Legend of Duo

The story is original, well-considered and very detailed. The episodes are only 5 min/ep, so the whole anime series is only one hour. The fact that it's so short doesn't have any effect on the clarity of the story. The dialogs are poetic. The art is amazing. Especially the dying is nice. I've never seen an anime or movie in which where dying is so well exposed. (When humans die of the disease od death there's this zombie-like shot of their last moment, and when vampires die they fade in red dust like glowing coals.) I usually like more evil characters, but the characters are beautifuland their personalities fit the anime. This anime reminded me of my fav movie Interview With A Vampire. The vampires in this anime have compasion as well as danger in their eyes. The only bad thing i can come up with about this anime is that there are not more episodes (The last episode even says "to be continued", so if anyone knows if there are more eps coming or why they decided not to, please message me!) All in all, it's a perfect (vampire) anime, and I strongly reccomand watching it!

With all the yaoi baiting, angsting, and forced sexual tension implicit in the tropes of the modern vampire shows being bandied around nowadays, there's sweet recourse in my heart knowing that everything there is to hate about this particular genre is contained in this one, concise, hour-long package. I hesitate to call this thing “anime”, since there's hardly any true animation. It's more like a middling-paced slide show presentation, spruced up with flashy light effects and recycled sounds. Talking heads and panning still screens are bad enough, but some scenes, like sliding bodies and awkwardly moving heads, made me suspicious whole pictures were just being tiltedor moved slightly to simulate action, instead of, y'know, actually hassling the show's animators to draw anything. To be completely honest, I wasn’t really paying attention to this televisual cancer all the time, so the finer details of plot or character motivations, little as they were, might be lost to me. Instead, I’d imagine such scenarios occurring elsewhere in this show's lovingly crafted world: Doctor: I’m sorry. There's no way to make this easier. You have the Disease of Death. Patient: …? Disease of Death? What kind of illness...? What are the symptoms? Doctor: You die. It's actually not the Disease of Death that plagues this production, but an insidious kind of commitment to ambiguity and laziness that made me want to put a drill into my head multiple times. Yet, there were other moments of ragingly inappropriate actions or sheer ridiculous sound effects that made me roar with laughter. In short, if you've got an hour, a cooler of beer, and an urge to kill some brain cells (or 2 of the 3), give The Legend of Duo a whirl before you go to the toilet and shit out something better.

-INTRODUCTION- I liked the promotional image and been meaning to watch this series for a long time, and was actually looking forward to it. But I was rather disappointed. ^^; -STORY- 5/10 The story is okay but extremely predictable. I did not even have to wonder how everything will turn out, it was that obvious. I did enjoy some of the side stories and flashbacks they managed to cram into an hour long series (each episode is only five minutes). It could have been a better story if it wasn't so short and so cliche. There is also a cliffhanger at the end, hinting that Legend of Duomight continue, but I think they just threw that in to grab the viewer's attention at the last moment; I honestly don't see what is there to continue, nor do I even want to know. ^^; -CHARACTERS- 4/10 The characters are unbelievably flat and stereotypical, most of their actions are predictable. Duo is portrayed as a villain for some reason, even though he tried to save humanity. I never did understand why he had to be punished for telling them the "secret". Zeig is a typical good guy who fights for justice; he apparently lacks his own sense of reasoning because he goes to punish Duo, his best friend, on someone's orders (some vampire lord I guess). There are also a couple of side characters whose purpose I'm not sure about, aside from interfering with the two main characters all the time. And lastly, there is next to none character development, except a little insight on how Duo and Zeig's friendship began. -ART/ANIMATION- 6/10 I loved the character designs, which is probably why I was drawn to that promotional image. If there was a Legend of Duo artbook, I would gladly have it. But the fun ends here. The animation is quite hideous to say the least. There are a lot of still frames and flashy gradient backgrounds. The characters hardly move at all, and I noticed that a lot of the same still images were used over and over on different backgrounds. The death scenes (of humans) were done rather nicely in comparison to the rest of the show; at least these had actual animation. -SOUND- 6/10 The sound wasn't that bad. I liked the music during the tragic scenes, it was quite fitting. The rest of the show had some weird techno-like tunes playing on the background, and I grew tired of it rather quickly. Overall, the "soundtrack" if I dare to call it that, was on the same level as the rest of this anime. --- It had potential, but I guess the production budget was too small. Since it'd only take an hour of your time to watch it, I don't think it would hurt you. But don't expect anything great out of it.