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.
Gigantic Formula 01 raw
G Gundam was an excellent show. Therefore, this may be an excellent show, since it is the same thing as G Gundam.
Unfortunately, some kind of evil government seems to have killed all the contestants in the first episode.
Robots are done in 3D CG. Strangely, faces seem to be too; they don't move like animation cels and they don't quite follow the heads. Also, enormous gigantic eyes.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 01 Raw
I can't produce an objective review of this, and I could easily write an essay on it, but anyway.
Nanoha S1 started as a somewhat boring CCS clone, then quickly stopped and became a weird sci-fi show written by someone who'd played too many JRPGs. The writers then made Nanoha A's, a perfectly-formed piece of fan pandering.
For this one, they've completely abandoned being CCS and have made up actual backstory and settings, and it's turned into some kind of very moe military thing. This first episode covers the new characters' training exam, and nothing else beyond one piece of the backstory. Not much excitement, but nevertheless I can safely say that this and Gurren-Lagann are Shows of the Season™.
It is slightly worrying that some elements of the show are getting silly. Specifically, the two new characters this episode centers on don't have talking intelligent devices. One of them has a rocket punch and magic rollerskates. The other one has a gun. This is somewhat unfair, even if it is a magic gun.
But it's all just them messing with convention, so it's forgivable.
Oh, yes, and Nanoha and Fate are now adults.
Oh, and, uh.
Koutetsushin Jeeg 01 raw
This season's Go Nagai giant robot anime, kind of like New Getter Robo, except not so hardcore.
Guy races bikes with people, enemy appears, incredibly ugly old professor* summons all of guy's friends (who are all somehow secretly in the military) to fight it, guy runs around a lot until his bike transforms into STEEL JEEG!
Then he wins.
I much preferred the older and completely psychotic pilots of New Getter, but this one should suffice. Good calligraphic text everywhere.
Opening is a JAM Project... rap?
LOVELY COMPLEX 01 raw
Risa is taller than the average girl. Otani is shorter than the average boy. They are known as the comedy duo, they're always arguing. Although they have a big height difference, in any other way it seems they are perfect for each other. Can this love work out?
Romance from a girl's point of view.
Lots of funny faces. The animation is effective, and this first episode was good dumb fun. There's no real plot tho, I wonder how they are going to drag this story for several episodes.
Lucky (unicode star) Star 01 raw
Kyoto Animation comedy 4koma adaption. Mysteriously young girls in high school, etc.
Draws are that one of them is an otaku and that they're really moe.
This first episode copies the comic dialogue word for word, and the visuals are executed okay, I guess.
Problem is, they never shut up for a single second in this show. There is no lull that you can go back and think about previous lines. The OP is more dancing and shouting things. And I don't like the 4koma nearly as much as anything Kiyohiko Azuma.
Hopefully future episodes will have less talking. If not, it's going to be a well-intentioned failure.
Lucky ☆ Star 01 raw
Story portrays the lives of several school girls with a very loose humor. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl but very lazy so her grades are bad. She only likes anime and video games.
Gag anime with cute characters.
OP is very win.
Ouch, non-stop talking... I need to see this subbed, but I think the funny is that they are looking fluffy and innocent, while talking about things that are gross -- not sure, tho.
Instant Reviews
Bokurano 01: Same author as NaruTaru, more children killing sick crap. I'm not going to even bother dling this.
Bokura no 01 raw
Some kids go to the beach. Since this is a Mohiro Kitoh story, one of them tortures a crab to death with a fiirecracker because kids are evil.
They go into a cave where an old guy signs them up to a game about saving the Earth. Then two giant robots appear, old guy pilots one of them and destroys the other.
(SURPRISE PLOT TWIST: You die after you finish piloting the robot!)
Staff include a lot of retired people from Ghibli for some reason.
Since this is a Gonzo show, the robots are in awful 3D CG which is a major distraction from the scenes. This was a very good manga though, and those certainly weren't the important parts.
Instant Review: Reideen eps 1-2
I'd watch this if there was nothing better on.
Instant Review Omake: Reideen eps 1-2
If that guy's going to have his clothes disappear every time he pilots the robot, it's gonna put a dent in his wardrobe budget.
Lucky ☆ Star 01 subbed:
Okay, there is no funnies in the dialogs at all, it's just girlie chitchat. The one funny is at the end with the super-idol dropping her cutiepie mask to discuss serious business - money! Problem is, I was already completely drowsy from the prior nonstop yapping so it barely registered on my laffing-o-meter. ^^;
This type of anime is probably best served in small slices, like between other stories. Currently it's a snore fest.
Touka Gettan 02 raw
Still making no sense. And what happened to the guy the girl kissed at the train station in ep01? Only girls in this episode.
