vroenis's Anime
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| Animal Crossing (movie) | Explanation the priority system. (1st priority) |
| Bartender (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Best Student Council (TV) | (2nd priority) Scenario by Yousuke Kuroda, who also did the script for Honey & Clover - enough for me. |
| Binbō Shimai Monogatari (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Boys Over Flowers (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Cat Soup (OAV) | (1st priority) |
| (Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Descendants of Darkness (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Eternal Alice (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Eternal Family (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| (The) Familiar of Zero (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Full Moon o Sagashite (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Gasaraki (TV) | (2nd priority) I'm wary of this series. Some of the more mature positive comments I've read about it seem to indicate that it's right up my alley, being quite slow and heavily dialogue driven, political, spiritual and with no emphasis on the actual mecha. While it seems to have everything I look for in this kind of production, I'll have to see whether or not it's been done well. |
| Genshiken (TV) | (3rd priority) note to self: watch after Kujibiki Unbalance... |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (OAV) | (1st priority) |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (movie) | (1st priority) |
| Girl's High (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Happy Seven (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Hime-sama Goyojin (TV) | (2nd priority) A parody of Japnese xenophobia? I'm curious... |
| Kamichu! (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Kujibiki Unbalance (OAV) | (3rd priority) note to self: watch before Genshiken... |
| A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Living for the Day After Tomorrow (TV) | (1st priority) |
| Lovege Chu - Miracle Seiyū Hakusho (TV) | (2nd priority) | (ep 1) |
| Maburaho (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Massugu ni Ikō (TV) | (2nd priority) | (ep 1) |
| Millennium Actress (movie) | (1st priority) |
| Mind Game (movie) | (1st priority) |
| Mini Pato (movie) | (2nd priority) |
| Momoiro Sisters (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Nanaka 6/17 (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Neighborhood Story (TV) | (2nd priority) Another anime based on the work of Ai Yazawa, featuring Mikako who would later appear in Paradise Kiss. It's old, but I'm curious. |
| Now and Then, Here and There (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Nurse Witch Komugi (OAV) | (2nd priority) A parody of mahou shoujo? I'm in! |
| Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling for Me! (TV) | (monitor) |
| Pani Poni Dash! (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Pita-Ten (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Sentimental Journey (TV) | *(2nd priority) |
| Seven of Seven (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Step Up Love Story (OAV) | (3rd priority) |
| Strawberry Marshmallow (OAV) | (1st priority) |
| Sukisho (TV) | (1st priority) |
| To Heart (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| ToHeart - Remember my memories (TV) | (3rd priority) |
| Tokyo Godfathers (movie) | (1st priority) |
| Welcome to the NHK (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| When They Cry - Higurashi (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| W~Wish (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| xxxHOLiC (TV) | (2nd priority) |
| Yume Tsukai (TV) | *(1st priority) |
| Zettai Shonen (TV) | *(1st priority) |
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| Doki Doki School Hours (TV) | leave feedback here. | |
| Ergo Proxy (TV) | stalled (ep 1) i hate judging an anime on the first ep, and in a sense i suppose i don't, but first impressions certainly are hard to break. i won't say it's bad until i've given it a fair go, and in truth, comparisons disregarded, Ergo Proxy doesn't seem that bad at all, it might turn out to be quite good. i watched the first ep knowing next to nothing about it - only being attracted to some of the character designs. upon completing the first ep, the 'edginess' this production seems to strive for, like Gantz, inevitably makes me think of Texhnolyze - and instantly it just doesn't stack up. like Gantz, Ergo Proxy just contains far too much dialogue for what i want out of this kind of presentation. further to that, there is far too much justification and establishing of premise rather than true abstract presentation such as i find in Texhnolyze. i may watch further, i'll have to see how the next few episodes turn out. |
