Rate the last anime you watched out of 10

[Animefreak17]

@sanji no 1

Yeah I thought it was averege too.

Princess jellyfish

I love it it's a charming and funny anime. You know how you see in anime series that there's always boy otaku and barely any girl ones well this series has only girls which is nice for a change.

This anime is funny and has put me in the mood again and recharged me for more.

This series has like 2 or 3 mini story's going on in the main story if that makes sence ( just watch it and see what im talking about.

Anyways it's about 5 girls who live together and are otaku and see people who are in fashion and beautiful the enemy. And our main heroin loves jellyfish and one day she gose to a pet shop looking at Clara the jellyfish and the jellyfish is put in a tank with another jelly that's harmful to the other and then a beautiful girl comes along and buys the jelly fish for her. I won't go any further so I wont spoile te good parts.

Anyways

Story good
Comedy very funny
Charecters fun
Animation nice

I really enjoy this anime and wish it went on a little longer

9/10

 

[Animefreak17]

Utawarerumono

This series is very enjoyable in a personal view it's not fantastic or over the top but it's very enjoyable, it's like one of those games you play and on your journey you get companions on your journey this is a lil like that, the storys good, its about a man who lost his memory's and helps the weak and gains friends though his journey to bring peace. The charecters are good too. And the animations really good and have a little bit of CGI.

it's my kinda anime where everyone is Friends I wish it went on abit more tho.

story 8/10
Charecters 8/10
Animtions 9.5/10

It's a good series

8.5/10

 

[BlackWolf]

Utawarerumono

This series is very enjoyable in a personal view it's not fantastic or over the top but it's very enjoyable, it's like one of those games you play and on your journey you get companions on your journey this is a lil like that, the storys good, its about a man who lost his memory's and helps the weak and gains friends though his journey to bring peace. The charecters are good too. And the animations really good and have a little bit of CGI.

it's my kinda anime where everyone is Friends I wish it went on abit more tho.

story 8/10
Charecters 8/10
Animtions 9.5/10

It's a good series

8.5/10

To be fair AF, it is based off a visual novel (though as you can imagine not all the features of said visual novel made it into the anime...given it's urm...mature content and all) So the reason it feels like a game where you gather companions is because it's exactly that, the adaptation of a game

 

[mangaman74]

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Boogipop phantom
Il watch again one day and I'd I understand what's going on I'l give my score but for now my score for this is a.....
4/10

If you ever do rewatch Boogiepop Phantom, I recommend reading the Boogiepop and Others light novel first. It'll help explain some of the background to the anime series and introduces some characters who appear in it.

iv watched the live movie after i watched the series tho so i should of watched the movie first right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_and_others

The confusion here is that there is a light novel and a live-action movie both of which are called Boogiepop and Others (the novel was also made into a 2 volume manga called 'Boogiepop doesn't laugh' as well).

Like fabricatedlunatic said, it is supposed to make more sense to read the light novel before watching the anime in order to better understand it (which is why I got the book earlier in the year so I can read it next time I watch the anime).

 

[sanji no 1]

Fullmetal Alchemist: The sacred of Milos
6/10
Wow! What a big disappointment! Where do i begin?

OK, first off the story is crap! It was overly complicated and hard to follow. Did Julia want to go back to Creta or stay with her village in Milos? The goals weren't very straightforward! This was my biggest gripe with the film. Also there were too many twists and turns that it just got overly silly!

Second problem is that i didn't like any of the new characters. Julia sucked and her voice annoyed the hell out of me. Her "brother" was just a cardboard cut out of anime anime villain. I really didnt see the point of the black bats eaither.

My last complaint is that it hardly felt like it was fullmetal alchemist! Probably due to the lack of characters from the show.

The only good thing about the show was that the fight scenes were pretty epic. Especially when the wolf chimeras were involved.

Overall, the worst Fullmetal Alchemist installment ever. Dont be in a rush to buy this, as your not missing out on much.

