“Witchblade” on IFC

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Yesterday Jeri Rowe dropped a package on my desk from the Independent Film Channel.

Inside were two DVDs of Japanese Anime.

Not usually my thing — I think anime is an acquired taste that requires a very specific sensibility or a lot of acid (or both) — but these caught my eye.

One of them is an anime version of the Top Cow comic Witchblade, which was already a failed live action series with talk of a movie in the works.

No surprise — the Witchblade (a sentient alien artifact that bonds with human women making them into superheroes) of the anime also makes the female wielder dress like a stripper from space.

Some things remain, whatever the genre.

Am going to have to put this on and try not to have a seizure as the strangeness of the original witchblade concept melds with the weirdness of anime. I guess in way the two are made for each other — the Japanese have a strange fetish for scantily clad women being persecuted by monsters and that’s sort of what Witchblade is all about.

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