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| 009-1 (TV) |
Very good |
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| 3x3 Eyes (OAV) |
Decent |
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| 3x3 Eyes: Legend of the Divine Demon (OAV) |
Decent |
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| 8 Man After (OAV) |
Decent |
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| A.D. Police (TV) |
Decent |
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| AD Police (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (movie) |
Decent |
Ah, alas and alack, this sequel is not the equal of its wonderful predecessor. It still has ample grandeur, the charming anachronisms and wild space operatics, but it isn't as engaging and wondrous. It uses a few of the first film's tricks, but less well and without the novelty that they had the first time 'round. The narrative also seems choppier and sketchier than before. The first film had its leaps and gaps, but the sequel feels far shakier. The rough, violent opening feels almost ill-fit to the franchise, sapping the watcher's spirit too soon. This film tries to fit like a worn, familiar own glove, with all of the warm memories and familiar feelings of past times, but something does quite work. The cast is very similar in form, even if they aren't all precisely the same characters. I was pleased to see more of the Conductor, even if he's mostly just for fun, but the new character, Metalmena, is given too little attention relative to how interesting she might have become. She has an agenda and certainly some demons, but they aren't taken very far and what becomes of her seems almost insultingly pointless. What really disappointed me, however, was that there wasn't enough Maetel. I realize that Tetsuro is the point of the story, but I always seem to fall more for the characters around the protagonist, especially those as intriguing and enticingly melancholy as Maetel. This is especially true in the very nicely done English version, which has Kathleen Barr reprising her excellent portrayal of the character. Oh well, it was good enough to watch once and perhaps again much later. |
| Agent Aika (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Air Master (TV) |
Very good |
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| Akame ga KILL! (TV) |
Not really good |
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| AKB0048 (TV) |
Very good |
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| AKB0048 next stage (TV) |
Decent |
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| Akira (movie) |
Decent |
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| Aldnoah.Zero (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Alien Nine (special) |
Very good |
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| All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (OAV) |
Decent |
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| All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (TV) |
Not really good |
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| All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku DASH! (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Android Kikaider - The Animation (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Angel Beats! (TV) |
Decent |
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| Angel Cop (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Angel's Egg (movie) |
Very good |
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| Animation Runner Kuromi (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (OAV) |
Very good |
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| (The) Animatrix (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Apocalypse Zero (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Appleseed (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Appleseed (movie) |
Decent |
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| Arcadia of My Youth (movie) |
Very good |
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| Armitage III (OAV) |
Very good |
This is more coherent and convincing than "Armitage III Polymatrix". Its greater length and episode structure make allow the progress in the characters and narrative to be more convincing and closer to natural, although it isn't quite long enough to make them quite right. The secondary characters, except for Lieutenant Randolph in the first two episodes, have the same respectable English cast as the compilation film and I prefer the voices for the lead characters better in this version. Skip Stellrecht's voice might not be quite as fitting for Detective Sylibus as Kiefer Sutherlands, but he sounds more invested in the part and B. G. Mills is probably my favorite voice for Naomi Armitage. I don't usually care for or about electronic music, but the score for "Armitage III" fits it well and is fairly distinctive. I really like the look of the series, but, then again, I'm a sucker for the older, rougher look of things made before digital animation conquered the industry. The story is often quite interesting and rewards paying attention to it, but it does sometimes feel slightly slipshod. I find the characters endearing, especially Naomi Armitage for being so lively and Rene D'anclaude for being a delightfully cackling lunatic, but I wish that the secondary characters had been made more of and some of the developments aren't entirely convincing within the time available. In the end, I'm always left wondering of the parts that seemed not to make sense or merely impenetrably confusing are puzzles to solve or just disconnected nonsense meant to offer illusory depth. Perhaps the supplementary false newspaper reports and other media that once read accompanied the series in Japan might have helped that. The last episode hurls a lot of new elements into the story and always leaves me confused. I really enjoy watching this, but do so sometimes in spite of itself and the ideas that it holds on gender, besides the title characters absurd, if distinctive, clothing, might be rather uncomfortable, if not subtly repellent, depending upon one's interpretation. |
| Armitage III: Poly-Matrix (movie) |
Decent |
My many Saturday mornings in elementary and junior high school spent watching it has cultivated a special fondness for this film in me. It's built upon a respectable crime story and has some interesting themes. I even halfway like Kiefer Sutherland's sleepy portrayal of Ross Sylibus, although it would have been better if he sounded more interested, and I thought that Elizabeth Berkley gave a fine voice to Naomi Armitage. Despite those virtues, the story and characters sometimes seem just as disjointed as one might expect from a ninety minute film compiled and cut down from two hour and twenty four minutes of original video animation, although not disastrously so. The two star leads don't outshine the rest of the cast, making their grandly ballyhooed presence, if not the whole endeavor, superfluous. Even so, I can still almost always enjoy watching this again. |
| Armitage: Dual-Matrix (movie) |
Decent |
I'm not sure how this sequel came to pass. I know that its predecessor had sold well, but making a sequel six years after the original seems like striking while the iron is cold. It hangs together better than Armitage III Polymatrix, as one might expect for something purposely written as a film rather than cut down out of a longer series of episodes, has some emotionally effective moments and a good, though ill-lit, climactic fight. I still like the characters and the titular Naomi Armitage wasn't, despite some early appearances, denatured by her maternal rôle. I want to like this film a lot, but it feels trifling and shorter than it is. It hews to the themes of the first film, but grows nothing new out of them and sometimes seems inconsistent with it. Juliette Lewis gives a respectable voice to her, but is a little inconsistent and hardly worth the exuberant 'star billing' that she is given. The rest of the cast is generally pretty able, although Ahmed Best is almost as obnoxious as one would expect of the man who gave Jar Jar Binks a voice. It isn't an especially attractive film either. The character designs seem softer and muddier than the originals, especially that of Naomi Armitage herself, and often seem poorly animated. I suspect that too new miracles of technology are to blame for its faults; it is certainly to blame for the painfully obvious computer-generated vehicles. There are a lot of too-quick, too-fast panning over static images, which I hate. Then again, as badly as I complain, like what came before this, I can still reliably enjoy watching it now and again. |
