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 3

March 12th, 2008 by Brack

To Love-Ru

Well this looks terrible. Bog standard extraterrestrial home invader love comedy that misinterprets what was actually great about Urusei Yatsura.

Kure-nai

When this was first promoted on it’s website, it had a creepy pic of some young girl character holding the hands of an unseen male character that had all sorts of unsavoury overtones about it. The website seems to have stepped back from that, offering rotating screenshots of various characters and ominous music. Still looks pretty rubbish mind.

The Tower of Druaga ~The Aegis of Uruk~

Videogame tie-in. GONZO produced. Yeah, this is not going to be any good, is it?

Amatsuki

Adaptation of Shinobu Takayama’s tale of getting stuck in virtual reality museums. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D’Eon, Getbackers, Rurouni Kenshin) writes and directs. Doesn’t grab me visually nor are there any names on the production I’d watch it for.

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