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Cowboy Bebop

May 20, 2011

Story: 9/10 Cowboy bebop takes place in the year 2071 follows what starts off as a pair of bounty hunters named Spike and Jet who travel aboard the spacecraft 'bebop'.  As the series progresses, their group quickly grows to five with the addition of the data dog Ein, an odd woman named Faye Valentine and a little girl named Edward, who seems to be the brains of the operation while still being totally childish. Out of Bebop's twenty six episodes, only five of them have any plot element to them, the rest are totally episodic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and certainly not here. These one... See full review

9/10 story
9/10 animation
10/10 sound
10/10 characters
9.5/10 overall

Paranoia Agent

May 8, 2011

Story: 9/10 Maromi, a doll that a young woman named Sagi created, is a huge success. It's the biggest thing in Japan, and every simply has to have merchandise. The only problem is that now they want more. Everyone wants Sagi to create another Miromi, but Sagi finds that she simply can't. Then, just as she feels as if the weight of all the pressure might crush her, a mysterious child on rollerblades rolls in and knocks her unconscious. Soon, more and more people are attacked by the mysterious boy, now nicknamed Lil' Slugger, and in spite of that, he never gets any easier to find. The police simply can't... See full review

9/10 story
10/10 animation
9.5/10 sound
9/10 characters
9/10 overall

Toradora!

May 23, 2011

Story: 8/10 Ryuji is a teenage boy in high school. He isn't exactly well-liked, due to the physical traits that he got from his father, which makes him come off and dangerous and hard to approach. In spite of this, he has friends, one of whom he's had a crush on for a long time; Minorin Kushieda. He's far too shy to tell her, and never really plans to, until he meets the "palmtop tiger" Taiga. After accidentally receiving a love letter that Taiga had planned on giving to her own crush; Ryuji's close friend, Kitamura, she breaks into his house and tries to steal the letter back. In the end, they... See full review

8/10 story
9/10 animation
8/10 sound
9.5/10 characters
8.5/10 overall

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Jul 1, 2011

Story: 8/10 There are many things in life that aren't easy. Sadly, a lot of these things are also guaranteed in life. One of them is losing loved ones; another is drifting apart from people you were once close to. Dealing with these loses in no easy task, and different people will respond to it in different ways. Some react with regret, some with acceptance, and some with guilt. Some prefer just to keep their feelings inside and pretend that there was nothing there to begin with.

The story of Anohana revolves around a high school dropout and shut in by the name of Jinta Yadomi. When Jinta... See full review

8/10 story
8/10 animation
8/10 sound
9/10 characters
8/10 overall

Eden of the East

May 23, 2011

Story: 6/10 On a trip to the United States, college student Morimi Saki stumbles upon an odd sight. Of all things, she meets a naked Japanese man, armed with a handgun. As she learns, this man has no idea who he is, or how he got there, and all that he can really remember are films, save for which one his personal favourite was. Soon, it becomes apparent that Takizawa Akira, as he is now going by, is a lot more than he first appears, as he finds out that he may have been part of a terrorist act committed in Japan. Then, he only gets even more shrouded in mystery with the presence of an odd phone; which he... See full review

6/10 story
9/10 animation
9/10 sound
6/10 characters
6.5/10 overall