Brave10
Short Synopsis: Our lead character meets a bunch of famous figures from the Sengoku Era.
Well, the good news: the lead female is better than her counterparts from Sengoku Otome and Hakuouki because she actually tries to act. The bad news is that she is far from out of the danger zone because she still remains a female who gets thrust in the midst of these famous Sengoku Era figures through really shallow reasons (this time it’s because she possesses some sort of really powerful thingy of doom). The good news about the males is that they are better than the other bishie show this season (Prince of Tennis), because they too actually remember to act. Again though they’re still pretty one-sided. This is really one of those shows that needs time to show whether it’s really going to be worth it. It’s got potential to grow and the characters were at least fun to watch, but this show will have to put a lot of time developing these characters, and not just rely on their famous names. Also, the lead female. She kept hopping back and forth from interesting to Mary Sue to trying to use her female charms a bit too forcedly.
OP: A bit of a bland j-rock tune.
ED: Was it really necessary to put auto tune on these vocalists?
Potential: 65%
Nisemonogatari
Short Synopsis: Our lead character talks a lot.
I want to like Shaft. I really want to like the way they use their storyboards, the way in which they try to show a lot with limited efforts. I really want to like how they use their creativity. But dammit they make it so hard! Nisemonogatari is exactly like Bakemonogatari; most of the things I disliked about it are still there! Or at least the flaws that can be apparent after only 1 episode: this episode did not have any budget issues yet, so thankfully I didn’t have to watch an incomplete episode. Still, my other issues with Bakemonogatari still stand. First of all, watching this episode didn’t feel like watching characters, but it felt like watching a slide-show over which a bunch of voice actors read a script. The first half didn’t have this problem, but unfortunately it returned in all its glory in the second half. The camera panned way too often to random scenery, random images, or the characters making weird poses that had no relation to what they were saying or doing. Second of all: what really happened in this episode? I mean, all it consisted of was Araragi talking to various members of his harem, and his sister. One of the other sisters, who this show apparently is supposed to be about, didn’t even make an appearance. Heck, this arc is supposed to be about this girl named “Karen”, but even she was completely absent here. All this episode did was restore the status quo and reiterate that Araragi is some weird pedophile (seriously, what the hell did he do to Hachikuji?). As for the dialogue: yeah, it had its witty moments and there was some nice wordplay, but it also had its moments where it just blatantly wasted time for the sake of wasting time or deliver bad 4th wall jokes. Now, Shaft does have this habit of airing troll first episodes, so at this point I can only hope that I’ve been reverse trolled and that the next episodes will have something genuinely interesting and new to offer.
OP: More staples. How are these still relevant?
Potential: 50%
Mouretsu Pirates
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a space pirate.
Haha, it’s just as I hoped. This series may look silly, but the acting is very good here: it actually treats its characters like actual characters. The result is a mostly mellow episode that’s full of subtle quips that the characters make towards each other, followed by a random action scene. This is what I’ve been looking for: a show that gets the balance of both silliness and subtlety. That made this a fun episode, even though it was just an introduction episode in which the characters haven’t even entered space yet. There are a lot of parallels with Rinne no Lagrange: they have the same length, same director, they both air outside of the season you’d expect them to air in, and they both advertise themselves as fun teenaged mecha series with a serious undertone. The big difference is that Rinne no Lagrange’s direction is better, while Mouretsu Pirates has better characters. They both can become quite fun, though.
OP: “Hey, let’s try to stuff as much audio ideas into just one song and see how it works!”
ED: Very uninspired visuals and all, but the song could be worse.
Potential: 80%
Good to see the old monogatari back. I loved the powerpoint (As long as it doesn’t go to Nadeko’s episode extremes), the disrespect for action and sight axis and the useless symbolism. All of this it’s a plus for Nisio’s bizarre writing style. It’s always nice to see the characters introspecting about honesty, separations and what’s in the future for them. Karen appearing in all scenes would be a “monster of the week” treatment (it’s nice to see the already established characters getting time), and remember, this 13 episodes are going to have only two arcs so there’s plenty of time for development.
