It’s with no small amount of relief that I’ve completed the epic disappointment that was Allison to Lillia. I feel as though the characters are now put out of their misery: when they are so lively and engaging it feels like an act of cruelty to even watch them go through such an embarrassment of [...]
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It's taken what seems like an eternity, but it's with a heavy heart and some sadness that I come to the end of Allison to Lillia, a series that has brought so much laughter and entertainment to so many of us, with almost all of it having occurred entirely unintentionally. Of course, episode twenty-five left us with an almighty cliffhanger, as we learned that Treize was the real planned victim of
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It's been a while since we all last "enjoyed" an episode of Allison to Lillia, even if it is with a heavy heart that I have to remember that this is the series penultimate episode. It goes by the title "The culprit laughs secretly", although I suspect he isn't the only one having a good giggle. So, last time around Major Travas and his team found their train halted, as they were surrounded by
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Another day, another episode of Allison to Lillia as we draw ever closer to this magnum opus of drug-fuelled insanity. Or something. Anyhow, episode twenty-four brings us "The Great Train Operation", although "The Implausible Train Confusion" seems like a more apt title if you ask me. Of course, after bumping into Treize unexpectedly, Lillia demands to know what he's doing on this train
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It's time for another brand new arc of Allison to Lillia, which is in no way, shape or form inspired by an arc we've already seen regarding plots being hatched on long distance trains. Of course not, like a series of this calibre would be reduced to reusing old ideas... Anyhow, it's spring break for Lillia (the girl is on a permanent holiday from school, I swear), and to make the most of that
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Hurrah! At last the kidnapping story arc (which has at least been less ridiculous than much of the other fare this series has fed us) of Allison to Lillia is over, and without another mention of dynamite-proof brick kitchens in sight. This progression must also be taking us towards some kind of final story arc to close off this Travas-ty (Ha! You see what I did there?) of a plot-hole riddled
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If you can’t make a good job of something, it seems there is some dignity in being consistent about it: as the series enters is second half with a number of new characters, Allison to Lillia is proving to be consistently laughable in its ridiculousness. The adventures may centre around two different protagonists (the son [...]
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That's right, it's time for yet more Allison to Lillia, which I currently seem to be well and truly overdosing on - The things I do for you guys and girls... Anyway, last episode Treize stumbled across some dynamite, and thus hatched a cunning plan - To blow up the palace's kitchen to create a diversion. In Allison to Lillia terms this is actually a pretty good plan, although for some reason
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After the last episode of Allison to Lillia, I was all but ready to get Treize to just get on with it and tell Lillia he's royalty, but I have to admit that by the end of this episode I'm all but down on my knees pleading for him to get this particular plot point out of the way - His parents have been kidnapped and held at gunpoint, he's on his way to rescue them, yet he's still spouting nonsense
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It's time for the beginning of a new Allison to Lillia story arc, and with the New Year approaching Treize has invited both Allison and Lillia to Ikstova to celebrate, while also hoping to use the opportunity to reveal the truth about his identity to Lillia. For goodness sake man, just tell her already! Oddly for a series that has prided itself on Allison stealing planes for much of its
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Just how many episode of Allison to Lilliacan one man take over a short period of time? Well, two episodes in two days hasn't killed me, so that's a start at least. After rather unfortunately landing their sea plan full of orphans on some rocks at the end of last episode, it's literally sink or swim for all involved at the start of this episode, which soon translates into swim for everyone
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After quite a while with no Allison to Lillia to amuse myself, I'm suddenly drowning in a veritable sea of episodes of this series, which means that we don't have to wait too long to find out the answer to that most baffling of questions from the last instalment - Why the Hell would you want to deliberately crash a plane full or orphans? I can imagine that even Osama bin Laden was left
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Ahh, it's been a while Allison to Lillia, and how I've missed you so - Your ridiculous plots, your stupid characters. But here you are once again, just begging to be mocked and jibed in the best possible taste, and in the name of making anime better. Anyway, last episode Lillia and Treize made it to the docks, leaving a couple of people abandoned and without transport in the process, so we can
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After the fun I had at the show’s expense last time maybe it’s surprising that I’m even watching it still, let alone enjoying it. I can’t be arsed with listing all the faults this time though, but the more amusing ones still need highlighting. If laughing your butt off at a sarcastic critique is your [...]
