What I just finished watching and what I thought about it 2 (USE SPOILER TAGS)

[AverageShinigami]

Originally Posted by Escaflowne

spice and wolf - 3.5 stars
....horo :Q____

Heh, Spice and Wolf for me too.
First half - meh
Second half -

Great characters, superb dialogue.

[Fireaxe]

Appleseed Ex Machina

Visually stunning, it really is awesome. But the storyline was somewhat inferior to its predecessor, still a great movie if you're into Shirow's material.

But personally, I fell asleep halfway through because it was late and I was exhausted from work, so I'll have to give this movie another shot at some point :p

[chii]

Just finished Kino no Tabi.

Nice watch. I liked Mushishi more though.

[sarwor248]

Eyeshield 21 This really surprised me, since I normally hate anything with sports. I really enjoyed this series. The characters are all well developed, and the story kept me on the edge of my seat. I almost screamed in the very end of the last episode when

I saw Sena and Hiruma playing on different teams for the NFL. I just wish there was more closure about the relationship between Hiruma and Mamori and Sena and Suzuna. And what was the thing with Hiruma's dad calling him?

[Kenikki]

Rental Magica

I was a nice, light show. A good mediocre one. That is until the ending one the series came;

Episode 21 (the one were Honami and Addy gets married) is so awful it matches Ayakashi in shit-standards. What I hated about it most was that Itsuki was so against it. The way they portray it is thaht he's right, but the way I see it he's personifies (is that a word?) some unflattering human sides such as greed, jealousy and homophobia. It just pissed me off so much.

Also, the final episode blew big time as well. I dont have any real reason for this I guess. It was pretty much like most of the series, with a tad more stupidity, but I just couldn't stand it for some reason. Or there might've been a rason and I've just forgotten about it. I was however pleasently suprised that Mamoru Miyano (ex: Tamaki from Ouran) did Fin's voice.

The animation was alright, the soundtrack was good most of the time.

Even though it had the ingrediants for disaster it was still pretty entertaining.

6/10

[AnimeK91]

I just finished saikano and it was good ending not really sad like i tohught it would be but it was so weird anyone got any idea so one explain it to me

[ForgottenSon]

Kanon.

This felt like a dress rehearsal for the 2006 remake. The animation is, unsurprisingly, much weaker, being as it is 4 years older. This wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the terrible character designs. Half of the characters look deformed. Yuuichi is by far the worst, though. His mouth is almost between his eyes, for Christ's sake.

The voice actor for his character, the only one that they changed in the 2006 remake as far as I can tell, plays him very differently, making him much less likable. He seems much less mature, and his lines aren't delivered with quite the same biting sarcasm, resulting in the lighthearted scenes being far less humorous.

The most obvious problem, I have though, is the way everything is compressed. Obviously this version is only 13 episodes long, while the remake is 24, so there's a lot less time for character development. The way they chose to structure it doesn't help, either. While the remake chose to have clear arcs, each of which focused on one character, building up to and ending, the original has them run together, seldom giving the spotlight to a single character and, what were the arc endings in the 2006 remake are, in the original, showns in quick succession. This means that I found it harder to care about the characters, as I was bombarded by dramatic developments one after another with little time spent building up to them.

I also didn't like the way they emphasised the romantic nature of the show. In the remake, such things were hinted at, but there was always the option to interpret relationships as platonic friendships:

In this version, however, as Nayuki and Ayu pretty much state their romatic love for Yuuichi, and Yuuichi reciprocates toward Ayu, this option is no longer open.

This said there were elements in the original not present in the remake that I really enjoyed. They spent more time on the Student President character, fleshing him out a bit more and making him more central to Mai's story. The ending, I felt, was also a bit better:

Having Yuuichi set to leave the town, before Nayuki discovers Ayu's room while visiting her mother in hospital, even though I didn't like the fact that Yuuichi had the hairband all along, rather than finding it.

I also really enjoyed the bonus episode, which shows what the various characters do after Ayu's recovery. Call me slow on the uptake, but I thought this episode hinted at a relationship between Mai and Sayuri that I hadn't considered before.

Basically this version is pretty much the same as the 2006 remake, but with enough differences to make it worth a watch. Whether you will find these differences from the 2006 remake good or not is another story.

[Worosei]

Just watched H20 Footprints in the Sand


Ok... i dunno what to make of the series,

the first episodes showed amazing promise,

the middle got really boring,

towards the end got really weird...

the end was 'groan', the very end was 'eh...'


Ok the series sounded interesting, its a blind guy... and there's a girl who everyone hates and you dont know why. It makes good material for a romance. The ecchi moments were stupid though... it sets a dark atmosphere yet kills it with stupid accidental upskirt moments... anyways

Then he gets his sight, and its all chummy... but ultimately it feels like a big stall, especially the last of that section when otoha decides to return, that episode was just trippy but boring. Nothing is really developed except for the fact that otaha is really the sister, and yeah... it feels like something more should have happened after she decided to be hotaru, i mean u've just gone and messed ur granddad's plan, and the granddad is like 'meh'... and everyone is like 'meh' and the whole village is like... yeah even though we liked hinata better, 'meh'.

Then we finally get round to the confessions. So the leads end up together, hurrah.... then the bombshell drops, which i actually laughed... Its interesting, and i let it slide, it opened up some funky emotional stuff... especially as Takuma slides back into his blindness. But sheesh... going out, beating Hayami up, then waking up and forgetting about her for a while? If he can bash her up, then i protest against the coupling...

