Friday, March 31, 2017

Anime Review: Bikini Warriors (Summer 2015)

Let us start...

This anime was made by feel. . They are also the creators of several animes with Ecchi, nudity themes. This is the first I watch from them. But there are a couple of them that have good reviews... I can't judge a company because of ONE anime.

Synopsis
Damn those cutie dogs...
When darkness threatens the world, four heroes hold the only hope for salvation—if they can even manage to get out of the first town, that is. Bikini Warriors follows a party of beautiful adventu


rers in revealing armor: courageous Fighter, airheaded Paladin, timid Mage, and alluring Darkelf. But can you really be an adventurer if you don't get going on an adventure?

Our heroes are eternally broke, insufferably vain, and frequently outmatched by the dangers of their world. Between fleeing dungeons and robbing peasants, the unlikely heroes will have to learn to live with each other before they can survive a battle with ultimate evil!

Opinion
Well the synopsis will be probably bigger than my review. In this tale we follow four adventurers to help the kingdom. They Are Mage; Dark Elf; Paladin & Fighter.


damn mimic chest...
So what's interesting about it?  Each Episode is 4m full of fan service. There's not doubt about it. Unfortunately there's low nudity. Don't understand the Rating. OK they are always in their bikinis.

Each of the four characters have boobs bigger than their heads. The creators made every battle some sort of sexual fantasy. The worst of them is the Paladin always trying to sacrifice her virginity for the sake of the group. Everything she sees a problem she ask if she has to prostitute herself.

I must say the only redeeming quality is the art of the girls. The bouncing titties are good but since they are so big they it feels awkward. I must I was very disappointing with it. But since 12 episodes each 4/5m is not that bad.


Story 2
Art 4
Sound 2
Character 1
Enjoyment 2
Overall 2

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Anime Review: Koro-Sensei Quest (Winter 2017)




Small Review for a small anime...

Some of the Bugs....
This anime is chibi-parody of Assassination Classroom. This is not the first. There is also one made to Attack on Titan & The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya. I have not yet watch Assassination Classroom so this anime was a bit odd... I didn't enjoy I must say... It was fun 10m 12 episode but that's it. It was comedy, some RPG jokes (most of the characters are cardboard rpg characters. A paladin, a Rogue, a Mage (not magic - science) and so on... What's interesting is that each character as a bug that makes it harder for them to achieve their goal. Kill the big bad. I don't know if it is a spoiler of some sorts, but it seem big bad was a bored human hero who turn himself to be the big evil bad guy. 

Assassination Classroom is one of those animes on my playlist in the near future.
Watch it for something funny AND if you have seen the original. To me it was rather pointless. 




Story 4
Art 4
Sound 6
Character 3
Enjoyment 3
Overall 4

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Anime Review: Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki (Fall 2016)

Another 5m anime with 12 Episodes. 
The synopsis is probably bigger than my review...

Synopsis
This is the visual diary of Kiitarou's experience with youkai. He's a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next?

Opinion
What to say about this small anime that you can watch in one hour.
This is a funny anime about Youkai. You follow Kiitarou & Suzu (a house spirit). In each episode you've watch him interact with different Youkai and their relations between themselves and towards humans. Each episode is self-contain but very interesting. 

Kitsunemen no Onna with her big breasts give us some fan-service toward the series (only a couple of episodes). In my opinion, unless that kind of youkai is prone to that, I think it was not needed.

The music (in the end per example) was a nice addition. 

In the end I felt that this series could continue for 100 episodes if they want. After all there are a lot of different Youkai in Japanese Folklore.   

If you have an hour, go for it.

Story 5/10
Art 4/10
Sound 7/10
Character 3/10
Enjoyment 6/10
Overall 5/10

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Anime Review: Masamune-kun no Revenge (Winter 2017)

This was one of those animes I was looking forward and in the end I felt disappointed. But at least it mind get a sequel (in the end there is a hint for that BUT I don't know if this anime sold a lot or no). 

The series was made by Silver Link. It's a company that mostly do Slice of Life animes mix with School and Comedy. Well look some of the five top ranking (and members) of them. 

* Non Non Biyori Repeat (Comedy, School, Seinen, Slice of Life) ;
* Kokoro Connect: Michi Random (Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Slice of Life, Supernatural)
* Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge (Slice of Life, Comedy, School)
* Kokoro Connect (Slice of Life, Comedy, Supernatural, Drama, Romance, School)
* Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! (Slice of Life, Comedy, School, Shounen)

Synopsis
As a child, Masamune Makabe once suffered greatly at the hands of a wealthy and beautiful girl named Aki Adagaki, who nicknamed him "Piggy" due to his chubby appearance. Seeking revenge against his tormentor, Masamune works hard to improve himself and returns as an incredibly handsome, albeit narcissistic, high school student. When he encounters Aki once again, he is prepared to exact vengeance.

With the aid of the rich girl's maid, Yoshino Koiwai, Masamune slowly begins to build his relationship with Aki, intending to break her heart when the time is right. However, as his friendship with Aki begins to grow, Masamune starts to question the objectives of his devious plans, and if bringing them to fruition is what his heart truly desires.


Opinion
Well, basically is what the synopsis says. Masamune loved Aki (a rich girl) who turn him down and called him Piggy. He left broken and swore revenge so he turn himself on a man with muscles with the sole purpose of making Aki falling in love with him and then BANG! Dump her. Talk about a bad character. Of course this interest me a lot. In the beginning he start making some real good impressions on every girl and even Aki looks at him (although not with love but probably more disdain) after all she rejects every single man/boy she meets giving them horrible nicknames.

