{"id":451,"date":"2009-05-29T02:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/?p=451"},"modified":"2009-05-29T04:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:41:45","slug":"dvd-a-day-5-karas-the-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/2009\/05\/29\/dvd-a-day-5-karas-the-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD-A-Day 5 – Karas: The Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heh, figures I’d break the streak in the first week. Ah well, that just gives me opportunity to tackle a 2-parter in one shot, so in goes Karas<\/span>, a 40th anniversary OVA production by Tatsunoko<\/span> that popped up a couple years ago whose box art looked somewhat interesting and was fairly cheap. That’s honestly about the extent of what I know going into the show. Popping it in… two alien-looking aircraft are duking it out in stormy skies above the city… wait… now its two armored people duking it out in stormy sk- wait… its the aircraft again…. whaaa?<\/p>\n

Being a Tatsunoko<\/span> title, it quickly becomes apparent that we’re dealing with some serious sentai business here (after all, they’ve given us such classics as Gatchaman<\/span> and Casshern<\/span>). Still, this isn’t your standard fare for the genre as bystanders are meeting a whole array of grisly fates. Honestly, I’m not really familiar with the genre, but I don’t know that such large such a large dose of the horror is the sort of thing that pops up in these shows (it certainly explains Manga<\/span> picking it up though), but it seems novel to me, and thus somewhat more interesting.<\/p>\n

Story’s a convoluted mess, characters are hit-or-miss, animation hit-or-miss, CG’s mostly miss, action’s a total hit, we’re running pretty middle of the road at the halfway point, time for part the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh, figures I’d break the streak in the first week. Ah well, that just gives me opportunity to tackle a 2-parter in one shot, so in goes Karas, a 40th anniversary OVA production by Tatsunoko that popped up a couple years ago whose box art looked somewhat interesting and was fairly cheap. That’s honestly about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010],"tags":[1088,1126,1102,1128,1127],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-dvd-a-day","tag-karas","tag-ova","tag-sentai","tag-tatsunoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}