When I first saw a preview for this anime, it looked interesting. Once I finished watching watching, I wanted to blow up the DVDs because it was so horrible. The ONLY good thing that this anime as going for it is the music. Yoko Kanno is a genius at music. The worst part of the anime is everything else. From the whinny characters to the forced down your throat plot, everything is annoying and gets on your nerves.
Lets start with the heroine Juna. She is a prime example of what you do not want the "savior of the world" to be. She never stops whining about stuff, and quite frankly she needs to get shot in the face. Next let's move on to Chris, the freaky ghost like kid. To be honest I don't like I've ever been so happy to see a character die in an anime before, he's almost just as bad as Juna (plus for some reason I've never liked characters voiced by Brad Swaile). Moving on to Juna's boyfriend Tokio. If I was in his place I would have dumped her like a sack of bricks in an ocean. Tokio was a good character until around the end of the show. On to probably the weirdest character in the show, Teresa the hermaphrodite. What the hell were the creators thinking when they decided to add that little bit into the already stupid mix of characters? Like the viewers are supposed to fell bad for a secondary character just because her boyfriend dumped her or whatever because she is a hermaphrodite.
Lets move on to the plot of the show. I think the best way to sum up my thoughts on this is to quote a review I read sometime ago "Not only does Kawamori tell you his views and morales, but he beats you about the head mercilessly with a trowel, screaming, "I'm right, you're wrong! Go to hell!" until you're a limp pile of compost.". The pretty much sums up Arjuna.
As I mentioned earlier the only good thing about this show is the music. Yoko once again does a fantastic job.
Anytime someone asks me if Arjuna is a show worth watching I always say "Only watch it if your a tree hugging hippie who thinks eating meat is the most vile thing a person can do." If you fall into that category then by all means watch Arjuna, but if your not (like the majority of people) then this anime is just complete waste of time.
Lets start with the heroine Juna. She is a prime example of what you do not want the "savior of the world" to be. She never stops whining about stuff, and quite frankly she needs to get shot in the face. Next let's move on to Chris, the freaky ghost like kid. To be honest I don't like I've ever been so happy to see a character die in an anime before, he's almost just as bad as Juna (plus for some reason I've never liked characters voiced by Brad Swaile). Moving on to Juna's boyfriend Tokio. If I was in his place I would have dumped her like a sack of bricks in an ocean. Tokio was a good character until around the end of the show. On to probably the weirdest character in the show, Teresa the hermaphrodite. What the hell were the creators thinking when they decided to add that little bit into the already stupid mix of characters? Like the viewers are supposed to fell bad for a secondary character just because her boyfriend dumped her or whatever because she is a hermaphrodite.
Lets move on to the plot of the show. I think the best way to sum up my thoughts on this is to quote a review I read sometime ago "Not only does Kawamori tell you his views and morales, but he beats you about the head mercilessly with a trowel, screaming, "I'm right, you're wrong! Go to hell!" until you're a limp pile of compost.". The pretty much sums up Arjuna.
As I mentioned earlier the only good thing about this show is the music. Yoko once again does a fantastic job.
Anytime someone asks me if Arjuna is a show worth watching I always say "Only watch it if your a tree hugging hippie who thinks eating meat is the most vile thing a person can do." If you fall into that category then by all means watch Arjuna, but if your not (like the majority of people) then this anime is just complete waste of time.