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A very ordinary fourteenth episode of Allison to Lillia left us with plenty of questions, and the fifteenth instalment is now already here, thus allowing me to answer the most important point of all: Yes, Ker Benedict's facial hair has become more ridiculous since the last episode. Anyhow, despite Will/Travas telling Allison that under no circumstances could he let Lillia board a plane last
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I've been incredibly mean to Allison to Lillia for almost the entirety of its Allison arc, mainly due to the fact that it's piled no end of unintentional comic hilarity upon me, a goldmine which I've actually rather enjoyed pillaging to make the most out of an otherwise disastrously poor series. However, after a brief introduction in the last episode, the Lillia arc proper now begins, and
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During the course of this series' Allison arc my complaints, criticisms and all-round reasons for merry-making at the expense of the show have been many and varied. However, I have to say that I can't recall an episode of anime that has left me shouting at my laptop screen for almost an entire half-hour quite like this one. As usual with an instalment of Allison to Lillia, it's hard to know
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Major Stork: Mrs. Moot never told you what happened to your father.Allison: She told me enough! She told me you killed him!Major Stork: No. I am your father.Allison: ... No... No! That's not true!... That's impossible!...Major Stork: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!Allison: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! NOOOO...!!Oops, have I just given away the entire point of this episode? Yes, sadly I think I have, but considering that it was (although not quite to the level of the opening to this post) all but entirely lifted from The Empire Strikes Back I don't think it's too much of a bad thing.After the whole train charade last episode, our brave quartet get put into a luxury hotel for the night, but in the morning Benedict has a surprise for them all, and in particular Fiona - No, the surprise isn't just hiring a limousine (although Fiona is entranced by it, because of course a Princess and soon-to-be Queen would never have seen a limousine before), it's a marriage proposal. Apparently things are pretty free and easy in Sous-Beil, and you can get married in a church just by kissing someone with no religious ceremony required. Thus concludes the cheapest church wedding in the history of the universe.Sadly, Major Stork turns up rather late to the ceremony (although he really didn't miss much, and there wasn't even a finger buffet after), but as he's leaving Wil decides that now would be the perfect time to shoot him. With a rubber bullet. A rubber bullet that doesn't hurt Major Stork in the slightest, or even wind him. Thus concludes the most rubbish shooting in the history of the universe.Everything that happens from this point onwards in a blur of nonsense, but the basic upshot is this - Major Stork is, in fact, Allison's father. Hurrah! The downside to all of this is that Major Stork is also an admitted murderer and spy, who was in fact planning to destroy the entire train seen in the past two episodes 'if it wasn't for those pesky kids'. Booo! It must be great to have a Dad you can be proud of, huh Allison?Of course, if there's one thing Allison and Wil are good at in a morally dubious situation, it's ignoring all of the bad stuff like murder and treason and focus on the warm and fuzzy memories of buying lasagne and hats. Continuing his role as doting father, Major Stork kindly offers to send Allison a letter and a birthday present some time, as obviously that will more than compensate for decades thinking that your father was dead. With all of that settled, Allison and Wil have sex in the church. Probably. We don't get to see that bit, and I'm not sure whether that is something to be happy about or not.I know I've thrown any sense of objectivity about this series out the window a long time ago, but can I just say - This was half an hour of the most literally unbelievable tripe. Thank goodness it's so bad that it's funny, otherwise I'd never have survived a dozen episodes of this thing...
