Anime Review: Landlock (1996)

Landlock is a fantasy tale made in 1996. It has more problems than good.

Basically a boy and a girl (brothers) live happy in a village and they are suddently attacked by another girl who kills their father and destroys the village.  After some roundabouts they are captured and taken to a citadel.

The reason the girl wants to capture the boy (not the girl) is because he has some hidden power.

After the ending of the first episode we learn that this girl who is a commander on her father's army understands or realizes that her father is not her real father. She realizes (with the help of other boy and girl) that she is the twin sister of the boy she captures - This is quite easily to understand since both have one eye of each color (red and blue).

They help them escape but are soon recaptured and in the final confrontation the not-father shows his true colours and releases his hidden "wind" power. But in an anti-climatic ending the girl (not the twin) unleashes her true power and defeats the bad guy.

Truly bad ending.

The animation is okay - nothing worthy and the sound was made by a single keyboard -basically. Nothing worth of attention. 

Anime Review: Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)

Cyber City Oedo 808 it's an interesting anime that deals with three criminal being turn upon police and for each resolved crime their 300 plus sentenced would drop a couple of years.

Each episode focus on one of the three man. The first one focus on Sengoku the second on Gogul and the third on Benten (not the original japanese names...)

Interesting part is that each one focus also on a theme. The First more on action scenes and where man turns into a machine (Ghost in the machine?); The second movie on cyborgs and the last one in immortality.

Even if this was released on 1990 it has a lot of 80's feeling (the music, the cyberpunk and so on..)

Poor characterization ruined and the action scenes are nothing to brag about...

Anime Review: Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou (Fall 2003)

Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou is a comedy/school anime that unfortunately in the end fails to delivery. I watched after watching Detroit Metal City and was one of the suggested so I jumped right in. 

I must say I enjoy it but after some episodes it was always the same jokes and situations which bored me a bit. There is timeline and the characters evolved a bit and even if the beginning they say it has a main character by the end of 26 episode I can hardly say he is in half the show. Or at least is part was minor in some of the stories.

There are some interesting stuff and it remind me a bit of Gatos Fedorento (a comedy show here in Portugal).

Cool to watch but not that cool that I would advise to anyone. In the same vein I would advice Detroit Metal City or the best known within this comedy niche - Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan.

Freddie, the gorilla, the robot, the aliens, horses - that is only the normal day at Cromartie School

Anime Review: Oneechan ga Kita (Winter 2014)

I am going to make four connected reviews...

I recently watched some smaller time-wise animes like and three of those are very similar Onii-chan love!
Danchigai, Oneechan ga Kita, Super Seisyun Brothers and Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu.

Oneechan ga Kita is a boring anime about a older girl being in love with her younger step-brother being almost a stalker. As the episodes grow the brother grows into her. Although it's a generic school comedy as we watch episode after episode of Ichika being obsessive of Tomoya.


Watch it all in one go or else as a long 30m episode. (That's how I did it)

Anime Review: Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu (Winter 2013)

I am going to make four connected reviews...

I recently watched some smaller time-wise animes like and three of those are very similar Onii-chan love!
Danchigai, Oneechan ga Kita, Sup

er Seisyun Brothers and Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu.

This show tells us a tale of Fuuka where she looks like a high school girl but she is a middle school. She has older brother who promise to marry her and now she wants it. Full of ecchi situations and we see Hikaru grow into her and in later episodes to fantasize about her. If you enjoy ecchi then please grab a popcorn sack (or some tissue) and go for it - 30m of ecchi situations. BUT Bear in mind she is in middle school... not high school.

Don't know who the publisher was (neither on wikipedia, MAL or other websites... strange no?)

Anime Review: Super Seisyun Brothers (Fall 2013)

I am going to make four connected reviews...

I recently watched some smaller time-wise animes like and three of those are very similar Onii-chan love!
Danchigai, Oneechan ga Kita, Super Seisyun Brothers and Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu.

Super Seisyun Brothers is the last of the four I watch with similar themes but this one is not about brotherly love "sexual" but brotherly love in terms of being brother and sister. 

Basically it's the tale of two pairs of brothers which are best friends but all of them are quite different from the others. There are some development with the characters as we watch them in different situations.

We follow Chiko e Chika Shinmoto and Mako and Mao Saitou (confusion!!!). What's interesting is that this tale is not done or should not be done because there are some treads to follow. 

What I initial thought of boy loves the friend's sister kind of situation is not that like at all. The only one that likes the other friend's sister is Mao. The other three are oblivion to those feelings.


One hour of your life and you can watch it in one go and treat it as a a movie if you like - unfortunally there was never a sequel so...

Anime Review: Danchigai (Summer 2015)

I am going to make four connected reviews...

I recently watched some smaller time-wise animes like and three of those are very similar Onii-chan love!
Danchigai, Oneechan ga Kita, Super Seisyun Brothers and Cyclops Shoujo Saipuu.

They are all comedy and slice of life althought some have some ecchi or romance withing.

Danchigai is about a boy who is left alone with four sisters. There are some romantic-brotherish situations which makes it very funny and overall it was my favourite of the four. Particulary Nakano Matsuki who to her younger sisters behaves almost perfectly but then with her brother shows her true colors. Very funny situtations almost witty.


There aren't any story within (thus the slice of life) but it has some developments with the characters.

Anime Milestone: 300 Anime Watched

One Year and Half I made my objective. To watch 10% of all anime (which is going to be very hard). So far 2% done...

After Finish 300 animes I must say I am astonished with my "watching" capabilities. Last year alone I finished 185 animes watched (TV Series, Movies and OVAs).

