Anime reviews - March 2007+ (200)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-03-04 20:51 ID:+7QhQoV3

REIDEEN 01 raw
Saiga Junki is a normal high school student. One day, he hears that his father, an archaeologist missing for the past 10 years, was found dead in ruins located at Iwate Prefecture’s at Mt Kurokami. Junki blacks out while in the ruins. Upon waking up, he finds a gold bracelet left beside him with the inscription, "The Great Reideen." At that time, a meteor falls from the sky and a large mechanical beast appears out of a lake..."
Remake of the 1975 series Yusha Reideen.

Robots anime

Realistic-looking settings. 3D is good but dizzying camera angles. The hero had the same dream over and over in the past but when the vision becomes reality all he can say is "what's going on"? He's supposed to be a genius! Oh well - probably intended for kids... but with an adult-looking hero.

101 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-04 03:31 ID:9TMWHCKQ

ZOMBIE-LOAN 01

Some attempt at shounen fighting and Hitohira at the same time, with everything they could stolen from Tsukihime + Death Note.

Random scenes try to do experimental animation and fail at it. Humor added all over the place where it's not wanted. Not good.

CODE-E 1

Electronics break whenever the main character is upset. This is 100% of the time; she isn't a person, just a whining and cringing machine. Nothing even like a dynamic character here.

Nobody is appealing and the art is awful, thanks Studio DEEN.

Tetsuko no Tabi 01

Nonfiction anime about a manga about drawing a manga about a guy who visited every JR train station. Surprisingly good, even though the stations are pretty boring. Wild and competent overacting by Nobuyuki Hiyama, using slight variant on his Madarame voice.

102 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-04 09:24 ID:KozcNsQw

>>101
Where can I download Tetsuko no Tabi? Sounds interesting.

104 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-04 16:16 ID:MfPRIZlf

CODE-E ep 01 raw
18-year-old Ebihara Chinami emits electrical waves. All electronics go berserk near her. The more nervous she becomes, the worse the situation gets. Her power forces her to transfer schools frequently. Today is the day she moves in a new school...

Romance with a twist.

Good stuff. But if I was Chinami I would be proud of my "curse". All those people yapping empty words in their cell phones in busses and trains are damn annoying. And here they even allow cells with flashes in classes? All these unnecessary electronics should be banned. Go Chinami, go!

105 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-04 16:49 ID:MfPRIZlf

Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho - 01 raw
Kaname Okimura joined the school's swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos, so he never learned. One day, a happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa who was transferred from Okinawa joins the club. Her extraordinary underwater speed and unorthodox swimming style surprise every club member.

Love comedy.

Retarded girl joins retarded club. Retarded laughs ensue.
The art is nice, but the storytelling is lame. I was bored to tears.

106 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-04 17:13 ID:MfPRIZlf

School Days 01 raw
For Makoto, Katsura Kotonoha is merely a student in the next class, a student who uses the same train line. There is a legend amongst the students "If one changes the background image on his cell phone to a picture of whom he secretly loves, and if nobody discovers it for three weeks, one’s love will be fulfilled." So Makoto changes the image on his cell phone to a picture of Kotonoha. But Saionji Sekai, a classmate interested in him, happens to see the picture, thus ruining his plan. As apology, she offers to fix him up a date with Kotonoha…

Bloody love drama.

The story of a two-timer asshole, with its dramatic consequences. The girls are cute, but I can't identify with that idiot so I'm probably gonna pass on this one.

107 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-04 19:01 ID:s1uabsYU

"A legend?" From the ancient days of cellphones from centuries past, no doubt. Lawl.

108 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-05 02:34 ID:9TMWHCKQ

>>106

It's only bloody in some endings that might not show up. Everything else about School Days is deadly dull.

109 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-05 03:22 ID:9TMWHCKQ

Shigurui 01 raw

Feudal-era TEXHNOLYZE.

(This is 100% accurate in every way.)

110 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-05 03:33 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>108 You think it's gonna have a happy end?

111 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-05 03:54 ID:9TMWHCKQ

Well, only two endings were that bad, and showing them on TV would require R-16. But maybe.

In terms of getting what they deserve, the "good" ending is actually the one where Sekai stabs the main guy to death. Everyone hates him.

112 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-06 00:58 ID:MfPRIZlf

Mushi-Uta 01 raw
In Japan's near future, parasites called "Mushi" appeared. Their human hosts, the "Mushitsuki", are feeding them with their dreams in exchange for special powers. "Tokkan" is an organization that hunts them down. Kakko, the organization's top killer, receives the mission to infiltrate a school where a resistance group fighting against Tokkan, the "Mushibane", is rumored to be hiding.

Creepycrawlies, pretty girls, big guns and massive damages.

