The message that “magic is draining from the world” is melancholic, but well placed as it shows that technology replaces “magic”. Visually it’s captivating, holding true to all that we love of Victoriana and Steampunk including the automata that Liang learns to work with. The plot also deals with industrialization but it leads away from the world we know and into a decidedly steampunk one. ![]() Yan never “seduces” Liang and he never demands anything of her, unlike the rest of the world. The basis of the friendship seems to be based on mutual respect despite what another person did to her family. Yan sees Liang’s father cut the head off her mother but never holds that against Liang. Visually, an episode about Japan needed to have the right animation and this episode had a style I’d become familiar with through a number of anime series I’ve watched.Īnother real victory for the episode is the very nature of the friendship that develops between Yan and Liang. And then we follow them through the years… Some years later, his father dies and never learns of the friendship that had developed between the two. His father was unaware of the discussion that went on between Liang and the cub, Yan. When the boy encounters a young cub, they start to talk before they both witness his father murdering its mother. Good Hunting starts with Liang, a young boy, and his father as they hunt shapeshifting fox spirits (Huli jing) who supposedly seduce men. What happens to Yan, one of our two main characters, is terrible and no “few words” will resolve this. I very rarely hold a grudge, but most things done against me are minor and a couple words resolve those issues. On a personal level, there is something very satisfying about revenge stories, especially when the revenge is against a heinous crime. It revs the engines and has something to say even if we have to look at the background to find it. What we really have here is a revenge story revenge against cruelty and tyranny. ![]() Sometimes a story hits all the right marks and manages to say something even when the basis isn’t that deep.
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