So here is my top 10

I am really in doubt about my favorite anime but after sometime this is it...

Fune Wo Amu

01) Youjo Senki (NUT)

02) Tsuki Ga Kirei (feel.)

03) Koe no Katachi (Kyoto Animation)

04) Toradora! (J.C.Staff)

05) Fune wo Amu (Zexcs)

06) Konosuba (Franchise) (Studio Deen)

07) Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku (AIC)

08) Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (A-1 Pictures)

09) Hyouka (Kyoto Animation)

10) Inuyashiki (MAPPA)

Let me say I am very strict with my grades moving them up and down while I watch more and more... 

10) 9

09) 18

08) 45

07) 77

06) 75

05) 49

04) 24

03) 24

02) 13

01) 2

Now about the genres and my favourite it seems it's:

01) Comedy (158)

02) Action (96)

03) School (89)

04) Drama (81)

05) Romance (76)

06) Fantasy (75)

07) Slice of Life (74)

08) Shounen (60)

09) Supernatural (52)

10) Sci-Fi (47)

My non-favorite (top 5)

01) Shounen AI (1)

02) Yuri (1)

03) Samurai (4)

03) Martial Arts (4)

05) Josei (5)

05) Music (5)

05) Police (5)

The Studios I watched more anime

01) Studio Deen (21)

02) Madhouse (17)

03) J.C. Staff (16)

04) A-1 Pictures (16)

05) Creators in Packs (11)

But if you talking about where my favourite come is

01) Wit Studio (9)

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni(rated with 10)

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri(rated with 8)

Owari no Seraph(rated with 8)

Owari no Seraph: Nagoya Kessen-hen(rated with 8)

Owari no Seraph: Owaranai Seraph(rated with 7)

Shingeki no Kyojin(rated with 9)

Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku(rated with 8)

Shingeki no Kyojin OVA(rated with 6)

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2(rated with 7)

02) Madhouse (17)

ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka(rated with 8)

All Out!!(rated with 7)

Bio Hunter(rated with 6)

Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002(rated with 8)

Death Billiards(rated with 7)

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai(rated with 9)

Gunnm(rated with 7)

Highschool of the Dead(rated with 8)

Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead(rated with 7)

Memories(rated with 8)

Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin(rated with 9)

Overlord(rated with 8)

Overlord II(rated with 6)

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho(unrated)

The Animatrix(rated with 6)

Vampire Hunter D (2000)(rated with 7)

Youjuu Toshi(rated with 7)

03) Kyoto Animation (9)

Amagi Brilliant Park(rated with 8)

Amagi Brilliant Park: Nonbirishiteiru Hima ga Nai!(rated with 7)

Hyouka(rated with 9)

Hyouka: Motsubeki Mono wa(rated with 8)

Koe no Katachi(rated with 10)

Minami no Shima no Dera-chan(rated with 5)

Tamako Love Story(rated with 9)

Tamako Market(rated with 8)

Tamako Market Specials(rated with 3)

In the other end my least favourite (with more than one anime)

Ousama Game: The Animation

01) Creators in Pack (11)

Bernard-jou Iwaku.(rated with 6)

Danchigai(rated with 7)

Danchigai Special(rated with 5)

Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki(rated with 5)

Military!(rated with 3)

Military! Special(rated with 2)

Netsuzou TRap(rated with 4)

Ojisan to Marshmallow(rated with 7)

Ojisan to Marshmallow Special(rated with 4)

Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara(rated with 4)

Ozmafia!!(rated with 2)

02) Seven (9)

Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken(rated with 7)

Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken 2 Sure-me(rated with 5)

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san(rated with 5)

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san Special(rated with 5)

Okusama ga Seitokaichou!(rated with 6)

Okusama ga Seitokaichou!+!(rated with 6)

Omiai Aite wa Oshiego, Tsuyoki na, Mondaiji.(rated with 2)

Ousama Game The Animation(rated with 3)

Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni...(rated with 2)

Anime Review: Memories (1995)

This is a movie produced in 1995 and it's a compilation of three stories.

Magnetic Rose

The first one (and the longest) is a sci-fi space exploration story, called Magnetic Rose, and it's about a group of people who are inbound to a graveyard of spaceships to rescue someone.
As two guys go one of those spaceships they start seeing stuff that's in not there. It's very bleak experience as they traveled in the ship. It correlates with the title because that ship was made so a woman wouldn't forget about her life - but it turn to something wicked. 

Stink Bomb

The second story it's called Stink Bomb and it's a dark comedy that I cannot phantom where it connects to the "Memories".  Basically the plot is set in a scientific station where people are developing drugs - but one of those drugs unfortunally has a side effect and as guy eats one of the pills, everybody in the lab dies. He then adverts the Laboratory HQ which tells him to return those papers to him. As he travels to Tokyo, where he passes a mist appears and everyone dies. 

All SDF forces attack to no avail because it seems the mist also has some side effect that disrupt electrical stuff. It's very dark But comic at the same time.

Cannon Fodder

The third story called Cannon Fodder could connect to Memories but it's very far-fetched. Basically it's a story about a city (communist distopia feeling) where everyone works to fire cannons. From the men who handle the cannons, and the women who make shells and the children who learn their trade. It's very 1984 feeling because they are attacking some other nation that it's never seen or hinted. We only know it's a moving city. But it's a very good tale. The animation is not to everyone liking but I really enjoy it.

All three are great stories, unfortunately, I don't understand who two of them connect to the title BUT that's potatoes.