10th April 2011, 2:58 AM
Softenni 01 - Group of four girls and their male coach fanservice-filled (tennis) comedy series. The setting's slightly different -- it's rural, and at least some of the characters live on farms, with cows and all. There's even a field with cows in it right next to the tennis court. Other than that though, expect lots of underwear shots and fantasy sexual references (the excuse for the latter being that the main character girl apparently has an active imagination). Parts of it are enteritaing, parts are dumb. The way the main character girl turns everything the coach says into sexual references gets annoying after a while... Still there were some amusing parts though, such as when the food-obsessed girl (who can't hit a tennis ball at all pretty much) manages to grab a rice ball out of the air with her teeth when the girl tossing the balls throws one of those instead.
The Twelve Kingdoms 16-18 - Long, slow sidestory arc, telling the backstory of the guy from ep. 15, a person from Earth who's actually a Kirin and is brought to the Twelve Kingdoms at age 10. Almost nothing happens most of the time and it's definitely on the dull side. It's not actually bad really, it's all done well and I mostly liked it, but this is a very, very slow part. This could have compressed all three of these into one episode I bet. But I guess they couldn't think of enough other stuff to fill out 50 episodes with, or something... oh well, it's alright, just not nearly like the story arc that came before it.
The Twelve Kingdoms 16-18 - Long, slow sidestory arc, telling the backstory of the guy from ep. 15, a person from Earth who's actually a Kirin and is brought to the Twelve Kingdoms at age 10. Almost nothing happens most of the time and it's definitely on the dull side. It's not actually bad really, it's all done well and I mostly liked it, but this is a very, very slow part. This could have compressed all three of these into one episode I bet. But I guess they couldn't think of enough other stuff to fill out 50 episodes with, or something... oh well, it's alright, just not nearly like the story arc that came before it.