Twinkle Nora Rock Me!

literaturenerd★ 1

Time to review a truly legendary anime. I think at this point, most people have seen clips of Nora. It's garnered some real infamy on Youtube. However, to actually watch it in its full 30 minute glory is a different experience entirely! This last season wasn't the greatest. All the top reviewers are scrambling to write 1/10 and 2/10 reviews for God of High School, SAO part 9 and whatever bland isekai was shat out this season. The sad fact is that if you took all 10,000 anime ever made, those are all probably more accurately in the 4-5 range. You wanna know what real 1/10shitfest looks like? Welcome back to the 1980s. There's no internet. There's no way to know what anime are good or bad. You pick out a random laserdisk or VHS with a hot anime waifu and hope for the best. Some lucky folks managed to pick out stuff like Gunbuster, but others grabbed something like Nora. It's a little cheaper than other laserdisks and the girl looks kind of cute. How bad could it be? The first thing I'll say about Nora is that it has a surprisingly catchy soundtrack! Oh...and it's also the most poorly animated thing I've ever seen. EVER! They axed all the in-between frames to save on budget and used only key frames. Nora is 30 minutes and runs at a rate of 2-3 frames of animation per second for large portions of its runtime. I don't think you can even really call Nora animation at that point. It truly is more akin to a powerpoint presentation. Even the people at Dingo Pictures would look down on Nora's animation! You have to laugh at the sheer audacity of the people who released Nora on to store shelves in the state it was in and charged money for it. Nora has something special about it beyond the horrendous animation though! It also breaks a general trend of anime. Nora is OP beyond all reason. She is hands down the biggest Mary Sue I've EVER seen in the medium, which means Nora can claim to be the strongest character in the history of anime. Usually, Japanese comics are written by 1 person and have a beginning and ending. Japanese readers have always expected characters to be somewhat human and struggle to achieve their goals. There are some exceptions like Duke Togo, or joke characters like One Punch Man, but this has historically limited power creep in manga/anime. American comics are the polar opposite. They run forever with often over 100 authors contributing to the history of a character. American readers love the concept of their hero being the strongest and Superman in issue 2101 is expected to be a little stronger than he was in issue 2100. It becomes this childish pissing contest of "Nuh Uh, my character can run at infinity plus 1 miles per hour!" For example, DC is so childishly, stupidly broken at this point that over a dozen characters have speed or strength described as beyond infinite and those aren't the top tier! The top tier of characters are those that can annihilate the multiverse in an instant, then remake it from scratch, then destroy it again. What does this have to do with Nora? Perfect waifu Nora achieves the power journey that took most DC characters 90 years in 30 minutes. In half an hour, Nora displays telekinesis, teleportation, time dilation, pyrokinesis, reality warping, flight, and that's not even all her powers. She's some kind of Elder God for no explained reason. Shonen battle kids can argue all day about if X character in Dragonball can beat Y character from Bleach. I can laugh and say Nora would just blink both of them out of existence. She could just rewrite the timeline so they never existed. She's THAT broken! If Nora got a 13 episode anime, she'd be as strong as DC's Lucifer Morningstar. I kind of love the sheer absurdity of a space bounty hunter with no explained origins being that powerful for no reason. The whole anime is free to watch on Youtube, but if you want to own a piece of anime history, the original laserdisk is for sale on ebay in heavily used condition for the low price of 330 American dollars! Shipping and sales tax not included!

Boinciel★ 1

[Spoiler Warning] Twinkle Nora Rock Me! is an OVA best watched with friends who like to watch trainwrecks unfold. Essentially, a genderbent Boba Fett named Nora goes to Tattooine to pick up a bounty on a space criminal worth several thousand times this OVA's animation budget. She picks up a scrappy midget in a town of huts after a bar fight with a drunken giant, starts a rock band with the scrappy in a cave, and then uses her impractical flying wheeled machine to lazily drift across the screen until she reaches the house of the illegal space wizard. She uses unexplained andwildly improbable powers such as telekinesis, time travel, and impromptu heart attacks iin order to vanquish this wizard, and then stars as the lead vocalist in the newly expanded cave's rock band. It takes all of this seriously. Poe's Law is not in effect, it's just that bad. The first four minutes of this OVA are presented to you in the format of a lovely slideshow to introduce the characters, but don't actually introduce anything and aren't intended to be a slideshow. You may attempt to fiddle with your video player in a vain attempt to fix the lag and dropped frames, but soon you realize that the frames were never even there to begin with. A man slides across the room and jitters to a halt at a glorious pace of two frames per second. This isn't animated on thirds, or even fourths - it's animated on twelves. At 4:02 it finally begins animating properly, only to have characters repeatedly go off-model. Important character details appear and vanish in the blink of an eye, and characters make improbable movements repeatedly. The sound design is nothing short of pathetic. The music, unfitting to any sequence applied to it. Sound effects make no sense and don't accompany their sources. Voices don't match the mouth flaps over half the time, and the voice actors give an overwhelmingly awful performance in their roles. There is no character to be had other than generic archetypes that can be summarized as flat. There's nothing here. Nothing. Nora's powers are never explained, and she seems to conjure up more at will. The scrappy midget that tags along after the bar fight is worthless and accomplishes nothing of value, not growing as a person and not doing anything by himself. OVERALL 1/10 HIGHLY ENJOYABLE WITH FRIENDS, OR IF YOU LIKE MAKING FUN OF THINGS AS A LONELY PERSON.