Shinrei Tantei Yakumo – 02

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Okay, I may have to explain myself quite a bit for labelling this as one of the two non-sequels that I immediately found good enough to blog this season. I mean, this isn’t because I’m a Bee-Train fan: I’m a fan of Bee-Train because of Koichi Mashimo and he wasn’t involved here, and it’s also not like I have my criticisms about Shinrei Tantei Yakumo. Yet, while this may seem like a Ghost Hunt rip-off, it’s actually completely different.

I know that this is something very subjective, but out of all of the first episodes I watched this season so far, this series is the one that stuck to my mind the most, aside from perhaps Letter Bee. This show is strange, it advertises itself as a mystery-series, while it actually completely isn’t. It makes no attempt to build up it’s mystery: one moment it introduces things and only a minute later it has already revealed the main culprit. Still, the more I think about it, the more I realize how every moment of this series is meant to contribute to its characters: whether this is the main cast or the side-cast, it doesn’t matter: Yakumo has no wasted scenes whatsoever. I mean, I’m crazy if I’m not going to blog something like that.

This episode again: the genre it belongs to the most was freaking Iyashi-kei. I mean, what the heck? The entire episode went completely against the thriller-esque mood that this series built up, and instead told the story about two old guys and the relationship they had with a woman who died in their past. The story they told about themselves was short and to the point, and yet it worked somehow. And Yakumo… from a bishified detective he actually turned into a medium of all things: his purpose in this series revolves more around healing people’s deep scars by letting them meet their loved ones who died, rather than solving some cheesy mystery here.

I also love that this series is episodic: that’s really something that this series needs, considering that it’s only got 13 episodes. The past two episodes have been rushed, indeed. But they were also short and to the point. I really applaud the creators to put so much meaning into them in so little time. Especially considering how half this episode was focused on Yakumo himself, rather than those two old guys. That uncle of Yakumo succeeded in making Yakumo into more than just another stereotypical silent badass.

Yakumo doesn’t have the biggest budget, and at times the acting also feels a bit flat. But unlike Togainu no Chi, this series provided more than enough to keep my interests: it did a lot of stuff here, in just two episodes. I also love those parts at the end of each episode, which try to foreshadow the main plot and try to keep the different episodes together. They’ve got this really neat atmosphere, completely different from the episode that preceded them. It’s there where this series also doesn’t get afraid to get a little artsy, especially in the previous episode.
Rating: ** (Excellent)

Star Driver – 02

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As for the series I’m not going to blog:
– Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls is just bad. Its dialogue is so camp that it becomes silly, no matter what it does. Its voice acting sucks, the premise is worthless and there’s just no hope for this one.
– Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai keeps sending off the same hints that regular romances use for their lead couple. Learn some subtlety dammit.
– Super Robot Wars – The Inspector is full of cheesy morals, plus I know too little of the franchise to really enjoy it.
– Yumeiro Patissiere has its character development, but I’m missing too much in the other areas: the characters are annoying, and the pacing itself drags on, instead of keeping my attention.

In any case, before I move on with this episode, I do want to say a number of general comments towards the Autumn Season, and my main problems with it: I’m lacking some kind of adult touch here. Iron Man just sucks. Panty and Stocking does focus on adults, but it also has the toilet humour of a teenager, Togainu no Chi has its lackluster direction, the same goes with Hakuouki, and Arakawa just is hit or miss. What I’m trying to say is that, while these characters are technically all over 18 years old, there’s nothing mature about them other than Panty’s sex addiction. The good series that feature adults are Yakumo and Otome Youkai Zakuro, but those seem more aimed at a teenaged audience than a mature one. That just leaves Kuragehime and we don’t even know yet whether that one’s going to be good.

So yes, teenagers. That’s really the biggest fear I had for Star Driver, but this series has more than enough to set itself apart from all other teenaged series. This episode really established this series as Utena’s spiritual successor, and yet still feels new, refreshing and full of potential. I also really like how this is supposed to be a mecha series, made by people who don’t have anything with the genre: this way they can really go into their own ways, rather than follow all of the examples that have been set by series in the past.

