1st March 2011, 12:19 AM
Maburaho 16-20 - Still way better than the episodes before he died... ep. 20 was mostly a clip episode, though, which was kind of lame. Apart from that, this show's pretty decent. Too bad they never made more, I know the light novels were and maybe are ongoing. It's not a great show, but it's alright...
Of course there's still not a decent reason why the three girls still love him and stick with him even though he's dead now (sure, he eventually will come back, but in the interim he's just a ghost...), and as I said before that's one big complaint I have about the show, and the genre. I should say "but that's the genre", and it's absolutely true, but I find it annoying even so. Why do they like him so much again...
On another note, the other students in his class are so ridiculously horrible, they're all just awful people. That has been a running joke in the show, about how they so often disobey orders, do money-making schemes against school rules, etc.. It's kind of silly how they're all like that, what happened, they dumped the main character, Yuna, and everyone they thought would be a troublemaker in this class and then gave them the school's laziest teacher for homeroom, or something? :)
Also, ep. 19 (the school trip to Kyoto episode) had some pretty funny stuff in it. Some lame stuff, but some funny too. Lots of that stuff that reminds me that there isn't a good reason why the girls like him, but also amusement and silliness. Those classmates of theirs... :lol Rin fights another girl who apparently is from a rival family. The whole way the classmates set up the fight was funny. Conveniently the only injuries done were clothing damage, of course.
Overall decent stuff, for its genre. I'll finish this soon.
Gosick 08 - I didn't like this quite as much as eps. 6 and 7, but still it was a solid ending to the three episode story. Hopefully she DOES leave the school again, the in school stories have been consistently less interesting than the trips... As for the story though, a somewhat conventional ending to the story, but eh, it works. The mysteries were mysterious enough, I thought; I certainly didn't guess all of the answers, for sure.
On that note, I wonder how Victorique's "Chaos" thing that tells her the answers to mysteries works, it's pretty much like a superpower or magic or something, she's so good... some of her deductions are based on logic, but then she says stuff about the chaos showing her the answers. It's kind of a copout of sorts, so she can just know and stuff. I don't really mind, and do like the show. More great work in setting and theme in this episode! The story was solid and consistent too. This show isn't amazing, but it's probably good.
Haiyoru! Nyaruani 11 (Final) - Hmm, this was maybe the least interesting episode of the series. The hinted at "end of the human race" didn't happen, which is okay, but nor did much of anythign else. The spaceship evidently came to summon Nyaru-tan and the others to ... something ... off-planet, a battle or whatever. She was sad and promised to return, and the whole episode was that one theoretically touching scene. Problem is, because of how short the episodes are and the quick comedy focus (with no shred of ongoing plot), I really don't care much about the characters, so the idea that I should be able to take this seriously and be sad about their separating or something just didn't work.
Oniichan no koto etc. 08 - Halfway into the episode I was thinking that maybe it was the weakest episode yet, but the second half made up for it... :lol
This episode isn't on episode 7's level, but when it's funny it is pretty funny. In the first half, all three girls come to visit for a study session. Sister and Nao try to attract main character guy, but class rep girl (Kondou was it?) has caught most of his attention and few of their efforts succeed. In part two, they go to a water park during summer break. Main character guy teaches Kondou how to swim. She discovers she is fascinated by his nipples, and there's some funny stuff with her touching him over and over. Good stuff, it was funny. :) Spinning nipples, her touching his nipples, using it as a self-incentive to learn to swim, etc...
Of course there's still not a decent reason why the three girls still love him and stick with him even though he's dead now (sure, he eventually will come back, but in the interim he's just a ghost...), and as I said before that's one big complaint I have about the show, and the genre. I should say "but that's the genre", and it's absolutely true, but I find it annoying even so. Why do they like him so much again...
On another note, the other students in his class are so ridiculously horrible, they're all just awful people. That has been a running joke in the show, about how they so often disobey orders, do money-making schemes against school rules, etc.. It's kind of silly how they're all like that, what happened, they dumped the main character, Yuna, and everyone they thought would be a troublemaker in this class and then gave them the school's laziest teacher for homeroom, or something? :)
Also, ep. 19 (the school trip to Kyoto episode) had some pretty funny stuff in it. Some lame stuff, but some funny too. Lots of that stuff that reminds me that there isn't a good reason why the girls like him, but also amusement and silliness. Those classmates of theirs... :lol Rin fights another girl who apparently is from a rival family. The whole way the classmates set up the fight was funny. Conveniently the only injuries done were clothing damage, of course.
Overall decent stuff, for its genre. I'll finish this soon.
Gosick 08 - I didn't like this quite as much as eps. 6 and 7, but still it was a solid ending to the three episode story. Hopefully she DOES leave the school again, the in school stories have been consistently less interesting than the trips... As for the story though, a somewhat conventional ending to the story, but eh, it works. The mysteries were mysterious enough, I thought; I certainly didn't guess all of the answers, for sure.
On that note, I wonder how Victorique's "Chaos" thing that tells her the answers to mysteries works, it's pretty much like a superpower or magic or something, she's so good... some of her deductions are based on logic, but then she says stuff about the chaos showing her the answers. It's kind of a copout of sorts, so she can just know and stuff. I don't really mind, and do like the show. More great work in setting and theme in this episode! The story was solid and consistent too. This show isn't amazing, but it's probably good.
Haiyoru! Nyaruani 11 (Final) - Hmm, this was maybe the least interesting episode of the series. The hinted at "end of the human race" didn't happen, which is okay, but nor did much of anythign else. The spaceship evidently came to summon Nyaru-tan and the others to ... something ... off-planet, a battle or whatever. She was sad and promised to return, and the whole episode was that one theoretically touching scene. Problem is, because of how short the episodes are and the quick comedy focus (with no shred of ongoing plot), I really don't care much about the characters, so the idea that I should be able to take this seriously and be sad about their separating or something just didn't work.
Oniichan no koto etc. 08 - Halfway into the episode I was thinking that maybe it was the weakest episode yet, but the second half made up for it... :lol
This episode isn't on episode 7's level, but when it's funny it is pretty funny. In the first half, all three girls come to visit for a study session. Sister and Nao try to attract main character guy, but class rep girl (Kondou was it?) has caught most of his attention and few of their efforts succeed. In part two, they go to a water park during summer break. Main character guy teaches Kondou how to swim. She discovers she is fascinated by his nipples, and there's some funny stuff with her touching him over and over. Good stuff, it was funny. :) Spinning nipples, her touching his nipples, using it as a self-incentive to learn to swim, etc...
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