to a perilous jungle filled with strange creatures to find her.
The biggest problem with the work is just that the narrative is pretty obvious. You can pretty easily figure out where it's going once you've gotten about eight minutes in. It's so obvious that they…
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This felt to me like a long, lower-budget, weak episode from the Dirty Pair TV series. Production values seem lower across the board. Art is much rougher, though there are a couple nice backgrounds. Musical numbers are okay, but generally forgettable. The main weakness is the writing. Very little is explained as to why anything is happening; with all the surreal sequences mixed in, it just feels like a bad trip. Like a couple of the weaker episodes from the series, it feels like the elements of the story are all there in a rough form, but loosely jumbled together, like the writers didn't get enough time to revise and refine their ideas. The pacing is very wacky; there are several moments where something serious or deeply disturbing happens, followed immediately by some light-hearted comedy…
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The original Dirty Pair TV series made me a bit confused. It was rather... silly, I can't find another word to describe its overall mood. In some episodes the plot moves were strange, in others they were wierd, there were also some so-called "Big Lipped Alligator Moments" or BLAMs for short.
And so it was in "Nolandia no Nazo". This anime is full of plot holes, strange plot twists, some wierd scenes are also present. Yeah, like this scene in the beginning with Kei and Yuri both nude and merging one into another (which makes me think about some sort of hidden message here, like the lesbian desire of Kei towards Yuri or vice versa) and the "tentacle rape" scene with Kei, which also obviously has sexual context in it. I know that I revealed some spoilers but, man, I think grandpa Freud would…
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I felt that the seriousness of the OVA distracted me from the plot a bit. Dirty Pair shouldn't be this serious, although it was quite a bit more lighthearted than the previous OVA. However, the plot was neither rushed, nor dragged along, with convincing plot twists to keep me interested. Additionally, the plot was very hard to read.
The visuals were pleasing, living up to the crisp animation quality of the series. This OVA was a bit more fearless about pushing the limits of the characters' bodies, going so far as to, at least to me, imply that Kei dreamed about getting tentacle raped, a scene I found rather disturbing. However, one scene rarely hurts the image of an entire feature.
Overall, the feature was definitely better than Flight 005 Conspiracy, addressing most everything I mention…
Read at the sourceStormy_77
Kei and Yuri, the intrepid Dirty Pai ... er, I mean, Lovely Angels are assigned to find a missing girl. Kei and Yuri have traced Missinie to the forest of Nolandia, but their investigations have stalled thanks to the less-than-helpful Chief of Security with a hidden agenda.
The plot moves along at a snails pace. Questions are posed but not answered. Due to the nature of the mystery, half the movie is set as illusions experienced by various characters which only bogs down the plot even more. It takes a while for the mystery to be solved.
Animation is ok as it is dated animation. English Voice Acting is actually poor, some characters are convincing, others are not. Overall it wasn't as good as the Dirty Pair could have been.
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