P.D. And yes, Araragi is such a freaking pervert! (we probably still haven’t seen all his potential).
I am honestly baffled as to how you could heap praise on vacuous tripe like Penguindrum, and then shit all over the excellent writing of Bake/Nisemonogatari. You don’t have to like it of course, but some of your criticisms are just plain stupid. So what if the titular character didn’t appear in the first episode? Is that really supposed to be a criticism? Sounds like grasping at straws to me. As for “wasting time” I’d say Penguindrum is more guilty of that than any other show I’ve watched in the past year.
Agree. It’s interesting how sometimes Psgels says how much he likes series where there’s a lot of, or just dialogue, and praises series where they shove in symbolism, which seems to be what is going on in this show, but he is bashing it for doing it. I guess it just isn’t the way he likes it, which is fine. And if there’s really no development I can see how that would be doing strictly speaking wrong. But yeah, not having the titular character yet shouldn’t be a criticism.
Mawaru didn’t shove in symbolism. It weaved it in deliberately throughout it’s story. It used it as a medium for its story writing. This show however, just uses it randomly for no real reason besides for the fact that it can now say it uses symbolism.
This is what annoys me about Penguindrum fans.Most Bakemono fans are quite content to admit that much of the random imagery is just there for show, and doesn’t have any deeper meaning.
Penguindrum fans on the other hand insist that every single piece of masturbatory “symbolism” in the show ties into some grand tapestry that when fully understood reveals the mystery of life.
Bottom line, it is downright hypocritical to praise the Monogatari series for this stuff and give Penguindrum a free pass. BOTH shows contain many examples of random, ill thought out symbolism. If you really think otherwise then you’re deluding yourself.
And by “praise” I meant “criticize”
Claiming that all MPD fans insist that every piece of symbolism tie into some majestic tapestry or whatever is a huge generalisation. Plenty of people who are fans will admit to finding some pointless or frustratingly unclear, including myself.
Also, what constitutes as meaningful/deep or random/ill-thought-out symbolism is subjective. If you found a lot MPD’s pointless, that’s your opinion, and that’s fine. Claiming that any who thinks otherwise is delusional is just silly.
On a different note: regarding Nise, I agree quite a bit with psgels. It felt too disjointed and long-winded for me to enjoy. SHAFTy angles and animation in moderate doses add spice to a series, but Nise feels like eating a meal entirely out of spice. Lots of unnecessary dialogue and a paedophilic Araragi didn’t help.
Not having seen the main character indeed isn’t a criticism on its own, but I used it to illustrate how much the pacing of this show gets on my nerves.
I indeed love shows that spend a lot of time on talking. Bakemonogatari actually was the first show that forced me to actually reconsider this. It just wastes so much time on things that just don’t matter, only to rush through the important bits. That’s what I fear is going to happen here as well. The bad jokes and the way in which it glorifies its own humour also aren’t really helping.
There’s still 11-12 episodes (5-6 for the arc) and we’re complaining about the pacing of the whole arc? “Glorifies it’s own humor”? Is that even possible? “I don’t like the humor” sounds more plausible.
Cytl: me not liking the humour of course also has a part in it, but I was referring to the scenes where the characters lavishly praise their own wordplay. It feels like a comedian trying to explain his own jokes.
And yeah, it’s indeed too early to say that this show is really going to be dragged out. But after sitting through the snail arc of the first season I really don’t want to watch something like that again…
I actually like the dragging in the jokes (but it’s fair to say that it’s just my taste, not necessarily good), I just dig this kind of neurosis.
Seems like you will hardly blog this until the end; a shame. If it helps in anything: This season is going to have an antagonist.
Geez. It’s Psgels blog thus he’ll write what he wants. Seriously, people should write their own anime blogs if they are unsatisfied with television critiques, much less the shows.
@utena30- Here comes the, “you don’t agree, so write you own!” team coming. People have different opinions on things, and im sure that’s why psgels put a “comment” section in the first place. To see other people’s views on the show. To be fair, the discussion is quite civil, and nobody is outright throwing out insults on each other.