Based on the fact that this series was going to be completely original and the exceptional staff, this really was the series I was looking for the most. The thing with the staff is that they may not be the best choice when it comes to adaptations. Yoji Enokido, the guy behind the series composition and script, also wrote the series composition behind Sailor Moon SuperS (haven’t seen it, but it seems regarded as the worst Sailor Moon series), Ouran High School Host Club (which I didn’t really like: it was unbalanced and there were too many boring episodes) and Nodame Cantabile: Paris (again unbalanced and nowhere as good as the first season). The director, Takuya Igarashi‘s previous two series also weren’t much to my liking: Soul Eater and Ouran High School Host Club. I’m not sure whether this was because of the material that they were working with, or whether they simply didn’t portray them right, but they have been involved with some disappointment.

And yet, we’re also talking about the guy who directed Ashita no Nadja, an incredibly charming and uplifting shoujo adventure and three of the Ojamajo Doremi, one of the supposed best mahou shoujo franchises, along with the guy who wrote Utena, a ground-breaking title with brilliant characters, a brilliant script and chockful of symbolism, and FLCL, another highly experimental anime with a ton of neat and original ideas, being consistently entertaining to watch. How could I not look forward to this? We could have a potential classic if these two manage to get in their element here.

And overall, I’m really pleased with the results. You can really see the influences on Utena, but instead of its elegance, the director here swapped that with flamboyance. On top of that, this episode toyed around with interesting ideas. I mean, take the kissing: at first it may seem random, and then it turns out that people have different powers. Also, “kissing through the glass”, could that be a reference to the strange glass balls in which everyone is caught during the fights in that strange dimension?

I love the concept of a mecha who can only move around in zero time. I’m expecting a lot of this series, though: if everything goes right, it can really become a potential classic. It’s only one of the two series this season that is really trying out something new and fresh. And since the other series that does this is Panty and Stocking, this really is one of those series that NEEDS to work out well, in order to set an example for many other series to follow.

Also, Shinichiro Watanabe (the director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo) directed the OP for this one. How cool is that?
Rating: ** (Excellent)

Heartcatch Precure – 35

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This pretty much was the school example of how you should do a school festival episode. Seriously, school festivals in anime really are a staple, but I don’t know how long it’s been since I watched a school festival episode that did so many things right. And it’s not even over yet: this episode just showed the preparations, while the festival is only going to start next week.

The thing is, at our school we never had clubs like the baseball club, fashion club, et cetera: if you wanted to join such a club, you’d have to join it outside of your school. These school festival episodes are obviously meant for the Japanese audiences to relate to them. For foreign audiences meanwhile, these episodes are instead a chance to see different cultures. After a few of those episodes, this just gets old and rather shallow: the lead characters work hard on whatever they’re working on, they make their deadline and they present their work, often with not much meaning put into things.

This episode of Heartcatch Precure really had me surprised, though. It really managed to put a lot of different things into just one episode: there first of all was the fashion club, and the creators portrayed the stress of Tsubomi and especially Erika, trying to get everything ready. There were many things that had to be done, and many errands that had to be run, on top of Tsubomi who was running around the school, trying to find where the heck Yuri went. This episode didn’t focus on the making of the clothes: it has already been established that the cast knows how to do that. Instead, it really detailed what needed to happen, what they were planning to do, and some of the challenges they faced.

On top of that,the creators also brought the rest of the school alive: Tsubomi and Erika were nowhere near the only ones who were also busy trying to meet their deadlines: this episode saw all kinds of different clubs running around, like the drama, art, movie, photo, baseball and Judo club, alongside Itsuki’s tasks as the student council president. It really stressed that everyone was having the same stress as Erika, and everyone tried handle this deadline in his own way.

Really, I think that this was one of the very few school festival episodes that really showed me how those school festivals must feel to Japanese teenagers.
Rating: ** (Excellent)

Letter Bee – 27

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This season I have room to blog 7 new series. After the first week, there was one show that you forced me to blog, two shows that instantly convinced me that they’re interesting to blog, and one series that I was guaranteed to blog right from the start. I’m still not really sure about the final three, though.

In any case, Letter Bee was the only series that I was guaranteed to blog (I blogged the first season, after all), but for it to turn out this good was beyond what I could have expected. The first episode was already a fantastic aftermath, and this episode again blew my expectations, especially considering so little happened. I mean, this pretty much is an episode in which Nichi runs away, gets a bit of time to think for herself and then goes back to Lag in the end. On paper it should be nothing special. But dammit, Nichi was beyond adorable.