Then he receives a letter saying that she knows who he is - but it was not Aki but Koiwai (a servant girl) of Aki. She tells him that she will help me destroy Aki confidence. So each episode is filled with comedy and slowly building a relation between Masamune and Aki. He turns down both Fujinomiya (a beautiful rich girl who confesses his love to him) and the class president Tae Futaba - both very cute.

There is also a boy (who In the beginning I thought it was a girl called Sonoka Kaneko (he is mostly there to be treated as a girl or gay I don't know but he isn't).

In the last couple episodes enters another character (a boy called Kanetsugu Gasou) who tries to make Aki believe is Masamune (because his mother mistakes one with another) and that they have an arranged marriage. I think this was poorly made (because he just appear in the last two episodes) and probably is story should have been better told.

In the two last episodes they also have a competition of theater plays. Both Kanetsugu and Masamune are battling for Aki. The friends of Aki lock Masamune (who is running a fever) and Koiwai locks Kanetsugu. In the end Masamune is released and he tries to make her play kissing her in the end and she slaps punches him hard.

Then the last 15 minutes they all join together and sing in a karaoke. Both Masamune and Aki in the end sit in a park and Aki says she would do anything for him because he was the prince in the play. He ask for a kiss but instead she puts a muffin or something in his mouth (probably because Koiwai appear with her food). Didn't I tell you about her food disorder? She is skinnier than hell but its like a pig. 

Well this is...

Thoughts
I was really upset of how they ended the show. Okay they should have ended with something more than a premise of a season 2 that might not even exist. After all the rankings are not the best... I think in the middle of the season, after an interesting premise it felt that the creators didn't know what to do to make people interested on this revenge so it's just fillers and fillers of nothing of particular interest. Masamune is so determined to chase that girl that make him burn that he negates every single other female character (even if they are prettier, sexier 2D girls). Aki is pretty but have no boobs, no ass no nothing. Is revenge so important? 

It felt that this was a journey, and after all that is all that is important, to a climax that simple does not exist. I would give this a better higher score if there was a partial ending... A season two will come? If so I will watch it BUT I think it's not worth it...

The average score was 7.24 and I gave it a 5. Basically because in the end I felt that there should have been at least 
Masamune, Sonoka Kaneko, Koiwai & Aki

Story 5 (It started with a 8 but then climb down)
Art 7
Sound 6
Character 6
Enjoyment 4 (It also started with a 8 but then climb down)
Overall 5

I am very in doubt giving in a 5. I should give it two notes.
The first couple of episodes I would rank it a 8. But by the end I would rank it a 2 or 3. But since I will not give that I will set it a 5. 




Recommendation: You want Revenge driven shown? You will not get it here.

Anime Review: Demi-Chan Kataritai (Winter 2017)

Sakie, Yuki, Machi, Hikari, Tetsuo & Himari
Well I just finish the the twelfth episode and I must say it was a very good entertaining series. I really hope for a season 2.

#Synopsis#
The story takes place in an age where "Ajin" (demi-human), more casually known as "Demi," have slowly started to become accepted into human society. Tetsuo Takahashi is a biology teacher who ends up teaching three such Demi, hoping to understand more about them while also managing to catch their attention.

In the series some being (Ajins or Demi) start to appear (or being born) from humans (Kyouko has humans parents and same goes with Hikari who has a twin "normal" sister). Vampires, Succubus, Dulhahans, Snow women and so on. They really don't talk outside our four female demi-chans. It would be cool to learn more about other types of demis (or Ajins).


There is a reason why this anime has some high rating of 7.85 with almost 90K members. It was made by one of the most famous anime studios called A-1 Pictures. They are the ones who made Shigatsu Wa Kimi no Uso, Boku Dake, Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai, Uchuu Kyoudai, Sword Art Online, Fairy Tail or even one my favourite animes Grimgar. 

Why this series are so interesting? 
Well. First of all it takes the Harem formula but gives it a twist. There is indeed a harem but not a romantic one (not counting with Sakie which likes him). There is some ecchi BUT only with Sakie since she is a Succubus. There are a couple of other episodes where Hikari touches Machi but I think it's to loosen her up.

This show is indeed about characters and that's where it shines. It grabs the discrimination/minorities and "plays" around with the demis being new to society. There is an episode where a couple of their colleges are talking and saying that they discriminate by saying they are "demis" and not humans. 

Indeed this can be a slice of life. There are cute girls, pleasing visuals, no particular plot  and this could be seen as another boring slice of life. But in here we've got also likable characters, comedy and great social introspection.

Characters
Tetuso Takahashi is a biology teacher who is fascinated by the demis. He helps each one of them to better understand oneself and at the same time study their conditions and some myths. 

Yuki-Kusakabe she is a snow woman. She endures a transformation like no other demi. In the beginning of the series she dislikes telling people she is a demi and fearful of her "powers" could do to others. Tetsuo helps her understand how her "body" works.


Kyouko Machi. She is a Dullahan. Basically her body and head are not attached. Go read Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washigton Irving. Throughout the series we learn more about her folklore and status with Tetsuo. There is a interesting episode where she goes to the university to be a Tsetuo friend that talks about the physics and other technical terms to better understand how can she eat or drink and the food go to her stomach since there isn't a physical connection. As she is the smartest girl in school she is fascinated and probably that was Tetsuo intention. She has a crush on Tetsuo.