 

[teonzo]

The Big O

Holy crap was this boring! Watching all the episodes has been really a pain for me. The first episode promised something really good, I was expecting a dark series with lots of psychological twists and some apocalyptic tones (stuff I really like). But all the other episodes in the first series were simply flat. The first episode of the second series was great, nice story and very nice animation (

Spoiler: design of some characters

loved the mecha design of the 3 Megadeus enemies

). After that it turns again into messy and flat stories. The ending was just another useless pretentious philosophical turnaround (I'd say that Evangelion did a bit of damage in this sense). Characters were a lesson in flatness, especially Dorothy: ok, she's an android, but damnit, she's just a wasted ornament in the series.
Overall this series gave me similar impressions as Noir: pointless writing, boring and stereotyped characters, a snoozefest.

Score : 5 / 10



Teo

 

[teonzo]

Utawarerumono

it's my kinda anime where everyone is Friends I wish it went on abit more tho.

I wouldn't say everyone is friends, considering the amount of fights and deaths...



Teo

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Ghost In The Shell

9/10

Decided to re-watch this today. I could just watch it with the sound off, it's so gorgeous, but then if I did that I wouldn't get to hear Kenji Kawai's haunting score. This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime, it perfectly harmonises the beautiful aesthetics and sounds of this film.

 

[ayase]

This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime

Are you me?

 

[Animefreak17]

This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime

Are you me?

That played apart for me too.

Spice and wolf

It's very charming and a nice journey between a god and a human and the human (Lawrence) meets a god Called Holo who gives good harvests to villegers but she misses her home land and so he helps her by taking her to her home land but she can only go with the the harvest wheat otherwise she.ll disappear while on there journey they hide the fact she's a godcause if the church finds out theyll burn her for being a girl possessed by a demon and loads of other things happen in there journey and the whole church thing really isn't a issue though out the story there journey is mostly aboutmaking money, the markets, buesness deals which confuessed me. But I wouldn't mind watching it again cause it was sooooo good. In the series they mostly tease each other which I found funny and the animtions really beautiful and holo is sooo adorable and funny and is witty.

I really hope they continue the anime cause the story is really something else besides the stuff about the parts about money and deals and such

Animtions 9/10
Charecters 8.5/10
Story stuff about the money and deals ect left me confussed so a 6/10 but besides that a 8/10

It's a good series I'm defo watching again

8.5/10

 

[fabio de lunatico]

The Big O
Holy crap was this boring! Watching all the episodes has been really a pain for me.

It was a disappointment for me too. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting (it's been a while) but it certainly wasn't what I got. Every episode of the first series (never watched the second) had the exact same formula of 15 minutes of plot, 5 minute giant robot fight, and none of it was particularly interesting. I did like the design, though.

 

[Professor Irony]

This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime

I always remember the shot with the plane flying overhead, but I'd forgotten just how long that scene actually goes on for - it's really rather beautiful. Particularly like the reflection in the windows of the bus.

 

[Animefreak17]

You noticed that?! I thought It went on forever the first time I watched it

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime

Are you me?

Only if I get to be the alternate evil version :twisted:

 

[fabio de lunatico]

Ghost In The Shell

9/10

Decided to re-watch this today. I could just watch it with the sound off, it's so gorgeous, but then if I did that I wouldn't get to hear Kenji Kawai's haunting score. This scene will forever be the moment that truly got me into anime, it perfectly harmonises the beautiful aesthetics and sounds of this film.

The incredible visuals and music are the main reasons I like Ghost in the Shell. It's hard to believe it's 17 years old.

There are some similar scenes in Oshii's even older Patlabor movies. The shots of a snowy and eerily quiet Tokyo on the brink of civil war in Patlabor 2 are hauntingly beautiful (and of course his partner-in-crime Kenji Kawai was on soundtrack duties in both films).

 

[Animefreak17]

Gits 2 had something similar, the visuals was stunning and the music was good but the original was best

 

[Rui]

Reposting from the temporary forums...

You all know what to do.

