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3D Magical Play (OAV) Weak Another short ep. about Padudu and Nononon, this time in 3D. And not very good 3D. And the story is also meh. Don't bother with this.
A-Channel (TV) Good You know how they say TV is chewing gum for the eyes? This anime is a little like that. It's not spectacular or hilarious, but it makes you smile now and then, and it has a sweet flavor.
A-Channel + smile (OAV) Good Yay, more A-Channel. Oh, look, Kitou-sensei's name is Kimiko, just like me ^_^ It's a pretty rare name in anime.
Hmm, just two eps. is too short.. :(
Aa Megami-sama (OAV 2011) So-so Ep.1 is another short one-ep. story. Just Belldandy & Keiichi being sweet together, with some background antics from Hild, Urd and Skuld. Ep.2 is a bit of silly fun with some fanservice. Overall, nothing really interesting, but it'd be too much to expect anything new 24 years after OMG started.
Aa Megami-sama: Tatakau Tsubasa (special) Good "20th Anniversary", huh? was already that old.
Those two characters in the ED (white-haired man on motorcycle, curly-twin-tailed woman) also appeared in the ED of S2, but they've never appeared in any of the anime proper.
A short story featuring Lind and everyone's angels. I don't get what happened to that monster at the end, but it was a nice story.
Adachi and Shimamura (TV) Good Yuri romance, though apparently a bit heavy on fanservice.
So far (2 eps. in) there isn't too much fanservice. Only one or two slightly ecchi moments (about Nagafuji's boobs). I wonder what the 'alien' is going to be about. It's really nice so far ^_^
Well, it stayed much like that, nice. Not really more than nice though. Adachi is hopelessly in love with Shimamura, but can't get herself to say it. Not even to herself really. Shimamura feels kinda aro? She goes along with Adachi's requests, but is oblivious to anything more than friendship. And so they never get to be a couple in this anime really. I wonder what happens after in the LNs. As for the alien, she does seem to be an actual alien, but no one acknowledges it. She just hangs out with Shimamura's younger sister (and they seem to actually be closer than the two MCs (as do Hino and Nagafuji btw, but they don't appear much in the latter half of the anime)). The fanservice is mostly in the camera, which excessively focuses on the girls' legs. The Nagafuji boob joke only returns once after the first ep., so that's tolerable. The camera is just weird, but also mostly ignorable. Overall this anime was nice, but not very exciting.
(The) Adventures of Mini-Goddess (TV) Decent Came across this while shopping online for anime.
Hmm. Well, good thing I'm watching it before buying. Even at the low price it's going for this isn't really worth watching more than once. Not that it's bad, just rather unremarkable kids comedy.
Okay, finished. Near the middle there were some funny episodes (the ones with Marla and the ninjas for example), but toward the end it went down a little again. I'm still not sure I'd buy this anime. Maybe for completeness after I get the rest of the Aa! Megami-sama series.
Ah! My Goddess (TV) Very good This turned out surprisingly fun. I was expecting a lot of stupid fanservice and comedy, but the fanservice is hardly there, and the comedy wasn't all that bad. It's certainly not perfect (Belldandy is a little too domestic and naïve), but a whole lot better than I expected, so I'm going to watch season two as well.
Second time watching. Mishima Sayoko sounds very strange here. Noto Mamiko has a very soft and sweet voice (and usually voices such characters), but Mishima is supposed to be nasty and calculating.
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy (TV) Very good The second season is just as good as the first. Urd and Skuld get more character development and become more likeable, Belldandy and Keiichi stay the same. The romance doesn't progress at all, but the comedy/story is still fun to watch. There's a bit more fanservice, but still not as bad as I'd feared originally. Overall, Aa! Megami-sama is a series I can recommend to anyone.
Second watching. The enforced heterosexuality is kinda stifling. Nearly everyone gets hooked up with someone of the other sex. They even broke up Den-chan and Dai-chan :( Overall, this season seems to go for comedy more than plot or character development. Many arcs are really short, with interesting characters not getting developed or even forgotten completely. I kinda recall liking this anime the first time more. Maybe because I hadn't watched as much back then? Keiichi's reticence in speaking up about just about anything is particularly vexing.