We've got Hikari Takanashi. She is a vampire and the first one to recurred to Tetsuo. We learn that she avoids biting people necks instead drinking blood sent by the government and drinking tomato juice. She also likes to put her fangs (nibbles) into her twin sister and other people. There is an episode where we the all gang tastes her arms and evaluates their "tastiness" score. She is also easy-going and likes to help people around her. She also confronts people who dislike demi (or other people). In the first episodes she is the link for her new-friends and Tetsuo. They have a great relationship student/sensei or even friend/friend.

Himari Takanashi is a human, no special ability. She is rarely seen on the show but I think they could focus on her more as well. She is the twin sister of Hikari and in all episodes she acts like a protector and almost a "mother" to her. 


Then we've got Sakie Satou. She is a Succubus and a math teacher. She is aware of her "powers" and so she constantly take precautions to avoid seducing her male students making herself looking dull. If a person touches her they become aroused. Se accidentally touches Tetsuo that pretends not to be affected which makes her have a crush on Tetsuo. There is an interesting episode where we follow Sakie throughout her day. Then by the end episodes we learn more of her abilities. In the second-to-last episode she invites Tetsuo to drink in a video  and then personally. He never says yes. In the last episode we see her in a bathing suit and again Tetsuo controls himself.


I think the series has a possibility of a second season, although I understand they stay with only one season. After all it's a great season and one of the best in Winter 2017 but unless they bring a new cast of characters there isn't really a point continuing. The girls learn about themselves and the only thing that stay untold was Sakie love for Tetsuo. Did it come true or not? 

Story 6
Art 7
Sound 7
Character 9 
Enjoyment 8
Overall 8



Monday, March 27, 2017

Anime Review: Fuuka (Winter 2017)

Fuuka was a really interesting show. Another highlight in my book. Unfortunally it didn't fare that well in Myanimelist with only a score of 6.90 with 82K members.

Synopsis
Yuu Haruna just moved into town and loves to use Twitter. Out on his way to buy dinner, he bumps into a mysterious girl, Fuuka Akitsuki, who breaks his phone thinking he was trying to take a picture of her panties. How will his new life change now?

I am going to say upfront that I really enjoy so much the first four or five episodes that I try to read the manga. I was so well impressed



by it and it almost ruined the show for me... (I will say what later on).


The anime basically follows the synopsis I just put up there. Then as he go to the new school he learns that blue hair girl is from her class. He goes to the roof to tweet about his new school and yet again he is caught taking her picture (by mistake) and yet again she breaks her phone. Second phone in two days.

From that moment on, and due to his awkward way she befriends him. Fuuka is energetic girl, very easy going and friendly. 

Yuu Haruna very fast befriends her and learns that she really likes hearing music particular from a young artist called Koyuki Hinashi.

She then confesses that she is missing something in her life where he ask her why not singing and forming a band. Due to her personality she grabs Yuu to learn the base, Mikasa (her homosexual friend who Yuu first thought to be her boyfriend) to play the keyboards, Nachi (who was currently trying to put Fuuka on the Track Field) and later Sara (the young sister of one of the players of their favorite band HEDGEHOG)

From that moment they start playing and learn to exist as a band. They also participate in a live concert where Hinashi appears to sing alongside Fuuka.

Then enters Hinashi who was a childhood friend of Yuu (he calls Tama-Chan and she calls him Nico-Kun) and a love interest develops. First Yuu is drawn to her and she reveals in life broadcast that every music she made was dedicated of her love to him. This makes Fuuka apprehensive since she learns that he loves him and so she leaves the band and soon afterwards everyone follows their own path.

Yuu is distress and makes a song to everyone to listen and they quickly return with Fuuka exception because she still believes Yuu is in love with Tama - then Tama-chan tells Fuuka that indeed she loves him but he loves Fuuka. Fuuka then returns to the band and sings his song and is a success. In the end we see them together, in love and promising to be together forever.

This is a small review there are a lot more than this...

ANIME VS MANGA
Well, spoilers, everything before was spoilers but this is more... In the manga after their first show where Fuuka sings with Hinashi, Fuuka is hit by a truck and dies. 

Also that love triangle present in the anime don't exist in the manga.

Many people where upset by this changes. I for once I enjoy it. I like "bad" endings. I like sad stuff that make me think and cry. I like to be move. I think they knew this wasn't going to have a sequel and so they changed it OR they thought about this since the beginning. I don't know and I don't care.

Althought Fuuka is a really great gal (if she existed in reality) Tama chan don't stay behind. She is in love with Nico(Yuu) since the beginning and could have fought for him but instead he gives him to Fuuka. That's love! People like that almost doesn't exist.

OPINION
I really enjoy the music on this anime. I really anjoy the characters and I was very in doubt on which team I was... Fuuka or Tama-chan. I really couldn't decided until the end. 

There is some fan service but nothing I would consider "Ecchi" but in Myanimelist they put it there. In the first episode we see Fuuka panties. We see her taking a bath with Tama-chan (nothing is shown). I don't know if this is free ecchi. Maybe it is. Nevertheless it exists.

I really enjoy the series but reading the manga spoilt and made me wanna stop the series because I was shipping Fuuka with Yuu. But then the anime throw a curve ball at us.  


