the winner is... - no-one knows. we're all too scared of them to look.
fstarck you shift key, i wont have any capital letters or asterisks then. didnt want them anyway. star sulk star.
ok i was already crapping myself at the thought of watching nishikido ryo in something else after last friends but really wanted to see orthros.
takizawa hideaki plays the bad guy and yes he's pretty damn threatening but roro's scarey eyes still sent me reaching for a pillow to hide behind.
ah he's great though. i cant believe how much his face changes when he smiles.
when he is messed up and frantic he looks like he could kill you in a second and he spends most of the series looking just like that because of the
power his character has had to live with his whole life.
aoi (nishikido) can kill with a touch of his hand and a murderous intent.
this guy is not evil though. he is tortured by his power and the things that have happened with it in the past.
the guy we have to be careful of has the opposite power.
ryuzaki (takizawa) can heal with a touch and intention but the demand for his 'godlike' power has made him bitter and faithless. we first meet him on a roof top being all rained on and saying some profound stuff while he's staring down into the town below looking all evil and menacing.
both these guys are not really evil or good - they never really knew what to do with their powers, and morality is something that changes with context and circumstance.
the two men enter into a journey with each other of breaking down their ideas of what is really right and wrong and it ends up exploiting many power hungry people along the way.
i wasnt expecting this series to be so deep, it did get very emotional. the relationship between the two guys was intense at its lightest.
mizukawa asami plays a head strong police detective who becomes entangled in their savage world and has her own ethical code broken down by the events that unfold.
it has a fantastic cast and a really good story line with lots of twists and dramatic turns that push the characters to their limits.
it has a pretty epic ending and yes yet again, i cried like a complete girl.
both takizawa and nishikido were suitably f*cked up and derranged in their roles in orthros, but all i wanted as an onlooker was for them to find a way to be at peace with everything and each other.
i wasnt sure what it would be like having these two going head to head but they worked well together. their characters were both pretty messed up but in different ways.
ryuzaki strutted about like he saw no worth in any humans at all, while aoi was desperately trying not to fall into the same bitter and angry state. but with both of them that wasnt all there was to them.
sometimes you really didnt know if there were any sides to take - it was such a blur of misunderstood and abused morality and everyone involved became lost and desperate. i found it quite gripping. im sure i watched the last 5 episodes back to back.
basically it was pretty heavy. it was kind of like death note in a way, and it has a sort of maou-like - dark history coming back to haunt - element.
also in the same way maou's story ended up with two guys destroying each other in a mess of confused and desperate emotions, orthros had these two characters manipulating each other to the point of devistation.
i would say orthros has a much less depressing ending though. that is, after the crazy epic bit that you think is the ending.
how great to see tackey be all scarey and loony tunes though. he does the emotionless pychopath thing beautifully and gave such convincing strength and confidence to ryusaki making him a truly intimidating character.
both characters had a lot of underlying stuff going on that was all implied with expressions and mannerisms - as you watch both of them become more unhinged and desperate you just lose track completely of who is calling the shots.
the more ryuzaki puts aoi through the more they seem to switch roles; ryuzaki becoming emotional and aoi becoming darker.
the breakdown of aoi was a nervous one for me. roro, i really need to see you in stuff where you dont scare me. smiles and fuaa fuaa please. you sh*t me up too much dude.
( i wanted to get some more screen shots but my computer hates me
and i couldnt be bothered to fight with it anymore tonight.)
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