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| Gantz (TV) | stalled (ep 1) i realise that Texhnolyze, Ergo Proxy and Gantz are all very different presentations, but i find the presentations of the later two to be aspiring to the former, Texhnolyze being one of the abstracts that i hail as top tier. like Ergo Proxy, Gantz seemed to have far too much dialogue and extraneous explination. further to that, the themes felt overly justified and not just a little bit immature. i don't know whether i'll invest any more time into this series, but my lasting impression from the first episode is that the characters simply wouldn't be quiet and let the images speak for them. perhaps i should stop comparing anything remotely abstract with Texhnolyze, but i find that if an anime wants to take itself seriously, it should set aside childish things... i could explain that, but it really is merely my perspective. |
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| GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (TV) | hiatus (somewhere beyond ep 30) the friend whose DVDs i'm watching have gone into temporary storage while his house is renovated. |
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| I''s Pure (OAV) | stalled (ep 3) Three episodes in and I'm beginning to feel distaste for this series. The narrative is built on scenarios that are far too common in popular anime - the brash boy who doesn't understand his feelings, situational misunderstandings to complicate the relationships, and of-course the boy being central to more than one girl's feelings. The bad thing about this is it isn't very long, so I might as well finish it now that I'm half-way through - unfortunately I still don't have enough of the anime I really want to watch yet, but should that change, I''s Pure will easily be relegated. |
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| Ichigo 100% (TV) | stalled (ep 2) Seems funny enough for a comedic anime, extremely light sincerity included as expected, also full of anime cliches which doesn't bother me too much. Outright comedies just aren't engaging me at the moment, but my tastes for social-drama are taking me farther and farther away from productions like these. |
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| Negima! (TV) | hiatus (ep 4) It's charming, but it's just not what i'm into at the moment. I've re-watched the first three or so episodes several times but always let it go again. I am committed to finishing it one of these days, if only barely. I really owe it to myself to watch this as I was so keen on it for so long - as with Ichigo though, I'm finding that as I watch more seriously focused dramas, I don't take to the comedies full of cliches as much. |
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| Noir (TV) | Bad | stalled (somewhere around ep 9) the themes of Noir aren't bad at all, in fact they're quite good. i also can tolerate poor animation quality which certainly is the case with Noir. what prevents me from investing any more time in this series is the horrendous over-use of flash-backs and musical themes. if each flash-back were a different scene, i might give it some grace, but almost without fail the same flash-back scene will appear. so too will the euro-trancy action theme whenever any excitement happens. i can even over-look the action cliche of heroes never being hit by a thousand bullets shot by a thousand men - it's part of the atmosphere and action-theme, and i can easily get into the spirit of it - but hearing that same theme and watching that same flash-back induced one too many eye-rolling moments. |
| Peach Girl (TV) | Bad | I may have been able to tolerate the terrible art in this series if it weren't so insipid and contrived. Sae is a purely evil character who inspires violence in the most peaceful corners of my shoujo-anime loving mind. From the very first ep, I wanted her dead, horribly, painfully, torturously dead. The rest of the cast while seeming to have some kind of third dimension also end up being cardboard cut-outs of generic teens placed conveniently for the most base situational drama. After the glory of Hachikuro, Marimite, Parakiss and even Kare Kano, Peach Girl is so poorly written, tactless, graceless, and not in the least engaging. This isn't serious character drama, it's just stupidly contrived juvenile rubbish. I skimmed through a few of the later eps and nothing seemed to have changed, and felt absolutely no guilt in spoiling the last episode. I'm glad I didn't force myself to watch any more than a few full episodes. |
