Magikano ep 01 raw:
Psychotic girl is sent against her will to the human world as a magical maid in the house of a nerdy guy with his 3 jealous sisters, hilarity to supposedly ensue.
Pros: fast paced, unexpected gags, art is okay.
Cons: crappy intro and outro songs, weak voice acting (but gets better in the later part of the ep), art is plain, garish colors for the titles (but maybe intentional as a rib on magical shows), the alledged "cute" girl is not cute.
Overall: not a thoroughbred but may turn out okay as a midly entertaining title.
Eikyuu_Alice_Rondo_01 raw:
Alice-in-Wonderland-otaku finds his Alice in the real world, but she's kinda evil. It doesn't help that his sister is jealous. Sword battles ensue.
A strange mix. I get flashbacks of Utena at times, then of Shakugan no Shana, then of Digi Charat... ^^;
The first ep has some strong moments, but also some very weak moments. Not sure yet what to think of this title.
^_^;;;;....
On second thought, though, it looks far too stupidly moe to be very interesting.
Amaenaideyo!!_Katsu!!_ep_01 raw:
Second season of Amaenaideyo. A sinister rival faction is on the move, and Ikko finds himself targetted... by a beautiful blonde with plenty of assets. Will Ikko survive the deadly Pantsu Attack?
Ep 01 was a bit tame for the Amaenaideyo's brand, I expected to see more breasts/nakedness, not mere panties to trigger Ikko. But maybe it's a tease -- don't show all the goods at once else the viewer will have nothing to long for. Or, maybe Ikko had a long drought!
Art/animation is as good as usual.
Rakugo Tennyo Oyui 01 raw:
In the Edo(?) period, a city is under attack from demonic forces. The fighting girls are losing the battle and seek powerful (girl) fighters elsewhere beyond space and time. Meanwhile, in today's Tokyo(?), a schoolgirl is trying to get the favors of a local celebrity...
Looks like a variant of Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken, but with people from the future mixed in and Master Of Entertainment's character designs. Hopefully there will be a real plot and not a monster-of-the-week + final-boss "plot".
LEMON ANGEL PROJECT 01 raw:
Something about a girl who wants to become a singer/idol, I couldn't bear to watch it to the end. The main girl has a retarded, whiny voice and mannerisms that irritate me, the "English" girl cannot speak English, it's supposed to be 2017 but besides a few unreal gadgets (giant realtime street holograms in 10 years? yeah right) I don't see much difference, the whole episode is blurry and with a soft black border (pseudo-artsy look? dream sequence? memory recall? Bah.), men are depicted as complete idiots... hey wait, maybe this is a shoujo anime? Yes it is.
OK I'll pass.
Kage_kara_Mamoru_01 raw:
A geek and his genki but slightly dumb childhood girl friend go to school, play bowling after school, get involved with bad guys, go home, talk to each other thru their adjacent windows, go to bed to prepare for another day at school.
A normal life ...except, things are not as they appear to. Mysterious ninjas fight crime in the city, who are they?
Romantical comedy with ninjas and stuff.
Despite the overall simplicy, I enjoyed this first episode. Voices come naturally, the animation is animated when it's needed, the music is fitting, the songs are decent, etc etc. This is how it should be done.
Yomigaeru Sora -Rescue Wings- ep 01 raw
Story of a new flying pilot in the army. We see him arriving in a small town, setting up his things, going out to eat something, reporting to base, meeting people, coming back to his place, making a coffee, watching the tv, getting a phone call...
Realistic anime. Well, sort of. For example, don't they have Caller ID in Japan? He always pick the phone mistakenly thinking it's his GF and it's not. The phone has a fancy display that should have shown the caller id. Then, the TV: it's a cathode tube. He seems to be well off, and in need to move often for missions. Why not a lighter, flat screen TV?
I sense that the story is based on an old book/novel that is somewhat adapted for present time for the anime. IOW, the adaptation failed on the details, which doesn't bode well for the realism of the future episodes.
Tactical Roar ep 01 raw:
It's the future, and a city exists on the ocean that needs to protected from terrorists attacks (I think... I didn't get it all because it's raw). A special naval force is fighting off the attacks at sea.