| Assemble Insert (OAV) |
Very good |
"Assemble Insert" is funny, charming and demonstrates admirable brevity. It's quite funny at times and kept me ever smiling as I watched it. There are no inexplicable strings of words and events masquerading as jokes, no endless winding roads to punchlines that would have been funny five minutes before they arrived and a tolerable dose of crazy shouting. The characters are likeable and go together remarkably well given how little was and could have been done to develop them. To tell the truth, when the second episode closed, I found that I wanted more, but I'm not sure that there could have been more, at least not successfully. It is probably for the best that "Assemble Insert" remains just a sweet, hour-long treat that doesn't risk losing its charm or welcome by dragging on too long. |
| Avenger (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Azumanga Daioh (TV) |
Very good |
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| Baldr Force EXE (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Banner of the Stars (TV) |
Decent |
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| Banner of the Stars II (TV) |
Decent |
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| BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- (ONA) |
Decent |
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| BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-: Hell's Requiem (ONA) |
Not really good |
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| Battle Angel (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Beast Wars: Transformers (U.S. TV) |
Very good |
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| Berserk (TV 1997) |
Very good |
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| (The) Big O (TV) |
Very good |
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| Birdy the Mighty (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Birdy the Mighty Decode: The Cipher (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 (TV) |
Masterpiece |
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| Birdy the Mighty: Decode (TV) |
Very good |
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| Black Lagoon (TV) |
Very good |
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| Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (TV) |
Very good |
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| Black Rock Shooter (TV) |
Very good |
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| Blame! (movie) |
Decent |
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| Blassreiter (TV) |
Decent |
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| Blood Blockade Battlefront (TV) |
Very good |
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| Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) |
Decent |
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| Blue Drop (TV) |
Very good |
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| Blue Submarine No.6 (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Bodacious Space Pirates (TV) |
Very good |
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| Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan Second (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| (The) Book of Bantorra (TV) |
Decent |
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| Bubblegum Crash (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Bubblegum Crisis (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (TV) |
Very good |
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| Burn Up! (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Burst Angel (TV) |
Decent |
The plot for this seemed oddly ramshackle. It seemed as though they knew what stories, characters and themes they wanted to have in it, but never entirely worked how they fit together out. The series begins by introducing us to Kyouhei, a culinary student who is hired to cook for a team of female mercenaries, or whatever they qualify as, which leads one to presume that he'll be an important character, but most of the time he's a peripheral one who often disappears. This isn't a bad thing as nobody really wants to watch a series about a whiny wuss, but it's indicative of how ramshackle and erratic this series sometimes is. Half of the four women have limited parts themselves. It's really "The Jo Show, Starring Jo", which isn't bad because Jo is pretty cool, but she also a bit thinly drawn and her supposed close bond with Meg must be accepted on faith and the assertions of those around her, because it's never very well shown by their interactions. Jo has one or two quirks, a tragic background and rescues Meg whenever necessary, which is very often. None of the characters are bad enough or obnoxious enough to hate, but they aren't portrayed well enough to really care about, and the story just doesn't hang together enough to feel compelling. This was a disappointment, but not an infuriating one. |
| Burst Angel: Infinity (OAV) |
Decent |
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| CANAAN (TV) |
Very good |
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| Cannon Fodder (movie) |
Very good |
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| Casshern Sins (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Castle in the Sky (movie) |
Very good |
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| Chaika - The Coffin Princess (TV) |
Very good |
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| Chaika - The Coffin Princess Avenging Battle (TV) |
Very good |
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| (Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) |
Very good |
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| Chihayafuru (TV) |
Masterpiece |
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| Chihayafuru 2 (TV) |
Very good |
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| Children Who Chase Lost Voices (movie) |
Not really good |
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| Chrono Crusade (TV) |
Decent |
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| Claymore (TV) |
Very good |
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| Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) |
Very good |
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| Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) |
Decent |
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| Colorful (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Combustible (movie) |
Decent |
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| Coppelion (TV) |
Decent |
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| Corpse Princess: Aka (TV) |
Decent |
The titular Corpse Princess, Makina Hoshimora, is cool, fearsome and interesting, even if she is made to explain what Shikabane Hime is too many times, but she isn't the protagonist. That honor belongs to Ouri Kagami, who isn't quite a routine whiny milquetoast, but is nevertheless beige incarnate. He isn't very interesting. Some of the action is impressively animated and clever, but some of it just seems strangely generic. There are some engaging incidental characters; the Shikabane Hime whose lost her chance to make good on at last realizing her purpose in life was quite effective. It's a shame that the show wasn't more interested in characters like that. It tried at the end, well the episode before its clip-show finale, to evoke an emotional response and even had the right ideas about how to do it, but it hadn't engaged my feelings even by then, so it didn't work. |
