Shinbo's trying something different again. This time, we had plenty of camera pans, high/low angles, more cels per scene, but quality per cel suffers; maybe that's the style they intend to go with anyway, but the characters always seems to look distorted and poorly drawn. They've gone one step beyond Natsu no Arashi (haven seen Arakawa) and I can't say I appreaciate that much... where did the huge bugdet for this show goes to? The number of unnecessary cels they make?Plot/Concept wise, the series is actually quite a lot of fun, right from the opening theme itself. Hotori, the main character, is a very random character and the series is almost all about her rather stupid antics. I don't really like how Omigawa Chiaki sounds totally crazy voicing Hotori, but I like her enough to appreaciate how she helps make the show comes alive. Futaba Kon's really well-liked by other people, although I couldn't quite appreaciate her charm. Yazawa Rieka, her seiyuu, is new to the business... her singing in the ED's pretty awesome, but I didn't really like her voice work. It's still take a while for her to grow into the industry.Despite being a comedy, I can't say the show's been really funny, but it does somewhat make up for it with the wackiness and randomness that comes of Hotori. Well, to me I liked the style of the series at the beginning, but I can't help finding it more boring towards the end. There's a couple of episodes where I can't even absorb anything, even if they're hailed as one of the funniest episodes.Plot/Concept: Too bad the orginal material isn't all that funny either.Story Style: I guess the fun wears off after a while.Audio/Visual: Fairly GoodValue: 6
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