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Gasaraki - The Summoning (Vol. 1)Rating:
Release Date: 26 September, 2000 Retail Price: $29.98 OUR Price: $26.98 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: |
Gasaraki - The Summoning (Vol. 1) Reviews
Episode List (not on DVD cases)
Gasaraki - "The Summoning" (Vol. 1) DVD
1. "On the Ancient Stage of Stone"
2. "Opening Movement"
3. "Tantric Circle"
4. "Mirage"
Gasaraki - "The Circle Opens ..." (Vol. 2) DVD
5. "The Touching"
6. "The Puppet"
7. "Return"
Gasaraki - "Betrayal" (Vol. 3) DVD
8. Inferno
9. Storehouse
10. Kugai
Gasaraki - "From the Ashes ..." (Vol. 4) DVD
11. Ties
12. Unravel
13. Disembark
Gasaraki - "Revelations" (Vol. 5) DVD
14. Companions
15. The Threshold
16. Karma
Gasaraki - "Fires of War ..." (Vol. 6) DVD
17. Chaos
18. Rear Window
19. Wails
Gasaraki - "In the Spider's Web" (Vol. 7) DVD
20. Upheaval
21. Run
22. Personification
Gasaraki - "To Be a Kai" (Vol. 8) DVD
23. Eternal
24. Punctuation
25. Gasara
Starts off strong but goes nowhere slowly
As far as overall review: not worth paying for. (but watch it on TV or borrow it from a friend)
`Gasaraki' starts off slowly but has a nice narrative hook. A very original universe. The UN sends in troops to stop ethnic war in a Bosnia type country. A real life universe! (with only the names changed) But American armored units, Abrams Tanks and Bradley APCs (for those of you not up to date in war news, Abrams and Bradleys are light years ahead of any other tank) suffer a drastic defeat at the hands of enemy mobile suits. That's right, real life mobile suits!!! In a real army!!! In a real war!!!
Fortunately for the UN a giant Japanese corporation Gowa has been developing giant mobile suits for just such a war. But now Gowa has its sights set on more than just being soldiers for hire. Gowa wants to AVENGE JAPAN'S LOSS IN WWII.
The plot is further complicated by the mobile suit pilots' digging further into the Gasaraki mobile suit program. It turns out that mobile suits are not entirely the result of science. They are the result of conjuring Japanese demons and giving them physical form.
`Gasaraki' starts off with some very original concepts, what if mobile suits really did exist? Would evil dictators try to take on the UN and fear no one? Would global corporations fear no one? And most importantly, with enough power, would the Japanese ever try to avenge WWII? These are the burning questions which kept me interested throughout `Gasaraki'. It was very realistic; I recall only one joke during the entire series.
None of these questions are answered by `Gasaraki'. The story slowly goes nowhere. There is no war, there are no battles. `Gasaraki' degenerates into a boring mindscape into the human soul. If Cartoon Network ever runs this, it might be worth your time but `Gasaraki' is not worth your money.
I strongly recommend `Full Metal Panic.' It's a similar story, except a comedy.
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