I’m not really sure what it is about her, but just her being on the screen is fun enough to watch. And on top of that, this episode was just really subtle. Again, it rushed nothing and actually took its time to flesh Nichi out a bit more, on top of showing much more about the gunsmith and his bread baking wife who were already introduced in the first season. The time that Nichi spent with them felt really natural. I also loved that a lot was also going o off-screen, like how we suddenly switched to Lag, trying to keep that drunk performer under control: we didn’t exactly see how it happened, but knowing both of them, there really was no need to animate those scenes, as you’d know what happened to them anyway.

This was quite a unique start to a sequel. I mean, even sequels like to start off slowly, or with some kind of introduction or semi-introduction. Letter Bee instead goes for a very touching opening arc that is chock full of character-development. Most of that happened in the previous episode, but this episode also had plenty of it. In particular, it brought the relationship between Lag and Nichi much closer. By far my favourite part of this episode was the point in which Lag and Nichi rejoined with each other.
Rating: ** (Excellent)

Bakuman – 02

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As for the series I’m not going to blog:
– The only good thing of Iron Man is its soundtrack. I mean, I can understand that Madhouse had to sacrifice the animation in favour of Redline, but that’s far from the only problem here. Who the hell wrote this rubbish?
– MM had together with To Love-Ru the worst first episode of the season for me.
– Probably the biggest dilemma this season is whether the comedies are going to be interesting to blog, because this season they’re blessed with some of the best direction out of all of the premiering series. Still, if I’m going to blog a comedy then it’s going to be Squid Girl. Panty and Stocking really does have a very shallow characterization and I’m not getting happy if Sora no Otoshimono II is based around a girl whose only defining traits are boobs and stupidity.

In any case, every year I hold a contest in which you can force me to blog one series without question. In the past, this resulted in me blogging Claymore, Gundam 00, Tytania and Kimi ni Todoke (I love how diverse the results turned out to be, by the way). This year was by far one of the most close calls, in which Bakuman just barely managed to beat Psychic Detective Yakumo with just one vote difference.

Had I not been forced to blog this series, then I probably would have ended up blogging it as well, though it wouldn’t have been one of my top choices. Most of this would probably be thanks to Kenichi Kasai, who is a very solid director, since I knew absolutely nothing about the manga, other than that it was about manga artists and written by the same guy from Death Note. Out of all of Kenichi Kasai’s series, Bakuman didn’t have the strongest opening episode (that title goes to probably Aoi Hana), but it still was quite a solid episode, and this episode continued that trend.

The creators used the death of the lead characters’ uncle well to create their drama here. I really liked how realistic they kept Moritaka’s relationship with his parents: it’s obvious that they’re still thinking about his uncle and how he died, but they quietly discussed how they felt about it. I especially liked that grandfather: you’d expect him to take Moritaka’s decision to become a manga artist as some kind of bad omen, but instead he’s actually very glad that Moritaka has found a passion for himself.

As for the romance… you really could have fooled me here. This episode again spent quite a bit of time on the romantic relationship between Moritaka and Miho. I’m not sure what to think about them at this point, really. Just get the two dating, or at least do something with it, because at this point it feels rather pointless.
Rating: * (Good)

Some Quick First Impressions: Fortune Arterial, To Aru Majutsu no Index II and Togainu no Chi

by psgels, posted in Some Quick First Impressions

Fortune Arterial

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a transfer student.
The thing with this season is that the worst series are far better than usual. There were indeed some series without any potential, but at least there are no series that are outright insults, like KissXSis, Ladies Versus Butlers, Shukufuku no Campanella or Chu Bra. Fortune Arterial, the last series left that could turn out to be a complete disaster, also turned out to be better than expected. Sure, it’s by far the most generic looking series of the season (blame that to ZECXS; I have no idea why they’re still stuck in 2003), and it has quite its share of harem cliches: there’s the transfer student, there are vampires, the student council, walking into each other naked and of course the childhood friends. This episode was more concerned with introducing its characters than parading all over their cliches like it didn’t know anything better to do. The naked scene was a prank, rather than completely forced and random, and the dialogue felt quite natural. The biggest problem is that the lead female is a very typical tsundere, along with a bunch of other voice actresses who can and will get on your nerves. Still, I have to be fair here: the final thirty seconds grabbed me by surprise.
OP: An OP for a harem show in which the singer doesn’t try to be as squeaky as possible?
ED: FANSERVICE
Potential: 35%

