Magical Girl Raising Project is not a Magical Girl anime. It’s an anime which happens to have Magical Girls in it. But that’s an important distinction. It’s just too hateful to qualify.
Continue reading “Magical Girl Raising Project: Genre Destruction.”
I hate Macross II, it’s blight upon a franchise I love. It’s a cynical cash in that takes superficial elements from the original; without understanding how or why they worked and rehashes them into a miserable pile of bad. And now I’m going to say something vaguely positive about the series. I think I get what they were going for.
It can be hard to pinpoint the exact moment when I fell in love with a series. For Macross Frontier it’s easy.
Macross 7’s ending is incredibly silly. It’s also the best ending ever.
I love JoJo’s Bizzare adventure, it’s ridiculous campy nonsense and it’s great. Stardust Crusaders felt like bit of a step down though, there were definitely some great fights there, but a lot of the Stands were just various flavours of mystical punch ghost, and it felt drawn out at times. Diamond is Unbreakable feels like a jump back up to peak JoJo.
Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, Day 10: JoJo is Really Good Again.”
Sometimes something comes a long that generates a crazy amount of hype. Your Name definitely falls into that category. This November there were a bunch of UK screenings. So I jumped on the chance to see it.
A whole lot of anime comes out every year, naturally this means stuff slips under the radar. Prior to this year I had no idea Majin Bone existed, because nobody remembers that Majin Bone exists, and that’s a real shame, because it’s great. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, day 8:Majin Bone”
I like Macross Delta a lot. Mostly. Whilst I have some major issues with how the story ultimately ended up going, and the way Windemere and the ultimate antagonist were handled. As a whole, I love it to bits. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, day 7: Welcome to Walkure World”
I’m something of a serial watcher of anime shorts, I try to watch every single one each season. Short anime tend to be overlooked a lot, because the general expectation is that the short runtime acts as a cap on how good they can actually be. Sometimes this is the case, a lot of short anime ends up being pretty bad. But, with the increasing number of the things coming out each season (I’m currently watching 13, which is still missing a few of the ones airing) some of them are bound to be winners, and they are. The format tends to work best for gag commedies, they can get in, tell a joke and get out without overstaying their welcome, but there are plenty of good examples outside this framework. So today I’m going to take a diferent aproach and run some of the better shorts of the year, in no particular order. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, day 6: Appreciating The Short Stuff”
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shufukufu wo! probably took a lot of people by surprise. It has all the hallmarks of a bad, generic light novel adaptation; Needlessly long name? Check. Unremarkable male lead who’s a little genre savy? Yup. A cast of mostly female characters obliged for some reason to hang out with said bland male lead? Naturally. Ahead of airing, Konosuba showed a bunch of red flags, it should probably have sucked. And yet it didn’t. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, Day 5: Konosuba is (mostly) better than it should be.”
The Anime Duck Compendium 