Eagleshadow's Anime

Best art I've seen in an anime... period! it's a must-watch solely on how awesome the art and animation are. If you try watching it in anything under 720p I KEEEL U! Well, this is exactly what the subtitle says it is - "a couple of stories about their distance" - just add sad stories and you got the full thing. One thing that left me amazed was the way shots were carefully and creatively chosen, motives, camera angles, creative way of drawing something, even sound is freakin' amazing. There are just so many scenes that can leave you breathless, some becasue of what they show, and some becasue of how they show it, but most of them excel in both. We could say this is like Cameron's Avatar of anime world :D It excels at graphics and shots but story that's not really too great, but the way it is told makes it great. The two things that make this not-perfect are
#1: the ending just kinda... ends, was expecting something more, but it's just like "that it. it's sad. deal with it".
#2: The emo/sad part of the anime is sad, but not sad enough to make you wanna cry (clannad), but then again it's sad in a way that's trying to tell you "love sucks, life sucks, it has no meaning" so it kind of leaves you a bit depressed without offering any spark of hope. Maybe that's part of what makes it different and more creative than other anime, but I still prefer how i felt after clannad/code geass endings than after this ending, although maybe it's wrong to compare 1 hour anime with 50 episode animes... x) But i gotta give it some grade so I gotta compare it :D
One word to describe this anime? - Beautiful!

TL;DR: It's K-on without instruments.... oh well. More k-on! yey...
Oh well... nice OP and ED, nice soundtrack music, nice animation and graphics, really a nice touch of originality in drawing and animation style itself, visually appealing. Interesting that it's labeled as yuri, there's barely any yuri at all, and if there is, then it's on emotional basis. It's so subtle one could almost mistake it for a very good friendship. Well it's like K-on, it's fun to watch cause it's kawaii and funny and there's no real plot, just slice of life stuff, as expected. Characters are fun to watch and interesting, especially Run and Tooru, they are pretty original imo, and the only valid reason to check out this anime. While other two girls aren't rly, original or very fun to watch, i mean other than one of those beeing K-on Mio copy/paste, and other is very close to Mugi but much less awesome.

Liked it for romantic+comedy part, kinda funny and nice, but it's too much of a default 'harem' genre and pretty much nothing else... too ordinary. Good when you want a nobrainer romantic comedy with some ecchi. But considering how many better stuff there's out there, i don't rly recommend this. I didn't drop it for the sole reason i sometimes need a nobrainer romantic comedy to relax back to normal after a bad/hard day or a bad multiplayer game, so i somehow ended up finishing it.

It did kind of got through to me, but the story is just not worth the higher grade because it's fragmented, bit random, bit boring and it's like lot of small stories put together but that just doesn't work that well with small number of episodes. I absolutely loved the opening and ending songs and animation grew on me as well. The ending, even though somewhat predictable, still had some great emotional impact to deliver (especially liked the scene on the beach). For comparison, haibane renmei was better than this. I believe the score named "Good" is actually a decent description of this anime's quality.

I gave this higher grade than Air because it focused only on the "other world" within the Air storyline, and I gotta admit i liked that other world a lot more than the ordinary one, mostly because the story had consistency, characters were interesting, environments and situations they were in were also interesting and amusing to watch. It's only 2 episodes though, but i guess that's normal since it's a special. Wish they made a whole season or whole anime about it.

first impressions:amazing so far. A fantasy sf based a lot on music, epic quality production, pretty effects and pure entertainment. Imagine macross frontier with less seriousness and much more moe, with yuruyuri/k-on kind of cast as protagonists, and idol as thematic (nothing as boring as Idolmaster so far). Funny how there are two character that are spiritual successors to Ranka and Sheryl. I'm surprised how well it's all working out so far. When things make little to no sense, it's never annoying but all in good fun, since it doesn't feel unrealistic (although it is), it feels more like fantasy comedy adventure. This might have too much moe for some people. For me there ain't such thing. (so far this is around 11/10)
review After first four episodes, there are a couple where not much happens, but then it gets back to being awesome and creative. Drama, originality, unpredictability, psychological development of characters, are just amazing. CG animations of the shows easily surpass the macross frontier awesomesomeness. If you've seen macross frontier, and liked it, you already have the mindset to understand, tolerate, and love this kind of storytelling. A bit of fantasy mixed in to cover the holes, a bit of unknown, then just a bit of spotlighting when it's really needed, and it all kinda holds together, if you don't think too hard about it. Ofcourse a lot of things don't make sense but that's only if you extrapolate implications, but such objections are always subject to creative far-fetched explanations. Such also invites fans to figure out the backstory and world like sherlocks trying to figure out a way for everything to make most sense possible. In the end of the day, as macross, it's an excuse to make amv anime hybrid, and this time it's even more straightforward, somehow naturally requiring less serious approach and feeling more natural. What I'm trying to say is that the difference is that amv-concert-action doesn't happen as something that needs to be excused in a way, like in macross with fold waves, but is what the plot is centered around. So, it was a great idea to make it like that, while naturally basking in rule of cool and rule of awesome glory. Even moe fits naturally into the plot and setting. You'll have to get used to stylized specular reflections though ;) You'll know what I mean in the first minute or two. Oh, there are a couple of storyarcs, but the whole story works great as a whole, and buildup quite nicely to the grand finale, which definitely delivers. All the production quality aspects are amazing.

impressions:continuation of s1, just as good so far I guess... not sure if slightly worse. Episode 6 (or 19) is the perfect example of all the lame things in this anime. This anime needs less talk of succession, radiance, elections, competitive spirit, center nova, and the magic of their succession system... and more about political, psychological and social aspect of entertainment ban, and actual fight against it.
Review: You'll notice I gave second season way lower rating than the first one. Where it failed so much to deserve it, is in it's balance between silly magical logic / naive plot and amount of awesome needed to properly excuse it with rule of awesome. Amount of awesome is slightly less than first season, while amount of the former is considerably higher. The disparity is almost enough for the whole thing to fall apart. So I'm watching and I'm like "oh fml this is so retarded/naive I can't possibly recommend this to anyone" then next moment I'm like "fuck me this is so fucking awesome everyone should see this". First season had more of the latter, second season has more of the former. If only it was even less serious, if only the plot was even more naive stupid and relied more on comedy, then it would genre shift into a stupid moe comedy with awesome concert+battle moments, and it would be excused one half with rule of funny and other half with rule of awesome. Naturally I would prefer it if it was more serious overall, less naive, then it would be a masterpiece, but I'm afraid that would impair it's awesomeness in the concert battles, since that relies a lot on rule of awesome to completely ignore all things logical, so if that was the case, the disparity between seriousness might be too large, if awesome scenes weren't somehow made more realistic, and I'm not sure that's possible without also making them less awesome... idk but if someone pulled even that off this would be best thing ever.
Some scenes and episodes in second season are really good and really enjoyable to watch, it's a shame they are contrasted with even more scenes that are just like "wat...". If you're in it just for the moe, you'll have an easier time enjoying it. If you're in it for the story and original setting, you will probably have a hard time not quitting. If you're in it for the awesome and music: check out first season, if you don't like, rewind to see only the awesome of both seasons, if you do like, give second season a shot, I'd say it's worth watching for someone that liked the s1, but you've been warned about what to expect. Oh right, I almost forgot to comment on the music: It's slightly disappointing that most songs are the same ones from first season, but if we count OP/ED, I think there are 4 new ones, it will be tough to find the other two. OP is not as good as s1, but isn't bad I suppose. ED is quite close to being as good as s1. Other two songs seem okay, but all the really awesome ones are the same ones from s1.

watch this
There's lots of explosions. No, you didn't understand me... LOTS OF STUFF GETS BLOWN UP! :)
I liked it, but not my favorite thing of all times, there were some things i liked, some i disliked, i cant really remember specifics or tell much spoiler-free. It's a bit hard to follow on some parts. But visuals are like... whoa... dude! Take it easy i only have 2 eyes to absorb details. WTB moar eyes! It has some feeling of epic near the end, that's well done. Although some things are an overkill imo, but ok w/e. Lots of good thing to say about it, but somehow it didn't stand out as something I'll cherish and remember as being epicly awesome or epicly memorable. Definitely worth watching however, for pretty much the same reason as 5 cm per sec, epic visuals :)

impressions: At first (episode) I was like... yeah, typical beta nice guy romance, as much unrealistic as I'd like it to be true, kinda annoying becasue of that but still enjoyable since I'm the target audie...*unexpected thing happens* fuck! How did this just climb 4 grades up in 4 seconds... wheeee! after 3ep: It's not perfect, but it's the first time I've seen an anime try to tackle this particular subcategory of romance, and I'm really impressed at it so far. It's managing to be both realistic and very entertaining at the same time. after 4ep: First arc complete, I'm not sure if I should review each one separately, but overall first arc was... idk it reminds me of Rec a bit because it's not a triangle, and they last about the same, except that this is highschool romance, but on the other hand they are close in... well might not be "realism" but I can't find another word for it. It's impossible for me to fairly compare this to other romance anime I've watched since this is the first one I'm watching post-V fiasco (a certain irl girl), so after learning a lot I have somewhat different outlook and I notice things I wouldn't have noticed before and such. I don't know if this is better or worse than true tears, rec, kimikiss... but up there, at least as good, if not better. I guess I can say almost for sure it's better than kimikiss, if only for art and pacing. Let's say 10.1/10, if I really had to grade it.
S1 episodes | arc | S2 episodes -- grade for S1 -- grade for S2
1,2,3,4: Haruka Morishima Arc: 11,12. -- 10.1 -- 8.7
5,6,7,8: Kaoru Tanamachi Arc: 7,8. -- 6.8 -- 4 (quit)
9,10,11,12: Sae Nakata Arc: 9,10 -- 4 (quit) -- 3? (probably horrible)
13,14,15,16: Ai Nanasaki Arc: 5,6 -- 6.6 -- 6
17,18,19,20: Rihoko Sakurai Arc: 3,4 -- 6.1 -- 4 (quit)
21,22,23,24: Tsukasa Ayatsuji Arc: 1,2 -- 6.4 -- 4.5
25: Risa Kamazaki Arc: -- 5.4
26: Miya Tachibana Arc 13 -- 4 -- 3
Almost-kiss successfully interrupted by a schoolbell... this has to be a new record in lameness. Anyways, the average grade for S1 ends up being 6.51 and for S2 4.88. I could talk for hours about why this sucks but I don't think the anime deserves it. Mostly it's just way too slow and uninteresting, and when it does get your hopes up it ends up not delivering. Only thing it delivers is some feels in some endings and some scenes but the rest of it is boring and sucks. Oh right, Sae Nakata heroine has the worst seiyuu ever, every time she spoke trying to be embodiment of cuteness (but failing) I was like "burn it with fire!!!".

Review/comment bunched together with S1

A Masterpiece, exquisite beyond words... 10/10 fully freakin deserved! It's AMAZING.... SUGOI!!!! Animation and drawing are best I've ever seen. Humor is perfect and Hilarius. Story is unusual. unexpected and amazing. Ending is unexpected and amazing... well just like the story :D Now i cant write this review anymore because I gotta go find some Angel Beats wallpaper or something...
Edit: After rewatching it many years later (17.1.2013) I realized I simply forgot how fucking incredible this anime was. The only thing I can't figure out now is if I find this better than S;G or vice versa... hence 11.4

first impression: started with checking out 1 ep, couldn't stop for 4. I just hope it doesn't become repetitive, if not, then it'll be 10/10+. I'm considering finishing it in 3 viewing alltogether. P.A. Works ftw! last impression: gets worse and worse longer it goes.
review: In the first third of the anime, there is such an amazing and immersive atmosphere present that I enjoyed it a lot! It's reminiscent of Half Life 2 or Alan Wake. Last third of the anime is a bit... slaughter-ish *khm* not my thing, at all. Second third is something in between first and last. Knowing this, I would still recommend this anime to anyone who might be interested becasue art and soundtrack is just so freakin amazing that it's a waste not checking it out, and then later if you wanna quit because anime went full retard, sure go ahead, chances are you're done with the good part anyways. OP is technically well done but the music choice doesn't fit imo, but on the other hand it's so cliffhanger-ish that you'll be skipping the OP/ED anyways. Last screenshot: Yes, house has been burning down around you for last 20 minutes, but why not keep talking on the phone, right? I mean It's not like the roof is gonna collapse any second and/or that you might get burned alive... also what the fuckin fuck is with the cellphone signal in this anime, it's just one of those things you expect to get an explanation for but instead you just get a reason to do an /epicfacepalm. I'd also like to add that the beach episode was really nice, likely the best beach episode I've seen in an anime. It's in the same time scary immersive and relaxing... how the fuck does one pull that off. P.A. Works has some freakin skillz. I guess I'll blame the writer for the story going full retard, rather than entire studio. Studio deserves to have you check this anime out. Writer deserves to be put in a burning house with his bad-reception cellphone, which, given his mental thought process, is likely equal to executing him... I wold just not be sure if that should then be considered murder or suicide... heh, look at me, getting into the spirit of the anime (theme: death! murder! mystery! (Maybe nonsensical things not getting explained is what this writer considers a mystery? ...lol))

watched it long time ago... i barely remember it but i remember it was kinda fun to watch and nicely animated.
EDIT: I was a damned fool and noob and retard back in 2004 when I first saw this... on freakin LQ DivX *hits self*. Back then I couldn't tell between cell shaded 3D and 2D and also I was too stupid to follow It's story. /facepalm. I watched this last night (again) but it was like I watched it for the first time (really! it was!!).Well for the fact it gave me chills many times, and has a story that is just perfectly complicated and actually makes perfect sense, for all of that it should have 11/10 - because I describe that grade as 'exceeded my expectations! Surprised me with plot twists and other things, in a good way'. However it gets -0.2 for 2 logical bugs in the movie (Sometimes it seems there are few more logical bugs, but then they get explained or I would realize how it can be logically explained). There4 it gets 10.8/10 (also becasue in reality, I do kinda think disappearance of haruhi is a bit better movie). Also the fact that it's made back in 2004... holy shit that's some crazy awesome 3D considering it's 7 years old! Screw Akira, this wins on both graphics, story, originality, soundtrack, coolness, action scenes and philosophy.

I wish it were as good as first movie, but the story just isn't nearly as great. However, it's obvious they are pr0s and it was a high budget production, so they tell the story in an interesting way, which makes it interesting to watch. Also, the epic CGI is epic.

Let's quote TV Tropes this time: "Rather disjointed and occasionally surreal story of six high school girls and several of their teachers. Being episodic to the point of resembling sketch comedy, and largely lacking serious conflict or drama, the show has little in the way of conventional storylines, preferring to set up and deliver the animation equivalent of several comic strips per episode."
At first i was like, omg this is weeeeird. And animation and graphics were a bit old and lower quality. There were a few semi-boring episodes in first half of the anime i guess (too much Sakaki, to little Osaka). But it only gets better towards the end. The thing is... i was rofling SO MUCH that that's simply amazing (in episode 22, the epic wake up scene, i couldn't breathe from laughing!!!). It has a really unique sense of humor so you gotta pick up on it to fully enjoy it, well, that's how it was for me. OP and ED are... weird, not worth watching at all, although torrent i had was kinda bugged or whatever so they didn't work anyways.
Osaka and Chiyo-chan ftw!

First short of a Genious Party anthology. Feels a bit like 5 cm per sec, just without utterly epic visuals, and also maybe bit more interesting. "It's a cool little story" - would be a best way to describe it I suppose. Cool that it's the same director that did Samurai Champloo. Rest of the shorts in Genious Party suck hard and are barely worth mentioning.