| Corpse Princess: Kuro (TV) |
Decent |
Ouri Kagami remains a better than average milquetoast, but is still as exciting and interesting as the color palate of a timid midwestern housewife. This is a greater problem this 'round because he is expected to carry a greater share of the emotional burden of the series, which is made of good ideas, but does not succeed as assembled and executed. This carries through to the other characters, who seem more interesting than Ouri, but aren't seen or used enough to really matter. The antagonists talk about their, "nature," a great deal, but it never makes sense. A lot of things are talked about a lot without making very good sense. I usually wanted to see what would come next at the end of each episode, but I wouldn't've minded if I couldn't. |
| Cowboy Bebop (TV) |
Masterpiece |
Late on September 1st, 2001 I sat down in front of the television in my bedroom after having spent the evening with friends of my family and turned it on with a spontaneous desire to watch some anime, but no expectation that it would be satisfied. I set the channel to 39, which was at the time Cartoon Network, and was greeted by the last act of "Asteroid Blues", then "Stray Dog Strut". That was a wonderful incident. The series enlivened my latent interests in anime and jazz, so besides being excellent on its own merits, I owe some of my most fulfilling interests to it. I, a serial-addict, shouldn't love a predominantly episodic series so well, but it remains my unassailable favorite. |
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie |
Very good |
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| Coyote Ragtime Show (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Crest of the Stars (TV) |
Very good |
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| Cyber City Oedo 808 (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Cybernetics Guardian (OAV) |
Bad |
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| Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (ONA) |
Very good |
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| Cybersix (TV) |
Decent |
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| Cyberteam in Akihabara (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Dai Mahou Touge Omake (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Dark Cat (movie) |
Decent |
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| Darkside Blues (movie) |
Not really good |
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| Dead Girls (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Dead Leaves (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Deadman Wonderland (TV) |
Decent |
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| Death Parade (TV) |
Very good |
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| Debutante Detective Corps (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Demon City Shinjuku (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Desert Punk (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (TV) |
Bad |
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| DEVILMAN crybaby (ONA) |
Very good |
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| Devilman Lady (TV) |
Decent |
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| Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Dirty Pair: Project Eden (movie) |
Decent |
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| Domain of Murder (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Dominion Tank Police (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Dorohedoro (TV) |
Very good |
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| Dragon Half (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Dragonaut - The Resonance (TV) |
Not really good |
Dragonaut failed to meet my expectations, or maybe it exceeded them. I'm not sure, because I had been given to expect it to be really awful, but instead found it to be merely not very good. I didn't mind watching it and once the story began to move more swiftly, it became reasonably entertaining, but the first third of the series was tedious and the last third sometimes dull. The story wasn't especially novel, despite some novel trappings, but it would have been acceptable 'science' fiction, were it not filled with arcs that seemed not to much serve the larger story. The characterization and motivations in this series were generally very thin and confusing. There were several characters whose motivations and natures were incomprehensible. None of the characters are very interesting, especially not the ostensible leads, who are sometimes outright annoying, especially Jin. The only remotely interesting characters were a child's handful of the secondary ones and they only barely rose above the low bar of the series. The computer generated dragons were better than the average for Japanese television, but not especially impressive and I didn't like their designs. So much of this feels like it was just animated from an outline, moving speedily from bullet to bullet of underdeveloped idea without enough to bridge the gaps. It's a pity, because some of the bullets could have been the making of a good series. As it stands, I expected wretched and got lousy, which I could watch with some empty-headed pleasure, but hardly remember. |
| Durarara!! (TV) |
Very good |
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| Early Reins (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| (The) Eccentric Family (TV) |
Very good |
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| Eden of the East (TV) |
Decent |
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| Eden of the East: Paradise Lost (movie) |
Decent |
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| Eden of the East: The King of Eden (movie) |
Decent |
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| El Cazador de la Bruja (TV) |
Very good |
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| Eureka Seven (TV) |
Very good |
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| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (movie) |
Decent |
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| Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (movie) |
Very good |
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| Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (movie) |
Very good |
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| Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time (movie) |
Decent |
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| Excel Saga (TV) |
Very good |
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| Fafner: Heaven and Earth (movie) |
Decent |
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| Fantastic Children (TV) |
Very good |
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| A Farewell to Weapons (movie) |
Very good |
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| Fight! Iczer-One (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Figure 17 (TV) |
Very good |
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| Flag (ONA) |
Decent |
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| FLCL (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Flowers of Evil (TV) |
Very good |
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| Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club (TV) |
Decent |
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| Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) |
Very good |
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| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) |
Very good |
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| Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa |
Decent |
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| Galaxy Express 999 (movie) |
Masterpiece |
Woo-hoo!