Ah! My Goddess: The Movie Very good This was made in 2000, between the OVA and the TV series, but content-wise it fits after the two TV series I think. Very good quality art and animation in any case, and a nice stand-alone story.
Second viewing. It's strange how much this fits the TV series more than the OVA, even though it came out 5 years earlier.
Ai-Mai-Mi (TV) Not really good Mentioned in the comments on this column. Looks sort of interesting, and short.
About as random as Teekyuu, but the humor is pretty meh. I don't think I'll watch more seasons of this.
Air (TV) Decent Very reminiscent of Kanon indeed. Funny & moe characters too :)
Yeah, it's very much like Kanon. A bunch of girls with cute tics or clumsiness who all have mysterious or supernatural troubles, which are resolved one by one by one guy who just arrived in town.
I wonder what this sudden diversion into a historical setting is about. Oh, I see. That's how that works. Now what does this crow mean? I think I kinda lost track of what's going on.
..And didn't get it back. Those last few eps. just didn't make sense at all. The sidestory was hmm, okayish. But all the rest from ep.8 on was just weird. Pity, because this anime started with some interesting, if enigmatic characters. In the end I can't rate it very high really.
Air In Summer (special) Decent Goes between eps.8 and 9 of Air. Or actually somewhere in the middle of ep.8. Just a little elaboration on a side story that doesn't have much of a plot. It couldn't, given the ending of ep.8/preview for ep.9.
Aiura (TV) Good Listed on TVTropes as iyashikei. Super short. Only 5m31s per episode, and about 2½min. of that is OP and ED. Guess I'll just watch it all at once.
Well, it's fun, but too short to really get into the mood.
Akahori Gedō Hour Rabuge (TV) Weak Ooph, lots of fanservice. The idea of having overzealous 'good' girls and ineffectual 'bad' girls is vaguely interesting, but I don't like how lesbian interest is lumped in with lolicon and shotacon. I'm not sure I'll watch all of this anime.
Well, I watched all of it because it was only 13 eps., but I should've just stopped after two. The fanservice is really annoying, and the story never gets good or even interesting.
AKB0048 (TV) Decent Sort of idol genre, but this one's also sci-fi? One of the directors is Shouji Kawamori, of Macross and stuff, and this indeed has a strong Macross vibe so far. Except more idol I guess. The first ep. also had some otaku bait. I hope they keep that down.
Ep.4. Well, so far it's nice, but not a whole lot sci-fi. The songs so far also didn't really grab me.
Ep.9 had a bit more action again after some drama. Ep.10 was pretty tame in comparison. Calm before the finale? Also quite fanservicey, but with idols that's at least somewhat justified.
Well, the ending was okay after all. I had expected it to be kinda meh after most of the season was a little tame and the Next Stage season continues right after, but it ended up fairly satisfying. Weak points were the strong competition between members, the deference to and glorification of otaku, and the weak songs. Only the ending theme was decent (which was probably why they picked it for the finale too). Still looking forward to the sequel season, but I don't expect this to be a favorite anime even in the idol genre.
AKB0048 next stage (TV) Decent This season starts off with a silly change: even more competition. That might be representative of real-world AKB48, but it doesn't make sense in the anime's setting. Why compete with eachother if there's an enemy trying to take everyone down? Sticking with the AKB48 formula is kinda detrimental to this anime.
Hmm. First the Zodiac thing is built up as the bigger bad, then it's concentrated to Chieri's dad, who then gets offed suddenly. Meanwhile the mystical mumbojumbo gets upgraded several times to anything-can-happen-magic level. Looks like it'll end with just getting Akibastar back, not defeating DGTO for good. Ah, and in the final ep. we get Chieri and Nagisa going Nova and Acchan respectively. Well, there was already so much nonsense going on that this doesn't stretch things much further really.