LOG: maybe first two episodes were fine i guess, high originality vs some supreme weirdness... like flcl but not nearly as great imo. Then third episode kicked it up a notch, and i already started having high hopes for this anime, but then 4th episode was boring... i guess I'll give few more episodes a try.
edit: who would have guessed? 5th episode was actually pretty awesome, although i have to complain about it being as confusing as ergo proxy in some parts, if not more. edit: 6th was good, pretty interesting, but then 7th was a bit bad and a bit good mixed. 8th was good but omgtoocomplicated..., 9th was not-bad i guess.
edit: finally stopped the sequential downloading and let the whole torrent download, and i realized that i was totally missing openings because i didn't have whole torrent downloaded. They were kept in different files, so that's why they would be just skipped since i didn't download them >.< ... too bad, i went back and rechecked them... but anyways... my point: the opening of 9th and 10th episode is the #1 most cuteness-overload/kawaii/moe thing i've seen so far x).... so 10th episode? Well, as usually, I ain't gonna give it points because of heavy fanservice in this ep, but instead, I'll give it points because of great horor atmosphere which had immersion and was mixed with moe... which was kind of a mindfuck... but anyways x) kinda original, and as always, immersion is what i value the most and 10th episode had it.
11th was kinda good, but not too great, it was like an introduction into some new plot... I'm just sayin that not much happened in it. 12th was epic i loved almost all of it, especially loved the last few minutes that have something to do with usual ED (cant say more, to avoid spoilers.). 13th was kinda lame... there is a total overkill(bad-kind-of-overkill) with fanservice right on the very beginning, and later there is a lot of dialogue, half of it pointless, and not much happens except the cliffhanger ending. 14th and 15th are almost like a single, last, 2-part episode. They are great and fun, but not epic enough imo. Gotta admit i did enjoy the neko fanservice in these, it was not just cheap, it was very well done and incorporated into the story and cute/funny in the same time.

| | REVIEW:-Positive stuff: very original design and characters, new/different/better approach to harem genre, great soundtrack, occasionally very interesting/fun to watch, demon themed story/world/setting that doesn't suck, multiple OPs and EDs.
-Negative stuff: rare facepalm her and there, occasional boring episode, weirdness in style is sometimes extreme in a bad/weird way. Although graphics is mostly great, there is occasional cheap-cop-out mostly regarding textures of clothing, although I'm guessing normal people wouldn't find that disturbing. Sometimes stylization of graphics is overdone. Some OPs are great, some are fine, but some suck (that live-action opening sucks for example, staple-staple opening is fine and original, but has low replay value. EDs just vary slightly sometimes from original ED, but it's great imo). sry for wall of text, but i hope it has been an insight :)

good, worth seeing indeed. Mostly because animation is just epic. The story was somewhat interesting but an end was a bit too sudden, I though there was more story to be told, and then it just ended. So I figured... yeah I should have seen it coming. The authors made up this rly cool plot and then had an uncool way of getting out of the mess they created... in a way. It somehow all made sense in the end, but then again, you could also say that nothing made sense in the end. It depends on how much of an explanation you would expect from such a plot I guess. But as far as I'm concerned, I prefer when authors finish the plot in some awesomly unexpected way that finally reveals that everyone so far made sense. And this here... maybe it's just too abstract in some way. tl;dr: great animation and graphics make up for weak plot 7/10, aka worth seeing.

So as it turns out, I was tricked by old info from ANN into believing this will only have 13ep, then i finished it and it really seemed like it was over (2 story arcs, some fooling around, and an extra episode at the end). But then I see the "next episode preview" and I'm like fffuuuuuwtf! Then I check and see that it's gonna have 26 episodes, and that 14/26 are out so far. So whatever, since it already feels like it can be split into two seasons, I'm gonna treat it as if it's two seasons and just make two reviews, one for each. First one:
This is hard to describe, it's like an epic silly childish serious epicfail parodycomedy everythingbuncheduptogether uʍop ǝpısdn (see what I did there?). I pretty much wanted to seriously headdesk once or twice per episode, along much more simple raging. There are so much plotholes in the story and underlying logic and background of the story and the world, that if I tried the write them all down it would be longer than the anime script itself. So... it even becomes so bad that it does a full circle often and becomes good again. But if it's so horrible, why did I stay for 13ep, you might ask? A fine question! I'm still trying to figure it out myself. Before I start praising it, I'd just like to add that the pacing is weird, sometimes it feels like the progression is way too fast and scenes just skip into each other, and sometimes it feels dragged out (which I think is almost always for the sake of a timed cliffhanger). So... the good stuff: The characters, not all of them are great, but some are simply pleasure to watch (main char for one). Both look-wise and personality-wise and originality-wise. I also have to admit one thing, this anime actually puts the fact that it's a logical-cripple to a good use to offer a lot of originality in the plot progression, it's not totally unexpected stuff, far from it, it's just the way everything is put together that makes it sort of an eyecandy, for both visuals but also for story. So if you can look beyond the immense logical fails, this becomes very original mashup of entertaining and cute stuff. I was even surprised at the thematic the second arc went to tackle, I didn't expect it to turn out so cool, it really suits my taste (deep-space-exploration-of-ancient-technology), which really feels inspirational in some way, it kinda makes me wanna make my own story about that thematic, one which wouldn't suck x). So, to sum up, the story logic SUCKS (feels like it's for kids becasue of that, but it's not shounen at all), characters, how-funky-story is, progression, cliffhangers, overall funkyness, watchability, interestingness... all pretty great I'd say. If you could lower your IQ to 70 you'd enjoy this as much as any 10/10 anime, but since you can't, it all depends on how much you're ready to trade quality story for silly entertainment with some creative value. OP is kinda lame, ED is gr8, voiceacting ok, CGI is gr8.
5 - Mouretsu Space Pirates - episodes 14 to 26 - 11.7.2012

Second half of the first season was a huge disappointment, especially the ending storyarc which sucked balls on so many levels I was watching at 3x sometimes just to prevent myself from quiting and never finishing this anime and review. It kinda ok in the beginning but quickly becomes very mediocre with the choice of plot. Then there are like 1 or 2 episodes which are really good, like almost perfect and very fun to watch, that's where the 2 ss are from. But the last storyarc is not the last nail in the coffin... anime wasn't in the coffin yet, but the last storyarc sucked so hard it spawned a coffin and all the nails and nailed everything into the bottomless depth of horribleness. Funny how it's hard to define what exactly sucked, becasue it's pretty much everything together, and mostly the plot itself. At least in first half of the season there was something interesting going on keeping this entertaining, but when it got dragged out more and more because they ran out of story ideas then all the flaws already present just suddenly became apparent and amplified.

It's too ordinary, too cliche. It's al bit harem-ish but it was really acceptable, it's wasn't the stupid kind of harem that Infinite Stratos is. Then why the lower grade you ask? Well infinite stratos is at least much more memorable than this, because of it's somewhat unique setting. This is just so ordinary. A normal guy, normal girls (in different flavours as usual (tsundere, bigboobs, shy, baka,...))... and then, it pretty much comes down to a romance anime, unlike most harems which are most often stupid comedies with lots of fanservice. This was not a stupid comedy, it was more realistic than that, and therefore had to deliver more in the romance area, and it kinda did, so that's what kept me from droping it... well, that, and the nice drawing, nice OP/ED, and I was totally rooting for the tsundere girl since she at least had some freakin character but then the baka girl won in the end so that was kinda disappointing xD (Look at me being all otaku). But all that being said, I think even girls could enjoy this anime, it even has a girl-fanservice in it, meaning target audience isn't exclusively male. All in all, it was relaxing and somewhat entertaining with some comedy some romance and a bit of fanservice and pretty anime girls and some moe and nice overall visual/audio quality, good thing when you wanna watch something that's all that without having to actually use your brain while watching.

Not much story going on, not to say there isn't any, but it's kinda slice-of-life. However, characters are so amazing that that alone would make it worth the watch. So also you got the cool development in characters and their relationships, and super-realistic setting, but note that it's inside the Japanese culture. It's an adult anime about becoming-a-parent part of life, and it's executed perfectly. It could use a bit more "meat" (storywise) here and there but it's okay as it is, a bit slow paced sometimes becasue of it. This anime features the purest kind of moe you'll find (think clannad afterstory). If simply watching it doesn't make you simply happy then your brain is wired all wrong. OP is awesome and fits the anime perfectly, although it can seem strange first time you see it, ED is okay but nothing special. I'd say this anime is like Kobato only non-fantasy and much better at it, considering the overall feeling of it. Small number of episodes works to it's advantage, any more would require a longer story arc development which seems to never have been the point of this anime (also I like the way I wrote this sentence). If this went on for say 24 episodes instead of 11, it would get boring, no doubt about it, it was the pitfall of kobato. I could also compare this to Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai for similar thematic but Usagi Drop is infinitely less otaku and more serious/seinen without any fanservice (if you don't count hugs). Reason for otakurating 2 is that it's a bit heavy on innocent-moe and Japanese culture, but it's done in a very serious and realistic way and is ideal anime for introduction to those themes. Production quality is great, voiceacting great, graphics style is a bit different than the mainstream one but it really really works to it's advantage. Only possibly negative thing here is lack of more serious story arc in second half of the anime, first half kinda has the introductory one. This is EXTREMELY hard to rate because of how taste dependent it is. It's almost perfectly executed in what it's trying to be and characters are amazing, the only question that remains is if you're a fan of what it's trying to be. The pure entertainment value might be lower than many anime I graded lower, because this is simply "not that kind of anime". Also one should see at least 3 episodes before making up his mind on watching or not watching this, although if you got this far in this review you should already have a pretty darn good idea about what to expect.

story sucks very much, only thing good about it is drawing/animation.

Magical fights that make little sense but are still dynamic and well animated (zero no tsukaima style, bit better maybe), mixed with fumoffu/kaichou-maid-sama/zero-no-tsukaima romantic humor. So... like Zero no tsukaima only better. <3 Biribiri character. Thematic wise, this anime is playing around with religion and science duality while adding psionics to the mix... however it's all for the purpose of unique world setting that supports magical fights, which is somewhat silly but then again I cant deny it's also entertaining occasionally, while it's not philosophical at all. I almost quit number of times, but I kept going, and second season is a little bit better at least. This anime is worth watching for the romance/humor, if you can manage to get yourself over the bizarre world setting and fights. However, one thing i thought didn't fit were few brutal scenes, which are rare, but are overly brutal. I don't think they fit at all with this anime's style, although it does make it seem a bit more serious than for example zero no tsukaima. Too bad that seriousness is lost in the stupidity of the fights and world setting.

It's better than first season, and also gets even better near the ending of season, some episodes are even 10/10 material, almost woke up my roommate from how much i laughed at episodes 19 or 20.... character also really get a lot of depth and personality this far into the anime. There is this one character which is so original that I've never seen such character development before. Usually this quote works well for this anime: by end: "Does anyone notice a pattern with the quality of this anime? even in s1, all the (purely) magic-related arcs suck, while all the academy-related are infinitely better...the author's really inconsistent..." - Inconsistency in quality is the main feature of this anime... it should be called Toaru Majutsu no Inconsistent. Near the end, like in around episode 21, there is such awesome multi-path story progression and epic storyline buildup... and then last two episodes screw up everything. Imagine if instead of last two episodes of code geass R2 story gets cut off and you just get two filler episodes with random stuff... ok it's not that bad, but I'm just trying to illustrate. There is still some epic stuff in this anime making it worth watching. And about magical arcs sucking... well, mostly yeah, except the story arc when they go to chioggia, that one is amazing. But then again first magical story arc in season 2 is fail, although Agnese is an interesting character later on so it's somewhat worth it. Anyways, I heard on mazui comments section that third season is on it's way and that it'll have less biribiri... wtf director? wtf? I'd rather watch biribiri go shopping than watch Stiyl shoot more fireballs at people or Touma face-fisting evil and occasionally creepy hotchicks. Although admittedly, Stiyl as a character has such cool feel about him, that i wouldn't mind him too much, but lack of biribiri would be serious mistake, don't do that mistake whoever is in charge of that!

Damn I think I oversharpened that thumbnail to the left.... anyways. Remember when i said "I'd rather watch biribiri go shopping than watch Stiyl shoot more fireballs at people" - I guess I wasn't the same one with that idea, infact it turned out they did that, and it's this anime xD. Oh well, anime could be split to thirds. 1/3 is first storyarc which is epic. 2/3 would be second storyarc, slightly less epic. and 3/3 (maybe even bit more) is just random slice-of-life events and comedy and some very fail episodes. Again with the horrible inconsistency between episode quality as well as fight quality. One could argue that first storyarc epicness is making this totally worth watching, well, that is if you can get over a few retarded episodes. Also funny thing, first OP and ED were epic, while second OP and ED were kinda lame. Also it's interesting how this is set in a parallel universe where some things from Toaru Majutsu no Index did happen but most of them didn't. I guess it's what they call a spinoff. Other than ocasional facepalming, i rather enjoyed watching it becasue of fun characters. I loved the development of Saiten Ruiko character, it's kinda deep in the first storyarc. Also in this anime it was first time that I actually noticed a Seiyuu all by myself! and correctly guessed who she was in another anime :) (Eri chan is also Sengoku Nadeko from Bakemonogatari, and then i wikied that she is also Kanade from Angel Beats and i was like OMG it'z true! )

Some scenes are so funny i almost fell of my chair laughing... it's worth watching becouse of those, and becouse it's relaxing and fun and interesting for the most part. And you gotta watch it to get to second season :)

With exception of few episodes i found a bit boring, it's apsolute masterpiece, the second half of this season is so good it's worth watching everything just to see that. After finishing this anime... it was holding me for weeks you know... gotta make clannad wallpaper gotta learn to play some songs from soundtrack... gotta do anything at all as long as it's connected to Clannad :D Same thing you get after finishing code geass R2, maybe even bit more powerfull i cant be sure. I still consider Code Geass R2 better becouse there wasnt a single boring epizode there.

If you havent seen this anime... check it out... and prepare to be blown away by pure awesome :)

This anime is the best thing that ever happened
in the history of human existence!

Tried to watch this because of artwork I saw. I was hoping for something like KamiNomi, but it's way more like Sekirei, except a little more crazy, which is good. If it was even more crazy it would be bad enough to be good again probably. But idk, it didn't seem like a straight out parody, more like just blunt fanservice with a touch of shounen, same like Sekirei. ...is the wrong impression you can get after seeing only one episode. After seeing two or more, one realises that: "The show doesn't really take itself seriously at all. Rather, it has a serious plot at times, but at the same time, it isn't making any pretenses as to its ridiculousness. From the silliness of the "hot springs" episode to the imouto-crazed second in command and then some, the show is definitely not pretending to be anything more than it is. The girls are all fantastically designed and have great fighting abilities, the action is good, the humor rarely misses its mark, etc. If you're not the type of person who pooh-poohs at anything that isn't some hugely intellectual deconstruction and can actually enjoy anime that is so quintessentially anime to be basically a self-contained definition of the medium, I would not miss Date-a-Live." + "I enjoyed it. It was, to me, a strange mixture of "so bad its good" syndrome and moe. The show seemingly takes its outrageous plot too seriously and its quite hilarious, but at the same time theres a bunch of cute girls and there are a lot of good jokes (the intentional kind). There is a serious plot somewhere in there, and I guess its okay, but the overall tone of it was fairly silly. Its an interesting experience, I would say watch at least 2 episodes, cause with the first you wont get the full idea of the show."

first 15-24 epizodes are pure awesome, it gets bit less epic the longer it lasts, with ending beeing not bad, but not too good either.

