Dance In The Vampire Bund

[Ryllharu]

This was a different approach than I expected, but I loved it. They nailed the lame, cheesy, sensationalist, and ultimately utterly pointless debate atmosphere of those kinds of programs on Japanese television. They even got the panel members down. One pretty and vapid currently popular actress, one popular dreamboat actor, one non-scholarly quote unquote "expert", one obnoxious has-been celebrity, and one actual scholar.

Constant interruptions to mention the sponsors (many of them cleverly named to fans of the manga), stupid "on the street" interviews, and various other common things those shows have, including the enormous gimmicky contraption of a scale.

I thought the approach was cleverly done, and potentially fits quite nicely into the atmosphere of the series. I'd elaborate further, but I'd have to get into some details that the manga provides, and with any luck, we might see those later on.

[shinta|hikari]

I thought the style was absolutely brilliant, something I was expecting from Shaft. While I appreciate faithful adaptations, nothing beats encountering something positively new from something that one has already initially liked.

I agree with Ryllharu completely. The parody of Japanese TV talk shows really hit the mark, and also emphasized the context in which the events will play out. It at the very least showed how happily ignorant most of the populace in the show are, while also reflecting the mindsets and entertainment aesthetics of real people. I guess one has to have watched at least some of those stupid programs to appreciate this episode to the full extent.