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We’re pretty confused on the issue of Blue Exorcist. It has a lot of promise, but it feels its too many places at once or something. Continue reading
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Anime Review
Arc and I just finished watching a few new anime series straight from Japan via CrunchyRoll and would like recommend a few series to you.
Fortune Arterial: A charming boarding school anime that involves fitting in, coming of age, and vampires. This anime features some of the most charming and tame vampires I have ever seen.
The World God Only Knows: The main character in WGOK is an anti-social dating game obsessed young man who is only interested in 2-D girls. One day, he receives a challenge that states he can conquer every girl he meets. Keima accepts and finds himself saddled with a demon partner named Elsie and a challenge to woo girls who are possessed with escaped souls. The show itself is enjoyable and worth watching, but the last episode has to be one of the coolest/scariest things I have ever seen.
Panty & Stocking: An acid trip. It’s a damn enjoyable acid trip, but this show is really off-the-wall. Must be consumed in small amounts over long periods of time.
Squid Girl: Ika Musume is the cutest world conquerer that you will ever meet. De geso!
Otome Yokai Zakuro: Zakuro is set during the Westernization of Japan, when European ways are clashing with the traditional Japanese spiritual world. A group of young soldiers is sent to work with the Ministry Spiritual Affairs and an understanding begins to grow between the two groups. An interesting note, Arc and I think that Agemaki must be the grandfather of Tamaki from Ouran High School Host Club.
Nanoha Inspired Characters
Viva La Tvtropes. Also, I love Sai. These kids are from a scifi game that draws heavily from Nanoha and X-files of all things. I’m finally getting a handle on some styles of anime drawing, and I love it. I plan to do as much of this as I have time for during the holiday.
My short todo list:
- Lowpoly foxgirl samurai for old unity proj
- import old unity proj
- draw cordellia
- draw rietz
- draw koneko
- reconstruct Vyrmsol
- rig sera
- skin sera
- animate sera
- sera env art
- sera particle effects
Tenjho Tenge Review…
I have been planning on writing a review about Tenjho Tenge, but have been putting it off because I wanted to watch the series again before making any judgement about it. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to force myself to watch the show again to make a fair judgement about it. So, please bear in mind while reading this review that it has been at least a year since I have last watched Tenjho Tenge and at least 4 years since I first watched the series.
Tenjho Tenge has great promise as a series. The characters are lively and well constructed, the opening theme is great, and the sword skills/fighting styles that are demonstrated in the anime are awesome. But, the plot and the show structure are designed and presenting in a fashion that leaves the viewer lost and irritated. I’ll say more about that later.
If you are interested in watching any part of the anime, I recommend watching (or listening) to the opening theme, “Bomb a Head!” As well as being a great example of Engrish lyrics, the song is peppy, upbeat, and pretty awesome. When I first watched Tenjho Tenge, I really hoped that the show would live up to the awesomeness of the intro song, but it continually fails to do so.
The problem with Tenjho Tenge is the plot and chronology. Most of the show is a flashback. The entire series is spent explaining events that happened about 2 years and not explaining the current events. While the events explained in the flashbacks are interesting, there are a lot of better ways to present the same material.
Despite the bad plot/flashback issues, Tenjho Tenge can be worth the time. If you are interested in fan service, large swords, and awesome fights, Tenjho Tenge is a good anime. If you like consistent plot and timelines, don’t watch Tenjho Tenge.
A Long Time Coming: Witchblade
Almost 15 years ago now, I came across two tomes that forever changed my course in life. They were the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual and Witchblade #15. Continue reading
Heroman Review
Happy Halloween!
Okay, back to anime reviews. I recently finished watching Heroman (which is currently available through CrunchyRoll) and felt that the series deserved a review because it is one of the best series I have seen in the past few months. Heroman is the brainchild of Stan Lee and wonderfully blends anime with American comic book styles into an interesting and approachable show. Except for the voice acting being in Japanese, the rest of the show is convincingly American, complete with skateboarding, corner cafes, crazy rock-and-roll loving grandmas, and signs in English.
I don’t want to ruin the plot, so if you are interested, check out the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroman. I will say that this anime involves mecha, high school romance, weird governmental agencies that you have never heard of, and aliens that make you want to grab some Raid.
Why this show is cool:
-Stan Lee is actually a character in the show and rather than just having a cameo role, he has a permanent seat in the cafe where Joey works from which he frequently gives advice to the main characters.
-Giant Mecha battles that can get you to empathize with an operatorless, voiceless robot. Poor Heroman!
The one thing with Heroman that slightly bothers me though is the main character, Joey Jones. Joey is supposed to be a gentle and kind young man, but the way the anime uses to show this makes Joey seem like a girl. His long hair and female voice actress make it very easy to assume that he is a girl. Of course, artists on Danbooru love this.
I would not be surprised if Heroman is quickly picked by an American company and dubbed. I just wonder if the show will appear someplace like Cartoon Network or if it will join a Saturday morning cartoon lineup.