I gave it 11/10, and i have absolutely no objections! (although i remember some super minor objections but they were so irrelavant that i cant even rembmber them now that i finished it.) what to say... first thing in my book after code geass to get grade higher than 10/10, if that's not worth watching then i don't know what is. Also, don't get your hopes up too high because of what i said just now, becasue it might be your undoing, the lower you set your hopes, the more you will enjoy it i guess :)
PS. Also the lyrics of the ending credits song are meaningful, so I suggest not skipping them, and also there is a bonus scene after end credits that explains part of the plot, although it took me 2 times to figure out that bonus scene :D
1080p. download. NOW!

damn this is hard to grade both objectively and personally. It's a fantasy anime, and I found it to be original actually. I was annoyed with some stuff at first, but later i really enjoyed it. Main character is such an idealist, first i was like... oh common, nobody is this kind and decent in such circumstances, but then i realized I myself am not far from it. I loved the contrast between the drawing and colors of real world and fantasy world. Really shows studio has some skill. Mostly liked everything else i guess. But remember, this is pure fantasy with it's own rules of physics and stuff, but it keeps it consistent so it's cool. Kawaii fantasy anime that doesn't take itself very seriously. Fanservice is nice, not overdone. Drawing and vibrant colors is kinda what stands out the most, as being rly cool, gives it very lively feeling. Only major annoyance was the way it ended, it almost ended good, but then it screwed up badly in order to offer a satisfactory ending, kinda like clannad afterstory, but there it was excusable and within limits of the world setting. But here it was just done in a ridiculous way that just left me in disbelief that they did something THAT stupid. It's hard to grade this so don't take the grade for granted, I'll just put this between Munto and Railgun for now. Although it really depends on taste and point of view, which is better, because of how different it is....I'm getting lost in my own rating system... I think I'm gonna downgrade dragon crisis again.

great so far! very cute and entertaining and fun to watch same like 1st season. Also great production quality and Horie Yui for the win! ep3 comment: this is so moe I'm gonna die (in a good way!)
Review: RIP. I'm dead. Killed by moe overdose.
I think this must be #1 moe anime out there. It's more episodic and lighthearted than the first season, which turned out to work out great for it, a marginal improvement over first season. Production quality and especially voiceacting = first class. Unlike first season, where I had complaints, this had no fault with it at all. If you don't mind some fanservice, and want to experience what it's like to fall off a chair from cuteness, then check this out. It's kinda great how there's no evil, no bad guys at all. There are still fights and regular action scenes, but everyone is just awesome and lovable and friendly and really kind and sometimes just slightly misunderstood. This is kind of anime that can restore your faith in mankind if you happen to have lost it somewhere. Hint: click on images for short clips.

5 episodes into it, and awesome so far :) story has consistency and is actually quality written, characters are likable and unique, voiceacting just great, soundtrack great, animation and drawing great :) Humor is totally Hilarius. It's a bit heavy on fanservice, but even that is perfectly done imo. Fights are not really 10/10 material though... but their animation and dynamic is perfect. Also intro is awesome, and outro is great until the chours stars.

comedy adventure fantasy and some romance, It's exactly what this anime is. I rated it "Good, worth seeing" because even though this anime failed a lot in having a solid story, it delivered a lot on the "fun to watch" part mostly because of comedy and romance part, and unusual setting, which makes it interesting to watch. Story isn't solid, by that i mean it's very often very naive, like it's target audience is kids or just stupid people who don't notice holes in the story. Some episodes had fun and interesting story development which i would grade as 9/10 excellent and very fun to watch, but then again some other episodes were incredibly boring, predictable or just plain stupid, for example the episodes where they fight in that "illegal tournament" or whatever. Another example of stupid thing is main character surviving a sniper headshot, or the evil guys retreating for no reason in "we'll meet again" fashion, when they clearly had the advantage to finish of the good guys right there and then. I have to say character design is mostly excellent (both graphical and psychological), other than rare characters that are hilariously moronic or badly designed (for example that edel raid hunter and his small sidekick girl). The main girl protagonist Ren is really the embodiment of kawaii and the romantic side of the story is handled well, although through the first half of the anime it seems immature. If you're after comedy and kawaii romance then it's an anime for you, but if you are very logical rational person then you will probably be bothered a lot by the storyline.

old comment (years ago, after seeing 30 minutes of it): worst anime I've seen so far. In all possible aspects. I want half an hour of my life back... /// new comment @ep5: [fry-meme] not sure if life-is-a-bitch-and-so-many-things-are-horrible is unrealistically over-the-top for the sake of throwing characters into super-dramatical situations, or if I'm just... spoiled brat that life's been treating too kindly, for the lack of better words.
Review: Other than minor "plotholes" here and there, story is original enough and interesting enough. (by "plotholes", here I mean minor illogical things that are only apparent if you think critically and sceptically about the level of realism behind some stuff, I'm sure many wouldn't call it plotholes but I still find them somewhat annoying, I wont go into details as it's nothing deal-breaking.) Characters are also well done, as well as voiceacting and soundtrack, and overall feel is original. So from a technical standpoint it's a good anime. But from a personal/humane standpoint... do you really want to watch naked 12yr old girls slicing each other to bits? People being batshit insane, being tortured, raped by family, murdered, torn to bits and pieces, and worse... If someone honestly wants to watch it even after being warned about all this, or worse, for the sake of all this (as in some cases!!!), then I'll just quote my dear Minchin: "I think that’s fundamentally sick". I personally finished it out of principle, to be able to say I finished it and to be able to flame it honorably. Drama and story... sure I'll admit, some of it is pretty good, some pretty good heartwarming or sad moments, it's kinda artistic as well, with the style and music and all... but still, fundamentally sick. There are ton of other stuff there that has great story and/or drama, without having all the gore and stuff I mentioned. 6.5/10 mostly based on how interesting minus annoying it was to watch it (as I said, interesting story development and everything good about it). I'd like to say that without all the brain-damaging stuff this would be 9.5/10, but the story simply wouldn't work without (most of) it, so that might be the only thing to say in it's defense, I could actually write a small novel about this alone (dealing with central problematic here, having little children given superpowers, and would those powers be used to instakill other people since small children don't yet have concept of right/wrong). Hypothetical someone might say I'm only downvoting this becasue it has gore and that's not my taste. I guess I wouldn't be able to argue against that, except stating that hypothetical someone's taste sucks hairy ballz :p TL;DR: I admit it has some quality to it, so I can kinda understand why it's famous (becasue there are too many people that love gore?) but still not recommended to anyone.
Ps. After all that... who the hell is Elfen? lol @ random title

Very short, nice and relaxing, but nearly plotless show with cute girls doing cute things, but this time the cute thing is mountaineering. So... that's kinda new. But overall, it's okay. Nice watch for when you're really tired and simply can't think but just want 5-10 minutes of relaxation before heading to sleep or something. Low grade because nothing about this, other than topic, is memorable in any way. It's also not particularly funny, and production is not particularly high. Still recommended to fans of cute girls doing cute things because of its shortness, unique setting and naturally, adorableness.

When watching Ergo Proxy you'll find yourself going through three phases:
1. "Oh that was cool!"
2. "Umm, what the hell just happened?"
3. "Oh now I get it... I think... wait, no I don't"
So... although i do have some complaints about this anime, particularly entire episodes 15 and 19, which this anime could do without imo. And if the storytelling was a bit less confusing that would be great as well, but i also have to admit that confusion is one of things that make this anime stand out. Even with the flaws that would usually bring anime down to 9/10 in my eyes, i decided on 10/10 cause of how original and immersive it is, and how many times i went "wtf" and "omg" and "wow" while i was watching it.

...meh. <-- that's the overall reaction. There are some cool scenes, visually. Kinda like Akira, except steampunk fantasy instead of sf. It just kinda gives me the similar feeling cause it's old and all... only thing that was really fun was admiring the art, which was at times extremely creative. Then there is of course the theme song, which lead me to this anime, that's nice. But I didn't really like the story, it was even good at first, but got too weird and silly later on, becoming more ridiculous the closer to ending it got. Started off with real nice ninja infiltration into a samurai steampunk flying warship... epic in every way, very creative. Ended up as a over-the-top steampunk giant mecha duel in a weird fantasy city, but I kinda get the feeling that was expected from anime movies from this era... lol. There were some cool stuff, but much more lame stuff. Not much else there to say...

It's epicly random and entertaining with pretty original humor, mostly relying on randomness but it's funny as hell :)

A very good comedy, that starts off as a harry potter ripoff so much i was just rofling about how retarded amount of things is stolen from harry potter and twisted in a weird way, then i just concluded that it's an indirect parody actually, and took it as a good thing, well - i did made me laugh :) ...well, what to say? This anime is very funny, although a bit retarded sometimes, bit too easy to predict sometimes, especially in romantic situations. A lot of fanservice in this one, well... i guess +1 cause of boobs and maids and stuff, but -1 in the same time cause trying to get higher rating from me using fanservice just wont work >:) I give ratings based on how good quality anime is, that includes storytelling originality voiceacting soundtrack immersion and stuff like that. imo this anime does have good characters, although not all of them, but "Guiche de Gramont" character is just epic in so many ways :D In itself, maybe this anime deserves 7/10, i'm not sure, but i also liked it personally (I'm not talking about fanservice), i thought it was original in some ways, so i gave it 8/10. 2nd and 3rd season are as good as first one.

I'd say it's slightly better than first three seasons, but not much different, however it does have it's own new story and all. Visual quality is slightly better, voiceacting as epic as before. There are also annoying physics defying scenes and stupid events that make little sense, and that's by far it's biggest downfall, same like its predecessors. Comedy, ecchi and character development are done somewhat better than before, and episodes are generally a bit more fun/entertaining to watch.

It's as good as 1st season imo, read the comment for 1st season.

It's as good as 1st season imo, read the comment for 1st season.

Wow... it's actually pretty epic and original in it's crazy randomnes-insanity :) Great soundtrack

First 14 episodes are mostly 9/10 quality, and then last 10 episodes are mostly rly bad... like 5/10 or whatever. The "serious" war/combat/mecha/action part of this anime is not so good, code geass is 10 times better at it. Here, when whole episode is about combat mecha action then it really seems like it's for kids because often the story is naive and nothing special, but sometimes it's also interesting. Humor is why i gave this a high grade. It's very funny in a great way. The episodes that focus on Kaname character and comedy are the best. I'm watching fumoffu (second season) now and so far it's awesome :) I'm thinking 10/10 if it keeps up being this funny.

It's like first season, only much better. But still it lacks that special something to have 10/10. In other words, code geass is still way better :)

It's very funny and high quality. It's also somewhat original.

warning: very ecchi! another warning: you might laugh your lungs out! another warning: humor is weird and original. Now that you've been warned... or if you're a decent human being, you can go watch something else. However if you've decided to stay... then you can read the rest of review: Animation and graphics quality is epic on so many levels, as well as soundtrack and OP, i absolutely loved the lampshade hanging and sarcastic commenting nature of humor, it was just one big laughfest, but be warned, it's very ecchi, however nothing explicit (it's not by any means close to hentai), so It's fine by my standards. Well, maybe I'd find all of this much more weird if I haven't been through Panty and Stockings, FLCL and Azumanga Daioh already, but somehow this anime does seem a bit more mainstream kind of weird, where as, you'll definitely like it if you don't mind the ecchi part, which is actually comedic in nature so it's not actually bad. Ps. If you're among people that don't usually watch EDs, then be warned, there is always a minute or few minutes of anime after the ED animation/song, and you gotta see it since it's part of the story.

Old review from when I was stupid: Animation and art is exceptional indeed... it's worth watching just for that i suppose :) The story is a bit to complicated imo x) But it's worth watching definitly (<-- look, old me even misspelled definitely /facepalm).
New review: Movie TL;DR = dolls are creepy as fuck. Also scenery porn. LOTS OF IT. YES! YES!! YES!!! or... so this is what getting high on CGI feels like! - many /jawdrop scenes, graphics and animation wise is probably only second to Cameron's Avatar, so it's a must-watch based solely on that. The philosophical quotes sometimes feel overdone, but sometimes pretty cool. Very immersive, becasue pacing and quality are simply perfect. Philosophy wise it's pretty nice, except sometimes problem presented are just bad semantics, but not too often. Also the implied existence of a soul kinda kills the neutrality of the philosophical standpoint. Still must watch. All together I liked it better than the first part. First movie seemed kinda strange in the way it was paced and completed, although pretty awesome, this one felt better, more complete.

Watched this long time ago, kinda cool, not too great but still kinda cool and from philosophical standpoint interesting in a way. Rewatched it: It has that slow feeling that all the old movies do, that I don't really like, but it wasn't as prominent. On the other hand it somehow manages to feel short, but there is a second part so I guess it's ok. I guess the main complaint is the feeling of "what? it's over? that's it?". But other than that, the music, the art and detail are amazing. Also the scenes here are really cool, some of them feel unique. It's main selling point is, naturally, philosophy. I managed to to not get annoyed every time soul was mentioned as something that's understood to exist, by mentally replacing it with consciousness... it works out nicely. So, the thematic they dare tackle, and the way they deal with it is pretty much 12/10, but on the other hand the "old" feeling of it takes away from the immersion and story flow, so it gets a bit boring and/or confusing at times.

So-so... I was expecting it to be better I guess, from how much I heard about it. I found a single plothole (which I'm not 100% sure about, but I'm pretty sure it's a mistake). It features a pretty casual and convenient approach to time travel problematic (unable to meet oneself in the past for example)... and it doesn't go into dealing with time travel itself really. The overall tone of the movie leans towards seriousness/realism. Instead of focusing on timetravel it deals with a bit more realistic approach to highschool romance... which isn't as fun to watch as the unrealistic-comedy approach of most anime. For realistic approach to work there has to be some heavy drama or really clever story. This story is kinda clever (in second half) but not clever enough imo... it's more of a "what happens when an average stupid person accidentally gets time travel powahs. But it's nothing unseen in that area, using time travel for fun and stuff... First half of the movie seems really shallow, but then gets a bit better when some stuff gets explained, making it a bit more serious. Time travel animations are a bit random... overall animation and voiceacting is decent, best visual quality you can expect for 2006. Even though it's a short movie, it still feels a bit dragged out. It's not a bad movie I guess, but I still wouldn't go around recommending it to people, as there are better stuff out there. I guess what annoyed me the most in this movie is that (once... freaking... again....) a stupid(average) person gets a superpower. Why is it so hard to give superpowers to intellectuals? That's when we end up with code geass / deathnote kind of awesomeness... I guess most writers don't feel clever enough to stand up to the task?

FIRST IMPRESSSIONS: Seen 2 episodes so far, and so far been able to figure out two mysteries before they were solved, not really Agatha Cristie level of difficulty. I'm anoyed by lack of realism or nonstupidity in characters. Facepalmed a few times. Although it's interesting enough to wach so far, kinda original. But that originality came at a price way too high (when something is original becasue noone ever tried to twist a story in such a stupid way)... edit: gets really good and interesting the further it goes, 4th and 5th episode were pretty great :) wow! 6th was great, it had epic immersive ambient. Also did I mention how art is freakin awesome in this anime? By that I'm referring mostly to background art. The scenery, not the greatest example since i just quickly googled it http://bit.ly/edNZ8F , actually had some of my own screenshots but stupid elika crashed and I actually lost them.
REVIEW: What the hell is wrong with whoever made story decisions here... good characters, great and sometimes amazing art, story manages to get immersive and emotional occasionally, it's original enough, it keeps getting better... and then last few episodes get some freakin amazing scenes and some freakin epic fail scenes and when you mix that together... well you get a weird mix, but I simply cant forgive the amount of epic fail so.... damn, this gets pretty low grade considering how highly I thought of it before. OP/ED are very nice and artistic, which is natural for Bones studio. Can't think of much else to say rly, I wish they prolonged the story and approached it more seriously in the end, instead of bunch or random things that got packed together in attempt to make last few episodes stand out.

