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Ishida & Asakura

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Ishida & Asakura

Dax Production/Hotline

Dir. Pippuya (Kachou no Koi)

Wri. Kenichi Yamashita (Yu-Gi-Oh!, various)

 

SYNOPSIS

Ishida to Asakura focuses on the titular characters–the stoic Ishida and the lecherous Asakura–and the bizarre students and teachers that populate their high school. Asakura is obsessed with curvaceous women and dreams of becoming a teacher in order to be surrounded by attractive girls all day. Ishida dreams of running a flower shop together with Asakura after they finish high school, and appears to have strong homosexual feelings for his best friend, although this is always played for laughs.

 

REVIEW

+ Characters designs are appropriately ugly. Feels a bit like Cromartie High School, which I enjoy.

+ Music is fun and light.

+ Performances are good, particularly those for the titular characters. Very dry and quirky. Probably the best thing about the show.

 

+/- Animation is choppy and aesthetically unappealing, which kind of works with the overall style of the show.

 

– Not funny. I giggled maybe once. Admittedly the most subjective complaint, but my biggest one for something that is supposed to be a comedy.

– Thematically empty. Gags involving homosexuality, transgenderism, female body image issues, and bullying are all played for laughs and have nothing important to say. And they’re not even funny.

– There is no story. Things just happen. The premise is continually returned to with no perceivable progress toward any of the characters’ goals.

 

1.5 big breasted trannies out of 5

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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods

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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

ドラゴンボールZ：神と神

Toei Animation

Dir. Masahiro Hosoda (

Wri. Yusuke Watanabe

Music by Norihito Sumitomo

 

SUMMARY

Birus, the God of Destruction, learns of the defeat of the galactic overlord Frieza at the hands of Goku. Seeking an opponent worthy of his power, Birus, along with his companion Uis, travels to the North Quadrant of the universe to challenge Goku to a battle.

 

PROS

+ The hand drawn bits are gorgeous, crisp, and colorful. During these scenes, DBZ has never looked so good.

+ Birus is funny and charismatic. Fits right into the universe. A good villain.

+ Some of the comedy was truly funny.

 

CONS

– Facile and meaningless “storytelling,” if you can call it that. The only plot device used was a simple set-up/pay-off that did little more than project the film toward its anti-climactic conclusion.

– No sense of threat or stakes. No one is in any “danger” until the “villain” is refused the chance to eat some pudding. Then, he threatens to destroy the world. SPOILERS: No one dies or even gets hurt, except for Videl, who is hit by a stray bullet and immediately healed by Dende.

– An estimated 50% of the film is wasted on character fan service. Almost every character gets a moment to “shine,” or at least gets a name drop. Characters act completely out-of-character, even Shenlon the Eternal Dragon. The creators know you know them, so they want to give you something new. “Wouldn’t it be crazy if Vegeta sang and danced?” “What if Piccolo sang karaoke?”

– Awful CGI. Conceptually great action scenes are sabotaged by poorly blended and rendered CGI backgrounds and elements.

– New Super Saiyan God form is underwhelming.

– Most of the film only works if you are familiar with the source material.

– Power levels are uneven and illogical. SS3 Goku can’t lay a hand on Birus, but SS Vegeta can when he’s defending Bulma’s honor.

– Feels too long. Made me wish this was another hour-long DBZ movie of days gone by.

 

1.5 Dragon Balls out of 5.

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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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moto to love ru

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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