Shakugan no Shana
I watched this garbage until Ep13 before giving up. I really should have done it right after the first episode. Ok, so the hero (don't remember and don't wanna remember his name) dies, sorta, and encounters Shana. Who repeatedly tell him to stop asking stupid questions and fuck off, yet every time she goes GTFO she turns around moments later and gives a long long long explanation about what's going on. WTF? Also clumsy, because long ass explanations break up the flow of the story.

Sadly this show is so fucking scared of confusing the school schildren watching this shit that it's constantly holding them by the hand and making everything absolutely crystal clear. Yah, I said school children. Don't kid yourself that this is aimed only at otakus. This is an anime for boys whose voice just broke. The otaku elements are there so the children can go "Wow, this is so grownup!". Nothing bad about kid's shows per se, but just don't fool yourself about the demographics here. The only thing an otaku is slavering for in this show is loli-Shana.

And naturally we get a scene with one of the most distasteful instances of fanservice I've seen. It's not just because loli-Shana takes off her clothes, but because the scene sticks out like a sore thumb. It's simply so clumsily inserted. And the clumsiness doesn't end there because "subtle" is not a word in the director's dictionary. The sooper dooper dramatic music will play even when it's not appropriate. After all, gotta start building that tension early on. Oh, and the OP ED songs are mediocre shit and not the wow cool like you stupid kids with no taste claim.

To fit the background music almost everybody delivers their lines with great exaggeration. To top it off many have those obligatory speech quirks that in this show fails at sounding cute. The maid (yes, gotta have one) that trained Shana finishes her evey sentence with a robotic emotionless "de arimasu". Marjorie's book is apparently supposed to sound only a bit annoying but that over the top laughter seriously made me hope she would chuck the tome in the nearest lake. And the incestous twins, ugh. I guess it's supposed to be oh so shocking, titillating and of course grownup. Except any effect is ruined by the retarded brother whose voice actor incredibly enough manages to make himself sound even more annoying than when he played Joshua in Chrno Crusade (Fuck you Shana for making me write a run-on sentence). When the twins die it's enough to make an atheist sing the praises to God.

Or perhaps not, because despite all that buildup of tension the villains all die so easily after about three episodes on the stage. After all, the show is basically about Shana and that what's-his-name. Shana is of course a tsundere bitch who yells "Urusai, Urusai!" whenever our hero asks her something. It's supposed to sound cute I guess but subtlety subtlety, let's make it clear just how cute Shana is by landing her with another affection, melon bread. Hay guyz, din'ya know? That bread went stale with DearS.

This show is made of so much fail that every time I was thinking that maybe it was getting better, it would dash my hopes within minutes. If like me you can see from early on that Shakugan no Shana is all flash and no substance, drop it because it ain't gonna improve later on.