Do not pass go, do not ever get those 20 minutes of your life back. Impressions: Good lord was this episode a waste of time. Watch up to the half-vampire girls chewing on Kyosuke and then skip to the last 2 minutes or so and all you’ll miss is a 3 second exchange of energy blasts [...]
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Apologies for the the tardiness. It’s just that this week was full of exams and these two series happen to be the very last ones I’ve seen from last week’s schedule. I have also been under a lot of stress (so the doctor says), most likely from too much work (lots of f***ing useless meetings [...]
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Yozakura Quartet continues on its merry way, this time giving us a proper introduction to the villain of the piece - Enjin, a demon who has possessed the body of someone called Gin, an old friend of Hime and Akina's. In other words, the scene is set for a lot of emotional conflict and turmoil... After all, how do you fight an enemy who is also your friend? With that in mind then, this episode
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  The booby prize for vomitting ramen. Sorry if this is a bit brief. I’m functioning off of two hours of sleep and need a nap badly. Impressions: A lot of focus on our villain, Enjin this week. Apparently he used to hang out with Hime and Akina quite a bit… or at the very least, the [...]
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Summary: We get some flashbacks of how young Hime trained with her grandmother to become the next mayor and protect the Nana-Gou from Hiizumi Enjin. When granny died, Hime was forced to grow up quickly, and faced a lot of doubters who didn’t think a kid could protect the town. But while Hime puts [...]
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♪ Tsuntsun, deretsun, deretsuntsun ♪ OP Sequence: “JUST TUNE” by savage genius A very stylish OP. The song itself is very catchy while the video has a lot of different things going on with the background and special effects. Also I’ve been wondering if the person next to Ao (first pic) is the fabulous cat-eared villain in [...]
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Quicky Post this week. Still figuring out day to blog on this one. :P Basically, Youkai were going out of control and destroying stuff. Rin, that new Youkai to the city, is all “Human suck. They should go away.” And stuff, no matter what the main crew says. She goes out of control, Akina saves her [...]
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I've already marked out Yozakura Quartet as being oddly likeable (and from what I've seen it's currently going down pretty well in Japan too), but somehow being entertained by an episode about a fat dog who gets turned into some kind of speeding bullet has to pretty much cement that "I'm not sure why I kinda like this, but I do" sentiment that this series gives me. The dog that I'm referring to
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After watching the first two episodes, this series looks like it has some potential to be a pretty good series, as long as it doesn’t fall into the trap of a predictable “monster of the week” type series. In this series, humans and youkai have long lived together on earth, though usually not all that peacefully.  [...]
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Sidenotes What’s with whiny characters all of a sudden? I got so annoyed with Rin on this episode by her attitude towards humans. Not only does she get emo about it,  she also detests Akina for something he should be thanked for, which is rid the city of maverick Youkai. Poor Akina…then again, poor Rin. Being [...]
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I marked out the opening episode of Yozakura Quartet as having some potential, which is usually the kind of proclamation that sends a series into a nosedive faster than you can say "and at the end they all take up knitting". Thankfully, this series saw fit not to take that nosedive in quality quite yet. Overall, the episode continues to focus on Rin, the new demon in town, who gets away with
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  Hide the women and children. I haven’t given up on Casshern yet, but this week was exactly the angst filled melodrama replacing action that I had hoped the series would avoid. Let me sum it up: Casshern: I kill freakin’ everything. Human: Nah, you’re a pretty alright dude. Casshern: Friender! I will accept all your hatred! Human: See, [...]
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Summary: We get a flashback of the time young Akina watched his grandpa deport a phallic demon, and it seems like the tuning process kills the demon before deportation. Oh well, it’s the only way to stop a demon power that has gone out of control. Foxguy roams around town testing out the various [...]
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Here's the second round of snapshots for series that I had time to take a peek at this past week.
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DADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADA!!! The best thing about this series so far is the music, be it from the stylishly animated OP and/or ED or the insert songs/BGM during the show. Otherwise, I don’t see anything that’s keeping me riveted at the moment. The characters aren’t cookie-cutter stereotypes but nor are they completely endearing (I do love Ojou though, [...]
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Next up are my reviews of the new fall anime shows Yozakura Quartet and Ga-Rei Zero. One tried to it’s best to make me forget about it and the other attempts to wow us with a Shyamalan ending. Yozakura Quartet Rating: 8/12 B+ I’m writing most of these fall impressions a few days after actually watching the episode [...]
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I don’t know what your otaku fetish is, but if you like nekomimi, there’s one in Yozakura Quartet! Yozakura Quartet 01 - I want my 24:29 worth of time back. bad on a level hitherto unknown. makes Rental Magica look good. do not bother. ~Owen S on Twitter I have the first two volumes of the Yozakura Quartet manga [...]
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Well, it looked interesting, and I did take a peak at the back of Vol.1 in Barnes & Noble (Which right now I’m too poor to afford. D: All out of manga money), so after picking up three new manga (NHK8, //XXXX2, and //GU+3), I remembered that I wanted to watch this and now I [...]
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First Impressions Yozakura Quartet was kinda so-so for me, although I do give it props for the collage of characters, or rather, characters with unique abilities. The demon theme and/or setting is something I’ve seen so many times, especially if you watch series such as Inuyasha. If you ask me, anything demon-related pretty much gives off [...]
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ef - a tale of melodies I’m glad this series finally got its second season! Just as the first season, nothing is completely clear yet and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. Luckily, the art in this series didn’t change at all and it was still simply beautiful. Though, I did find it [...]
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