I heard a rumor that the episodes are done out of order -- if true, it was badly done.
Seirei no Moribito subbed
Small:
Great animation and action, good plot and realistic characters, setting: historical japan, Go watch it if you have time.
Lengthly:
An Excellent first episode for an anime set in historical Japan, usually they bore you to death with these historical animes by emphasizing on traditions and crap so much, but here the story matters.
The protagonist is a spear wielding woman, WAIT! continue reading! its not a loli ninja, its a 30 year old woman, her character so far comes as strong willed, something like a modern independent woman in old times. I wont say more about her character, it'll be spoilers.
There is some very neat 3D-2D background mixes that make the show look much better, but its not like those lame 3ds that pops out to you, its casting 2D backgrounds paintings on 3D geometry which allows for a certain amount of freedom for the camera rotation, usually this is not done in low budget animation.
Also, there is 2 action scenes so far, perhaps, much more to come, but its meaningful action, not mindless. not blood spilled so far.
Kissdum -ENGAGE planet- 02 raw
Ok, we got a little explanation of what's going on. Also we got some daylight for a short while before going back into nighttime + anti-epilepsy dimming effects (btw bright lights weren't the reason kids went down when watching that pokemon episode, it was because it alternated blue and red at a specific high frequency that is well-known in the cinema industry to induce discomfort/pain to viewers; so this bright-lights-dimming rule is most likely quite pointless.)
A better episode, altho I'm still not sure the writing to come will be solid. So far the anime seems to like laying thick the emo/angst. I like the girl taking a leisurely stroll on the battlefield in her bikini, tho.
Instant reviews
Wellber no Monogatari 02 raw: Boring. I still don't like the characters. Nice 3D when the talking tank shoots, but that scene lasts only a few seconds.
Romeo x Juliet 02 raw: Those JxR romnntic scenes get on my nerves: Juliet looks so useless, while when she's being Zorro she's so dashing. Next ep hopefully there will be more Zorro-Juliet and less lovestruck-Juliet.
OverDrive 02 raw: ha, super-sayajin already, he can fly with his bike now. ^^; I'm only watching this for the babe anyway.
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica 02 raw: Looks like they will be doing police work mainly. This ep was a few notches less silly than the first one, and there were a few fine touches here and there.
GeGeGe no Kitaro 02 raw: I'm not a fan of the supernatural/horror generally, but this ep was remarkably solid in its execution. Thumbs up.
Nagasarete Airantou 02 raw: I love it!!
Kaze no Stigma 01 raw
Guy got kicked out of his fire Clan because he had no talent. 4 years down the road he comes back to Japan and has now power to manipulate the wind. But there has been a murder and the clan accuses him of doing it.
Magical fighters.
Dunno if it was my copy but the episode is sorta blurry and over-exposed. So far I'm not impressed. The kid is a crybaby, the guy is overdoing it when using his new ability (problably to compensate), the girl is more interested in blaming the wind for uncovering her panties than blaming herself.
Monster Princess 01 raw, aka Princess Resurrection.
Guy is killed while trying to save obnoxious magical goth princess, ends up as her slave for life.
Supernatural comedy.
Ali Project music in the OP/ED. That's bearable, the problem is that it's also used during the show. :(
No blood. In the manga he was feeding on her blood, in the anime she materialises colored blobs out of thin air and drops them onto his chest. Slow paced, sounds like this show is intended for slow kids. People don't behave naturally, the voice acting is uninspired, the sister is a total retard, the guy has his eyes too close of each other, the background soundtrack is weak, the animation is minimal... On the plus side, the chara design for the princess is nice. I'll check one more episode before I decide if I should drop this.
Ookiku Furikabutte - 01 raw
"Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine."
Baseball anime.
Total wimp gets enrolled forcefully by big breasted team manager. That overbearing matron enjoys squeezing the juice out of oranges (and young boys) way too much... ^^; Not my kind of anime.
Instant reviews
El Cazador de la bruja 02 subbed
So damn boring... slow as molasses... Are they are going to pull another "Avenger", aka "there is not enough animation material so let's stretch everything and hope no one notices"? Also, Ali Project music within the show is a boner killer. I'm dropping this show.
Oh Edo Rocket 02 raw
Pace picked up a little, it became borderline interesting. There is a potential that it could become better. But TV sets in Edo times and no electricity? Electronic calculators and no batteries? Most of the tima these anachronisms are the earmarks of a bad show.
Sola 02 raw
Cool action at the beginning. Then it was back to the original premise of "pretty people behaving retarded". :/
Kamichama Karin 02 raw
Cute people acting retarded, bad guys waiting for others to finish their lines... it's not an anime to watch for the story but for the cute. One amusing moment when she named her move with a nasty-sounding name. >:)
Koutetsusin Jeeg 02 RAW
Not as good as the first ep. One funny moment when the hero fights the butchy girl.
Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula 02 raw
The robot fights are nicely gripping, but the humans interacting parts are real lame.
DARKER THAN BLACK 02 raw
Pretty good episode. Body count is high tho. ^^;
AIKa R-16 Virgin Mission 01 raw
Aika is a smart and athletic high school girl who just got her deep sea salvager’s license. She put up ads in her school to attract clients. This attracts the ire of Erika, the leader of the Treasure Hunting Club...
Ecchi(softcore) comedy.
This first episode was a bit stiff, hopefully it'll improve. But then with all those panties shots maybe stiffening was intended. :P
Darker than Black 01 raw & 02 sub
Ayakashi Ayashi was terrible! E7 was good!
Darker than Black is good!
THE END
Sisters of Wellber 01
Somewhat comedic RPG-game-style fantasy. I somehow manage to hate every character, especially the talking tank.
The guy who looks like an Avatar reject is alright, I guess.
Anyway it's bad.
Lucky Star 02
Well, this one is better, but this show is really too inward-turned.
You should watch an anime instead of watching an anime of people talking about anime, I think.
LS 02
It was so great, Konata becomes my favorite character in anime ever!
Konata's hair is about the right length IMO.
The Skull Man ep 01 raw
In post-war Japan, Hayato Mikagami is a freelance journalist in Tokyo who learns of a mysterious “skeletal man” who has been committing a series of murders in his old home town. Hayato hasn’t been back there since he left home seven years ago. Entrance into the town is strictly controlled, but...
Wannabe-cute thriller.
Studio Bones. Solid realization. The smoke animations especially impressed me. The sidekick girl annoyed me with her wannabe-cute cross-eyed looks, the mysterious biker girl was more my kind of girl. Skullman appears to be just yet another Kamen Rider clone turned evil. It seems to me that everybody is mysteriously interesting but Skullman. ^^; Maybe he's a creation of the mind of the townspeople?
Seirei no Moribito 2 - 4 sub
Maintains its excellent animation and story, new characters are introduced with plot twists. would like it more than the first episode .
Dennou Coil 01 raw
This is an exciting show about a girl and another girl a third girl* and a boy and their nonexistant Internet dog.
Concept is unbeatable. Show will probably be excellent.
> another girl a third girl
"and a third girl"
Denno Coil 01 raw
The year is 202x. Sixth grader Yasako Kokonogi moves with her family to Daikoku where her grandmother lives. Yasako, along with her sister, walks in Daikoku's streets, looking at the surimposed virtual world which can only be seen through special computerized glasses. With those one can surf online, look up maps, etc. But they encounter a strange creature and things start to go wrong...
Slice of future life.
The trailer was way more exciting and mysterious, this episode was a bit on the slow side especially at the beginning. And I didn't feel much sympathy for that scraggly, mangy dog when bad things happen to him, even if the animation was top notch. The other virtual pet was even worse: it's a hairy old dick(or a radish?)! >_<; Maybe the music used had a weak score for those action scenes as well, I dunno. On the plus side, the creature chase was exciting... for the couple of seconds it lasted. 'Need more episodes before I can form an opinion.
Dennou Coil 01
Up until now this season was entertaining but uninventive. Now it's a lot more inventive, too!
Also this is a show by a person, and as such it is worth watching.
Dennou Coil 02 raw
I have a love-hate relationship to that show, probably because it hits too close to home. WHY OH WHY isn't there a firewall on that darn pet??
Finished shows:
Ongoing shows, notes
o iDOLM@STER_XENOGLOSSIA 07: whoa, I can't sense any direction here. I feel like it's rambling.
o Toward_the_Terra 06: that annoying "Jomy" is gone and a new character has appeared, thanks heavens. This ep06 was decent.
o Nagasarete_Airantou 06: the awesome animation from the first eps is gone, it's dragging now. :/
o The_Skull_Man 03: I'm growing disinterested from the show. The witty banter from eps01-02 seems to be gone, it's just senseless murders it seems.
o Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 07-08: darn those endowed ladies transformation sequences, forcing me to somehow glance at the show. :) They look like naked dolls, tho. :( Oh and those two trainees should be fired on the spot, they are too dangerous for combat.
Wangan Midnight 01 raw
The protagonist, Asakura Akio, finds a Fairlady Z at a car junkyard, and is fascinated by it. He restores the Z, and drives it on the capital freeway. A Porsche 911 Turbo called the "Black Bird" comes to challenge him and he accepts... What he doesn't know is that his car has a deadly past and was called the "Devil Z".
Vroom vroom! Fast and furiously crazy.
