Seto no Hanayome (episodes 1 ~ 25)
Short summary : A guy is saved from drowning by a mermaid, and has to marry her now that he knows her true identity, as said in the Mermaids’ Rule. For making the things worse, the mermaid is from an “undersea” yakuza family, and her father is very protective.
Adapted from a manga by the same author as “My Name is Zushio”. If you ever read that piece of pure crazyness, well you can expect kinda the same crazyness and absurd humor here. Sure this anime is crazy, maybe a little too much I would dare to say. Sometime I feel exhausted after watching an episode of Seto.
That may be the only “bad point” of the show, if you can even call this a bad point. Except that, it’s your typical school love-comedy. Some funny moments, some fanservice, and some nice characters.
San, the heroine. Most of the time a nice and kind girl, but can unexpectedly go totally random over various things. She has also a very manly side. Dubbed by Haruko Momoi.
Runa, San’s rival. I found her so irritating in the beginning (well, I still think she’s somewhat irritating), but as I said before : characters who confess their love properly to the main guy get extra win points from me. Fight-o, Runa-chan.
‘Delicious’ Maki, the killer liliputian. A funny character, one of my favorite from the show. I wish there was a ‘human-sized Maki’ episode but since there is only one episode left, it will most likely never happen.
Mawari, the policeman’s daughter. Cute, short and bossy, my favorite character from the show. She also likes to act naughty with the class rep. She made me think of Haruhi at first.
The nameless, ignored and unlucky ‘Iinchou’ (class rep). You can’t help but want to support her… ’cause heh, iinchou are awesome.
Mawari with a ouendan uniform. As you might expect, she’s the type who is popular with girls, which makes even more win points for her.
Masa-san, pure GARness, with awesome voice and afro. A totally cool, reliable yet funny yakuza, I’m a fan. He’s the main guy’s first kiss. XD
The main guy’s mom, definitely the cutest of all the characters. Anime MILF, but sadly she doesn’t have so much screentime. She wants Masa-san (who doesn’t ?).
This time I will finish with a (not so) random pic :
Masa-san is real !
And he sells Yayoi x Iori doujins…
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Nanatsuiro Drops (episodes 1 ~ 9)
Short summary : A somewhat asocial guy drinks by mistake a magic potion which transforms him into a sheep plush, and “forcibly” becomes the familiar of a beginner magical girl.
I was mostly looking forward to this show because the original game was designed by Noizi Ito, but sure this show is different of the image I had in mind. Well yeah, I did see all the magical girl thing in the CGs but 1) almost forgot about it cause Nadeshiko (Nako-chan) is mostly what I remembered from them, 2) eroge usually have more… “mature” story ?
Anyway, they did a good job at keeping the original design. As for the interest of the show, well I would say that it’s ok to watch it if you have some free time in your hands. This is mostly a Card Captor Sakura rip-off, and it’s 12 episodes long only, so if you’re not too demanding you can give it a try.
On a random note, I love the main theme that we hear throughout the serie in different versions.
Sumomo the magical girl, and the main character in his plush form. Her mission is to collect 7 star drops with this kind of big spoon. When I said it was a CCS rip-off…
First, you take Tsuruya-san… then, you mix with Nagato… and you have (somewhat) Nadeshiko. Is it… perfection ???
Long green-ish hair and from a rich family like Tsuruya-san, and with a kinda emotionless face like Nagato. As for her personality, she’s calm like Nagato and reliable like Tsuruya-san. She’s also very protective over the crybaby Sumomo, like Tsuruya-san is protective over the crybaby Mikuru. Well all these similarities are coincidental and can be found in lot of other characters though.
Another similar point with CCS : Nadeshiko is totally Tomoyo for Sumomo.
Nona, aka Asparas-san. A nice rival character. I immediately recognized Yuki Matsuoka as her seiyuu because the first thing you hear from Nona is her laughter (Matsuoka is Tsuruya-san’s seiyuu too).
Well the show has some good points that makes it different of CCS too, so that’s still enjoyable to watch.
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Les Nubians – Makeda
Encore un “classique” de la fin des 90’s dont je me suis souvenu recement.
J’aime particulierement l’instru, aux sonorités qu’on a pas l’habitude d’entendre dans un morceau français (c’est peut-être pour ça qu’elles sont plus connues aux States qu’en France).
Bon quand ça chante, pas de doute c’est français. Peut-être que ça serait mieux passé en anglais, mais ça reste encore largement écoutable je trouve.
Un des rares morceaux français qu’on puisse à mon avis véritablement qualifier de “R&B”, terme trop souvent galvaudé pour qualifier les morceaux Hip Hop un peu lent et sans insultes sur la police.
Et en plus elles chantent en boubou, c’est la classe.
