Hetalia: Axis Powers
Short Synopsis: Our lead characters… are a bunch of countries.
Chance of me Blogging: 100% (yeah, because I’m already blogging it)
I’m still a bit bitter that Holland wasn’t made fun of in this series so far (especially when even Estonia has its own character), but sarcasm aside, I really liked this series. You can trust Studio Deen to come up with the more crazy mangas to adapt, and the huge amount of country references was hilarious to watch. It’s going to be interesting if this series can keep this up. As for the ones who got offended by this series: you should start poking fun at other countries yourself.
Fresh Precure!
Short Synopsis: Our lead character receives the power to become a magical girl.
Chance of me Blogging: 0% (Obviously not)
So yeah, I checked this out in the hope that it might actually be something worthwhile, but in the end I couldn’t really find anything to really make me keep watching it, although it did turn out a bit better than your generic mahou shoujo series. I particularly liked how one of the bad guys put too much sugar in his tea because he had never seen it before, and the costume design is nice enough, but overall it really doesn’t try much to set itself apart in the mahou shoujo genre. Especially the lead character just tries too hard to be funny, the mascot character too. Not to mention the abysmally animated concert scene, the the downright painful ED and how everyone conveniently disappears when a monster shows up. I could also whine about the very bad physics in this series, but hey, this is a mahou shoujo series for kids. What else could you expect?
Denpateki na Kanojo
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a legendary king who happens to be stuck in the body of a random high school boy.
Chance of me Blogging: 40% (Perhaps)
Yeah, the way this one started definitely got me worried. Here we have a legendary demon king inside a high school boy, and guess what: a cute girl arrives from out of nowhere to protect him. Still, this OVA is good stuff. The episode was well told and pretty nicely built up with some pretty good suspense parts. The lead characters slowly grew likable, and the action doesn’t aim to be as over the top as possible, but kept all the fight subtle but believable (I love it when a character actually gets disabled when hit by a very hard and solid object). Some parts were a bit too emo for my liking, but this is going to be a pretty good OVA if the rest of the episodes can keep up this pace.
LOL, I actually got to meet the animators who were working r-e-a-l-l-y hard on Fresh PreCure almost to the point of me checking it out (my cousin-in-law supervises a team of background animators for it) but then I couldn’t get past my bias against mahou shoujo, and reading this post confirms that it really isn’t relevant to my interests.
Ooh, that’s very nice. If I remember clearly, the background art looked really nice and Power Puff Z-ish in this series. It’s just that the foreground animation was quite rubbish at times…
Holland was actually mentioned in the manga (just mentioned sadly ^^; but at least we know there’s really a Holland-tan xD). From what I remember he was depicted as a scary guy because he had beaten Sweden and Finland up from that strip. Hehe.
Maybe I’ll check out the thirs series you mentioned . .. but Precure . . .nah ^^;
I have seen all the “Yes ! Precure 5″ series so I’ll probably try to give ” Fresh precure” a try, well , what’s wrong with those series is the repetition of always the same monsters’ attacks and the same transformation over and over appear rather boring but the good thing with at least the previous precure is the colors and the character – design and the accuracy of every phase in the transformation, but for me the most interesting parts were, without a doubt, near the final eps, where things start to get a bit more tougher or “realistic” in some way, at least the precure oppose real characters than weird monsters possessing an object of everyday life. I was really reluctant to watch it and gave up on it, but some time later I gave it another chance and I rather liked it but it’s sometimes boring and too repetitive, but the colors were great and the story in some parts entertaining , I especially loved ” The precure 5 movie” ( that one was one good thing!) , that’s why I’m gonna watch at least the first five eps of Fresh Precure then I’ll see, but you’re right it’s useless to blog it.