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
(Warning: Spoilers)

First off, I want to say that I went into this film with low expectations. I had heard that while it was an entertaining movie, but a bad instalment in the Fullmetal Alchemist[/i] franchise. However, I was curious (and a completionist. Once I get the Brotherhood OVAs, I'll own all the manga volumes, all of 2003 series, all of Brotherhood and both movies).
I do see what people meant by that though; although for me, it isn't so much due to the lack of main series characters appearing (I imagine this was done so that the movie could appeal to both those who had only seen the 2003 anime, or have only seen Brotherhood) but it was how the characters were portrayed - they seemed "out of character" (For example, Ed's lines sounded more like a typical protagonist's, as opposed to the Edward Elric we know). The only characters who seemed to be exactly like their series selves were Alphonse (although even his character seemed dilated) and Roy (and he did next to bugger all in the film). Armstrong and Breda only getting a single line each annoyed the hell out of me, while Riza and Winry both said little (although Riza had a fair amount of screen presence). The movie was essentially about Julia Crichton, although as she was a fairly strong character, I have no complaints there.

One thing I noticed instantly was the art style. I was a bit put off by it when I originally saw the trailers, but it does look really good in motion. The only thing that bugged me was one scene where Al's helmit was drawn a bit too high, but oh well. The animation was really good and the action scenes were incredible.

What I didn't like though was the almost soap opera they gave to Julia's brother, Ashley Crichton (such as him dying, then apparently being alive, but oh wait, the guy she thought was Ashley was actually Melvin Voyager wearing his face, then oh wait, Ashley IS alive and is a Colonel)...seriously, did anyone else find that annoying to follow? Also, as soon as we were introduced to the concept of Table City's pillars, I outright said it's a Transmutation Circle! and low and behold, it came true...do they think we're stupid? Also, at one point Al said that he and Ed came to Table City to look for other ways to get their bodies back...erm no, didn't they actually go there to track down who they thought was Ashley Crichton?

There is one thing I have to ask as well, that's a big spoiler for the end of the film: When Julia consumed the Philosopher's Stone, it took over her. So why then, didn't she become a homunculus? In fact, how come Ashley wasn't taken over by his stone? (one could argue that he was, but I think his madness was caused as a result of the trauma and how hard he worked to try and get revenge, not by the stone itself) or how come it never happened to Kimblee in the main series?.

I also noticed a few similarities to Conqueror of Shamballa:
- Church leading to abandoned underground city of the past.
- Character seeking assumed power from the other side of the gate to (re)gain land.
- Mustang being featured heavily, but ultimately doing next to f--- all.
- L'Arc~en~Ciel doing the main theme.

Overall, it was an entertaining film and visually amazing, but its connection to the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise was fairly weak.
7/10

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natsuyuki rendezvous

I really wanted to like this, and I tried...but it was just so disappointing. The first two or three episodes were great and had me really hoping that it would not rapidly start plummeting into the depths of nonsensical- trying too hard to be deep and profound- emotional gibberish, yet I feel there was far too much nonsensical gibberish in that show for it's own (and my own) good. The biggest thing the show gets wrong is it's characters, none of the three leads are particularly likeable: you have Hazuki, who comes across as a generally boring and disinterested guy who happens for some reason to be totally infatuated with Rokka, yet is quite arrogant and overly demanding towards her. Then you have the ghost husband, who despite being a talented florist while alive, ends up as a selfish and petulant waste of astral space. Rokka is the least offensive of the lot, but there's just not a whole lot to her, she seems quiet, kind and dedicated, but she's lacking any kind of spark.

I was hoping it would go somewhere, but it never really did, the ending wasn't great and some details seemed completely random:

Why the hell did the ghost ask Hazuki's gandson to call him grandfather?? And why when the child just refused, was the ghost for some inexplicable reason finally able to "move on", or so it seemed.

On that note, what was the ghost doing for all those years in between! Hanging around the shop? He surely should have moved on when he left Hazuki's body, after saying goodbye

4/10

natsuyuki rendezvous

I really wanted to like this, and I tried...but it was just so disappointing. The first two or three episodes were great and had me really hoping that it would not rapidly start plummeting into the depths of nonsensical- trying too hard to be deep and profound- emotional gibberish, yet I feel there was far too much nonsensical gibberish in that show for it's own (and my own) good. The biggest thing the show gets wrong is it's characters, none of the three leads are particularly likeable: you have Hazuki, who comes across as a generally boring and disinterested guy who happens for some reason to be totally infatuated with Rokka, yet is quite arrogant and overly demanding towards her. Then you have the ghost husband, who despite being a talented florist while alive, ends up as a selfish and petulant waste of astral space. Rokka is the least offensive of the lot, but there's just not a whole lot to her, she seems quiet, kind and dedicated, but she's lacking any kind of spark.