Story 7
Art 7
Sound 10
Character 7 
Enjoyment 8
Overall 8

Sunday, March 26, 2017

TV Series Review: Hammer House of Horror (1980)


You all know I enjoy horror stories. You all know (or should know) I enjoy "bad" endings. Usually I don't hope for the good guys to win... (in movies at least) and one of my goals where to watch not only the Kaiju Movies but also Hammer Horror movies... So, this was the way to start... I watch Hammer house of horror

Basically it's small movies. They are not connected in any way besides most actors here have been in some way on their movies. This series had only one season back in 1980 (my year of birth...) don't know why since it felt it was a good anthology. Maybe it isn't cost/profit viable. 

Nevertheless advisable. Some stories could be made into a full time movie and others could have been made in 30. That's my only complain. Some felt rush and some felt it missed something. 


"Witching Time"
This first tale is about a witch that is striking horror into the occupants of an old farmhouse. Very interesting and with an evil ending. 

"The Thirteenth Reunion"
There is a cradle of filth music that says... For Beauty is always Cruel. Well this is something like that mixed with other stuff. A reporter is investigating some strange deaths in an health farm. Another evil ending. I won't say that bad ending because you would think I didn't enjoy it...

"Rude Awakening"
This tale is about a man who dreams about killing his own wife (no, he actually dreams that). And every time the dreaming is different but always involves a strange House and a secretary. This is  more a of a psychological terror.

"Growing Pains"
Well this tale is kind of a odd. A boy died and so a couple adopt a new boy. But then nothing is quite like their own son. The research is also very important here.

"The House that Bled to Death"
This story is quite interesting in terms of physiological horror. Some horror accident happened in that house and now new inhabitants appear. Unfortunately a cat died :(

"Charlie Boy"
This was very strange story about an African idol and making Makumba/Vooddo a real deal. Interesting story with a good (not in a happy way) finale.

"Children of the Full Moon"
This is a very interesting story about lycanthropes. I really enjoy the first part of the story but didn't enjoy the second half and finale. Simple story.

"Carpathian Eagle"
This is possible one of the best stories. Based on Erzebeth Bathory and a remote kin and killing starting to happen. I already knew the ending but nevertheless it was a good story. Really enjoy about the hunts.

"Visitor from the Grave"
This was probably the most psychological tales of them all. A woman starts seeing stuff and think she is crazy. Really interesting ending.

"The Two Faces Of Evil"
This was some crazy bat shit... (Guano, right?)
A family gives a lift to a sinister hitch hiker and after he attacks the driver they crash. The husband (the one driving) was very hurt and the hiker died. As the episode progress the wife starts wondering what happened and which is which. Interesting tale... but one that you've seen it coming right from the start.

"The Mark of Satan"
This is probably one of the best episodes of the series. A mortuary man becomes convinced that a conspiracy of evil is afoot. He starts seeing the same number everywhere. Nobody believes him. But is it true or is it all on his mind? 

Anime Review: Hitori no Shita: The Outcast (Summer 2016)


This anime is one of those animes I've said it felt bland and poor. I remember watching the first two episodes before dropping out. The same happened with a lot of animes but then I start watching again and try to finish it... and I did.

This anime is South Korea and not Japanese. The company only has two animes under their belts. The other one is Bloodivores. Both were not that well receive.

Basically you've got this MC (main character) who returns to his home town and he is attacked by some zombies and then he is saved by a young girl named BaoBao. From this moment on, each episode is Chulan our MC) trying to uncover what's happening and why people are attacking him.  If in the first 7/8 episodes it seems Chulan is our MC I think in the end it changes to  Baobao. She is the only interesting part of this anime.


The fights are good. Each individual uses some sort of Special powers (Kii) and it's kind of fine. But unfortunately this anime fails in terms of story and character design (as I said besides Baobao). 

I think the creators tried to hard to make an anime based on different fighting styles (some rather fictions) but then felt so flat that it sucked. I also think they had planned to make a season 2 and so the ending is not an ending but rather a intermission to the main "battle" or story. I really dislike this. One thing is having a open-ending so they can return. Other thing is not having a ending at all because they wanna return.  If they do return I am not going to watch it.


Story 4/10
Art 3/10
Sound 4/10
Character 3/10
Enjoyment 3/10
Overall 3/10

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Anime Review: Keijo!!!!!!!! (Fall 2016)

For those who play Dead or Alive Xtreme3 - this is not but probably one is based on another....
Well this is a sports anime. Sports anime with Boobs and Asses. Basically several girls go into a pool on top of plastic isle. Then each girl must throw overboard the other girl with their asses or boobs.
  

I mean talking about it it sounds awful right? 
After all for a series that is basically that it has a score o 7.44 with 115,571 Members 

But it isn't all that bad. Basically the 13 episode is about a couple of girls trying to find out the best way, tactics and such about it. The authors really thought about this through (the best they could). They made up tactics and each girl "personality" adaptated to that particular tactic(s). Like fast girls who use their speed to sneak up. Others are brute force and others are a mix. They mainly use their asses but there is also the ones who use boobs AND a some use their feminine "arts" to defeat their opponent.  There are special moves.... machine gun but missiles or supersonic hip swings (that could damage you forever) or even Vacuum Cannon. It's so strong that can destroy the opponents cloth. 


