Spring Cleaning

May 25th, 2008 by Brack

Here’s some spring season anime first episodes I finally got around to watching:

Bus Gamer

With better animation this could be worth watching. It’s not terrible animation, but the bar for fighting anime is pretty high, and this doesn’t reach that bar.

Itazura na Kiss

Osamu Yamazaki’s adaptation of the late Kaoru Tada’s unfinished manga is a fun watch. Only the character design lets it down. It can’t quite bring itself to be as much as a throwback as the direction and story are. Good stuff and if I have time I will watch more.

Kanokon

A few weeks back I had the honour of being the subject of a thread on Gamefaqs’ boards, where the poster was ENRAGED(!) that I had been dismissive of this show (and To Love Ru) without watching it when I did my HATE FUN? rundown of the spring anime season. Hooray.

Anyway, this is rubbish, but well animated rubbish.

To Love Ru

Unlike XEBEC’s other series, which is badly made rubbish. It’s a 163rd photocopy of the Urusei Yatsura blueprint, that’s utterly forgettable.

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HATE FUN? - Uninformed Judgments on Spring Anime Part 4

March 13th, 2008 by Brack

Kanokon

Our second bog standard anime “love comedy” of the season. And also the second one from XEBEC. How depressing.

Da Capo II Second Season

Well at least they aren’t coming up with new moe shit, I suppose.

Masked Maid Guy

Akai Maruboro’s tale of a giant masked male maid bodyguard is adapted by Madhouse. The actual production staff is underwhelming (a lot Strawberry Panic staff by the looks of things), but the concept is goofy enough that I will probably check it out.

Net Ghost PiPoPa

I’m going to hazard a guess this isn’t gonna get fansubbed. Which is a shame as it’s created by Naomi Iwata, creator of Gregory Horror Show. Shinichiro Kimura directs, seemingly escaping the moe hell he was stuck in.

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