Very dark, plus I'm not into bugs. But then, the girls are cute. And I'm curious about the story of that girl who escaped from Tokkan's jails and is in the ED.

113 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-06 01:43 ID:MfPRIZlf

Sky Girls TV 01 raw
(Same plot as Sky Girls OVA.)

In 2084, lolitas rule the skies.

Are they going to stretch the OVA into 26 episodes? Ep1 shows the girls being recruited for the project. Well animated, but I found it too boring. Next episode, they'll see the planes. Then, training for 20 episodes, or?
And what about science? In 2084 they still have pickup trucks with wheels running on fuel? Old jet planes? Big fat iPods and PDAs? Medium tower computers with mouses? Incandescent light bulbs? And that slow boat that connects the islands, why is it not a hydrofoil?
Ok they have flat 1-page greyscale ebooks, but why -give- the ebook over? No wireless connections?

114 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-06 03:41 ID:9TMWHCKQ

Sky Girls 1 raw

Girl goes to become a test pilot after beating her father in a kendo match. Stuff.
The present has already beaten this show's sci-fi, they're using a PDA with a stylus? Get an iPhone!

MELL OP.

Mushiuta 01

Some bug fighting and then a boring part and then some camera tricks. Uses vocoders, always a plus.

Both shows require 3-episode test, might suck.

Higurashi no naku koro ni Kai 01

Recap episode. No clue which arc/plot/thingy it's attached to. Police wander around destroyed Hinamizawa talking about aliens. Then they interview ADULT RENA (MOE~) about and she acts crazy.

Maybe I should wait until I've finished watching this to review it?

115 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-07 08:09 ID:9TMWHCKQ

I can review Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei without even watching it, just by typing the character names

Itoshiki Nozumu
Fuura Kafka
Kitsu Chiri
Komori Kiri
Tsunetsuki Matoi
Kimura Kaere
Sekyutsu Maria Tarou
Kobushi Abiru
Hitou Nami
Fujoshi Harumi
Otonashi Meru

Those are some great names there. I can't even begin to explain why though.

116 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-07 12:52 ID:Heaven

Maybe easier to understand with the kanji?

117 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-07 22:01 ID:MfPRIZlf

Potemayo 01 raw
Shy boy Sunao Moriyama find in his fridge pudgy little creature emitting love-me pheromones. He decides to name her Potemayo (potato + mayonnaise, his breakfast that day) and ends up bringing her to school, where everybody falls in love with the cute thing.

Love and cute comedy.

So absurd it's funny. I admit I laughed a few times...

118 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-08 03:04 ID:MfPRIZlf

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei 01 raw
Story about a depressed teacher whose attempts to commit suicide are constantly foiled by his unusual students.

Tragicomedy.

Animation by the PaniPoniDash team of one of the works of that mangaka who always does these disturbing low-humor comics that look like drawn by a 5-year old... the name escapes me. Of course now the art has been tremendously upgraded in the process. But it has also been PPD-ed, with constantly changing scenery, nudity covered by ugly dude mugs, etc. It's a work of art slashed with mud, pretty and disgusting at the same time. Lots and lots of talking and Japanese puns galore, I feel tired already after just 1 episode..

119 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-08 06:33 ID:OzZLTQRD

>>118
Have you ever actually read Kumeta's comics besides the first issue of Kaizou?

And stop with the trip code already.

120 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-08 11:52 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>118 Ah, I found the name of that mangaka I was thinking of, KIMURA Tahiko ("My Name Is Zushio"). But apparently "Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei" is not by him but by someone named Kôji Kumeta, which I never heard of.

121 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-08 23:14 ID:MfPRIZlf

Moetan 01 raw
Ink Nijihara looks like a kindergartner, but she is actually in high school and has top grades. She has a crush on Nao, a classmate with bad grades, but she's too shy to confess to him. One day, a sleazy duck expelled from the magical kingdom enters her life, Ah-kun. With his help, she transforms into Pastel Ink, the magical teacher girl...

Pedomoe magical girl anime.

Huh, the charm of the Moetan teaching books was the horrible Engrish("My ultimate weapon is the China cannon attached to my groin!"), but the only English we get here is 1 sentence after the ED, and it's not even funny. The anime itself is not funny either.

122 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-09 08:24 ID:0KJDgzos

>>121
I think more fun than the horrible Engrish was that practically every sentence was an otaku ref to something or other (the ridicule of Senkousha in your example)

123 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-07-27 00:56 ID:MfPRIZlf

BACCANO 01 raw
1930s, New York, various people's fates are about to become intertwined, and this includes immortal alchemists who left the Old World, and other "things" like killer ghosts who roam trains from the New World.