Keijo is a shounen-action/comedy series. There isn't a single guy in it and there isn't kind of romance. It has fan service, after all girls are hitting one another with their asses and boobs (and in all honestly it can't live witohut it BUT not in the same as other fan service where it exists to excit the viewers).

The art and animation are quite good, after all it's an action/sports anime and the girls are well portrayed.

This anime proofs that Japan do what Japan does best. Innovate and thinking out of the box.

Watch it. Don't expect a deep anime. Don't expect the best characteer or sound anime. But expect something different that uses fan-services with purpose. Expect something new coming out from Japan.

The creators are Xebec which made To LOVE-Ru, Pandora Hearts or Love Hina. Or the remake of one of my favourite "Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199"



Story 6/10
Art 8/10
Sound 5/10
Character 5/10
Enjoyment 8/10
Overall 7/10

Friday, March 24, 2017

Anime Review: Okusama ga Seitokaichou! (Summer 2015 & Fall 2016)

This is going to be two reviews instead of one, basically because this is the season 2 and I watch them both. So we've got 24 episodes divided in two series with 8m per episode.

If you are looking for some funny ecchi situations with mild nudity then you've come to the right place.
We've got this guy called Hayato Izumi who is running for class president and lost Ui Wakana. Then he discovers that he is married with her because both their parents were drunked and made a arranged marriage situation.

From this moment on, throughout the 24 episodes we deal with situations of awkward love/ecchi situations. There isn't actually sex and in doesn't turn into hentai (whereas I Think it should).

Meanwhile we also learn about Rin Misumi who is in the disciplinary committee and tries to separate both Hayato & Ui - first because they are going against regulations and then because she develops feelings for her. In a couple of episodes we've watch something akin to hentai (groping breasts mainly) but that's it. I think a season 3 is in order but I don't know if it is going to happen. 

This anime was made Seven who is also the creators of "I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying" and is coming Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... which will be in the same vein of the above. Seven basically makes 3m to 10m episodes of anime.

What I wanted to say, don't expect much unless you want to see ecchi mix with nudity but no hentai and someone awkward situations. It's what it's called Ecchi done correctly. 

Story 1/10
Art 7/10
Sound 5/10
Character 3/10
Enjoyment 6/10
Overall 5/10

Review Analysis... Comparing This anime with Death Note or some other uber-rated anime is almost pointless. It's like comparing a ford from 1906 with a ferrari from nowadays. The only think they have in common is that they both are cars and run on oils. 
So the rating of this anime is valuable within these kind of animes...

There are animes to think and ponder and that mark you and then there are funny witty animes to pass the time. They are both good  but each in its own away. So the rating of this anime and other smaller animes is rather well, since I don't have a better word - odd.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Anime Review: Nazotokine (Fall 2016)

Tokine Amino works as a secretary for TEN2, an advertising agency. One day while cleaning the conference room, she is surrounded in light and finds she can't leave the room until she solves a puzzle.

It seems a creature named Hacchin, a being from another dimension called Quizn. He is interested in the intellectual pleasure that happens when someone solves a puzzles or uncovers a mystery. And he has his sight set on Tokine Amino.

I am sorry but I cannot fully understand this story. Basically you've got a rabbit/pig funny little white thing that transports a young girl (giving her VERY interesting clothes that apparently unconsciously she designs ) so she can solve mysteries. Most of these mysteries are kind of hard for non-Japanese people but there were a couple of them which even I could understand. But our main characters always fail (first) and then answers correctly. Then she has an orgasm and a crystal appears. Yes she has an orgasm of some sorts. WTF? Fan service! CHECK!


spoiler... it wasn't! it was hers....
The reason for all that is so far-fetch to be believable and then in the last couple two or three episodes a new threat appears But is so anticlimactic  that made me cringe my teeth.

There is some non-puzzling solving thing there but it's so unnecessary that made me wonder why do it.  Worth watching? Nope! Not a chance.

This anime was made by Tengu Kobo and this is the first anime. There is going to have a sequel. Hurrah! 

Story 2/10
Art 3/10
Sound 3/10
Character 2/10
Enjoyment 4/10
Overall 3/10

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Anime Review: Planetarian: The Dream of Small Star ( Summer 2016)

Planetarian is an 18 minutes 5 episode anime which is set in the near future after humanity as become nearly extinct. Is set in a catacomb city basically. A man enters a planetarian escaping some robots. He actives the planetarium and a girl comes into light. A girl no, a robot-girl. This girl robot is totally oblivious to what is happening out there since her database are not update for about 30 years. She basically treats him as a costumer and shows him some videos and stories. In the beginning the man don't treat her well but as the time progresses he helps her.

What to expect from it? Well not much. It's beautiful and in the end you will get some water in your eyes but I bet that one day later you will forget it. It's truly sad story but unfortunately due to the length of it you will not feel so connect to it that after a day or two you no longer remember.

Story 5/10
Art 6/10
Sound 6/10
Character 4/10
Enjoyment 5/10
Overall 5/10. Not the worst anime but also not the most interesting. Nevertheless under a hour mark so if you have the time watch it.

"I do not need a Heaven. However, if I must go to Heaven then please, God, do not divide Heaven in two. Please do not divide the robots from the humans."
- Yumemi Hoshino, Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Anime Review: Ozmafia!!! (Summer 2016)

OMG. Why did I start watching it? With 5m episodes I start watching, then in the middle start moaning and by the end I think I was skip it forward so I can see if it had an ending... It had not.

