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Key the Metal Idol is a 15 part OAV series, including two movie length episodes. Key was released progressively from 1994 to 1997. Key is a real puzzle box that can hurt your head so I’ve decided to tackle it episode by episode in a Twenty Days series [1] starting tomorrow.
I only have Region 1 discs that won’t play in my laptop [2] so writing these posts may involve some juggling.
As usual there will be five meta posts that will probably include a discussion of gender, the quality of the dub, and a retrospective. The sequence of these posts, and the topics for two posts have not been finalised.
Finally, as with the previous twenty/thirty days series, these posts will be spoiler heavy. I’ll try to put the synopsis for each episode after a Read More tag, but this is the only warning that will be given.
To wrap up this introduction, here is the post list as it currently stands:
Day 1 – START UP
Day 2 – CURSOR I
Day 3 – CURSOR II
Day 4 – ???
Day 5 – ACCESS
Day 6 – SCROLL I
Day 7 – SCROLL II
Day 8 – ???
Day 9 – RUN
Day 10 – GOTO
Day 11 – RETURN
Day 12 – ???
Day 13 – BUG
Day 14 – SAVE
Day 15 – VIRUS I
Day 16 – ???
Day 17 – VIRUS II
Day 18 – SYSTEM
Day 19 – EXIT
Day 20 – Looking Back at Key The Metal Idol
[1] I don’t expect everyone, or even most readers, to agree with my interpretations. Discussion will be welcome.