To Aru Majutsu no Index II

Short Synopsis: Our lead character lives together with a girl who is easily kidnapped.
Overall, this was quite a solid first episode: it had a nice combination between action, comedy and character-building. The new bad guy who appeared had quite an interesting story, and while Index was as annoying as ever, I do have to admit that Touma knows how to make a good joke. I mean, it’s been 24 episodes and his “misfortune”-shtick still hasn’t gotten old. The animation has been better in this series (but then again, when the first season aired, it aired in a season in which JC Staff had three other shows, all of which still have really solid graphics). In terms of potential, I really want to see some more depth in the rest of this series, especially in the character-department. The first season also had a interesting setting, but it only scratched the surface. I expect this season to delve deeper in its potential.
OP: Disappointing in terms of graphics, but the song itself is nice.
ED: The CG could have been more subtle
Potential: 75%

Togainu no Chi

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is arrested for a murder he didn’t commit.
Here is one series that can go anywhere, all depending on its plot. The animation unfortunately isn’t too pretty, the characters still are pretty static and the plot also could go anywhere, from bad to good. This really was a first impression that didn’t really try to start off with a bang, and so we get a bit of a dull introduction and set-up in which the lead character only gets to fight a bunch of stereotypical punks who have nothing to do with the story, and we only get one glance of what looks to be the major villain. My biggest fear for this series at the moment is a lack of detail: this episode didn’t really put much attention in anything, really: it just told its story, but hardly did anything extra. The characters are standard, the setting is standard apocalyptic, but we hardly get any details on how people are living their lives other than random street fights. What keeps me interested in this episode was that it did create a lot of potential: there’s a ton of room for a grand and interesting storyline being built up behind the shadows, and I’m interested what it’s going to be about. The direction needs to try harder the next episodes, though.
OP: Started off well, until the vocalist opened his mouth.
ED: This one works well. Nice song, simple but interesting visuals.
Potential: 60%

Macross Frontier – Itsuwari no Utahime Review – 85/100

by psgels, posted in Anime Reviews, Macross Frontier




Okay, so the Macross Frontier Movie turned out to be an alternative retelling, very much in the same veins as Do You Remember Love. And here’s the thing: in the most cases, the biggest flaw of these kinds of movies is their lack of time: they really try, but compared to the series they’re based on they just don’t have the time to experiment, flesh out their characters. You can really see that with Air, Clannad and Escaflowne: they really had their own ideas and visions, but severely lacked the time to really get the best out of their stories, and instead they ended up with a very stylish, but much more simplified version compared to their TV-shows. But holy crap, Macross Frontier is completely different: I liked the movie quite a bit more than the TV-series.

The thing with Macross Frontier was that its plot was pretty much flawed: it had a lot of subplots that never really went anywhere: it never really knew what it wanted to do. This movie finds this focus, it cuts out all of the pointless bits, and makes the story focus much more on Alto, Sheryl and Ranka. It updates many scenes to make them less annoying and it makes the drama that never seemed to progress in the television series much more dynamic and interesting. And even though its plot is similar to that of the TV-series, it really stands on its own, as much more than just another recap movie.

The back-story of the TV series felt unnecessarily complicated to me. Unnecessary in the way that it had a lot of bark and no bite, and was never really used. The movie simplifies things a lot. The results are that it’s a bit more cliched, but it fits much more within the rest of the series. In order to make up for the cliches, the creators here try to make up for it with the smaller things, where you can see them play around with neat ideas around the performances as well as a much snappier and flowing scenario in which the scenes flow into each other much better. Oh, and Shoji Kawamori found himself a new vehicle that he really wants to show off.

As for the graphics, this movie consists out of frames taken directly from the TV-series, along with plenty of new stuff. The recycled frames may be annoying, but it really surpasses the TV-series with its original content. The character animation is much more fluid and much less rushed, while the action scenes are just visual orgasms: they look absolutely beautiful, there’s a lot going on at the same time and have some of the most amazing choreography.