Ps. I think Nise was awesome!
It’s OK to think different and let the readers on this blog know your opinions, but at least share your opinions in an educated way. There’s too much unneeded violence in the several posts I’ve read.
PS: Yes, I also really enjoy Nisemonogatari.
what? someone really expected for two good sengoku anime air at the same time?(first obviously being Hyouge Mono)? World was not that awesome last time i checked. Female lead was just so damn annoying – nothing to watch there imho.
I quite liked the first episode of Mouretsu Pirates. What I liked the most was how the world was built, so far it’s interesting and well explained. The technology feels like something you could actually see in the future (I quite liked the reference to an autolid like system for car). Whether in movies or animes about pirates, I’ve seen privateers so rarely it’s kinda refreshing to see them take an important place here. Since it’s mostly introduction, it could still turn bad but I have high hopes for Mouretsu Pirates.
Btw, I mzeant “autolib”, not “autolid”.
Mouretsu looks like it’s going to be such a fun series. It seems like it’s going to be a big, over-the-top throwback to simpler shows. I can’t wait for the next episode.
Awesome been looking forward to Mouretsu Pirates ever since it was first announced for this.
If you don’t even grant this show (or its prequel) enough attention to realize that Karen is Araragi’s other sister, why do you bother wasting your time on it just to bash it? Either you like Nishio Ishin’s writing style or you don’t, which would be perfectly fine as long as you don’t see the need to rant about it. For example, I don’t like slice of life drama series, but I don’t blog about that fact as I cannot imagine how that would amount to anyone’s interest.
I’ve been following your blog for some years now but sometime around last year I began to have problems with your entries. The first impressions of Symphogear and Nisemonogatari kind of constitute the cherry on the cake. I only watch a few selected shows each season as the whole medium isn’t my thing like it used to be and I’m always in for innovations but lately it seems to me like you only praise and revel in innovative shows and criticize any other show that contain some itsy-bitsy stereotype as long as it’s not handled in a supposedly experimental or whatsoever way.
And yes I know you usually like shows with lots of dialoge and you specifically criticize how Shaft animate stuff but seriously, would you prefer talking heads for 20 mins? In that sense I think Shaft is much more innovative than those studios which save their budget for some short action scene and just use mainly stagnant pictures with barely moving lips for the dialogues.
Kind of a shame really as I used to agree with you on a lot of series and opinions. Furthermore, I don’t want to laud Bakemonogatari or anything else by Nishio for anything it isn’t, I just think it does not deserve this extremely divided opinions. And for that matter, I liked Penguindrum a lot, but I cannot say I loved it to bits as I did not enjoy the second half as much as the first one by any means and I’m still wondering whether there is any meaningful hidden layer in the rather crude setting and plot I just didn’t notice, which would be surprising as I never was in doubt about Utena even after watching it several times.
Strangely enough, my problems with Symphogear and Nisemonogatari aren’t about innovation at all. I just consider Symphogear to be badly written, and I actually do agree that Nisemonogatari is inovative. I just can’t enjoy it. What annoys me the most about this is that Shaft have been doing this for years now.
Also, the Karen thing is my mistake. That’s not a matter of not paying attention, that’s a matter of keeping track of hundreds of names for each new season and being not the best in remembering them.
Well, maybe I’m fine with how they deal with the adaption of the monogatari novels because 1) I did not watch that many Shaft shows apart from the Ef series and, if you just count Shinbou as a director, SoulTaker and therefore I’m not that biased 2) I know that Nishio’s novels consist of dialogues, inner monologues and pretty much nothing else instead of some descriptions for the characters’ movements, so I accept the rather random surroundings the characters act in because it does not matter at all how they look and I’m actually glad Shaft are at least somewhat innovative in that field. I would agree though that thought-out productions like Madoka are a rarity, sadly.