Our wet-around-the-ears main character is dispatched to the fleet, and finds out is a girl-only crew... a man-hating crew.
Ecchi comedy with tactical elements.
Some of the 3D is cheesy, like the explosions, or the way the missiles behave, but then these occur rapidly and aren't the main focus of the show. Still, it gives me a general unpolished impression. As for the comedy part, I don't find it very funny so far. Is this an anime made as an afterthought to support a game release?
Nerima_Daikon_Brothers_01.raw
A singing anime, with Blues Brothers lookalike (sorta), a redhead and a panda. Is Daikon/radish a synonym for dick? Because ep1 was full of gay "jokes".
Gay musical.
Kasimasi-girl_meets_girl-_01 raw
Weak, feminine guy desperately in love with girl gets changed into girl due to incident.
Lesbian love story.
Looks well done, but I don't care for any of the characters.
Hantsuki (Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora) 01 raw:
Boy is at the hospital for some cold, meets girl next door who is (terminally?) ill, falls in love, etc.
Heart-warming/heart-wrenching love story.
H-game adaptation, h-game to be? This is an often-used h-game plot. Very predictable, this anime hasn't much originality going for it.
KAI ~ayakashi~ 01 RAW:
Intrigues, seamy loves and betrayals in Old Japan, drawn the old way.
Slice of life anime.
Looks well done. But I'm no big fan of old woodblock art nor of Old Japan's narrated low intrigues.
Fate-stay night - 01 and 02, subbed:
Ah, what to say here? This thing is cult stuff.
Hop, copy/paste from animenewsnetwork.com:
"Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by a sorceror by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya. Although he was full of admiration for his adopted father and yearns to become an ally of justice, Shirou has limited powers and was unable to become a strong sorceror like his father. That is until one fateful day, he was drawn into the Holy Grail War and had to summon a female "Servant" known as Saber in order to protect himself."
Okay, I like it. Especially the part where Saber arrives. Real good, powerful emotion right there.
Sadly, Fate/Stay Night feels like it's getting shafted by bad production and writing. The animation is pretty lame, and the writing seems clumsy. The strength of the original material shines through here and there - like when Saber shows up - but other scenes that seem like they should be powerful just fall flat. I thought the scene where Rin decides to stay by the first innocent victim of her fight should have a had a lot more impact than it did, for instance. And the anime is packed full of exposition, which gets annoying real quick. Too much telling, nowhere near enough showing.
I only played the translated demo version, but pretty much all of the really good back-and-forth between Rin and Archer that was in there at the start has been cut, or existed but didn't work in the anime.
Overall, standing on its own, I liked Tsukihime a lot more after the first two episodes.
>>18
tsukihime had much higher production values and was way more competently directed, that's for sure. it ended up falling apart, though! hopefully this one doesn't.
I specifically compared it to the two first episodes of Tsukihime, didn't I?
Also, in terms of production values, the first episode usually is better-produced than later episodes, to attract viewers. Neither do I agree, in terms of writing and direction, that "The first episodes of an anime are almost never good". A lot of my favourite shows have really strong first episodes. Just over the last year, I can think of Honey & Clover, Fantastic Children, Noein and Mushishi as grabbing me by the first episode (or in the case of Mushishi, the second).
It is quite possible that Fate will improve, and I'm determined to watch all of it, but if it wasn't for the fact that I know the original material is very good, I wouldn't have bothered.
So basically, it's looking to me like there's no real stand-out shows this season. I'm watching Fate, as I mentioned, but it's a bit of a let-down so far.
Question is, did I miss anything really brilliant that nobody's talking about?
>did I miss anything really brilliant that nobody's talking about?
The last episode of Yukikaze?
I found the last episode to be less brilliant than the other episodes, tho.
What the hell, it wasn't released until now? I thought everyone just forgot about it. And here I thought the wait for the last episode of Macross Zero was long.
Ginga_Densetsu_Weed_01 raw:
Dogs, dogs and more dogs. Talking dogs.