This anime is not exactly bad, but it doesn't have a very coherent story, and being stuck to RL AKB48 forces some choices (competition, succession, songs, etc.) that don't really help things either. So overall, not really great.
Aki no Kanade (movie) Very good Ooh, taiko is really cool ^_^
Akira (movie) Good This was my first time watching anime knowing that it was anime, back in 1994 or so. I should rewatch it some time.
1988.. Some of it looks quite dated now. The biker gangs, the phones and computers.
Hmm, I remember it being more about gross!Tetsuo swallowing up half of Neo-Tokyo. Maybe I remembered that from something else? Kei seemed thrown in to give Kaneda the motivation to get involved. She didn't play a very active role otherwise. Kaori looked like a victim from the start. Kaneda looked like he was going to be the hero, but in the end he just had a weird adventure and didn't save the world. For the role Akira played they could've called the movie Tetsuo instead. He was just there to stop Tetsuo at the end, and otherwise was more of a McGuffin. So, all together it was a decent entertaining story. Spectacle without much of a point to it, but it looked pretty good.
Alien Nine (special) Decent Ha, this looks like fun. The character designs are a very peculiar style. And not very distinctive among characters. Intriguing story though, even if the characters don't get a lot of depth.
Okay.. that was weird. Ep.3 was mostly a vacation/beach ep., which seems like a waste of time in a 4 ep. OVA. And then ep.4 only finished the alien on the roof since last ep., but didn't answer any of the larger questions, nor told us much about how the main characters are doing. Did this series get cut off or something? What is there is interesting (although Yuri is crying/being scared a little too much of the time), but it's clearly incomplete.
Amanchu! (TV) Excellent Slice of life based on manga by Amano Kozue of Aria, directed by Satou Junichi also of Aria, with music by GonTiti of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
I've already read a bit of the manga. The first ep. seems to adapt it quite directly. I don't remember Pikari's catchphrase being "upyo", and I thought the mascot cat had a little more normal proportions.
Teko and Pikari are cute ^_^ Hmm, ep.4 felt a little more fanservicey? I mean, more than before.
I keep wondering if the shape-accenting outfits and poses are Amano indulging herself or just the audience. Teko and Pikari are giving off very gay vibes in any case.
Hmm, ep.9 seems like a "let's reference other SatoJun anime"? Akari Mizunashi's seiyuu appeared, and now it's about photos.
As I guessed, the actual diving won't happen until the last ep. They postponed it another ep. with a story about Ohime and Cha. Did anyone else think it a bit creepy that newborn kitten Ohime was adopted with "Cha was looking for a wife"?
Yes, as expected, this anime was really good. Highly recommended. And more gay than expected too. I wonder if another Amano/SatoJun collab would have explicitly lesbian characters.
Amanchu! Advance (TV) Excellent Caught up on the manga the other day, so I wonder how this'll go. Hmm, for ep.1 they chose the Pikari in the onsen story :/ followed by something that I don't remember. I wonder if it was made up for the anime. It had a typical SatoJun sentimentality feeling :/ Also lots of flashbacks and references to S1. That's sort of understandable, but if you've just finished rewatching that, it's very redundant. I thought at first that ep.2 was completely original, but it turns out I just didn't remember it. Same for ep.3, although that one seemed a little bit more familiar. After that it continues, picking chapters here and there and sometimes adding little bits to the stories.
Eps.7-9 cover the Peter Pan story, even though the first and final parts were about 20 chapters apart in the manga. Ep.8 is a bit infodumpy as a result, and both eps.8 and 9 have some additions that, hmm, aren't super bad, but I liked the manga version better.
The last ep. again turns up the sentimentality, and caught up quite close (ch.61) to where the manga is (ch.64 atm). All in all S2 jumps around more than S1, and takes more liberties with the adaptation to still fit the stories together. Not all that much is completely new though. There's plenty of chapters that have been skipped, but I'm not sure they can be worked into an S3 really.
Amazing Nuts! (OAV) Decent Mentioned in comments on this article.