Whoa, that Z shakes its tail on acceleration way too much for my tastes... ^^; while the Porsche doesn't shake at all... I wouldn't trust that Z. And wasn't that a stopped police car we saw? Why don't they stop them? Driving fast in the city is a bad idea... Earlier, the guy was even challenging the Porsche with 4 persons in his car... an even worse idea. :/ Then, later the road narrows from 3 lanes to 2. The guy tries to push away the Porsche to fit in. Why not brake a little and use the extra lane? We are not in a mountain range anymore like in the older series. Bad, baaaad driving...
ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!!
ICE ep 1
This show has the single worst seiyuu ever to appear in anime. The rest is also hilariously bad, but nothing quite lives up to the sheer badness of this "Erena Ono" person.
ICE OVA 1 sub
2010, all men have died off due to a dramatic change in the environment and an unknown contaminant. Now only the women are left alive and battling bioterrorists who want to destroy this world without hope left.
Scifi.
Main girl has a stuffed nose voice, a bad cold? Many of the VAs are very bad at acting, but then they are killed right and left so by the end it's not so bad. Animation quality varies, sometimes very bad, sometimes decent. Strange it's not a 16:9 screen ratio... also the animation style feels old. But Animenfo says it's from 2007. At one point the screen of the computer is an ugly bright green from the sixties, then suddenly it's a modern, crisp display. The scifi bit about animals becoming plants to help Nature is typical sixties/seventies, while the girl deciding to blow all up with a rocket launcher is more modern (the nineties) "no future" scifi. It feels like an old, forgotten project that got pimped up for a 2007 release.
Devil_May_Cry_01 sub
Dante is a demon killer on hire. Today he's asked to babysit a future rich young girl for a day...
Demon buster horror.
Style over substance? It doesn't feel as deep as a Hellsing. I got flashbacks of BlackCat, hopefully it will have a better structured storyline. The animation is very in-your-face, trying to scare the viewer... that means you! Boo! ^^;
So far, Dante isn't very interesting as a character, but then it's the first ep.
>>91
ever played the games? It won't pick up. It's all "style".
Nanatsuiro Drops 01 raw
The magical girl mascot is a goat. This should not be seen as an endorsement.
f
Instant reviews
Nanatsuiro Drops 01 raw: So dumb... What's the intended audience, five-years old girls? I feel like I lost a whole bunch of brain cells.
Tetsuko no Tabi 01 raw: YAAAT, Yet Another Anime About Trains. Ugly character designs ripped from "Nodame Cantabile" worst moments.
>>95
There's more anime about trains? tell me more
etc etc.
Doujin Work - 01 raw
Girl discovers the world of doujinshi.
Simplified "Comic Party" clone.
Short, only 13 min. Slightly different from the manga, but better. The first joke in the manga didn't make me smile, but made me laugh in the anime (the anime transposed the characters in a train, with everyone listening intendly ^^). ED music is nicely lively. Pleasant, improved chara design.
Doujin Work 1
Pretty cool. Should watch it.
Some Kinda Long Name Umisho 1
Lots of fanservice effort here (constant in fact), but none of it counts 'cause no nipples. If you don't mind that might as well see it.
Comedy but not a good comedy. Bit above is main appeal.
ZOMBIE-LOAN - 01 raw
Loner Kita Michiru is a shy girl who is used as a lackey by her "friends" at school. At her home things are even worse. She meets Pretty Boy A and Pretty Boy B who seem to be nice to her, and she decides to see the ring of death on their necks with her special gift, the shinigami eyes, to see how long they have left to live. But she finds out they are dead already...
Shoujo. Soft thriller with a reverse harem.
Horrible OP music, like cats being scorched alive as voiced by humans. Creepy mood, alternating normal and weird scenes, very confusing. I can't find a single sympathetic character in this mess... but then, I'm not the intended audience.
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.
>>101
Where can I download Tetsuko no Tabi? Sounds interesting.
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!
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.
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.
"A legend?" From the ancient days of cellphones from centuries past, no doubt. Lawl.
It's only bloody in some endings that might not show up. Everything else about School Days is deadly dull.
Shigurui 01 raw
Feudal-era TEXHNOLYZE.
(This is 100% accurate in every way.)
>>108 You think it's gonna have a happy end?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Maybe easier to understand with the kanji?
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...
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..
>>118
Have you ever actually read Kumeta's comics besides the first issue of Kaizou?
And stop with the trip code already.
>>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.
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.
>>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)
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).
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.
>>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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
ChocoMimi 01 raw
JDrama, not anime.
Didn't we get this once already?
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.
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. :)
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
>>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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
>>145 well it is a product of Key, so one would expect a passing similarity to their other works.
>a passing similarity
"Passing"? ^^;
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.
>>149 Ah, I meant "Natsumi stopping the car". s/Miyuki/Natsumi/ and s/Natsumi/Miyuki/.