Since it is based on a game probably people who play it like it BUT for the love of the gods... AWFUL.

The only "good" thing it felt like a videogame (visual novel?)  - I think probably for people who play the game it is a acceptable one... But for ME If there was a contest for the worst anime, probably this will be it. Why didn't I quit? Well if I start watching an anime I try to finish UNLESS it is 20 plus minute anime. In that case I will give up after two or three episodes.

Story 1/10
Art 2/10
Sound 2/10
Character 2/10
Enjoyment 1/10
Overall 2/10

Monday, March 20, 2017

Anime Review: Ao Oni: The Animation (Fall 2016)

I've finish Ao Oni: The Animation back in January and this is going to be a small review because unfortunally this is basically a 4 minute episodes comedy / horror anime about a group of 4 people and ways to died. Basically it's Kenny from South Park but on Anime and they all died. Each one in an horrible way. This is linked with a movie called Ao Oni The Animation (Movie) which I also saw and it sucks even more than the anime tv series. The animation is awful, the special effect is awful the plot is kind of cool but then the actual coverage and such was a pain. One of the worst animes I've saw... Coming from Studio Deen I can't really say why it sucks...

Studio Deen are the maker of an all favourite Konosuba and also under their belts Fate/Zero, Sankarea, Sakamoto desu ga?, Rurouni Kenshin or even Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu.

So probably they were trying to do something and it fail... terrible. Synopsis

In most ordinary high schools, many stories and rumors float around—some scandalous, some happy and some...more macabre. One such example is of monsters lurking in an abandoned mansion outside of town. Such tales, however, prove too tempting to resist for Hiroshi and his friends Mika, Takeshi, and Takurou. They decide to brave the rumored dangers in order to investigate the manor and complete a test of courage. Each of them approaches the mansion with an overwhelming sense of dread. And when they enter, they come upon a blue monster named Ao Oni who attacks them.


As Hiroshi and his friends try to solve the various puzzles in the mansion and escape their new blue nemesis, they find themselves meeting several horrible endings as they fail miserably.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

ANIME: SPRING 2017 (WHAT AM I WATCHING?) PART 1 of 2

Well a new season arrives...
Most of the animes that will be coming in Spring are already on MAL (https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/2017/spring) or Anime Chart  or  Live Chart  https://www.livechart.me/winter-2017/tv


- Some Sequels I am not going to follow up...
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations - A sequel of Naruto. Well it's his son... I didn't watch the first so I am not going to waste my time on it.

Berserk (2017) - Another sequel of anime I didn't watch but plan to watch so.. . probably a no-go for now.


Summary
That's a lot of animes I am going to try... 28 animes plus  the 5 I am already planning to watch... There are some that really interest me... read the below information


a) Definitely Going to Watch (All of them are sequels) (5)
Probably the first anime that comes to our mind, is undoubtly Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2 (Or in English - Attack on Titan) - After four years waiting here it comes... I just recently watched the first season (yeah I know...). This anime will be a direct sequel of the first. They are now starting the war on the Titans with the help of Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Levi.

Next we have Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season... It's also a sequel of the first (I must say I am currently preparing for it watching the first season). It's also a no-brainer to me.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria - What a big title... this is a spinoff of How to pick up girls in a dungeon but it focus on Aiz. This is also a new no brainer to watch.

Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ - A sequel of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. It is also a no brainer to watch having watch and enjoy the first season

Nobunaga no Shinobi: Ise Kanegasaki-hen - Second season of Nobunaga no Shinobi. I really am enjoying the first season.


b) Probably going to Watch


Eromanga-sensei 
LYS Really looking forward on this anime. Look different...  Made from   A-1 Pictures, there's nothing to go wrong here... 
Synopsis The "new sibling romantic comedy" revolves around Masamune Izumi, a light novel author in high school. Masamune's little sister is Sagiri, a shut-in girl who hasn't left her room for an entire year. She even forces her brother to make and bring her meals when she stomps the floor. Masamune wants his sister to leave her room, because the two of them are each other's only family.

Masamune's novel illustrator, pen name "Eromanga," draws extremely perverted drawings, and is very reliable. Masamune had never met his illustrator, and figured he was just a disgusting, perverted otaku. However, the truth is revealed... that his "Eromanga-sensei" is his own younger sister! To add to the chaos that erupts between the siblings, a beautiful, female, best-selling shoujo manga creator becomes their rival!




Clockwork Planet
Lys This anime looks weird... But the image is great. Xebec is the company doing it. They made Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 and Pandora Hearts.
Synopsis  One day, a black box suddenly crashed into the house of the high school dropout Naoto Miura. Inside it was a female automaton. The endless cycle of failure and success.


The world that does change and the mankind that does not change. At a time where reality and fantasy are screaming, the encounters of these two make the gears of fate move!






Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai
Lys Look at the damn synopsis... Need I say more?

You, will you be a worshipper of the devil lords? These beautiful lords lead humans to the seven deadly sins: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. A revealing fantasy that craves to corruption and happiness starts now.




Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?
What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Lys: Look at that title... Sounds good hey?

Five hundred years have passed since the humans went extinct at the hands of the fearsome and mysterious 'Beasts'. The surviving races now make their homes up on floating islands in the sky, out of reach of all but the most mobile of Beasts.

Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to fend off invasions from these creatures. Into the girls’ unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything in his final battle five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

Unable to fight any longer, Willem becomes the father that the girls never had, caring for and nurturing them even as he struggles to come to terms with his new life, in which he feels the pain of helplessly waiting for his loved ones to return home from battle that his 'Daughter' once felt for him so long ago. Together, Willem and the girls gradually come to understand what family means and what is truly worth protecting.

Fukumenkei Noise
Lys: Damn.. Looks good. Brain's Base has some interesting animes under their belt like Baccano, or even Natsume Yuujinchou Shi

Nino, a girl who likes to sing, experienced two farewells in the past. First, with her first love, Momo, and second, with Yuzu, a boy who composes music. But upon those two farewells, she made a promise with each of them: to continue singing until they find her voice again. Time has passed, and now these three are in high school...?!






c) Going to Give it a Try

Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho
LYS Looks great on "paper". Let us hope it is... White Fox is the studio converting this light novel into anime. They are famous for making Steins;Gate or Akame ga Kill!  or even Re:Zero  -so one thing is for sure, good graphics and good action scenes

Synopsis  Year 526 of the Liturgical Calendar.
The world knew that witches existed, and that they practiced the notorious art of sorcery.
Nevertheless, the world did not know anything about the study of magic.

Our story follows a half-man, half-beast mercenary; humans mockingly call his kind the “fallen beasts”. He always dreamt of becoming a human, but one day, he met a witch who would change his life forever.

“Do you desire a human form? Then be my escort, mercenary!”
The witch introduced herself as “Zero”, and explained that she was searching for a one-of-a-kind magical tome that bandits had stolen from her lair. Entitled “The Book of Zero”, the grimoire supposedly contained valuable magical knowledge that could be used to effortlessly bring the world to its knees.
Thus, in order to realize his dream of becoming a human, the mercenary must accompany Zero on her journey—despite her being one of the witches he so loathed.
This is the story of a haughty sorceress and a kindhearted beast.


Renai Boukun
LYS From a company EMT² which I drop two anime I am not very optimistic but it seems a good plot...  In MAL the best score is Nyanko Days (Which I dropped) with 6.85 The first sentence is a parody to Death Note?

Synopsis A Kiss Note is a powerful notebook that makes anyone who has their name written together will instantly fall in love if they kiss each other regardless of any circumstances. This magical and very familiar item belongs to an angel named Guri whose job as cupid is to create couples. However, she accidentally writes down Aino Seiji, a regular high school student, and unless he kisses someone, Guri will die. She convinces Seiji to go kiss his crush, Hiyama Akane, the school's popular girl who turns out has even stronger feelings for him, bordering on obsessive and psychotic. Eventually Akane and Seiji come together but not before Guri decides that she likes Seiji as well. What seems awesome to most guys becomes hell for Seiji who just wants a normal relationship with girls.


Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records
From LIDENFILMS, the creators of Initial D & Arslan Senki. - Let us hope it's good..

Sistina attends a magical academy to hone her skills in the magical arts, hoping to solve the mystery of the enigmatic Sky Castle. After the retirement of her favorite teacher, the replacement, Glen, turns out to be a tardy, lazy, and seemingly incompetent bastard of an instructor. How is it that Glen was hand-picked by the best magician in the academy?!

Sakurada Reset´
Another interesting story. Let us hope it's good. From the creators of the famous Jojo. The Graphics are not to my liking... but... (Ajin had crappy graphics and I watch it)

Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point in time in the past. There is a group known as the "Kanrikyoku" that controls and monitors the use of these powers. Asai Kei and Haruki Misora work for their school's club called "Houshi" club, which execute any missions received from the Kanrikyoku. Misora has the ability to reset the world 3 days. This means that all events and any memory of the past 3 days that "could have" happened, never happened. Kei has the ability to "remember" the past. Even after Misora uses her powers to reset the world back 3 days, Kei will retain those 3 days in his memory. Combining their powers, these two solve missions issued by the Kanrikyoku.


Re:Creators
Troyca is the new producer but already under their belt Aldnoah Zero and Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru - Let us hope...

Humans have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories shake our emotions, and fascinate us. However, these are only the thoughts of bystanders. But what if the characters in the story have "intentions"? To them, are we god-like existences for bringing their story into the world? Our world is changed. Mete out punishment upon the realm of the gods. In Re:CREATORS, everyone becomes a Creator.

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism
Lys: This also looks good... the damn title has Machievellianism... What can go wrong?

The Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy was originally a high school for high-class girls. When it became co-ed, the girls, out of fear, asked to be permitted to bring weapons to school. When that was enforced, a five-member vigilante corps-like organization called the "Supreme Five Swords" was also formed.

After many generations, the five swords eventually became a group which corrected problematic students, and the academy started proactively accepting such students in order to correct them.

Nomura Fudou was sent to this school after being part of a huge brawl. What will he do when the only options he has after enrolling are being expelled from that school or being corrected the way the rest of the male students there were...by being forced to dress and act like a girl!

Sakura Quest
This should be a good slice of life anime.. Let us hope is as good as the synopsis says...

In the wake of a nationwide movement during the Bubble economy period, a small town in the countryside has revived its "mini-nation" tourism program; hiring five girls as travel ambassadors. The series will follow a year's time of the five girls as they work in the tourism agency of a small failing town in an effort to reinvigorate it.




Alice to Zouroku
Lys: looks delightful... 

The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, Sana ends up in a normal world where she encounters an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her?


Tsugumomo
Lys: No opinion whatsoever...  Made by Zero-G with only four animes under their belt. None with rating superior to 6... no high hopes..