First video reminds me a little of those old Gorillaz videos (not musically, just visually), or maybe FLCL or something like that. These all look like promo trailers for longer anime (which I suppose they are, except for non-existent ones). Video 2 has a different style, but again a male MC. Video 3 has a bit of a.. Kyousougiga? feel to it. Female MC, although at first she seemed a bit MPDG-like. This one has a bit more story, although still not much. Video 4 is again pretty incoherent, even for a music video.
Overall, pretty cool art and animation, but not much story. Worth watching.
Amuri in Star Ocean (OAV) Good Oh, this is so cute! ^_^ Three girls who sort of lost the superpower lottery get involved in a high stakes space drama. But it's all pretty and cute. And the ending is of course heart-warming ^_^
Android Ana Maico 2010 (TV) Not really good Maico-chan is cute, although there seems to be more going on than meets the eye. That director should be kicked anderswhere.
Actually, most of the cast have rather disagreeable personalities. Maico is supposed to be the main character, but the anime seems more focused on Matsu and Densuke. The ending was so-so; nice in some ways, and meh in others. All in all this wasn't super bad, but I wouldn't recommend it. Poor Maico :(
Angel Beats! (TV) Good Wow, this one must rank pretty high in the outlandish premises list. You also shouldn't think too much about the details of how this anime's world works. There are just too many holes.
The story is sweet though, even with all the action. The ending you can see coming from a few eps. away, but it's satisfying.
Angel Heart (TV) Not really good An older anime, both in art and content. Male gaze is very noticeable.
So, I watched all of this anime, but I can't really say I liked it a lot. There are just too many flaws. The way events are so often observed from Ryo's or someone else's perspective instead of Xiang Ying's (male gaze extends to the way events are framed) is one thing. The 'story' actually consists of many short arcs that do develop the main characters' backstory, but not their present. Those arcs actually move rather slowly, so that makes this anime more slice-of-life than the action one would expect from the premise. For a SoL anime it is missing the interesting characters though. Well, Xiang Ying is, but like I said, we don't get to see much from her perspective, we're always looking at her instead. And finally, some of the arcs have rather hard to believe events and characters. All in all, it was barely interesting enough to keep my attention till the end.
Angelic Layer (TV) Decent The first episode is stretching believability a little too far. Hehe :) It's pretty silly how serious business this AL game is. Hmm, don't tournament arcs usually occur later in a sports anime? This one almost starts with one.
One ANN review praised the art in this anime, but they must've meant only the background art, because the foreground is about the lowest quality I've seen in a long time.
The story draws out some things much too long. Hikaru's weakness is talked about for several episodes before it's finally revealed (to be something rather pedestrian). That much build-up just leads to disappointment when the big moment's finally there. Misaki meeting her mom has been built up for about the whole series, with some ridiculous coincidences to make it almost but not really happen. Another thing that's kinda irksome is Tamayo's sudden interest in Koutarou in ep.21. She's been shipping Koutarou and Misaki since forever without any hint that she's interested in him as more than a friend, then near the end of the series it's suddenly introduced, built up and revealed in a single episode. It's not that it doesn't fit, it just feels like cleaning up romantic loose ends this way. The final eps. have some more predictable setups that're just barely forgiveable. Overall I liked this anime for the battles and the characters, but the plot is fairly meh.
Ani-Kuri 15 (special) Decent One minute is hardly long enough to cram a story in. Some pieces try anyway and end up so hectic that you can hardly make out individual images. Others just set a mood and don't have much personality. Most are in between those and just show a few scenes from a longer story with only a little speed-up to fit them into one minute. A few well-known directors have very recognizable styles.
Animation Runner Kuromi (OAV) Good Said to give some interesting insight into the world of animation, which it indeed did. It's a fun comedy. Kuromi's character design reminds me of one of the Nanas (Hachiko) in face fault mode. I like how Shihonmatsu helped Kuromi out.
Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (OAV) Good More fun at Studio Petit. Kuromi-chan is adorable and Shihonmatsu is cool. Maybe I'll check out other anime with Hajime Watanabe as character designer.
