Anime Thread - 2012

[A Black Falcon]

Medaka Box 2 - This is indeed a solid conversion of the manga. I thought the manga was okay to good comedy, until the genre change, and okay but tediously generic shonen action, after it, but yeah, this is a good animated version of it. Poor Medaka, animals are nice! (Okay, not all of them, I really dislike dogs myself, but I love cats...)

Also, yeah, Shiranui is pretty awesome.


Haiyore! Nyaruko-san 1 - This is a full-scale anime based on the flash anime of a little while ago. I thought the flash series (Haiyaru! Nyaruani) was silly and amusing but pointless, but this is better all around. It's just such an insanely ridiculous series, but it REALLY knows it, and they have a lot of fun with it. I don't know if Nyarlothotep (Nyaruko-san) even knows about the existence of the fourth wall... maybe, but she regularly ignores it. The results are silly.

Now, of course, the concept of moe Lovecraft monsters is an abomination onto the original work if there's ever been one, but ... it works so well! It's funny, it IS actually full of Lovecraft references (they don't just ignore the source material), it's completely ridiculous, and, above all else, it's very, VERY anime. This is about as anime as it gets, it really is... moe girls, a harem of sorts (not yet, but eventually; I don't know if it'll be a harem show, though, harem setting but not actual harem seems quite plausible), cuteness, insanity, ridiculous antics, otaku-baiting... it's all here.

So yeah, the concept is that the Lovecraftian gods are space aliens, and not really evil either. So, Nyaru here is here to protect the MC from monsters that are trying to kill him, and also to consume as much anime and manga culture (anime, anime goods, adult comic books, etc.) as she can find, because it's super-popular and restricted stuff galaxy-wide. Yeah. But hey, why not? That's as good a plot as any, right? :p

Nyaru claims that she could appear in her tentacled horror form, but it'd drive the MC insane, so she won't. I'll take her at her word. She does drive him partway insane during the fight scenes where the brutally kills the monsters, though... she quite enjoys ripping them apart with things like rocks and tire irons. Aww. :) (Oh, and he isn't a complete pushover either -- like in the first series, he can, and will, defend himself with a fork against her unwanted actions.)

So yeah, it's awful, ridiculous, funny stuff, and it's about as anime, and as far from the source material (while not completely ignoring it) as you can get. Good work, this was even better than I expected. :lol