Azumanga Daioh

[A Black Falcon]

I just watched the whole series... in a week... I'd rather have broken it up some, but I had to if I wanted to watch it before school starts, since I was renting it... great series. This is another anime that makes me wish animes went multiple seasons more often, though... I like stories that continue, and it's always sad to see things end, especially when, like this one, there is so little structure that it'd be easy to make it a lot longer... :(

Great show, though. Very well done... the "short stories with a cast of set characters" formula works very well. This show doesn't have much in the way of character development... it makes it feel more like a comic strip, where everything always stays the same (even though in this case time does pass, but the characters' looks don't change to reflect that). Which is also fine. :) It's just a great show... simple and easily understandable, but lots of fun to watch. Certainly one of the better animes out there... far better than Record of Lodoss War and Martian Sucessor Nadesico, of which I watched some episodes recently (though I also rented disk 1 of Inuyasha (eps 1-9) and liked it just as much as I like it on Cartoon Network... (and I like it on CN)).

If I had a complaint, though, I guess it'd be 'why have a 7th character (Kaorin; not counting the teachers) when you barely use her'... oh well. Oh yeah, and the ending is appropriately sad-yet-happy... but I was kind of wishing for the final episode to do something totally weird, like the crazy final episode of Excel Saga... :D ... okay, maybe not like THAT... it was just an example, okay? :)

[Great Rumbler]

This show doesn't have much in the way of character development...

Yeah, but it's not really necessary since it's really easy to compare the characters in AD to people you know in real life. I think that's one of the reasons it works so well.

I like stories that continue, and it's always sad to see things end, especially when, like this one, there is so little structure that it'd be easy to make it a lot longer...

I usually don't like it when shows go on for a long time and I like it when they end at 26 or 13, but you're right, AD could have lasted longer.

but I was kind of wishing for the final episode to do something totally weird, like the crazy final episode of Excel Saga...

Maybe :D, but I personally wouldn't have it end any other way.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, but it's not really necessary since it's really easy to compare the characters in AD to people you know in real life. I think that's one of the reasons it works so well.

True. As I said, the lack of character development is just fine... it's just one of the things that makes the show somewhat unique (usually the shows with lacking character development are the action shows, not the slow-paced story ones...).

I usually don't like it when shows go on for a long time and I like it when they end at 26 or 13, but you're right, AD could have lasted longer.

I don't mind long, as long as the quality stays decent... and it was definitely too short. Great, but short...

... it's on my 'buy sometime' list now, with Lain and Haibane Renmei and maybe Escaflowne and maybe some others that I can't think of right now. (Love Hina, perhaps? I'd say 'Kanon and To Heart', but neither of those has a US release...)

Maybe , but I personally wouldn't have it end any other way.

Yeah, I know... but they could have done more. Oh well, I guess that was in that little additional thing on the third disk, with an expanded version of Osaka's dream thing where Chiyo loses her pigtails... (at least I think it was expanded, I didn't remember all of that from when it was in the show...)

[Great Rumbler]

... it's on my 'buy sometime' list now, with Lain and Haibane Renmei and maybe Escaflowne and maybe some others that I can't think of right now. (Love Hina, perhaps? I'd say 'Kanon and To Heart', but neither of those has a US release...)

You should also check out Kino's Journey.

Yeah, I know... but they could have done more. Oh well, I guess that was in that little additional thing on the third disk, with an expanded version of Osaka's dream thing where Chiyo loses her pigtails... (at least I think it was expanded, I didn't remember all of that from when it was in the show...)

That was actually made before the rest of the series and was made as sort of a trailer.

[A Black Falcon]

That was actually made before the rest of the series and was made as sort of a trailer.

Still, great stuff...

You should also check out Kino's Journey.

I would, but I don't like spending so much to buy anime (or movies, except in very special cases), and it's not in the rental places in town at home...

[Great Rumbler]

I would, but I don't like spending so much to buy anime (or movies, except in very special cases), and it's not in the rental places in town at home...

You'll be glad you did though.