Thriller.

Animation seems of quality, altho the "old pictures" brown color takes time to get used to, and masks too much details for my taste. Lots of talking so I would need to see this subbed to judge on the plot. I stopped watching when the mannered gentleman made noises when drinking his tea (in Japan it means one deeply appreciates one's tea, in the Western world it means one is a pig with no manners).

124 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-27 15:16 ID:5mPQmzRq

Mononoke 01 raw

A hotel owned by black people has ghosts in it, which are dispelled by Link, who has a sword and is dressed as a gay pirate. Show is animated in watercolor with parallax clothing. Too exhausting for me to watch it.

BACCANO 01 raw

Norio doesn't even care anymore! The first five minutes are just him talking in his real voice. Also some guys get shot and survive since they're immortal.

Baccano works by introducing 3000 characters and having them all come towards the same plotline through coincidence, so I can't follow what's going on even though I mostly understood it.

125 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-08-02 13:24 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>123 [continued]
Okay, I saw BACCANO 01 subbed, but I still don't know what to think about it. It's quite confusing and not much is explained of what's happening. 'Needs more episodes.

126 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-09-16 21:29 ID:MfPRIZlf

Saishuu_Shiken_Kujira_-_01-02 (ONA (Original Net Animation), 4 min. each)
Ep 01
A boy wonders why there's a whale floating in the sky. A girl is laughing at his face and concludes he must be from the countryside.
Ep 02
Same boy marvels at his younger sister's body in the morning.

Labelled as "absurdist adventure game".

Washed colors, art looks nice. Story and people seem stupid. A dumbed-for-anime h-game adaptation, apparently.

127 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-09-16 21:34 ID:MfPRIZlf

MOONLIGHT MILE 2nd -Touch down- 01 raw
Continuation of the first season. More unprobable disasters strike the astronauts. It's like "Baywatch" in space. Babes and ships, yeah!

128 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-09-16 21:46 ID:MfPRIZlf

Kodomo no Jikan OVA 01
3 elementary school girls go about the city.

Daily life.

Nice art, good animation, original manga dramatic story discarded for a lolicon's dream fest instead. Innuendoes galore. Barf.

129 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 03:59 ID:MfPRIZlf

BAMBOO BLADE 01 raw
"Ishida Toraji is an advisory teacher of the Kendo Club. He is dull and so poor that he finds it hard to make a living. However his life changes dramatically, when a teacher asks him to have a competition with Ishida’s girl’s team..."

Sports anime.

Kamina voice!... but casted as a loser. ^^;
The manga was incredibly boring, full of technical terms and "you can't do that"'s. The anime seems to try to liven it up with focusing on the girls and kendo antics but I don't know how they'll pull it out with such a weak base material.

130 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 04:13 ID:MfPRIZlf

Sketchbook ~full color's~ 01 raw
"The story revolves around a group of female high school students. The main characters is a young shy girl named Sora Kajiwara who is unsure of what club to join in her school, but before she knows it she gets dragged into the art club and becomes a member."

Anime about drawing(?).

Shy(low sugar?) wannabe-artist girl goes around the city, trying to sketch a cat, meets people on the way, runs away, goes to school, runs away, the end. Well drawn but incredibly sloooooooow.

131 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 14:59 ID:MfPRIZlf

D.C.II~Da Capo II~ 01 raw
"Sakurai Yoshiyuki wakes up one morning after dreaming again about a girl confessing to him in front of the large sakura tree. Realizing how late it is, he rushes out of his room and nearly runs over his sister Asakura Yume who wants him to make her some breakfast since their older sister Asakura Otome had to leave early today..."

Romance with a touch of magic.

Yet another iteration of that pseudo-incest erogame adaption. The male character comes off as a nasty player. I'll pass.

132 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 16:34 ID:Heaven

ChocoMimi 01 raw
JDrama, not anime.

133 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-02 19:01 ID:Heaven

>>131

Didn't we get this once already?

134 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 19:09 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>133
2003: D.C ~Da Capo~
2005: Da Capo ~Second Season~
2007: D.C.II ~Da Capo II~

135 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 21:08 ID:MfPRIZlf

Suteki Tantei Labyrinth 01 raw
"Mysterious events unfold in the now-devastated, old capital city of Tokyo where inhabitants still remain. Young boy detective, Mayuki Hyouga, sets out to uncover these mysteries in the city, now known as “Labyrinth”."

Thriller.

Studio Deen. Looks good, but too much verbal exposition, I'll need to see this subbed before I can review it properly.

136 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-02 22:18 ID:MfPRIZlf

Night Wizard -The Animation- 01 raw
"This modern-day fantasy pits Emulators, who have invaded Earth from a demon world, against Humanity’s newly awakened Wizards."

