The story of The Empire of Corpses takes place in 19th century Europe, and revolves around John Watson. He is scouted by the government to become a secret agent- However, Watson lives in a world where "Frankensteins"- human corpses that are re-purposed with a false soul in order to use them as laborers- are used to improve industrial development.
It is a decent movie but nothin brilliant. I liked the "woman" character mostly. The rest is weird. Sub from blaze is nice and honest...but statin in the sub "don't know that" is odd
post #18 by cnd0r on 13.03.2016 01:23 (vote: hidden)
I don't even know... The amount of references is borderline insane. They're not even meaningful for the most part, just references as an excuse for the viewer to attach some sort of pre-defined values to those characters, because the writers couldn't create some original characters of their own. In some ways I absolutely despise this work. Animation and voice acting is great as you'd expect from a high budget movie though.
What we have here, is a very well-made zombie movie.
The setting is interesting, the visuals are fantastic, there's a bunch of zombies biting people, it's got flamethrowers, an android, and one of the protagonists even gets into a fistfight with Frankenstein's monster. It's glorious insanity.
Note that in addition to the post-credits scene, there's also a character monologue over the second half of the credits.
cnd0r wrote:
I don't even know... The amount of references is borderline insane. They're not even meaningful for the most part, just references as an excuse for the viewer to attach some sort of pre-defined values to those characters, because the writers couldn't create some original characters of their own.
It's as though you've never heard of the alternative history genre. I suppose you must really hate period pieces and any shows that use an Alice/Cinderella/Kaguya/etc. sort of theme as well.
Seriously though, were any of these characters anything at all like this before? Have any of them ever interacted before, in a setting like this one or even at all? The writer(s) most certainly did create a cast of original characters, they just happen to share the same names as some pre-existing characters.
ThatAnimeSnob wrote:
It's the second GITS movie, meeting Guilty Crown.
While I'm not really seeing the GitS comparison, toward the end it does indeed evoke Guilty Crown to a striking degree.
post #1 by abconline on 28.11.2014 23:19
Is.. is that man Reiji from Kara no Shoujo?