Post by Naughty Girls on Nov 22, 2015 22:22:57 GMT -5
So I'm starting these in places, since this is one of the few interests I have outside of writing roleplays . This is a halfway season review of series I've been keeping up with. For those that think this is a big list, I work with people who actually watch every episode of every series in every season. Not that that's a bad thing, I'm just...Saiyan. lol Okay, I'm done. But just so people know, there are small points that lead into previous discussions. Primarily about the similarities between Asterisk and Calvary. It was minor, despite how it sounds here since it was just based off the first show, and ended with an interest to see how they would differ in the future. Sorry if it presents any confusion.
Taimadou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai
This one has actually surprised me thus far. From the first episode I was afraid that this would become just another fan service first action later series given how we're introduced to certain members of the squad. But it's really picked up to serious-comedic-serious levels. Kinda along the same levels as...Die Hard. Yeah you have the action sequences but there's tender bits of comedy thrown throughout and they don't come across as out of place. I don't quite know how this one will end, although I can safely say that good triumphs over evil.
Garo: Guren no Tsuki
This has kind of been hit and miss with me. On one hand I can't help but compare it to such series as InuYasha and Kenshin in the sense that a lot of episodes are side line adventures. Scenarios that are quickly resolved inside of a single episode. But then when you realize that this series will most likely be a 12-13 episode one you start hoping for things to happen. There is the main villain and it's good we get an introduction in the first episode, but then nothing really happens with him much later than that. Not that it's a bad thing, considering we're just six episodes in thus far. Still, hopefully it should be good in the end. I understand that using Zaruba takes its toll on Raiko, but it'd be nice if we got a little more than a one swing attack. Just think if all Power Rangers fights ended with Megazord just showing up and once swinging his sword. End.
Ore ga Ojou-sama Gakkou ni “Shomin Sample” Toshite Gets-sareta Ken
First off, I can only really recommend this series to someone who looks first to the comedy of harem animes. The concept of this one is a teenage boy is admitted into a prestigious school for women. So prestigious that they don't know what it's like to live the life of a “commoner”. So that's where the boy comes in, to teach them. However, the only way he's allowed to stay is by convincing people that he's gay for muscle bound men. However, this doesn't come up as often as you may think. Even knowing it, at least two of the girls still go for his affection. Not to a struggling level, but you know they're both interested. Then there's the “loli” who is a teenager...just with a five year olds body. So while it is funny at times, you do really have to accept the comedy for it to work.
Side note: I was going to drop this based on the fact that it became nearly impossible to find in torrents. Seriously. I spent over an hour trying to get it somewhere but couldn't find the second episode anywhere! Eventually, after trying different methods, I found just looking out “ore ga Ojousama” has worked the best.
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid
Okay, this one I'm just watching for kicks now. I'm completely lost on the story, the scenario, everything. The series is just one sex scene from becoming full blown hentai. Seriously. You can even watch this series uncensored. Right off the bat. No waiting, just...right now. There's an episode that aired either yesterday or will tonight. It'll be uncensored in the torrents. The thing is, the series actually had potential to be something...good? At least respectable if they had stuck by their own rules of saying “only so and so can do this with so and so” and so on. But then people get mixed, there's a whole group being turned on by one person, it's by this point a mess. But I don't care. Like I said, I'll watch it for the kicks, and mainly because I don't like dropping series without a good reason.
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk
Admittedly, this one was a little hard to follow. In the introduction I made on this one, I stated that it could be compared quite heavily to Calvary and was curious with how it would differ in the weeks to come. It took a little while but eventually enough differences came. For starters, yes they are still both tournament based animes set in schools, but the characters differ as with, obviously, the situations. For starters, Ayato has actually lost a fight by this point. Yeah, the main character has already lost to a side character. The fights are even more sword based than special powers in a lot of cases. So they're a little more fast paced getting right in there style of action. The difficult part was getting into the tournament scheme. But thankfully it's done slowly enough and in fact, we're not even to that part yet! It's still just preliminary fights and people are still teaming up. Since it's set to be a doubles tournament. I'm wondering at this point if they're already getting a second season or if this will be along the same lines as Warriors of Tao and just focus on the pre tournament happenings.
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
Okay, right off the bat the first few episodes just kept instilling fear, after fear, after fear in me of what the series was going to be. First was the heavy doses of fan service, then the sister loving brother situation. It wasn't bad enough that they just slipped it in but the way the writers repeatedly bashed you in the head with the fact that the brother and sister are BLOOD RELATED. Seriously, that's how it came across. I think in one scene the sister said it like three times. Just to confirm and confirm that confirmation. But then something happened. Through all the magical sword play, awkward fan service, questionable incest motivations, the two main characters actually professed their love for one another. I was told that hardly ever happens in an anime and come to think of it it's hard to think of a series that does it so early on. Normally there's the feeling of love but neither side acts on it until later on in the series. In this one it just comes out right near the beginning. It does slow down the pace some in the following episodes, but it's picked right back up when we're introduced to one of the series main antagonists.
Yuru Yuri (Season 3)
I'll be honest, this is the series I look forward to all week. I don't know why. I mean each episode doesn't really lead into the next, even half episodes only get some recognition between the two. But this has been much better, in my view, than the first season and the first part of the second. There's not so much bickering between the girls, you feel that they've grown as characters, there's less sexual tension between them as well. For instance, Kyoko isn't always after Chinatsu, but instead just focusing on being overly optimistic and scatter brained. It's no longer a joke about Akari not being a main character because by this point nearly everyone, or at the very least the four girls, are the main characters. Unfortunately...while watching you know that that's as far as they'll go. Kyoko won't know Ayano's feelings toward her, Chinatsu will never kiss Yui, because there's always either going to be the nervous tension or the thing that blocks the path. But I still can't help but enjoy it just for the character interactions.
