![]() ![]() The story is set in the beginning of the seventeenth century where succession is the matter at hand in the Kogan Dojo. If the tension is the foreplay and the fights the consummation, then Shigurui Death Frenzy is certainly the anime equivalent of tantric sex. Each of the twelve 24 minute episodes will build to a climax which will be short, but after the hum of insects and the exchanging of perspectives, the playing out of inevitable conflict is left with little time to be anything other than brief. Words are rare, atmosphere pervades and beautiful silence is shattered by explosions of human offal. ![]() The number of words in a modern action film is necessarily small because there seem to be so few of them that have any value.Very, very little of Shigurui Death Frenzy is dialogue driven. More is less when what you’re talking about is bad dialogue hidden by explosions. In modern blockbusters, words are crowded out by the setpieces, the bangs, and the punches – and their scarcity affords the catchphrases, the yippee kaye ays, the value that their writers couldn’t generate on their own. Action icons forsake them in order to blow shit up and to shame the liberal thinkers who want to weigh right and wrong in their place. ![]()
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