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A little anime update:
Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite:
Ok, I've been wrong about things before, and this is one of them. Originally I dismissed it as a simple re-make of the original, but upon seeing a few more episodes, I have decided that's not the case. Yeah, it starts off the same, but then gains a few things that the original didn't have, which was a concept beyond that of "one boy and thousands of maids". Not that there's anything WRONG with that, at least not in my book. But having a story to actually go somewhere does help. Now, this may have somewhat less fanservice than the original, but by the time I saw episode 5, I wasn't worried about that at all. This is Geneon's nod to anime/manga fans, as the central cast goes to Comic Market and does cosplay as very familiar characters. Oh, what they got Taro to dress up as... Anyway, I'm glad this got picked up, and I look forward to it being on DVD.
Vampiyan Kids:
Kid-safe show about an orange juice-drinking vampire that must scare 1000 people in order to return to the monster world. The humor in it didn't strike me as dumb, so I enjoyed it. While a lot of animation studios in the US are trying to emulate the "anime" style, this one is trying to emulate the US style. One of the characters looks like she's partway between Jessica Rabbit and Hello Nurse. This show has been out for several years now, so I'm surprised this hasn't been licensed yet. It'd be easy to port this to an English-speaking audience, what with English names and background signs. If the credits and dialogue weren't in Japanese, it would've fooled me. And so, I wait for the next episode.
Dogtato-kun:
Our favorite half canine/half spud character continues, having just completed a tense two-part story arc! Episodes 5 & 6 covered an event with a cave that stored sound, so inevitably the wrong things were said, and heard by the wrong characters. Now, each episode is slightly over three minutes long, so it was over and done with in under seven minutes. Even taking into consideration that this was designed for kids less than a fourth of my age, that's still an impressive feat. Most other series would have dragged that drama out for 350 years. But those other series don't have Croconion.
Oof, I need to watch some more anime. Up next on my viewing schedule: Samurai Champloo (which I've heard good things about, and it has Ayako Kawasumi), Yumeria, Iketeru Futari, and hopefully finish off some other shows. In the meantime, Hanaukyo la Verite 6-8 are going to finish soon, so I can stop beating up this hotspot and go home. (4GB of combined up/down transfer in one evening. Hot damn.)
Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite:
Ok, I've been wrong about things before, and this is one of them. Originally I dismissed it as a simple re-make of the original, but upon seeing a few more episodes, I have decided that's not the case. Yeah, it starts off the same, but then gains a few things that the original didn't have, which was a concept beyond that of "one boy and thousands of maids". Not that there's anything WRONG with that, at least not in my book. But having a story to actually go somewhere does help. Now, this may have somewhat less fanservice than the original, but by the time I saw episode 5, I wasn't worried about that at all. This is Geneon's nod to anime/manga fans, as the central cast goes to Comic Market and does cosplay as very familiar characters. Oh, what they got Taro to dress up as... Anyway, I'm glad this got picked up, and I look forward to it being on DVD.
Vampiyan Kids:
Kid-safe show about an orange juice-drinking vampire that must scare 1000 people in order to return to the monster world. The humor in it didn't strike me as dumb, so I enjoyed it. While a lot of animation studios in the US are trying to emulate the "anime" style, this one is trying to emulate the US style. One of the characters looks like she's partway between Jessica Rabbit and Hello Nurse. This show has been out for several years now, so I'm surprised this hasn't been licensed yet. It'd be easy to port this to an English-speaking audience, what with English names and background signs. If the credits and dialogue weren't in Japanese, it would've fooled me. And so, I wait for the next episode.
Dogtato-kun:
Our favorite half canine/half spud character continues, having just completed a tense two-part story arc! Episodes 5 & 6 covered an event with a cave that stored sound, so inevitably the wrong things were said, and heard by the wrong characters. Now, each episode is slightly over three minutes long, so it was over and done with in under seven minutes. Even taking into consideration that this was designed for kids less than a fourth of my age, that's still an impressive feat. Most other series would have dragged that drama out for 350 years. But those other series don't have Croconion.
Oof, I need to watch some more anime. Up next on my viewing schedule: Samurai Champloo (which I've heard good things about, and it has Ayako Kawasumi), Yumeria, Iketeru Futari, and hopefully finish off some other shows. In the meantime, Hanaukyo la Verite 6-8 are going to finish soon, so I can stop beating up this hotspot and go home. (4GB of combined up/down transfer in one evening. Hot damn.)
