| 7:21pm | Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou Review - 80/100 | | | | Sometimes, these series appear that aren’t supposed to be good and yet they are. Series as Asagiri no Miko and Wagaya no Oinarisama, who have the most generic premises, somehow end up being a very enjoyable ride from start to finish in their own way. The same goes with Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou.... |
| 6:20pm | Canaan Review - 80/100 | | | | Canaan is, without a doubt, the series with the biggest budget and best graphics of all the series that debuted the past Summer Season. With this, PA Works have really established themselves as a company with a number of amazing artists, with an amazing attention to detail. Canaan is a bit iffy on... |
| 5:05pm | Key the Metal Idol Review - 85/100 | | | | Watching Key the Metal Idol really makes me appreciate how awesome art from the 90s can be. Sure, the past decade has also put forth a fair amount of beautifully drawn anime, but there definitely is a charm to the cell animation that dates from the time when there was no CG yet. The designs in Key... |
| 3:03pm | Pandora Hearts Review - 87,5/100 | | | | The past spring season was a good one for fantasy-series. Among the best ones of this genre was Pandora Hearts. It takes the air of modern-day fairy-tales, and gives them a dark and twisted twist, resulting into quite a unique series that focuses on themes as the past and forgiveness. What sets this... |
| 2:30pm | Pandora Hearts - 25 | | | | I have a question for the manga-readers: was this episode really anime-original? I mean, it was a standalone episode and all, but at the same time it gave out a lot of new information about a certain character, it actually showed the current Sabrie and it also developed Oz a bit and it was well paced... |
| 1:09pm | Taishou Yakyuu Musume Review - 77,5/100 | | | | Series about girls’ baseball teams that challenge male baseball teams are nothing new. Princess Nine did this before. Still, Taishou Yakyuu Musume tries to bring in a bit of a twist with its setting: the 1920s. it’s a very nice setting for a feminist series to explore the struggles of... |
| 10:29am | Phantom Review - 92,5/100 | | | | Okay, time for me to review my favourite anime of the past Spring and Summer Season: Phantom, or Requiem from the Phantom. It’s based on a visual novel by Nitroplus, and while it starts off as a Noir clone at first, it develops into something much more. It shows a story about a couple of assassins... |
| 9:33am | Phantom - 26 | | | | Whoa, wtf Throughout this episode, I had no idea what the people in the shoutbox were talking about. I mean, it was an awesome episode that did just about everything it should have done: exciting gunfight, after which Scythe dies and Reiji and Helen live on, trying to search for Helen’s origins.... |
| 8:34am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni - 13 | | | | I personally love those series in which you can never be sure what to expect, which is exactly the case in Umineko. Even after being spoiled that Beatrice was going to die I still loved how this episode played out. Seriously, can this series get even more intriguing? In this episode, we learn that... |
| 7:29am | Basquash! - 25 | | | | Holy crap! The eye-candy! To think that Satelight had saved its best budget for last, that really took me by surprise. I didn’t expect to say this of Basquash of all shows, but this really was the prettiest episode I’ve seen during the entire Summer Season. And I must say, that the creators... |
| 9:00pm | Chi’s New Address Review - 72,5/100 | | | | The first season of Chi’s Sweet Home showed us exactly how awesome cats can be, so I was looking forward to its second season. Unfortunately, it fell victim to the number one pitfall of all comedies out there: it lost its inspiration! Such a shame! The first season had a set of absolutely hilarious... |
| 8:01am | Some Quick First Impressions: Queen’s Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugumono | | | | Queen’s Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugumono Well, so the Autumn Season has started, and let’s hope that with this series, we’ve got the worst to air first. From now on, I’m just going to put these quick first impressions, and re-post them as I watch more. Do warn me when this starts... |
| 7:12am | Spice and Wolf II Review - 87,5/100 | | | | The first season of Ookami to Koushinryou, or Spice and Wolf, came from absolutely nowhere. It had the worst possible staff you can imagine (outside of the team that’s been animating Ikkitousen and Queen’s Blade, perhaps) and yet it came and delivered an incredibly solid series about merchants... |
| 7:59pm | Eve no Jikan Review - 80/100 | | | | Science fiction, androids and artificial intelligence are a popular theme in anime, but Eve no Jikan shows that you can still come with new ideas. It’s an OVA series of five episodes of 15 minutes, and 1 of half an hour, and it shows a possible future in which androids have just become able... |
| 5:19pm | 07-Ghost Review - 75/100 | | | | \ To be honest, until a week ago I still wasn’t quite sure how to review this series. I mean, there obviously was something wrong with it, but I just couldn’t put my finger to exactly what. Nevertheless, with the final two episodes (which were very exciting, by the way), I finally know... |
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