Assassinator is watching anime I watched way back in middle school >_>

(09/01/2011 05:02 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Finished the last 9 or so eps of Shakugan no Shana I stalled from like 2yrs ago.  The ending was pretty crappy (well, there is a second season, so whatever), and the best part imo is probably the episodes describing Shana's past.  Going to download and watch some of these specials (there seems to be a crapload of them).

Specials poked fun at the show = I liked them.

(09/01/2011 05:02 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(09/01/2011 04:33 AM)S7* Wrote:  Erm, did you see the combined order Assassinator?

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?sho...e&aid=6367

My sister downloaded Haruhi ages ago, and I cbf redownloading everything, so I just used her version.  It's some old AVI version of the 1st season only by a.f.k.  So no, no new episodes and no endless eight.

As much as you probably don't want to, if you plan on watching the film you'll need to watch the second season because otherwise you'll wonder what they are talking about when they reference it (and they do several times). Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody is the best episode of the second season. The rest is good (Endless Eight the exception, depends on personal opinion it seems) but might be testing at times (I dropped it half-way through "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" but it gets better, I found, after I continued).

(10/01/2011 02:50 AM)S7* Wrote:  As much as you probably don't want to, if you plan on watching the film you'll need to watch the second season because otherwise you'll wonder what they are talking about when they reference it (and they do several times). Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody is the best episode of the second season. The rest is good (Endless Eight the exception, depends on personal opinion it seems) but might be testing at times (I dropped it half-way through "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" but it gets better, I found, after I continued).

According to my understanding of what Endless Eight is like (the same stuff repeated 8 times?), to watch it would be like to troll myself.  I don't feel like trolling myself as of now.

Maybe after I finishing watching Rozen Maiden 2, Haibane Renmei, Bakemonogatari, Spice & Wolf, Twelve Kingdoms, Shana 2... then I'll consider it.  (Note:  That's my current plan of order of stuff to watch.  It's the holidays right now, and I'm not going anywhere, so there's plenty of time to watch stuff).

(10/01/2011 10:55 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Maybe after I finishing watching Rozen Maiden 2, Haibane Renmei, Bakemonogatari, Spice & Wolf, Twelve Kingdoms, Shana 2... then I'll consider it.  (Note:  That's my current plan of order of stuff to watch.  It's the holidays right now, and I'm not going anywhere, so there's plenty of time to watch stuff).

Don't forget Rozen Maiden Ouvertüre, which is excellent. Bakemono and Spice & Wolf are great~

New stuffs:

Baccano:
As the opening dialogue between the newspaper related people point out, this is somewhat an attempt at telling a story a bit differently to typical means.  There isn't really a "main character" for one, and there isn't really much chronology at place, so isn't really much of a start and end (well, there sort of is) as well as any overall goal (though there are minor goals).  The story flips around time and the views of various parties.
A problem with this, as pointed out by Carol in the first episode, is that it does somewhat make it unnecessarily difficult to understand at the beginning, having to piece together things.
I personally didn't enjoy the plot too terribly much - I guess these sorts of mafia stories don't really suit me.  I guess this different method of telling a story didn't work too well on me either, as it seems to try to be more objective (like a news report) as opposed to a more personal feel that most other stories seem to attempt to achieve.  There also exists a few weird issues, but I guess you're not really meant to pay too much attention to those.
Overall, props to being different and I think it achieves its aim reasonably, but on the other hand, it seems to have a certain impact on the enjoyment for me.
3.5 stars

Ore no Imouto:
Probably turned out better than I had expected in terms of seriousness... as well as a bit of stupidity.  One thing that stuck into me is the little filler/side stories, which they gave too much insight to really ignore, but not enough to be interesting.  These somewhat gave a slight episodic feel to the show, which is only like 12 episodes long.
Overall, I'm finding it somewhat difficult to comment on due to it not really making much of an impression on me.  2.5 stars.

Quiz Magic Academy:
Short 2 episode show.  Can't expect much story from it, and that's basically how it goes.  General feel is somewhat comedic with strongly stereotyped characters (possibly acting as a parody).  I did like the idea of some of the random comedy cuts they stuck in.
Actual storyline has nothing special to it though.  Overall 3 stars.

(09/01/2011 05:02 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  2 episodes into the second season of Rozen Maiden.  Reminds me of how much I hated that protag guy...

So I finished it now.  This one actually deals with the Alice Game, which they mentioned in the first one, but never delved deeper than that.  While this has more story than the 1st one, the parts that are supposed to make you sad (like the deaths) felt superficial to me, the ending too.  All in all, couldn't really get into it much.

(23/01/2011 05:11 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  I personally didn't enjoy the plot too terribly much - I guess these sorts of mafia stories don't really suit me

Plot didn't blow me away either.  I only gave this a show a 7.5 (medium high) or whatever because of the awesomeness of characters like Rail Tracer and Ladd Russo and the shit they do.

