The series is great. It needs patience for the pay off, but it’s there.
Otagan
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I love LOGH. Totally worth the time I put into it, and it’s really the kind of series I could have watched even before I started into anime. Broad sci-fi appeal is definitely a strong suit, and while I take issue with a few aspects of the series it still remains a strong favorite of mine.
Can anyone tell me why Giant Robo was so well spoken of? I’ve watched it all (including the side story disc) and… well… yay for great operatics, but otherwise it left me cold. And I’m a sucker for film noir and scenery chewing characters.
Me too! Me too!
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san turned into a typical harem show of the super-powerful girls and bog-normal guy variety (let me call this “power-harem”), with weird references to video games and oh yeah, cthulhu. It was good for a few laughs, but horrifically dumb storyline, so I dropped this at eps 6.
Tasogare Otome×Amnesia is a romance/horror with a real ghost. Seems like there’s not much meat to the story; I felt like being held hostage by fillers until the big finale solving the 2 mysteries in the show. So I dropped it too.
Accel World is my best show this season. It has fast pace, tight stories and plots, with lots of twists and turns. For a typical “boy climbs power ladder” story, this show could have been incredibly clichéd, but it’s somehow only somewhat clichéd. Something about how well I liked all the parts of the show made me watch it twice by episode 5.
Sankarea: I almost dropped it because of the father. I’m still watching to see where the story is going, but I don’t have a good feeling. Teetering…
Fate Zero is awesome as expected, but unlike Accel World, I actually hesitate before watching a new episode.
Kore wa Zombie desu ka? OF THE DEAD is now a Power-Harem show. This will actually be my dictionary definition of power-harem, especially the boy with no power except the power of sympathy and kind-heartedness to make even bad chicks fall head over heels. I’m not dropping this show because it doesn’t annoy me as much as others.
I hesitate to really call Kore wa Zombie desu ka a harem when almost nobody openly shows feelings for the main character.
Most of it is just for comedy elements, such as my favorite, the ninja vampire who refers to him as “my damn darling.”
The first zombie series was like how you described, which is why I liked it. At that time, out of the 3 girls that live with him, only one is tsundere; one likes him but shows nothing, and one doesn’t like him no matter what. There’s one more ninja vampire that’s head over heels in love with him. 50% ratio, only 2 love interests…that’s a romantic comedy.
The current 2nd series, at episode 8, introduced 2 more love interests, converted the original ninja vampire into one (but she’s fighting hard!), converted an enemy into one. It’s now a full harem.
(I want to call out S2E4 for a really funny episode taking place in a tsundere maid cafe. It should be enjoyable by itself, with no prior knowledge.)
peterb
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Goddamn it, someone just sent me an animated gif, and i gotta know what show this was from:
(warning: NOT work-safe).
Any ideas?
Space Adventure Cobra. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from the title and that .gif, a fun action romp.
peterb
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Lynxara++. Now that’s what I call world-class response time.
I started watching The Sacred Blacksmith on Netflix. It’s mediocre at best, but mindless fun.
Finished up Corpse Princess on Netflix instant watch last night. Thought it was pretty good, decent action scenes, interesting storyline, horror elements in a coming of age story. Silly behavior over anything sexual was annoying, but par for the course I suppose. Ending left things feeling unresolved, too, which may mean someone had planned a third season.
The source material (manga) is still going as far as i know, so they were kind of forced to go with the open ended ending.
Just finished up Kaze No Stigma on netflix. Not deep, but a good overall world and for a show I was watching just to unwind, it did it for me. It wasn’t a harem show, though it was about the relationship between two young adults. Recomment, but not strongly.
I liked Kaze No Stigma myself, but this is one of those cases where it is an incomplete adaptation and from what I remember, the author died… so it will never be “completed”…
I really would have liked to learn more about the backstory too.
I watched Berserk - Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler the other night. It was alright, don’t know why I was expecting more when there is absolutely no way to compress the series. It was short, only an hour and sixteen minutes with credits and it crammed in 9 episodes of the original anime. Susumu Hirasawa’s music was sorely missed and the the title theme he did just didn’t cut it. The movie begins with a pointless battle and later glosses over a Band of the Hawk battle that would have actually been worthwhile. Despite them showing a glimpse of Gambino and Donovan, you’d have no idea about the past of Guts. Minister Foss seems to be gone.
The animation is good, but if you haven’t seen Berserk before you should definitely watch the original anime or read the manga first.
Thanks for the corpse princess recommendation. I’m enjoying it. Just dark enough and looks to be a deep enough story.
Just read the manga. The anime dials things back quite a bit and only covers the early part of the manga storyline.
I tried to watch Rosario+Vampire but had to give it up after 2.5 episodes. I’ve watched harem-type anime before that was decent, but this isn’t one of them. Way overboard on everything from panty shots to boob massages. Too bad since the concept of a human among monsters seemed interesting.
Started on Chrome Shelled Regios instead, which seems pretty decent after 3 episodes. Lots going on, not all of which I understand yet, but there’s 21 episodes left for them to explain it all.
While i thought Chrome Shelled Regios was pretty good, it was brought down by the fact that a lot of things NEVER end up making any sense and overall it doesn’t really give a satisfying ending. As far as i know it did not adapt all of the source content, which was not done at the time (assuming it is now?) so a lot of REALLY weird plot points that are brought up mid to late series never end up making any sense at all.
Still found it enjoyable though.
Rosario+vampire is a stock standard harem anime. They do tend to be defined by going “way overboard on everything from panty shots to boob massages.”
Finished up Chrome Shelled Regios, and I agree that the ending is kind of weak. At least, if it’s the ending…it feels more like the midpoint of a story. There’s no second season in the works, but if they do make one someday, it might take care of that. The series overall reminded me quite a bit of Code Geass, which also took two full seasons to resolve the story.
