from the twisted minds of snm
Really? There’s more? Yeah, and this isn’t even half of it!
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – the misadventures involving high-schooler Yasaka Mahiro and his freeloading alien housemates Nyaruko, Kuuko, and Hastur continue in this second TV season. Continue reading ‘Anime Briefs – What, More 2013 Spring Anime?’
Even more shows I’ve watched, and there are some pretty good ones still!
Aiura: Cute high school girls doing cute things. The little one gets mistaken for an elementary school student, then there’s the wacky one, and the subdued level headed foil.
root – yes, it’s that genre, but it’s only got three girls! Regardless, it’s great fun and well done. Nice art, nice designs, nice animation, an amusing OP that’s obsessed with crabs, and Steve Jobs. It’s too bad that at one minute, it takes up 25% of the episode! Way too short, wraps up a gag and makes you feel like it’s just getting started and then it ends!
risu – it’s amazing how little they get into each episode, but how much that little works. The backgrounds are probably the best of anything I’ve watched this season so far. The character art reminds me of the Ichigo Mashimaro TV animation (not the manga), though I don’t think it’s any of the same people involved. It’s simple and wonderful, like last season’s Yama no Susume but better. Time ot go eat some crab… A-
Continuing the briefs on the new crop of anime, there is some amusement to be had this season.
The spring anime season is underway, with many shows streaming on their second episodes already so here’s some initial thoughts on them, roughly in the order they showed up. There seems to be a glut of giant robots this time around, whee. There have been a couple quite entertaining shows too though.
There are a couple of new shows running on Funimation’s site too. Like some of the other properties they stream there, they may or may not produce retail DVD or BD products of these shows. Read on! Continue reading ‘Yet More 2013 Post-New-Year Season Anime’
A few shows are returning after the New Year programming hiatus, and some new fill-in shows have started popping up. Here are some brief reviews after the page break: Continue reading ‘More 2013 Post-New-Year Anime’
Several shows are on hiatus over the new year holiday, but a few new shows have sprung up on CR. Nothing outstanding though, but a few are not terrible. Read about them after the page break! Continue reading ‘2013 Post-New-Year Anime’
Shopping days will do that. Caught the subway out to Shiroishi and went to Shuugakusou Shiroishi to turn about $270 USD into things made out of titanium. Their Snow*Peak signature store is pretty awesome. They also have various other domestic titanium backpacking cookware and tableware manufacturers that don’t carry as heavy a price tag, but the stuff is still not cheap. Nice thing though the mystery Japan ti brands are not much more than mystery China ti stuff like GSI Outdoors. Continue reading ‘Ouch! My Wallet’
Just got back from the HIFF screening of this anime feature, just found out that it was actually the US premier, and I scored a free ticket and got in the door before the crowd to boot! Directed and story by Mamoru Hosoda who previously also directed and did the story for Summer Wars which I also saw. ANd previous to that he directed the most recent anime version of Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Lept Through Time) which was excellent.
Super brief synopsis, this is the story of the life of a mother and her two half wolf children she raises. The wolf husband/father figures so briefly in the story that you don’t know much about him, which in the end works perfectly for the story.
Continue reading ‘Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki – The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki’