Life is cruel in the woods. It's a battle for survival.
Death awaits the weak.
Dogs anime.
Looks well done, not my kind of anime tho.
Eikyuu Alice Rondo:
Eh...I'm going to keep watching for the cutesy lesbian stalker.
Majikano:
The evil girl is not getting enough evil screen time.
Kage Kara Mamoru:
That girl lead is really annoying. But hey, I like her friend.
Ok, this season is for Kashimashi and Nerima daikon.
this new season is a lot suckier than the earlier one (ParaKiss, Noein, Mushishi were extremely good, the last 2 in particular)
Well, at least Noein's continuing into this season. I'd like some Daikon, but people are apparently being lazy bums as usual.
>>29
I like to call it the calm before the storm.
ADTRW would rise again, but Daikon is really goddamn ridiculously impossible to translate. I think we might anyway, though. It's too bad none of us are good at song localizing.
REC ep 01 raw
Lower than average guy gets dumped, meets very young girl who wants to be a Voice Actor, they part, they meet again, they fall in love, they make love.
Love story. 12 min long.
Hard to say where this is going from 1 ep. Probably a "love can overcome all obstacles" type of story.
Binchou-tan_01 subbed:
We follow the frugal daily routine of Binchou-tan at her house in the forest. Sleep, wake up, get ingredients, make rice, sleep.
Slice of (peaceful) life anime.
The scenery is pretty to look at, and (IMO) the best part.
Binchou-tan herself is a cute-ified absurdity. Why she has that log on her head makes no sense, unless she's travelling, which she's not. That bowl of rice she's eating is bigger than her body. The kimono is very short but the ribbon is way too long. And why anklets but not shoes?
Also, that burnt hole in her blanket is never explained. But we had a voice over explaining the obvious. This voice over was probably unnecessary. Oh well...
Binchoutan（備長炭）is a brand name of prestigious charcoal.
http://www.rekishikaido.gr.jp/time-trip/gengo/eng/21brand.htm
>>34
I'm surprised you didn't mention how the ribbon is asymetrically tied.
Are you by any chance the kind of person that actually questions why some Watanabe Akio-designed characters have a bandaid on one of their stockings?
>I'm surprised you didn't mention how the ribbon is asymetrically tied.
No that was explained in the episode: she has short arms and couldn't reach well behind her.
>Are you by any chance the kind of person that actually questions why some Watanabe Akio-designed characters have a bandaid on one of their stockings?
How can a band-aid stick on a stocking? It should fall off I would think. :)
I'm a logical person. When I spending 12-20 min. watching a anime where nothing of importance is happening, my mind wanders and dissects the surrounding details, to use up the wasted processing time I suppose.
> >>35 So.... it's a commercial? :P
No, it's a kind of fan-made mascot, like OS-tan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os-tan
Afghanis-tan is also a kind of them.
http://www.yukai.jp/~timaking/COMIC/01af/ep01.htm
Neither Binchou-tan nor Afghanis-tan are "fan made" in the sense that the OS-tans are. Binchou-tan and Afghanis-tan are created by individuals - Exa's Picata (http://picata.net/) and Timaking (http://www.yukai.jp/~timaking/) respectively. Both are also licensed to commercial production companies now. They're essentially no different from any other manga or anime characters in that respect.
The OS-tans, however, are created by the Nijiura community as a group effort, and are not really under any kind of central control or copyright. Well, the original creators of the characters, who are pretty much anonymous, do retain the copyrights but these are mostly only used to prevent others from claiming copyright on the characters, or using them commercially against the wishes of the community (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os-tan#Movement_against_Netrunner, for instance).
WATANABE AKIO MUST BE STOPPED
Papillon Rose New Season 01 raw
A few years later. Papillon has lost her memory, and is now working in a maid cafe for otakus. A new thread is appearing, what's a big girl to do?
Magical girl anime.
Ugh, it's censored to hell and beyond. Even simple groping has been taken out of the tv version. We get buildings pans, still pictures and voice-overs instead of the juicy bits. WTF?