Anways, so im not sure what class their in, but its still highschool, and so this 16yr old girl looks after a person all on the wages of being a newspaper delivery girl? That's pretty tough of her. Full props to Hiyami.

Then she goes out, cyptically says something, makes Hirose remember his mum, and then creates a repeat cycle and kill herself.

At that moment, i was completely pissed off. Sure u can make a dark anime, and sure u can kill of the female, but ffs dont do it in such a corny way! Like wouldnt that make Hirose even more recluse? His mum dies in a train accident, then the girl he loves dies in exactly the same way? Sheesh! And then having hiyami turn around with the kid still with her waving back (ok not really waving), but does that mean both of them die, when she could have at least pushed the kid out of the way, or kept running instead of turning around...

Anyways, so Hirose recovers miraculously and is not mentally scared at all, goes backs to the village for a few years grows up... meets otaha again, and then Hiyami comes back to life...

Ok i was happy that she came back, i dislike sad endings as it makes me mopey. But it feels too cliched having dead girls come back to life...

I liked the idea of Hirose reverting to his kid-state, but that should have been done much earlier instead of those middle episodes... and fleshed out a bit. It was an interesting thing seeing the male develop. I was hoping to see more of how he copes being blind, but then somehow he's magically made better... it was all too convienient for the makers...

I dunno where im going with this rant...

Overall, i thought it was mostly enjoyable. A lot of it was good, i really liked Hiyami, she sounds like a really strong girl. Hirose was a bit of a wimp... but its a harem so its all forgiveable. The art was decent, and when it wanted to, it could set up a nice mood.

But I didnt like the perveted moments, and i didnt like the pacing. Too much didnt make enough sense, and too much filler in the beggining and too rushed an ending...

[Xennon]

Originally Posted by Worosei

Just watched H20 Footprints in the Sand


Ok... i dunno what to make of the series,

the first episodes showed amazing promise,

the middle got really boring,

towards the end got really weird...

the end was 'groan', the very end was 'eh...'


Ok the series sounded interesting, its a blind guy... and there's a girl who everyone hates and you dont know why. It makes good material for a romance. The ecchi moments were stupid though... it sets a dark atmosphere yet kills it with stupid accidental upskirt moments... anyways

Then he gets his sight, and its all chummy... but ultimately it feels like a big stall, especially the last of that section when otoha decides to return, that episode was just trippy but boring. Nothing is really developed except for the fact that otaha is really the sister, and yeah... it feels like something more should have happened after she decided to be hotaru, i mean u've just gone and messed ur granddad's plan, and the granddad is like 'meh'... and everyone is like 'meh' and the whole village is like... yeah even though we liked hinata better, 'meh'.

Then we finally get round to the confessions. So the leads end up together, hurrah.... then the bombshell drops, which i actually laughed... Its interesting, and i let it slide, it opened up some funky emotional stuff... especially as Takuma slides back into his blindness. But sheesh... going out, beating Hayami up, then waking up and forgetting about her for a while? If he can bash her up, then i protest against the coupling...

Anways, so im not sure what class their in, but its still highschool, and so this 16yr old girl looks after a person all on the wages of being a newspaper delivery girl? That's pretty tough of her. Full props to Hiyami.

Then she goes out, cyptically says something, makes Hirose remember his mum, and then creates a repeat cycle and kill herself.

At that moment, i was completely pissed off. Sure u can make a dark anime, and sure u can kill of the female, but ffs dont do it in such a corny way! Like wouldnt that make Hirose even more recluse? His mum dies in a train accident, then the girl he loves dies in exactly the same way? Sheesh! And then having hiyami turn around with the kid still with her waving back (ok not really waving), but does that mean both of them die, when she could have at least pushed the kid out of the way, or kept running instead of turning around...

Anyways, so Hirose recovers miraculously and is not mentally scared at all, goes backs to the village for a few years grows up... meets otaha again, and then Hiyami comes back to life...

Ok i was happy that she came back, i dislike sad endings as it makes me mopey. But it feels too cliched having dead girls come back to life...

I liked the idea of Hirose reverting to his kid-state, but that should have been done much earlier instead of those middle episodes... and fleshed out a bit. It was an interesting thing seeing the male develop. I was hoping to see more of how he copes being blind, but then somehow he's magically made better... it was all too convienient for the makers...

I dunno where im going with this rant...

Overall, i thought it was mostly enjoyable. A lot of it was good, i really liked Hiyami, she sounds like a really strong girl. Hirose was a bit of a wimp... but its a harem so its all forgiveable. The art was decent, and when it wanted to, it could set up a nice mood.

But I didnt like the perveted moments, and i didnt like the pacing. Too much didnt make enough sense, and too much filler in the beggining and too rushed an ending...

Yeah I hated the ecchi moments in there too. There supposed to be young, still in middle school I believe, and yet theres all these panty shots and "oopps I feel and now my gina is on your face" moments. Not into that whole loli thing.

[Otaku108]

Kekkaishi

There's not much I can say about this anime that I haven't said about many others already. Decent artwork, decent sounds, decent story/plot, decent characters...

I enjoyed it a lot, even if it had a lot of predictable plot twists and devices. It also did a few unnecessary things towards the end as well but nothing that made absolutely no sense what so ever.

Ultimately worth the watch.