3rd February 2011, 7:07 PM
Pani Poni Dash 24-25 -- Ep. 24... wow... that was just awesome, best episode of the series? It's one of the best anyway. Pani Poni Dash does a samurai action film, and it's just brilliant, funny stuff. Great beginning to end. All of the characters as traditional Japanese people of sorts was great... oh yeah, and Ichijo with that kind of samurai hairstyle... just awesome. 
Hau Hau (tears) tax... So good. As for ep. 25, finally the climax of the "earth is going to be destroyed" arc of sorts, as as the main characters go sentai and save the world with their giant robot. The part where one character points out that the army or police is supposed to do this kind of thing was pretty funny, pointing out how weird it is to have random kids usually save the world, are you? :) Overall, not quite as great as ep. 24, but a great, clever episode even so. The whole climax was just awesome stuff.
... If you ever see an Ichijo Box, stay away, stay far away...
26 - And so a great anime ends. :( The last episode isn't the best one of the series, but still, it's pretty good. This series needs a second season, it's the second best comedy anime series ever after only Excel Saga.
Infinite Stratos 04 - Yeah, why am I watching this beyond self-hatred... there are so many much better not-depressing shows I could watch than this... but as awful as this show is, I want to know what happens for some reason, even though I know nothing much probably will in the end (this kind of show, reset ending seems the most likely kind...).
The action in this episode was decent, I'll admit, but still, this show is so bad... annoying generic girls, really annoying generic guy, dumb plot (what little of it we've seen so far)... and yeah, that new character from the preview's not going to actually be a guy, I'm sure. At least the plot does seem to be doing something other than harem-gathering though, with the robot attack.
Gosick 04 - Avril, the new girl... I think she's probably evil (um, almost certainly evil). Also, the school parts of this show are painfully stupid, with how Japanese they are in a show supposedly not set in Japan. Other than that though, good episode. Victorique solves several mysteries with incredible ease as soon as they were described to her, and these were not ones I guessed before she explained them. Of course though that's what she does, with her Holmesian level of mystery-solving ability. The whole mystery hasn't been solved though, she solves two simpler mysteries with no trouble, but they seem unrelated, and there's Avril and whatever she's up to too... there has to be some kind of connection here, a deeper mystery that they haven't gotten to yet, and that evidently will actually require field work to solve.
... Yeah, the "motorcycle rider killer" mystery was simpler, if a little sketchy in her reasoning (though of course she was right), the "guy locked in a crypt" one was much more complicated, and she still solved it quite easily... unless the things we do not yet know about the whole thing overturn part of her discoveries? I doubt it, she seems to generally be right, but who knows... there clearly are things we don't know about the situation. Who is Avril, and what's she doing, and what about those other murders if the people who did them are known, but somehow Avril seems tied to one or both too or something... I'll be interested to see what the truth is, but the preview gave (perhaps too much of) a hint. Oh well.
Overall, this show has got some issues, some of which I just mentioned, but I like the show even so. The good sense of suspense really helps a show like this, and I like the descriptions and then solutions of the mysteries. The visuals are good too, and the music fits the style. Good but not great.
Fractale 01 - Yeah, I agree with some of the complaints... the art design is good and the world seems interesting, but it just doesn't quite work, probably because of the somewhat annoying characters and not-that-interesting-so-far story. The main character's quite generic, he's not too interesting... Still this episode was okay, I guess. It was just as much bad as it was good, so it's nothing beyond middle of the road quality wise, but not terrible, so far at least. If I keep watching I'll see if it gets worse, which it sounds like it probably will.
Also, yeah, the idea that for some reason most people just don't live around other humans -- and they consider this good -- makes absolutely no sense on any level. That's not how humans operate, humans are social creatures. I think someone mentioned the Kino's Journey episode where people all lived apart, but that episode of course actually had a reason for it. This as far as I can tell has nothing, it just is for no reason. It's impossible to believe that people would be like that, and it does hurt the show some.
