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My Opinion on Netflix's Knights of the Zodiac

"And I raaaaan, I ran so far away. I just raaaaan I couldn't get away. I couldn't get away." I grew up in a period of time during the late 90's and mid 2000's when Western animation was was dropped for licensing Japanese Animation, cause why go threw the trouble of animating something yourself when you could just licenses it from another country. Even the few popular Western show I watched went for a more anime inspired estetic, shows like Teen Titans and Avatar the Last Airbender. Out of all these shows one of the first I watched was Knights of the Zodiac. If I'm being honest I don't really remember much of Knights of the Zodiac besides some character designs and vauge plot details. And Docrates, who's the only character who's name I remebered. No idea why.

Years flew by and Knights of the Zodiac faded into obscurity, until a few months ago when I heard Netflix was doing a new series. I was interested but hesitant since Netflix's anime adaptations can be dicey. So when the trailer dropped a few days ago I was optimistic and after watching it I was... whelmed..

It doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look that great either. I will admit that might be my 3-D animation bias, the show does look good but something about it just seems flat. Although I will say it looks league's better then other 3-D anime's like Beserk 2017, Fist of the Blue Sky, and that show with the CGI bear that Crunchyroll keep trying to get me to watch. For some reason I was really reminded of RWBY, another Western show trying to emulate anime, while watching this trailer. All that being said I have seen good 3-D shows like Beast Wars and Green Lantern the Animated Series, and at the end of the day if the story is engaging and the characters are interesting it doesn't matter to me what it looks like.

Now speaking of characters one weird choice was that they changed the gender of the character Shun, because I guess guys can't wear Pink Armor. Now that being said I'm not personally invested in the characters from this show as much as I would be for the characters in some of the other anime I watched growing up so it doesn't really matter as much to me as it would to a diehard fan of Saint Seiya but whatever. Just thought it was weird. Also they changed Cloth to Armor cause why not, reminds me of the MCU's changing of the Infinity Gems to Infinity Stones. 

Besides that all the other character designs look like the way I remebered them. Despite the fact I may have come off as negative I'm still hopeful for this show, at the very least I'm going to give it a couple of episodes and I hope you all do too.