Kaina of the Great Snow Sea eps 10 & 11 (complete)
Blood lust and Deus Ex Machina.
A bit like The Fire Hunter it had an interesting yet slightly dumb premise centred on, a possible, post apocalypse Earth (unless when using Japanese as an ancient lost language was just laziness and they couldn't be bothered making a made up language). The world is dominated by a sea, hence the title, and people struggle clinging to the bases of large trees and water is scarce! This is the dumb part as water is everywhere! Unless I missed the part where it's actually poisonous or something (the "snow" doesn't actually look like snow, but giant balls (maybe spores/terrible CG) that sit on top of the water), they seem technically advanced enough to have worked out desalination by now.
Anyway with that set up the initial episodes were a bit dull and then the latter ones got a bit more interesting exploring other aspects of the world and then it got super dumb in the last 2 introducing a mech (initial it seemed controlled from within by the bats**t insane bad guy, but no it was remotely from him using a helmet), a supernatural entity, and a hand laser producing a beam the Death Star would be proud of! Where'd this "ancient" tech get its power from?! Also most of the cast started making dumb decisions! It also felt a little rushed at the end, but at least had an end. Or so I thought, as apparently there's a follow up film.
Art and animation wise the CG was pretty good in some parts, the people looked pretty good especially the main cast had good designs, although the background crowds all looked similar to one another. But other parts were terrible, like the creatures the good guys rode on were ugly in the extreme.
6/10
Unlike The Fire Hunter I don't think the extra story will add enough to up the score here.
Buddy Daddies ep 9
Sports day.
This seems to be another show that suffered production problems? MAL says it's finished with 12 episodes and has the recap (8.5 on Crunchyroll) as a separate thing, but Crunchyroll only goes up to 11? I guess 12 will be later?
Tomo-chan is a Girl ep 13 (complete)
Obstacle.
This was a very funny rom-com with each of the 3 main girls, Tomo and her 2 besties, being hilarious in any combination. The male MC was definitely more of the straight guy here, but likeable enough.
The designs of the 3 girls were good too, but the art in general was only OK. The animation was pretty good though.
8/10
Always weird that I can write at length about stuff I didn't like as much, but can't always point out everything that makes stuff I like good! They just are!