Houkago no Pleiades 01-02 Four 6-minute episodes, forming a 24 minute OVA when combined? That's really short... still though, the first half is competent magical girl stuff, entertaining if not especially original. That mascot thing is kind of amusing though. :)
... I guess this is the anime equivalent of Darkened Skye or something, except I'm not sure if it's based off of anything except for the Pleiades. On that note, because of the Greeks considering the Pleiades seven, I somehow find it a little odd how the Japanese consider (or Subaru at least does) it six... though I know really it's a big star cluster.
Haiyaru! Nyaruani 07 - This show...
It is so, so dumb, yet amusing. Of course, each episode's only a couple of minutes long, so they don't wear out their welcome, but still, despite the unbelievably stupid premise, I can't help but be just entertained enough for it to be worth it.
Dragon Crisis 03 - This show is awful, why am I still watching it?
Now that he has this girl in his harem, I assume that next more dragon girls with past histories with the guy will start showing up, so the size of his harem can grow? It's the most obvious way forward! The fighting's moderately entertaining, but everything else about this show is awful, and kind of boring. I should drop this.
So in my apparent quest at the moment of "watching bad anime", I watched the first five episodes of Maburaho. It was bad, but somehow I watched all five of them, today, anyway... which means it was tolerable enough to be watchable even if it's completely stupid and lame generic harem humor. The cast is generic and a bit annoying, as expected, the situations are super-stereotypical, the main character guy is a moron.. check, check, check. At least it's amusing often enough to keep me going. (And yes, I know it's based on a light novel series that I think still isn't over, so there will be no ending. Oh well.)
... The guy's gone through a spell an episode so far, at this rate he should be dust in two episodes. This is a 26 episode series though, so they'll have to come up with some explanation for why he won't die. Considering how much of a generic idiot the main character is, insane magical powers on the one hand and "use magic eight times and you die" on the other aside, I don't care that much either way (though I guess I dislike him slightly less than Infinite Stratos' hero, though that really isn't saying much at all, both are incredibly generic), but considering that he's the main character, he's obviously not going to die. Considering how stupid he's being wasting his magic when he has so little, though, he'd deserve it.
Madoka - The sidekick made a wish? I wonder how long she lasts...
Hau Hau (tears) tax... So good. As for ep. 25, finally the climax of the "earth is going to be destroyed" arc of sorts, as as the main characters go sentai and save the world with their giant robot. The part where one character points out that the army or police is supposed to do this kind of thing was pretty funny, pointing out how weird it is to have random kids usually save the world, are you? :) Overall, not quite as great as ep. 24, but a great, clever episode even so. The whole climax was just awesome stuff.... If you ever see an Ichijo Box, stay away, stay far away...
26 - And so a great anime ends. :( The last episode isn't the best one of the series, but still, it's pretty good. This series needs a second season, it's the second best comedy anime series ever after only Excel Saga.
Infinite Stratos 04 - Yeah, why am I watching this beyond self-hatred... there are so many much better not-depressing shows I could watch than this... but as awful as this show is, I want to know what happens for some reason, even though I know nothing much probably will in the end (this kind of show, reset ending seems the most likely kind...).
The action in this episode was decent, I'll admit, but still, this show is so bad... annoying generic girls, really annoying generic guy, dumb plot (what little of it we've seen so far)... and yeah, that new character from the preview's not going to actually be a guy, I'm sure. At least the plot does seem to be doing something other than harem-gathering though, with the robot attack.
Gosick 04 - Avril, the new girl... I think she's probably evil (um, almost certainly evil). Also, the school parts of this show are painfully stupid, with how Japanese they are in a show supposedly not set in Japan. Other than that though, good episode. Victorique solves several mysteries with incredible ease as soon as they were described to her, and these were not ones I guessed before she explained them. Of course though that's what she does, with her Holmesian level of mystery-solving ability. The whole mystery hasn't been solved though, she solves two simpler mysteries with no trouble, but they seem unrelated, and there's Avril and whatever she's up to too... there has to be some kind of connection here, a deeper mystery that they haven't gotten to yet, and that evidently will actually require field work to solve.