Magical anime.

Ahaha! Very funny! Poor guy is always trying to go to school but can't because he has to go and fight all kinds of monsters first. :)

137 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 00:08 ID:MfPRIZlf

Myself;Yourself - 01 raw
"Sana Hidaka returns to his home town five years after moving out to Tokyo, and finds that much has changed in both the place and his childhood friends."

Romance.

Generic, slow harem anime. Moe, tsundere, genki, dojikko, the usual gang is there. Yawn. One of the girls has a VERY annoying voice -- argh!

138 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 00:30 ID:MfPRIZlf

BLUE DROP - 01 raw
"In 1995, all inhabitants of an island mysteriously disappear in a single night, except for one girl named Mari, who lost all her memories. Four years later, Mari moves to a school dormitory and meets the school idol, Hagino. Hagino, however, has some dark secrets of her own."
Gonzo.

Mystery, scifi.

Weird, dark and trippy. I like the scifi bits but the rest is so-so so far. The first ep was about a girl being bullied in her new school by an invader/alien(?) disquised as a "sweet" schoolgirl.

139 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 00:42 ID:MfPRIZlf

Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro - 01 raw
"Yako’s father was murdered in a locked room. She then meets a man named Neuro Nougami who is a demon from Hell who eats “riddles.” He forces Yako to act as a detective so he can solve mysteries. Neuro longs to eat the ultimate mystery."

1 flat-chested girl, many pretty guys = shoujo.

Comical horror shoujo? I'll pass.

140 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 00:57 ID:MfPRIZlf

Mokke 01 raw
"Shizuru and Mizuki are sisters born in a family with spiritual abilities. The elder sister, Shizuru, is able to see spirits; the younger, Mizuki, is easily possessed by them."

Slice of supernatural life.

I didn't recognize the manga... the manga was nice, humoristic and anecdotic, the anime looks like a sappy horror movie. Also the art was crisp and clean in the manga, while washed out in the anime. The soundtrack feels out of place. A failure?

141 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-03 02:55 ID:baJJv6OE

Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro = Comical Horror Shoujo? From what I've seen the manga I can't really say that (the mangaka can't really draw that well), it's more of a horror detective story or something... kinda hard to explain.

142 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 11:47 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>141 Yeah.
Majin = devil/demon
Tantei = detective
Yes, it's a detective story. But goofy /and/ gory. The girl just wants to eat good food. The demon wants to eat good riddles. He walks on her ceiling. He makes her have funny faces. The bad guy transforms in something ugly, the demon becomes a /duck/ to fight him... Comical horror, or horrible comic?

143 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-03 23:55 ID:MfPRIZlf

Goshūshō-sama Ninomiya-kun 01 raw
Guy is afraid of girls and is getting bullied at school. His sister is an even bigger bully and forces a deadly female succubus on him to get her to overcome her fear of men, for the money...

Light-hearted comedy.

It's not really funny (too much dark overtones, and the soundtrack doesn't fit a comedy), but it's entertaining. The good part is that the guy is trying to not be a pushover. And that the anime is nicely avoiding the usual clichéd reactions so far, altho they are basking in the usually tricky male-female situations. And the girl is not bad looking.

144 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-04 00:38 ID:MfPRIZlf

Dragonaut -The Resonance- 01 raw
"Faced with impending doom from a huge asteroid, humanity created a weapon called a Dragonaut after the discovery of a dragon egg under the ocean..."

Sci-fi.

Guy to go to space but rocket explodes, years later same guy(?) still alive but people looking at him like some kind of monster/celebrity, then a real, killer monster appears, etc etc... not much is explained, it's quite confusing. It looks like that the anime wanted to show off all the cool visuals first. Hopefully it will calm down in the next episode. Right now I don't give a damn about any of the characters.

145 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-04 23:26 ID:MfPRIZlf

Clannad 01 raw
Tomoya Okazaki is a student branded as an outcast. Mother is dead, father is an alcoholic. Nothing seems to be getting better in his dull school life until one day when he meets a strange girl, Nagisa Furukawa.

Romance and drama.

Nice scenery, nice animation, "Jay Leno" chara designs for the girls... another Kanon?? Argh. Oh well, I'll watch a few more episodes until it turns into yet another sad sentimental soup.

146 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-05 00:17 ID:MfPRIZlf

Shakugan no Shana Second 01 raw
Shana and Yuuji continue their fight to keep the balance of the World.

Fantasy, mystery and romance.

Yes! The one title this season I'm looking forward. Great music, with a mystery right off the bat like I like them. Urusai urusai urusai!

147 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-05 14:26 ID:Heaven

>>145 well it is a product of Key, so one would expect a passing similarity to their other works.

