Kiddy Girl? Well, mentally...

I finished Kiddy Girl-and the other day. I hate comparing shows like this to their predecessors because this kind of show is really almost stand alone just set in the same universe. However, this one did have Eclair and Lumiere in it at the end, so...oh, did I forget the other three or four ES pairs?

This time around the ES members are two apprentices who cover as waitresses for the GTO which is the new version of the GOTT. The Nouvlesse, led by a charismatic ability user, are planning a comeback...

I would have liked this show much better if it had not followed Kiddy Grade (which I am proud to say adorns a covetted place on my anime shelf) making it seem that the juvenile title is a perfect fit. Even given the opportunity to be a coming of age story, it failed to develop any of the chara to the extend of intellectual stimulation for the viewer.

Mind you, the story was great, the potential for magnifcence was there, it just was not followed through on.

I enjoyed it for what it was and the antics of Ascour and Di-air kept me entertained, so i'll give it a 6.2 on the Z-scale...





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It's not a daiper, it just looks like one...

I recently finished an anime about aliens. Tanpopo is a loli Manager for a minor toy company who comes to Earth to find a tester for a power suit the Galaxy Police commisioned for. Her rival is another poser suit developed by the Emerald Company. An unemployed student reluctantly takes the job and becomes Dokkoida.

I really loved the hilarity of all the heros and villians living under one roof without knowing who's who. The aliens throughout the galaxy were portrayed very oddly, especially the chief and Tanpopo's boss. Gags and goofiness abound in this satirical parody of superhero anime. The plot was solid and animated decently.

I was more annoyed than enamored by the Dokkoida power suit.

I enjoyed the catch OP, but the ED was lacking substance. Overall I give this one a 7.1 on the Z-scale.



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The Wallflower...

I got this one from the library. I was hesitant because of all the bishonen in it but glad that I did go ahead and watch it.

The Wallflower is about a group of feeloaders who are given the task of making Sunako Nakahara into a lady or be forced to pay rent for the luxurious mansion they live in. Unfortunately for them Sunako is rather an introverted horror otaku...

This anime was pretty hilarious. The use of sight gags and chibi chara was great. I enjoyed the OP song but didn't care for either of the EDs.

What I didn't like was the excessive use of blank chara and some lack of background detail.

Overall I'll give it a 7.0 on the Z-scale...

Check it out!

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Rizelmine

I finished this anime yesterday.

Rizelmine is an android who's development is stuck at the 12 year old stage. Her handlers set her up with middle schoolers Iwaki who is more into older girls. Hilarity ensues as Iwaki-kun fights off the romantic advances of Rizel.

This is a very funny comedy anime although it's a little older. It got a little ecchi toward the end which is a bonus for me, but that didn't detract from the warmness and romance.

Overall it was a great show and a bonus for the loli fan! The music was ok; I would say that the second ED was better than the first.

I'll give it an 8.9 on the Z-scale.

Check it out!

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Tatakau Shisho - The Book of Bantorra

I won't even try to tell you I understood everything that went on in this anime. I think if you go to college you should make your Professor watch it and explain it to you!

Book is about a world where when someone dies their life history is contained in a stone tablet or "book" as it is called. Armed Librarians collect the books and police trade in them while battling the rebelious Church. There is more to this world and others than what appears on the surface...

I finished this and am not even sure who are left alive at the end excluding the obvious. There was little to no fanservice despite the over endowment of the Acting Director, so that did not detrct from the story. The chara were cool, each with a special ability, at least before they were killed off, as many were.

Although a bit confusing, I thuroughly enjoyed this anime. The music was decent too.

I'll give it an 8.5 on the Z-scale.

Now go watxh anime!

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Handsome no Kanojo OVA

In my cheesy quest to finish 500 anime titles by summer, I have decided to take the quick route and throw in a bunch of movies and OVA titles to get there quicker...

One such title I watched was the one episode OVA Handsome no Kanojo. It's from the 80's and was pretty bland. It seems that this one was one of those titles thrown together to promote the manga it's based on.



A High School girl, who is an aspiring actress is given a sharp critique by a College cinema student who decides she is the perfect actress for his movie. Naturally they fall in love at the end.

I'll give it a 6.0 on the Z-scale.

Thought Crime...

I found this article due to a recent sentencing handed down to an Iowa man for receiving lolicon mang in the mail. What's next simply having such art on your computer? I do not believe possesion of such materiel puts one on the path to victimizing children anymore than watching Saw causes someone to kidnap and murder people...

http://comipress.com/special/miscellaneous/down-the-slippery-slope-the-crime-of-viewing-manga#_edn37

"In the meantime, organizations like the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which would have provided expert witnesses at its own expense had the Handley case gone to trial, should be supported through donations and membership. News sites and blogs should loudly criticize government interference with the rights of its citizens to purchase, read and possess the publications they wish. Petitions should be sent to members of Congress objecting to the censorship of art under the guise of protecting children. Moral crusading against comic books and art must be forced into retreat."

What do you think?



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Winter 2010 ep 3 reviews!

Well obviously this didn't happen...enjoy the images as much as I'm enjoying the shows why don't cha?












































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The old days...

