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The show was boring on adult swim the animation was not all that good. It’s a pretty dark anime but nothing scary about it.

Robin named after the king of witches must be the at least annoying heroines/heroes of the anime lot and with her supposed innocence it is hard to believe she in caught up in such devious acts.
Rating: 4 / 5

Have any of you ever seen La Femme Nikita? Ok, not the movie, the American TV show. Well, maybe I should explain. La Femme Nikita started as a French film about a smack addict who, with her other smack addict friends, knocks over a convienence store and kills the owner. She gets the death penalty. She is killed. She wakes up in a cell, and the secret shadow organization re-makes her from the skinny shaking junkie into the smooth suave killer they want. Jane Bond, in the beginning of her carreer… Why am I telling you this? Patience, grasshopper.

It was a terrific movie: “My Fair Lady” gone paranoid government killer. Anyways, hollywood thought it would be even better is everyone spoke English and hey, the lead should definitely be a blonde. This was remade and renamed … um… I forget. No, really, I do. Anyways, in the end the main chickie redeems herself and doesn’t want to kill anymore and runs away – leaves her friends at the secret org, leaves her lover that the org knows about, and is finally free. This is the sort of ending that cannot be made into a continuing TV series, so when someone decided to make this movie into a TV series they set it between the time she got caught and the time she left. And they turned the name back to La Femme Nikita, because the Hollywood name was not going to work out on a TV show of that sort of budget. And I’m not talking about a big budget, despite the show being fairly decent.

So, now we get to the point of this little trip down memory walk of fame. The show, La Femme Nikita, was all about – get this-a girl in a super-secret organization with a broody good-looking boss who she cared about and who cared about her but they couldn’t show it because, at first, he was just too cold; and besides, inter-office relationships are frowned upon; and later there were all sorts of secret agendas and plots twists and the org was very scary, “If you leave us or betray us we will kill you and we’ll only be doing it for your own good”. And maybe the organization is good, adn maybe it’s using evil methods, and … Super technology, etc, etc… wait, which show am I talking about again? Oh! I’m talking about Witch Hunter Robin, of course.

Anyways. It’s very pretty, visually, and some bits -where Robin’s playing with her new glasses -are awesome. But overall, it’s very hard to understand. Something is lost in translation, I’m guessing. They try so hard to be inscrutable and obscure they obscure the whole dang plot away. Or at least, it moves very…. very…. sloooowly.

It could do with some comprehensable dialogue, that leads somewhere. There’s such a thing as letting the viewer figure out for themselves what’s going on, and then there’s not providing enough information for anyone to figure out anything. This leans towards the second of those.

But it’s a good show. It’s got a good soundtrack, lovely visuals, and it’s quiet; I appriciate quiet, especially when so many shows rely so much on obnoxious use of explosions and gunfire. It’s … the word is thoughtful. It’s a thoughtful show where the characters are introspective and yet powerul. I do like it.
Rating: 4 / 5

I KNOW SOME PEOPLE IS SAYING THIS GAME IS NOT AS GOOD AS OTHER ANIME, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT CUZ I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT A FRIEND TOLD ME TO WATCH THE SERIE. ITS MOSTLY DRAMA, BUT CONTAINS SOME ACTION AND THE BAD PART SOMETIMES IS THE TALK THAT MAKE U FEEL TIRED AND SLEEPY BUT OTHERS THAN THAT IS A GOOD SERIE EVEN THOUGH IT GOT ONE OF THE 10 STUPID ENDINGS IN AN ANIME MAGAZINE.
Rating: 4 / 5