(The) Animatrix (OAV) Decent Apparently this has some roboethics content. Should watch the live-action movies first. Okay done.
Eps.2 and 3 ("Second Renaissance") are finally about robots in human society. There isn't much detail though, just an overview.
Ep.7 ("Beyond") was lighthearted fun. Nothing came of it, but it looked cute while it lasted.
Well, that were really all the interesting ones. The rest was just vaguely related to the Matrix movies. Hmm, was that all? :/ Not all that much about roboethics really.
Oh well, at least I know more about that Matrix stuff. The diffferent animation styles were also interesting. Not all were good, but it was a nice variety.
Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzū (TV) Good Not sure about this, but it sounds cute.
"Anyamaru" as in "animal" with a nya. The OP&ED are in Thai. Original creator is Shouji Kawamori, well-known mecha designer. I wonder if this will have mecha in it? Well, it certainly has a lot of animal people in it. Hmm, Rimu doesn't really get to do as much as Riko, Nagisa and Ken. Well, not much really. Ep.29 is completely recap filler. This anime keeps hinting that the plot might thicken a little but then not actually thickening it. I'm already at ep.35, and there are still no bad guys, only suggestions that the Hatori group might have some ill intentions. Oh, ep.40 looks like there's finally going to be more plot. And then ep.41 is another recap ep. :/ Ep.44 is a bit infodumpy.
Finished. Well, the plot is a bit unevenly paced. The first 40 eps. or so are a really slow buildup, then the last ten suddenly have all the plot. The last ep. is half ending, half post-ending, so it's pretty hectic. In the end half the cast is related, and all the adults actually knew the whole background. Which is kindof a big plothole why they didn't talk about it from the start. Anyway, even the super slow (more slice-of-life actually) first part was enjoyable and cute. And the slow buildup made the transformations at the end a little more believeable than they'd otherwise have been.
Aoi & Mutsuki: A Pair of Queens (TV) Good Everyone seems to be okay with Aoi being a girl now. There's very little talk of her changing back to a boy. The subs can't decide between he or she though it seems, changing from one sentence to another :/
This anime (S1 too) suffers a little from ineffective storytelling. Characters waffle over things that should be clear to them, stuff happens then is undone the next ep., action is chaotic. There are some cool things though. Princesses and queens and other women kicking ass, space pirates, robots, ninjas, a humanoid race that decides which gender to be only upon reaching adulthood, one of whom remains enby. Why isn't this more popular among queer folks?
And the ending is again rushed. Ah well. Flawed but worth watching.
Aoi Bungaku Series (TV) Decent I thought this would make a nice way to consume some Japanese culture different from anime and games. I forgot though that Literature (with capital L) equals depressive. Left unfinished because I lost interest.
Decided to give this another try after reading that the director of A Place Further Than The Universe also worked on this. Turns out she only directed eps.11 and 12, but that's okay.
Finished the first story (eps.1-4, "No Longer Human"). It is kind of depressive, but not really bad. For Literature that is. Still clearly written from a male perspective though.
The second story (eps.5&6, "In The Woods Beneath The Cherry Blossoms In Full Bloom" (yeesh, couldn't they think of a shorter translation?)) has a rather different, lighter tone and more cartoonish style, so it's not just different teams working on different stories. It ended kinda weird though.
Story three (eps.7&8, "Kokoro") is repeated from a different perspective, which makes it interesting to compare the two parts. There's some unreliable narrator going on too since there are contradicting details besides perspective. Both are from male perspective though, and in both the girl doesn't really get any say in who she marries and seems not quite happy. Isn't there some literature written by women though? Genji, oldest Japanese piece of literature, was written by a woman, so it's not as if it's some alien concept.
Story four (eps.9&10, "Run, Melos") was the first to have a happy ending. Still about and by men, but they're definitely gay (yes, one was married to a woman and had a kid, so what?), so that counts for something. The animation and art were pretty good too.