If it's worth watching, then it's becasue of this girl to the right. Sure, she's completely nuts, but she can be so moe/kawaii from time to time that it simply makes your day... voiceacting + animation/graphics win in those situation. Characters can sometimes bee too annoying for acting unrealistically, but if you can find it in yourself to blame most of it on cultural difference then you can enjoy the rest of the anime. Story can sometimes be annoyingly retarded, but more often than not stuff gets explained, and main character is non-superstitious so that helps a LOT. It's a bit retarded that we get 2 hints that fantasy alien stuff might be somewhat real after all, but nothing is made clear... whatever, value of this anime is in funny dialogues and moe girls. Ecchi is also present, but rare and pretty subtle, which is ok. Graphics style is reminiscent of Bakemonogatari, which makes sense since same studio made it. It's different than what we are used to, but it's nice in it's own way, and in some situations it really shines, with the quality of animation and graphics, mostly during Erio being superkawaii moments. OP is kinda lame, but ED is nice. I'm not sure if I'm grading this too low or too high... but I know it's one of those two :)

Guilty Crown: When you have to rewind back a few seconds, not because you didn't have time to read it, but because you just had to see every single frame of that awesome awesome art :)
by the way: GC, guilty crown. CG, code geass. ... Soo, the vfx guys, animators, 3D artists, 2D artists, musicians in charge of soundtrack, action designers, guys in charge of scene timing, people who decided the budget for this... all deserve 12/10, voiceactors 10/10, and storywriters maybe 3/10. The anime is a magical sf giant mashup of everything that was ever popular. Here is the list of my around-100 complaints about this anime, since it's far too much to discuss in this short review: warning, it's full of spoilers. However, for every fail thing, there's at least 2 epic moments which are like "lol awesome". So it's a very fun to watch enjoyable anime which is broken 100 times over. Even fanservice is perfectly done, subtle but awesome, and doesn't feel forced. What else can I say, I'm not sure if I love it or if I hate it. I can only compare it to Macross Frontier and Toaru Majutsu no Index/Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. GC is far better in art/animation and even scene and story dynamics. And even though GC might be more fun to watch because of that, Frontier does have better overall story and the originality along with it's music. Railgun/Index are both magical sf just like this one, probably on the same level of naivness, but GC leaves the impression of more complex story, which along with all the production quality maybe makes it a better anime overall. But I'm not sure, Misaka alone is somehow a better character than any of GC chars; not to say GC characters aren't good, large number of them is actually pretty skillfully designed (or stolen from other anime)... argh. In some ways Railgun was better, less annoying, more relaxing/fun to watch, and in some ways GC has incomparably higher production quality and complexity which shoot far out of Railgun league. Macross and Railgun are both, pardon the untranslatable croatian "dobra zajebancija" in the end, and can be considered that becasue of the amount of humor. GC is far too serious and story driven to be possible to consider it that, not to say it doesnt have cute/funny scenes, it just tries to squeese so much story progression in there that it doesn't leave as much time for the comedy. GC feels like it aims for Code Geass kinda awesomeness, but fails horribly becasue of hundreds of plot holes and tendency to become purely magical, as opposed to sf. Another huge minus in GC are christianity references (bad kind of references). So, in the end, take a very very awesome anime, and then partially destroy it with plotholes, convinient magic and religion, and you'll get Guilty Crown. Still kinda worth watching I guess. I'd be interested in opinions of other critical otaku viewers. Ps. Maybe it's just that my expectations were too high? Thinking this was gonna be second code geass... silly me...

14-year old kid uses Mini Mecha to destroy Humongous Mecha using the power of how awesome he is. Don't watch it if you know a lot about physics. - NUFF SAID!
... ok ...first episode was typical shounen style, as i expected, i was very skeptical towards it since I'm not into shounens. Well, i did hate every shounen-ish aspect that it had, and it had a lot. But on the other hand story is so far original and entertaining, as well as characters. Drawing and animation are in the same league with Naruto. I'll continue watching and see how it goes. Got too many recommendations for this anime to just set it aside for later (3 recommendations! ...lol) watched 2nd and 3rd episode, omg I cant take this anymore, I guess i have a shounen allergy or something. Only the girl character didn't make me go /facepalm multiple times. The quality of art and animation just keeps hurting my eyes. Try to watch episode of this after you've watched 5 Centimeters per Second, you'll know what I mean. You cant have same quality visuals like Naruto... 7 years later!!! And the visuals dont bother me as much as the drawing "style" (i guess) of characters, when that gay character looks like a child drew him. I could go on and on for hours here about all things I found annoying but they are all basically elements shared between all shounens I've seen so far, and they could be sumed up by word childish... i guess. Now I'm beginning to see how first 20 or so episodes of Bleach are way better than an average shounen.
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rewatched, new review/comment: - 6.12.2012
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Don't misunderstand though, this will not make you confused in a "what is happening i don't get it" kinda way, the point is that things don't really make sense, but it's spotlighted that they don't so it's okay. Yeah that idea a bit crazy and unusual by itself, which is why I failed to grasp it the first time I tried to watch it. I wasn't wrong about all of the stuff I said before, but the point I'd like to make now is that I missed the point completely last time I tried to watch this, few years ago. My #1 mistake was "I took it seriously". Only after finishing the whole anime, do I realize the potential this kind of storytelling held. It's what makes this unique. FLCL is also crazy, but in an entirely different way than this. This isn't really shounen anime (in a negative sense), as I said before (it's probably a shounen parody though, among many other things), although it's not particularly seinen either, it's something else entirely, it's really hard to define it in any way. I was given the advice to "just enjoy it", and it was actually a great way of putting it. One negative thing that's brining this anime down somewhat is that it was animated in some kind of old-school way, so the timings on duration of the scenes feel a bit cheap, it often feels as if static scenes and images are being dragged out for far too long. I know animating is hard, but this just feels low budget at places, especially in first half of the anime. However there is a simple cure for this, watching it at anywhere from 120-150% using VLC pitch correction. Sometimes I was watching it at 140% and things seemed so natural that I had to doublecheck to make sure I didn't forget to speed it up, I guess that just proves my point (don't worry I watched the parts that matter in real time). Also it gets better the further it goes, so if you do find early episodes lacking in any way, please don't hesitate to speed through them to get to the awesomeness that comes later because it's quite... must-see. Otaku Rating is yellow/orange simply becasue of it's unique style (and some fanservice at some parts).

Otaku rating is kinda like 4, although it's made and presented in a way that makes it really seem like 3.5 or something. You'll just have to overlook some kinda unnecessarily weird parts, few things here and there are kinda totally retarded but they never influence the plot in any meaningful way and are not reason enough to not watch this. Oh, and just to relieve you of having to speculate about that girl that says she's a guy but looks like a girl... yeah she's actually a girl, so you don't have to worry about that. It's something that should have been explained early on but isn't, so I'm hereby fixing it. To tl;dr this anime: "harem done right!". It's very fun to watch, absolutely hilarious character interactions, fanservice is kept in line most of the time, there is even a main more serious story arc going on there, which is always a good thing and makes it a very well balanced anime. It has the best OP in the history of anime, ED is good. All characters are memorable, and almost all of them are epic. Drawing style is a bit unusual but it's quick to get used to, and it's high quality. oh, and it has Hanazawa Kana (Mayushii)!

Impressions: Otaku rating went up in this season, there's more fanservice and it's crazier. Love the references. Love how art is a bit better than s1. Living up to s1 so far. After finally finishing it, I can say I'm impressed, it turned out to be better than s1! I guess I can't be too angry at last episode, after all, this is only 2/3 of the story, so I guess expecting the story to resolve itself would be stupid, and everything was handled quite well in the end. It was everything I was hoping it would be, and more. I loved nearly every moment of it. Best actual harem out there, there is actual plot, actual character development, actual drama, it takes itself seriously, and it does all that without breaking out of the genre, and still remaining interesting and just plain fun with unexpected silly things and wacky and fun character personalities. Voiceacting is top class. OP/ED once again best of the best. And since I cannot put enough screenshots of Rika in here, this'll do (not really spoiler, but recommended to watch anime first).

Begining is nicely done. The mystery is something special about this anime, it's what keeps you interested. It's a very slow anime, and i was bothered by that at first, but later i realized that it contributes and complements a lot the relaxing mood of this anime. Small number of epizodes and "mystery" / "something unseen" factor is what makes it really great and slow pace of anime is ok when you consider that.

At first there was lot of drama involving interesting characters and very interesting situations, looked very promising, then in escalated into a epicly amazing drama storyline, at which time I thought this was for sure going to be legendary. But then, after the storyarc is concluded, the following many episodes can pretty much be watched independently, or at least almost, which was a big change from a continuous drama storyline that was presented at first. Well that was kinda disappointing about it, although near the end, as expected, there was another storyarc which gets pretty good story-wise so that somewhat makes it up for all the slice-of-life episodes, but not completely. At least the ending is pretty well done. But in the last storyarc, two times retarded stuff happened and I just felt the obsessive-compulsive need to hit myself repeatedly on the head with a blunt object, becasue double-facepalm just didn't cut it (*khm*so i did*khm*). But most of the time the storyline is serious and/or seinen-ish, so to say. I liked most of the characters and their developments, which were pretty deep. Although some characters were kinda lame or annoying, which was curious. The best character-story related thing in this anime is the way it handles character relations and progressions of those relations, they really change and fluctuate so that's really interesting. Comedy wise it was ok. Voiceacting is great. Graphics and animation are OMG HOLY SHIT AMAZING <3 PA-Works studio. Attention to details is bordering with ridiculous, and they really put some effort into animation as well. I didn't actually notice the soundtrack, which is neither positive nor negative. And both first and second OP and ED were great, as expected of PA-Works. This anime was unique in lot of aspects, but not as memorable at is was unique, for which i mostly blame slice of life episodes, but hey, even those were fun to watch actually, hence the high grade. The great way the ending was made (animation, scene choice, length, music) really contribute to the overall positive feel about this anime. The last time I saw such a nicely edited ending was... ...Angel Beats *khm*PA-Works*khm*, although I still preferred the AB ending to this one, it had more of an impact somehow.

Crazy silly stupid and original random over the top harem with perverted jokes without actually being overly sexualized... hard to explain, but becomes deep around ep 8. The main deal that separates this from similar shows is kinda that the harem protagonist is actually a pervert and is open about it, which kinda shakes up the classic harem dynamic a bit. But the high grade of this anime is based entirely on the depth and impact of episodes 8-13. Production quality is not the best but it's okay enough to enjoy watching. Some characters are great, some are painfully cliché. Nothing else is above or under average enough that it would merit mentioning.

Kantoku anime! Is there any point in mentioning how awesome visual character design is? I mean, that's the idea behind this being Kantoku anime. Overall it's amazing, it's fun, cute and interesting. There are actually no faults I can find with it.

Ecchi that doesn't totally suck, and is actually very fun to watch, still not recommended to girls. At times it feels like ecchi fanservice with a bit of anime mixed in. I didn't know what to expect when I started. At first it seemed like a good quality romantic comedy with a bit of ecchi, then it turned into a contemporary fantasy (magic and demons) with a lot of ecchi, but surprisingly enough the story was actually fun to watch. The constant requirement for ecchi naturally makes the character interactions unrealistic, and if one wouldn't find them annoying one would likely find them entertaining, as I did. Originality is also cool, it's not just a default stupid fantasy for the sake of something happening, the story/setting is actually pretty well worked out. It's cliffhangerish so that makes it a quick watch, which is kinda cool. Demonic chess analogy was overall kinda cool, balancing between original, clever and stupidly unrealistic, I guess it would depend a lot on taste. But I'll stress it again, even though this is (surprisingly) good quality anime all across the board, everything is still totally subjected to ecchi fanservice. OP is nice, ED is the sexiest ED ever... literally, if you're a male maybe you wanna just check that out.

It's amazing almost entirely, but falls just a bit short in romance department, I guess it's just not a romance oriented but still...
I kinda expected some sort of final arc, but there were only short stories saved up for the ending episodes. Being a hororless and goreless mystery anime in an achievment in itself, just for existing in that form, and it's even more awesome when that gets spotlighted. I loved all the references to the mystery classics, really shows that the author knows the genra. First ED is stroke-inducingly moe and awesome. First OP is awesome, second ED is awesome. Production quality is truly spectacular (just look at how many camera-changes and animation detail there is in such ordinary scene. They didn't have to do that, but they did it anyways!)

So far, cheap fanservice vs epicly animated high budget fights that left me /jawdrop. 3rd episode was gr8 but 4th was kinda lame. Actually considering later episodes, Karas and Final Fantasy AC have way better fight scenes. episode 8 was cheap but epic in so many ways xD. Episode 9 had ridiculous amount of fanservice, but it was funny in the same time so I'll let it slide. edit: finished watching it, last 2 episodes were fail story-wise. In the end i decided on 7.5, even though story here fails so much, it's still more entertaining to watch than animes i graded under 7.5, mainly because of high quality graphics and high quality animations that manage to seamlessly mix 2D and 3D in such a manner that i cant tell which is which :) And not just that, background art is pretty nice as well, as well as character art, which is pretty good, but not too amazing. OP and ED are *meh...*, not bad but not great either. This anime has a nice dynamics and scene progression, most of the time, which means you usually wont get bored watching it, and there is a nice buildup towards the ending, making it feel like the finishing fight and like an ending. Too bad the story and character decisions mostly suck. The good side of it is the humor, but even that isn't anything special, just usual fanservice-harem-based humor, however it's still funny, and mixed with great graphics and animation, reason why i didn't quit halfway though, it makes it somewhat entertaining to watch. I facepalmed a lot however, mostly in latter episodes, story-wise and character-decision-wise. In the end, i wont be recommending this to people, since most people care much more about the story, and don't care about good stuff this anime has to offer in graphics area (for example, most people wont care that the mecha design is awesome, but will instead rage that story makes no sense and characters suck)

It's a very fun to watch comedy+romance with very interesting, unique and entertaining characters. Art is amazing, voiceacting is great. At first it seems a bit strange, and then it seems a bit over-the-top, and it can even get annoying in first few episodes, until you get the hang of it and figure out what this anime is. There are transformation sequences, demons and superpowers, but surprisingly enough, it's totally not the actual point of the anime. The point is to achieve original and interesting comedy in a very unusual and therefore interesting setting. And then just when you label it as a casual original fantasy comedy that needs to be looked-through-fingers here and there, it throws an amazing serious ending storyarc which clarifies a lot of things that seemed silly before. To describe the kind of comedy that it is, I'd say it's the deconstruction of tsundere, featuring characters with weird and unique personalities and their interactions. One last thing: the art when protagonist transforms is superfuckingamazing. I find myself wanting another anime with her in that form all the time. Having such awesome art, I found it surprising how rarely it got to be showcased. Even though there is a girl that possess a power to transform into... that, this is not even close to mahou shoujo genre, which is usually first association for most people when transformation sequence is mentioned. 9.27 because I can't really name what's wrong with it, but then again it's not as awesome as 10/10 stuff, as a whole.

cant remember last time i laughed so much in a single episode of an anime xD. In the end, there's not much to say without spoiling it... It's a silly fantasy parody anime so dont expect stuff be logical or make sense all the time, but even so this anime totally owns, i recommend it to everyone i guess, if you don't mind fanservice. There's plenty of fanservice but most of the time it's very funny at the same time so it's totally justified. Soundtrack is great, OP is awesome, graphics and animation are great, go watch it if you haven't watched it :)

It's like first season, only improved upon. Some of the scenes are so hilarious I cried from laughing too hard.

The end is a bit lacking, and it feels a bit rushed overall, as if there was a lot more story that could have been told, things that could have been explained, but that's kinda it's style, to try to put it in words: "wait what... I'm not sure if... oh I see... aha, but then what... hmmm clever, but then, guess I'll wait and see what... oh fuck that scene was fucking awesome wow". Overall it's a remix of all the awesome stuff done right. It's main downfall is that it should have had 24 episodes, 13 ep just wasn't enough for a story with this much content going on. This anime is fueled by rule of cool. I'd even say it should be the new definition for what rule of cool is. It's like Guilty Crown without story totally sucking and 10 times better characters. It's like Code Geass told in a slightly different style and in too little time for plot to get solid. It's like Cameron's Avatar regarding production values. This actually looks SIGNIFICANTLY better than Angel Beats (I know, right!?), and is must-watch based on that alone. The way the story is presented is awesome. Characters are awesome. Voiceacting is awesome. Soundtrack is fucking godlike. Animation and graphics wise it's #1 anime if we disregard 3DCG high budget movies like GitS2 and FF:AC. Final thought, don't do what I did and watch it like 3,2,2,2,2,2. Try to 1shot/2shot/3shot it, I feel it would work better that way.
Ps. Attached images are screenshots.