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School Days (episodes 1 ~ 7)
Short summary : Makoto, a shy guy, confesses his love for a girl who rides the same train as him, Kotonoha. But a short time after he started to date Kotonoha, he finally falls in love with Sekai, the girl classmate who helped him to confess his love, and eventually dates her in secret.
So, this is the anime adaptation of that infamous H-game with very depressing bad ends (suicides, murders…), and pathetic main character.
Indeed, Makoto is pathetic. Really, the most dumb and irritating main character EVER (like, the guy was reading a pr0n magazine in a shop when dating his girlfriend… WTF ?).
Also, I may not be a fan of Kotonoha (who is your typical big-breasted shy and plain girl), but the fact that everybody in the show treats her like shit just pisses me off, honestly. It’s so irritating that I actually WISH for a bad end to happen. Well, a Makoto bad end, that is. Kotonoha should just kill him and go for a happy yuri ending with Sekai.
I only have screenshots of my favorite character, Setsuna, Makoto and Sekai’s classmate. Well, she is also one of the characters who acts harshly towards Kotonoha, but she actually doesn’t think bad, and doesn’t know anything about what Makoto and Sekai are secretely plotting, so she can be forgiven. Setsuna is the kind of character who is funny while being cool and kinda emotionless. She also cares a lot for Sekai. She’s the main reason for me to watch this show, I noticed her already in some CGs from the game and was looking forward to see her in the anime too.
Really, I won’t tell you to watch it, you might be as irritated as me. Also, if you don’t like shows featuring yandere (sweet girls suddenly going psycho and murderous), or drama animes with bad end, you should definitly avoid this show.
Nice Boat !
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On your knees for Kagami-sama
Another good point of Youtube is that you can just post a video you liked when you dunno what talking about.
And I feel like I should spam my blog while I still can (did I ever mention that I have to move to some indeterminated place next week ?).
So today, a video of Kagami-sama cleaning the streets of San Andreas of its evil Pikachus, with awesome musics (including Big Blue from F-Zero), voices from the anime, gangstah Doraemons and much more greatness.
The end is simply hilarious. Don’t ask me where to get this mod, I just don’t frikkin know.
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Dennou Coil (episodes 1 ~ 12)
Short summary : A young girl moves in a new city, where she meets other children who are specialized in finding missing virtual pets, and will be kinda forced to join them.
I like this show a lot, but in fact I don’t really have so much things to say about it, and just noticed that I didn’t take many screenshots of it, though there are a lot of enjoyable moments. ‘Cause yeah, this show is really nice, in every way. Surely one of the best 2007 show.
Nice design, nice music, nice characters… everything is nice in this show. It’s calm and funny, with some interesting plot and drama too. If you like ‘iyashi-kei’ shows such as Haibane Renmei, you just have to watch it, if you aren’t already watching it. If you like action… well then this show is not for you.
The design really gives the same calm and peaceful feeling than a Ghibli movie.
Yasako insisting for the frightful Isako to become her friend makes my world a better place. Well, out of context it looks naughty, but in fact she used ‘shishou’ for ‘master’, not ‘goshujin-sama’ XD
Actually, Yasako may looks like your typical shy heroine, but she’s pretty silly and funny.
Again, it’s out of the context… I just can’t help myself to take that kind of screenshots.
Episode 12 was just genius from the beginning to the end. I haven’t ROFL’d like that while watching an anime since a long time. INTERPLANETARY WAR !
Sadly, fansub teams are kinda slow for working on this show. I should also mention on a random note that this show is the dream for meganekko lovers, because every characters in this show wear glasses.
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Lucky Star (episodes 1 ~ 24 END)
Short summary : Everyday life of an otaku girl and her “rather” normal friends.
So… Lucky Star ended… well, until season 2 at least.
Indeed, I didn’t really feel like it was the end. It was rather like a “12th” episode, the kind of episode which makes you feel that you reached the half of the show. Moreover, KyoAni animated barely anything from the 4th volume of the manga, and volume 5 just got released. If you add lot of original content, KyoAni have enough materials for much more episodes. And don’t school animes usually end with the graduation ?
Anyway, it was a nice episode, 100% original KyoAni content, which gave lot of screentime to Patty, the cutest school-anime gaijin since Sarah Adiemus from School Rumble.
Lucky Star, like every “Everyday Life” animes, is the kind of show that you either love it or hate it. Personally I really enjoyed it and it will be one of my all-time favorites, mostly thanks to the characters, they’re all awesome. ‘Cause yeah, Lucky Star isn’t a show that wants to be funny every single seconds, just watching them talking about various things is enough to make my day.
Konata, the perfect girl ? Dunno, but sure that a girl who wouldn’t complain if you play some video games sounds nice. She would even play with you.
Kagami-sama, just plain awesome. Tsundere + yuri + tsukkomi + twintails, should I even mention that she’s one of my all-time favorite characters ?
