17th March 2011, 1:24 PM
Nichijou OVA (ep. 0) - Not bad, some of it was funny for sure. How do you even manage to get a 1 on a test... :lol I don't know how this will compare to other shows in this genre, but it certainly has some promise at least, and the OVA was entertaining and often funny. This OVA probably wasn't great, but it was good anyway.
... I do have to ask though, why can that cat talk, and what's that woman with the key in her back? They don't explain anything, and I haven't read the source material. That sketch (trying to get the kid to take her cold medicine) was funny, but I didn't have any idea why the cat could talk or about that key.
Angelic Layer 21-26 - Yeah, once I'd started watching the last disc yesterday, I just went through the whole thing... that last part is probably the best part of the series, apart from some things in ep. 26 I really had nothing to complain about in this part of the show. It was just really good and certainly reminded me why I liked this series so much.
I don't quite remember having so much of a problem with her mother's actions before though, maybe but I'm not sure. But yeah, this time at least I really noticed how bad a parent she is. Sure, she apologizes, explains how she was paralyzed by fear and indecision, how once she saw her daughter again she hated what she'd done but couldn't manage to get herself to do anything about it... those are all good reasons, which help in understanding it, and make me feel kind of bad for her, but still it doesn't excuse what she did. I liked how in ep. 25 our heroine finally realized that she'd been lying to herself the whole time, and that all of those "I'm fine" and "mom is too busy with work to see me" statements were lies she was telling herself to pretend that it was okay, but it never was... and that she ran off from the initial meeting, thinking that her mother had left because she hated her, also was believable; children often blame themselves for things like their parents' divorces, even though it wasn't their fault at all. Then a little later, the scene where the two of them meet again in that episode, in the rain, is one of the show's more memorable scenes and one that I remembered better than almost any other from the series. There's a nice happy ending too, happy endings for everyone. :)
As for complaints... um, just about the rules pretty much. They mess with the health system so much in this series, sometimes one hit is an instant win, other times a whole long sequence of hits apparently does almost no damage... and then there are things like the final fight, where our heroine get hit with her mother's super special attack, which nobody has ever gotten up from, and with according to the last shot of the health bars maybe 30% health. At first she was going to give up and take the defeat, but then she decided to instead start saying "get up", and then more people copy her until the whole arena's saying it... such an absurdly silly scene in so many ways, and of course it works and Hikari gets up. Alright. But then, later, she manages to reverse another one of those super attacks somehow, by bouncing it back with her hands or something and then hitting Athena with it, who went down to the ground and got hit by it... and was instantly defeated, despite having like 70 or 80% health. Um yeah, how much damage attacks do in this series is apparently determined more by drama and what the story demands than by any consistent principles.
That is annoying, but it's also just about my only complaint. Overall Angelic Layer is a very good series, and was well worth revisiting. :)
Wagaya no Oinari-sama 14-15 - The beginning of an arc involving a (nonhuman) girl wrapped in seals... I really liked the first of these episodes, one of the best episodes in the series in a while. The second one wasn't quite as good, but still was good. I somehow doubt that things are going to be resolved so easily, she didn't really want to go with them... Good series, mostly. Too bad it has no real ending, as it's based on an ongoing light novel series.
... I do have to ask though, why can that cat talk, and what's that woman with the key in her back? They don't explain anything, and I haven't read the source material. That sketch (trying to get the kid to take her cold medicine) was funny, but I didn't have any idea why the cat could talk or about that key.
Angelic Layer 21-26 - Yeah, once I'd started watching the last disc yesterday, I just went through the whole thing... that last part is probably the best part of the series, apart from some things in ep. 26 I really had nothing to complain about in this part of the show. It was just really good and certainly reminded me why I liked this series so much.
I don't quite remember having so much of a problem with her mother's actions before though, maybe but I'm not sure. But yeah, this time at least I really noticed how bad a parent she is. Sure, she apologizes, explains how she was paralyzed by fear and indecision, how once she saw her daughter again she hated what she'd done but couldn't manage to get herself to do anything about it... those are all good reasons, which help in understanding it, and make me feel kind of bad for her, but still it doesn't excuse what she did. I liked how in ep. 25 our heroine finally realized that she'd been lying to herself the whole time, and that all of those "I'm fine" and "mom is too busy with work to see me" statements were lies she was telling herself to pretend that it was okay, but it never was... and that she ran off from the initial meeting, thinking that her mother had left because she hated her, also was believable; children often blame themselves for things like their parents' divorces, even though it wasn't their fault at all. Then a little later, the scene where the two of them meet again in that episode, in the rain, is one of the show's more memorable scenes and one that I remembered better than almost any other from the series. There's a nice happy ending too, happy endings for everyone. :)
As for complaints... um, just about the rules pretty much. They mess with the health system so much in this series, sometimes one hit is an instant win, other times a whole long sequence of hits apparently does almost no damage... and then there are things like the final fight, where our heroine get hit with her mother's super special attack, which nobody has ever gotten up from, and with according to the last shot of the health bars maybe 30% health. At first she was going to give up and take the defeat, but then she decided to instead start saying "get up", and then more people copy her until the whole arena's saying it... such an absurdly silly scene in so many ways, and of course it works and Hikari gets up. Alright. But then, later, she manages to reverse another one of those super attacks somehow, by bouncing it back with her hands or something and then hitting Athena with it, who went down to the ground and got hit by it... and was instantly defeated, despite having like 70 or 80% health. Um yeah, how much damage attacks do in this series is apparently determined more by drama and what the story demands than by any consistent principles.
That is annoying, but it's also just about my only complaint. Overall Angelic Layer is a very good series, and was well worth revisiting. :)
Wagaya no Oinari-sama 14-15 - The beginning of an arc involving a (nonhuman) girl wrapped in seals... I really liked the first of these episodes, one of the best episodes in the series in a while. The second one wasn't quite as good, but still was good. I somehow doubt that things are going to be resolved so easily, she didn't really want to go with them... Good series, mostly. Too bad it has no real ending, as it's based on an ongoing light novel series.
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