Episode 11 – Lazarus – Anime News Network

So let me keep it straight: the obscene assassin, who hired the entire armed soldiers, only one kunai attached to the razor, was hired to kill Axel, a man who showed incredible skills in Parkour and handed each other, but still only one unarmed person. So the best way for this assassin to decide is to use a single pistol ammunition clip on the seemingly indestructible Axel car windshield and then give up the ballistic fluid altogether to completely place the ballistic ballistic grenade among people with heavy traffic? Correct. certainly. We have “Literally Best Killer” here, which spends an entire episode of crazy couples and stupid magic grenade softballs, making his only personality traits that he loves to escape from prison, besides his consistent ambiguity.

Now, before anyone tries to explain to me the “reason” of Axel’s superhuman abilities, I have to assure you that I do get it. Yes, many of the action adventure stories depend on having near-aggressive protagonists who survive the injury, which eliminates any random Muke. Yes, stupid, necklace-induced trauma of killer Guy’s past flashbacks mean that Axel must also have a more evil and complex background, rather than simply being arrested. Yes, the animation of sought-after battles is incredible, and the choreography is usually pretty good, which makes most of the episode easy to watch at least.

This is my objection to all defenses of “Run with Devils,” which is a one-on-one battle: Axel Gilberto is not a character. We spent nearly twelve episodes, following the world’s most convenient wild array chase, I can’t tell you one meaningful thing about him. We don’t know what motivated him, we don’t know the conflict he encountered, we don’t know what limits his power and ability, because the only time Axel allowed to lose was when the plot suddenly asked him to be stabbed by a giant spear. Sure, he is sly and we’ve seen him show basic knowledge and concern for the rest of Lazarus, but that doesn’t make him an action hero. It won’t even make him the functional protagonist.

You know why no one asked a question when Indiana Jones somehow crossed the Atlantic Ocean behind the underwater submarine? Because he was an otherworldly adventurer who killed some Nazis, we cheered him every time we punched and whipped. The same reason explains why few people laughed at John Wick’s deathly gunshot wounds that fell from the hotel’s rooftop while a crazy long-distance falls a set of interesting stairs. We see his puppy being killed, damn it, then Keanu Reeves Sell ​​Wick’s gritty determination to not jump ship for small reasons such as “logic” and “basic laws of physics.”

This Axel guy? I can’t pick him from the latest lineup of Calvin Klein models, That It’s killing Lazaru Even the stupidest script error. There was a moment when Axel grabbed Hitman Guy’s razor-like kunai with his bare hands, which made me doubt my hand and I can assure you that if I gave my Axel the damn Axel first, I wouldn’t care much. Later, the killer guy just teleports directly up from the top of the moving train to the inside of a small boat hundreds of feet away, and that’s that kind of lazy laziness, and I can forgive if the killer guy isn’t that harsh. When Chris ran and missed every shot she was still using a high-powered rifle to that trained Russian superspy or anything else if I wasn’t ready for nitpick Lazaru Just pretending to respect my wisdom as an audience.

Those cool paper-shaped aesthetics can also be used with at least a regular flashback, and the battle scenes do look pretty. However, this is really disappointing. This anime seems to want to be another kindhearted ShinichirōWatanabe Action Classic, but I firmly believe that all aspects of the work have no direct relationship with the cool battle scenes of the animation, and are unceremoniously thrown into some narrow backstage, full of overworked and paid interns.

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Lazarus is currently playing Maximum and Hu Lu On Sunday.

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