According to Anime News Network: While you’re making that otaku pilgrimage to Akihabara, you can hit up maid cafe Popopure and live the seiyuu dream. Two animators produced a three-minute anime called “Popo no Boken” or the Adventures of Popo, which you can dub yourself and some friends into for a small fee. The anime has [...]
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Library War…confuses me. It’s a series that can’t decide whether it wants to be a military/soldier story, a romantic drama, or a slice of life tale. Library War takes place in the near future where the Japanese government has enacted a “Media Improvement Act”. This is supposedly to monitor books for content that’s not appropriate for [...]
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Kaiba was not originally on my list of shows to watch this season. I admit, I saw a couple of screenshots, dismissed it as a simple Japanese kids’ show and went about my business. How wrong I was. Kaiba is now the second star of the season in my opinion. A tale about an amnesiatic boy [...]
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Yes. This is what I’m looking for. This is the quality that dried up last season and it’s good to see it’s back. Soul Eater really works with its wacky style, super-slick animation, great characters, and excuse-to-kick-ass story. To be quite honest, the story in Soul Eater isn’t all that deep: pairs of young students [...]
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Mnemosyne wasn’t on my Spring List, but I still thought I’d give it a look. Series description from Anime News Network: Rin Asōgi may look like an ordinary office lady on the outside but she is actually a private investigator taking on any jobs, from finding a stray cat to infiltrating a high-security corporate lab. What’s [...]
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Off to a decent start. Nabari no Ou centers around a main character who doesn’t really care that he’s this supernatural savior of the ninja world, while surrounded by a small group of guardian ninja who pledge themselves to protect him from attack. He cannot initially control the power within him and so these guardians [...]
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Hmm, well all you really need to know about Druaga no Tou is that it’s based on a video game. A very, very old video game. …It’s basically as if Dragon Warrior for the NES was turned into an anime, with no fleshing out of the story at all, and flat humor inserted. The band [...]
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Special A is definitely more the type of romantic/comedy series I was looking for. They play up the jokes with some funny animation styles, and the romance is second to the comedy in the neverending struggle between the two main characters, Hikari and Kei. (Though I have a feeling this may change throughout the series.) [...]
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Well, there’s nothing particularly bad about Itazura na Kiss it’s just not for me. If you remember from my initial review, I was hoping for another Nodame Cantabile/Lovely Complex. Itazura na Kiss definitely has a degree of comedy to it but it focuses more on the love story aspect than those series. It’s a shojou [...]
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A good first show of the season to pick up. Kure-nai successfully delivers on the tone I was hoping for; serious and honest, not wacky with the comic relief only coming from the real way that Kurouhin acts. I’m a bit worried that it might become overly sappy, or Shintaro’s mysterious power/illness will become the [...]
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