Kazuya Kagami never goes anywhere without the precious "Sakura Obi" his mother gave him. One day a beautiful, kimono-clad girl named Kiriha appeared before him. Kiriha naturally began to live with Kazuya in his room. Then there's Chisato, Kazuya's childhood friend with glasses and a ponytail, who meddles in his affairs. Soon there's also an overprotective older sister who seems to want to take baths with him. Jumble in a huge-chested priestess, a good-looking sorceress named Kokuyoura, beautiful women, and hot girls, and Kazuya's happy, embarrassing, confusing life begins…

Gin no Guardian
This one should looks great in terms of graphic. This studio is chinese... Don't know.. From the creators of To Be Hero or Cheating Craft. So got to watch it.

Lu Shuiyin (Riku Suigin in Japanese) is a master of gaming, a skill only known to his classmate Lu Lian (Riku Lin in Japanese). One day, Shuiyin receives a device from Lu Lian for a tomb raiding online game. While Shuiyin is excited to receive the device, Lian is suddenly kidnapped. Shuiyin touches the device that was left behind, pulling him inside the game and trapping him there. What is the imaginary world inside the device? What will Shuiyin find there?

It is a world where two groups of people fight over the power of the gods, which originates from the tomb the mother goddess Pangu (Bango in Japanese). The two groups are the tomb raiders and the tomb protectors. The device Shuiyin received from Lian is called the Monolith, and it allows a normal gamer to go near the tomb. The tomb raiding group plans its attack by recruiting common people in the name of gaming. Shuiyin, as the final tomb protector, must fight against the raiders in order to save Lian.

Tsuki ga Kirei
Lys: Another slice of life. Looks beautiful... look at this cover man

Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.


Hinako Note
Lys: No opinion.. From the creators of Rokka no Yuusha

Hinako is a shy little girl whom animals are instinctively drawn to. Because of this, Hinako works as a scarecrow to keep said animals away from the crops in her neighbors fields. Thus the tale of the scarecrow girl begins!

Kabukibu!
Lys: No opinion.. From the creators of Rurouni Kenshin or Konosuba. So...

The series revolves around kabuki, a classic style of Japanese dance-drama that combines music, drama, and dance. Kurogo Kurusu, a 15-year-old high school student has a passion for kabuki and hopes to establish a kabuki club at school. Things are not easy as they seem when he realizes that he needs to find students to join him.

Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine
Lys: Interesting story... comedy!

Accepting the post of Royal Tutor at the court of the king of Grannzreich, Heine Wittgenstein is a little professor with a big job ahead! Each of the kingdom's four princes has a rather distinct personality. Does their diminutive new instructor have what it takes to lay down some learning? It's a comedy of educational proportions!

Atom: The Beginning
Lys: Ah... Atom. Astro Boy.

Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start!

Quan Zhi Gao Shou
Lys: Another chinese or Korean? Hmm.. Looks good nevertheless

In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook and a top-tier pro-player. However, due to a myriad of reasons, he is kicked from the team. After leaving the pro scene, he finds work in an Internet Cafe as a manager. When Glory launches its tenth server, he throws himself in to the game once more. Possessing ten years of experience, the memories of his past, and an incomplete, self-made weapon, his return along the road to the summit begins!

Frame Arms Girl
Based on Kotobukiya's Frame Arms Girl model kit line. The anime will focus on Gourai, the first model released for the line, as well as Stylet and Baselard.

Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys
Kenka Banchou Otome - Girl Beats Boys, Hinako Nakayama has spent all of her life being raised in state-run orphanages, without ever knowing her family. As she's about to enter high school, Hinako is approached by Hikaru, a boy who claims to be her twin brother.

According to Hikaru, Hikaru and Hinako are the children of the head of the powerful Onigashima yakuza family, and Hikaru wants Hinako to switches places with him at Shishiku Academy, an all-boys school overrun with the nation's toughest delinquents. Can Hinako save her brother, find romance, and become the new boss of the school?


Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni...
Lys: Another interesting story to come...

The reunion of Kujo with his old female classmate. He has inherited his parents' temple and became a priest. However, after the two became drunk, he does something unexpected of him to her!

Love Kome: We Love Rice
The project anthropomorphizes rice (kome in Japanese) into schoolboys. At the Kokuritsu Inaho Academy ("Rice Ear Academy," a wordplay on national schools), five new rice-inspired students attempt to supplant bread as the popular grain at the school. The new students form the "Love Rice" unit and challenge themselves to perform at the "Harvest Show" to show the delicious appeal of rice grains. The "heartwarming 'kome'dy with laughs and passion" promises to let audiences rediscover the virtues of rice ("Japan's soul food"). 

Warau salesman New
Each episode follows Fukuzou Moguro, a traveling salesman, and his current customer. Moguro deals in things that give his customers their heart's desire, and once his deals are made and their unhealthy desires are satisfied, Moguro's customers are often left with terrible repercussions, especially if they break the rules of his deals...

Sekai no Yami Zukan
The anime will be in an omnibus short format that will tell stories of the strange and bizarre in our world, including UFOs, cryptids, curses, ancient civilizations, supernatural powers, spiritual experiences, bizarre cases, different dimensions, and urban legends, told in a picture show style. The anime seeks to evoke the retro atmosphere of pulp horror stories that were popular in the 60's and 70's in magazines.