| She, The Ultimate Weapon (TV) | encountered (various) Saikano is an anime one of my friends has shown to me in little sprinklings as we do for each-other at times. he wasn't too impressed with some elements of it which of-course have an effect on my perceptions, however i always judge what i see free of the perceptions of others. i understand that this is a favourite of many, but i never took to it for various reasons i won't go into. considering one particular narrative point that my friend shared with me regarding the relationship between the two main characters, i doubt i will ever fully watch this series. |
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| Shuffle! (TV) | hiatus (ep 1) again a charming and comedic anime, but one that hasn't grabbed me right off in the face of those in the now viewing category. as per my comments on Negima, when my season of comedy returns, i'll finish watching this. |
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| Suzuka (TV) | stalled (ep 1) while Ichigo verges on the edge of cliches i will tolerate, Suzuka just seemed to overstep the line far too eagerly. i don't know whether i'll continue watching this one, perhaps i'll put another few episodes into it and see where it heads, but compared to the anime i usually watch, i'm not confident Suzuka will stand-up. |
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| Trigun (TV) | stalled (ep 7) this is one of those series i've always wanted to complete, and always have access to, but never get around to. a somewhat older anime compared to my current viewing habits, it's one i encountered regularly in my early anime watching years. as my tastes have evolved though, it might just be a little too on the shounen side at times, and the art-style may be edging out into the classic 'bean' era that i've never taken to much. one of these days i'll finish it, as from what i know of the story, it is both hillarious and sincere. |
| Seen all▲▼ | Rating▲▼ | Comment▲▼ |
| 5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) | Bad | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (TV) | Very good | leave feedback here. This link can be found in the comments field of the first production that appears in each list (now viewing, top tier series' etc.) - It links to my diary where you can leave comments on any of the entries listed on the right-hand side of the page. (2002) |
| Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ (TV) | Excellent | (2003) |
| Air (TV) | Excellent | (2004) |
| Air (movie) | Good | (2005) |
| Air In Summer (special) | Good | (2005) |
| Aishiteruze Baby (TV) | Excellent | (2004) |
| Akira (movie) | Decent | (1988) |
| (The) Animatrix (OAV) | Decent | (2003) |
| Appleseed (OAV) | Good | (1988) |
| Appleseed (movie) | Very good | (2005) |
| Appleseed: Ex Machina (movie) | Good | |
| Aria - The Natural (TV) | Masterpiece | (2006) | response |
| Aria the Animation (TV) | Masterpiece | (2005) | response |
| Aria the OVA ~Arietta~ | Excellent | |
| Armitage III: Poly-Matrix (movie) | Decent | (1997) |
| Armitage: Dual-Matrix (movie) | So-so | (2002) |
| Azumanga Daioh (TV) | Very good | (2002) |
| Baby Blue (movie) | Excellent | |
| Beyond (OAV) | Very good | (2003) |
| Black Magic M-66 (OAV) | Decent | (1987) |
| Blood: The Last Vampire (movie) | Not really good | (2000) |
| Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) | Very good | (2005) | response |
| Bokura ga Ita (TV) | Excellent | (2nd priority) |
| Casshern (live-action movie) | Decent | (2004) |
| Castle in the Sky (movie) | So-so | (1986) |
| Chibits (special) | Very good | (2002) |
| Chobits (TV) | Excellent | (2002) |
| City Hunter (live-action movie 1992) | Not really good | (1992) |
| Comic Party (TV) | Good | (2001) |
| (La) Corda D'Oro - primo passo (TV) | Good | |
| (The) Cosmopolitan Prayers (TV) | Good | (2004) First part of the Hit wo Nerae! Trilogy. The thing about this series is that it really isn't meant to be taken seriously. The more one understands about what the shows are making fun of, the funnier the experience will be. |
| Cowboy Bebop (TV) | Excellent | (1998) |
