Birth

While on Aqualoid, Nam finds a mysterious sword. He soon finds himself being chased by the Inorganics.

Birth is just a really long chase sequence. The characters spend a majority of the time running away from the Inorganics. There is no background information revealed about the characters or any developement among them. The dialogue is lame and a lot of the comments made by the characters are just silly. There isn't much of a story, and very little is explained and I found myself confused about exactly what was happening.

The animation quality is pretty good overall, especially considering it was made in the 1980's, but it does look akward at times. A lot of the action has the view going circles around the characters or having the character going all over the screen without switching the scene. This isn't a bad thing, it's just looks different than a lot of other shows. Also, for some reason a lot of the explosions have no sound effects.

The best part of the show is a few of the action scenes, but even those don't make it worth watching. Birth is a strange, nonsensical show that is ultimately unsatisfying.

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Written by Marc Frost on Mar 06, 2014