Maybe I would not have been as surprised if you did not give Symphogear ZERO percent. I don’t even get where the supposedly bad writing is located in the episode. I read your remarks but to me they just seemed like nitpickings on details I could easily overlook considering how overall entertaining the episode was. And I think “pretentious” has become rather overused and devoid of meaning. How can we judge whether the series pretended to be something it did not actually provide after only one episode?
Don’t get me wrong, as soon as I have similar problems as you I’ll immediately drop this series. I just don’t see anything unacceptable so far.
“I know that Nishio’s novels consist of dialogues, inner monologues and pretty much nothing else instead of some descriptions for the characters’ movements”
I am still having a hard time understanding how this could possible be considered a good writing style. Ultimately it just sounds like someone writing random thoughts down on paper.
Nope, I didn’t like Bakemonogatari because to me it just felt like a poorly disguised harem anime.
Bakemonogatari never tries to disguise the fact that it’s a harem anime.
Believe it or not, that doesn’t automatically make it bad.
“I’ve been following your blog for some years now but sometime around last year I began to have problems with your entries.”
Exactly how I feel… Actually, Blood C was when I knew something was really wrong… How can someone praise that crap over and over, and then shit all over Symphogear, which had a better first episode than the whole of Blood C?
I used to agree with almost everything Psgels posted and I found out about a lot of cool unknown animes because of it, but nowadays that seems completely lost, I find myself disagreeing more often than not, its a shame
I agree that the first episode of Blood-C was not as good as the first episode of Symphogear, but calling Blood-C crap? No. Just no. Your opinion is not universal.
“but calling Blood-C crap? No. Just no. Your opinion is not universal.”
But it is considered crap by the vast majority. And of course has quite a number of elements that justify calling it crap. I am afraid to say that regardless if a small number of people like it or not, crap is crap.
The vast majority also considers K-ON good. It’s subjective, each their own, yadda yadda.
And what elements would those be? These things were discussed as it aired, and the conclusion seemed not that they have been overlooked by the people who liked it, but that they had seen them in a different light. For me Blood-C was surreal and creepy as hell from the very beginning, mostly thanks to the ‘happy’ scenes. That’s why it’s subjective.
I’m sure that there are objectively bad series, like Hidan no Aria, Saint Beat and Higurashi Kira, but this isn’t one of them.
Well, psgels, it’s nice to hear that you’re a catalyst for people to actually get their own opinions on anime. Like myself, they start trying to align their tastes with yours, and when that fails they get upset at you instead of realizing how natural it is to have your own opinion. It would be sad if it wasn’t so inspiring – it just means that your blog attracts the kind of people who are growing up and evolving their own tastes, instead of jumping on bandwagons.
I hope you continue to shock people by liking things they hate and hating things they like, no matter how mildly. Myself included. I might have found Blood-C crushingly tedious until the end, and still haven’t found my inner Penguindrum fanboy, but it’s nice to know I’m not the only person out there who doesn’t feel the need to pat *gatari’s head and cheer it up, like some popular kid who just got rejected for the first time.
That was meant as a general comment, not in response to single you out, mousoukyoku.
Why do people from the US often let their weird morals keep them from enjoying an anime.
Araragi is not a pedophile, Hachikuji is a ghost and is 3 years older than he is.
Psgels is from the Netherlands IIRC?
The Bakemonogarati anime suggests that Araragi has rather ‘interesting’ tastes in his Manga, so lolicon/pedo .. whatever the title. Also the whole ‘character who looks like a elementary grade kid but is actually older’ argument is a pretty old one. Try it with a Judge if you get caught with some Touhou Doujinshi!
BTW .. I love this show, just so you know
so sad…every time psgels criticizes an anime, he gets sh!t on, but rarely does he get compliments when he does a good review.
seems like everyone wants to justify why an anime is good if psgels doesn’t think the same =/
moochi: actually, I’m not writing this blog to have everyone agree with me. Also, I also receive quite a few positive comments, so it all evens out nicely. 😉
The reason for this is obvious. If psgels writes a review that you agree with then what the point of commenting if you are just going to say what he already did or a simple I agree?
i’m not saying that everyone should agree with him, but some of these comments are targeted towards psgel’s taste as opposed to how he is actually rating an anime. i would write an epic comment now lol but a few posts up, Hogart worded it very nicely (and a few posts down with ShyBlue’s comment). i’m kind of in a good mood after watching mission impossible so why don’t we just move along and just relax after watching some anime.