The last two stories, "The Spider's Thread" and "Hell Screen" are not directly related, but written by the same author originally, and the director decided to put them in the same setting. I can see how these eps. reflect Ishizuka Atsuko's art background, though I'm not sure that's still noticeable in A Place Further Than The Universe. Both stories aren't exactly happy, with the first also being kinda *shrug* and not having much to do with the titular spider's thread until the end.
Overall I don't regret giving this anime a second chance, though I can't say it'll ever be any kind of favorite. That whole Literature (capital L) thing, eh?
Appleseed (OAV) Good More Masamune Shirow anime. Spotting the references and similarities between his works is fun. This time there was a magazine with an ad for an M-66 droid, and a terrorist group holding hostages inside a building, with the main characters rappling down from the roof to break in, and some powered armor. Oh, and of course cyborgs (bioroids) and a spider tank, although this one looked more like an insect actually.
Appleseed (movie) Decent Ah, so both this and the OVA I've seen are adaptations of the manga, but they're not directly related. No need to rewatch the OVA then before watching this.
Whoa, 3D. I didn't expect that. The OVA was traditional 2D IIRC. Hmm, I would've liked it better if they'd kept things 2D. 3D looks very fake unless it's really high quality. Which this isn't. Ah well, let's see where this goes.
Well, that was kinda different than I expected. I'm not sure if this is closer to the original story. I don't recall this plot from the OVA (although it's been a long time since I watched that). Overall, it was decent for a 3D movie. 2D would've been better though. The story was okay, but did have some plot holey twists. If I'd watched this before, I'm not sure I'd have bought it.
Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution (TV) Good Music by Yuki Kajiura ♡
Somewhat old-school shoujo character designs for sympathetic characters who actually act their age. The plot is just beginning, but looks to be interesting too. This could be a very good anime.
It's like a cross between Macross (but without the mecha) and Nana (but the drama isn't so over the top), with magical girls. I'd rate it Very Good +.
Second time watching. The plot seems to move a little slow for a 13-ep. anime. Kyouta & Yoriko have bad cases of not talking properly. Hmm, it still feels like this is only part of a much larger story. After looking up the movie, it seems both are part of a larger story based around a card game. That description mentioned a manga, so maybe that tells more of the story.
Update: the manga only had its first chapter scanlated, and didn't look very good.
Update: downgraded to Good.
Aquarian Age the Movie (OAV) So-so This shows more of the card game's setting than the series, but isn't related to that. It doesn't have a deep story, basically it shows off the game's factions a bit. The animation varies from minimal in some quieter scenes to quite okay in action scenes. There isn't much else to say about it. I don't like the setting for having those "Mindbreakers". It's yet another case of the women who battle and men who pull the strings trope. Other than that it's okay I guess.
Aquatic Language (special) Good Interesting. It's clearly the origin of Time Of Eve's café setting. It also plays a bit with the android and being uncertain of other people's identity themes. The camera movements are also similar to Time Of Eve. I'm not sure what to make of the fish and the conversation bubbles though.
Argonavis from BanG Dream! (TV) Decent I got curious about this, so let's give it a try. A bit of a different feeling from main BanDori, with the Hakodate setting and the characters being college students. It also feels less cheerful.
They have the band together by ep.3, without much drama really. Refreshing after SB69's boy bands is that these guys don't seem angry all the time. Not very friendly yet either, but at least it's a lot better than fighting all the time.
The drama feels a bit forced a lot of the time. Like in ep.12, Yuuto's refusal of Mashu's invitation can be excused as pride, but really only serves to draw out the drama of that ep. Banri's accident and recovery also only served to provide drama (I don't expect it to come up again in the game's stories).
Hmm, that wasn't bad. Quite a different feeling from BanDori, but not bad. Gyroaxia aren't given as much screentime, this is mostly Argonavis's story (as expected from the title of course). Only Nayuta (GA's vocalist) is all angery. Two of the other bands have very brief appearances, but it's hardly enough to introduce them. I won't be playing the game, but a second season I might watch. Maybe a concert out of curiosity, but the music here wasn't really exciting.
