20th July 2010, 9:56 AM
Occult Academy - If Sam Raimi made an anime series, it would probably be something like this. Maya, the daughter of a private school principal, shows up late to her father's funeral, just in time to see his corpse reanimated by a lamia. The school has a reputation for this sort of thing and Maya wants to put a stop to it for good. Unfortunately, there's also a time agent from the future that wants to stop aliens from taking over the world and who believes that the school is at the center of the whole thing. There are also other shady things going on. It's fairly over the top and doesn't take itself too seriously which, for the most part, works in the show's favor.
Asobi ni Iku Yo - I really want to like this show, I really do. Because it really feels like the creators are trying to make this show more than it is. Unfortunately, they aren't entirely successful. The setup is that an airheaded cat girl alien with huge breasts comes to Earth to have fun and ends up living with a bland, personality-free male character that wouldn't stand out in a lineup of one. The male character also has a hot female friend, an emotionless female friend, and a female teacher. Normally I'd have shut this off after the first minute. But, get this, his hot female friend is actually a gun-nut bounty hunter, his teacher works for some shadowy corporation on the side, and his emotionless friend is some kind of living weapon. Yeah. Also, the first few minutes consistent of a cool scifi battle where lots of modern-day pirates get totally jacked up. So...ehh...I really want them to ditch the idiotic harem nonsense and the awful male character, but that probably won't happen.
Asobi ni Iku Yo - I really want to like this show, I really do. Because it really feels like the creators are trying to make this show more than it is. Unfortunately, they aren't entirely successful. The setup is that an airheaded cat girl alien with huge breasts comes to Earth to have fun and ends up living with a bland, personality-free male character that wouldn't stand out in a lineup of one. The male character also has a hot female friend, an emotionless female friend, and a female teacher. Normally I'd have shut this off after the first minute. But, get this, his hot female friend is actually a gun-nut bounty hunter, his teacher works for some shadowy corporation on the side, and his emotionless friend is some kind of living weapon. Yeah. Also, the first few minutes consistent of a cool scifi battle where lots of modern-day pirates get totally jacked up. So...ehh...I really want them to ditch the idiotic harem nonsense and the awful male character, but that probably won't happen.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.