Just got a bent up March 2008 issue of Megami from J-List…
I got this issue for the poster of Kokonoe covered in chocolate, but me being at home, I couldn’t really put that up. Luckily, on the other side is that hot SZS pic.
Liking where the flash is falling in that last pic.
I’d love to put up the Kure-nai poster, but I’m currently in my parents’ house, and the Kure-nai poster is one of a naked seven-year-old taking a bath. I mean, I’m already pushing it with the Kojika and Yotsunoha posters. I also ordered the March Megami from J-List because it had that poster of Kokonoe Rin covered in nothing but chocolate. Won’t be able to put that one up, either.
Yotsunoha episode 2 is humour scenes, drama scenes and romantic scenes mixed together unevenly that revolve around characters who we barely know and makes references to other characters who we don’t know at all and tries to have it all make sense by haphazardly throwing in flashbacks that just make it all the more of a clusterfuck.
The animation is still nice looking, but some shots look pretty bad– more so than in episode 1. Voice work is still the same, meaning that whoever the fuck does Nono makes me want to tape the kid’s mouth shut and do unspeakable things to her, and Yuuko Gotou’s voice is a breath of fresh, blissful nee-san air.
Yotsunoha is basically like one of those short OVAs from the 1980s that were meant to take THE BEST from a long running manga series and crush it into 60 minutes resulting in terrors. Except for in Yotsunoha’s case, I guess it’s a porn game. Oh well, at least it had the best confession ever. It goes something like this, “I don’t have a lolita complex! It just happened by chance that the woman I love is a loli.”
Yeah. Real smooth.
Also what kind of young boy does his hair up like this
Kid in red is a boy. No, seriously.
Three years ago Nono Nekomiya and her friends Makoto Yuuki, Iori Yuzuki and Matsuri Amachi all buried a time capsule at their old school and promised to meet back on the same day three years later. Fast forward those three years, they all meet up again, then scriptwriter/director Hiroshi Nishikiori whips out his checklist of boring harem cliches and applies them with little effort or thought for about 30+ minutes. He tops it all off with the classic “main girl walks in on main guy hugging another girl but not out of love but it’s misunderstood since anime characters love jumping to conclusions” bit ending episode 1 on a thrilling cliffhanger, leaving its viewers waiting with bated breath for the next and final 40-minute masterpiece.
This show is so incredibly bland. I have nothing against harem shows, but if you’re going to give me one, it needs to have some teeth. Tenchi has spaceships, Key things have KyoAni and Shuffle! has MAGIC. Hell, even craptastic shows like They Are My Noble Masters still get by on the odd G-Gundam reference. As far as writing goes, this show has absolutely nothing going for it. You’ve seen all this shit before, and probably done better.
I’m not one to totally shit on a show though (no wait who am I kidding) so I’ll give credit where credit’s due. This show looks good. It’s apparently by Hal Film Maker, a studio I’ve never heard about since all they make is crap. As such, I’ve not really seen their stuff, but this is fucking beautiful from the backgrounds to the character animation. I only remember a few QUALITY shots here and there, but for the most part it’s solid work. It also has Yuuko Goto in it. She plays the blissful nee-san. It’s cute.
What is not cute is Nono’s voice. I remember hearing her give me a Valentine’s Day greeting last year, and pretended to like her voice so I could get lost in the sensation of a girl speaking to me at all, but after listening to this kid go on and on for nearly 40 minutes, I wanted to throw myself into the Charles River. GUYS. HER VOICE ISN’T CUTE. With each breath she sounds like she’s about to die, or something. I mean, I like weak girls a lot but… this NHK level moe-girl. Put her in a wheelchair or something.
Uh, so yeah. I guess if you like formulaic harem stuff with good production values, this’ll be up your alley. Otherwise, give it a miss.
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