So a musician decides to ditch on his band and go off and fuck bitches at the end of the universe. Age old story. Except this guy doesn't really seem to get the whole "fuck bitches" bit. In fact he's...sort of retarded.
In fact, he's a lot retarded.
This scene takes place with some desperate criminals trying to steal a VF, and he gets in their way for a bit. Then he gets in the way of the space police for a bit. Because there is no God, Basara does not die during this sequence.
Instead he falls off a bridge onto his guitar and is rescued by an annoying young girl with an extremely 90s character design
the things she says do not contain any information whatsoever. even Basara doesn't get it
This scene would actually be pretty funny if not for the fact that there seriously are space whales in this anime
Thankfully this girl's annoyingness is balanced by her dad, who is basically a Zentradi-sized Captain Ahab. He's voiced by Jouji Nakata and does not approve of anything.
>this ova's face
>mfw this ova's face
Anyway Basara's guitar popped a string, he needs a new one.
He carves a string, off of this whisker. And puts it on his guitar. And it works.
Why the fuck does a space whale have whiskers, anyway? to catch space plankton?
Nonetheless, Basara is pretty taken with the fact that he managed to repair his guitar with pure anti-logic, and begins to...uh...jump on top of her car and deliver an impromptu whale-themed jam. I was trying to make a joke about it, but I really couldn't. I can't quite decide whether it's retarded or great.
I mean, none of the artists I've ever known were much like this. But based on this OVA so far, maybe Kawamori is.
Ah hell, the whales are here and Ahab goes off to fight them. And the space police go out to stop him. And so does Basara. How does he fly and play guitar at the same time? Maybe they explained this in the show but it does not seem plausible.
Then again, this scene is about Space Captain Ahab harpooning Space Moby Dick while the Space Police and Space Douche With A Guitar Singing About Love try and stop him. So I guess plausibility wasn't too high on the priority list.
I guess what's happening in this scene is that Basara is singing a song to the Galactic Whales, but I honestly can't really tell because they don't bother to animate him actually playing his guitar or singing or anything.
for example this frame stays on screen for like five seconds
In a shocking tweest it turns out that Captain Ahab's daughter (not the annoying one, another one) works for the space police.
Then Space Moby Dick pulls some shit and Basara fucking explodes! Oh man, this is grea—
Oh wait, no. He actually survived. His VF exploded. And he was thrown out, completely unharmed, into space. Still holding his guitar.
I'll finish this OVA, because I said I would, but I cannot possibly be expected to watch more than one episode at a time.
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Dr. Nick wrote:Azathoth, while I certainly understand why people might hate Tomino's particular brand of directing, I am tempted to tell you to go and watch some truly hideous early super robot show like Godmars to give you better perspective, because I don't think you've seen what the bottom of the barrel truly looks like.
