Bwahaha! The fools left me
alone to write the review
myself! Foolish mortals! Now
| can run amok, filling the
world with my... aw crap, who
am | kidding, | don’t know
what the hell I’m doing.

O.K., let’s focus now, let’s
see, we could start with a...
a... aw crap. Who in their
right minds would ever let me
write the anime review with-
out sane supervision?

Well, anyways, Scryed has
turned out to be quite the hit
in Japan as of late. Since the
first episode was aired in mid-
June of last year, all those
folks out in TV-land have
been getting a big collective
boner (that’s right, | just said
boner, bet you haven't heard
that one since that last time
you babysat) over this series.
In fact, it was posted as being
the most popular anime in
Japan as of February of this
year. .

What you must be saying
now. is, ok, Ryan, Scryed is a

big hit, so why the hell have |
never heard of it, you smarmy
git? Well, look here Buster;
there is no need for name-
calling.

lt seems that Scryed has
everything going _ right;
Scryed is produced by
Sunrise, the same company
that gave us Cowboy Bebop
and Gundam Wing. It was
also written by Hajime
Yadate, the same man that is
credited as being the author
of Cowboy Bebop, and
Sunrise was lucky enough to
get the director of Ryvius
working on it as well.

But enough formalities, let’s
get on with the foreplay.

Scryed is set in Japan in
the not-to-distant future,
approximately 20 or:so years
after a great cataclysmic dis-
aster has horribly scarred the
landscape and left some of

-the inhabitants of earth wield-

ing strange and exotic matter-
altering powers, which leads
to them to be called Alters.

More often than not, these
strange and exotic powers
are used to turn the side of a
building, or perhaps a park
bench, into a strange and
incredibly fashionable
mechanoid, ready to do the
willing of its maker. Now you
got your Good Alters and
your Bad Alters too. With me
so far?

The goody-good Alters
wish to use their powers to
make the world a better, safer
place whilst the baddie Alters
want to... | dunno, blow shit
up and yell real loud as far as
| can tell.

Now the Good Alters live in
the city and work for a mys-
terious government organiza-
tion called HOLY. The baddy-
bad badass Alters live out-
side the city in almost utter
squalor. For some reason,
there are a lot of people that
don’t quite seem to be baddy-
bad-badass Alters, yet they
still live in squalor.

Hmmm, | guess I'll have to

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look into the socio-economic
problems faced in anime
today some other time.
Although the whole plot line is
pretty standard, | found this
series interesting.

I'll never understand the
trend of short, nearly nonex-
istent skirts on EVERY
female character in EVERY
anime made in the last ten
years. O.k., you're right,
maybe not EVERY anime, but
it sure as heck is a lot of
them....

The characters (despite
their sheer whorishness)
were interesting enough to
make me_ watch four
episodes, then hunt for more,
and the development of the
plot was unique enough as to
make me think that maybe
this wasn’t the exact same
anime | watched last time
around. All in all, | think
Scryed is a fairly decent
anime fun for the whole fami-
ly, even grandma.

WASNT THAT Fun 7/ RememacR
To TUNE tN NEXT ISSUE KIDS

‘CAUSE WE'RE GOING TO COUSE
PAN ino F1RE ANtSIY

HIT I'M KATHLEEN ANO THATS] [AND since WE HAVEN'T HAO
OaAN! We'ae THe stage | lA Butt JoKE FOR AGOUT
OF “FUN WITH KATHLEEN !" | [15 MINUTES Now, WE'RE
ANO WE'RE VERY CoNCERNED | [GOING TO HIT OAN IN THE
WITH CUSTOMER SATISFACTION!) |RaALLS WiTA A LOG!

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