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It seems like only yesterday that I last watched an episode of Allison to Lillia.. Oh, wait a second, that's because it was.After episode ten finished with the ridiculous sight of an experienced military man shooting at an armoured train with a pistol, things finally take a turn for the sensible at the start of this episode, with the use of a copious amount of alcohol - Not, as you might expect, for the main characters to drown their sorrows for getting themselves involved in this god-awful series, but instead to set fire to a carriage of their train to prevent the pursuers from either boarding their train or following them. This seems to have done the trick, until they come across a heavily armoured tank which can use train tracks while also having the uncanny ability to match the speed of a powerful steam train.At this point we begin to learn the truth about Major Stork, and from that moment on the whole story suddenly turns into a fast-paced description of double-crossings aplenty that I think made my brain melt a little. We also confirm that Major Stork murdered the guard from the last episode, which hugely upsets Wil and Allison for entire seconds before they decide that this is not the time to mourn. Oh no, this is the time to go and kill more people, led by a murderer who they've decided to carry on trusting and helping out to the best of their abilities for some reason (although to be fair he does have a gun).So, Wil manages to shoot the tank eventually after numerous attempts using an anti-tank rifle that just happens to be on board thanks to the arms magnate they're protecting or arresting or whatever, while the heavily armoured tank only fires back a single shot in return, which must officially make it the worst tank ever.Carrying on at breakneck speed, everybody else who isn't a major character then gets shot or, in the case of the handlebar-moustached arms dealer, commits suicide. Major Stork is suitably disappointed by this, and Allison and Wil again manage to muster up almost an entire second of despair about this thoughtless waste of human life before the episode ends. However, the story isn't over just yet... Wil has an odd feeling that something isn't quite right about Major Stork. Wow, d'ya think?While this was actually an improvement on the last episode, this series seems to fall into so many plot holes during the average episode that it's a wonder it hasn't dug itself down to the Earth's molten core yet. Whenever the story shows signs of promise, it either gets lost in one of those holes, or otherwise goes off on a tangent that is either terribly dull or just plain confusing. It probably wouldn't be so bad if all the characters weren't equally as uninteresting - Wil and Fiona seem to become increasingly cardboard by the episode, and even the more lively Benedict and Allison seem to have resorted to a clichéd existence of cracking jokes in moments of tension and generally being far too excitable respectively. I'm now resigned to the fact that this show won't get any better, but at least it's enjoyable to poke fun at, for the sake of my sanity if nothing else.
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It's been a while since we last got to enjoy some Allison to Lillia, but here we are again, gathered to take in episode ten of the series, "The Train Known as Stupdity.. oops, sorry, Conspiracy". Once again, it seems that when the going gets tough, the script writers get going... to the nearest off-license, as what followed a rather sedate ninth instalment somehow manages to be, while not quite as daft as some early episodes, still somehow a bit stupid.After yet again failing to 'get it on' with Wil (who this time is too tired to get the point, rather than simply too stupid), Allison spends some time watching the view from the observation lounge where she meets up with Major Stork - A man who, given his rather intense interest in Allison and Wil's relationship in the conversation that follows, should probably be referred to henceforth as Major Pervert.The next morning, our favourite couple who aren't because Wil is an idiot unwittingly play witness to a muder, as a masked man pushes a guard from the back of the train before making his escape across the carriage rooftops. Who could this man, wearing goggles to aid his sight that look uncannily like the glasses worn by Major Stork, possibly be? We have no idea of the identity of this mysterious man at all. Next, a man apparantly well known as a magnate during the war announces that he is the intended victim of the killer, which led me to assume that the killer was only interested in finishing him due to the target's ridiculous handlebar moustache, but it appears that my powers of deduction are a little off.With the target of this devious crime seemingly established, Major Pervert decides to abandon all of the passengers at a nearby military base so that the war magnate can be 'safely transported' to his destination... With Allison, Will, Ker and Fi coming along for the ride of course. Wil suspects something isn't quite right, but he's still 'thinking about it' when all Hell breaks loose, as they find that their train is being followed by a heavily armed military train.Using his decades of military experience, Major Stork decides to attack this armoured train with... A little pistol. Does this daring and not entirely ridiculous attack work? Find out next week....I know, I know, I really must stop slating this series and poking fun at it so liberally, but it's just so much fun, and to be honest talking about an episode of this rather average calibre in its own right is rather difficult, as there simply isn't much to say. Wil is as dull as dishwater (although he perhaps should gain bonus points for laughing about falling on his arse when someone has died just moments previously), Ker is surprisingly dumb for someone who ended a war, and the previously bold and brash Fiona now seems content to play the pretty girlfriend role. All of this is without the hammy, cliched bad guys and blazingly obvious plot points that are somehow still a complete mystery to the rest of the characters. Even Scooby Doo managed to make the eventual discovery of the culprit more suprising than this...
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