I first saw this film a long time ago when it aired on The Sci-Fi Channel on a few Saturdays a year in the middle of the nineties. I hadn't seen it in at least thirteen years when I at last got the DiscoTek release and it was one of this incredibly rare moments when something is just what one hoped it would be. It's been long enough that I had forgotten much of it, but I was surprised by how much I remember and how much became quickly familiar. I the gentle, sad aloofness of Maetel, the creepy desperation of Shadow, Tochiro's fate and the entrance of Emeraldas, my God, Emeraldas, stayed with me, unmoored from their origin, for so long.
This is a film of boyish fantasy and I loved every minute of it. The story has its contrivance and conveniences, but it so enraptured me that I didn't care. I'm half ashamed to admit it, but Galaxy Express 999 made me giddy. The film has a curious blend of grandeur in scope with an intimacy of characters. The events that happen are often of immense scale and impressive appearance, but the cast is small and endearing. What's more, it's all beautiful to behold. The animation is impressive and the artwork is sumptuous. None of it makes any scientific sense; Tetsuro and Maetel are traveling through space on a steam train, whose windows may be opened in the vacuum to no ill effect, and encountering spaceships that look like dirigibles with wooden sailing ships strapped to them, after all, but there's something marvelous in that. It's just a joy to behold. It's also really good in English. Kathleen Barr gives an excellent voice to Maetel; slightly quiet, unearthly and tinged with inescapable sadness. Saffron Henderson also does commendable work giving Tetsuro a voice that sounds convincingly like a young boy and managing to act well in that voice. For at least a little while, I won't be able to stop smiling. |
| Galilei Donna (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Gall Force - Eternal Story (movie) |
Not really good |
I remember liking this film when I watched it on The Sci-Fi Channel. I might have been twelve years old at the time. I like the way this film looks. The designs are quite good and the animation ranges from competent to good. The old English language version isn't especially good, but it's not so bad as to override a taste of nostalgia. The chief faults lie within the storytelling. It almost seems as though the creators wanted to make several different films, but had only the resources for one, so they breathlessly piled them together, thus giving us a film that inelegantly switches its plot every quarter hour or so. It begins as a typical space opera about grand fleet battles, then turns briefly into a story about a loose-cannon pilot who comes and goes too swiftly for us to care much about, then becomes an ostensible claustrophobic horror story about fighting a monster in the tight confines of the ship, then it leaps into what wants to be a more serious science fiction plot, which it does, to its credit, hold to for the rest of the film, even if it does so by way of becoming a jungle survival story with a surreal dream interlude along the way. Besides being unconvincing and less than coherent, this run-on plot amounts to a film that isn't terribly exciting. The characters have perfunctory personalities, but the film does little better than sometimes dashing by efforts to elaborate upon its characters on the way to the next waypoint in the plot. That plot isn't very-well thought through either. it tries to be thoughtful and novel, but the idea isn't unfamiliar and it seems to have been executed by someone who wasn't very thoughtful or creative working from the partial notes of someone who also was. "Gall Force Eternal Story" wasn't a hour and a half of nostalgia and I will probably watch it again, but it probably wouldn't be worth it if I hadn't seen it when anime seemed so wild and new as I transfixed by it for so many Saturday mornings of my childhood. |
| Gambo (movie) |
Decent |
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| Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (TV) |
Decent |
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| Garo the Animation (TV) |
Very good |
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| Gekigangar 3 (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Genocyber (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| Ghost Hunt (TV) |
Decent |
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| Ghost in the Shell (movie) |
Decent |
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| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) |
Very good |
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| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV) |
Very good |
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| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) |
Very good |
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| Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie |
Decent |
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| Giant Robo (OAV) |
Very good |
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| Gilgamesh (TV) |
Very good |
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| (The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) |
Very good |
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| Golden Boy (OAV) |
Decent |
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| GoShogun: The Time Étranger (OAV) |
Masterpiece |
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| Grave of the Fireflies (movie) |
Very good |
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| Gun Frontier (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Gunbuster (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Gunslinger Girl (TV) |
Very good |
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| Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Gunsmith Cats (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Gurren Lagann (TV) |
Decent |
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| Haibane Renmei (TV) |
Masterpiece |
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| Heat Guy J (TV) |
Very good |
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| Hells (movie) |
Decent |
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| Hellsing Ultimate (OAV) |
Decent |
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| House of Five Leaves (TV) |
Very good |
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| Humanity Has Declined (TV) |
Very good |
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| (The) Humanoid (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| ICE (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Ikki Tousen (TV) |
Bad |
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| In This Corner of the World (movie) |
Very good |
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| Infinite Ryvius (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Iria - Zeiram the Animation (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Iron Virgin Jun (OAV) |
Not really good |
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| (The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (OAV) |
Decent |
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| (The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (TV) |
Decent |
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| Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) |
Masterpiece |
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| Jormungand (TV) |
Decent |
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| Kakegurui (TV 2) |
Decent |
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| Kakegurui twin (ONA) |
Decent |
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| Kekko Kamen (OAV) |