... Yeah, the "motorcycle rider killer" mystery was simpler, if a little sketchy in her reasoning (though of course she was right), the "guy locked in a crypt" one was much more complicated, and she still solved it quite easily... unless the things we do not yet know about the whole thing overturn part of her discoveries? I doubt it, she seems to generally be right, but who knows... there clearly are things we don't know about the situation. Who is Avril, and what's she doing, and what about those other murders if the people who did them are known, but somehow Avril seems tied to one or both too or something... I'll be interested to see what the truth is, but the preview gave (perhaps too much of) a hint. Oh well.
Overall, this show has got some issues, some of which I just mentioned, but I like the show even so. The good sense of suspense really helps a show like this, and I like the descriptions and then solutions of the mysteries. The visuals are good too, and the music fits the style. Good but not great.
Fractale 01 - Yeah, I agree with some of the complaints... the art design is good and the world seems interesting, but it just doesn't quite work, probably because of the somewhat annoying characters and not-that-interesting-so-far story. The main character's quite generic, he's not too interesting... Still this episode was okay, I guess. It was just as much bad as it was good, so it's nothing beyond middle of the road quality wise, but not terrible, so far at least. If I keep watching I'll see if it gets worse, which it sounds like it probably will.
Also, yeah, the idea that for some reason most people just don't live around other humans -- and they consider this good -- makes absolutely no sense on any level. That's not how humans operate, humans are social creatures. I think someone mentioned the Kino's Journey episode where people all lived apart, but that episode of course actually had a reason for it. This as far as I can tell has nothing, it just is for no reason. It's impossible to believe that people would be like that, and it does hurt the show some.
Houkago no Pleiades 01-02 Four 6-minute episodes, forming a 24 minute OVA when combined? That's really short... still though, the first half is competent magical girl stuff, entertaining if not especially original. That mascot thing is kind of amusing though. :)
... I guess this is the anime equivalent of Darkened Skye or something, except I'm not sure if it's based off of anything except for the Pleiades. On that note, because of the Greeks considering the Pleiades seven, I somehow find it a little odd how the Japanese consider (or Subaru at least does) it six... though I know really it's a big star cluster.
Haiyaru! Nyaruani 07 - This show...
It is so, so dumb, yet amusing. Of course, each episode's only a couple of minutes long, so they don't wear out their welcome, but still, despite the unbelievably stupid premise, I can't help but be just entertained enough for it to be worth it.
Dragon Crisis 03 - This show is awful, why am I still watching it?
Now that he has this girl in his harem, I assume that next more dragon girls with past histories with the guy will start showing up, so the size of his harem can grow? It's the most obvious way forward! The fighting's moderately entertaining, but everything else about this show is awful, and kind of boring. I should drop this.
So in my apparent quest at the moment of "watching bad anime", I watched the first five episodes of Maburaho. It was bad, but somehow I watched all five of them, today, anyway... which means it was tolerable enough to be watchable even if it's completely stupid and lame generic harem humor. The cast is generic and a bit annoying, as expected, the situations are super-stereotypical, the main character guy is a moron.. check, check, check. At least it's amusing often enough to keep me going. (And yes, I know it's based on a light novel series that I think still isn't over, so there will be no ending. Oh well.)
... The guy's gone through a spell an episode so far, at this rate he should be dust in two episodes. This is a 26 episode series though, so they'll have to come up with some explanation for why he won't die. Considering how much of a generic idiot the main character is, insane magical powers on the one hand and "use magic eight times and you die" on the other aside, I don't care that much either way (though I guess I dislike him slightly less than Infinite Stratos' hero, though that really isn't saying much at all, both are incredibly generic), but considering that he's the main character, he's obviously not going to die. Considering how stupid he's being wasting his magic when he has so little, though, he'd deserve it.
Madoka - The sidekick made a wish? I wonder how long she lasts...
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