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( Toward the Terra )( Simoun )( Baccano! )Toki wo kakeru shoujo, OR, Time Waits For No One
Watch it, if you haven't already.
This is how time travel works if the author's infatuation with ~the foreordained~ doesn't stand in the way of how causality really works. And the completely convincing feel of lazy summer afternoons with your best friends from high school. And the bewilderingly detailed art. Oh god, the
background art.
Too bad about the ending. A little more compact and this movie would have been perfect.
Kino's Journey, OR, Socrates And Her Talking Motorcycle
What a shame about the poor art/animation quality. And the different countries' inhabitants should have been a variety of races instead of just the same old westerners. Same thing about the architecture.
Fix those two things and the outcome would have been excellent. This makes me feel superficial to admit, but they really dampened my enjoyment of the series.
Vandread, OR, Fuck You Too, MediaFactory
The worst waste of a series I've recently witnessed. Made worse by the first two episodes, which were hilarious! And tricked me into thinking it would continue the same! Then suddenly they start taking the gender stereotyping and the worldbuilding
seriously, at which point everything falls flat on its face. It would have worked as overblown comedy.
It didn't work realistically.The least original main characters since I DON'T EVEN KNOW SINCE WHAT, NOW AND THEN, HERE AND THERE MAYBE, constantly rubbed in your face by how the supporting cast (or majority thereof) is actually entertaining! And manages to have the same depth with tenth the screentime!
It was painfully obvious that most of the story was build episode by episode. (And if it wasn't, the producers need to learn how to actually pace plot developments. The viewers aren't going anywhere! You're allowed to play with the story a little!) There were several storylines which would have worked a thousand times better had they lasted just a little longer, but no - the build-up for the main character's life-altering view-changing experience lasts exactly one episode. And it's hardly referenced to after that at all.
...On a plus side, the music was at least fun, if not exactly good.
Minami-ke; see: Series itself
Mako-chan and Touma: hilarious
Hosaka-senpai: I want one of my own
Series itself: just a plain depiction of the lives of the three sisters of the Minami household. Please do not get your expectations up.
