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Alternate Titles: Chi’s Sweet Home: Atarashii Ouchi, Chi’s Sweet Home: Chi’s New Address
Original Japanese Release Date: Mar 2009
Episode Length/Run-time: 104 Episodes (3 minutes an episode)
Summary:
The lovable kitten Chi has moved with her family the Yamadas to a pet friendly home. Now Chi has a yard and lots of local animals to play with and can go outside as she pleases, no longer in hiding from the landlady.
Review:
There isn’t too much to say about this show, it is basically the same premise as the season before it with the aforementioned changes. That being said the changes breathe new life in the new possibilities of the neighbors pets and her freedom to go outside. Chi is still adorable, and cat owners and lovers alike will revel in her cat antics that are innocent and lovable. This show is very simple and the four minute episodes make it easy for a shot of cuteness whenever you need it. I don’t know what else to say really, its simple and perfect in what it is and does what it set out to do, be adorable. If youre studying Japanese try watching it without subs as the language is very simple it could be good practice. I laughed, I cried – really I did, and I squealed with delight at the cuteness of this show. It only gets a low score because I try to score critically, and no its not amazing, nor does it really have a plot. But, on a personal enjoyment level I love this show so much and on a personal scale its one of my favorite anime ever, easily a 5/5.
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Alternate Titles: レベルE
Original Japanese Release Date: January 10, 2011
Episode Length/Run-time: 13
Summary:
There are millions of aliens on Earth, all sorts of aliens, but the Earthlings don’t know it. One such alien is the Prince of a planet known as Doguria. He is a very mischievous person who likes to make people do things for his own entertainment at their expense.
Review:
There are hundreds of alien species that co-exist with humans on Earth. They exist in all kinds; peaceful, aggressive, on the brink of extinction, etc… Everybody seems to be aware of this except for the humans. We don’t know about the aliens. This kid, Yakitaka, from Tokyo comes to a new school, Kisaragi high school, to play baseball (yay!). Hes kind of a touch guy. The kind of guy who was probably in a gang or at least somebody who wouldn’t take shit from people. When he arrives at his new dorm room there is a blonde guy in his room wearing his clothes. The man is named Prince. He claims to be an alien that crash landed recently nearby and that he lost his memories due to the crash. The presence of the space craft is confirmed by news reports since it was discovered. Some stuff happens, the alien runs off the check the space craft and gets hit by a car. He has blue blood. He rests after being hit and his body creates some kind of forcefield that causes all his wounds to heal and the cherry trees around him to bloom.
The next day, the alien goes and retrieves this device that displays the aliens pet. He is a fluidic organism from the planet Jacqueline Ess. Named Clive. It has a really amazin ability to mimic things. It’s really scary. I mean this thing looks like a giant, screaming, slug thing. In the second episode you learn that there are people from a laboratory associated with the government trying to find the alien. At the same time, people from Prince’s home planet land in Japan, searching for him as well. They stop by the home of another alien, a very violent race called Disclonian. They ask him for information before continuing on. The race of Disclonians have destroyed thousands of other races in the universe.
At the end of a very uneventful second episode, the aliens from Prince’s homeplanet find him and reveal that they were on the way to escorting him to a very important intergalactic conference when they lost him. The largest such conference in the universe. But there are biggest problems. At the end of the episode you learn that Prince almost killed somebody on the planet when trying to help a girl that they were harrassing and the victim was a Disclonian…this is likely certainly enough to start an intergalactic war. They thought they had killed him but the Disclonians go into an instinctual coma like state as a defense mechanism when they are about to be killed. Its called Thanatosis. the Disclonian wakes up and then escapes from Yakitakas dorm…
The character designs are very pleasing to me. They’re more mature looking and are reminiscent of older anime. Mature designs, normal colored hair.
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Alternate Titles: None
Original Japanese Release Date: 2011
Episode Length/Run-time: 8 Episodes
Summary:
The continued antics of the Marui Triplets. Futaba is the tomboyish one, Hitoha is the quiet pervert, and Mitsuba the self-proclaimed princess employ their antics and wreak havoc in a comical manner on everything around them.
Review:
The second season of Mitsudomoe follows much the way of the first season. Each episode is broken into two, generally three, vignettes that follow a slice of life of the Marui triplets. While there is a lose overall story of their day to day lives and the passing of time represented by seasons and events there is no overarching plot with a set beginning, middle, climax, resolution, and end.
In this way though, Mitsudomoe is one of the most fantastic pick up and go shows you can find. Each episode goes from garnering a sincere chuckle to side-splitting hilarity. While I expected the antics to get tired and boring, after all there’s only so many jokes about a girl being a perv (right?), they never got to that point. Somehow the writers continued to find ways to make the content new and fresh while still being funny. No small feat, I assure you.
The animation or music is nothing to swoon over, but that’s clearly not the point of this series. Pouring money into a high animation budget would’ve likely detracted from the home-grown silly that the slightly cartoonish style produces.
You can completely watch this season without seeing the first. But why would you want to? Sure it’s not chronological but you may as well start a good thing from the beginning. However, if you do decide to pick this one up in the middle the only thing you may not understand (and the only thing I didn’t really like) is the first episode. The first episode is a mock TV show referenced throughout the series called the Gachi Rangers (much like the power rangers). This episode seemed less funny and out of place, but it hardly detracted from the overall quality of the show.
On a humor scale, this anime easily gets a 5/5.
However, I try to score like a critic, and since it doesn’t really have a plot it’s bumped down to a 3/5 on an overall scale. Bur seriously, if you like funny you do not want to miss this one.
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