The
Melody Of Oblivion - Monotone (Volume Two/Animé TV)
Picture: C+
Sound: B- Extras: C- Episodes: C-
The Melody Of Oblivion continues to work itself
into oblivion with Metronome, a show that takes place in the 20th
Century as humans battled monsters and lost enough, yet are still alive. A new war is brewing in the next century and
can Boca join the Warriors Of Melos in time?
It is so bad at this point and three more volumes are on the way!
Such shows should at least have good cliffhangers and the
characters should have some kind of development, but in Animé, they just show
up and we are supposed to like them because they are cool drawings. This just got more and more tired than the
last volume. The half-hourish episodes
this time are:
9) Bay Of The Ape Man
10) Unicorn Series
11) A Song That You Still
Don’t Know
12) Labyrinth Island
The 16+ age minimum means a few racy items and a bit more
explicit violence than one might expect is here, but that does not help the
show. The 1.33 X 1 full frame image has
better than usual color, if not detail.
The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo in English or Japanese has good music and
Pro Logic surrounds, so combined performance like the first volume. The only extras are textless end credits and
three Geneon Animé previews, so this is a very minimal title with content that
is barely a cut above the usual Animé formula.
For die hards only. At least
start with the first volume if you must.
- Nicholas Sheffo
