If you have been watching Anime long enough, you will come to a point where you can clearly say with conviction your opinion on marathoning a series. Marathoners believe that if you watch something all at once, you keep everything fresh in your mind, making emersion a prime directive. Non-marathoners on the other hand believe that one should take the time to divide a show up over a stretch of time, longevity being the name of the game. But every so often you will come across a film series like Garden of Sinners (humor me a little here people) or a tight-knit OVA series like Giant Robo (something that I want to see covered on this very site) and ask yourself if making the viewing experience into a marathon is the only way to victory. Well Biskmater and I thought that if we were ever going to effectively cover the 2010 anime film series Broken Blade, we would have to marathon it together. What follows is an experiment involving two guys, one TV, and a ton of couch sitting. Some God have mercy on our charred souls.
Broken Blade is based on a still running manga by Yunosoke Yoshinaga, consisting of six forty-five minute film parts. Every episode was directed by Tetsuo Amino, director of all things Macross 7 from the nineties and Starship Troopers OVAs from the late eighties (the idea alone that Amino was stuck directing the dreaded Starship Troopers anime is far funnier than any slapstick Macross 7’s comedy could pull off astounds me). Amino was also involved in many of the Super Deformed Gundam properties, meaning that he is tangentially qualified to direct a mecha series.