Why the hell did the ghost ask Hazuki's gandson to call him grandfather?? And why when the child just refused, was the ghost for some inexplicable reason finally able to "move on", or so it seemed.

On that note, what was the ghost doing for all those years in between! Hanging around the shop? He surely should have moved on when he left Hazuki's body, after saying goodbye

Ahh! I completely disagree!

For me, all three of the characters were lovely. They were flawed as you say, but under the rather extreme circumstances it seemed plausible. Rokka was a darling, Hazuki was naive but genuinely sympathetic and Shimao was one of the most interesting and nuanced characters of the current season.

Shimao himself does seem to have been a very divisive character overall. From the gist of comments on CR, I gather that his motivations and personality don't make much sense to a lot of viewers. He has an unquestionably childish side, and his unfriendly demeanour doesn't make him endearing. As for why he asked to be called 'grandfather', I interpreted that as satisfaction that Rokka had passed on and a last chance at being a playful tease. When the child was similarly childish in his response, Shimao could relate to it and it didn't bother him.

He watched over Rokka until she died before Hazuki to try to protect her from the gut-wrenching torment she'd already been through once in her life. The series didn't spend 11 episodes talking about how sad he was and highlighting it obviously the way some other shows might, but given his prickly yet intense personality I didn't think it out of character that he'd look out for Rokka and her family for years to come, even if he never said he would in a sappy parting scene. And his own inability to have children coupled with seeing the child/grandchild of the love of his life, complete with her mannerisms and physical traits, could plausibly have made to him being especially protective of them. He was a prickly guy even when he was alive, but the bitterness of watching his loved one from the sidelines seemed to have magnified that.

The fact that Shimao acts in an openly passive aggressive way throughout the series doesn't mean he's actually a bad person, in my interpretation of the series - just that he's terrible at communicating his feelings and some of those feelings are extremely dark given what he's been through. His desperate dying letter and the focus on the artsy way he writes in a previous episode are some of the things which built up this impression. He was desperate to be understood, and someone trying to understand him was the most precious and beautiful thing he'd ever experienced, even if he didn't completely open up to her in some ways (the scene with him remembering the way he'd speak to her when she was drunk highlighted this).

The way he's battling with Hazuki at first (and later with himself) over what to do with the woman he loves seemed completely rational. If I was in his shoes I'd come off as a completely petulant jerk as well because I'd be desperate to keep the love interest for myself when I cared so much about her and saw how much she missed me. I believe both of the boys truly loved Rokka, so their struggles mattered a lot to me. I cried my eyes out during the climax of the episode, so at least for me it was definitely working as a bittersweet romantic series! I get that it ended up having more fantasy elements than might have been expected. This seems common for the genre so perhaps it didn't ruin things for that reason.

One of the things I love most about the personal way that this kind of anime is created (with an original creator's unique take on life being blended into the story) is that we end up with a lot of offbeat characters who don't fit the usual archetypes that industries such as Hollywood continuously pump out. I can relate more to Hazuki, Shimao and Rokka than to the characters in most big live action shows for this reason. Unfortunately, for the same reason, they seem to alienate viewers too ;_;

Edit: Sorry, I was thinking about this more when I was riding the bus and I have more to say about why I love the characters!

I think part of the problem with Shimao is that he is written by a woman. There are cultural expectations here in Britain that men behave in certain ways, and as a result of the series having been written with a very feminine slant, perhaps the men come off as unrealistic. In Shimao's case, this can be explained easily by his unusual life. Spending so much time living in a bubble of protection to the extent where he never even learned how to run, it's not surprising that he has a different way of acting around people than someone with a normal upbringing and normal goals.

Although I often see it stereotyped that Japanese people are very repressed emotionally, if anything my impression is the opposite when creative works are taken into account. The depiction of the daily intimacy between Rokka and Shimao was so accurate and sincere that it almost felt erotic to me. The pair of them talking about mortality and bones felt at once strange and yet also exactly like the kind of difficult-to-understand-from-outside approach I'd use discussing complex issues with someone I loved deeply. I want to keep using the word 'intimacy' over and over, because more than anything else I feel that Natsuyuki Rendezvous perfectly nailed this particular aspect of the couple's relationship, and did it with an accuracy which blows significantly more famous romances out of the water. Western fiction is extremely confident in depicting sex and love, but bizarrely terrified of conveying actual adult intimacy between two people and showing a plausible growth of trust. I cannot relate to many things. I could relate to this anime.