Decent |
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| Key the Metal Idol (OAV) |
Decent |
"Key the Metal idol" feels as though it could have been a really wonderful series. The premise is deceptively simple and almost childish, it has a great lead and a terrific opening sequence. For its first thirteen episodes it flirts with being something great, being held back by a sort of lack of drive in its story; it isn't quite aimless or even badly plotted, but just seems to have a looser grip than it could have. Even with that limitation, it was interesting to watch, sometimes hit remarkably poignant notes and Key herself was an intriguing lead. Episode thirteen was particularly intense and interesting; it put the series on the cusp of greatness. Then episode fourteen came and it became TV on the radio for an hour and a half. Episode fifteen was more active, but put Key out of the limelight while a lot of characters, most of him were dull or little-developed, dashed around agonizing and talking about the diminished lead character, which largely served to remind me of how I'd rather have been watching her. The closing just largely fails to give satisfaction in the various ways that it suggests that it might and ultimately dithers over some needless agonizing before trying to supply a climax, which isn't anywhere near the emotional or narrative height that it could have been. |
| Kick-Heart (movie) |
Very good |
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| Kiddy Grade (TV) |
Decent |
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| Kids on the Slope (TV) |
Very good |
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| Kill la Kill (TV) |
Masterpiece |
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| King of Thorn (movie) |
Decent |
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| Kino's Journey (TV) |
Masterpiece |
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| Kite (OAV) |
Very good |
This is a strange, quite distinctive and enthralling thing. I am not quite sure what to think of it, save that I enjoyed it. I could not help but feel that the director did not mean for it all to be taken quite seriously. The preposterous sequence that begins with a fight in a lavatory and ends with an explosion is ridiculously spectacular and even its more mundane violence is surreally excessive. That excess is often spectacular to watch. The action scenes are excitingly animated and cleverly choreographed. Despite the excesses within them, the director offers us only a few of them, so the action never bores me as the relentless strikes of a kung-fu film might. The violence and sexuality of it all is strange amidst the calm, almost contemplative pace and style of everything else. Although it is shorter than an hour, it proceeds patiently and accepts its limits rather than fight to blaze through as much as it can possibly force into its length. It’s often not entirely forthcoming or explicit about facts and motives, never driving its characters to issue direct exposition. This is especially effective in the portrayal of Sawa, who keeps an appearance of girlish cheer through much of the experience, but changes bit by bit from scene to scene in an interesting, satisfying way. That approach probably contributes very much to my appreciation of it. It cultivates a curious mood that inspires one to find or at least wonder about subtle feelings and implications that might be lurking within each scene and spoken line. That could be mere illusion, but if that’s so, it’s a satisfying one to fall for. I liked the English language version very well. The actors are cavalier about pronouncing Japanese names, but do exceedingly well in the more relevant work of delivering their lines well. Sawa and Akai are especially well portrayed, each sounding just as I they should. “Kite” looks nice too; besides being well animated, the characters have interesting character designs. Sawa is drawn prettily enough to be unassuming, but still able to hold an edge when needed. Akai is designed to exude the smug sleaziness that permeates his character and Kanie looks strikingly weird with his wide, scarred and bug-eyed face that seldom betrays much expression. The secondary characters are well drawn as well in ways that complement their parts in the story. The backgrounds are often rendered in dark, moody colors and drenched in shadows. The music is quite respectably done, especially the avant garde jazz that underlies many scenes serves the ears as well as the rest serves the eyes; it provides a feeling of subdued chaos to them. The whole affair has a satisfying air of film noir about it. There is sex in even the censored version that I watched, but it didn’t feel really momentous or unnerving, which perhaps just reflects upon some depravity lurking within me. It didn’t feel irrelevant and it does contribute to the atmosphere of the experience, but it never produced a deep emotion or other response from me, so I am left to feel as though something has been lost in taking “Kite” off of the hentai shelf. It nonetheless remains a very striking, absorbing work that bears being seen more than once and certainly stays in mind for a while after each time. |
| Kite Liberator (OAV) |
Not really good |
This is very strange. Half of it is a story about an adolescent assassin, akin to Sawa from the original, but then the other half is a weird horror story about astronauts who become bone monsters after eating special space food and being exposed to solar radiation. The two are ostensibly tied to one another and do converge, but they are not in harmony. The bad space horror seems only to interrupt and distract from the assassin story. The greatest virtues of th original "Kite" were its careful pacing, mood and tight focus upon a few characters in a minimalist story. "Kite Liberator" has a wider focus and lighter, almost flippant mood. Sometimes it seems to be leaning toward the good sense of its forebearer, but upon the cusp of that, or even just the cusp of the cusp of that, we are thanklessly directed to worry about some annoying scientist and space monsters. I had scarce sense of who Monaka was and none of why she was doing what she did. I didn't mind that Sawa wasn't the protagonist of "Kite Liberator", but I did mind that her replacement was a thinly-drawn piffle. Most of the action scenes were even lacking, with little of the preposterous flair that Yasuomi Umetsu so reveled in before. Perhaps he needs to be forced to make pornography to produce something worthwhile. |
| Kurau: Phantom Memory (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Kyousougiga (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Labyrinth (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Lensman (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Lily C.A.T. (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Little Witch Academia (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Little Witch Academia (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Locke the Superman (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Lucky Star (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Lupin III: Part IV (TV 2015) |
Decent |
|
| Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen's Gravestone (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Lupin the Third: Part 5 (TV) |
Very good |
|
| M.D. Geist (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| M.D. Geist II - Death Force (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| Macross Plus (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Mad Bull 34 (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Madlax (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Maetel Legend (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Magic Knight Rayearth 2 (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Magical Witch Punie-chan (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Magnetic Rose (movie) |