On my days off I drop both my kids at their bus stops. I had dug out an old CD of anime songs I had made years ago and the OP for Sailor Moon came on. My oldest daughter, now 14, just started singing it off the fly! She said she remembers singing it all the time when she was little! Sailor Moon was the first anime that we both watched and I attribute it to being the one that started my addiction...

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It could be magic

Sora no Otoshimono - this is about a happy-go-lucky guy who only wants peace and quite in his life and maybe a few ecchi videos to watch. An Angeloid falls down from the sky and makes his life far less that peaceful...

This is the epitomy of ecchi comedy. From magic cards that grant wishes to flying pantsu (even exploding ones!) this had me laughing my ass off on many occasions! This anime does justice to the genre (is there even an ecchi comedy genre!?) with a unique flare.

There is a serious side to the story as well. The place where the Angeloids come from is run by beings that are evil and ruthless. They want their wayward Angeloids destroyed.

Pros: the chara are done well and there are some very good fight scenes as well as the great comedy.

Cons: there are annoying intros by the superbrain character. The Angeloid Nymph seems to be the only chara that we get decent background information on.

SnO gets an 8.0 on the Z-scale...

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Not cats and dogs

Pet Shop of Horrors is a four part OVA about an eccentric Chinese Count (Count D) who runs a very rare pet shop. People who purchase pets from him always tend to end up in trouble! A local cop suspects drug dealing and does his best to get into Count D’s business.

Pros: The stories were interesting enough. I liked the one about the Presidential aspirant the best.

Cons: Count D was just a bit too effeminate for me. It was really bizarre how the chara could imagine their pets to be something they weren’t.

Although it’s old it was still worth watching…I’ll give it a Z-scale 6.1…

From the city at the edge of nowhere

I finished the second season of Black Lagoon (the Second Barrage)...

if you could get into your mind the most screwed up South Asian city and added the greatest hodge-podge of criminal chara you can imagine, that would resemble Rhoanapour. This city is the home of the Lagoon Company, an eclectic group of criminals who do all sorts of jobs if the price is right. They have one awesome tricked out PT boat. In the first season a nondescript Japanese businessman is abandoned by his company and reluctantly joins the Lagoon Company.

The second season has all the rudeness and violence of the first, but with new faces and better story arcs, it is an improvement on the first.

Pros: No holds barred violence mixed with human nature at it's lowest makes for some gritty entertainment. There is more focus on Revy in this season as well. The same haunting ED is used in this season too.

Cons: There were some really screwy chara in this one that we didn't get enough background on for the roles that they were given.

On the Z-scale, this one gets an overall 8.9!

I mostly watched the English dub which was pretty damn well done; rare for a dub.

There is an OVA coming out sometime this year which I am seriously pining for...

Go check out Black Lagoon on DVD!

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When a girl loves a girl...

Sasameki Koto - I know what you are thinking...Yes it's a girl's love (yuri) anime, but it was the funniest damn girl's love anime I've ever seen! Kazuma is a demure yet perky girl who just falls in love with girls. Sumi is her best friend and, unbeknownst to Kazuma, is in love with her. Unrequited love spurs much comedy in this as well as the yuri couple who wants to start a girl’s club and the boy who has a crush on Sumi that was conned into modeling (as a girl!) by his imouto (little sister)!

Pros: It was pretty darned funny! Sumi’s home life at a dojo, Kazuma’s brother’s work as an author (with a female pen name), and Aoi-san’s budding talent as an author as well (Kazuma’s brother is her idol; she has no idea he’s a guy!) – All these and more lend to the comedy with a little drama thrown in to flesh this anime out.

Cons: I understand why it ended the way it did, but I don’t have to like it…

Overall I will give it an 8.9 on the Z-scale…


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Finished Anime...

These are all from the 2009 Fall Season...



Nyan Koi! – I really enjoyed this one probably because the chara were so cool and it has a lot of cats in it! The main chara is allergic to cats but his family insists on keeping one since he was a kid (it’s fat and black!). One day he has the misfortune of knocking off the head of the neighborhood temple’s cat jizou (a minor god) which curses him to do good deeds for cats or be turned into one (that would be fatal to him!). Various females also vie for his attention in typical harem style.

Pros: It has cats! The animation is top notch. It has cats! The story plot and individual side plots all fit well together were funny and interesting. And it has cats!

Cons: It was typical of a lot of harem stories, although still funny as hell…

I will give this one a 7.8 on the Z-scale.





11eyes – Man this was trippy! In short a group of high school kids are pulled into an alternate world intermittently and must fight for their lives against the Black Knights. There is far more to this than that, but I don’t want to give anything away…

Pros: This anime had some awesome battles and decent plot twists (but no cats :( ). There was even a love scene O_O!

Cons: The plot was a little too strange and there were some gruesome deaths with too much focus on the dying charas. The very very end was just too convenient, but I don’t want to give anything away. I will say that there was one of those long speeches in the middle of a battle that are so annoying…

I will give this a 6.5 on the Z-scale.



The Sacred Blacksmith – A fantasy anime where a female knight strives to defend her beloved city with the help of her friends, a demon sword, a blacksmith, and his loli assistant.

Pros: There were some pretty good side plots and the main plot was decent. I enjoyed it for the most part especially the fights which were rare.

Cons: The plot was vague and unresolved in the end and again there was one of those annoying speeches in the middle of a battle…

I’ll give this one a 6.7 on the Z-scale.

Go on...go watch some anime!