Deltora Quest
While I wrote my Winter Season Preview, I told myself that I’d continue watching Deltora Quest, no matter how bad the first episode turned out to be, seeing as the premise I read about did spark my interest. Still, after watching it, I can easily say that I have absolutely no reason to drop it. From the outside, this looks like another one of these teenage-boy-who-has-to-collect-number-of-crystals-stories. Well, that’s exactly where the stereotypes end. What we have here is finally a pure fantasy story, taking place in the country of Deltora where it features our main character, who travels along with his caretaker and some girl we’ll probably meet in the next episode. This anime already separated itself from all those other shounen-adventures by giving an outline of the history of the country of Deltora, and making the main character more than an ignorant brat. I definitely want to see more of this. It’s been a while since such a good pure fantasy story with no other focuses appeared.
Koi Suru Tenshi Angelique 2007
I gave on this show up after reading Azure Flame’s review of it, though I decided to give it one final chance. I’m not sure whether that was a good idea. I was shocked when I found out the truth about this anime. This show just kicks the nine bishounen from the first season out like it’s nothing, and introduces a WHOLE NEW SET OF NINE BISHOUNEN! Or at least, eight bishounen and yet another guy who just looks too much like a female. This isn’t monster of the week, this is bishie of the week! Not only that, the creators tried to give a bit of variation by making the main character go to each of these bishounen’s worlds and retrieve them. NINE FRIGGIN’ EPISODES OF ARRIVAL IN WORLD, BIT OF TALK, RELUCTANCE TO GO, MORE TALK, EMOTIONAL SCENE, AGREEMENT TO GO. Actually, this can be done right, though I highly doubt that this anime will succeed. Especially after seeing next week’s preview. This is just too cheesy. Dropped.
Major 3rd Season
I’ve never seen anything of Major, and this seemed like a good moment to check whether or not that was a good choice. Still, I don’t think that I’m going to watch any more of this series. It’s not necessarily bad, or anything, but this episode didn’t motivate me to go download the first two seasons, unlike shows as Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club and Futago Hime. It had some interesting points, like when the main character watched the two baseball teams play against each other, but the guys, especially the main character, were just a bit too annoying. Dropped.]]>
Some quick first impressions: Deltora Quest, Koi Suru Tenshi Angelique 2007 and Major 3rd Season
Yup, I completely agree with your comments on Deltora Quest. I kept my expectations purposefully low as it had the potential to be too kiddie, thankfully I was surprised how good the animation and the pacing was. The big CG battle at the beginning was unexpected and very well done I thought. I’m looking forward to seeing Jasmine next week.
You considering blogging it long term?
Yay, pure fantasy! I’ll be checking out Deltora Quest for sure, especially if you say the lead character isn’t your average shounen hero.
There’s a high chance I’m going to blog it. It all depends on how good the second episode is going to be.
I can’t remember seeing a ‘pure’ fantasy series like this since Record of Lodoss War (Scrapped Princess was technically sci-fi when all was said and done) so it’s actually quite a rare thing.
The story is about the trio of Lief, Barda and Jasmine, so how their character dynamics will be key I think. From what I know of the story Barda often has to stop them fighting so it should be fun to watch 😛
Record of Lodoss War is what instantly came to my mind as well when I read “pure fantasy”. I have a huge soft spot for anything fantasy related since I used to be a big fantasy fan before I got into anime, so a combination of the two is just win all around.
Hey Major is pretty good. I’ll be watching the 3rd season.
You can’t judge Major from watching the 3rd season 1st you completely wont understand it. It’s one of the few shows that actually follow a specific order of events and stick to it. Major is definitly a fantastic series and your gonna be missing out on some great stuff, but hey to each his own.
I didn’t think it was possible, but Angelique season two actually sounds worse than season one (even the character designs look more simplistic). Oh well, guess I don’t have to bother watching it now.
I was the only person that liked the first season of Koisuru Tenshi Angelique, and most of that was from Marcel-sama and a hope to encourage people to give reverse harems a chance. Now they took out half my reason of watching season two. Meh, I’ll still try this out.
Blog Major 3rd Season!!!! Major 0wnz. I agree with Sakuragi 100% about needing to know the backround of the series or you wont understand whats happeneing
Where did you get the first episode of the third season of Major?
I´ve been looking for it and havent seen it 🙁