Really, I realize that I’m one of the people who had quite a few complaints about the original Macross Frontier and all, but I’d actually advise people who are interested in Macross Frontier to check out the movie instead of the TV-series, unless the second movie really ends up ruining things. The TV-series never felt like everything came together. The movie does.

Storytelling: 9/10 – The proof that “more time” doesn’t always equal better. Grabs the plot of the TV-series, removes most of weaknesses and makes the plot flow much, much smoother.
Characters: 8/10 – Much more likable, and much better used.
Production-Values: 9/10 – Not getting a 10 because of the recycled frames, but otherwise it would get really close. Fantastic animation and a visual orgasm and a great soundtrack that really succeeds in making this one of the few animated musicals that really work.
Setting: 8/10 – Less needlessly complicated, though more cliched because of this. Still, the cliches are not enough to weigh this movie down.

Suggestions:
– Macross – Do You Remember Love?
– The Wings of the Honneamise
– The Adolescence of Utena

Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu – 15

by psgels, posted in Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu



An intermezzo, and it doesn’t really help that Milk returned. I understand that it’s necessary to build up the upcoming arc with a solid introduction (which had better be awesome, by the way), but more than half of this episode consisted out of the same character antics that have gotten old by now.

Here’s the thing: Ryner developed more when he was in prison than afterwards. The entire purpose of the previous arc was building up, but in itself it did not evolve this series in any way, other than increase the intrigue between the different countries a bit. The humour really shows this, as it’s been the same for ages now: Ferris insults Ryner as much as she can, Ryner tries to retort, and now that Milk has come into the picture she has gotten even more annoying. I did like that Ryner and Shion got to meet each other again, though. This episode should have had more of that.

Also notable was that there was one particular un-ZECXS-like animator at work on this episode. I’m not sure who or what, but for once there were scenes in which the hair of the characters didn’t stay perfectly in model, like characters were using some really strong hair-spray or something.
Rating: (Enjoyable)

Some Quick First Impressions: Arakawa Under the Bridge X Bridge and Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

by psgels, posted in Some Quick First Impressions

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is working as a waitress.
I’d wish that I could rant about Shaft once more here, but no. Instead, my biggest issue with this episode was that it just went on and on about how waitresses in a maid cafe should behave. It’s another one of those topics aimed solely at otaku and for which I have no interest in whatsoever. Apart from that, though, this was probably the most down to earth Shaft series I’ve seen in a long while now. It still has some of the staples that make their shows so annoying, like the yelling and overacting and the chapter title screens, but again: you can really see that they’ve finally gotten themselves a good budget here, and the animation was much better than what you’d usually expect from them. If you ignore the hordes of maid cafe references and the overacting though, this was a pretty decent episode that simply showed a bunch of people talk to each other and have fun. There is a good chance that this will get boring within a few episodes, but for now this episode was enjoyable enough.
OP: Really good animation. Even for Shaft’s usual standards, this was great.
ED: Obviously inspired by a certain show, but the song is surprisingly good.
Potential: 35%

Arakawa Under the Bridge X Bridge

Short Synopsis: Our lead character hangs around with a bunch of weird people around a bridge.
I did not preview Arakawa’s second season because I’m really biased here: I have yet to encounter a Shaft sequel that did not disappoint me. In fact, the Shaft Sequels are the biggest reason for my huge dislike towards them. But okay, if you really want me to preview its first episode, then I’ll give it a whirl. First of all, I do want to say that Shaft did put the earnings of Bakemonogatari’s DVD sales to good use: this episode was much better animated than expected, and overall it looked pretty good, combining actual animation with Shaft’s visual style works well. But here is something I really want to ask the people who did finish the first season (I never watched past episode 1): is this show supposed to be not funny? I mean, all I saw in this episode was a bunch of characters screaming, yelling and overacting. I could see that they tried to make jokes at times, but I don’t recall even chuckling throughout this episode: everything just felt so forced and humourless. This episode did try to reveal some new things about its characters, but half of those things make me wonder why they weren’t revealed in the first season. I think the worst sketch here was that marathon, especially considering how ridiculously predictable the humour was. I guess that the part I liked best was the very last scene, in which we see what Nino’s dream was about. So is Arakawa Under the Bridge more about the former, or the latter?
OP: Amazing visuals. But then again, it was directed by Ryousuke Nakamura, a guy I can’t hype enough.
Potential: 10%

