Season's Greetings!!

I've been doing alot, so blogging is at the end of the tunnel for me. Unfortunately, I've watched alot of animé and even finished up ALOT of seasons, and while I want to blog about those, I'll never get the time to do it properly, so I'll list them the best I can in these lone 5 minutes of peace:

FALL 2006

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi - 8/10
Branched from generic low budget fighting to memorable masterpiece. Hope to see a season 2!

SPRING 2007

Darker Than Black - 9/10
Matrix, anyone? Really, who DIDN'T like the Matrix?

Kaze no Stigma - 7/10
Shana, made in Korea. hope for a season 2 as well!

Lovely Complex - 4.5/10
Okay, it was decent, but I practically dragged myself past the last 10 episodes...

Lucky Star - 8/10
Just a filler series, really, since Haruhi'll be coming soon!

Nagasarete Airantou - 8.5/10
Girl's Bravo, only instead of a planet, he's stuck on an island!

Seto no Hanayome - 9.5/10
Mermaid cartoons aren't boring anymore!!

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 9.9/10
Epic. Again, epic.

SUMMER 2007

Baccano! - 7.5/10
I'll need to watch this series again and again to catch everything.

Doujin Work - 5/10
The poor(/perverted) man's Comic Party.

Code Geass - 9.7/10
I count the OVAs as the end of the 1st season. All I can say?: Season 2? SEASON 2!!?

School Days - 8.5/10
((O_O))

Umisho - 9/10
LMAO!! "What IS that?" *peek* *peek*

FINALLY!!! Summer Season Break-Down: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!!

I've finally found time in my busy life of trying for university, getting a new job, and crazy manga sales for some good old blogging!

Now, here's all the Summer shows I've watched and will review based on the first episode of each:

(I haven't had much time to watch, so since I'm burning the midnight oil and blazing through each ep, I'll review them all as a whole rather than post after post after post. Easier for you and me! Hurray!!)

#14 - Moetan - 1/10
This is just wrong. I don't know where to start. I mean, the perverted mascot? The loli high schooler? The targeting of the male "I like little girls" viewers? Isn't this just promoting underage...stuff?

#13- Nanatsuiro Drops - 3/10

I had to crawl by the first episode, which is about as painful as standing in line in a convention for it's vendors. (Which, by the way, overprice all their items just cause they have alot of target customers.) Will NOT watch another episode of this.

#12 - Code-E - 4/10
Weird plot. A girl who disturbs electromagnetic waves, and a guy who asks her out based on that? Dunno where the story's gonna go from there, but I doubt I'll be interested enough to find out.

#11 - Potemayo - 4/10
Weird show, as it's about finding these cute, yet strange human-like chibi creatures in fridges. Nothing more from the show. If you like those slow comedies, like Azumanga Daioh, then watch this, although it's not as good as Daioh. At least not right now.

#10- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - 4/10
I was VERY disappointed with this series. The first season started off great with it's "Love comedy-turned-dark-then-ridiculously insane" theme! The first ep of this just slowly scrapes by, leaving me to wonder if they've train-wrecked a sequel like Sunrise did for My-Hime franchise. We'll see...

#9- Sky Girls - 5/10
While this series wasn't bad, it was a little boring, although just barely. We see how things got off, and know if you've seen the Sky Girls OVA released a while ago that we know what to expect out of this.

#8- Zombie Loan - 6.5/10
My love for DearS hasn't helped me with this one. I just couldn't get into this particular series. At least of yet. I'll try for episode 2, but no promises, ya hear?

#7- Doujin Work - 7/10
Interesting, yet it seems like it'll die down and fail, cause I get this really messed up vibe from it, similar to Love Love? I hope I'm wrong, cause this concept seems great!

#6- Devil May Cry - 7.5/10
Nice detail, but with MADHOUSE behind the screen, I expect some slowing down with the animation budget. The Death Note anime disappointed me somewhat, because it was straight from the pages of the manga, so why bother watching it? Here in Devil May Cry, they've changed the character's attitudes around, giving it somewhat of a refreshing feeling.