First ep of Mouretsu Pirates was awesome, loved the building of the big setting and it’s tech and characters and the oldschool action adventure vibe it’s giving off, can’t wait till next week.
Marika made for a great lead and I liked the early taste of the soundtrack particularly that great track that played to open the episode during the initial narration about the setting. Can’t wait to hear the bigger tracks once we get to space.
I really don’t know why everyone’s making a huge deal out of psgels not loving Nisemonogatari. I mean, he gave Nisemonogatari a 50%, not a 0 or something. And is it that horrible if he doesn’t like it? Honestly, I personally loved Nisemonogatari’s first episode and hated Blood-C, but that doesn’t mean I have to go and accuse him of being a hypocrite/unfair/whatnot. It’s his opinion guys. So what if it doesn’t perfectly match up with yours? Disagreeing with someone else’s opinion is totally fine until you start slandering their ability to judge things. This “Oh, but you love XXX so why don’t you love XXXXXX?” business is also stating to get on my nerves.
Especially the Mawaru Penguindrum and Bake/Nisemonogatari comparisons. Their visual styles aren’t even that similar save for episode 9 of Mawaru Penguindrum. And what the two are trying to convey are also completely different. Bake/Nisemonogatari is telling individual stories about youkai and humans through arcs. Its ambition ends there. MPD is trying to explain what fate, family, and love is. Though I’d say that MPD kinda failed to say all it wanted to say, it had always had a greater ambition than Bakemonogatari. Obviously, the symbolism in Bakemonogatari is going to be about the characters and what happens in the plot whereas the symbolism is MPD is going to be about fate, family, and love. Personally, I love the symbolism in both because I’m just a plain symbolism fanatic. But some people are put off by symbols that are too narrow-minded and others are put off by symbols that are too broad. And that’s perfectly fine.
“MPD is trying to explain what fate, family, and love is.”
Really? Then it failed even more miserably than I thought. It addressed NONE of these issues with any degree of coherency whatsoever. Bakemonogatari may have had smaller ambitions, but it actually lives up to them.
MPD pulled some of the cheapest tricks in the book more than once, and it’s sad to see how many people fell for them hook line and sinker. By the end of the series, Himari had died and come back to life so many times that I honestly didn’t give a fuck. Not to mention the soul-mate “plot twist” that was used to contrive a romance between two character’s who’s relationship had been pretty poorly developed over the course of the series.And then there’s the plot holes (for instance, how did Yuri even remember the world as it was before Momoka altered it?)
The pacing was all over the place too. A good 4 episodes are wasted on Ringo’s obsession with Tabuki, concluding with the shocking twist that-wait for it-she actually likes Shouma. WOW. Nobody saw that coming.
If even one of those episodes had been used to tell us more about the Takakura parents and their motives, then this show might actually have something approaching a coherent plot. This is just one example among many of plot points points that are brushed over in favor of wanky diatribes about “fate” and “family.
I really don’t have a problem with people liking MPD. I AM however irked by people who try to brush over it’s many obvious flaws, or worse still, paint those flaws as positives.
Please stop. All you’ve done is pick a fight is Penguindrum fans. Bakemonogatari is no better than Penguindrum, it just appeals to a different crowd. The best you can do is rationalize why one is better, given your opinions, not because one is objectively better in general.
It’s no fun having your favorite of the two dumped on, and you’ve taken a mostly-benign post by psgels expressing his personal distaste and turned it into an attack on Penguindrum fans. That’s asinine, whether you’re a fan of either franchise or not.
