![]() ![]() I know now the real reason Freeman always cries. is simply disturbing and sad, but not in the same way the manga is. The manga is a gripping, disturbing, sad, and ultimately compelling tale that it definitely worth trying out. Or better yet, wise up and go buy the manga series instead. If you really, really want to see this video series. Maybe I did it for love of the manga, and I could not accept this hideous abomination of his work as being anywhere near authentic. That I watched six episodes full of this dreck amazes me to this day. Doesn't that sound wrong to you? It does to me too. there's still sex and violence, but the sex is anything but erotic and the violence was anything but graphic. Well, they didn't take out ALL the content. You honestly couldn't give two swats of a guinea pig's tail (yes, I know they don't have tails!) for any character in this series. ("The page is moving, right? Therefore it's animation!")Īs if this treatment wasn't enough, they chopped out everything in the story that made you sympathetic towards Freeman. who needs artists?), scribbled them with marker, and had the guy wiggle the page beneath the camera lens just to make it look remotely like it's animated. It looks like they scanned pictures from the manga (that's one way to get the art style faithful. Wait: did I say this was animated? I guess, in a way it is, but that is if you count those children's tapes that were so low-budget they would take still pictures and move parts of those pictures around to simulate movement as "animation". It borrows some elements from the manga, but takes only the worst of them, and animates (and I use this term VERY loosely) them on the screen. The top assassin in the trade, he will always cry after killing, hence the codename: Crying Freeman.Īnd that's about a much a synopsis as you need for this TOTAL turkey. He fights to get his life back, as well as fighting for the clan who "adopted" him. There is also a 1995 live-action movie based on the same story.Ĭrying Freeman is about a gentle artist who is turned into a merciless killer against his will. Notes: Based on the manga by Ikegami Ryoichi, available from Viz. Length: OAV series, 6 episodes, 30 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by Discotek Media.Ĭontent Rating: R (sex, violence, adult situations, all portrayed really badly) ![]()
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