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Anime that I have to watch. - now my anime review thread!
Micharus:
As my 'to watch list' is starting to get down to the end, I've added a couple of anime that I recently discovered have had second seasons released that have been completed.
They are;
Toaru Majutsu No Index II (2010)
Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu! (2011)
I enjoyed the first season of both of these anime, so they have been added to the list in the OP of this thread.
Mind you, a couple of the anime that in line ahead of these are 40+ episodes, so it will be a while before I get to them.
Also, I will be getting down the various anime that have been recommended to me in this thread, all I have to do is read through the whole thread and pick them out.... ::)
Micharus:
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru...... can't be translated fully by the Google translation thingy.
Apart from that, it's a interesting and different anime.
It is based on the manga of the same name, but doesn't follow the manga in sequence, rather it seems the anime takes a story arc from the manga at random and builds an episode or sometimes two on it.
Soredemo, is yet another 'Slice of Life' anime that follows the goings on of a small group of people.
This group of people are;
Arashiyama Hotori, a high school girl that we first meet in her 'Grannies' cafe, dressed as a 'maid'.
Isohata Uki, Hotori's 'Grandmother', who runs a cafe and has had the idea that turning it into a 'Maid Cafe' will bring in more customers.
Tatsuno Toshiko, one of Hotori's friends. Wears glasses and is good at ping-pong (table tennis). Has a pretty good idea of how a 'maid' should behave. She is interested Sanada.
Haribara Harue, another of Hotoris' friends. Has a good personality and can eat an apple through a fence. Awesome ping-pong player. Plays the drums.
Sanada Hiroyuki, seemingly the only male friend of her age that Hotori has. Is interested in Hotori.
Kon Futaba, when Hotori first meets Futaba, she thinks she is a he, but she isn't. Blonde with an attitude, likes her tail-less cat, plays a wicked bass guitar. President of the ping-pong club apparently.
The OP for this anime sounds just like something out of a 'Broadway Musical', the singing is good and the opening footage is nice to watch.
On the other hand, the ED is pure rock...sort of. Our 'maids' in a band, bass guitar, violin(!), drums and piano accordian(!!). Sounds good for the most part with a cool bass riff. Note that only two of the band members are actually 'maids' at the Cafe, the other two Kon and Haribara are members of the ping-pong club and so can't work at the cafe.
Our 'heroine' is Hotori, a laid back, reasonably attractive 16 year old high school student, who while she seems to do well in most of her other classes, fails miserably at maths, to the major annoyance of her maths teach, who is also her homeroom teacher.
This anime doesn't really have a story as such, it just follows what happens to Hotori, her friends and people she meets along the way.
For the most part, the anime is reasonably light, easy to watch stuff, although there are one or two episodes that had me cringing a few times from the 'awkward' atmosphere.
One of the big things we discover is that Hotori wants to be a detective, but we discover there isn't much chance of that happening due to the fact she can't even see that Sanada wants to be more than just friends with her.
The other thing that is going is that Hotori knows that Tatsuno likes Sanada and she is supporting her in her chase.
Hotori's Grandmother, who isn't really, is sharp as a tack, despite her age.
One thing I found interesting, is that there are 'parables' at the start of each episode, I think that is what they are at any rate.
The other thing I found annoying and odd are the occasions where Hotori's dog, Josephine, will suddenly popup on screen and say some sort of nonsense thing.
There are a small handful of parts that have been censored and they have chosen the 'light beam' to do it, but as there are very few scenes that use this, maybe three over the whole series, it's not so bad.
The last episode, while it didn't have me in tears, is a little sad, but it all ends well.
There are references to a couple of other anime in Soredemo, K-On! and Sayanara Zetsubo Sensai are two I picked out, but there may be more.
I can see another season of this coming maybe.
Going to watch 'B Gata H Kei'..... I hope it has some sort of a storyline. I have heard it is funny though and that is also good.
Havoc10K:
The title translates into:
"And yet, the city moves on/keeps on moving"
depending on intonation, but that's pretty accurate :)
My fav was the pure fanservice episode where they were stark naked in the laundry store XD
But in all seriousness... no, can't be serious about this show, it was very entertaining :D
Micharus:
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on May 26, 2011, 01:26:33 PM ---The title translates into:
"And yet, the city moves on/keeps on moving"
depending on intonation, but that's pretty accurate :)
My fav was the pure fanservice episode where they were stark naked in the laundry store XD
But in all seriousness... no, can't be serious about this show, it was very entertaining :D
--- End quote ---
heh, yes I found out when I added it to my 'MAL' list.
One thing, they were never naked, they still had bra/panties on and due to the light ray thing and cleverly placed wall fixtures, I never got to see any of it. meh.
As for being serious..... you are correct, it's impossible to be serious about this anime the only episode that was anywhere near serious was the last one and even that was done in a really sensitive way.
Havoc10K:
Ko-chan is dead flat, I doubt she needs a bra XD
but yeah, it is possible :D
Still, Voice actors did an awesome work in this one :D
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