An off-hand comment by Nova how he boycotts sports anime reminded me about this: I had pretty poor record with it. Not that I boycott it strictly like Nova, but I never was enthusiastic about it and neglected the genre. It is high time for the neglect to be rectified …
read moreEvirus on Chaika
read moreThankfully, Chaika succeeds wonderfully in its execution. The fights are consistently good, and the characters endearing enough to draw the viewer's sympathy. One standout in particular, Fredrica, can attribute her character's draw almost entirely to the way her veteran seiyuu plays her. Saito Chiwa exudes a …
Kawai-sou ends
And so, marathoned in 3 days, it ends so quickly: a series that I seriously meant to suspend in the beginning. Notes that I penciled at ep.1 dripped with scorn, like in "so, it's a story of yet another fine young man thinking with his penis". Suffering of poor …
read moreAvatar on Kawai-sou
Andy engages into pointed critique:
read moreKawai Complex: A fun main romance plot buried under a steaming pile of cliched secondary characters. By the time I had gotten to the end of this, for the meager payoff on offer, I'd slogged through episode after episode of masochist jokes, virgin jokes, slut …
GochiUsa ends
It was all right, but overdone at times. Perhaps even way overdone, and at many times. I had to resort to fast-forward.
On the upside, nobody was as annoying as characters of Ichigo Mashimaro, and so I managed to finish the series. And then of course Rize is #1. Although …
read moreBokura wa Minna Kawai-sou begins
The first thing about Kawai-sou that I noticed was how astonishingly beautiful it was. The second thing I noticed was how Ritsu didn't look like a woman. The third thing I noticed was a suspicious isomorphy between its supporting characters and that of Mahoraba. We have the same crazy novelist …
read moreDate A Live cast
Hadigirl begins
Hadigirl opened to non-subscribers at Crunchyroll, so I took a sample. The first thing about it: it's not an anime. Instead, it's a slightly-animated manga... with Aya Hirano's voice. Seiyuu are sure cheap nowadays.
Overall it's horrible, but it's so adorably bad that I cannot bring myself to drop it …
read moreSailor Moon Crystal 01
Impact of Sailor Moon Crystal awoke The Pink Sylphide after more than a year of hiatus and Chris' post made to give it a try. It seems like a straight-up reboot, and reboot of Kanon was awesome, so...
But when I saw the puss-in-boots logo, I felt dread. The no-good …
read moreOne-week Friends begins
This series sets a record at Ani-nouto by beginning and suspending in 1 minute 30 seconds. The story is simple. Isshyuukan Friends anime is by far the blogging leader this season. I even thought about putting together a zero-ep "bloggers on series" post. But the bloggage is so insanely spoilerish …
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