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a detective who has magical powers. Oh wait, No, she isn’t! Oh wait, I guess she is!
This show is strange. No, really. I expected some generic moe detective series, but this series blew all my expectations by being so ridiculously stupid and nonsensical. I mean, what mahou shoujo randomly strips all of the powers of the lead characters, right at the first episode? This show makes no sense whatsoever, and listing everything that’s wrong with this episode would take an entire essay. At the same time, that also is the charm of this series: it simply had a bit of fun with its characters, it was trying out quite a few interesting ideas, ad it didn’t care in the slightest about making sense or not. This episode was fast-paced and kind of fun, and I enjoyed it. But yeah, there is no way for the creators to keep up with this. The characters are as flat as a pancake, and the reason this episode was fun to watch was because the creators just kept throwing new and surprising stuff at us. Although it will be quite an interesting series if the creators manage to keep the surprises coming throughout the entire series, I see no way for them to be able to do that. It is directed by the director of Lilpri, after all. That one too had a very charming first episode, only to immediately degenerate into nothing but boring fillers afterwards.
OP: I don’t think that the creators couldn’t have been more generic, even if they tried.
ED: FANSERVICE
Potential: 35%

Some Quick First Impressions: The World God Only Knows, Motto To Love-Ru and You Are Umasou

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The World God Only Knows

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is really good at hentai games…
The reason why I was not looking forward to this series is because it’s got a bit of a “dime a dozen”-premise. Last year we saw the cat version of this with Nyan Koi, and that turned out to be really uninspired, so I really wanted to see with my own eyes what this show would end up as. Overall, while I can’t say that I immediately understand why so many people are looking forward to it, I can say that I’m very intrigued, and this episode was much better than I expected. It had quite a bit of creativity in its scenario, and to be honest, the creators did a decent job of getting a girl to fall in love with the male lead. In any case it’s far more plausible than most other harems. What I’m especially interested in is what the heck the rest of this series is going to look like? My main problem is that ghost girl, who feels rather one-sided, but overall, I’m impressed.
OP: I like the visuals here.
Potential: 65%

Motto To Love-Ru

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a typical loser who is loved by about six different girls.
The good news: Motto To Love-Ru is not as bad as Ladies versus Butlers. It at least has something that resembles a narrative and at least the combined intelligence of the cast can be able to outwit a baboon’s backside. The visuals look fairly decent, and especially the far away shots are nicely animated, so at least we don’t get a repeat of that complete disaster here. That’s pretty much where my praises end, though. To Love-Ru still remains a bad harem that is in no way worth watching. Rather than being a show with fanservice in it, it’s a show that is completely built around showing its female cast in awkward romantic situations. It doesn’t make the slightest effort to blend things in naturally, it just throws the cast into a bath house from out of nowhere, and makes the cast bump into each other in the most ridiculous places (a children’s play house? Really?). We’re 26 episodes further, and yet the characters act exactly the same from what I remember from the first season, absolutely no progression seems to have been booked, other than the introduction of a bunch of new characters, who all are simple stereotypical paper bags. What also really bothers me is that Xebec is pretty much outputting the same show twice here this season: both MM and To Love-Ru are harems, both are centred around a high school and both involve beating up the lead character. The biggest difference is that MM focuses more on the beating up and To Love-Ru focuses more on the harem. Really, Xebec: what happened?
OP: A decent J-Pop song. I’ve heard worse.
ED: Again, as bad as the characters are, this one does try to portray them all-right, I guess.
Potential: 0%

You are Umasou

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a dinosaur.
Umasou is a series with five-minute episodes, aimed at 3-year old kids and animated in what looks like flash. It’s a bit of a weird story about a tyrannosaurus rex who ends up adopting a baby ankylosaurus, and it’s pretty much told in the style of a picture book. It definitely has its charms, and I can see how little kids will love it. For the older audiences, though… yeah. It’s very much like series as Chebrashka Arere and Table Cat: fun to watch for a few minutes, but not really worth it in the long run due to the incredibly simple and childish storylines and characters.
Potential: 10%