Monday, 9 March 2009
Little Norse Prince
This is an anime that I watched a few months ago whilst at home for Christmas. It is, however, laughably awful in every single way.
As you might expect from the title, the story revolves around a little Norse prince who speaks Japanese, wears only a tunic (trousers and pants obviously hadn't been invented) and mostly uses an axe linked to a bit of rope in order to kill things.
One day, whilst out killing wolves (as any healthy norse prince who happens to be little does) the little norse guy happens upon a stone giant, who also speaks Japanese.
The giant has a thorn in his side that has been itching him for a while and he has no idea what it could be, so the norse bloke formally known as prince scales the giant and pulls it out. It turns out to be a legendary sword spoken of only in prophesy! Wow!
I'll stop there, mostly because the story doesn't get any better; the villain is extremely 2D and the shocking twist revolving around the love interest isn't very twisty. Or shocking.
Spoiler: She happens to be evil and under the mind control of the villain.
The animation quality is even worse than the writing, with numerous animation errors, badly drawn backdrops and characters who change appearance from scene to scene. Also, the voice acting is... Odd.
I can't really judge whether the actors are really doing well as I don't speak Japanese, however, in order to get a young childs' voice they've taken the actor who does the lead and sped his voice up. This results in some form of demon child who has the creepiest voice ever seen in a film ever.
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