Anime post.
Jul. 14th, 2008 02:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenI guess it's that time to look at new anime again...
Slayers Revolution - As many others have already said, it's Slayers . . . but with better animation! How can you go wrong? I hope Xellos shows up soon, but even without, it's still great to see Lina and the gang again.
Koihime Musou - Three Kingdoms but with cute girls and fanservice. The character designs are neat, and the first episode was pretty cliché but not bad, so I'll give it another episode or so before deciding whether to stick with it. Major bonus points for the Marimite reference in the preview. ^_^b I wonder how many people even got it?
Ryoko's Case File (Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo) - Very stylish detective series. Main character is a hot, smart lady with a bad personality, and her lackey is a guy who seems frequently fazed but is actually quietly competent. Not sure I'm a fan of the supernatural aspect, but we'll see. The opening is very James Bond-ish.
Natsume Yuujinchou - One of those shows about the one person who can see spirits and thus leads an interesting life. I like xxxHOLiC, but I found Mokke a little too sedate. This one seemed more like Mokke, with the soft animation and countryside setting. The main character's grandmother had defeated a bunch of spirits and gained power over them by collecting their names in a book. The spirits are all after the book, but rather than use it, the main character wants to return their names. At least in the first episode, his success meant a very touching flashback of when his grandmother and the spirit first met. If it keeps that pattern, I think it'll be a good watch. Oh, and his sidekick is Amaterasu (from Okami) in the form of a maneki-neko. XD
World Destruction - Watched half an episode, thought it was blah, don't remember what it's about, except it's got animal-people that discriminate against humans.
Antique Bakery doesn't look like my type ofBL show, so I'm not even going to try.
Other currently airing things still on the plate:
Code Geass R2
Kaiba
Kyou Kara Maou 3rd Series
Nabari no Ou
Nijuu-mensou no Musume
RD Sennou Chousahitsu
Wagaya no Oinari-sama
Recently done airing but that I haven't finished off:
Junjou Romantica
Toshokan Sensou
Vampire Knight (there's gonna be a sequel anyways)
Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi (holy crap this show just gets darker and darker, and considering where it started, that's saying a lot)
Recently finished watching:
Shounen Omyouji - Bittersweet ending; awesome series overall. I'm glad Funimation license-rescued it.
Tower of Druaga: Aegis of Uruk - A lot better than I expected going in. I like how all of the different groups were kept a part of the story -- kind of like Lord of the Rings after the Fellowship splits up. The non-ending kind of pissed me off -- the story will continue in a sequel slated for next year. Bah. They could have at least revealed something, anything, about the Tower or Neeba or Kaaya, or even Gilgamesh. This way, it feels like the whole series got me nowhere.
Slayers Revolution - As many others have already said, it's Slayers . . . but with better animation! How can you go wrong? I hope Xellos shows up soon, but even without, it's still great to see Lina and the gang again.
Koihime Musou - Three Kingdoms but with cute girls and fanservice. The character designs are neat, and the first episode was pretty cliché but not bad, so I'll give it another episode or so before deciding whether to stick with it. Major bonus points for the Marimite reference in the preview. ^_^b I wonder how many people even got it?
Ryoko's Case File (Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo) - Very stylish detective series. Main character is a hot, smart lady with a bad personality, and her lackey is a guy who seems frequently fazed but is actually quietly competent. Not sure I'm a fan of the supernatural aspect, but we'll see. The opening is very James Bond-ish.
Natsume Yuujinchou - One of those shows about the one person who can see spirits and thus leads an interesting life. I like xxxHOLiC, but I found Mokke a little too sedate. This one seemed more like Mokke, with the soft animation and countryside setting. The main character's grandmother had defeated a bunch of spirits and gained power over them by collecting their names in a book. The spirits are all after the book, but rather than use it, the main character wants to return their names. At least in the first episode, his success meant a very touching flashback of when his grandmother and the spirit first met. If it keeps that pattern, I think it'll be a good watch. Oh, and his sidekick is Amaterasu (from Okami) in the form of a maneki-neko. XD
World Destruction - Watched half an episode, thought it was blah, don't remember what it's about, except it's got animal-people that discriminate against humans.
Antique Bakery doesn't look like my type of
Other currently airing things still on the plate:
Code Geass R2
Kaiba
Kyou Kara Maou 3rd Series
Nabari no Ou
Nijuu-mensou no Musume
RD Sennou Chousahitsu
Wagaya no Oinari-sama
Recently done airing but that I haven't finished off:
Junjou Romantica
Toshokan Sensou
Vampire Knight (there's gonna be a sequel anyways)
Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi (holy crap this show just gets darker and darker, and considering where it started, that's saying a lot)
Recently finished watching:
Shounen Omyouji - Bittersweet ending; awesome series overall. I'm glad Funimation license-rescued it.
Tower of Druaga: Aegis of Uruk - A lot better than I expected going in. I like how all of the different groups were kept a part of the story -- kind of like Lord of the Rings after the Fellowship splits up. The non-ending kind of pissed me off -- the story will continue in a sequel slated for next year. Bah. They could have at least revealed something, anything, about the Tower or Neeba or Kaaya, or even Gilgamesh. This way, it feels like the whole series got me nowhere.
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