Toon Zone Talkback - "009-1": Oh, It's Double Good!

[Maxie Zeus]

This is the talkback thread for "009-1": Oh, It's Double Good! (http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/33643/009-1-oh-its-double-good).

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Another long-delayed review, and boy I wish I'd gotten to it sooner.

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[AndrewSP]

This is actually great timing for me, I bought a Funimation grab bag at Anime Central the other weekend, and this was one of the series I got in it. Haven't gotten around to watching any of them, but I'm glad to see that at least one of them is good. Thanks! :)

[Philmister978]

I saw the series on FUNI's video player before they switched to Hulu.

As you said, it is a good series. And as you said, it's very generic with dates.

But the animation at times does get rather choppy (though not necessarily bad in any way).

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

But the animation at times does get rather choppy (though not necessarily bad in any way).


Actually, there is a reason for this. It's a pretty low budgeted show and if you look at the credits, this is virtually a one-man production. I think you could certainly make the case for auteurism here as in Makoto Shinkai's stuff.

009-1 is a really overlooked series. It's extremely stylish and quite accessible to people who can't commit to serials. You can pretty much jump in here anytime and "get" it.

Dub's great too.

Regarding Mylene herself, I actually posted a fairly in depth examination of the heroine herself on animeondvd a couple of years ago. If you pay close attention, you might see that this IS quite character oriented, but in a low key way. She may not emote a lot, but I think she's more comparable to some classic stoic characters in many 60s "avant garde" cinema, rather than James Bond or even Jason Bourne. I see echoes of Alain Delon in her (especially from the film "Le Samourai") and Gene Hackman (from Coppola's "The Conversation.") All of them are characters who are, for much of their stories, stoic and unemotional "by the book" employees, but they inevitably get emotionally destroyed by more powerful social and political forces when they DO exhibit any kind of real emotion or independent thought. I thought the last shot in the last episode, with Mylene slowly receding into the background, is one of the saddest, most cynical final shots I've seen in recent TV anime. Animenewsnetwork's Carl Kimlimlinger said that the show was too optimistic, but I completely disagree. In the end, Mylene doesn't achieve independence. She doesn't get her Jason Bourne moment. She's stuck where she is and the hopeful scene in the moon is completely undone by her slow march back to work.

009-1 is a flashback to a more questioning, non-ironic, overtly cynical era of filmic storytelling.

[Philmister978]

Actually, there is a reason for this. It's a pretty low budgeted show and if you look at the credits, this is virtually a one-man production. I think you could certainly make the case for auteurism here as in Makoto Shinkai's stuff.


I noticed. And Bakugan, while a TMS production also has one animator. Unlike 009-1, Bakugan cannot get by with the whole one animator excuse. TMS should have known better when doing it.

So yeah, 009-1 gets a slide for this reason. And it is acceptible, but it just kinda bugs me at times.



009-1 is a really overlooked series. It's extremely stylish and quite accessible to people who can't commit to serials. You can pretty much jump in here anytime and "get" it.


Yeah, I noticed that too. I actually saw it from the first episode though.


Dub's great too.

I muted my sound when watching it, so I cannot comment on that.



Regarding Mylene herself, I actually posted a fairly in depth examination of the heroine herself on animeondvd a couple of years ago. If you pay close attention, you might see that this IS quite character oriented, but in a low key way. She may not emote a lot, but I think she's more comparable to some classic stoic characters in many 60s "avant garde" cinema, rather than James Bond or even Jason Bourne. I see echoes of Alain Delon in her (especially from the film "Le Samourai") and Gene Hackman (from Coppola's "The Conversation.") All of them are characters who are, for much of their stories, stoic and unemotional "by the book" employees, but they inevitably get emotionally destroyed by more powerful social and political forces when they DO exhibit any kind of real emotion or independent thought. I thought the last shot in the last episode, with Mylene slowly receding into the background, is one of the saddest, most cynical final shots I've seen in recent TV anime. Animenewsnetwork's Carl Kimlimlinger said that the show was too optimistic, but I completely disagree. In the end, Mylene doesn't achieve independence. She doesn't get her Jason Bourne moment. She's stuck where she is and the hopeful scene in the moon is completely undone by her slow march back to work.

009-1 is a flashback to a more questioning, non-ironic, overtly cynical era of filmic storytelling.

Yeah. That is true.