Amazing Nuts! is an anthology of four animated shorts with each featuring its own distinct animation style and music by Studio 4°C. 1. Global Astroliner Gou 2. Glass Eye 3. Kung-Fu Love 4. Joe and Marilyn
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the anime is split into 4 different stories. i will write my impression from the 4 of them. TLDR; watch stories 1 and 3, skip 2 and 4. story 1: the coolest of them. has different styles of animation, colourful, the music is very fitting. feels rhythmic and funky. there is very little dialouge and most of the story is passed through the animation. story 2: felt depressing and so slow. i really dislikes the animation styles which were either really bad 3d, or real life pictures put through filters to make them become cartoonish(which also looked pretty aweful). i couldnt care less about the story which sucked.didnt notice the music too much. i suggest not watching this one. story 3: story is quite nice, the themes are of friendship and fighting. the animation is nice and colourful, fights have a samurai champloo feeling and are nicely done with their unique animation style and slow motion. music is good. the story is really funny in its ridiculousness. story 4: iv'e seen 1.5 minute from it but it was enough(i want to remind you that 1.5 minute is like 1/3 of that story because theyre short..) its just some girl singing her story. i didnt like the 3d animation and nothing interested me in that story so i skipped it. the ratings i gave are pretty much for stories 1 and 3. if i included 2 and 4 the points would drop by an average of 3 or more. trust me and watch just stories 1 and 3.
As an anthology, I'd have to say Amazing Nuts isn't worth your time. It's basically four concept music videos without any underlying or unifying theme. There's not really a reason these are compiled together, and none of them are strong enough to justify watching any of the others or seeking out the entire set. Of course, with anthologies, you have many attempts to connect with an audience, but I think most would agree that the first story is the only one that you could recommend universally. I'll detail my thoughts on the individual stories below, but the TL;DR is watch thefirst one, only check out the other three at your own discretion. 1. Global Astroliner Gou This is basically a Gorillaz music video. The animation and art style are extremely appealing. It's cute, humorous, cool, and a treat to behold. It's a shame how much of it goes by in the blink of an eye, because every shot is its own little story. The story is complete, but very hastily concluded and you will definitely be lost in the succession of flashing events. You will loosely be able to understand the story just by watching it, but if you really want to get the full thing, you're going to have to spam the play/pause button and freeze frame a lot. Even then, the story is simple and sweet. I would definitely watch a feature length or even 30 minute OVA of this, but I don't think that's ever happening. The music matches the visuals well and stands alone as a good song. Really the most I can say is that I wanted more, I wish this was the full OVA, and that everything else in this collection was at least on this level. 2. Glass Eye This was easily my least favorite because it was virtually unintelligible. There were a couple moments I understood what the emotion it is trying to evoke was, but for the most part it was complete Greek. The more offensive thing though is the visuals. It's basically just live-action with a filter over it, and it's butt-ugly. I didn't want to look at it. Even if it told a compelling story, the visuals would be hard to get past. But the nail in the coffin is the song, it's just an Engrish jpop song, bland, forgettable, much like the story it's matched with. 3. Kung-Fu Love This one is probably the height of visuals for the anthology, but the absolute pit for story. I don't even remember the music, I was mostly trying to keep up with the story. It throws out a premise that loosely sets up the first third of the music video, but the second third is like, "what", and the third feels like an entirely new story just rehashing the designs of characters used in the first part. It's like three trailers for three different movies in a series all crammed into the same trailer. I loved how it looked but I was so detached from what was going on that I gave up trying to follow it after a point. That said, the emotion and animation is obviously the point so people who care more about visceral entertainment will get more out of this than people who want a story or meaning to ground themselves in. 4. Joe and Marilyn This one would be my personal (distant) second, but it has some major flaws holding it back. First of all, the song sucks. Slightly better than the 2nd one's, and far more fitting and related to the story, but not a very good song still IMO. The visuals are a mixed bag. On one hand, it is almost a direct ripoff of Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride. But at the same time, the two central characters have hideous shoujo-face, where the eyes down are smushed into where a normal person's lips to chin would be, and they have big bulbous heads. The rest of the characters though aren't even remotely supposed to resemble humans, they are monstrous and this hideous artstyle fits. The CG looks both surprisingly detailed and yet terribly dated. The story itself flows and makes sense, but it's incomplete and there's not much to sink your teeth into to start with. I might've enjoyed a more fleshed out full-length OVA of it, but who can say? What is here though, is just meh overall. I wouldn't really recommend it, but of the three non-1st stories, it was the most tolerable to me so make of that what you will. So yeah, overall, your best bet is to just check out the first story on youtube or something and only watch the other three if you just want to see what sticks for yourself.
