I ran through all 10 available episodes, and a thought occured to me: why bother with all the somewhat slightly animated manga thing? Just scan manga, and have the cast read it aloud, voila.
Alas, it's not so simple. Manga has speech balloons, which this quasi-animated manga thing does not …
read moreread 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 …
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 moreAndy 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 …
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 …
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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 moreHadigirl 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 …
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