Rokka, on a superficial level, is a two-dimensional and compliant Japanese lady. But looking a little deeper, she's far more than that and I love her dearly. I love that she can love a flawed man like Shimao so earnestly, and that she stayed loyal to him and remembered his wishes and talent for all that time, and that she has the guts to question what she is seeing and the courage to move forwards in spite of what life throws at her. She's definitely a gentle person, but she's far from meek; she muses about whether she'll sleep with Hazuki from an early stage, takes the initiative regarding washing Hazuki's back, stands up for herself when she has to, and she stands up for Shimao, too, when Hazuki insults him in an early episode. She is also able to be honest with her feelings and make decisions in difficult circumstances, automatically making her substantially more mature and interesting than most characters in romantic stories. Just because she's gentle doesn't make her any less a lioness inside.

Hazuki, despite being the main character, is comparatively bland compared to the other two. It's romantic that he's swept away by the manager at first, but more romantic that the troubles he faces with her only make his love stronger instead of scaring him away. He looks sloppy and unmotivated, but he's quite handsome in his own way and his impatient, youthful personality provides a good contrast. Even though he's almost rudely forward in his interactions with his rival and his pursuit of Rokka, it's exactly what she needs. While I preferred watching Shimao in terms of raw entertainment value, Hazuki definitely earned my affection too and I was rooting for him by the time the show reached its climax.

Hmm, I really enjoyed the show.

R

Hmm, interesting. I think we definitely had very different experiences with the show, haha. I think that perhaps part of my problem with the show is that I seem to have a relatively low tolerance for romantic melancholy these days, if I'm honest. And I seem to often find Japanese anime romantic melancholy particularly grating, for some reason. I can see what you mean when you say that the Japanese may be more adapt at portraying intimacy than the west, Japanese romance dramas do often have an intensity that western ones lack, and I can relate to intense romantic relationships, but so often that intensity is expressed in ways that I can't relate to, they're often too hammy and unrealistic-or so they seem to me eg. eating bones, leaving a stupid bite mark on someones neck beacuse "I'm a vampire", and why the hell was Hazuki licking that bite mark!? Get out of here., that intensity is often wrapped up in self pitying characters who seem to have nothing else they feel passion or purpose for. And that annoys me, I guess.

I can understand alot of what your saying though, Rui. ButIn regards to Shimao, it's not that I find him or his motivations unrealistic, it's that I don't find him interesting or enamoring despite the fact that the show clearly wants him to have my sympathy. As for Hazuki, the best thing I can say about him is that he certainly isn't repressed, and that he does he does care greatly for Rokka....but that's it. He's a bizarre character, he seems to go from zero- acting like he doesn't give a **** about anything, to 10- sticking Rokka's fingers in his mouth and asking for sex. He has no charm whatsoever.

In truth though, I do agree with what you wrote about Rokka. I actually quite liked her, I think I was just going in for the kill yesterday.But she's wasted on those two guys.

In regards to the ending. I still can't quite understand why he was "watching over Rokka", he has no place that world anymore, and it's not like he can even protect her from anything anyway, as he's a ghost and can do nothing. And you'd think Hazuki would get a bit tired of seeing him hanging around!

But as I've said it's probably me as much as the show, as I seem to have these sort of issues with many Japanese dramas.