I liked a bit more than i usually would, mostly because I'm attracted to the thematic a bit more than average person since i play an electric guitar myself :) It's something like lucky star with quality and humor close to Haruhi Suzumiya, but not as great... I rly enjoyed watching it though. It's very moe so you'll like it if you're into that.

Kyoani delivers yet again! Pretty much what you'd expect from k-on movie to be, except that it's not a sequel, but chronologically it's placed before the ending of the second season. Best thing about this, compared to the series, is that it's more concrete, less episodic so it's a bit more serious with bigger more consistent storytelling, kinda what was missing from the series which was sometimes too much just tea-drinking slice of life. But it still manages to keep the k-on feel, and even improves upon it since, naturally, movie has somewhat higher production quality. 1080p is totally worth it.

Good but it's not as great as first season imo. It goes more into their everyday lives and doesn't deal enough with the music itself. Some episodes are almost boring, but most are funny. As episodes get nearer the ending of anime, they get better. Also it had some songs that i loved :) If there weren't few episodes that were almost boring in around early/middle of anime, then the grade i gave wouldn't be so low.

I liked that graphics was completely 3D and pretty great, but story is lacking and too confusing, nothing really gets explained and that's what i find annoying.

First impression: I expected this to suck more, but it's turning out to be ridiculously stupid and entertaining comedy. Review: Not much else to add, I just wish every episode was as funny as 7th, then this would be up there at the top. Negative points are: fanservice is stupid to the point of being so stupid it's funny (and amount of it is up to the point where I'm not sure if it's a parodying fanservice or just being a complete overkill), and then that's kinda comes across as more just funny than actually hot or anything, especially considering oldness and/or low production value. The only thing really awesome that gives this some actual value as a show is how it parodies shounens, especially the main character himself "Maid Guy", everything about him just screams awesome. There's no real story, just episode by episode stupid stuff that serves as an excuse for some funny scenes, funny fights, stupid fanservice. tl;dr this anime is sometimes so stupid it's awesome, too bad it doesn't happen more often, becasue rest of the time it ends up being just stupid.

I'm actually glad i watched Clannad before i watched this, otherwise i would feel like Clannad riped off a lot from this... but the same guys made it so you cant really say it's ripped off lol. But still it has too much elements from Air and Clannad. If i watched this anime before those maybe i would think better of it. What bothered me the most is that all of characters keep having emotional brakedowns all the time, rationality/logic/reasoning is pretty low with all of them. Story is too fragmented (consists of too much small storylines) and lacks in epicness. RL problems get solved by miracles... that's such a cop-out. All in all i'd say it's like Air with story and place being different. There are couple of episodes that are rly good however, but the ending episodes were a bit too weird and abstract. It's obvius KyoAni learned from this and fixed all of it's mistakes and Clannad happened. This anime is like Air trying to be Clannad... yes! That's it! The positive stuff is lots of kawaii girls, great soundtrack and great animation/drawing. To sum up the negative stuff, the major pitfall for me is lack of realism, or to put it differently, it's a bit naive.

Starts off with a mid-air swordfight between two jet planes. - NUFF SAID!
...anyways... if someone were to cut out all action scenes and put them together in one 45 minute anime, I'd give it 10/10, so my advice is to come here irl and I just show you all the action scenes, becasue they are 3D and final fantasy style. Other than that story is not bad but it's not my kind of thing, too brutal, too scary sometimes. If you like scary brutal and fucking epic action scenes and also not knowing what's going on for the half of the anime, then you'll love it. More virtual blood was spilled in making of this anime than would fill an Olympic pool.

I almost quit this soo many times, but somehow ended up finishing it afterall. Reason I even started was only becasue Mazui was subbing it. Calling this a stupid comedy would be insult to stupid comedies. A dumbass parody would be much more fitting. It has a bit of resemblance to nichijou since one of the major humor elements is trolling. There is even a character completely dedicated to it... ah, and the anime has 3 characters... 3... characters. only 3. Yeah... I know right? Well that's one of major reasons it sometimes gets really boring, but at the end of the day I could never not-laugh at an episode, so that's pretty much only thing this has going for it. OP is very lame, ED is decent. visuals/production quality are low quality, but not in a low-budget kinda way, more in a style kinda way. Seems like it's targeted to resemble a format of a webcomic, so the art quality is also on that level, but for this genre it's perfectly acceptable. Wish I kept record of all the funniest scenes, best way to watch this would be to just watch TL;DR version of just the funniest scenes compilation, then it would be totally worth it to watch it. But as it stands now... well... me finishing it is passable-grade by itself, but I'm pretty sure many would dislike it or simply rather watch something better.

Omg, now I know why i fell for the readhead... (again) her seiyuu is Horo/Kallen! There's also a main protagonist seiyuu from ZeroTsukaima and ShakuganShana and Jun Fukuyama (Lelocuhe/Lawrence) as one of the male characters. I would even give this anime higher grade (over 10) if the target audience wasn't so specific or if the visuals were better. Well, it's a slice-of-life-ish romance anime with a bit of comedy, but heavy on the romance and love triangles (comparable to toradora/true tears). At first I almost quit becasue drawing style was different and not very high budget, but it was kinda good so i continued and got used to it easily actually. But OMG did I not expect all of the character and relationship depth that was delivered... it manages to get super-emotional at some parts, and you can really feel for the characters since they are well done. It's literally perfect character and story-wise. It's 0% ecchi, pure romance (no pun intended... i have no idea what rouge means in this context, my best guess is something like "YourKiss pure bliss",...well ...at least it would rhyme!). warning: This anime might be boring for non emotional people, unlike Clannad that has the ability to sweep everyone off their feet. Soundtrack is perfect for the occasion, 2OP and 2ED are well done, nothing special but they grow on you the further you go, and their music is actually really good *downloads EDs music*... one last thing: oh foreshadowing, oh you bitch, you got me in ClannadAS, and you got me again...
(referring to: when struggle about what's gonna happen, what you think will happen, what you want to happen, and what is hinted will happen... when they are all perfectly orchestrated to both keep you hooked and guessing until the very last super-emotional moment, and you either get unpredicted predictability or predicted unpredictability... hurts ur brain if you try to figure out what I mean, I know).

Pretty great so far :) Slice of life-ish moe comedy with unique and fun to watch main character. ///The pace of the anime is kinda like K-on!, slow but then again moe and entertaining, without too much plot going on. It's mostly episodic but not entirely. It ends with a storyarc which is actually unexpectedly great. It's a moe comedy so it's funny and cute. But it not made to be watched many episodes in a row. More of a side-anime, to get your moe-fix and laugh a bit. But still, character design is by Clamp and that really shows (girls that designed all the Code Geass characters). All in all, I think this should have had 12 episodes instead of 24. Although you could most likely randomly skip 12 episodes while watching and if you skipped the right episodes you'd never know you skipped anything.

Dropped this after 8 episodes as it was getting progressively worse. Characters aren't clever enough, there's no spotlighting so the story seems a bit naive. The very idea is to put slice of life characters through a non-everyday problem and then watch them fail their way through their ordinary lives affected by the supernatural problem. Considering the idea itself, first problem they faced was kinda fun to watch, had some potential, and wasn't handled badly but the second one is just lame, it seems forced in a way and characters all get negative becasue they can't deal with the problem becasue they are stupid and non creative. At some point there was a really cool opportunity for a genre shift that would make the story so much better. Romance is at first fun but then becomes exceptionally bad and infuriating to watch. Characters are essential for a slice of life derivative such as this, and Kokoro Connect at first seems good, but then fails halfway through with both characters and story.
Edit: Giving this a second chance due to recommendation by FFX01. Edit2: It gets just slightly better later, nothing that could even remotely redeem it though. I'll keep the same grade.

This. The positive is that the art is really nice, and moe is really moe, it also got some feels. Downside is that there is vaguely any plot. More like just characters in a setting, they get introduced, couple of hints of plot but nothing serious, and some artsy metaphorical attempt that pretty much fell on deaf ears with me. Things don't tend to get explained, so this is like a casual fantasy set in an hypothetical (yet unrealistic) future making it seem like an sf at first glance, but it's more like steampunk than like sf. Considering it shares the similar tematic with Chobits, it's thousand times better than it. There's no fanservice of any kind at all, but it relies on moe a lot to be likable, hence otakurating 2. Also faith/religion/prayer is implied to "work" so that's a tiny minus for making me a little bit annoyed. If you enjoy moe then this is almost a must watch because it would make anyone go hnnng. Also pretty art is worth checking out, it feels very fresh.

At first I picked this up, expecting a cute moe anime of nice production quality. I ended up getting all of that and more. And by more, i mean that if fanservice is disregarded, the story is surprisingly realistic and dramatic, far more serious than I expected, but still not lacking in the silly cute comedy aspect. OP and ED are great, voiceacting is great, production quality is amazing. I remember having a single complaint regarding storyline, which is overall pretty amazing when compared to all the other anime I've seen. It's simmilar to hanasaku iroha in that it deals dramatically with difficulties in characters lives, which I loved, but since characters are of different age than Ohana, it comes off as a completely different anime. The story is actually pretty original, at first it seems like a classic stuff-happened-for-the-sake-of-fanservice-deal-with-it story, but then the slightly ridiculous situation gets addressed seriously with all it's consequences taken into consideration, which pretty much won me over, well... along with all the moe :) I guess I should also mention this anime is considered loli by ann, but considering the impossible-to-define nature of the term itself, in this case it refers to this (as "bad" as it gets), so if you find this fanservice horribly disturbing then you'll probably want to pass on this anime, which would be a shame since fanservice is pretty well-played here and doesn't happen too often. I guess it's somewhat comparable to Clannad Afterstory, but without the implied "epicness", fantasy and tearjerking, but instead bit more moe, slice-of-life, comedy and entertainment.

After 3 ep, I'm seriously impressed. As expected from writers behind Clannad and Angel Beats. JC staff did a great job with everything else, although I still feel Kyoani or P.A.Works would have been able to make this even better (which would make it godlike). Although... Horie Yui voicing a male... my brain... ouch... . Once again I thought this was gonna have 13 episodes, but now after I saw 3 already it turns out it's gonna have 26. Idk what to do now... edit: note: ep10 was boring. ep11:gr8 12:soso 14: too abstract 15: epic, hilarious, uber-moe, wins the award for the most beta scene ever. 16: so-so, 17: so-so 18: annoying 19: aww nice 20: hilarious but so-so story
First half of it was pretty great. And the moe was great. But the story just keeps getting worse and worse toward the ending, to the point where I had to watch the last third at 130% because it was simply bad I just wanted it to finish. This mostly applies to the story itself when it deals with dramatic things. It's like it's not seinen enough. It's just terribly unserious and unrealistic for a story that's trying to be tragic and dramatic and hence real and serious. It really is KEY at it's worst I'd say. The ending episode was kinda good, but still left something to be desired. Not even the main backstory ploit point "the secret of the world" gets explained... ever. BAD. WRITING. DAMNIT. I now understand why KyoAni didn't do this, but left JC Staff to do it. On the other hand, there were a lot of episodes that were 10/10 hilarious and fun to watch. Pretty much all the episodes that focused on the lighthearted comedy. In those instances the humor and characters feel a bit like in Angel Beats, though AB was still a step above it. There are 3 characters that are moe as hell here, and they are awesome moe-wise. Most characters are fun to watch and pretty cool, but most of their backstories are bad. Drama just feels forced and out of place somehow. Usually KEY and KyoAni manage to pull off lighthearted humor and tearjerking drama all in the course of 10 minutes. But this time KEY failed and KyoAni realized it and wanted no part in it, at least that's my theory. OP and ED are pretty good, and the music is pretty good as well. Visuals are classic JC Staff style, good but not even close to PA Works or Kyoani.

Rather good for a "young animator training project". It lasts 26 minutes, it's fast paced and timing is simply perfect. Animation and art style is charming. The biggest (and maybe only) downside is slight predictability since it uses all the most common story elements/tropes, however it's a good comedy and the jokes feel fresh/original, so with the cool action and comedy being focus, one can't really complain about story being a bit cliche if it already has a perfect timing to it I suppose. I loved the character design. Overall this is surprisingly good for something that lasts 26 minutes. If you love moe in general then you can consider this a must watch, otherwise just consider it a cool comedy worth checking out for it's different art style and because it's fun and 0% annoying.

This was just so much fun to watch. Also moe. Production quality is Kyoani... nuff said. The only thing I regret is watching over the course of 2 months or so, as it was airing, but it was okay nonetheless. The only thing I can complain about is that it's not totally superamazing since it's limited by it's genre of slice of life and school setting. But inside it's genre it's the top of the class, though not toradora-legendary or truetears-dramatic, I'd say it's as good as Hyouka. It could be considered better if we're just comparing pure entertainment, originality, humor and moe, but Hyouka's added genre of mystery just seems more skillful to pull off so well, hence why I'd say they are close in how good they are. I liked the romance in Chuunibyou, granted it wasn't too deep or complicated but it was so very heartwarming and fulfilling, something Kyoani has avoided ever since Clannad. Some lighthearted romance was exactly what I needed to fix what Schooldays did to me. I'd dare say Chuunibyou is the most lighthearted psychological romance drama in existence. Also Rikka was voted queen of moe by /r/awwnime. Recommended to everyone.

first impression: somewhat boring (overall thematic), somewhat interesting (character interactions) with amazing soundtrack and occasional EPIC scene. OP is great, and I'm in love with the ED after seeing/hearing it a few times.
review: first impression turned out to be quite correct. I'd only like to add that the setting itself is so unrealistic at times that I wanted to rage, and that's even more prominent the longer the story goes on. [spoiler: the fact that one student hid other student in coma in school hospital for 6 months is just ridiculous and unrealistic on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin]. Production quality and interesting/funny/well-made scenes made it worth it to finish it. Oh, and even though this is tagged harem, it doesn't feel much like it (although technically it is), but it's definitely not the focus of the anime. Points made about elections and politics are pretty much right on the spot. It's nice that thematic is kinda unusual in that regard, and it's dealth with well.

It was a bit fun to watch in a way, made me laugh occasionally, i learned stuff about japannese culture here that i didnt know. I mainly watched it becouse of recomendation from a friend and becouse of it's popularity and small number of epizodes. But it's not even comparative to Clannad or Code Geass. //edit: uprated it by one point, didn't entirely understand the concept of moe first time i watched it, it was long time ago. //edit2: uprated some more because I used to be stupid.

Very funny :) I especially loved the 2 Haruhi references. I thought the story didnt rly have consistecly... because there rly wasnt any story. But that's just the way lucky star is i guess. Well, I liked it, I thought it was fun. Totally rofld @ the vocaloid reference xD and the mmo jokes

Anime about epic mecha overkills and music...in the same time. xD... Epix animation quality, visuals are just blowing me away.