Ergo Proxy 01:
Copied from animenewsnetwork:
Plot Summary: In a world where humans and robots live together, there exists a domed city named "Romudo". Under the implementation of complete management control, it is a paradise where feelings are literally discarded. But this utopian landscape is soon broken by a series of mystifying murders. Ril Meyer, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Board, is tasked to solve the murder cases. As she digs deeper, she is soon entangled into the mystery of the "Awakening", an event which will change her life, and the lives living in Romudo...forever.
Blade Runner anime with a girl as replicant's hunter.
I liked Rick (Deckard/Harrison Ford), I didn't care for Ril.
Also, it's very dark and the colors are subdued. Blade Runner was colorful in its darkness.
Ep01 was boring overall. Ep02 preview shows some flying spinners, er, flying machines, 'may be more interesting.
Actually, it's not just Blade Runner, it's also 70s-emotionless-utopia-or-is-that-dystopia.
Well there was an unemotional angle in Blade Runner too.
I don't recall if Blade Runner was supposed to be a paradise/utopia, tho... Probably a rottening, decadent utopia?
dystopia
state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror [ant: utopia]
I'm not sure about the "terror" part.
Conditions of life were not that bad, hi-tech and all that stuff.
Morals were rotten, yes, but that's no terror.
Yes, but Blade Runner was more about urban alienation, whereas the theme I was referring to (which was apparently popular in seventies sci-fi) is that of utopias specifically constructed along strict guidelines, which end up making them dystopias. The world in Blade Runner has just been left to itself to decay.
On the one hand, you have Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and Ghost in the Shell (the movies more than the TV series). On the other, Brave New World, Logan's Run, and apparently Ergo Proxy. Not that I've seen enough of it to tell for sure, but that was the imperssion I got from the trailer.
Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and Ghost in the Shell: cyperpunk. Mechanized worlds, where the human is rebelling against the Machine.
Brave New World, Logan's Run, Eightron: artificial societiess, using drugs to maintain order. Humans reduced to be machines.
Ergo Proxy: A few no-feelings humans surrounded by lots of pseudo-sentient robots. One robot is created and escapes who has emotions and can induce emotions into others, and will probably become some sort of emo messiah. I dunno why the humans lost their emotions, maybe because they have been surrounded by robots for so long. IF the no-feelings state is because of drugs, and someone is using this to control, then it's a Brave New World/etc universe. But I think it's a cyberpunk, with a twist: the robot will bring the emotion, and the girl will fight society/the status-quo for this.
Ah, but you're focusing on the details there. I was referring to the larger themes: That of dystopia through urban alienation, versus dystopia through deliberate and often well-meaning but misguided design. Ergo Proxy seems to be a designed society, in this subdivision.
The citizen crap makes me think we might have some interesting anime-style Brazil-type society. (the film not the county)
This could either turn out really good or more of the same. I really hope this is good.
Shinigami no Ballad: momo the girl god of death_01 raw
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Plot Summary: A girl wrapped in white, her name is Momo...in her hand lies a blunt yet shiny scythe. By her side is a wingged black cat by the name of Daniel. Carrying the souls of humans, the girl's existence parallels to that of a "Death God" or "Shinigami". At the instant when this white Death God touches the hearts of humans, the world is filled with kindness and grief..
Magical girl anime with a shinigami and her sidekick as protagonists.
Looks like a kiddies' show, everything is bright, things happen slowly and are slightly over-explained, designs are simple and clean. Looks like it's gonna be episodic, with a new death-of-the-week every episode. Boring so far.
>Magical girl anime
>Looks like a kiddies' show
>slightly over-explained
Did you watch the same show I did?
http://www.ufotable.com/coyote/
The plot is likely "lol ufotable", and it looks kind of like a Bebop imitator, but there is an all-star cast!
There isn't much good animes out lately..
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>>54
I have to say I agree with Sling so far. I pegged what was going to happen in the episode immediately. Then even if you couldn't figure it out they put even more foreshadowing. It is rather somber but that doesn't preclude it from being a kiddie show.
