[Locke]

Seeing people talking about Gatchaman Crowds in here peaked my interest so I checked out the first episode, this is some damn ugly animation with bad character designs and just a general cheap feel. I really wasn't a big fan of the suits, and the CGI, either.

You see that is kinda the thing with animation for me now, as Toku has the ability to do more and more epic stuff and as Blockbusters come closer and closer to realising what could have only once been done in animation, shows like this have to try way harder to impress me. If this was live action, I'd probably like it a lot more, but this was really just your generic toku episode with no sense of any limitations removed by the medium that could provide more freedom.

That brown haired chick as well just made me want to punch her in the face through the whole thing, I think that is the point, but that didn't make it any more pleasurable to watch. Then again, the whole team was incredibly forced - gay bloke! stuck up teen! smoking badass! loli-con perpetually in her underwear! chibi with a complex! I think I see what they were trying to do but it just made everyone unlikeable.

I'll give it one more episode since one person has said the opening episode was weak, the other said it was the best of the lot. I'll see which category I fall into once I've seen episode two.