Michiko to Hatchin Forum

I’ve never been the biggest Harry Potter fan, but I’ve always found it pretty funny how the flicks played the “poor Cinderella’s cruel step family” card to such a cartoonish degree. Can’t get much more absurdly mean than forcing a kid to sleep in a closet, right?

Well, there’s always a bigger fish, as they say, and here’s a new latter-day Cinderella to make Harry’s home life look easy. Again, it feels a bit silly to wax on believability whilst discussing a show where somebody ollies a motorcycle through a window and right on a dinner table… but, as weird as it sounds, I think this avoids getting overwrought in its grab for sympathy points by getting detailed in acts of cruelty. There’s something about the step-brother specificity making Hana swim and bob for breath to get her fruit which feels authentic to how real children go about being petty.

Why’d I pick this show for my 2013 catch-up? Well, out of all the titles in Hulu’s roster of available anime, this one had the most intriguing promo art. It actually didn’t even have its title on there - - just a dynamic image of this mother & daughter outlaw duo hauling it on an airborne hog. In a field that can very easily make you numb to even the most expensive animation, I’m a little speechless over how much style and production value’s on display here. I guess this really just had to be a labor-of-love pet project for somebody high up on the staff, because my mind balks over how this level could be maintained throughout a 22-episode run.

Answering my own question, I guess it really just comes down to love then. There’s the kind of love of a recently escaped convict for her long-lost, put-upon daughter, and then there’s the love of animation director who’s always wanted to capture Brazil (right?) in an anime. Among this show’s many great qualities, one of the most astounding is how it really doesn’t look like any other anime (by virtue of how much it looks like an exotic real-world locale).

Only four episodes are currently available on Hulu, but apparently this is a full series. And that’s frustrating. I’d much prefer to see this startling original creation through than watch more of FMA.

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Can we get more info on the plot and characters? Its stylish ok but does it have any substance...?

that's pretty much how I felt about Madoka Magica sooooo pretty,

also Brazil is an amazing movie! so I may have to catch this one before it "fly's away"

Will have to check this out . Seems i got this mixed up with El Cazador de la Bruja

which i also have not watched yet..Probly because i have seen Noir but not Madlax all the way threw.So in short i blame the Mayans!

@DocHaus: Well so far noir was long an took more than 15 episodes to get rolling. Madlax is oddly paced it seems.Tho graficly animation wise i will agree both seem boring .. for action thats not a good thing.Id say both are average ish least noir was. an Madlax is so far for me.Maybe it was the discription that put me in mind of El Cazador de la Bruja or Madlax or even Noir /shrug.

I do know a live action Noir ove action Starz put on hold it was suposed to be out last summer to.Maybe they watched it an said man this got boring.

@sickVisionz: yeah most its gril an woman with guns. amnesia is in their some where .At a glance for me it sorta looked that way.Then again atm sinus infection from hell atm every thing at a glance seems famailr.pretty sure it was discription on hulu i may have confused it with another.

My mistake tho totaly.But in my defence atm im so broke i cant pay atention.Was just trying to focus on the end episodes of the last anime season.Ended up with way more titles than normal this last season to watch.when i finish the last of those ill start on this.

@YotaruVegeta: Well in all fairness i cant think of many characters where the gun is the character.Well tehir was that one in http://www.screened.com/search/?q=planet terror that had the gun for a leg i belive .

But no Michiko to Hatchin is not the same as the others i mentioned. just saying when looked at the series on hulu it had a discription that made me think of them.If i had watched to the 1st comerical break one could tell its not because theirs more action their than some episodes of the other guns with girls series.Sub gene or not the discirption i read or misread made me think of the 3.Actualy to the point of i thought it was one of them with a difrent title.The bike pic was not up then.