Aria - The Natural (TV) Excellent Ahh, bliss. More Aria to soothe and happify :)
Careful, you might smile so much your cheeks ache. It's a good kind of ache though :D
Aria the Animation (TV) Excellent Ooh, this looks just so lovely. I've discovered a new favorite ^_^ ♪
The laid-back atmosphere, Akari's attitude towards every little detail of life, Aika's interruptions, president Aria's 'Pui! Nyuu!', Alicia's 'Are, are', ahh, this is such a refreshing and wonderful anime. This is a great antidote to all bad feelings. Goes on my to-buy list immediately.
Aria the Avvenire (OAV) Very good Shorter than regular eps. The first ep. is mostly a flashback to when Alicia was still working at Aria Co., framed by Akari playing passenger to Ai. Seems like they're going for nostalgia more than expansion.
The second ep. is again part flashback, part new generation, although this one's more balanced between the two. At first I thought the flashback part must've been a new anime-only short story, because it feels rather unlike the rest of the series (much more magical), but it was apparently also in the manga, just hadn't been used for the anime before. Only the third ep. will be completely new in that regard (but also written by the mangaka).
Ep.3 was indeed nearly completely new (aside from some short flashbacks), but didn't really add a whole lot. Overall this OVA is a nice addition, but only a small one.
Aria the Benedizione (movie) Very good I think this was the last of the Blue Curtain Call movies? Well, at first it was just one, so you never know how long they'll milk Aria.
To be fair though, this movie didn't just have nostalgia, but also added in some new things. I think Aika's was the only promotion we hadn't seen yet, so it fills in that gap in the story. Akira also gets a lot of screentime here, the rest of the cast not so much, although practically everyone appears at least once. It is still Aria, so feelings (and scenery) are emphasised.
Aria the Crepuscolo (movie) Decent A nice movie, that.. doesn't quite capture the feel of the old Aria. The Avvenire had three parts, new (new kouhai doing things), old (story that would fit as part of the old anime), and nostalgia ("wasn't Aria great?"). This movie is kinda of only the nostalgia part. It has a few bits here and there of the new and old, but not really much. The character designs have also changed. Avvenire had mostly the classic style, this one looks different. You get used to it, but it's not quite right. Oh, I see. SatoJun did the screenplay this time instead of Yoshida Reiko, and they had Amanchu's character designer.
Overall, it's nice to see the characters and Neo-Venezia again, but this movie feels just a little unneeded.
Aria the Origination (TV) Excellent See Aria - The Natural.
I felt sad when Aria came to an end, but I think it's for the best. Too much more would spoil the goodness. A few days later I'm still smiling while listening to the soundtrack :)
Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ Excellent See Aria - The Natural.
Akari and Alicia's faces were a little off-model a few times.
Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA (TV) Not really good Separate continuity from the original AtSA it seems. I guess it would help to get into the setting to watch AtSA first. The first ep. of Double A goes over things very quickly and doesn't really introduce several secondary characters. Hmm :/ Should I go back and watch the first season first? Guess I should..
No, that was a bad idea. Icky fanservice harem is super icky.
Hmm, maybe Double A is to AtSA what Railgun is to Index? Seems they picked up some ideas from MariMite too. Well, let's see where this goes.
As of ep.8 (of 12) there hasn't been any ongoing plot yet, only silly male-directed yuri antics. Better hurry up the plotting if they want to make this more than fanservice. Ah, end of ep.9 the plot finally gets underway. Big infodump in ep.10, then two eps. of semi-predictable action. A decent, though not superb ending, but way too much nonsense before that. If it was just slice-of-life comedy it would be okay (though still unbalanced for an anime that is presented as action), but the over the top yuri-for-men spoils that too.
Arjuna (TV) Weak The animation is quite good, but the story gets mired in lots of exposition, and rather preachy exposition at that. I'm not averse to environmental messages in anime, but this one takes it to an extreme, and mixes in some controversial other things as well. Pity, because some aspects of the story were decent. Yoko Kanno's music is nice as well, but as usual the quality varies.
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