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| Labyrinth of flames Titre original : Honoo no Labyrinth Titre français : Labyrinthe enflammé Titre anglais : Labyrinth of flames Résumé : Galan is a high school kid with a dream--he wants to be a Samurai. That mainly means he spends most of his time in an elaborate Halloween costume watching old movies, but hey, it's a start. Things change for Galan when his refined schoolmate Natsu gives him a real, live, sword... and promises more if he just comes to visit her hometown. The catch? She lives in the wilds of Russia in an isolated village where she's royalty. And there's also a little domestic dispute over who Natsu is going to marry... and a plot to steal long lost treasure... and a busty American reporter... and several people who want to kill him. If Galan survives, it'll be one heck of a vacation. Aside from the fact that this title features neither a Labyrinth nor a significant amount of flame (must be a metaphor), I learned three things watching it: Nishijima is a skilled director with a major underwear fetish, underwear fetish movies work better as over-the-top comedies, and bad "guys" are more limber than good ones. I'll come back to that third one later, but Labyrinth of Flame is the answer to the question "Exactly what would happen if you crossed Agent Aika and Jubei-Chan the Ninja Girl?" Cartoony, manic, crude, occasionally disturbing, and apparently filmed by a very short cameraman, this is another title that took a fairly well-made anime production (Samurai comedy in this case), and spiced it up with a nearly constant barrage of panty shots. |  |