Lovely Tsukasa. Sometimes she reminded me of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, because of her tendency of being amused by totally random things (like “Balsamic Vinegar”).
Ok, I must admit that this scene alone in the first episode was the thing that made me a fan of this show and Kagami-sama.
Souichiro, aka Awesome Dad.
Since Konata is an otaku, it’s natural to see a ton of references about games, anime and manga. Some of them are really unexpected though.
The Lucky Channel is one of the strong point of the show in the beginning, but eventually became kinda boring. The ending songs are just genius, and Minoru Shiraishi (Taniguchi’s seiyuu in Haruhi) playing his own role is hilarious.
Hiyori is my second favorite of the show. She rocks for being a doujinshi artist who loves yuri, and always fantasizes about Yutaka and Minami.
Though the animation was pretty simple throughout the serie, KyoAni showed some awesomely animated scenes occasionally.
Misao, a secondary character who got a huge popularity.
A tribute to the Lucky Star fans who invaded a shrine in Kyoto.
One can complain about the fact that there was too much references about Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. Well, I can’t help but agree a bit.
It might be my own disillusion, but I’m sure Konata and Kagamin are in love with each other.
“Konata no nioi…”
Though Kagamin acts harshly towards Konata most of the time, she truely cares for her, and it makes my world a better place.
In this episode, only Konata noticed that Kagamin’s attitude changed, not even her own twin sister noticed it. That’s why she got the idea of that purikura thing. Thanks, KyoAni. Thanks you for making it real.
Duh, ended up being a quite big post, and the final part was all about yuri… dondake~
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Kaze no Stigma (episodes 1 ~ 23)
Short summary : Kazuma was banished from his family because he had no talent at controlling fire, his family’s speciality. He returns several years later, as a master at controlling wind, for getting some revenge. But another wind user is making a fuss in the city by killing members of Kazuma’s former family, and Kazuma ends up being accused.
Well, first episodes were all serious and pretty classic, so I found it boring in the beginning, though it was amusing to hear Daisuke Ono as Kazuma, ’cause hearing Disco Koizumi-kun as a kick-ass bastard was funny.
Koizumi… errr I mean Kazuma, ready to kick some asses.
But unexpectedly enough (for me at least), the show turned somewhat into a typical love-comedy after a few episodes… and I must confess that I liked it.
Ayano, classic tsundere character, but it always works.
I’m not really that fan of serious shows, so I appreciate the way the show is now, means humorous (mostly thanks to Kazuma and his badass attitude) with some drama/plot/seriousness occasionally.
These 3 scenes are some classics too, but it was kinda unexpected to see them in this show so it worked for me.
Another funny thing in this show is the fact that the Kazuma x Ayano end is SO obvious that actually even the characters are aware of it.
Ayano’s friends got more and more screentime throughout the serie, and have changed their statute of minor characters for totally cool supporting characters. I especially like Nanase, moreover dubbed by Shizuka Ito (Akiha-sama/Hinagiku).
Ren, Kazuma’s little brother, has his own drama too, and eventually grew some GARness. I have some sympathy for him.
All the screenshots I had were mostly from the same episode, but all the show was filled with some funny moments.
Not an awesome show, but still nice to watch if you’re not too demanding.
Blast of wind~… in my heart~
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Mafia Trece – A la recherche du mic perdu
Ce qui est bien avec les sites comme Youtube et Dailymotion, c’est que c’est un peu le musée de l’audiovisuel (enfin, quand ils ne font pas la chasse aux vidéos avec copyright). Vieux clips, émissions ou sketchs… je trouve personnellement que l’interet de ces sites de partage de vidéos est plus dans le fait qu’on puisse se rappeller de bon souvenirs plutot que de mater des vidéos à la con de mongols qui font du karaoke ou du playback, filmés de face assis devant leur pc, en esperant voir leur faciès insultant passé dans Les Enfants de la Télé.
Et de temps en temps, je me rappelle de zics un peu ringardos ou kitch que j’avais entendu à une époque et qui m’avaient fait délirer, et qui des fois sont tombées un peu dans l’oubli général, à croire que y’a que moi qui avait entendu ces zics.
Bref, sans plus tarder la “Pépite de la Chanson Française” du jour : Mafia Trece – A la recherche du mic perdu
Un morceau de rap de la fin des 90’s assez marrant, avec un clip tout en blue-screen (avec un mec qui court sur place pour faire style qu’il court aussi vite que Naruto à travers la foret), des effets digne d’Hollywood (chewing-gum), un sample tiré du générique de la série Kung-fu avec David Carradine (je suis étonné que Will Smith ou Pouffe Daddy ont jamais utilisé un sample qui aurait pu etre très rentable), et des paroles dans l’esprit “Shaolin”.
Mafia Trece – à la recherche du mic perdu
Sensei ! Sensei ! On a volé l’micro d’or !