Mushi Uta #01 — What’s Your Dream?

July 5th, 2007

I only ask because I want to eat it.

Impressions:

There’s a lot to like here. Very well animated with some really good use of your normal filters and basic CG for stylistic purposes. Almost felt like a SHAFT show more than a few times. Beat Frog also did a rather good job with the BGM and knowing when to use it and when to just let the visuals set the tone. Unfortunately, where the show starts to fall apart a little bit is when it shifts gears between the tones. Everything is dark, serious music is playing, and there’s comic relief going on. That only happened a couple times though, so I’m not really too put off by it.

The basic premise is set pretty quickly with people having giant summoned insect buddies, the Mushi (lit. insect, but let’s stick with Mushi to differentiate between the normal and these) that help them fight and are tied to their lives. We’re introduced to the Mushi and their hunters in the first half, and then we see our luckless heroine Tachibana introduced to the transfer student, who is, of course, our Mushi hunting hero in his street clothes, who is having his own issues with visions of a girl who suddenly appears before him.

This really does make me think of a SHAFT take on Mai HiME… at least thinking back to SHAFT’s more serious Tsukuyomi. Everything is a lot more stylized, the music is rather well done, tone is a bit more sinister than HiME, and there’s the occasionaly awkward joke thrown at you. Alright, less awkwardly than SHAFT usually crams in their washpans, but the thought’s still there. I did really enjoy this though, and at the moment, it’s almost a shoe-in for full coverage next week.

Opening Video 

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