I just watched the xxxHOLiC - A Midsummer Night's Dream movie. It was decent, but maybe a bit more geared towards people who are already familiar with the manga. Some nice dreamlike bits, and some nice really creepy bits. Also, Yuuko. You could tell she was in a fierce fight because she flinched, once.
is there sub that I can find from that?
Do you have an internet?
>I pegged what was going to happen in the episode immediately.
Yes, the storytelling paradigm it uses assumes you did.
>It is rather somber but that doesn't preclude it from being a kiddie show.
The fact that it airs at night, however, does.
Really though, while there are seinen series that could be easily mistaken for a "kiddie show" to the unobservant eye (e.g. Bottle Fairy), Shinigami no Ballad is not one of them.
>>61
I am unfamilar with this literary techinique, what is its common name? It makes the everything after the first 5 minutes seem like beating a dead horse until the end where they actually involve the protaganist. I do not take it as a good sign when I know a character is going to die 10 seconds after they are introduced. How am I supposed to develop a connection with them?
>>62
Let me put it this way: The show is called Shinigami no Ballad and features a shinigami. That pretty much settles it that someone is going to die at some point (though ep. 2 was a bit of a surprise as far as that is concerned). If you cannot predict at all who's going to die, then you watch the episode wondering just that - "Who's gonna croak this time?". However, if you know beforehand who will die, you'll be worrying about Kouta and Mai instead. Well, in theory, anyway. Whether it actually succeeds at making you do that depends on the execution (which was pretty solid IMO) and the person watching, but it's not a flaw in its design - it's purposely made this way.
>I do not take it as a good sign when I know a character is going to die 10 seconds after they are introduced. How am I supposed to develop a connection with them?
Each episode is a self-standing story with different characters, other than Momo and Daniel, so you have to develop connections with the characters quickly. Mai died fairly late in the episode. If you didn't connect by then, I'd advise you to avoid episodical series like these.
>>61
even though i'd agree with you about bottle fairy's audience (you really can define these things by the time of night they air), i sort of think you could show it to a kid without issue. from the episodes i watched, there was only the vaguest hint (sensei-san's existence and function) of the show's intended audience. i dunno if you'd have to be unobvserant to miss who this show's really aiming for. anyway! here's my question to you: how do you know it's seinen specifically?
>>63
I'm just saying let them have more than 10 seconds of screentime before you give the audience horribly obvious clues that they are going to die.
>>64
It is based on a novel serialized in a seinen novel magazine.
>>66
That's inaccurate info.
regardless of everything else, momo is just a very cool lookin' character
>>67
How so?
>The genre of "seinen novel magazine" doesn't exist.
What about Dengeki Bunko?
I actually liked Shinigami no Ballad 2 and 3. My only qualms of them are using the same character design constantly and ... who the fuck names their daughter Tomato?
Dai Mahou Touge 01-02 raw:
Magical girl is sent to Earth for training. She meets wonderful friends and makes people happy and sings happy songs... except NOT! She's bent on Total World Domination and will stop at nothing to achieve her nefarious goals! Blood, broken bones and vicious destruction ensue while Tokyo is soon to be engulfed by flames... "Oopsie! Did I do a boo-boo?" Oh, and she has a split personality, too.
By the same ones who did Dokuro-chan. 'Nuff said.
Do you know Dai Bosatsu Touge?
>>74 Who?
...searching...
'Daibosatsu Touge' (aka 'Dai-bosatsu toge') trilogy based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of Tokugawa Shogunate, 'Daibosatsu Touge' tells the story of Tsukue Ryuunosuke, a cool, nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
This guy? What about him? Is he the pun of the anime's name?
Ar Tonelico OVA [RAW]:
Green knight sets out to save the world meets self-loathing brunette priestess sulking about her failed powers. Dragon appears and threatens to destroy the city. What's a hero and heroine got to do?
RPG anime, one guy enrolling many girls (and maybe a guy or two) to fulfill his glorious quest.
Probably based on a much longer game, it feels like there is a lot of exposition omitted in the anime to get straight to the hot action -- which is pretty good, even if at times a few things don't make too much sense.
Cream Lemon New Generation 1-2 raw:
Each episode is about the life of a different young guy/girl.