Review:
This is HARD to rate, sometimes it's the pinnacle of 11/10 awesomeness, and then 3 minutes later you find yourself searching for the nearest blunt object...
Don't approach this as if it were SF, rather, consider it a fantasy SF and you'll freak out less when laws of physics and probability start getting raped. Sometimes such retarded things happen that I was actually literally laughing my ass off at how little sense that just made, which... I guess makes the bad parts bad enough to become good again? maybe?
Visuals? I'd describe them as OMFG FFS WHY ARE YOU READING THIS AND NOT WATCHING MACROSS FRONTIER???!?! Voiceacting soundtrack and music are also top-notch. So from an audiovisual standpoint, this is a masterpiece.
Storywise, this is a sequel to an earlier anime which I decided not to watch becasue it seems old and not very good. Instead I read the short plot on the wiki. But in fact, to spare you the reading, what you need to know is that it's future, humans sent big colonizing ships towards center of the galaxy, they encountered hostile alien race of giants called Zentradi. They spend 50 episodes pew-pew-ing each other, along the way they discover that Zentradi can be pretty much stunlocked by playing them music becasue they don't have a real culture' so they weren't familiar with concept of music and how awesome it is. This of course spawns an anime in which you have a space warfare where music is used as kind of a weapon, which is in itself an awesome concept (rule of cool applies imo) but hard to pull off. Anyways, all ends well and Humans and Zentradi end up as friends. That's all you need to know about previous anime. So... funny thing, it just so happens the new enemies we'll encounter now will also be vulnerable to music :D You might say hahaha roflmao wtf retarded... but when you think about it, it's the core concept of this anime, so without it, it wouldn't be Macross anime. It would be like Code Geass without Geass, wow that's actually an awesome comparison. Anyways, nobody knows why that is so this time, and nobody seems to care that sound doesn't travel through space, which is slightly annoying, and lasts for most of the season. This anime seems filled with confused characters that have no idea what's happening, but you can't really blame them since you have no clue either... So if you can suspend your disbelief, you can actually enjoy this, and surprisingly enough, most of the problems actually get addressed in the ending story arc (that sound doesn't travel through space for example, but remember, fantasy sf anime explanation!). Although what this really lacks is lampshade hanging.
20% of this anime is AMV in a way, which is kinda nice actually, and with music and visuals being good, even sometimes silly scene progression can be enjoyable to watch. Another good thing, by the time you finish this anime you'll get to add 15 new songs to your playlist, so that's gr8. Characters and their relations are kinda original and definitely fun to watch. At some points I was close to quitting, but in the end I'm actually glad I finished it. ...sigh, I'll settle for 8.9 I guess, although it's both too high and too low, depending on perspective. Also this anime is the origin for a meme shown in youtube video link.

First movie. It's interesting to see how Macross Frontier works in a movie format. Interestingly enough, it works just as well, if not better. However it's arguable, but I guess it mostly depends on taste. I'd say that everything I wrote about the series also applies to this movie. It's definitely worth watching and recommended, especially if you've seen the series and liked it. It's different enough from the series to warrant watching. Also it needs to be seen to get to the second movie which is a must-see.

Second movie. Continuation of the first movie. It's best to watch them together, as if they were one big 4h movie. Some of the action-amv sequences here are so spectacularly amazing that they simply must be seen. fucking PERIOD. Also this movie has even more original content compared to the series, than the first one. As a second movie it's only natural it will have more freedom in that area (setting etc. has already been established in first movie), but what is great, is that it's utilizing that freedom in a great way, and providing even more OC. At one point, my jaw actually started hurting from how long it was jawdropped. So there you have it. Make sure you watch full HD, it's fucking worth it.

i don't rly know what to write... it's a comedy/romance anime that deserves 9/10 imo, so go watch it :). If you like moe, maids or beyond-reasonable-cool characters then you'll probably love this one. It has a couple of facepalm moments/episodes,... say that 2 episodes were kind of screwups with some epic facepalms... but having 26 episodes, i can forgive that and look the other way and give this 9/10, mostly because i cant give it 8.6/10.

A classic harem, great humor and characters but still fanservice centric (there has to be a better way to say this but I can't think of it). It stands out by having amazing female cast. Subaru is quite memorable, then we got Kitamura Eri doing the role that's essentially the same as her role of Ami from Toradora, plus she's in Gothic style here. Toradora didn't have enough of her so this is perfect. Then on top of that we got genki hanakana imouto (imagine hyperactive younger Mayushii (S;G) with pink hair). Great character design and fanservice being funny is what makes a harem shine, and this one is among the best in that regard. However I shall repeat myself, as much as I say I like it personally, it's still classic-harem, unlike Haganai, Nyaruko or Koichoco that are great anime that kinda just happen to be harem (though Haganai might be a category in and of itself). Dragon Crisis and zombie are somewhere in between. This is more like HS DxD, IS, Omamori Himari.. just without the supernatural plot and it's handled way better so it's way less annoying and way more fun to watch than those. ED is super cute. Subaru's voiceacting is skillful but I wish it wasn't taken to such extreme (if I were more specific I'd spoil stuff) . I don't blame her seiyuu, I blame the director, it's not too big of a deal though. Most often in harems I only love one girl, usually I dislike one, and I'm indifferent or "ok" about the rest... here I love all of them and it really illustrates nicely the classic concept of harem where MC can't take his pick.

The humor is so original, something i havent seen before, it has it's own unique style which i really liked. The story is totally unpredictable and I'm a total sucker for that :) Also the characters themselves are insanely well done, both in great drawing and unique personalities. The smile that Haruhi makes from time to time is comparable to L's smile from deathnote in it's funnynes and awesomeness.

It has everything the first season had, it's still good original and masterpiece, but endless eight storyarc was the reason enough to give it a 9/10. One could just ignore the storyarc, skip it and still be just fine, but the problem is that it makes up half of the season's episodes which then results in a very low number of episodes to enjoy. But even if i wouldn't let the endless 8 influence the score i chose to give it, I still i would still come to the same score of 9/10, simply becouse first season has this epic first episode and then it has some other incredibly interesting and unexpected episodes and also the 12th episode with best song ever made, and it was actually made for the anime, actually singed by voiceactress, RESPECT! Season 2 is awesome when ignoring endless 8, but it still lacks that extra mile, that first season had, to justify 10/10

Freakin hilarious! I loved it :) It's a pure comedy based on randomness, references and purely good sense of humor. I loved how "storyline" (if there is any x) was unexpected very often, which implies originality. I can't give it score higher than this simply becasue it would be unfair to animes that actually have a real storyline and stuff... ps. this is also the first chibi anime i watched x)

1ep: aww it's only 12 min per episode. I think I quite like it. Silly little stupid comedy but the art style is kinda nice, even if it's cheap, but design of Muromi is what got me hooked (get it? ok, I'll show myself out). She just looks visually amazing (or I might be just weak to that particular nuance of green hair... yeah). But the humor is genuinely funny so I like it for that. I wish it was more solid, plot and duration wise, like Ika-musume, but this is charming in it's own way. ep3: this actually keeps getting better. I almost fell off my chair from laughing. ep4:epic. ep5:good ep6:good. Unfortunately it kinda goes downhill from here. Earlier episodes, 3 and 4, felt much more inspired, in the range of 11. But later episodes are quite meh, more like 6-7.

(ep1: I didn't think it'd be good, but it turned out to be quite awesome. Very clever anime, I love that. ep2: this smells a bit of a deconstruction, wicked! between 10-10.3 so far I'd say. ep3:soso,ep4:epic (+best imouto ever), ep5,6:epic.)
If you want actual detailed review of why this show is awesome, look no further. It starts off with a premise similar to Haganai, but is completely different. To start off, it's not harem. Also it's way more serious. Primary reason why this is awesome is clever character dialogue, and a touch of philosophy. Story-wise it's quite ordinary high school stuff, but it's characters and their personalities being clever that make this stand out, and that make it really enjoyable. Relatable protagonist and plot also help, but that's assuming you weren't the popular kid in class. OP/ED are great. There's definitely hints of romance being thrown around, but I'm not really fond of how the romance concluded, though I guess I don't hate it either. Though with "romantic" being part of the title, one could expect a bit more romance overall, or if not that, then at least that show would be more oriented towards resolving those tensions in more fulfilling way. Though this was based on an ongoing LN so we can at least hope for more or that in some distant future.

It's good at first, but it gets too slow later. They should have made it with less episodes and more quality. I didn't watch the fillers, they sucked too much right away.

Might be slightly better than Nise, not sure. Story-wise it's a prequel to Bake~, but it feels the same way Nise~ did. At some point it seemed as if I was watching a retelling of Bake~ Hanekawa arc... but I guess that's just my bad memory. I don't even remember what exactly happened in Bake~ with Hanekawa, I thought it was kind of what happened in Neko~... apparently I was wrong. I guess the aberration from Neko~ just somehow made a reappearance in Bake~ in some resurrection kinda way. I guess I can't be too bothered by catgirl demon that walks around in underwear getting resurrected.

It's hillarius, some episodes much more than other, although it can't really be broken down to episodes effectively, it's more like a webcomic than an anime, regarding. Too bad I can't give this higher grade since it was hillarius... but it just had absolutely no storyline so yeah... still reccomended, kinda, if you like KyoAni-moe style and you like random and original comedy or you liked Azumanga Daiou, then you'll probably love this. Mio chan happens to be acted by a Seiyuu i really love, but surprisingly, she isnt at all famous it seems. 1/2OP and 1ED are awesome, got some nice music out of them, second ED is crappy.

First impression: (2ep) It's crazy and it's different and entertaining and different, like 1st season.... but I still don't understand the reason behind it's megapopularity. At least neither of first 2 ep are even slightly boring, but they are quite wtf in places, in a wtflol way.
Review: Lower number of boring episodes than first season, but also lower number of amazing episodes that leave a deep impression, than the first season. Fanservice is brought to a whole new level, the level of being totally fucked up and hardcore, but at some points it's that that leaves a memorable impression. Also, I rarely ever comment on fansub groups, but Coalgirls are fucking insane. Overall bit rate: 42.7 Mbps <--- this is not an acceptable way of encoding a video, maybe in 10-15 years from now it will be. FFFUUUU!!! Regarding everything else (OP/ED/production/art/voice/originality...) it's pretty much in league with first season, slightly worse or better in some aspects but overall it lives up to it.

My first impression was: so cliche it hurts, defies logic, mediocre amount of actual fanservice but the fanservice mentality is abundant and takes priority over anything... but is also, together with any seriousness or story, subjected to ridiculous humor. So... very cliché hot-animegirls hilarious comedy... something like that. ...very genki.
My second impression was: it's a STUPID comedy/parody with mostly epic characters, once you embrace it for what it is chances are you'll love it.
But my final impression is: masterpiece! At episode 10 I was literally crawling on floor laughing, no pun intended.... ...oh who am I kidding, pun intended. Ok, one thing that begs to be mentioned is something that makes this anime different from all the others. References. So many references that almost every scene in every episode is a reference to something, often otaku specific and often obscure, so the only way to notice more than 5% of the references would be to check Nyaruref.blogspot after each episode. Only thing that prevents this from being 10/10 is that the introduction wasn't the smoothest, you might notice how I didn't love it as much at first, until I figured out what it was and got used to the idea. I guess you could also say that it's epicness is a bit inconsistent, sometimes it's really fall-off-your-chair funny, and sometimes just... normal funny I guess. OP and ED are amazing. Voiceacting is epic. Production quality is just right. You have to get over how-dense the main character is though. Not many males would keep resisting assertive hot chick... probably 0% of males. But you gotta take into consideration that Nyaruko is an compulsive obsessive alien in a fake body, so that kinda presents a good counterpoint that should stop you, viewer, from being incredibly annoyed at Mahiro (protagonist) in first few episodes. Trap character is actually pretty tolerable, I usually don't particularly like them, but this one is rly likable in a way and it's easy to get used to him being actually male. Also that redhead in first ss is cause for quite a lot of yuri.

(ep1:epic. ep3:epic. ep4:gr8, ep5:epic ep6: epic, finally some nice development. Feels scenes. Would cry if I could stop laughing. Also M.Frontier and Railgun references were EPIC. ep7:gr8, ep8:gr8,...) Loved all the spotlighted foreshadowing and all the averted spotlighted foreshadowing. I'd say chances are author is a trooper. It lives up to first season in every way.

In the end story did end up failing a lot... just regular seen-it-a-million-times anime story where guy has some lame power that he cant even use at will and then he meets a few girls, many scenes are there just for the ecchi, and in the end they kill the bad guy. Admittedly, it was funny occasionally, and OP's kinda nice, nothing too fancy though. not recommended

lol, hillarius anime. Considering this is from same guys that made "ah my goddes", i'd say they improved CONSIDERABLY :) I'd give it 9/10 in avarage, cause it's rly fun to watch, and also great quality of graphics, animation and time and pacing of storyline is well paced. Also character reactions are pretty logical and there4 believable (some characters themselves aren't, but that's allowed since totally weird people also exist irl, imo it's important that character acts consistently, and not that it acts rationally)

so far... wow... totally unexpected stuff here. Warning: it's FREAKIN weird anime. Now whatever you imagined, triple it!. But it definitely kept me interested and entertained. I like how very heavy stylization was not used to lower the production cost, but they actually had a TON of animation and action shots there, something that would make normal anime production cost 5 times as much. The progression of scenes/shots and soundtrack are top-notch, which makes it interesting to watch. Also it's worth mentioning how extreme stylization is also used all the time for totally random stuff that you just don't see in other anime. With such level of realism one could almost say it's cartoonish. But from what I've seen so far, it's definitely not something for kids lol. Well... in the end it left me wanting to see more, if every episode is as original as this one then I'll be happy and give it a nice grade. But that remains to be seen, and i somehow doubt it x) edit: 5th episode not rly good imo. edit: 6th episode pretty epic :) 7th pretty good as well 8th also epic :) 9th pretty good. 10th....... W T F... mindfucking weirdness of this episode makes all other episodes seem normal in comparison!!!...although the "concert" in the end was pretty epic. 11th... first half was fun and very random, second part was unexpected but it seemed a bit lazy on the animation side, all in all, not bad but not too god either. 12th was pretty good. 13th was pretty epic.

Title is incredibly misleading. At first glance it sounds like it could be some highly perverted harem or something, but truth is just the opposite. In fact there's no actual fanservice at all, at least not the blatant one. The catch is that Sakurasou is not a person but a place. or3 because of romance mentality, it's very anime-ishm (indecisive nearly asexual beta male, but it makes more sense than usual). However, with that said, it's still one of the best romance anime, on same or similar level with Toradora I'd dare say. It's very hard to say if one is objectively better, I figured I'll give Toradora a slight edge, since it was slightly more memorable and different from everything else, than this is, just ever so slightly. It's hard for me to be objective about Sakurasou because I'm as target audience as it gets. It's like they asked me what kind of romance comedy anime I'd prefer to watch, and then made it to my specs,... almost. Pretty much every complaint I had had some sort of excuse to be found about it. All I can say is don't expect too much from the ending, it's the journey that matters here, not the destination, though that said, I did love the ending myself. Toradora was much more ending-focused than this, somehow. But that is not to say Sakurasou feels fragmented or episodic, strangely, somehow it doesn't. How do we know when romantic comedy is doing it right? When you're crying and laughing at the same time. Same as with Toradora, the animation, sound and visuals are very dynamic and in perfect harmony somehow. Animation quality is just beautiful to look at, and character design is absolutely amazing, both visually and personality-wise, it has pretty much all the qualities that made Toradora great. The relationship network is quite different from toradora though, which is good. It's the same genre as Toradora, and it's by the same studio, and everything is done just as well, but it's still very different from Toradora when it comes to story and characters and style, what I mean to say, is that it's not even close to being a ripoff. It doesn't even seem to be inspired by it. Soundtrack and OPs/EDs are awesome. Voiceacting is god tier. How much you'll love this anime, depends on where you draw you disbelief line. It depends on your taste, and it will decide if you'll be annoyed by half of the stuff that happens or if you'll enjoy every second of it. Moe is god tier as well, I don't even know why, but characters are so freaking adorable, while also being very deep. It took me 2-4 episodes to figure this anime out and really start enjoying it fully, so I'd say that the 3ep rule applies. I'm finding it incredibly difficult to compare this with Clannad and Haganai, as in which deserves a higher grade. Because Haganai is great in a totally different way, and it's been too long since I've seen Clannad for me to say anything for sure. One last thing: finally an anime that deserves as many episodes as it has, and doesn't waste a single one (again, kinda like Toradora in that regard).

first impression: For moe/kawaii fans exclusively. It plays around with classic genre tropes often subverting them, which is the only thing besides being kawaii/moe that keeps it interesting to watch.
second impression after 3-4 episodes: After a few more episodes though, when one figures this anime out, one realizes how it is infact a pinnacle of comedy in it's own way. It can be extremely Hilarius at times, as well as surprisingly original.
Review: It's an amazing moe comedy and I want more x) (as amazing as school+slice-of-life can get) Only downside is that it sometimes relies heavily on puns, which doesn't work outside Japanese. OP is epic, ED is kinda cheap in i-see-what-you-did-there way, but not bad. Also the regarding second screenshot, 狼 = PUA. Ps. Nekomimi aren't getting explained soon, or in the second episode, or ever. Rule of moe applies!

