(22/02/2012 05:29 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Samurai Girls moved more into story mode later on, but interestingly, managed to keep a fair bit of ecchi despite getting more serious.  I thought the ink blots was some lame special effect, but for some reason, I kinda liked it more later on.
2.5 stars

The ink blots are possibly the best, most stylish method of censoring stuff in anime I've seen up to now.

(22/02/2012 05:29 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Clannad turning out to be very similar to Kanon, but I had expected that anyway.

It's Key, ofcourse they're sort of similar.

Quote:The developers at Tactics created a simple formula for a game: a comedic first half with a heart-warming romantic middle followed by a tragic separation and finally an emotional reunion formed what is known as a "crying game". The main purpose of such a game is to make the player feel for the characters and make them cry due to emotional scenarios which serves to leave a bigger impact on the player after the game is over.

- Key's nakige formula.


I'm going to finish Clannad After Story soon (after many many delays), will write up one of my crappy mini review things then.

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Samurai Champloo
Two samurais and a girl go around the place searching for a "sunflower samurai" and they fuck shit up along the way, and hip-hop music, and Mugen is awesome.  The story is episodic and pretty random, good thing is that it's quite entertaining, bad this is that when you look back on it, not all that much happened in terms of plot, and some episodes really shouldn't be there (like the 2 zombie episodes, wtf?).  I don't have much else to say, except that the baseball episode is like the funniest thing I've watched in the last 2 years or something.  Overall probably 8/10.

Yotsunoha
A boy meets his childhood friends from 3 years back, and confirms his feelings for one of them.  I found this to be rather boring because nothing really happens, just lots of talking and reminiscing, and not much impact.  Maybe if you like stories about childhood promises and stuff, you can give it a try, because it's only 2 episodes, not a big investment in time.  4/10.

(This post was last modified: 23/02/2012 09:03 PM by Assassinator.)