One Piece S2

9/10

With this season the show covered its first saga, and boy was it epic. The Alabasta saga is a brilliant tale of subterfuge, political/social climate and friendship (of course). One of the key ingredients in all this culminating was Crocodile, the first (and still really only) evil genius type villian Luffy and crew have went up against. The man is dangerously genre savvy at times he locks them in a cage in a room filled with banana-gators and flooding with water, giving them the chance to get the key from within one of the gators, but even then it's not the right key he just wanted to mess with them. And he foresaw them potentially preventing the cannon from being shot and placed a timer on the bomb to go off only a few seconds later. The fact that he actually has Luffy beaten...TWICE! makes him genuinely interesting and a real threat. Crocodile's lackies are all entertaining too, particularly Mr. 3 and Bon Clay, and present some very good fights with the Straw Hat Crew. Usopp/Chopper's battle with Mr.4/Miss Merry Christmas was especially good as it not only had a lot of comedy but Usopp being brave, and gosh darnit I love it when he decides to man up in things. It's just amazing to watch this weak, coward decide that he's willing to risk his life if it means saving his friends.

It's not all just about the bad guys though, there's some new faces on the Straw Hat's side too. Vivi settles in quick enough to the group and I think you can genuinely feel the anguish she has in trying to prevent her kingdom from falling apart, and it actually created a refreshing moment for a shonen series when Luffy tells her that she can't stop the war without people dying, normally the hero will do all they can to stop this from happening. One thing that annoys me somewhat is it's built up to the heavens that she's going to join the crew. I remember the 1st time I watched it absolutely convinced she was going to join them, she had an eye-catch and everything! But she turns them down, in what is one of the most awesomely touching scenes of all time when they say goodbye, and then Robin joins?! Going back to this now it's still an absolutely huge curveball to throw, I mean Nico Robin? Where did that come from? Chopper is a great fit with the crew joining Luffy and Usopp in the idiot group, but also Usopp and Nami in the cowardly group, his backstory is also one of the most tragic, the dramatic irony of it all.

There's plenty of good stuff for Zoro this season, which is always a plus for me. His fight at Whisky Peak is excellent and the geography of it is fluid and very different to most fights. He also has a bad ass fight with Mr.1 and plenty of great comedy moments too, as the 'Zoro has no sense of direction' jokes start and his attitude when turning to wax was hilarious, 'if I'm going to turn into a statue then I'm going to do it in this awesome pose'.

Probably the only thing that stops this from being the utmost perfect season is the filler. The "Chip and Dip" episode is terrible, I'm fine with the Sand Pirates and Camu etc, but that other one is God awful. The Zenny pirates is also dreadfully forgettable, though it does have Zoro lost jokes in it. The Rainbow Mist is decent filler though, overall One Piece filler can be genuinely fine to good but there a couple of real stinkers here.

Haven't watched the last three eps of NatsuVous (am I totally making that up? Is there a better/more official abbreviation?) yet so I will read the spoilers afterwards, but why do characters have to be likable to be good, compelling characters?

I love the fact that Atsushi acts like a bit of a **** so much of the time - the dude got a pretty raw deal overall (this could be an "understatement"), and I would challenge 99% of people to deal with it any better. The fact that they manage to make him sympathetic is more important to me than making him likable.

Crest of the Stars

This sci-fi opera reminded me a bit of Infinite Ryvius, mostly on how the male main character acts and his voice-overs. The setting is nice and some dialogues are great. What I did not like that much is that the whole series does not seem to be focused, it just seems like various pieces of good stories put together without a real focus on how the main story is developing (if there is one). If they put the same care on the storytelling as the one they put on the more refined dialogues, then this could have been much better. Enjoyable series overall, but not great.

Score : 7.5 / 10



Banner of the Stars 1

This is just Crest of the Stars part 2. Pretty much the same in everything. More space battles that on first look nice, but after few time they become boring and seem to be put there just because the writers did not know how to paste together two little arcs. The thing I liked more is that the war is depicted as a struggle to get better and not to try to slaughter as many enemies as possible: for example they never show enemies dying.

Score : 7.5 / 10



Teo

About bloody time I got back on here hi guys I'm back

Good news I got my new 40inch tv it looks great.

Iv been watching a few animes since I couldn't get back here til now so the reviews going to be long.

Gyo

Ok iv got to say that this movie is ridiculously disturbing but its a good movie,
The story is a some what zombie sort of film but with fish.

The plot
Fish start coming to the surface and everyone's in a panic there are sharks and god knows what else and this girl is trying to get back to her boyfriend but is having trouble finding him because of the fish.

The movie gets even more disturbing when It gets to the middle of the film and the villain is is so stupied but it's ok

8/10

Beck

A kid who follows his own way in life instead of letting society what he should do. The school stuff gets on my nerves abit but the parts with the band is good and the musics good too.

