Canaan 01 – 03 » Canaan is Such a Hacker
Posted by 0rion on August 24th, 2009 - 3:00 pm
I mean seriously. Look at her blatantly wallhacking, shooting people right through the walls.
And her movements? Pretty obvious speedhacks going there. Possibly even a bunny hopping script.
And I don’t care what game you’re playing, anyone who spins in circles while shooting everybody within 100 yards is an aimbotter. That’s just common knowledge.
As I mentioned in my more detailed Canaan post, the concept of synesthesia as a superpower is really a legitimately interesting concept. Of course, here they’ve just made it an excuse for Canaan to do everything from rapid target acquisition to deflecting bullets to computer hacking, Tachikoma-style.
Not to say that isn’t totally awesome. I’ve never been one to let minor details like, you know, physics get in the way of a good fight scene. At the very least this series establishes early on that its objective is basically just to deliver truckloads of awesome, not gritty realism.
Why do Chinese people even bother having roads when they’re always just running on the rooftops?
And deliver it most certainly does! The whole festival setting was perfect for a badass, John Woo style rooftop running gun battle. The use of fireworks to mask gunshots or to highlight key moments in the battle was brilliant, and the overall cinematography was really adventurous and engaging. I love it.
Sugoi! Sugoi! Sugoi sugoi!
Gotta love Maria too, the kind of person who would probably be extremely obnoxious in real life, but who fits right in in a fast paced action flick like this. Did I just call it a flick? It really does feel more like a film than an anime series, now that I think about it, both in pacing and plot development.
Om nom nom.
OK, now I know I said that CANAAN doesn’t sweat some of the details when it comes to realism, but this right here?
Totally 100% realistic. I have absolutely seen Japanese schoolgirls do exactly this. No, I have no idea how they do it either. Just… spoon into the parfait and “nom”, the entire top of it is gone.
I can’t even finish an entire one of those, but I regularly see Japanese girls literally half my size devour those things in a matter of seconds.
This guy needs to stop using default metering. And buy a bigger CF card.
Now on the other hand, if we’re talking about lack of realism… how the hell did Mino expect to get decent action shots at that distance while shooting handheld at 1/60th of a second shutter speed?
Also, based on the style of the viewfinder, the camera Mino is using here is part of the Canon 1D / 1Ds line-up, so at least that part is pretty accurate.
“He grabbed my buns!”
Can’t help but like a girl who just wants to give the audience a little fanservice. And she’s rockin’ handlebar braids and little moe fang? Brilliant.
Her quirky Japanese is really fun, too. She consistently uses “~su” instead of desu as a sentence ender, much like Momo from Saki (the disappearing girl). Coupled with lots of slangy informal Japanese it produces a speaking style more typically associated with the male highschool delinquent type, but it works really well for her character.
“Driving cars off of cliffs, taxis with wings, these are a few of my favorite things.”
Most awesome taxi driver or most awesome taxi driver ever?
Not only does his driving give Takumi Fujiwara a run for his money, he does it while singing along with ridiculous J-pop idols. And then he drives off the edge of an unfinished overpass. If that’s not just sheer, unadulterated win, I don’t know what is.
“In addition to giving me magical ninja powers, this purple mark unlocks the infinite ammo cheat for my Uzi.”
Two heart brother and green shirt kid were a great combo. I was actually rather sad to see them both get taken out so early in the story.
Canaan always picks the most ridiculous, unstable shooting platforms. Maybe she has a perk that gives increased accuracy when hanging from poles and ladders?
Although come to think of it, it’s rather ironic that Canaan was able to 1-shot all those hidden bad guys at the festival while spinning around a pole, but she empties her clip at this guy who is in plain sight and can’t hit him.
Maybe she was afraid of getting banned and turned off her hacks?
Tetsuoooooo!
I also really like the OP for CANAAN as well. The song is incredibly catchy, and the lyrics are quite fitting for the show as well. Coupled with the great animation sequence it’s easily one of the most engaging and memorable OPs this season.
And really that’s a good description for CANAAN as a whole. While I do feel that people are overlooking some of the deeper story elements, at the end of the day CANAAN is just a good old-fashioned adventure in theatrics.
See! THIS is what a post on Canaan 1-3 should be! This is exactly what i thought as I was watching! It’s a fucking badass shooter flick with fun characters, insane animation, and fuckwin hacking. What the fuck else do you need?!
I really love the show…though I was quite dissapointed when Liang used that retarded avatar thingie jumping around during the anti terrorism presentation in ep.6 …it just didn’t fit the style of the show at all. That’s more of a Shangri-la thing I’d say. It really was a facepalm moment for me lol.
So far I do believe that the first couple of eps are the best. nr. 3 is particularly nice. I kind of think they’re putting a little too much emphasis on the maria-canaan angst later on…meh.
Mino is totally my favourite character
“Driving cars off of cliffs, taxis with wings, these are a few of my favorite things.”
Gah, the song is totally stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
hahhaah this was alot of fun to read, its nice to “take a relaxing break” after how heavy the last post was. Im sure canaan has been VAC banned at least twice. We know shes not legit owning the way she does with that 8 digit steam ID of hers.
No but seriously, i really wish you put the “actual size” subtitle on the ice cream eating shot. Would have made my day. I’ll never understand why i cant even eat half of those ridiculous ice cream empires (im not even including the waffle, whole pinapple, and king size milky way bar sticking out of it) whereas a japanese high school girl half my size can cash the sucker like its nothing. Proportionally it just doesnt make sense.
“Canaan always picks the most ridiculous, unstable shooting platforms. ”
It’s like playing pool in the pub: you miss the really easy-looking shots but the awkward ones where you’re perched with one buttock on the edge of the table and the cue at a baize-ripping angle often hit the pockets.
And yes, that IS the most awesome taxi driver ever. His look of “How am I going to get this car off the roof?” had me on the floor.
It’s funny you mention it playing out more like a film than a TV series – Omo said something similar. I think I’d enjoy it if I rewatched it marathon-style actually.
@ digitalboy
Haha, glad you liked it. I was a pretty fun post to write; much easier than that last CANAAN post.
@ Grimmer
It really did feel very Shangri-La style and oddly out of place. Of course, I’ve come to realize that nothing is too over the top for this series.
@ J$
Haha, 8-dig Steam ID indeed. I’m glad at least one person “saw what I did there”, but that’s certainly the first thing that came to mind when I saw her spinning in circles headshotting everybody.
Kind of funny to note that in the first episode she was using a SIG SG 550, which in CS:S is the “CT autosniper”. Man, what a noob Canaan is!
@ Martin
Yeah, it seems very much like the sort of series that makes for a good marathon session, and perhaps not so good for week to week waiting periods.
It is interesting how the different presentation methods are more conducive to certain types of storytelling and not others, when you have a series of forced intermissions at regular intervals.
From the stories that my friends working in China tell me, it seems that Mr Taxi Driver is actually quite an accurate representation of your average big city cabbie.
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