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The Spring 2011 Anime Preview Guide

Enma-kun is based on Go Nagai's manga.

For the last time, Go Nagai isn't an anime director, he's a manga artist, and most of the anime that are based on his works usually deviate a lot from the original, and meeramera is no exception.

He's not even writing it! He's not part of the staff other than being the original creator of Enma-kun.

garfield15 wrote:

Quote: Rating: .432 Oh you, Zac.

The joke is that this is the show's batting average!

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

Saturn wrote: Salsaman1991 wrote: Quote: Studio DEEN's artistic technical merits are not particularly strong here Or anywhere else. DEEEEENN!! /troll That's what I kept thinking while reading all the reviews, too ^^; I was excited, if just a little, to see a new BL show for this season, but as soon as I heard who was animating I winced a little. Oh, DEEN. I didn't know deen was doing it either.. when i saw there logo i fell out my chair laughing so hard. They basically trolled everyone.

Well they were the ones behind Junjou as well and I didn't notice any particularly glaring QUALITY issues there and considering that there won't be a lot of fight scenes it should be okay here as well.

I've started some of the Sekaiichi manga but found it a bit confusing in terms of the chronological sequence of the story etc so hopefully the anime will be better organised. Everything being in coloured also helps since now I can differentiate the identical looking characters by hair colour.

Key wrote:

Given the lack of clarity on where the series [We, Without Wings] is going or what its intent is (if any) beyond its fan service, the rating given here reflects total ambivalence on this one. Another episode or two will definitely be required to determine where this series stands.

Eh. There's definitely a place for charitable optimism, but seriously: no it won't. What you've got to ask yourself is, has any series ever shifted gears so dramatically?

SantaBla wrote:

Enma-kun is based on Go Nagai's manga. For the last time, Go Nagai isn't an anime director, he's a manga artist, and most of the anime that are based on his works usually deviate a lot from the original, and meeramera is no exception. He's not even writing it! He's not part of the staff other than being the original creator of Enma-kun.

Yes, I am aware of that.

Shows based on his work are inexorably tied to him; they are usually described using his name and all share very, very similar qualities. I can say "Go Nagai comedy" and people familiar with his work will know exactly what I am talking about.

Just as any adaptation of Toriyama's manga is described as being very Toriyama-esque, even though he was not involved with the production itself.

Here are a few examples of bizarre dissonance between first impression and actual content:

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's first broadcasted episode was hilariously disastrous. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles' tone changed radically in its latter half. Madoka Magica's opening and promotional artwork are nothing like the actual show. The first episode of Dance in the Vampire Bund.

Some people have mentioned that the first episode of Without Wings may be pure trolling, just to get more attention.

actually, fans of the OreTachi galge were a bit annoyed by the fact that the first anime ep want to amp up the fanservice aspect by miles.
That indicates the story will be a lot more serious than what it seems to be, at least the level of fanservice will be lower in the upcoming episodes if the studio won't become a cop-out.

Steins;Gate... meh. It looks like it has a great central time-travel mind-screw thing going for it, but I didn't find its attempts at humor very funny, I found the lead female character unbelievably annoying, and it has a maid with bunny ears and a miko, which means this series, for all its high-minded premise, will be digging deep, deep into the database so that otaku can write smutty doujin for it, and I'm not sure if the mind-screw is enough for me to endure all of that. If there's nothing else this season, I might come back to it.

Steins;Gate's setting is Akibahara, not having a maid would surely be criminal in some way. And that miko isn't technically a miko despite working as miko, you will see what I mean if you watch the next episode.

And as I said, there were other things that irked me in this first episode, primarily Mayuri. I take it she's supposed to be an adult, but her mannerisms come across to me as either cognitively or developmentally disabled, and it's hard for me to laugh about a character like that. Well, okay, Osaka in Azumanga Daioh! was funny, but she wasn't in a serious mind-screw piece. It felt out of place.

4nBlue wrote:

Steins;Gate's setting is Akibahara, not having a maid would surely be criminal in some way. And that miko isn't technically a miko despite working as miko, you will see what I mean if you watch the next episode.

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She's not a miko in spite of working as a miko. You know that the definition of being a miko is working as a miko, right?