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Kuragehime

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Alternate Titles: Jellyfish Princess, Princess Jellyfish

Original Japanese Release Date: Oct 2010

Episode Length/Run-time: 11 Episodes

Summary:

Tsukimi is a geeky girl who lives in Amizukan, an apartment complex that no men are allowed to enter, with other otaku, hikkimori, and NEETs.  She has a deep love for jellyfish due to a memory of her late mother.  One evening, when trying to save a jellyfish she recieves help from a beautiful girl, but this girl is a trap!

Review:

This is an anime that I was earnestly surprised at how much I enjoyed.  The premise seemed a little cliché, nerdy people afraid of popular beautiful people.  But the execution was awesome.  I loved how the “ugly” people were, well, actually ugly.  It wasn’t like a lot of series where the “ugly” ones were actually really beautiful all things considered, they were pretty homely in this one.  But it worked with creating the realism of the seires.

There are two main points of conflict in the show.  One with Tsukimi and her relationship not only with a boy but a cross-dressing, popular, beautiful, rich boy, and how she overcomes this within.  The other conflict is the risk of the Amizukan being torn down to make room for new building projects in the city and the geeky girls loosing their home and safe-haven.

The pacing of this show is also really great, it moves well and progresses in a speedy but not hasty manner.  Things seem realistic in how the emotions change from encounter to encounter.

At its core I’d say Kuragehime is a feel-good show which anyone who has ever felt slightly socially outcaste can enjoy.  It was a show I enjoyed a large amount and really recommend as a worth-while watch.

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A-Channel

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Alternate Titles: None

Original Japanese Release Date: Apr 2011

Episode Length/Run-time: 12 Episodes

Summary:

Tooru who has just entered the same high school as her best best and childhood friend Run, who is now a second year, and Run’s friends Yuuko & Nagi in their daily lives.

Review:

I feel like this anime is supposed to be really funny, or, at least, a little funny.  But the problem remains I found myself SO bored watching it.  The characters are the normal funny formula, the young one, the bookish one, the ditz, the well-meaning screw-up, perhaps I’m jaded but it all just falls flat. The slice-of-life doesn’t really help either, because there’s no real conflict, or overarching plot, or real antagonist, just random stuff happening one thing after another. For example, there is an entire episode about sneaking into the school at night, and not even for a fun reason, they just forgot something.   I had foolishly thought that there may be some semblance of a story or at least relationship building throughout the show, given the relationships at the beginning and the cute girl crush one of them had, but that was foolish thinking. The love just serves as a plot device to have one girl be all protective and have some slapstick humor as she punches people who get too close away.  The style of the show is nothing to write home about either. Everything looks chili, even the adults are done in a very simplistic style… Though I suppose on the bright side they don’t look the same age as their students, so thats a pro for the show. But they have things like montages during stupid little songs, the budget is too low for a montage I tell you! Animate everything!   I suppose this is one of those anime that you just have to be into to want to watch. If this is the kind of stuff you like, random acts of girl/Moe cuteness with little else than this really delivers. I suppose its not too Moe that non-Moe fans will not upchuck after a minute, but its still pretty solid Moe stuff left to right, up to down. The biggest thing I enjoyed personally was the opening, its a good song and good animation, otherwise I found myself dragging my bored feet through this show.

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Motto to Love Ru -Trouble-

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Alternate Titles:  もっとTo LOVEる -とらぶる

Original Japanese Release Date: September 17, 2010

Episode Length/Run-time: 12

Summary:
Because this anime is so horrible, it’s easier for me to just give detailed description of what accounts for about 90% of this show.

Review:

First of all, the story is broken down into a series of shorts.  Much like Azumanga

The show is about a girl named LALA who comes from a planet called Devilluke(she has a devil tail) she runs away because she is a princess and doesnt’ want to take part in an arranged marriage.  This is not the first series of this(I don’t know how there is a sequel) and so some of the stuff doesnt make too much sense to me.  Lala lives at a boy named Rito’s house and he’s the male “protagonist” even though he doesnt do much to fit the role.  Weak, nervous, indecisive. This show also has some side characters in it that are from the old series.  There is a blonde girl who can use her hair as weapons and apparently, for whatever reason she is an assassin from another planet and she is supposed to kill Rita althought I’m not sure why because from what I’ve seen he doesnt do too much to be deemed killable. The rest of the show is bs antics and panty shots, blushing, and slapstick comedy that isn’t funny. And of course, every single character in the show has a crush on Rito.  And I mean they’re literally throwing their bodies on him but this show never has any kind of physical interaction of that kind.  No kissing, no sex despite all the nudity, nothing.

Some scenes that make me want to kill myself:

  • There is a guy named Zastin who comes from Devilluke to retrieve two other girls from the royal family who run away.  There is also another girl in the school that Rita goes to that has a crush on him (somehow) and so they call him to the school so that she can confess.  At the same time Lala has cooked Rita some bad bento with black smoke coming out of it.  He’s watching the confession from the side of a building a bit away and up from behind Lala finds him and crams some of the food in her mouth.  He gags and runs out from the building towards Zastin and the girl.  He slams into the girl and she falls on him, ass up, and Zastin gets a shot of her panties and vag area.  Then she gets mad and hits Rita and chases him.  Ugg….
  • It’s Valentine’s Day.  Kotegawa a girl in Rito’s class is making him chocolate because she has a crush on him.  So…she tries to give it to him but she gets nervous and ends up cussing him out.  Later in the day, she tries again, and in the middle of it, another girl that is cute with green hair comes up and pounces on Rita and offers him chocolate out of her mouth (because this is apparently a harem) and he gets “scared” and turns to run in the other direction and runs into Kotegawa.  She falls and he ends up with his head basically in her vag. Ugg…
  • They’re at the beach.  The watermelon they are trying to split turns into a monster and spits red “cum juice” on the girls and then they pose for the camera provoatively  with all the stuff dripping off of them.
  • Tentacle octopus breast enlarger…

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