148 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-05 16:41 ID:MfPRIZlf

>>147

>a passing similarity
  • Guy is socially nasty
  • Guy has a weird friend
  • Guy has a virtually non-existent family
  • Girl seems to be afflicted from mental retardation
  • Girl oozes "I'm barely alive and will die soon."
  • Mother of girl is an airhead and makes crappy food
  • One girl is a barely-speaking martial artist with superpowers
  • etc etc.

"Passing"? ^^;

149 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-05 21:03 ID:MfPRIZlf

You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle 01 raw
"Natsumi Tsujimoto and Miyuki Kobayakawa patrol the streets as female law enforcers from the Bokuto Police Precinct. They, along with their co-officers, go off in wild and sometimes comedic adventures to bring down felons to keep Tokyo safe."

Police anime for kids.

Ep01 was a car chase. Looks like the anime tried to get back to its roots, with Miyuki stopping the car with her feet, but this is a VAN, not a small patrol car like in the original. And then, when Natsumi escapes, the truck is blocking the bad guys' way... but the next second, the truck is not in the way anymore?? Miyuki does a roll in mid-air when jumping off a bike... And so on and on. Also people time reaction is quite slow. Obviously targetted for kids with not much observation skills.

150 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-05 23:44 ID:Heaven

>>149 Ah, I meant "Natsumi stopping the car". s/Miyuki/Natsumi/ and s/Natsumi/Miyuki/.

151 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-06 13:18 ID:Heaven

>>148 LOL... it's so true.

Kanon was good though, and Air was good, and therefore through association anything else based on a Key game which ends up being animated by Kyoto Animation must be good.

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153 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-06 19:27 ID:MfPRIZlf

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 ep01 raw
"With the age of fossil fuels gone, the three superpowers have build their own energy generation systems. Constant warfare around the globe for fuels lead to the formation of a private military organization, called "Celestial Being", dedicated to eradicating war."

War anime.

I can never understand how gravity works in the Gundam universe. It seems that people sticks to floors in space, and that inertia doesn't apply to Gundams. Also, if they have such superior weapons, why not use its technology to solve the energy crisis instead of fighting? Fighting war with war only brings more wars.
Anyway, nice animation, nice girls, nice updated "retro" look in the chara designs (the humans, not the red-white-blue Gundam). The plot doesn't make too much sense (why to show off Gundam superiority to the 3 superpowers if the bad guys were terrorists?) Oh, and those guys need badly a haircut. How can they fight with so much hair in the way?

154 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-06 21:50 ID:MfPRIZlf

KimiKiss pure rouge 01 raw
"Follow the lives of the young heroines of Kibina High during the springtime of April, the perfect season to for chance encounters and budding romances."

Slice of school romance life.

It's a kind of washed out "To Heart 2", with childhood friends being reunited, and falling in love with other guys/girls in the school... Not bad, and it flows okay, but the quality of the art seems to fluctuate already after a few minutes. The too-far-apart eyes bothered me too much, probably because there's not much happening. Meet a girl, see friends, go to school... Kiss a girl being the highlight of the episode. I want to say this is shoujo (anime for girls) and that's why it's so boring (for me), but there are too many girls so I'm not sure. Anime for sensitive guys?

155 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-06 22:32 ID:MfPRIZlf

ef - a tale of memories 01 raw
"Hirono Hiro is a poor high school boy who gets by drawing shoujo manga. On a Christmas night, he chases down Miyamura Miyako, the girl who stole his bike. With the chance encounter blooming into a friendship, will Hiro’s childhood friend, Kei, just watch idly by the sidelines?"

Encounters in the town.

Existentialist anime. Reminds me of Da_Capo (violent jealous sister, pigtailed blonde, art style), mixed with Black_Cat "artistic" storytelling (cutout characters, extreme zooms...) Well, the scenery is pretty, I guess. Lots of clouds. ... I'll pass.

156 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-06 22:50 ID:8FaOTBxw

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157 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-07 14:57 ID:MfPRIZlf

Shugo Chara! ep 01 raw
"Little do the students of Seiyo Academy know that the “spice princess” Amu is actually a softie deep inside. With her wish to break away from this mask of coolness comes the birth of Amu’s three “Shugo Charas” (Guardian Charas) who are said to represent her desired personalities (or is it..?)."

Magical girl anime.

I could tell within seconds this is a toy-sponsored anime. Multiple characters animated in the street, smooth animation, different backgrounds in rapid succession, the anime has a budget.
Ep01 was entertaining to watch, even tho it's the usual same "chosen girl has to save the world with magic" routine.

158 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-07 21:21 ID:A8Oo8p95

Kaiji 1 (sub)

This is the best show.

