[Lynk Former]

I honestly haven't even heard of this until now... but if you want to see the first episode of it for free... here ya go: http://media.tv.ign.com/media/924/924691/vids_1.html

ADV website: http://www.009-1tv.com/

...looks interesting.

[Moelman]

Could be interesting, and the free part is always a plus.

[Lynk Former]

Ah! FUCK. Stupid cliche Australian chick just ruined this anime for me completely... lost all interest now.

[Analog]

So is that a record Lynk? What, five minutes and your done?

[Lynk Former]

Nah, that's just a married man thing Analog

[Moelman]

I stopped watching after she yelled "Blimey!"

[GabeXorn]

I stopped when the page crashed my computer

[Lynk Former]

I stopped when the page crashed my computer

Bad omens are bad.

[Flynt]

The stream was stopping every minute to buffer, so after 10 minutes I did a search and found a subbed version on the torrents. This series didnt grab me at all.

Not impressed, Gonna give this on a miss.

[Lynk Former]

That's why you pause at the start and wait for the entire thing to load XD At least that's what I did. Bottom line is that it was legitimately free.

[Geass]

Personaly it looked like an interesting concept, the art style looks like the Kikaider, as well as Cyborg 009, but I think the series taht explored the possibility of the cold war not ending would have bene FMP!

Not sure that I would stick aorund to see how the Missle stand off of our time would develope afater 125 years later, but I think I would need to see subs.

I personaly am not a fan of watching actual real word equipment especialy the shuttle in the first episode, placed in to animation unless it fits it, becasue it looks very odd next to the characters themselves becasue you have a xerox copy of a shuttle next to a funny looking character. Its like a Chibi Gundam next to a large battle ship.

It just looks odd.

[Lynk Former]

I love some of the stylistic features it had though. The whole super spy thing felt very ridiculous, just as it should be XD Then you have whole "every Soviet is ugly" propaganda images and all that kinda jazz lol.

[Geass]

I love some of the stylistic features it had though. The whole super spy thing felt very ridiculous, just as it should be XD Then you have whole "every Soviet is ugly" propaganda images and all that kinda jazz lol.

I would have to agree on certain style elements, but the super mechanicle doll spy is a turn off, especially how they have parts of themselves in to weapons. I don't mind pulling a gun out of your hand, but when its actually your joint where you pop your elbow off, it looks very manequin like. The soviet thing I am not really sure on, all the bad guys look very similar, soviet or not.

And wow, they sure got in to the weird fetish of the bad guys right away off the bat with the first episode. And costume design for the spies was kinda impractical: Go-go skirts and boots with little sleave coverage? Not really cold enviornment looking, even for a cyborg. And attempting a little fan service with the little lemur in the chest is kind of cheap, even for a clevage shot.

*And boobie guns where already done by "Austin Powers"*

[Lynk Former]

XD It's all meant to be impractical and stupid, they're obviously trying to stuff as many oldskool references into this as possible. The easiest way to recognise it is if you watch all of the older Bond movies.

About the mannequin thing. Think old samurai movies. Blood spurting in all directions when a head or limbs are chopped off. This is carried over into animes and more recent shows coming from Japan. It's kind of the same thing in the way that they're grabbing references from very old movies and shows and putting them into something like this.

Of course, in the end, yeah it is stupid and this anime doesn't interest me at all. But I do understand what they were aiming for with the style of the show whether they seem good or not in terms of our overall taste.