#5 - Baccano - 7.5/10
The first ep was all over the place, so I can't really tell what the initial story is, nor where it begins. One thing's for certain: it's based around really interesting abilities that I don't think just anyone can attain. Keeps me intrigued!

#4 - Umisho -8.5/10
I'm expecting alot from this series, because the first episode REALLY caught my attention! It just seems to keep getting funnier, but retains its serious moments! Definitely a keeper!

#3- Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - 9/10
This series is just spectacular in terms of taking a mundane situation and squeezing it for all it can do! It reminds me of that episode of Gintama where they spent that entire episode trying to eat yakitori(?)! Simple plot, alot to expand on! Only reason I haven't upped the rating was because of my light hatred for SHAFT for screwing up Negima!?. Otherwise, they've done an awesome job with this series! Ganbare!!

#2 - School Days - 9/10
Yes, this may be biased, but from what I've heard about this, I was very hyped to finally see it, and it hasn't disappointed me once! (Well, except for Makoto...damn him...) But this series is really keeping me alert as to what’s going to happen next! CAN’T WAIT!! >__<

#1 - Zero no Tsukaima ~Futatsuki no Kishi~ - 9.5/10
I think this may be the single-best season of this Summer 07', at least for anyone whose seen the first season! Oh god, the Saito beatdown hasn't let me down at all! If anything, they’re really turning up the punishment! Stay alive, Saito!!

School Days - 01

Alright! First animé review from yours truly!

I'd like to start the first of my many-to-come animé rants, from the most recent animé seasons, School Days of the Animé Summer Season 2007


Well, if you REALLY wanna get technical, then it's "School Days: In the school, three guys met.Their relation had been changed in the season, and turned into three love stories".

School Days is your average animé about Matoko Ito, a guy who falls in love at first sight with a girl, Kotonoha Katsura, but his own carelessness causes of his own classmate, Saionji Sekai, to find out. Well, very blatant description here. But oh well...


Makoto Ito: The protagonist. Your average "Why can't I score like HIM!!?" main character.


Saionji Sekai: The annoying, yet sassy intruder. Makes friends too easily...


Kotonoha Katsura: The kind, quiet, yet-weak-and-sickly girl: the eye of adoration.

So, in their first meeting, Makoto hears someone calling out for the train to wait for her. Kotonoha makes her appearance, and since that moment, he's been fond of her, innocently leading to him taking a photo of her for his cell phone. (Blog Note: Not legal.)

That same day, on their first day of school, Saionji notices the Kotonoha on his cell wallpaper. (Seriously though: His WALLPAPER!!? Who WOULDN'T catch that?...Baka.) Humbly, she jumps him on it, and then becomes "The Matchmaking Wonder, able to befriend people in a single sentence, despite her annoyance!"

Saionji, for the most part of the episode, ends up getting them together, so now right off the bat we have ourselves a happy little couple! You know something's wrong with this picture if you've noticed that this is only the first episode! Kinda like if someone at your school goes out with someone REALLY early in the school year.

But wait!! That's not all!

Makoto thanks Saionji for her selfless deed, although he did question her as to why she'd go out of her way to help him so much. He says he's indebt to her, and although she really didn't need him to owe her, she gets what she's wanted in the end. (Or at least, a little of what she's wanted!)

The rest should be interesting...


That's a good first impression.


I repeat: ILLEGAL.


I need more friends like these!!


"Mmm...crap..."


Oh ho~! Another character makes her appearance! Kinda loli, though!


When I owe girls, it never seems to work out like this..."OTL

To date, the only two fansubbers to sub this anime (first episode) are AniYoshi and Conclave. To compare both, I'd say that Conclave has the better quality, but AniYoshi's translations are slightly better. I'd probably rather go with Conclave, though.



Well, I can't wait for the next episode!