The Daichis – Earth’s Defense Family 2: Debt Doomed

(Animé TV)

 

Picture: B-     Sound: B-     Extras: C-     Episodes: C

 

 

Debt-Doomed is the new volume of The Daichis – Earth’s Defense Family that Geneon is issuing via Bandai Visual to try and capitalize further on Pixar’s The Incredibles.  When the initial volume debuted, the film was a big hit in theaters, but this second volume unexpectedly comes out around the same time the Pixar hit heads to DVD.  For such a big hit, it is amazing it came out as soon as it did, but Geneon wants to capitalize.  Though still a good-looking, well-produced Animé show, this has become even sillier in the new batch of shows.

 

My opinion on the show has not improved at all and it is running out of ways to move forward, but the second batch of shows are:

 

6) Warrior’s Rest

7) The Guy In The Rain

8) The Cute Invaders

9) The Day Love Destroys Earth

 

 

All one can repeat over and over is that it is for ages beginning at 13.  The jokes are not that good and pale to similar ground in The Incredibles, which tends to be more knowing and have more ironic distance.  It is also more mature without pandering to a younger age group, something many Animé shows out to look into.

 

The 1.33 X 1 full frame image is still one of the clearest we have seen on an Animé series to date, offering better color than usual and does not fake the out-of-focus look or softness that has become a cliché of the genre.  That makes it worth a look on that level, though it is nothing groundbreaking.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo still has Pro Logic surrounds in both its English and Japanese versions, so the sound is not bad and makes sense for a recent production.  The only extras are text-free end credits, previews for this and three other Geneon DVD titles.  Not much again, but what could anyone expect after a show like this?  At least it is consistent as a gimmick.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo