Smooth and Flat

I’m not screenshotting this yet. The show is great; the narrator in the beginning of every episode is pretty handsome.

And after watching the first four episodes I guess I’d say it’s one of the masterpieces of the year.

Apparently, it’s 12 episodes long (or so it’s expected to be), and judging by the first arc, No Longer Human,  2 more novels are animated in the remaining 8 episodes. The production quality is not outstanding, but still really solid and pleasing.

Absolutely recommended.

Armed Librarians: The Book of Bantorra.

Looked like emo shit at first, getting to become kind of nice, though gloomy and dark, series. Character designs suck, though, for almost everyone (except some guys and two – just two – girls named Noloty Whateveritwas and Hamyuts Meseta).

Setting: steampunk. Well, not exactly; and we’ve got magic mixed in. There are airplanes, too, and gods lurk somewhere out there as well.

The opposing sides are the Library of Bantorra, which stores all books (with books being something extracted from people when they die – those books contain a person’s complete lifetime records), and the Church of Drowning in God’s Grace (a bunch of fanatics whose ultimate goal is to reach some kind of paradise, for which they have to indulge in every desire they’ve got).

And of course, there are superpowers in action, too.

(Please excuse the extremely bad quality of the screenshots, it’s dictated by the raw used.)

Produced by CLAMP, Madhouse and NHK, this is an adaptation of a manga series of the same title; it also references Wish. Hanato Kobato, the main character, is voiced by Sengoku Nadeko (I mean, Hanazawa Kana). We’re also getting Saitou Chiwa (Senjougahara Hitagi) who will be responsible for Kohaku’s voice.

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To Aru Kagaku no Choudenjihou. A certain TV animation’s spin-off series. Totally beating the original in terms of: story; action; episode planning; production quality; making sense; main characters; opening theme; etc; etc.

No Index here. Read the rest of this entry »

This series is a bit above average. Nothing really bright about the story yet; however I’ll be watching it. They totally bought me by having Lisa in the team. Like Touka said once, “You can’t resist the Koromo”.

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This show is about Mizuno.

I mean, it’s about Junpei’s troubles with cats. But it’s actually about Mizuno. Borrowing Aka-chan’s words, Junpei is “the actual main character’s sidekick who’s there for comic relief”. At least I think so. Mizuno is cute. The first episode is pretty. And cute. Cats are cute, too. Even Nyamsas. Read the rest of this entry »

This series doesn’t seem like having a huge budget, and what’s more, out of the five main characters’ voice actors, only Kondo Takashi have more than 2 roles in his portfolio. For everyone else it’s the first series to work with (with another exception of Saitou Yuka, who also voices Lucifer in Umineko).

Surprisingly enough, it’s a success. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, this is a massive screenshot post. I’ve even used the “read more” thing because there are too many screenshots down there.

So, the series is called “Kämpfer” (that’s in German; English translation will be “Fighters”, “Warriors”, or “Challengers”; in Sakagamish: “fightan ppl”). It’s about some girls who fight (insert Miyako’s “Thank you, Capt. Obvious” picture here). Think Team Fortress 2 – they have a Red team and a Blue team, determined by the colour of their bracelets.

The main character of the story, Natsuru, is a new kämpfer. There is an issue with that, though. Read the rest of this entry »

This season ends quite soon and with it, ends Bakemonogatari (which is set to be 15 episodes total). This show is – without any doubt – the best series of this summer. And all the songs are totally and incredibly catchy. The new opening theme, 「 恋愛サーキュレーション」 (“renai circulation”) by Hanazawa Kana, not only features another ultimately cute song, but a really nice video sequence along with it. It will be quite a feast if someone manages to beat Bakemonogatari’s opening and ending themes – and I doubt someone will (besides SHAFT themselves).

Have some Nadeko while I’m at it.

So yeah, if Saki is Lesbian Undertones the Animation, Kanamemo leaves it far behind. Though the series is pretty amusing if you ignore Yume and Yuki’s relationship (and the drunkard, too).

Mika and Saki are both too cute (yes, Kanamemo has a character called Saki; not to be mistaken with Miyanaga Saki from that other anime series); Saki is, though, also an evil overlord (which only adds points for her, of course). Mika is a tsundere. Or rather, she is The Queen of Tsundere. Kugimiya’s skills taken to an extreme degree. Mika is also a pro in the field of verbal abuse.

Romance; comedy; slice of life; shoujo ai; Kugimiya.

P.S. You gotta love Mika.

P.P.S. I’m dead serious about that.