| Genre: | Sci-Fi, comedy
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| Manga/Anime/Both | Anime
| Seasons: | 1, 24 mini-episodes
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| Spirit of Discord's Rating | 
| out of 5 Trigun Kitties |
| Summary: The only human left alive on a desolate planet is a young girl named Haruko, who lives with a bunch of strange robots. You view their misadventures in 5 minunte episodes. |
| Explanation for Rating:
Spirit of Discord:
I rented the first disk of Kurogane Communication on the advice of the same person who got me into Nadesico, so I had pretty high expectations of it. I was let down. I was let down so much that I'm not trusting that guy in the future. Moving on….
Kurogane Communications starts off with Haruka, the only surviving human in the world, giving a cheery introduction to her mechanical companions, most of whose names I can't be bothered to remember. They're all the usual types: a killer cyborg that seems to hate everybody (but eventually warms up), an insane little ball with a machine gun (Trigger, the only reason the show didn't get 0.5 Trigun Kitties), an old wise man type who offers his sagely wisdom when necessary, a dork whose only purpose in the series is to be awkard around the female lead, so on and so forth.
Now, as mentioned before, the show is composed of 5-minunte episodes. That wouldn't have been so bad, it if wasn't for the fact that each episode is a self-contained story with very little in the wise of an continual story. They're not even interesting little stores either. In one episode, the cast visits the beach. Nothing particularly interesting happns…they just….go to the beach. Other times stuff actually happens, like the water supply suddenly disappearing, but in such dilemmas, things are still resolved by the end of the 5 minute episode (in this case stumbling across an underground lake). The overall effect is really worthless from a story perspective.
Now, I can deal with shows being fairly plotless as long as they have something to make up for it. Hell, I liked G Gundam for crying out loud. Kurogane Communications…just doesn't have much to show. It can be humorous at times, but not often enough to make it worth watching. There's no fan service at all, limited combat, no complicated love triangles or…well…anything really.
Overall, it's not worth your time, even 5 minutes of it. Trigger shooting the other cast members with a BB Gun is the high point, and that alone doesn't make it worth watching. Leave this one alone.
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