8/10

Area 88 ova

I like the other series where is concentrates more on the photographer but this story I'd more of our main character that flys the plains. The animations aged unlike its renewed counter part it's ok but I perfer the newer one

7.5/10

Kurau phantom memory

I was looking forward to watching this cause I only watched up to half way when I watched it on tv ages ago and I'm glad I finally finished it it's a good series.

8/10

Sorry for the sort reviews I'm tired and had a few anime to go though

Yeah ive finnaly gotten back to! Im Sanji no 1 on the other site.

Anyways

Fairy Tail volume 1
7/10
Ive been wanting to watch this show for ages now, and eventually bought the first volume from HMV.

I didnt know what to think of it at first, but to my surpirse it was actually pretty decent! Not Fantastic, but good none the less. Its pretty obvious it borrows alot from other shonen shows (especially from One Piece) but that isnt always a bad thing. If your gonna borrow from another show, why not borrow from a good one?

I liked the chracters and it was a very full of life. it was also a very funny, especially Grey losing his cloths. Some of the fights were pretty cool aswell, especially during the begenning.

What i Didnt like was the constant use of still shots during some of the fight scenes. It wore old and was a really cheap decision! If your gonna have a long running fighting show, it is VITAL you have good animation. Its ok to use still shots from time to time but not always. And if you are gonna do alot of still shots, then make sure they look painfull!

Overall, a decent start to a shonen anime, but its constant use of still shots wares old pretty quick. I will continue it despite this as it is a very energetic show

So I finished Natsuyuki Rendezvous today.

Dunno if I can add much to what's already been said; I think I fall somewhere between Vash and Rui on the matter. It seemed a very solid, compelling series. The characters may not always have been the most likeable, but cruicially, I thought they were absolutely believable. The utter lack of histrionics throughout the show was very welcome and I felt completely sold on what could easily have been a pretty stupid premise. I'm not sure how memorable the show's likely to be in the long run, but I enjoyed it while it lasted.

Haven't watched the last three eps of NatsuVous (am I totally making that up? Is there a better/more official abbreviation?) yet so I will read the spoilers afterwards, but why do characters have to be likable to be good, compelling characters?

I love the fact that Atsushi acts like a bit of a **** so much of the time - the dude got a pretty raw deal overall (this could be an "understatement"), and I would challenge 99% of people to deal with it any better. The fact that they manage to make him sympathetic is more important to me than making him likable.

Maybe I was a bit inaccurate in my initial post, it's not Atsushi's (?) childish a arsey behavior that annoyed me strictly. I actually enjoyed watching his childish attempts at sabotaging Hazuki in the early episodes. But I think the crucial point is that I just didn't find him compelling. As for the sympathetic aspect, well I did have some sympathy for him because as you stated he did have a bit of a raw deal, but as the show went (dragged) on, I think it became evident that I just didn't have the amount of sympathy for him that the show wanted me to have, I mean he was a ghost after all!

But he wasn't my my only problem of course, it was the fact that I found both of the men in the love triangle to be duds. Hazuki clicked with me even less than the ghost. I did quite like Rokka though.

The utter lack of histrionics

If histrionics means what google informs me it means (exaggerated/ overly dramatic) then I have to respectfully disagree. The show's attempts at being overly dramatic are probably what detracted from the show for me the most.

I can understand everyone's opinion on it though, it is somewhat unusual and is a quality made production no doubt. I was probably a little harsh in my review, but it just didn't really click with me.

If histrionics means what google informs me it means (exaggerated/ overly dramatic) then I have to respectfully disagree. The show's attempts at being overly dramatic are probably what detracted from the show for me the most.

Hmm, fair enough I suppose. On the whole, I found it very low-key, but it probably depends what you're comparing it to. Naming no names, but I found it a masterclass in understatement compared to a certain series about a girl with long black hair...

