Speed grapher is full of incredibly intriguing, but sadly underdeveloped ideas.
The plethora of potentially interesting and complex, if fucked up, characters never get much development and the themes of greed, corruption and twisted desires are never explored further than surface level. However, its criticisms of capitalism in general and corruption in Japanese politics in particular are shocking in how blatant they are, and how relevant still.
Plot-wise, there are a few too many "monster of the week" detours and there's a little too much anime logic, but it eventually reaches a beautiful conclusion.
It's not all it could be, but it's still quite good, competently made, beautifully scored, and it deserves to be remembered.
Explanation by North_Wind on Tuesday, 07.02.2012 20:25