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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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hack roots

.hack//Roots

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Alternate Titles:  None

 

Original Japanese Release Date: April 5th, 2006

Episode Length/Run-time: 26

Summary:

.hack//Roots is the prequel to the .hack//G.U. videogames. It follows the story of Haseo, a Multi-Weapon and member of the Twilight Brigade guild. In the year 2015, CC Corp. Building burnt down, and with it, most of its data for The World. By splicing data from what would have potentially been another game, CC Corp. created The World R:2 and released it in 2016.

Review:

Set six months before .hack//G.U., Haseo logs into The World R:2 for the first time and falls victim to the PKs that reside within The World R:2. Pking has apparently become a big problem.  He is saved by Ovan and Shino, which prompts him to join the Twilight Brigade.  The Twilight Brigade members are on a mission to find the Key of the Twilight, however, the TAN guild opposes this because they want Ovan’s character data due to the device in his left arm and will stop at nothing to keep the Twilight Brigade from their goal.  The twist is when Tri-Edge shows up. Things briefly pick up in the series when he turns up, making for a short run of episodes that were actually fun to watch.  Makes for some good drama and some action scenes.

If you plan to watch the series, without playing the game, don’t.  You need to play the games to finish the story and let me tell you, the game suck.  Badly.  You may go insane playing them.  But without playing the games:

      • Many unexplainable events
      • Characters aren’t fleshed out enough  you miss out on a LOT of character background.  things just happen without any reason for this being given
      • The ending leaves SO many questions unanswered

This anime has extremely large periods of nothing happening.  What the hell is the director thinking?  Everything happens very slowly.  Long periods of characters just starring off into space at the sky or at something in particular.  Really weird.  It’s a bit how you’ll notice in an anime how sometimes they will just be like a really long still image. Also it takes characters a long time to decide to do something and then an even longer time to execute.  It makes things ever so boring.

The anime totally abandons the “MMO inside an anime” theme.  .hack//Sign had scenes that would show the person using the computer or would have very video game like character traits for the in-game avatars. .hack//Roots totally dumps this trait.  You never see the out of game players and the characters in the series are just way too emotion filled and “real” to be ingame avatars.  As a result, it doesn’t really feel like you’re watching an MMO. Many of the characters are pretty unlikeable in the end as well.  They don’t get background and they really don’t feel that vibrant.  Even the main character Haseo is just a shitty emo character.

The visuals and music are very nice the animation and the overall art is very nice.  The character designs for .hack are always very interesting, and the artwork in general is of an excellent standard. This is a good thing, because you are forced     to stare at pretty visuals in which very little happens for a long, long time.   The music is fantastic as well.  The theme song and was played at the start of tonights podcast, “Silly Go Round” Is quite awesome and even the BGM features famous melodies such as the “Queen of the Knight” Aria from Mozart’s “Magic Flute”.

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Review: School Rumble

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Episode Reviewed In: Episode 73

Alternate Titles:  Sukuran

Original Japanese Release Date: October 5th, 2004

Episode Length/Run-time: 26

Summary:
School rumble is an anime about love, romance and comedy.  The basis of the show are the “crushes” that the characters have on each other.  I say because its  recurring theme in the series.  Really, the show has no plotline beyond the light hearted high schoolers lives. But I gotta say that people must think that HS in Japan is random as hell because that’s what this series is.

Review:
In terms of the relationships there is a girl called Tsukamoto Tenma who is a cute girl that basically serves as the main characters.  She has a crush on a boy called Karasuma Ooji, who is this really weird character that has a beatles haircut and is strange and emotionless.  There is another character as well, Harima Kenji, who is a delinquent and he has a crush on Tenma.  LOVE TRIANGLE!  It’s announced that Ooji is getting ready to leave the school and so Tenma wants to confess to him. Of course, none of these characters are able to confess to each other and the show uses this as another basis for comedy.

In fact, since Harima is a delinquent, he has a bad rep and this makes it hard for him to confess as well because he comes off as a bit scary, but along the way you find out as do the schools students that hes not so bad.

The show is very random and there are some things in it that are used for comedy but make no sense to me at all. For example, Harima is able to talk to animals and later on he has like practically an entire zoo following him around…very random.
There are also some spoofs that really make the comedy in the show good.  There is a scene in the beginning when the 3 students, Harima, Tenma, and Ooji are all chasing each other (kinda like the cat that was running from the dog whom was running from the pig, etc..) except in this instance its Ooji biking to school insanely fast and weirdly, being chases by Tenma who is trying to confess and then Harima chasing her.  ENTER INITIAL D.

All in all, its a show without much plot but its just another light hearted comedy that is alright and does the comedy pretty well and doesnt get too series for its own good.

level e

Level E

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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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azumanga daioh

Azumanga Daioh

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Alternate Titles:  None

 

Original Japanese Release Date: April 8th, 2002

Episode Length/Run-time: 26 Episodes

Summary:
Cooking is so fun…cooking is so fun…now it’s time to take a break and see what we have done.

Review:
The best way to breakdown this anime’s story is to explain the characters. You have the child genius, Chiyo-chan who is about half the age of everybody else (And half the height), but shes twice as smart and of course cute, then there is Tomo Takino, the tom boy, who is always full of energy and also a total dimwit.  She often copies homework on her friends and her energic personality adds a lot of spice to the series.   The other key characters of the series include, Sakaki, Osaka and Yomi.  Sakaki is a tall, sporty, girl who loves cats.  The only problem is that the cats always seem to bite her! It is hilarious!  Osaka is the awkward, really dumb girl who comes from Osaka and as a results shes a little backwards, including her southern accent!

As Azumanga Daioh is based after a manga, the series is broken down into short 3-5 minute episodes that stitch together seemlessly to form a story, an often times random story.  This anime is incredibly random, from a floating cat that is apparently Chiyo’s father to crazy occurances in the classroom, Azumanga is one of the most random and as a result one of the funniest animes out there.  It is a total classic.  In addition, the humor in Azumanga Daioh, continually hits the nail on the head, unlike some other anime which fall flat over and over again.

I truly recommend Azumanga Daioh to people of any gender, of any age.  It is a classic comedy that is timeless and as a result, it shouldn’t be missed by anybody and deserves a place on everybody’s anime shelf.  Display it proudly.

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