Penguindrum fans aren’t glossing over their show’s faults. And they don’t generally go around shoving their opinions down other’s throats. Some might, but that’s true of every show. Don’t go picking fights and then denouncing others for fighting back.
You say that you don’t have a problem with people liking MPD, but you’re basically claiming that MPD is so full of holes and people who like it just gloss over it, which is also true for Bakemonogatari. MPD may have failed miserably in your eyes, but that won’t change the opinion of its fans. If you’re saying that Bakemonogatari has far less flaws than Penguindrum, then you’re also glossing. I love both MPD and Bakemonogatari, but I wish that some the Bakemonogatari fans could just stop attacking MPD so aggressively just because some people prefer MPD. Hogart basically said everything I would ever want to say, so I’ll just leave it at that.
It does strike me as a bit weird to praise Penguin drum and not give the same consideration to Nisemongatari. That’s how it comes across to me anyway.
I did like MPD at first. I was, however, very disappointed by the show when it reached the end. I don’t mind that some also liked it alot. It just wasn’t a show that worked for me.
I do agree that the first episode of Nisemongatari got a bit too wordy , but I still really liked the episode. I will continue to watch and wait to see if it is as good as the first season.
All the comments and opinions do balance out. I find Psgels anime reviews to be very interesting, even when I don’t agree with him. 🙂
I enjoy reading all the comments posted here. I don’t think anyone has posted with flaming intent. It’s all opinion and I like reading what others have to say.
So to all who have posted, you have my thanks for adding to a great anime blog.
It does strike me as a bit weird to praise Penguin drum and not give the same consideration to Nisemongatari.
Why? Do they cover the same themes, share the same style and humor? So they have the same staff or the same fans? Why would it be inconsiderate? Did I miss something? Are they even the same genre?
Or could that comment be reworded into “it’s weird to praise Mononoke/Mushishi/Mahou Shoujotai/Simoun/Escaflowne/LoGH and not give the same consideration to Nisemonogatari”? Now THAT strikes me as weird.
Guys, in general: psgels stated his opinion and me and other people stated theirs. I believe that comment sections are for discussion (which basically means arguing about different opinions), so as someone else already said, I don’t think psgels only wants to see his readers agree on anything he says. If he wanted that, he would just write a personal diary nobody gets insight into instead of blogging on the internet. Especially when it’s about such a rather common and prevalently blogged field as anime where a lot of readers gather around.
Furthermore I did not mention at any point that Nisemonogatari is a brllliant gem of the industry or that Nishio’s style is good writing (whatever that is) or anything that way. At least I think I tried to be as neutral/objective as possible. psgels’ opinion just kind of seemed confusing and inconsistent in my personal view. If he just doesn’t like the content of the dialogue and that Shaft has a specific style they use over and over, then I won’t say anything against it since that’s his personal opinion and of course he has every right to say so. I’m sorry if my little discomfort seemed a bit aggressive. I didn’t follow this blog for years for no reason. I.e. if I just wanted to hate I could have done so years ago in any comment section.
As for Blood-C… I’ll just say I don’t think it’s as good as psgels said, but I don’t think it’s as bad as most other viewers criticized. It had awesome action compared to many other shows (and I usually don’t watch anything for the action) and the atmosphere was alright for those with according taste I guess. The plot however provided absolutely no surprises for me and the few supposed “twists” it had at the end were suspended and delayed way too long even for a short series IMO.
Nisemonogatari is a hit or a miss.
If you like Shaft, it will be a masterpiece.
If not, you will hate it with passion.
The same occurs with MPD and Utena.
I loved Utena, but i founf MPD, meh. And so not worthy of all the praise rollercoaster going in the internet.
I agree, but that’s true of just about everything. Some people will invariably “not get it”, or feel that the praise/hatred is unjustified. Doesn’t matter what anime/thing we’re talking about. It even happens with runaway hits that almost everyone seems to like, and it’s not always because someone *wants* to take a contrary stance.
psgels and some other bloggers/reviewers just sometimes attract comments because they seem to be superhumans who try to be fair and neutral to everything, so when they say something that isn’t 100% consistent or neutral, people try to balance it out somehow.. often failing to realize that they’re being even MORE biased than the blogger in question.