CLANNAD 1 (sub)

This is still somewhat Key dating game. However, Clannad has no supernatural occurrences, passable original art, and a realistic family setting, so it might actually work. It's somewhat different from the horrendous and inhuman writing in AIR and Kanon.

Main character is a guy doing a Tomokazu Sugita impression since Sugita is off doing terrible Gonzo anime.

an Clann as Dango/Dango daikazoku is a really good song for some reason.

159 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-07 21:25 ID:A8Oo8p95

Sketchbook 1 (raw)

This is a slice-of-life show, well known to be the worst anime genre. The character direction and sense of comic timing are so bad (characters go into :3 and SD faces randomly without a scene cut or change in proportion) that it's nearly unwatchable, but the background art is okay. If you're a plebeian and not a cool guy like myself you might be able to watch it.

160 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-07 22:50 ID:MfPRIZlf

Rental Magica - 01 raw
"Due to his father’s disappearance, the cowardly Itsuki Iba takes over their magician-dispatching company, Astral. As he leads a pack of magicians in carrying out requests from clients, he uncovers his powers and unravels mysteries of his past."

Magical harem anime.

Looks like a straight adaptation from some ero-game. 1 wimp with hidden superpowers all the girls are in love with, 4 girls, 1 cat-loving asexual priest in the exorcism company. Plus all the other girls in the class, the soft girl, the haughty rich blonde, etc... no other guys. For the fan.

161 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-07 23:53 ID:MfPRIZlf

Minami-ki - 01 raw
"The three Minami sisters (Haruka, Kana and Chiaki) live together, taking care of each other. With nobody to answer to but themselves and each other, the three sisters get up to some very odd shenanigans."

Slice of slice of sliced life.

Animation is more fluid to the expense of details and shading.
Three dumb sisters making big drama out of small nothings? I'm bored already within the first few minutes of viewing...

162 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-08 00:21 ID:A8Oo8p95

Night Wizard

This is half comedy and half some slightly incoherent RPG fighting thing.
Animation is TV class but okay. It feels like they're taking direction cues from StrikerS even though it's terrible…

There's an echoing piano music effect that sounds exactly like it came out of Chrono Trigger.

163 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-08 01:26 ID:MfPRIZlf

PRISM ARK - 01 raw
"Preicia and Hyaweh are aspiring knights-to-be of the Rozenberg Knights Academy, who find themselves caught up in a devastating war..."

RPG anime.

Haha, I remember that ero-game, it had good-looking babes... too bad they hide the nudity in the anime. ^^;
Whoa, Simon's VA... but he's also the voice for some secondary characters, I heard one soldier yelling using his voice. ^^;;
I stopped listening to the dialog when the girl said some cliched "It's not like (I love you), I do this for the Kingdom" to the guy. The bad girl's lines were also similarly corny. ^^;;;
For the fan.

164 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-08 15:07 ID:MfPRIZlf

Jyushin Enbu - HERO TALES 01 raw
Taitou, a young man living in ancient China, is the prophesied seventh star of the Hokuto (Big Dipper). He must travel with his companions to retrieve a sacred sword that was stolen.

Supernatural, superpowered fighting anime.

It reminds me of "Legend of Condor Hero", with better animation. I'm not a big fan of the historical Chinese hero genre, tho. It's basically: get beaten up, walk a lot, find a master (preferably a babe), get trained, defeat original bad guy, the end (get the babe).

165 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-09 01:11 ID:qj2QKBnI

Maple Story

This show is for 5 year olds. If you're a five year old who can speak Japanese I guess you can watch it.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/894/maplestoryhe0.jpg
I think it's the guy from the Big Dogs shirts.

166 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-09 07:32 ID:qj2QKBnI

>>159

Oh also the main character has a lisp. A LISP! Is that an approved moe defect?

167 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-10 14:30 ID:MfPRIZlf

Quick reviews
Suteki Tantei Labyrinth 02 raw: still haven't seen this subbed. Still a lot of yapping going on. Looks like the hero is gonna be a kid solving adult problems (Conan clone?). I'm starting to get a bad vibe from this anime...
BAMBOO BLADE 02 raw: good kendo fight episode, then it faded into molasses.
Sketchbook Full Color's 02 raw: still dumb. I feel getting stupider watching this...
Myself;Yourself 02 raw: not even a slapping in this episode. OTOH it's more realistic that way, I suppose.
Genshiken 2 - 01 raw: the usual gang. I need to see this subbed to see if it lives up to the earlier season. So far it doesn't look good, lots of talking heads in this episode, no action whatsoever.