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | Good | (2001) |
| Cutie Honey (live-action movie) | Decent | |
| Dead Leaves (OAV) | Excellent | (2004) |
| Deathtic 4 (movie) | Good | |
| Di Gi Charat (TV) | Good | (1999) |
| Di Gi Charat Flower Viewing Special | Very good | (2001) |
| Diamond Daydreams (TV) | Very good | (2004) | response |
| Dominion Tank Police (OAV) | Good | (1988) |
| Doorbell (movie) | Good | |
| Excel Saga (TV) | Excellent | |
| Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie) | Good | (2005) |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) | Excellent | (2001) |
| FLCL (OAV) | Excellent | (2000) |
| Fruits Basket (TV 1/2001) | Excellent | (2001) |
| Full Metal Panic! (TV) | Good | (2002) |
| Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TV) | So-so | (2005) |
| Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (OAV) | Excellent | (2006) | response |
| Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) | Excellent | (2003) |
| Genius Party (movie) | Good | |
| Ghost in the Shell (movie) | Masterpiece | (1995) |
| Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (movie) | Masterpiece | (2004) |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV) | Masterpiece | (2002 - 1st gig) (2004 - 2nd gig) |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| (The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time (movie) | Excellent | |
| Gundress (movie) | Good | (1999) |
| Gunsmith Cats (OAV) | Decent | (1995) |
| Haibane Renmei (TV) | Masterpiece | (2002) |
| Happy Lesson (TV) | Excellent | (2002) |
| Happy Lesson (OAV) | Decent | (2001) |
| Happy Lesson Advanced (TV) | Excellent | (2003) |
| Happy Lesson The Final (OAV) | Excellent | (2004) |
| Happy Machine (movie) | Very good | |
| Hellsing (TV) | So-so | (2001) |
| His and Her Circumstances (TV) | Excellent | (1998) |
| Hit o Nerae! (TV) | Good | (2004) Second in the Hit wo Nerae! Trilogy. I rather liked how this turned out, and the theme centred around the characters rather than the production was well-done. Not the best parody around, but Hit wo Nerae! helps make a more complete picture, and there are more than a few funny insights into the anime industry, and I did find the characters endearing, and the way that the non-sensical elements of Cos'prayers are contrived was quite clever. |
| Honey and Clover (TV) | Masterpiece | (2005) |
| Honey and Clover (live-action movie) | Excellent | (2006) Two important things to consider when watching the Hachimitsu to Clover movie; firstly you really have to be a fan of Japanese film (which I am), as it's styled more towards Japanese live-action film rather than the anime; secondly, it's pretty much a fan's film. It's hard for me to guage how people who haven't read the manga or seen the anime will receive what transpires in the film, as it's just so much shorter and contians less material than its sources. For fans who know the characters though, the interpretations of the characters are brilliantly translated into live-action actors - enough for me in any case. Many fans will likely find the film dull and the charcters nowhere near the mark of how they're portrayed in the anime particularly, but as an afore-mentioned fan of Japanese film, it made a lot of sense to me. Overall we never see enough of the characters and what transpires between them to make and huge amount of emotional ground cover, but what touched me in this film were the many moments where the subtlety of Japanese photography and screenplay really captured the nuances of the characters perfectly. It's all done in looks, glances, slight changes of expressions, pauses, simple sentences and subtle interactions, and it's perfectly suited to my tastes in film. Though the chronology is quite different, so to the total amount of time covered in the film, it seems that it covers events from the first anime series only, which may explain why we see so little of Mayama and Rika-san... -sama... sorry... but as these things usually go, there may well be a sequel to cover the second series. Oh yeah, and Nomiya isn't even in it - he may be in a cursory sense, but he isn't named and has no interactions with anyone. As a film it's impossible to cover everything, but it still would have been nice to have Nomiya and Yamada's interractions on-screen. Here's hoping for that fabled sequel, and that it will include some more love for the older characters. Actually, it just needs to be all about Rika-sama, then I'll be happy :P |
| Honey and Clover II (TV) | Masterpiece | (2006) |
