The Heavenly Delusion #01 — Have Gun, Will Travel

April 1st, 2023

 

Their clothes are remarkably clean.

Impressions:

While I think the episode was overall… fine… I do wish it had skipped past or at least sped over a lot of the quiet meandering parts. I think they would've been good for establishing a quiet, forboding mood if not for the bad gags that kept sneaking in at various points. The episode just felt kind of empty and purposeless to me. Not barraged with exposition or internal narration, good! But still just not much happening and the awkward schtick from nowhere didn't work for me and disrupted the tone. The direction is easily the strongest part, especially in the quiet moments of foreshadowing like the whole mirror scene, both with the scars and trying to kiss 'herself.' Yes, I did get far enough thumbing through things to find out about that whole… whatever you want to call it, one of the many parts of the source that it gets quite weird about sex and gender. 

The animation does struggle at points to keep up though. The occasional long zooms always looked really bad, and the fight against the random thugs had the animation get incredibly choppy. They were actually trying at least, rather than tossing up stills or making it happen off-screen. I just wish more had actually happened in the episode itself, particularly when the cliffhanger stinger is the vault people declaring the world outside… hell! Yeah, uh, they just explained how there's roving giant invulnerable people-eating monsters after being assaulted by a gang of rapist murderers while on a quest for a functional toilet. This isn't news. 

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  • residentgrigo says:

    150 pages adapted into a bit over 20 minutes. What a speedrun.