So there we go. Halfway thoughts. Hope you enjoyed them.
Party on,
Joe.
~eat snacky smores~
Taimadou Gakuen 35 Shiken Shoutai
This one has actually surprised me thus far. From the first episode I was afraid that this would become just another fan service first action later series given how we're introduced to certain members of the squad. But it's really picked up to serious-comedic-serious levels. Kinda along the same levels as...Die Hard. Yeah you have the action sequences but there's tender bits of comedy thrown throughout and they don't come across as out of place. I don't quite know how this one will end, although I can safely say that good triumphs over evil.
Garo: Guren no Tsuki
This has kind of been hit and miss with me. On one hand I can't help but compare it to such series as InuYasha and Kenshin in the sense that a lot of episodes are side line adventures. Scenarios that are quickly resolved inside of a single episode. But then when you realize that this series will most likely be a 12-13 episode one you start hoping for things to happen. There is the main villain and it's good we get an introduction in the first episode, but then nothing really happens with him much later than that. Not that it's a bad thing, considering we're just six episodes in thus far. Still, hopefully it should be good in the end. I understand that using Zaruba takes its toll on Raiko, but it'd be nice if we got a little more than a one swing attack. Just think if all Power Rangers fights ended with Megazord just showing up and once swinging his sword. End.
Ore ga Ojou-sama Gakkou ni “Shomin Sample” Toshite Gets-sareta Ken
First off, I can only really recommend this series to someone who looks first to the comedy of harem animes. The concept of this one is a teenage boy is admitted into a prestigious school for women. So prestigious that they don't know what it's like to live the life of a “commoner”. So that's where the boy comes in, to teach them. However, the only way he's allowed to stay is by convincing people that he's gay for muscle bound men. However, this doesn't come up as often as you may think. Even knowing it, at least two of the girls still go for his affection. Not to a struggling level, but you know they're both interested. Then there's the “loli” who is a teenager...just with a five year olds body. So while it is funny at times, you do really have to accept the comedy for it to work.
Side note: I was going to drop this based on the fact that it became nearly impossible to find in torrents. Seriously. I spent over an hour trying to get it somewhere but couldn't find the second episode anywhere! Eventually, after trying different methods, I found just looking out “ore ga Ojousama” has worked the best.
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid
Okay, this one I'm just watching for kicks now. I'm completely lost on the story, the scenario, everything. The series is just one sex scene from becoming full blown hentai. Seriously. You can even watch this series uncensored. Right off the bat. No waiting, just...right now. There's an episode that aired either yesterday or will tonight. It'll be uncensored in the torrents. The thing is, the series actually had potential to be something...good? At least respectable if they had stuck by their own rules of saying “only so and so can do this with so and so” and so on. But then people get mixed, there's a whole group being turned on by one person, it's by this point a mess. But I don't care. Like I said, I'll watch it for the kicks, and mainly because I don't like dropping series without a good reason.
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk
Admittedly, this one was a little hard to follow. In the introduction I made on this one, I stated that it could be compared quite heavily to Calvary and was curious with how it would differ in the weeks to come. It took a little while but eventually enough differences came. For starters, yes they are still both tournament based animes set in schools, but the characters differ as with, obviously, the situations. For starters, Ayato has actually lost a fight by this point. Yeah, the main character has already lost to a side character. The fights are even more sword based than special powers in a lot of cases. So they're a little more fast paced getting right in there style of action. The difficult part was getting into the tournament scheme. But thankfully it's done slowly enough and in fact, we're not even to that part yet! It's still just preliminary fights and people are still teaming up. Since it's set to be a doubles tournament. I'm wondering at this point if they're already getting a second season or if this will be along the same lines as Warriors of Tao and just focus on the pre tournament happenings.
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
Okay, right off the bat the first few episodes just kept instilling fear, after fear, after fear in me of what the series was going to be. First was the heavy doses of fan service, then the sister loving brother situation. It wasn't bad enough that they just slipped it in but the way the writers repeatedly bashed you in the head with the fact that the brother and sister are BLOOD RELATED. Seriously, that's how it came across. I think in one scene the sister said it like three times. Just to confirm and confirm that confirmation. But then something happened. Through all the magical sword play, awkward fan service, questionable incest motivations, the two main characters actually professed their love for one another. I was told that hardly ever happens in an anime and come to think of it it's hard to think of a series that does it so early on. Normally there's the feeling of love but neither side acts on it until later on in the series. In this one it just comes out right near the beginning. It does slow down the pace some in the following episodes, but it's picked right back up when we're introduced to one of the series main antagonists.
Yuru Yuri (Season 3)
I'll be honest, this is the series I look forward to all week. I don't know why. I mean each episode doesn't really lead into the next, even half episodes only get some recognition between the two. But this has been much better, in my view, than the first season and the first part of the second. There's not so much bickering between the girls, you feel that they've grown as characters, there's less sexual tension between them as well. For instance, Kyoko isn't always after Chinatsu, but instead just focusing on being overly optimistic and scatter brained. It's no longer a joke about Akari not being a main character because by this point nearly everyone, or at the very least the four girls, are the main characters. Unfortunately...while watching you know that that's as far as they'll go. Kyoko won't know Ayano's feelings toward her, Chinatsu will never kiss Yui, because there's always either going to be the nervous tension or the thing that blocks the path. But I still can't help but enjoy it just for the character interactions.
So there we go. Halfway thoughts. Hope you enjoyed them.
Party on,
Joe.
~eat snacky smores~