Ep1 is about a schoolboy, his sister and a jealous girl classmate.
Ep2 is about a guy living in an apartment in the big city, his just-add-hot-water-and-it's-ready girlfriends, and a real girl.
Bittersweet slice of life anime.
Very uninspired voice acting brings this show down in flames as far as I'm concerned, compounded by the very slow-going directing. The short sex scene in ep2 happens in pitch darkness, and is not erotic. The singer in the ED is not very good. The background theme music is quite lively but often doesn't fit the scenes' mood. It's not a total lemon, there is some sort of (bad) plot, and the art is pretty good, but that's about it.
Keisatsu Sensha Tai TANK S.W.A.T. 01 [subbed]:
Dominion Tank Police, version full 3D.
Police vs Thieves in the big city anime.
I couldn't watch more than a few minutes. The faces are ugly (eyes too close to each other), the charas move all the time like if they had some attention deficit disorder, motions don't look natural or even believeable, there's no humor. Plot is so dumbed down it hurts.
Gokinjo Monogatari 01 raw
Plot Summary: The protagonist, Kouda Mikako, is a student of "Yaza Gaku". Specialising in fashion design, Mikako dreams of becoming a fashion designer with her own brand. Living next to her is her childhood friend, Yamaguchi Tsutomu. Even though they have been close since young, they share a platonic friendship. However, Tsutomu has been gaining popularity after he was recruited as the vocalist for a band and somehow, Mikako begins to see him in a different light. This is a story about how youths cope with dreams, love and friendship.
Shoujo anime.
Not my cup of tea, I'll pass.
>>80
Why is this in the New season (early 2006) reviews thread? Gokinjo Monogatari is over 10 years old.
>>81 Ah, true. Darn! I downloaded a raw of an old show. Woe be me!
Yoshinaga-san Uchi no Gargoyle 01 raw
A young girl wins against her will an annoying sentient gargoyle in a lottery. Thieves try to steal in a home nearby. Best friend of the girl gets trauma. Emo ensues.
Drama anime with gag elements/Gag anime with drama elements.
I liked the gag sections; the drama didn't do much for me, too much rubbed in.
Gakuen Heaven 01 raw:
Yaoi anime. Not a single girl in sight.
Soul_Link_-_01 raw:
"Aizawa Ryota was in the preparatory course of Central Military Academy. AD 2045, he went to a space station, Aries, for the training with his classmates. However, the station was attacked by a terrorist group. Can they escape from the station to go back to the Earth?
Based on a game by NAVEL." [animenfo.com]
Scifi harem anime.
I could not watch more than a few minutes of this. Cheap animation, stuffy directing, lots of sequence errors (e.g. the guy comes from one direction then goes back where he cames from, it makes no sense), voices not always matching the animation, not very appealing chara designs, unsympathetic characters, empty backgrounds... ugh.
Dai Mahou Touge 01-02
Funny. Being a silly and violent magical girl parody, comparisons with Dokuro-chan are inevitable, but Dai Mahou Touge has the potential to be the better one of the two, mainly because it's less of a one-joke show than Dokuro-chan.
However, wait for Triad's sub. Kyuuketsuki's version is not very good.
Kiba 01 RAW
"Zedd is a 15-year-old boy frustrated by his daily life. One day, a mysterious wind invites him to a time-space crevasse. He lands in another world where Shadow Casters have been fighting against each other endlessly. Shadow Casters use magic to create fighting monsters." [loosely copied from animenfo.com]
Fighting fantasy anime.
No girls in the intro, boys with too much mascara, one mean witch that appears briefly, one ambiguous "girl"(?), men with wings... mild yaoi? Probably aimed at prepubescent boys who are looking for something more adult than Pokemon, maybe at the fangirl scene too.
Production values seem to be high. I may need to see one more episode to make sure where this is going.
so whats the new hit anime everyone will love this year?
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu ep 01 raw
"At her entrance in school, Suzumiya Haruhi introduced herself in a strange way: “I’m not interested in ordinary people. If you came from outer space, or from the future, or you have a supernatural power, come to my place”. And so she became famous among the students." [edited from animenfo.com]
Ep01 shows a parody of a very very very bad movie filmed by a school team. Utterly boring and painful to follow. May be funny for people who have seen those kind of movies...