And "ticket inspection!"  XD

(23/01/2011 05:11 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Quiz Magic Academy:
Short 2 episode show.  Can't expect much story from it, and that's basically how it goes.  General feel is somewhat comedic with strongly stereotyped characters (possibly acting as a parody).  I did like the idea of some of the random comedy cuts they stuck in.
Actual storyline has nothing special to it though.  Overall 3 stars.

Watched 1 episode of that ages ago.  I remember it to be really bad.

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Watched through the 1st arc of Twelve Kingdoms, and 1/2 way through Haibane Renmai.  12K is pretty good.

(This post was last modified: 25/01/2011 09:27 PM by Assassinator.)

Fortune Arterial
Seemed to me like an average harem show with a slightly mysterious aura floating around at first.  But things merge into the general flow of events so nothing seems too out of place.
Maybe an odd thought, I found it a little amusing that if you replace "urge to drink blood" with "want to have sex", "drink transfused blood" with "masturbation" and similar things, the story actually somewhat still makes sense (and perhaps more sense in some circumstances).
The ending seems to sidestep the major issue, which is a bit disturbing, but on the other hand, it does manage to change the mood of the ending, which is probably what the writers intended.
3 stars

Houkago no Pleades
Short show of only 4 episodes, each around 5-6 minutes long.  I found it interesting that it was sponsored by Subaru, yet the show had nothing to do with cars.  Turns out that they probably funded the main character's name (which is Subaru), though it's a little questionable as to why they want to associate themselves with a magical girl.  I mean, if they wanted to associate themselves with a magical girl, this one might've been a better choice.
Anyways, for the actual show, it's short (did I say that before?), so really not much can be fit in there.  Whilst it seems to be reasonable, I think it ultimately tries to fit in too many things in the short duration, and doesn't quite do anything really well.  It would've been better if they only focused on fewer aspects and made more of an impact IMO.
2.5 stars

Mitsudomoe
Clearly a comedy, and the jokes are rather extreme at that.  As you'd expect from this sort of crazy comedy, you've got a big variety of personalities.
Funny and entertaining, but I ultimately think some of the jokes go too far and some ideas repeated too much (like comedy revolving around misunderstandings between characters - IMO overdone).
3 stars

Manabi Straight
A little corny at times, and sometimes skimps over things, but had its ups too, and I liked a number of things done.
I found this show to somewhat improve towards the end, perhaps due to being more understanding of the characters.  Generally fairly upbeat mood, but I think a number of things are "embellished" a bit too unrealistically.
Has a somewhat interesting outlook (one which seems quite probable) on the future (this show is set in the year 2035).
3 stars


Some day I'll get around to the boring job of stuffing all this into the first post.


Onii-chan no Koto is awesome, though as expected, it seems to be losing the excitement vibe after about episode 5.  Still, each episode seems to bring about a bunch of new ideas, which seems to be a strength of this show despite its genre, though they seem to be wearing off a bit unfortunately.  At this point, I think it would be more beneficial if they perhaps would be daring enough to put in even crazier ideas, though I'll see how episode 9 goes.

(07/03/2011 02:18 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Houkago no Pleades
Short show of only 4 episodes, each around 5-6 minutes long.  I found it interesting that it was sponsored by Subaru, yet the show had nothing to do with cars.  Turns out that they probably funded the main character's name (which is Subaru), though it's a little questionable as to why they want to associate themselves with a magical girl.  I mean, if they wanted to associate themselves with a magical girl, this one might've been a better choice.
Anyways, for the actual show, it's short (did I say that before?), so really not much can be fit in there.  Whilst it seems to be reasonable, I think it ultimately tries to fit in too many things in the short duration, and doesn't quite do anything really well.  It would've been better if they only focused on fewer aspects and made more of an impact IMO.
2.5 stars

I was thinking the same thing with a girl named Subaru + magical girl. It was short and with an anime with astronomy as a theme, I excepted a whole lot more on that aspect so it left me a little disappointed.

(07/03/2011 02:18 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Fortune Arterial
Seemed to me like an average harem show with a slightly mysterious aura floating around at first.  But things merge into the general flow of events so nothing seems too out of place.
Maybe an odd thought, I found it a little amusing that if you replace "urge to drink blood" with "want to have sex", "drink transfused blood" with "masturbation" and similar things, the story actually somewhat still makes sense (and perhaps more sense in some circumstances).
The ending seems to sidestep the major issue, which is a bit disturbing, but on the other hand, it does manage to change the mood of the ending, which is probably what the writers intended.
3 stars

Stopped watching this at like episode 4.  May or may not continue.

I heard (from some dubious source, so take it with a grain of salt) that the anime changes the actual true ending of Fortune Arterial (which is supposedly the only good thing about it).  So yeah, you make an adaption, but change the only good thing in the original... I don't know lol.

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Haven't really been watching animes in the last 2 months or so.  Mainly playing games (Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Prince of Persia), and reading eroges, lol.

Mass Effect, 8.5/10... maybe 9  
And some eroges...
Hanachirasu, 7/10.  
Cross†Channel, 7/10.  

(This post was last modified: 07/03/2011 05:58 AM by Assassinator.)