Second Season!Guitary is off to a good start. The second episode was remarkably sweet, and the fact that the only real fanservice bit, while ridiculous, was clearly *supposed* to be ridiculous was refreshing.
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Hanekawa: "What do your parents do?" Karen and Tsukihi: "They're police officers! :D"
Yeah that's how I'll be handling it too. I'd say "also with alcohol" but it'd be over by the time I got even a little bit tipsy.
Meanwhile, Matoi the Sacred Slayer is not all there for me, which is sad. Still, of the two magical girl shows that I wanted to be entertaining and worth the time, at least Magical Girl Raising Project is looking more promising on the whole. Anyway I appreciate the family and character focus with Matoi, her friend, and her father, which worked fine enough with them all working together at the shrine. The characters are all super expressive too, and the actual magical girl action scene was gorgeous. On the flip side it's actually kinda creepy only an episode in, and also filled with its fair share of fanservice. I expect to keep up with it anyway out of charitably, liking the art and animation, and hoping it can be more my thing later on. Time will tell I guess.
Karin the dragon girl, from the Puzzle & Dragons game, of course! I know that Karin Kikuhara and Karin Miyoshi have nothing to do with this already. :P
So apparently all the department directors on that show are really talented episode directors, storyboard artists and key animators, and everything I've seen of it looks really pretty, so... the animation geek in me might make me watch it.
Drifters is acceptable if not entirely my thing. I often get a fairly serious personal disconnect when checking out audiovisual stories with a heavy focus on military violence. It's not to the point of being damning, in general or for this show, as the combat was pretty nicely done and really seemed like a fitting hot mess of moving parts and people. Which I think may be one of the reasons why I'm so mixed on these shows: I find it difficult to not even connect, but be engaged by characters defined by their violence surrounded by others defined by their violence. It worked well enough for me with Hellsing because the comedy was relatively sparse, it moved from one segment of gore to the next relatively adequately, and it often had very propulsive directing and/or framing. After awhile even all the carnage caused by the Major just began to feel like bloody white noise.
I don't really mind the threadbare plot because I never expected any less, with how well known Hirano is for his gory antics. Not exactly expecting the most compelling plot here beyond the basic fundamentals, which it delivered adequately. However, I'm beginning to think that too often this sort of ultraviolence or war-focused media is coupled with cliches or story components which don't do much for me on their own or with most other methods of telling a story. Like, I enjoy MSG IBO because, among several other reasons, the characters already feel like people rather than facsimiles thereof (I do not want to say puppets as I like puppets too much), and there's a careful mix of politically-focused drama and carnage alongside the arguably plainer robot smashing.
About a third of Drifters' first episode is like that, after which is a functional transition into the world clearly being some mix of various people like that historical man, and then the exposition which proceeds to explain what the random elves andYoichi hinting at pretty much already established (click those links @Section42L). Which I wouldn't actually mind that much if not for the fact that their playing off of each other is mostly insults - insults expressed through a slew of tone- and aesthetic-breaking deformed cuts, when something like continued aggressive staring or such would fare better. So, the boring kind, which I hope changes as I find anti-heroes fighting amongst themselves to be entertaining in its own right.
The animation waspretty snazzy though, and if it keeps up like this I could see it being an acceptable thing to turn your brain off to and just enjoy the gratuitous violence. Really that absurdity in the first link was more entertaining than all of the barbs traded later on, with Toyohisa pulling a "Fool! I meant to get maimed, you have fallen into my trap!" before blasting some guy and walking off bloodied. Otherwise, I don't know, it's difficult for me to recommend, but my biases are relatively clear and if you're not like me, then it's pretty easy to infer from there.
It's about figure skating. Consider the kind of animation she's known for, particularly how her work *moves.* It is going to be gorgeous, if nothing else.
i still have not finished flying witch and luluco b/c i'm a terrible person. i still need to watch amanchu...i'll wait for a couple more eps of figure skating boys before i add it to my list. the animation does look gr8 tho
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Karen and Tsukihi: "They're police officers! :D"
That makes too much sense and I fucking lost it.
it's defs why algae is such a dork though.
Yes, that's a real thing.
Also, watch Garzey's Wing. It will put all other stupid anime in perspective and enrich your life.
Not bad.
Because Sayo Yamamoto.