168 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-10 23:56 ID:Heaven

Quick reviews 2
Dragonaut 02 raw: more explosions "because it looks cool", more unnecessary use of violence. I guess we shouldn't pay attention to the (bad) script and just look at the visuals (and the girls bosoms).
Mokke 02 raw: still using this weird, washed, childish, almost ugly art style. Apparently the anime will focus on the younger sister daily life, with the big sis relegated in the background. IOW, an anime for kids... A shame, the manga was so nice.

169 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-11 17:20 ID:MfPRIZlf

Genshiken_2 01 sub
"Genshiken follows the lives of a group of college students drawn together by their shared hobbies, and the trials and adventures associated with being otaku."

Slice of real life.

The club decides to produce a doujinshi. The episode was quite heavy, technical and talkative and dealing with commercial sharks and professional authors, instead of the funny antics from season one. Doesn't look like a club-for-fun anymore, more like a budding business venture. Not a bad episode by itself, but there was a radical shift on the atmosphere.

170 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-11 23:13 ID:MfPRIZlf

Kodomo no jikan 01 raw
Daisuke Aoki is a new teacher at Futatsubashi Elementary School. But his class is rebellious, and the leader of the pack is a precocious young girl named Rin Kokonoe with a dark past, and who plays on his weaknesses.

School life comedy. Based on a manga for adults.

lol, heavily censored, even for stupid things. ^^; It looks like the TV networks want to play it down as safe as possible.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings about this one. The difficulties a male teacher has when he tries to teach a class of unruly preteens coming into adolescence is an interesting (and thorny) subject, but I'm not sure I want to sit through it.

171 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-12 14:43 ID:MfPRIZlf

Moyashimon - 01 raw
"Story of a college student who can see bacteria/fungus, an ability which lands him often in troubles."

Agricultural college life.

The intro is a must-see, animated 3D bacteria dancing around in the real world. Nice original concept, well-implemented for most of the episode. At the end it gets repetitive, with that S&M slut repeating over and over "I can't accept this" - who gives a damn about her opinion. I wonder if this is turn to be an "Arjuna", a well-intended ecologist/green anime with a good first episode that turns out sour at the end. We'll see.

172 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-12 17:25 ID:MfPRIZlf

Quick reviews
BLUE DROP 02 raw again, 'like the scifi parts, 'hate the murky female-female(-robot? -alien?) relationships.
Clannad 02 sub I was bored to tears and kept skipping forward. The only part I liked was with the guy announcing to the whole class the tough girl was bisexual, and all the idiots believing
it. Give me more "Monty Python"-nesque scenes and less dull dumb drama.
Night Wizard 02 RAW not as funny as ep01, but still watcheable.
Gosyusho-sama Ninomiya-kun 02 RAW Ahaha! I found this ep incredibly hilarious, but probably for all the wrong reasons.

173 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-14 02:02 ID:Heaven

>>170
Fuck, so the Japanese gyp us from having a good anime, and the Americans gyp us from having a good manga.

I hate you both.

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175 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-14 20:56 ID:Heaven

>>173

Perhaps it is time to own up to the fact that that manga is just not very good. All it really has is fanservice for the pedos.

176 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-14 21:36 ID:MfPRIZlf

Shion no Ou 01 raw
The violent murder of Ishiwatari Shion’s parents at a young age made her lose her voice forever. The only evidence police found was a shogi board and one piece, "the King". As the years passed, she improved her shogi (shōgi=Japanese chess), and ended entering the pro shogi scene. But coming in the open may be her demise...

Horror thriller + cerebral sports anime all in one.

Quality in this first episode varied wildly. It looks like if two animations teams worked on the episode, one quite good team and one quite bad one. Script quality also was going up and down -- like if someone with no talent got hold of a tight thriller by a reputable scriptwriter and tried to make it accessible to 5-year olds and below. The result - as well as my opinion of it - is quite equivocal -- I liked the tight parts, I hated the dumbed-down parts.

177 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-14 22:20 ID:MfPRIZlf

Suteki Tantei Labyrinth - 01 subbed
"Mysterious events unfold in the now-devastated city of Tokyo where few inhabitants still remain. Young boy detective, Mayuki Hyouga, sets out to uncover these mysteries in the city, now known as "Labyrinth"."

Mystery/detective(?) anime.

Boy? "Mayuki"? That's a female name, normally.
Okay, so the "boy" can solve police cases at a distance using some supernatural power? Good for the police, but I don't see what so exciting about it. But then there is that super-girl trying to find some immortality artefact in the "boy"'s house and fighting super-"dolls" which is not yet explained. I'll probably watch a few more episodes to see where this goes.

178 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-15 00:00 ID:MfPRIZlf

Yattokame Tanteidan 01 (The Appearance of The Old Lady Detective Group) raw
An old lady is running a mom-and-pop candy store downtown in Nagoya City. Various mysteries are solved with the help of her elderly companions and children from the neighborhood.