I think the difference is that the circumstances in Natsuyuki Rendezvous were proportional to the amount of emotion and drama. When watching a shoujo/shounen romance show, the characters always treat things which objectively don't matter very much as though they are the most important things in the entire world, e.g. school projects, asking someone out for the first time, being left alone with someone of the opposite sex. Natsuyuki Rendezvous, being aimed at a different demographic, dispensed with all of that melodrama. It certainly had a lot of drama, but given the subject matter it never felt disproportionate and topics which might be agonised over for dozens of episodes in other series were generally dealt with within seconds. The issues in the series were dramatic and world-changing within the context of Rokka's little life.

Also, I picked up a few tidbits about plants from the series. Pretty cool.

I do think the whimsical fantasy elements alienated a lot of viewers because there was a lot of contrast with the realistic romance plot. I also think that being spot on with the intended demographic for once might make me more passionate about it than normal ^^;

R

Yeah I'd agree with Rui about that. On the whole the drama was proportional I guess, but it was still a bit baffling and hammy nonetheless eg: "Oh no she refused to have sex with me on the first date, I'm going to get wasted on park bench in despair", or "Yes let's get married (even though we might actually hate each other, as we haven't actually been in any kind of long term real relationship yet) but let's eat your ex husbands bone's first. Now I'll just get back to licking that bite mark if you excuse me mmm...

Its that kind of stuff that's too hammed up for my tastes.

Maybe this means I'm uber manly again?

 

[Rui]

More Natsuyuki Rendezvous discussion...

I don't think he was being entirely serious with the marriage remark, and indeed IIRC in the wedding photo at the end his hair was long again, so presumably some time passed before their relationship progressed to that level. With the date (if I'm thinking of the right moment, it's been a while), he wasn't distraught about missing out on sex, but because he'd blown it and made her think he was going to be resentful of her baggage with Shimao if they had a relationship. That moment could easily have soured their relationship forever and forced him to leave the shop. I don't think someone who quietly yearns for someone for so long is going to make such a big deal about having to take a relationship slowly after he'd made a show of not minding that her circumstances were complicated.

The bones and licking were intimacy-related and again, not to be taken completely literally as weird kinky power play (though I'd have nothing against someone I loved licking a wound of mine!). I asked my husband for a second opinion, and he said he wound interpret the act as a blend of possessive instinct and a desire to comfort Rokka. The bones were acknowledged as being a squicky issue even by the characters themselves. Aside from the very blatant references to the fairy tale and Shimao's social awkwardness, I believe that asking Rokka to eat them represented Shimao's desire to be part of her life forever, and Hazuki was saying it wasn't a burden she had to carry alone; he'd share that part of her with her dead husband. A relationship isn't always just between two people when there's a past. This kind of blunt expression of very primal impulses is quite common in stories for older women.

It may be that due to male-dominated media you aren't used to interpreting things expressed in this more feminine way? If so, I think it's a good thing that anime like Natsuyuki Rendezvous is getting a chance to be seen by more people and stimulate debates, even if it's losing something in translation for a lot of viewers.

R

 

[VoxPhantom]

Just finished watching Humanity has Declined.

Really enjoyed this series - mainly due to the brilliant character of Watashi/Miss Sweets/Mediator. No matter the situation, she always brought a chuckle from me due to her wit, sarcasm and brutal honest of thought - something that seems to be lacking in many an anime. I felt the various stories within the series were slightly hit-and-miss, I think the 'Fairies Subculture' arc and 'The Fairies Survival Skills' episode were both outstanding. I wasn't too keen on the final episode, as, although it detailed some of the Mediator's background, there wasn't much in terms of an overall resolution to the series - though I guess there's plenty of room for a second season to explore more of the issues relating to the fairies. I liked that part of Y's history was shown, providing more understanding for the 'Subculture' arc.

Overall, I'd give this an 8.5 rating. Definitely a series I'll be looking to pick up when Sentai release it.

 

[FourthLion]

Just watched Gyo. 6/10 for me I think. Just felt so hacked together and incomplete. Couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a drama or a horror flick either and kinda ends up failing on both counts. Some cool moments and some that just make no sense (what the hell was with the circus bit near the end? And the professor guy flying after he got infected? What was with the fish the girl binned at the beginning being over Tokyo later? Seemed like it was trying to say she spread the disease but then other information you get totally conflicts...). At least the CG type bits didn't clash as badly as I thought they would.
I'd say it's worth a watch but not sure I'll be watching it again.