Mediocrity just got redefined, it's now called "The Princess and the Pilot". Allthough there were some nice visuals and visually atractive/interesting locations, as well as aerial vehicles (steampunk?)... it was so sloooow and booooring and uninteresting and predictable, and characters weren't intriguing. Also the ending has epic fail scene graphic-physically. SPOILER: One little sack of golden dust totally covers 200x40x40 meters of cubic space with glittering golden dust that stays visible for a minute... WHAT?! I rest my case... The only reason I managed to last till the end was that I switched it to x2 playback speed.

Gen Urobuchi strikes once again! Well, now I know for sure who my favourite japaneese writer is (Sorry Isuna Hasekura you'll have to sit this one out). I was kinda expecting the ending to be more "epic" and more unexpected maybe, considering how Madoka and Saya were, but I have to say that the current ending fits perfectly. I can't believe it took me 20 episodes to figure out who the lead voiceactress was, I should be punished for failing so hard. Story wise, first half feels a bit segmented but is in fact a buildup, a setup of for the bigger plot in the second half. This makes the second half somewhat better and more fun to watch. First half is like "wow that's quite interesting", then second half is like "holy shit so awesome, must keep watching...". What can I say, I'm a sucker for harder sf (less fantasy) that's very very cleverly written, and has some amazing characters to boot. I guess a few scenes here and there were quite overly brutal, but I guess it's just something Gen has to do, and I kinda developed some resistance by now. First OP song just didn't mesh with me, though animation was nice. Second OP was totally amazing in every way, all EDs were amazing as well. Hint: make sure to not just skip EDs, there is sometimes more story during or after it. Voiceacting was perfect in every way. Art is by the guys that animated Guilty Crown, therefore totally amazing (Which I might add I figured out all on my own! Ha!). I just love how skillfully Gen makes use of the willing suspension of disbelief, he's constantly keeping the audience very close to the disbelief line, but never crossing it, and then gradually moving the line further away the more complex the plot becomes, and then using every such moment to do something great with the plot, skillful writing at it's finest. Also finally a great anime with super low otaku rating, no fanservice or otaku stuff whatsoever.
Dystopian cyberpunk genre all the way! At first it seemed like a similar theme/story to a movie I once saw, but then this gets way waaay deeper and more complicated, so It has my seal of originality as well (and yes I just made that up). I also loved all the philosophical referencing/quoting, even if it was over the top I still loved it. It didn't feel too pretentious either. Though I still think philosophy was handled smoother in Code Geass. I also loved the spotlightings, there were many of those.

Good stuff: drawing quality is great when it comes to environments and camera angles, and also creativity in them. Some plot twists are good, but most aren't. It wasn't rly all that bad as an anime, but genre that I'm not a fan of + some annoying stuff made me switch to MUCH better anime Katanagatari, so i decided to drop this one. Stuff I didn't like about it: genre, action sequences and graphics style of the witch labyrinth word... awful imo. Also some inconsistencies in the storyline. For example episode 3, ep3 spoiler: [[[ That gun girl one shot stuns the black haired girl for like 20 minutes and then gets pwned by a monster and then the black girl pwns monster like she's the most powerful being in the universe, (also that action sequence sucked a lot). The amount of power and experience the black haired girl demonstrated is not consistent with her being stunned 20 minutes by some noob girl that got herself one-shot-pwned few minutes later. At least i was glad she got herself pwned since i disliked almost every aspect of her character...]]] First half of 4th episode was the the first plot development that actually made sense and was kinda interesting to watch, but the ending of it was awfully predictable ep4 spoiler: [[[(blue haired girl to the rescue? [sarcasm]definitely didn't see that one coming![/sarcasm])]]] ...and just didn't look promising. imo, this anime is dancing on the border of "watchable", but I'd rather be wasting my free time on better stuff that are out there, that are still waiting to be watched :)

gonna rewatch this first chance I get because I'm seeing waay to many arts and references/mentions of this anime.

Oh wow... idk where to begin (I literally just one-shot all 12 episodes). tl;dr is that this is actually awesome (but it's a lot more complicated than that). Ok so, kinda like Gurren Lagann, one has to get over certain weird or somewhat illogical stuff, but once you do stop complaining and start to just keep some vague mental list of things that didn't make much sense, you'll find that most of it will be spotlighted or explained later, if not both. I can't even hint at what specifically without going into major spoilers. The fact is that the story gets better and much deeper as it goes (ironically, it improves a whole lot after first 4 episodes). So, this anime isn't exactly science, it's a deconstruction of a fantasy genre, so it might seem as if it would be a lot more serious and realistic (and not break general relativity as much as it does), but it does remain a fantasy story. It's the character personalities and (somewhat) the genre itself that get deconstructed. All of the "wtf" and "wat" moments that you ignore or blindly accept as the story goes on, are worth it, becasue of how good the story gets later. Keep in mind while watching: it's a DECONSTRUCTION of a Mahou Shojo (and deconstructions are awesome), you're already familiar with the genre if you've ever seen sailor moon or whatever. My old complaint of "blue haired girl to the rescue?" is hardly valid becasue stupid I missed the point once again. That particular scene resolution was supposed to be obvious. I was often annoyed at how particular sentence of someone didn't make sense or seems stupid, but when you realize that those characters themselves are far from perfect, it does make sense for them to occasionally do and say wrong and stupid things. On the upside, they often make amazingly good points. There's also a lot of clever philosophy which I'm a big fan of. The witch labyrinth graphics that I previously complained about is still graphically annoying, but it's only really bad in first few episodes, it gets considerably better in later episodes plus that you somewhat get used to it. It is redeemed by the scenery art that is often simply amazing and very artistic, Shaft style (sometimes it's really awesome, sometimes it slightly fails, but on average it's great, not as great as KyoAni or P.A.Works scenery but on the other hand it gets extra points for being artistic and trying something different). Similar can be said for character art. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes it just looks bad, but gets a big plus for being original and iconic. Soundtrack is out of this world, I don't remember last time I heard OST that was this good. I'd like to also one of my other previous complaints, the one "That gun girl one shot stuns...". It turned out to be AMAZING foreshadowing, and I was a fucking moron making a big deal out of it and getting annoyed about it. Here's some of the art that inspired me to give this another try:

edit3: After rewatching I figured this deserves a higher rating, upped from 9.9 to 10.41. Mostly because of how it has great replay value, and you notice so many little details (a lot of foreshadowing!) that only Lelouch would notice and remember the first time. I also noticed better how solid the story was covered, there really are no plotholes of any kind. I was also able to better appreciate the complexity of ending episodes and the way they were skillfully presented.

When anime makes me one-shot it without planing it and tomorrow I spend an hour tweaking the new wallpaper featuring it... well then I gotta give it high grade x) -0.3 is mostly because animation and graphics are 5 years old, but they are pretty good for their era. I know I'm giving this grade as good as Death note, but that doesn't mean much really, at least in comparison, becasue they cant be compared. This is realistic seinen romance anime, with exactly the right amount of realism to keep it entertaining. Voiceacting is pretty exceptional imo, which is a given, since it's part of the thematic so it has to be, you'll see what I mean if you check it out. It's short in a good way, but I wish there's more of it. Female character is so well designed, unique, lovable and well voiceacted that I kinda fell for her in the first 5 minutes, so I can't guarantee complete objectiveness hehe, but anyways, good job character designers. The story is realistic in a way that it lets us find out many interesting things about Japanese culture, in a non-anime way..., hard to explain actually. I recommend not reading the 'Plot Summary' becasue it's spoiler-ish, at least imo.

It's a bit loli, depending on how you choose to define loli ofcourse, so don't even try this if you're not horribly open minded, or otaku, becasue it tries to mix innocent moe with funny fanservice, and is bound to get horribly misunderstood by western-oriented audiences. But generally it's a very fun to watch moe comedy, with great quality in animation and voiceacting, hey, it even features Hanezawa Kana seiyuu as main character :) moeee... anyways, story revolves around a gradeschool girl-basketball team which start as total noobs and actually progress towards having some skillz. Same like Oreimo, it's targeted at Otakus so a lot of anime watching recommended before you try this one, otherwise one would likely miss the point or think this anime is weird.

<Art and animation is very old, that's what bothered me the most i guess. Story is very interesting although a bit slow. But despite of being old, art and animation is well done (although you still cant compare it to code geass / clannad art in my opinion). Characters and adultness of this anime is what stands out imo. There is lot of bloodshed, but also philosophy which i liked a lot. I also liked the fight scenes because they are exceptionally well done, too bad there aren't more of those. I would recommend watching this, I think it's worth to spend 2 hours on it. But don't blame me if you end up not liking it because of how old-fashion drawn it is...

Some things in this anime were above 10/10 but others were clearly under so I guess I'll just settle for 10/10. Some of the stuff was annoying because it was totally unrealistic, such as self-healing abilities of protagonists. Get slashed than shot then blown up or get slashed and stabbed and survive by putting on a few bandages... trololol. Last 30% or so of the episodes were kinda lacking with fodder characters, it was fun watching Mugen and Jin pwn lots of noobs. Episode 22 was too original and perfectly executed to be considered pure trolling, and for 23 i was pleasantly surprised, i thought it was gonna suck but it was so hilarious that it was in fact epic. I was also annoyed about the idea that a blind person can fight so epicly, but I think i kinda like the way it was handled in the end... I'm not sure though... But other than those few quirks, the originality, the visual-audio style, the execution, quality, humor, originality...again, clearly a masterpiece.

Art is really amazing, as should be obvious from attached ss. Characters are interesting and fun to watch. Story and development are amazing at first, cliffhangerish original and realistic while still being fantasy genre, respect for that... but unfortunately the amount of facepalms increases towards the end, with some moments being so ridiculously unrealistic you can only laugh at it. OP is reminiscent of Hansaku Iroha because of both music which is by nano.RIPE and animation/gfx quality which is (arguably) on the level of PA Works, also voiceacting is great. ED is boring imo. If you like (gothic?) pale slim dark haired girls you might want considering watching this just for that. There is fanservice but nothing too crazy, it's not the focus of the anime, and it's usually not at all annoying. It's strange how the story sometimes goes from continuous to episodic and non-chronological even, some ep almost seem like fillers and could be completely skipped without influencing the plot, but they give depth to characters so they aren't really fillers, but still... interrupting the continuous story is annoying. That blue haired sis of the protagonist horribly reminds me of someone but I can't figure out who, also she's awesome. Also protagonist has his own "kralj" moments, and just when you think the plot took a turn for the worse and went FULL RETARD, something absolutely cool happens and you're not sure if you hate or love the plot anymore... it's... confusing... There were some foreshadowing moments which were pretty cool, respect for that. TL;DR: Annoyingly unrealistic at times, but still overall quite enjoyable and surprisingly original with amazing production quality.

A bit like ~Monogataris (edit: only on first impression though, on the whole, not as much), but without being harem and somewhat more insane, with a dash of haruhi and otaku references ala Nyaruko just not as many of them.. I think. So far I was able to figure out shaft studio and hanakana seiyuu on my own. It's somehow quite entertaining to watch although the first impression is most definitely what-the-fuck. It's feels like a mash up of all these different things from other anime but it comes of as very original in the way it's presented. Classic shaft I suppose. @ep3 love the rationalization of everything so far. I'm starting to really like this, more so than ~monogatari series. So yeah, the 3 episode rule applies quite a lot in this anime. @ep4 If A was otaku rating, and B score of how good it is, this would probably have the highest A×B score in my whole list.
Review: So... not sure if I need a new otaku rating color. Though, there's not much actual fanservice, it's mostly the mentality of plot and humor, obscure terminology (to an average human)/ references to otaku subculture and it's extremes (for example, if you need to google to know what futa or ntr means, then this is probably not aimed at you). All in all, when you get used to this anime, it's quite awesome in every way, mostly in the way that's it's just really entertaining to watch. No super-epic serious plot at all, this is too insane/silly/humor-oriented for actual serious plot, though it does still have plot. Don't expect SF cause of screenshot to the right, this is extreme fantasy, but not the bad kind of fantasy with lame fights and magical rationalization.

Impressions: after 2.5 episodes into it: At first I loved how fast paced it was. It was like the classic love triangle scenario just fast-forwarded, so that was cool, but then from then it kinda slowed down and became about newbie relationship experience. I know (and kinda like) that romance anime are always about newbie relationships but these two characters seem downright emotionally retarded from time to time, and that can be painful and annoying to watch. There is one awesome character here that brings in the much needed skill and humor which are keeping this watchable. edit 2: I just wanna screencap every 5 minutes of their relationship and caption it "RELATIONSHIP: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG". ("Close your eyes Makoto-kun." *kisses him on cheek*). edit 3 (ep7): Holy shit this is suddenly awesome and is currently in the process of messing up my sleeping schedule... deconstructions ftw!

review: fuck. [/end review]
Ps. Genre is very loosely defined through the whole anime, so it keeps fundamentally changing. While in many cases that leads to confusion about what to expect and how to not misunderstand situations, here it adds to the unpredictability and unexpectedness a whole lot, so it's more of a good thing, but becasue of it, one can't simply quit this anime, but has to watch it till the very end, which in itself ends up being ironic since ending is the most unpredictable thing of them all, and also sucks in a way, but there was a potential for it to suck a LOT more, so it's not too bad. There are some facepalms throughout the anime, but surprisingly half of them turn out to be foreshadowing you'd never expect. (for example: someone acts really unrealistic, then much later it turns out that someone actually has mental problems). In being harem deconstruction, this beats Toradora into the dust. Toradora is only partly-harem-decon I'd say, while this goes all the way. Toradora is overall positive and very fun to watch + it has dem feels. This starts out like a cliché, gets gradually more deep and interesting and darker and way more realistic than Toradora. What keeps this anime addictive and causes it to mess up your biorythm is that it's a giant trainwreck and you're just "oh shit... what now... nooo! yeeees! noooo!... and then you realize you're more emotionally invested in characters than you realized. Good thing here is that it's very easy to feel for characters. Interesting thing is that everyone is full of flaws, just like real life, but then again, sometimes those flaws are so huge that it's hard not to get mad about some actions of some characters. Tvtropes has a nice line on this: "Sensitive, idiocy-intolerant or squeamish viewers, beware!". Last 4 minutes of the ending almost ruined the whole anime for me, imo, those should have been very different. If those were different I'd just run around recommending this to everyone... but now I'm just not sure. The problem with this, is that one should see at least whole 7 episodes of this, before saying wtfamIwatchingIquit. Bare minimum would be 4 episodes, but you'd still get the wrong idea unless you make it at least to ep7. At the same time I'm upset with certain someone for making me watch this, but then again I also want to thank them becasue I love when anime does something different. Ok so, if you ever enjoyed watched any Harem anime, then I recommend this.

Well it's a pretty good anime, I liked it for the most part, action sequences were especially good and were obviously pretty high budget. Also the overkill in action sequences is just hilarious to watch imo. It's such an overkill that surpasses bad and becomes good again. Cuteness of main character is consistent with KyoAni style (meaning it's moe at it's best), also her voiceacting really impressed me, she had a very distinct voice with a good act which really carried out her personality to me. Excessive use of vibrant colors can be seen as both good and bad thing, but i thought it contributed to this anime, to make it feel more fantasy and pretty. It's not a very realistic anime, and this is where my rant starts: In last couple of episodes when stuff gets explained and intense situations get resolved, it just asks for too much willing suspension of disbelief too often, mostly when explaining the inner workings of this magical world, although it can be a little annoying you can just relax and go with it and almost enjoy this anime entirely. Almost becasue in the ending, there really are some facepalm moments that almost make some scenes look like a plot from a bad cartoon, rather than a serious anime.