Very good |
|
| MAPS (OAV 1994) |
Not really good |
|
| Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Maria the Virgin Witch (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Maris the Chojo (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness |
Decent |
|
| Master of Martial Hearts (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| Mazinkaiser SKL (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Meganebu! (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Megazone 23 (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Megazone 23 Part II (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Megazone 23 Part III (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Memories (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Metallic Rouge (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Metropolis (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Mezzo (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Mezzo Forte (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Michiko & Hatchin (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Mikagura School Suite (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Millennium Actress (movie) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Mind Game (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Mini Pato (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Miss Hokusai (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Mitsudomoe (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam UC (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Moldiver (OAV) |
Decent |
Very little of "Moldiver" rewards or encourages thinking about it very much. If much more than the dab of mind needed for basic sensory awareness and language processing is applied to it, the 'science', motivations and story might well dissolve into a mush, although not an unpleasant one. The show looks quite nice and I found the characters easily likeable. It even manages to be amusing a few times and is, with a few exceptions, consistently, if very lightly, entertaining. Some of the action sequences seemed truncated or limited, although I can't say whether they were and whether budget or poor planning is to blame, but they are reasonably compelling. The English language version is respectable, and is quite good by the measure of its era, and I find oddities and imperfections of this era strangely endearing, provided that they aren't too severe or abundant. "Moldiver" is a largely unexceptional series, but it does enough right and enough not badly to be a suitable way to pass a few not-especially-valuable half hours. |
| Monster (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Murder Princess (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| My Neighbor Totoro (movie) |
Not really good |
|
| My-HiME (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| My-Otome (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Natsuyuki Rendezvous (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Neo-Tokyo (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Night is Short, Walk On Girl (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Night on the Galactic Railroad (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Nobunagun (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Nodame Cantabile (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Noein - to your other self (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Noir (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Now and Then, Here and There (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Odin - Starlight Mutiny (movie) |
Bad |
|
| (The) Order to Stop Construction (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Outlaw Star (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Ozma (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Paprika (movie) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Paranoia Agent (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Parasite Dolls (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Parasyte -the maxim- (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Patema Inverted (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Patlabor 2: The Movie (movie 2) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Patlabor WXIII (movie 3) |
Decent |
|
| Patlabor: The Movie (movie 1) |
Very good |
|
| Perfect Blue (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Phantom Quest Corp. (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Ping Pong (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| planetarian (ONA) |
Very good |
|
| Planetes (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Pluto (ONA) |
Very good |
|
| Porco Rosso (movie) |
Very good |
|
| (Le) Portrait de Petite Cossette (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Possessions (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (ONA 2014) |
Not really good |
|
| Princess Jellyfish (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Princess Mononoke (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Princess Resurrection (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Princess Tutu (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Prison School (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Project A-ko (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Project A-ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Project A-ko 4: Final (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Psycho-Pass (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Psycho-Pass (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Psycho-Pass 2 (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Puella Magi Madoka Magica (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| R.O.D -The TV- |
Very good |
|
| Rage of Bahamut: Genesis (TV) |
Very good |
|
| RahXephon (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Rayearth (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Read or Die (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Red Garden (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Redline (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Reign: The Conqueror (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) |
Masterpiece (dub & sub) |
|
| Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie |
Decent (dub & sub) |
|
| Riddle Story of Devil (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Rideback (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Riding Bean (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Ringing Bell (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (U.S. OAV) |
Decent |
|
| (The) Rose of Versailles (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honnêamise (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Ruin Explorers - Fam & Ihrie (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Running Man (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Saber Marionette J (TV) |
Decent |
