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Errinundra
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Another fun school story from the masters of the genre - Kyoto Animation. The male lead - Yuta Togashi, who wants to leave his former embarrassing obsessions firmly in the past when he enrols in a new high school - isn't one of their better creations, but his opposite - the irresistibly cute, eye-patch wearing Rikka Takanahsi - makes up for it with her eccentric and determined embrace of fantasy.
Even though her character design is one of anime's most memorable, the series comes across as a poorer cousin of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It's very good, all the same, especially when we're clued into Rikka's unhappy past. The one episode Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! OAV, where Rikka and fellow fantasist, Dekomori, get drunk on liqueur laced chocolate cake is merely so-so, while Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Lite, which gives us 6 short character vignettes, is slightly better at decent. After that welcome interlude it's back to the serious slog through my 1990s / magical girl backlog. Magic Knight Rayearth 2 sees our 3 heroines once more whisked away from the Tokyo Tower (the magical girl holiest of holy shrines) to the world of Cephiro where they become mecha piloting magical girls. The mecha - sentient, of course - address the three as "isekai no shoujo" repeatedly, which amused me no end, given the series is now 30 years old and given the two recent articles here in ANN. The series starts off poorly, with minimal artwork and animation, along with stilted dialogue. It then weaves in three different invasion narratives and a more insidious threat coming from within the very hearts of the denizens of Cephiro. The four threads weave together into a satisfying climax and conclusion. An amusing aspect of the franchise is that every named thing, other than the 3 mains and their mascot, is called after an automotive company or vehicle from around the world. The convention is so pervasive and reliable, I found myself yelling at the screen, "Her name is Tata, not Tarta, your ignorant translators!" The poor start and technical limitations in the early episodes, when weighed against the more compelling later episodes, give it a decent rating, better than the first season and the recently watched Sailor Moon Super S. 
Mascot character Mokona finds it hilarious fairy Primera is being swallowed up by a rip in the fabric of anime space-time. |
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GzorG
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Galaxy Express 999 episodes 6-13: We almost had a cheerful episode (until the ending) on the planet of formless beings! The rest is a continuation of Tetsuro and Maetal's journey through a series of decadent and decaying civilisations, where people wish to become immortal by moving to robot bodies and robots who regret the decision to lose their humanity. The first episode claimed it was set in the 23rd century but I can only assume this is from a different calendar, especially as they met one woman who got her robot body over 500 years ago.
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