Spring 08 Impressions PART IV
April 17th, 2008 at 16:43:56 by wildarmsheeroI watched all these a couple of days ago so these aren’t immediate reactions like the last few posts.
Kamen no Maid Guy
This was a real disappointment. I expected quality gags in the vein of Hayate, but instead I got some really badly designed and poorly scripted bunk. All this show has going for it is boobs, and even those are poorly done. I’m sure there’s an audience out there for this stuff, though– the same audience that loved Magikano, probably.
Golgo 13
Japan’s number 1 stone cold killer finally makes his way onto the small screen after 40+ years of being mostly restricted to the pages of his 140+ volumes of manga. None of this stuff is really original, but it’s proper no-nonsense Adult Anime, and the medium could probably do with more of it. People have been complaining that the animation is stiff– while it is, it doesn’t really bother me. When stuff actually needs to move, it moves well, and the scenes with little to no movement don’t really feel cheap. The production is about as good as your average Death Note epsiode, which is to say pretty good. There’s going to be 50 episodes of this, so I hope the subbers can keep up/don’t loose interest.
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
This show almost has my favourite character designs of the season if it wasn’t for Kure-nai and Kanokon. Fuka especially is quite fuckable. That stuff aside, the first episode of this show is humour scenes mixed with trying-to-be-serious-but-this-is-not-a-serious-show scenes. This one has potential to be real fun, but the final shot of episode 1 coupled with the small bits of “seriousness” sprinkled throughout this episode make me worry that it’ll take its silly self seriously. Kyouko, the main girl, is the kind of character I don’t really like, but she’s cute enough so that’s all well and good. I’ll probably be keeping up with this one.
And that’s it for this series of posts. There are still a few other shows I’ve seen and want to see, but the spring rush is pretty much over now. Hope you all chose your spring viewing wisely!
Tags: Golgo 13, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
April 18th, 2008 at 07:24:45
>Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
I think I found my retarded show for this season.
April 18th, 2008 at 17:41:42
I hope they integrate real people into the Golgo 13 anime as the manga has. Dubya hiring Golgo 13 to take out someone like Ahmadinejad would be quite amusing.
April 18th, 2008 at 21:32:19
I wanted to read Golgo 13, but it seems like there’s waaaaay too much to read, so maybe one day….
I finally watched Macross Frontier and holyfuckwin it’s awesome.
April 19th, 2008 at 00:08:35
VIZ is releasing Golgo’s “Greatest Hits” across 13 volumes in the US. That should be enough to give you a good taste.
Once you get good enough at Japanese you can try your hand at the 100+ manga volumes :V
April 20th, 2008 at 09:37:33
Heh, Kyouran is pretty good. I hate seeing a adorable loli getting mistreated like that. I do agree, I hope it stays wacky.