Genre: school life anime?.
I'll need to see ep02 to get an idea of what this anime is about.
Ep02 preview looks promising tho.
Akubi Girl 01 raw
"Akubi-chan is a cute magical girl. She is good at magic, she can turn into any form by tapping a tambourine, and she can grant any dream or wishes. Akubi-chan is in a vase, but when Ruru-chan, the owner of the vase, yarns (akubi), Akubi-chan pops out. Ruru-chan loves secretly her classmate Itoshi-kun living next-door. Akubi-chan uses various magic to make them good friends." [edited from animenfo]
14 minutes.
Feel-good/cute anime.
Chara noses and eyes look like done by Scooby-Doo, plot by Dexter's Lab, backgrounds by PowerPuff Girls, shadows by Mickey (no shadows whatsoever).
Well, it's cute.
>Chara noses and eyes look like done by Scooby-Doo
Don't tell me you've never seen Bob in the Bottle (Hakushon Daimaou).
High School Girls 00 (joshikousei)
I loved it for the same reason everybody here will hate it. At least 20 panty shots in that 10-minute ep. Somewhat funny, too, but shows like this are better when they are genuinely stupid.
Utawarerumono 01 raw
"One day, Eruru, a half-human girl who lives in a village saves a masked young man lying injured. He recovers, but has lost his memory. Tuskle, the grandmother of Eruru, names him Hakuoro.
Based on a game by LEAF/Aqua PLUS" [edited from animenfo]
Epic fantasy with half-beasts.
Pleasant animation, nice chara designs, good voices, unobstrusive music, simple story -- it's looking good so far.
>>92 I'll tell you, I have never seen Bob in the Bottle/Hakushon Daimaou.
Fushigi_Hoshi_No_Futago_Hime_Gyu_01_raw
Our two princesses are back, and they go to school! Good-natured havoc ensue, but in the end they save the day. Oh, and they gain two fairies in the process.
Children anime for girls.
Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth 01 raw
Second season.
Girls fighting, in a ring and in dark alleys, anime.
Looks more polished than the ep01 of the first season I saw back then. The weak boy of before has grown some. Almost no fan service any more, tho ep02 preview showed some promise of skin.
Still not my kind of anime, tho.
Simoun_01 raw
"The story takes place on a planet different from the Earth. There, they are born as female. When they become 15 years old, they go to the "spring" and choose their sex.
A war breaks out; the country where the main characters live is invaded by the next country aiming at their superior engine." [edited from animenfo]
Lesbian sci-fi.
Looking good overall, music is pleasing, chara design is nice.
Many characters so I'm not sure who is/are the heroine(s) yet.
Gintama 01(-02) raw
"End of Edo period, aliens invaded Earth, Earth lost.
The story takes place around a samurai and his buddies who live in Edo." [edited from animenfo]
A mismatched group of youngsters helps various people fighting yakuza-like groups in an anachronistic Edo, in exchange for food and money. Pseudo-hilarity ensues.
Gag-scifi-pseudo-historical-samurai anime.
Somewhat entertaining (lots of "samurai movies" jokes I'm not familiar with). Art and plot are simple. Watchable.
Glass no Kantai - La Legende du Vent de l'Univers - 01 raw
"At the center of the galaxy, the war between the Aristocrat Alliance and the New Aristocrats breaks out. The war that affects the fate of the universe ends by the victory of the New Aristocrats. However, this isn’t the dawn of peace, but the beginning of tyranny. Michelle and her People’s Army decide to stand up against this tyranny." [edited from animenfo]
Swashbuckling science-fantasy.
Woah, woah. We go from chivalrous-style fighting to betrayal-style fighting to guerilla-style tactics within 15 minutes? Now that's compressed time. And how come they fight with swords and arrows while the spaceships use advanced propulsion engines? Lost technologies or what?
I need to see more before I can evaluate where this is going, ep01 is merely a fast prologue of things to come.