| Hotori - Tada Saiwai o Koinegau (special) | Good | (1st priority) |
| Howl's Moving Castle (movie) | Decent | (2004) |
| INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (movie) | Very good | (2003) |
| Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) | Masterpiece | (1998) |
| K-ON! (TV) | Very good | |
| Kaleido Star (TV) | Very good | |
| Kaleido Star: New Wings Extra Stage (OAV) | Good | |
| Kanon (TV 1/2002) | Very good | (2002) |
| Kanon Kazahana (special) | Very good | (2003) |
| Kids on the Slope (TV) | Excellent | |
| Kino's Journey (TV) | Good | (2003) | response |
| Kino's Travels: Life Goes On (movie) | Decent | (2005) |
| Lamune (TV) | Very good | (2005) | response |
| Limit Cycle (movie) | Good | |
| Love Hina (TV) | Good | (2000) |
| Love Hina Again (OAV) | Not really good | (2002) |
| Love Hina Spring Special - I Wish Your Dream | Decent | (2001) |
| Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve | Good | (2000) |
| Love Love? (TV) | Decent | (2004) Third in the trilogy after Cosprayers and Hit wo Narae! This was slightly lesser than Hit wo Narae, in that it focussed a little too much on an actual narrative. There were some funny moments in it though which further contributed to the parodying nature of the trilogy, but all in all the harem theme really is getting old, even if it wasn't precisely the same as the standard premise in which it's commonly used. |
| Lucky Star (TV) | Excellent | |
| Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) | Excellent | (2002) |
| Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ (TV) | Good | (2005) |
| Maria Watches Over Us (TV) | Excellent | (2004) | response |
| Maria Watches Over Us 3rd Season (OAV) | Very good | (1st priority) |
| Maria Watches Over Us Season 2: Printemps (TV) | Excellent | (2004) | response | response to ep 5 |
| (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) | Weak | (2006) | response |
| Memories (movie) | Good | (1995) |
| Metropolis (movie) | Very good | (2001) |
| My Neighbor Totoro (movie) | Excellent | (1988) |
| NANA (TV) | Very good | (2007) | response |
| Nichijou - My Ordinary Life (TV) | Masterpiece | |
| NieA_7 (TV) | Decent | (2000) |
| Night on the Galactic Railroad (movie) | Excellent | (1985) |
| Ninja Scroll (movie) | So-so | (1993) |
| On Your Mark (movie) | Very good | (1995) |
| Only Yesterday (movie) | Excellent | (1991) |
| Ouran High School Host Club (TV) | Excellent | (2006) | response |
| Paprika (movie) | So-so | |
| Paradise Kiss (TV) | Masterpiece | (2005) | response | response to ep 6 |
| Patlabor 2: The Movie (movie 2) | Excellent | (1993) |
| Patlabor WXIII (movie 3) | Weak | (2001) |
| Patlabor: The Movie (movie 1) | Good | (1987) |
| Piano (TV) | Very good | (2002) | response |
| (The) Place Promised in Our Early Days (movie) | Decent | (2004) |
| Planetes (TV) | Excellent | |
| Please Teacher! (TV) | Good | (2001) |
| Please Teacher! (OAV) | Decent | (2002) |
| Pom Poko (movie) | Not really good | (1994) |
| Porco Rosso (movie) | Very good | (1992) |
| Princess Mononoke (movie) | Not really good | (1997) |
| Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) | Excellent | |
| R.O.D -The TV- | So-so | (2003) |
| Read or Die (OAV) | Good | (2001) |
| REC (TV) | Very good | (2006) |
| Roujin Z (movie) | So-so | (1991) |
| Rumbling Hearts (TV) | Decent | (2003) |
| Samurai Champloo (TV) | So-so | (2004) |
| Serial Experiments Lain (TV) | Masterpiece | (1998) |
| Shanghai Dragon (movie) | Very good | |
| She and Her Cat (OAV) | Excellent | (1999) |
| Sky Blue (Korean movie) | Excellent | (2003) |
| (The) Sky Crawlers (movie) | Masterpiece | (2008) | response |
| Someday's Dreamers (TV) | Very good | (2003) |
| Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie | Not really good | (1982) |
| Spirited Away (movie) | Decent | (2001) |
| Spriggan (movie) | Bad | (1998) |
| Strawberry Marshmallow (TV) | Excellent | (2005) | response |
| Strawberry Panic! (TV) | Good | (2006) | response |
| Summer Wars (movie) | Decent | |
| Tachikomatic Days (OAV) | Excellent | (2002 - 1st gig) (2006 - 2nd gig, DVD only) |
| Texhnolyze (TV) | Masterpiece | (2003) |
| Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (movie) | Weak | (2000) |
| Vexille - 2077 Isolation of Japan (movie) | Good | |
| Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) | Not really good | (2002) |
| (The) Wallflower (TV) | Excellent | (2006) |
| Windy Tales (TV) | Masterpiece | (2004) | response |
| Witch Hunter Robin (TV) | Very good | (2002) |
| Wolf Children (movie) | Very good |