This series was sometimes weirdly grueling to watch. It is bloated by an annoyingly great abundance of preponderantly vacuous, dull and unimportant episodes. Among these is a serviceable story, albeit one that is hobbled by contrivances as idiotic as powerful gynoids being handily neutralized by a fear of mice and as outright asinine as a strategic computer being disabled because the male lead inadvertently urinates on it. I did not make that up, whoever wrote this show made that up and he should be ashamed. Despite this, the characters are often quite endearing and show real change as the series progresses. Despite the harem arrangement of the series, it’s far more innocent than prurient and the lucky man feels a genuine, sincere sense of obligation toward his charges. It is sometimes very emotionally effective; its methods might not be especially novel or subtle, but they are quite competently done. I like much of the look of the series too. This is aided by an English version that is surprisingly well-done. The main characters mostly have quite suitable voices and a few are excellent. Maggie Blue O’Hara gives Lime a perfect voice that is cheery and childlike, but not squeaky or cloying. I also really liked Venus Terzo’s portrayal of Tiger. The character designs are idiosyncratic, but, notwithstanding some of the absurd combat-strippers wardrobes employed by Gartland, but I found them appealing and distinctive. I also remain an easy mark for hand-drawn animation and the style of the last decades of the twentieth century. It is thus a shame that the series seemed not to have enough money to animate many of its action scenes fully or at length. The most bothersome problem that I have with this series is that it makes me think. I do not mean that it is challenging or provocative, but rather that whilst watching it, I notice many things that make no good sense and cannot resist pondering ways, often rather obvious ones, in which it could have been better. When this happens, it means that something about the series is took lacking for me to not be interested in its faults, which I am almost eager to ignore in other cases when I am otherwise engrossed. Most seriously, I found myself persistently wishing that it had given at least a critical glance at gender rôles and social orders, rather than just assuming conventional ones. It would have been a far better series even if the ultimate maturation of the Saber Marionettes had been to find their own lives and desires rather than to fawn more effectively over their master. Ultimately, “Saber Marionette J” has some merits and virtues, but is hobbled by many very typical faults and ignored possibilities that I can’t help but retain a little fondness for as a guilty, nostalgic pleasure. |
| Saber Marionette J Again (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Saber Marionette J to X (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Saber Marionette R (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| (The) Sacred Blacksmith (TV) |
Not really good |
This series disappointed and irritated me. I have my predilections and among them is one for female protagonists, which this series superficially satisfies; however said predilection is in fact more particular, being as it requires that those protagonists be interesting, competent and be allowed a modicum of dignity. In meeting that sterner demand, “The Sacred Blacksmith” fails. Cecily Campbell is a thinly conceived, incompetent knight wearing preposterous armor that protects only her shoulders and the upper half of her torso and is lovingly crafted to meet the curvature of her very large breasts, although in one episode she is forced to dress like a maid, which is of course much better. One should be fair in noting that the other knights of the protagonists order wear the same inadequate armor, although with the added benefit of armored skirts, but theirs isn’t so pruriently shaped. The series often makes ostensibly comic mention, doing so at least once in every episode of its first half, of Cecily’s breasts, chiefly through envious statements from other women, who are of course nearly as fixated upon certain secondary sexual characteristics as the collective will of a junior high school locker room. That irritating fixation might be tolerable if Cecily’s feebleness and ineptitude were merely the beginning of showing her progression as a knight, but the series never really gives a true sense that she becomes stronger-willed and better skilled, rather it leaves whether the occasional scenes of her training yield anything ambiguous and tends to make her successes in combat seem attributable to the very powerful demon sword that she is, for reasons that I never found very convincing, given early in the series. The series often takes time to demonstrate her ineptitude in various ways, but gives little in the way of her virtues or her becoming abler. It might have done so if it were longer, but it is only a dozen episodes long, but it acts as though it has more time to spare. There are languid scenes of meals and idleness, to say naught of the entire episode dedicated to buying one of the secondary characters a pretty dress, that could have been sacrificed without loss in whole or part in favor of allowing more time and substance to the series’ three story arcs. Of them, only the first seems in proper order. The second arc introduces characters whose story doesn’t seem resolved by the end and seems as though they are meant to come back in the future. The third story arc concludes the series, but feels more like a season finale as the looming threat of the series has not be resolved and the villain escapes a definitive fate. It is at least a fairly pretty series. The designs are appealing and the animation is good. It even pays some attention, thought not very much, to developing the world that the story is set in. The series has a few sound ideas as well, although they are undermined by the dearth of chemistry between Cecily and the titular blacksmith, who is in fact something of a secondary protagonist. I also appreciated the accuracy and realism of the weapon designs. The swords and other arms look like historically plausible weapons rather than the preposterous things wielded in so many other series. This series wasn’t an utter failure; rather it was more an annoying disappointment. I was hopeful when I began this series that it would prove to be worth my watching, but I’m ultimately just irritated by having gone to the trouble. |
| SaiKano: Another Love Song (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Sakura Trick (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Samurai Champloo (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Sands of Destruction (TV) |
Decent |
This series was surprisingly entertaining and endearing. The principals aren't terrifically deep and rich characters, but they are a fair way better than flat and very likeable too. It isn't much of an action series as fights are slightly uncommon and generally unimpressive, though serviceable, but it's nonetheless seldom boring and is even sometimes compelling. Kyrie flirts with being a tedious milquetoast, but never quite becomes one and is never lingered upon long enough to become irritating. Morte is a pleasantly willful badass and Toppy is a teddy bear who looks like a pirate, but speaks with a coolly heroic voice and from time to time whomps whole platoons of enemies. The English version is very well done; especially on the parts of Luci Christian as Morte and Robert McCollum as Toppy. Most of the series is fun, sensibly simple adventure stories; it doesn't make for a memorable epic to be revisited ceremoniously, but it's satisfying to watch at least once. I wish that it had been a longer series; the writers could probably have drawn the characters into enough single adventures to sustain more episodes and had time to develop an arc with a richer conclusion. |
| Sasameki Koto (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (ONA) |
Very good |
|
| Scrapped Princess (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Sea Prince and the Fire Child (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Serial Experiments Lain (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Shamanic Princess (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV) |
Masterpiece |