The Bakemonogatari series and Mawaru Penguindrum are pretty different shows, ultimately. The former is an exceedingly clever, visually experimental, occasionally even metafictional commentary on modern anime tropes. Mawaru Penguindrum is an incredibly original and convoluted “penguin mystery” that examines families, traditional and otherwise. Nisoisin uses genre to tell interesting stories (see his other works, too) while Ikuhara explodes genre in order to tell interesting stories (like Utena blew up the shoujo genre, except even more radically for Penguindrum.)
If I was being picky, I’d say that Shinbo owes Ikuhara a visual debt, but ultimately they’re great at very different things. Ikuhara is the master of reoccuring motifs, while Shinbo has a good eye for creative imagery that often lampoons itself in the bargain. Penguindrum to me is more special than Bakemonogatari, but both remain cult shows that definitely deserve an audience, right up there with FLCL and Kaiba, etc.
None of the shows lifted above are for everybody. That’s probably why they’re so special, though. The right person finds it, he or she feels as if it was meant for them.
Brave 10 was rather intriguing for me. I was entertained, and I’m curious to see where things will go next week. The story’s rather simple so far, and the characters pretty cliche… but the pacing is tight, the voice acting impressive, and the animation quite good too. I will be quite pleased if the story turns into something good too.
Yeah, if you didn’t like Bakemonogatari, you probably won’t like Nisemonogatari. I for one am looking forward to seeing a little more of the Araragi kid sisters (having been relegated to chibi preview mascots in the last series) though we only saw one of them this week.
As for Moretsu Pirates, I watched this before Rinne no Lagrange, making this the benchmark for that. There are many similarities to list, and one wonders why Tatsuo Sato thought it wise to direct two similar series in the same season; I wonder which one will prove more popular in the end. Pirates and mecha are two seperate themes. I plan to watch both, as I agree about Lagrange’s better direction (so far) as well as Moretsu’s more interesting (so far) characters.
Mouretsu pirates looks like it’ll be a fun series, yay!
From first impressions I rather like Marika, she stays just on the right side of ditzy at the moment, and I like the way she looks.
Will I ever eat a chocolate parfait as awesome as how it always looks in the anime?
For one reason or another Pirates felt old-school to me (in a good way). It even evoked that “why am I taking this seriously?” feeling that I rarely feel these days. It made for the perfect come-down after Symphogear, that’s for sure.
Nisemonogatari was just a distilled version of the first season. If that’s what you wanted, great. I’ll background-watch it in the hopes that something interesting happens between the endless seas on nothing-dialogue and sexual subtext (I’m just poking fun, chill out fanboys).
Brave10 was.. silly. Calling-attacks-while-jumping-around silly. Naruto silly. So Gary Stu meets Mary Stu, saves her, and gets trapped by the flimsiest possible non-reason to stay with her.. that’s how silly it is. It looked nice, but wake me up when it decides to shift to an original story.
well psgels sure lots of times I don’t agree with his reviews, but this time around I’m with psgels, I found some of you comparing mpd and bakemonogatari is idiotic.
mpd is a masterpiece, probably the most ambitious project I have seen last year, bakemonogatari is basically a love stories that just full of dialogues, its like me watching some guys chit chat about some nonsense things and lets added some symbol that added nothing to the story at all, so people could think this is unique lol.
funny thing most people I know like bakemonogatari because Hitagi is hot, the moe girls, if they put different drawings to the characters, I bet this anime will not popular as right now.
maybe some of you guys havent finished watching mpd or whatever, just sayin if u havent finished mpd, you dont know what are u talking about, keep watching n yes I have finished both bakemonogatari and mpd, bakemonogatari is fall very short in comparison, not even in the same league. and this one episode of nisemogatari doesnt help either, I would wait till this series finished, gonna watch it in marathon, I always judge series after I finished it and see if this series worth my time or not.