Tales of the elderly, solving crimes from afar.

Simplistic anime style, casting a crude light on the reality of the daily life in Nagoya. Heavy dialect. For the fans.

179 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-15 04:24 ID:Heaven

>>175

> Perhaps it is time to own up to the fact that that manga is just not very good. All it really has is fanservice for the pedos.

Isn't that a good thing?

180 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-16 03:16 ID:MfPRIZlf

Quick reviews
All the eps 02 are of the same vein as the eps 01, so nothing to add here, save for
PRISM ARK - 02 raw: The flashbacks have stopped, story have gone back at the beginning of the conflict.
One thing I noticed: there are some cartoonish fast movements (not even flashing or bright lights), and those scenes are heavily darkened/desaturated, even way prior to the actions. A new form of censorship? Was there something in the news about some guy going berserk after seeing some fast movements, or what?

181 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-16 05:40 ID:qj2QKBnI

>>176

> Script quality also was going up and down -- like if someone with no talent got hold of a tight thriller by a reputable scriptwriter and tried to make it accessible to 5-year olds and below.

I'm not sure if you could judge this raw; it's not that easy.
The character design is completely worthless, it ruined the animation entirely. I can't stand to watch it at all.

other Afternoon shows:

Mokke (1 raw)

This is kind of like Mushishi (in fact it seems to be Mushishi) except more modern times. Also, instead of Ginko solving problems, the little girl whines and faints until other people solve them for her!

That means it sucks. Very good technical quality though.

Moyashimon (1 raw)

This show is great.
http://www.riuva.com/?p=763

182 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-19 15:03 ID:MfPRIZlf

Ghost Hound 01 raw
Taro, Makoto and Masayuki are junior high school students. Because of a traumatic childhood experience, the three can travel to/experience the spiritual world...

Drama, school life.

One school boy has frequent OOB (out of body) experiences and a (creepy) councellor is called in to "cure him". I suspect things will go very wrong... Hopefully it won't turn into an horror movie.

183 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-19 15:23 ID:SnZsbcZo

GunxSword

  • It's Bebop and Trigun combined! With mecha!

Take it as you will.

184 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-20 00:27 ID:qj2QKBnI

That's not March 2007+ at all.

185 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU : 2007-10-20 00:58 ID:Heaven

yeah... Gun X Sword is 2005. Old!

186 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-20 17:50 ID:5KRjEOxd

Gunbuster

A girl called Noriko is at a School for mobile suit pilots, though is bottom of her class. She gets into a fight in her mobile suit, with a girl who has been teasing her. In this fight, which is witnessed my many, including her coach, she shows great promise, for which she is chosen to travel to space with the school's top student to defend the earth from creatures known not other than 'space monsters'.

This is a mecha that will definitely eventually become a classic. It's six episodes in, but don't let that put you off.

187 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-20 18:31 ID:Heaven

Gunbuster

Vintage: 1988

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189 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-24 20:40 ID:PPL8An5W

>>162
Night Wizard is based off a Japanese tabletop game, Think it was sorta like Shadowrun or RIFTS.

190 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-26 07:42 ID:AKzGK2W5

Ghost Hound 1 sub

This is complete plagiarism of Serial Experiments Lain!. The audio production and at least four of the shots (one repeated constantly) are exactly the same!

Same terrible character designer as Jigoku Shoujo; she's good at everything else but her character art is so bad I find it practically unwatchable…

191 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-26 11:10 ID:Heaven

>>190

Same director, same scriptwriter.

192 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-26 15:41 ID:AKzGK2W5

>>191

And everyone else, too, I know. But that doesn't mean they can reuse backgrounds.

193 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-26 20:52 ID:VD/jSO4V

Minami-ke

First three eps I've seen quite solid. Ichigo-mashimaro-style deadpan humor slice-a-life comedy with three sisters elementary, middle, high school. Good seiyuu and some quality animation from a young, but promising studio.

194 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-27 18:28 ID:bdQQIKCj

>>193
except for the hard fucking language. someone sub this fast

195 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-28 23:55 ID:i90hdfPm

At least two groups are subbing it already.

196 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-30 00:30 ID:7v2lgnO4

Is evaluated high in this term in Japan.

197 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-30 02:01 ID:WrZuHEVA

Damn the Chinese work FAST! Two subs out already.

198 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-30 02:02 ID:Heaven

China is so taking over the world.
These guys own.

199 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-30 09:06 ID:74XGYW+q

Clannad 01, 02 (sub): Pretty much everyone is an asshole.

200 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-31 00:39 ID:Heaven

Star-ghost-tan isn't an asshole.

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