This series began very well and had guaranteed that I would have a very favorable opinion of it nearly from the beginning, but then I watched episode nine and it became something even better and more affecting than I had expected. I never cried as I watched it, which its reputation and content makes seem odd, but as it crept on, I felt a growing sense of strong, restless discomfort and despair that is just as significant and perhaps more enduring than tears. It often erred toward the melodramatic, which was occasionally annoying, but the strong emotions on display were more often as compelling as they seemed to want to be. I really appreciated the indirect way that the consequences of war for the civilian population were portrayed in references to things like coffee being impossible to get and oblique references to the miseries visited upon other places. The efficacy of that subtlety was enhanced by the almost abstract nature of the war. The enemy and cause of the conflict were never really named and even though the perspective of the series was Japanese, there was scant nationalism or patriotism on display. This made war seem as though an alien malevolent force, detached from reason or purpose. I also really loved the disconcerting shifts in attitude that Chise showed as the aspect of her that was dedicated to being a weapon become stronger and more at odds with her essential personality. I was content with the English version. I think it strange that Viz didn't commission a well-seasoned studio, such as Animaze, to provide the English language version, but despite that, the Mark Atherlay and especially Melissa Hutchinson, after some early unease, perform their parts excellently and several supporting characters, especially Abie Hadjitarkhani as Tetsu and David Arendash as Mister Kanawa, are very well played too; the rest are either competent or too minor for their faults to matter much. The series looks splendid as well. The designs are quite good, especially for Chise's weapon form, and the music, which is sometimes appropriately spare, is very suitable. It's an excellent and memorable series that I'm very glad to have seen. |
| Shiki (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Short Peace (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Silent Möbius (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture |
Very good |
|
| Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture 2 |
Decent |
|
| Simoun (TV) |
Very good |
|
| (The) Sky Crawlers (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Sol Bianca: The Legacy (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| (il) sole penetra le illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Solty Rei (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie |
Very good |
|
| Space Dandy (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Space Dandy Season 2 (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Speed Grapher (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Starship Operators (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Stink Bomb (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie |
Decent |
|
| Strike Witches (TV) |
Bad |
Controversy, some curiosity and a misguided hope that I might be surprised suckered me into watching this and my stubbornness didn't let me stop watching, even after I had begun to really dread each new episode. The fanservice is obnoxious, but it's the exaggerated, relentless 'cuteness' and its banality that really drove me to madness. |
| Sukeban Deka (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Summer Wars (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Sword of the Stranger (movie) |
Very good |
|
| (The) Tatami Galaxy (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Tenamonya Voyagers (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Tenchi Muyo! GXP (TV) |
Bad |
|
| Texhnolyze (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| They Were 11 (movie) |
Very good |
|
| This Boy Can Fight Aliens! (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| Tiger & Bunny (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV) |
Very good |
|
| (The) Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk (TV) |
Decent |
|
| (The) Tower of Druaga: the Sword of Uruk (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Trigun (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Trigun: Badlands Rumble (movie) |
Decent |
|
| Trinity Blood (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| tsuritama (TV) |
Very good |
|
| (The) Twelve Kingdoms (TV) |
Masterpiece |
|
| Twin Signal (OAV) |
Not really good |
|
| Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (movie 2) |
Good |
|
| Venus Versus Virus (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Venus Wars (movie) |
Not really good |
|
| Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan (movie) |
Not really good |
What a dreadful, tedious film this was! I found myself wishing for its end less than halfway through it and regretted not having stopped watching it after ten minutes as I had almost done. There's simply nothing in this film that I found interesting. The characters barely deserve to be identified with that term because they're so terribly basic and standard. The premise was slightly interesting, but the story built upon it is a dull, routine bore. I suppose that I should concede that the animation looks fine and the character designs are appealing, if generic, and stuff gets blowed up real good, but that's about it. The only times that this film provoked some response other than irritation were when a character whom I found annoying was shot, I don't know or care why, and when two characters were reduced to limping around after one another in a scene of inadvertent comedy. This film never entertained or amused me sincerely or ironically. If not for its modicum of technical competence and lack of anything really offensively bad, it would be a complete failure. |
| Video Girl Ai (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Violence Jack (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| Violence Jack 2 (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| Violence Jack 3 (OAV) |
Bad |
|
| Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) |
Very good |
|
| Wanna-Be's (OAV) |
Bad |
I don't even know how I came to own the weary old tape of this that I one day found haunting my collection and I have since exorcised it thence. This was a strange, ugly little thing. The characters looked and were either bland or ugly and somehow I couldn't find Japanese women's professional wrestling to be a fitting setting for what appeared to want to be a science-fiction-action-drama. Sometimes it was dull and a few times it was strange, but it was rarely anything like good. |
| WATAMOTE (TV) |
Very good |
|
| Weather Report Girl (OAV) |
Decent |
|
| (The) Weathering Continent (movie) |
Very good |
|
| Wicked City (movie) |
Decent |
|
| A Wind Named Amnesia (movie) |
Not really good |
|
| Witch Craft Works (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Witchblade (TV) |
Decent |
|
| Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil (TV) |
Not really good |
|
| Wolf Children (movie) |
Decent |
|
| (The) World Is Still Beautiful (TV) |
Very good |
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| Xenosaga: The Animation (TV) |
Not really good |
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| Yona of the Dawn (TV) |
Very good |
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| your name. (movie) |
Very good |
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| Yuki Yuna Is a Hero (TV) |
Decent |
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| Yurikuma Arashi (TV) |
Very good |
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