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10. Black Sails - Pokewars
https://youtu.be/XFTcA4QLHw0

Unique: 8.75
Story: 7
Music: 8.75
Animation: 8.5
Personal: 7.5
Average: 8.1

This is a weird one. And Im not talking about the presentation, which was extremely unusual. Its that I really liked it, but struggled to pinpoint why so I could meaningfully discuss it.

What I do know is the intro grabbed my attention from the start with a string part that sounds like some form of alien communication, immediately followed by what sounded like someone pounding a piano with their fists. The theme song that follows seems somehow elegant and tawdry at the same time. And it constantly treads the line between sounding discordant and harmonious. That might seem like a criticism, but its intended as just the opposite. Its a challenging and interesting song that never lets go once it sinks its teeth into you.

The visuals are even stranger. In fact, I wasnt sure at first if I should assign a score for Animation because it looks like a camera panning over still sculptures, but it turns out theyre all computer generated. The fact that the artwork looks so realistic that I didnt even realize I was looking at computer graphics warrants a high score for the visual beauty they managed to achieve here.

And although theres no way to derive the precise plot of the show from this intro, theres definitely some story conveyed by the unusual artwork. For instance, the skeleton with his hands on the shoulders of a beautiful woman, and the difficult to forget image of a mans hand pressed into a womans leg. Throughout the entire sequence, theres a conflicting sense of beauty and ugliness, much like the theme song that sounds like its at war with itself.

Its a fascinating intro, and I feel like I understand it at least a bit more after writing this than I did before!