Final Fantasy Unlimited
Jan. 17th, 2004 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserIn the past I've seen this anime available for downloading. However, since I didn't know anything about it, I've skipped it. Since I'm now out of things to watch, FFU was one of the first things I hunted down and downloaded. Today I'm watching it.
During the beginning of it (before the initial credits/theme song played) I wondered if some other series was just taking advantage of the Final Fantasy name -- if it had nothing to do with the games' worlds at all. Then when the credits appeared, it did list that it was "Final Fantasy - By Square Enix" (Enix? Enox? I might be misspelling it, but it had the right logo and everything), so it's an official FF anime.
Exciting and wonderful, right?
Nope. Horrible, horrible animation (worse than Saturday morning cartoon level), dialogue which made me clutch my hands to my ears and yell "la la la la!" as loud as I could, but unfortunately that didn't block out the voice acting. (Speaking of which, I had to listen to this in English, and it took two hours even to get that to work! It was put out in gos awful .mkv file format. Yes, I had as much trouble as last time getting them to play, including making no other file types work and crashing my computer. Oh, and your trick didn't work for me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bouteillebleu. Thanks anyway though.)
The bad guy was some clown/mime thing which was just cringingly bad... but the second bad guy was worse. Mr. Fungus. A walking, talking, SMOKING mushroom. Bright blue. Smoking a pipe. At this point I thought maybe it was some sort of a spoof -- no one could come up with something this bad unless it was on purpose.
The two main characters (a couple of kids) are named Ai and Yu. Pronounced "I" and "U". I kept waiting for kids named A, Ee, and Oh to show up.
The one and only thing which caught my eye (and the reason I'm watching a second ep of this instead of just deleting it as fast as I can) is that I thought Jecht was in it. There's a mystery man with the same coloring (though later his hair was red instead), with the same scar across his nose. Mmm. If it were really him, I'd continue to watch this awful series. Wow, "awful" just doesn't do Final Fantasy Unlimited justice. It's worse than the worst Saturday morning cartoon, and worse than most every other animated thing I've ever seen.
Do yourself a favor, don't be tempted by the "Final Fantasy" name like I was. Avoid this at any cost.
ETA: Oh! I almost forgot. The Jecht-looking fellow has this giant gun attached to his arm. Before he uses it to blow away some bad guy, he strikes a pose and announces: "SOIL IS MY POWER!", which just makes me roll laughing. Then Mr. Laundry Soap Commercial shoots his gun, and a phoenix comes out. It's so funny and so bad... (And did I mention that the gun has a /beating heart/ inside it? In a glass chamber, so you can see it when he uses it?)
During the beginning of it (before the initial credits/theme song played) I wondered if some other series was just taking advantage of the Final Fantasy name -- if it had nothing to do with the games' worlds at all. Then when the credits appeared, it did list that it was "Final Fantasy - By Square Enix" (Enix? Enox? I might be misspelling it, but it had the right logo and everything), so it's an official FF anime.
Exciting and wonderful, right?
Nope. Horrible, horrible animation (worse than Saturday morning cartoon level), dialogue which made me clutch my hands to my ears and yell "la la la la!" as loud as I could, but unfortunately that didn't block out the voice acting. (Speaking of which, I had to listen to this in English, and it took two hours even to get that to work! It was put out in gos awful .mkv file format. Yes, I had as much trouble as last time getting them to play, including making no other file types work and crashing my computer. Oh, and your trick didn't work for me,
bouteillebleu. Thanks anyway though.)The bad guy was some clown/mime thing which was just cringingly bad... but the second bad guy was worse. Mr. Fungus. A walking, talking, SMOKING mushroom. Bright blue. Smoking a pipe. At this point I thought maybe it was some sort of a spoof -- no one could come up with something this bad unless it was on purpose.
The two main characters (a couple of kids) are named Ai and Yu. Pronounced "I" and "U". I kept waiting for kids named A, Ee, and Oh to show up.
The one and only thing which caught my eye (and the reason I'm watching a second ep of this instead of just deleting it as fast as I can) is that I thought Jecht was in it. There's a mystery man with the same coloring (though later his hair was red instead), with the same scar across his nose. Mmm. If it were really him, I'd continue to watch this awful series. Wow, "awful" just doesn't do Final Fantasy Unlimited justice. It's worse than the worst Saturday morning cartoon, and worse than most every other animated thing I've ever seen.
Do yourself a favor, don't be tempted by the "Final Fantasy" name like I was. Avoid this at any cost.
ETA: Oh! I almost forgot. The Jecht-looking fellow has this giant gun attached to his arm. Before he uses it to blow away some bad guy, he strikes a pose and announces: "SOIL IS MY POWER!", which just makes me roll laughing. Then Mr. Laundry Soap Commercial shoots his gun, and a phoenix comes out. It's so funny and so bad... (And did I mention that the gun has a /beating heart/ inside it? In a glass chamber, so you can see it when he uses it?)