<- [related] it's an image of a topless redhead wolf girl hugging a tree. nuff said :D
I was only going to check out 1st episode before going to sleep... but then i realized i was already on episode 5 O.o... kinda addictive... didn't seem rly good at beginning though but nice story progression so far, bit heavy on economics on some parts, even i cant follow all of it. Also 5th episode had this totally senseless part, but it didn't actually change or influence the plot so i just just let it go... or maybe it was me not getting it, but i mean... if i didn't get it, I'm guessing too many people wouldn't. on 10th episode so far... i finally realized that the reason i don't understand so many "complicated" things in this anime is because of bad translation and my lack of expertise in economy. I'm sure it's much more understandable in Japanese, because in English translation some sentences sometimes just don't make sense. Also there are some economical terms in English that i don't even know what they mean.... so i realized those things were the source of my confusion, and i cant really just blame anime for it.
...ok finally finished it now. I was hoping it would be better with the final episodes. But there was still some inconsistencies... It's hard to pinpoint every single one of them, but then again, you'd have to be an expert in feudal age history to really know if half of mistakes in this anime are really mistakes. However, letting an average viewer like me (someone with just basic knowledge of feudal age) believe that there were mistakes, is actually the author's fault, they should make themselves more clear. Many times it even seams as if authors are cheating by twisting plot with some stuff only historians could tell is wrong, and you just cant be sure... and you are like... "oh, so that's how things work here?". Also it's kinda hard to objectively grade this anime, since i kinda fell for the main female character... but that's not the point. The point is... characters are nicely done, they are very interesting to watch, and they act consistently almost all the time. Relationship between two main characters is entertaining to say the least. I hope the second season will be better because this anime is entertaining to watch and great in many areas, but still, i think it has potential to be even better. Also after finishing first season... i just feel like something is missing in the way everything turned out it the end, but I dunno what it is... maybe there's not enough drama or not enough epicness in the ending itself.
conclusion? There wasn't a single anime yet where i was this much clueless in the end about what grade to give it on a scale from 0 to 10. ... i guess 8.55 would kinda suit it? not sure though... x) Most of the grade comes from originality of the thematic itself which is very refreshing to watch, because only thing I've seen so far remotely similar to this would be Haibane Renmei, but even that's very very different from this.
edit:Spice and Wolf 1&2 from 8.8 to 9.4 (rewatching it enlightened me).
edit2: 07.6.2011 Spice and Wolf 1&2 from 9.4 to 9.3 (just rewatched last 2 eps of first season, they really do have too many inconsistencies, but I still think it's better than Dragon Crisis so I'll leave it at 9.3).

Horo. More of her. Nuff' said.
...yeah anyways.... I kinda pwned myself here, since i didn't notice last 2 eps were short specials so i thought story had 2 more episodes to go... and then it was just finished x) Don't do the same mistake! Same like first season, this one also suffers from lack of epicnes regarding ending story arc, I guess that's my biggest complaint.
Well, what makes this anime fun to watch is relationship between main characters which is fun to wach - it's totally fun to watch them tease each other while both of them are sharp with words and pretty smart. And also the voiceacting is great, especially with character Horo - I'm amazed at how unique her character becomes through the magic of voiceacting :)

Love it! The main reason I can't give it super high grade is it's genre I guess, which is super-non-serious casual comedy, sometimes it's so non-serious it's reminiscent of a cartoon but it's still very entertaining. It's selling point are the characters, Ika is quite unique, lovable, and fun to watch, and the rest of the cast has some gems as well. It has couple of totally unpredictable moments so that's also a plus.

It's pretty much on the same level as first season, it's main downfall being that some of the mini episdoes are almost boring, while some other are great and really funny. Pretty much anything that includes the 3 stooges is bound to be awesome, best characters ever.

First impressions:
OMG! SF+philosophy+science+mystery+moe. So far the best anime to compare it to is Ergo Proxy, since they give the similar feel. First episode of this was great, but as always, it's an introduction episode that poses a lot of question, real challenge is yet to come in following episodes that will have to find some epic way to deal with those questions and problems, and that's where we'll really see if this is indeed 10/10 or not. From technical aspect, it is reminiscent of ergo proxy when it comes to graphics and atmosphere, although a bit more light. Proxy had such heavy Gothic atmosphere, which is not present here to such extent. I think I'm gonna watch the first episode again while waiting for the second one to come out :) EDIT: waiting to finish airing to start watching EDIT2: Omg i started watching and seen 3 ep since i thought it was near end of airing but now i realized there's gonna be 24 episodes o.o... umm i guess the good news beats the bad news this time x)

Review:
I watched 22 episodes in a row... 3rd to 24th, i think that speaks for itself!!!
Only reason I didn't watch all 24 in a row was that I was thinking of waiting for a friend to re-watch first 9 ep together with him... but I realized that's not gonna happen anytime soon and just continued... baka Toni :)
My only complaint is that that I noticed a few plot holes, which is not all that unusual in plot related to time-travel, I'm interested to see if the rest of my friends notice any. Right now I'm not sure if they are obvious enough to be genuine plot holes, or something one only realizes if the digs deep and thinks too much? In any case, the positive aspects of this anime epicly overshadow any potential plotholes, and you are left with a very enjoyable experience overall, such that it's making me want to watch it all again :) Other than that... intro OMFG EPIC, outro epic, in all aspects. Amazing how lyrics start to make more sense the further the story progresses. Voiceacting is amazing, as well as graphic and animation. + it has one of my fav seiyuu in it, and she did an amazing job, so amazing I almost didn't notice it was her. Characters are amazing and pretty deep, although story is what really shines in this anime. Only character I had problems with was cellphone girl, I find it hard to believe her to be realistic, but then again, maybe I'm just uninformed and such people really exist? I know I'd probably think main character is unrealistic if I didn't know what schizophrenia is :) Hey author, if you're gonna assume Viewers Are Geniuses, then at least make sure you don't have hidden plot holes >:) [/genious rant] But, jokes aside, as I said, this is still an amaaazing anime well worth anyone's time!
Ps. If you aren't otaku you won't understand few jokes and references in the anime, and if you aren't geeky or at least knowledgeable the same applies. I gotta admit I kinda liked that aspect, made me feel smart xD. What else to say, I loved this one so many levels. Is it better than Code Geass R1? I guess... maybe? not sure... but whatever I wanted to give this high grade so I did! fuck yeah!

50% into the first ep I was pretty much amazed at the concept and the first twist... but then after that I was like "omfg this makes no sense, I wish I didn't know so much about mmo development maybe then I wouldn't realize how impossible this is", but then after almost quiting, I came to another realization, this mmo only has 10k people playing it at launch. This isn't a mainstream mmo such as in-anime commercials made it seem, it's clearly an indie title, making the development team very small and development process significantly different, and having the scenario that happens in 1st episode actually seem realistic/possible from most aspects then, if not all. It would also explain the "mmo" being finish-able within a few days.
ep2: begining... wtf? A month? This has so many unrealistic implications that if they don't address them by the end of the ep. i most likely quit.
after ep2: Such potential! Oh why oh why do you have to screw it up so bad... I don't know what to say. after ep4: After going through forums checking out wtf is with backstory of this anime, I found many explanations that were present in light novel but that anime kinda skipped. Existence of those explanations makes this a mostly great anime. Skipping them in such a way is retarded but oh well...
Review: so... around half way through it gets really amazing, but then gets a bit less amazing closer to the end. The anime is just riddled with problems off all kinds, some of them quite big, so many facepalms were had... but I gotta admit that it was still very fun and addictive to watch. Production quality is great but could be better in some details. Suspension of disbelief is what it comes down to, if you can willingly do that a LOT then you're gonna have a very very good time watching this. This is by far the anime with biggest contrast when it comes to how good it is vs. how much willing suspension of disbelief it requires, it's in the same time bad and amazing, if that makes any sense. What I regret most is the wasted potential. The thematic and characters (good ones) are the driving force here, and if the story was handled more seriously this had the potential to stand toe-to-toe with code geass and steins gate. It's kinda sad to see that potential wasted like this. It's funny how this still manages to be a great anime overall, and something I'd recommend. Ps. this writer comes up with the worst antagonists... as in very bad writing...

1st.ep. so this is what happiness feels like.... dat kyoani skill! The bleeding edge of moe development and presentation in a best possible way. Review: Though I was quite excited at first, the story didn't really go anywhere, I was hoping for something with more plot and less slice of life. However, it's still more fun to watch than K-On if we disregard music, but Hyouka and Chuuni win against Tamako market because they had more story that was more clever and had slightly better characters, however, from a slice of life standpoint, this feels better than Hyouka, but lead-girl-wise Chitanda>Tamako. Don't get me wrong, Kyoani has held up to it's standard, and the anime, same as all of their other ones, feels incredibly fluid when it comes to their storytelling. Also characters are really well designed, fun, interesting and likable (Chouji = best character). OP/ED = win, naturally. ...mawaru mawaru recoodo...

(-, 10.8, 10.9, 10.4, 10.8, 9.7, 10.6, 10.4, 10.9, 10.3, 9.7, 10.6, 11.4). Overall, it's like Hanasaku Iroha without more episodes than it needs, and with music as it's central thematic. It's primarily a drama and only then slice of life comedy. Production quality makes this a real pleasure to watch. It's perfectly balanced in all regards. There's excellent moe as well, but one that wouldn't be able to annoy anyone. Which brings us to a great point, that this deserves otaku rating 1. It's completely free from all the otaku stuff, but it still succeeds in completely keeping it's anime charm. If you're not into dramas, this might seem like too much praise. If you prefer fast paced crazy or hilarious stuff with action, then stay clear from this as it's the complete opposite. Story isn't epic with amazing plot twists, but it's a real pleasure to watch and characters are very deep and awesome. Another interesting thing is that it doesn't deal with romance, there's very very little of romance involved, but it's not teased it in a wrong way (like Hyouka). And on top of that, the music is great. It features several story arcs. Story progression feels natural, and culmination at the end also delivers. Definitely the best non romantic non otaku drama anime I've seen so far.

The way the animation is in the same time amazing and expressive and perfectly in harmony with voiceacting... holy shit this is awesome. Story progression is also excelent, and this anime is practically a one big display of unresolved sexual tension trope, but then again, it's an awesome trope with great comedy potential if executed properly, and this anime does it! And not just that, the romantic interest web or network that defines who is after who, is so cleverly and awesomely designed that it managed to tease the viewer SO MUCH without actually revealing what will happen next or who will end up with who, just when you are almost sure you've finally got it... In the end you end up understanding the shipping trope much better, since you'll definitely end up tryng to guess what will happen, romance-wise, and begin rooting for characters based on their actions and how much you find them interesting and likable, and let me tell you, characters here are simply amazing, their personalties are not just awesome most of the time, they are incredibly deep and detailed. At first Taiga might seem a bit too crazy of a character, but she quickly becomes more normal, and most stuff gets explained so bear with it in first episode or two if it's bothers you, it's worth it. It's great how this anime manages to stay refreshing and interesting during the course of all 25 episodes. Opening is one of the best openings ever, along with the song being aweeesome, but I only came to that conclusion after seeing it for the third time. Ending takes 4-5 watchings before you realize that it's also awesome. Some people might be bothered by subtle/indirect approach to confessing/rejecting/accepting. I personally like it more this way, although it's less rational, it's more romantic. Also I get the feeling it's another cultural difference, so seasoned otakus probably wont see this negatively but positively. I myself see it positively, since it's refreshing, funny, romantic, somewhat unusual..., and ultimately makes even more sense later in the anime when some other stuff about characters gets revealed, so what seemed to be weird at a time, turns out to be amazing foreshadowing of future events :) Ending is a little weird and a bit abstract, you are left to conclude what the hell happened, if you're not the greatest follower of storyline or don't feel like thinking just read the ending explanation here: (MAJOR SPOILER warning: yahoo answers link)

Omg... This show. I am in love. I want more. Edit: It gets somewhat less amazing later on, first few episodes were just promising waay too much I guess, it's still great just occasionally also annoying. This starts off promising soooo much. If only it delivered. One would simply expect with such serious intro, that the anime would take it's characters and their relationships more seriously, but it doesn't. The problem is that it makes you expect a masterpiece with first few episodes, especially the first one, then later waters down into slice of life that's main point is being silly, but then it tries to hit you back with feels in a tragic way every now and then, and those switches from silly and lighthearted humor to utter tragic drama just don't work as well as they do in Key works. Well, in the end it does come down to it being overall quite good, funny and moe, just somewhat annoying from time to time, both plot-wise and character-wise. Ps. There was really no need for this to be otaku rating 3/4. That's only because of few particular scenes that are totally unnecessary in the whole concept of the anime that just made me go: "oh what the fuck, now I can't recommend this to most people out there." The quality/quantity of moe is probably where this show shines the most, so for that, it's top class.

This anime is... simply beautiful :) I believe that's the best way to describe it. Story, animation, graphics, characers, voiceacting, soundtack... zenbu! utsukushii!!! PA Works is now definitely my favorite studio, along with KyoAni. I highly recommend this to anyone who's mature enough to find artistic romance dramas interesting to watch. On certain parts you might find cultural differences a little bit annoying, but it's well worth it to disregard it and keep watching.

Male protagonist is soo epic! Like a mix between Kira and Sheldon, need I say anything else :D ? It's a very entertaining anime. I also like how it's somewhat original. it's perfectly executed, seems Manglobe (studio) really knows what they are doing. Graphics and animation are awesome, voiceacting as well + it features a seiyuu that I am fond off (the character of Librarian girl Shiori). Intro was perfectly executed although I wasn't a big fan of the music they used, I can appreciate the perfectly executed intro. Outro was EPIC. From girl characters, Kanon and Elsie were really something, outstanding characters with epic voiceacting and appearance, not to mention the cool songs that Kanon sings which were released as an irl album, songs were epicly animated in the anime itself, kinda like in K-on, only maybe even better animated, which was awesome.

It was close to being as good as first season. I'd definitely say it lives up to the first season. But why not as awesome? Probably since that 'ordinary' girl wasn't really memorable or attractive, but nevertheless anime takes that and turns it into a plot development, which I liked. The only real complaint is that marshal arts girl, I find myself not remembering much about what happened in those episodes, meaning they weren't as good. OP was as good as first season, probably better, ED didn't live up to first season. But the overall impression of the anime is very positive, I liked it and it's almost as good as first season. Third season was somewhat announced I guess, and I'm definitely looking forward to it.

This is so epicly entertaining, it's equally epicly hard to grade. It was maybe even more entertaining than Toradora... but on the other hand toradora had some depth and drama... so I just figured: This was equally flawlessly amazing in cute-entertaining-comedy department as True Tears was in love-drama department. Although I should note that this, same as Oreimo or Ro-Kyu-Bu, requires a viewer to be a certain level of Otaku before he can accept it for what it is and enjoy it, since non-otaku audience is definitely too closed minded and stiff for this thematic: YuruYuri literally means soft-yuri, so that's what you can expect. Nothing perverted or anything, but considering the age of the girls in question, most non-otaku audience would probably freak out xD. But realistically, it's actually just a tiny step above k-on, as far as actual display of yuri goes. But it's the idea that's constantly used for humorous situations. Pacing, execution and humor and voiceacting... sooo perfect. It's absolutely perfect anime in it's category. I don't remember a single milisecond of being bored while watching it. And just when I'd think some humor element is getting overused, it's turned into an internal meme (such as "Good moaning!" or "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once!"). Gender wise, I'm pretty sure even girls would enjoy this, humor is just THAT good.

Color me impressed... first episode was like... the best thing ever. The rest is also amazing, it's like first season only a bit better I'd say.