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Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku is a story about Kouhei HASEKURA, a high school student that has transfered from school to school his life, returning to a town he lived in 7 years ago to finish attending school. Upon getting to the school, he meets 2 girls he knew when he lived here before and another who he finds out is a vampire, thus completing out harem scenario. Story: Being based on a visual novel/Ero game I really had the lowest expectations possible for the series and yet it still managed... See full review

Giant Killing was a show that I had high hopes for that in the end just couldn't deliver. The premise of the show managed to be both worn out and new at the same time. You have a lack luster sports team that is struggling to stay afloat and a new coach comes with lofty goals and a plan to turn things around through strategy. I've seen this played out in western media a lot but this is the first time I had seen it in an anime. StoryThe story for this show had a lot of potential but in the end had some major flaws. I thought the idea of changing the team through strategy to... See full review

I'm not big on reviews so this will be pretty strait and to to point. Overall this was a great show that I think surpassed the original, but it was destined to have a few minor flaws.Story 9/10Sadly this how was probably destined to lose a point here matter what it did and that is cause of the pacing. Brotherhood was put in a position where it could either go through the beginning at the normal rate and have people bitch that it was the same as the original for too long, or it could cut back at the beginning and move quickly which would give 1st time watchers trouble understanding what was going on. It... See full review

It has been a while since i watched an anime that i felt was worth a blog post/mini-review. I had remembered hearing about this show when it first aired in 2007 as the sleeper series of the year. I now understand why that is. The setup for the series is a bit longer than normal for a 24 episode show. You don't really start hitting the meat of the story until about 7 episodes in. The animation is nice, but the powers are shown in a rather simplistic way. I think that this is to the series benefit as the focus of the series is the story telling and the characters. The powers are just some extra... See full review