Kimi no Iru Machi
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a transfer student
Yup, Shigeyasu Yamauchi. No mistake possible, this is a director whose style is immediately obvious. And it’s a shame that his next series is such a standard-looking love triangle, because really: he breathes life into these characters. The camera angles, movements, gestures, facial expressions: they’re all creative and make the characters feel much more dynamic than with conventional direction. The few weird camera angles I just take for granted. The voice acting is also good (the show also plays very well with its different accents), and he again managed to take a few amazing background artists with him. It’s also obvious that Gonzo put their best animators here, rather than on that dog series, because this really is polished. It’s a shame this is Kimi no Iru Machi of all things, a manga that I’ve hear so many bad things about, whose OVA was really, really bad, and so it really can go either way. So I’m really torn on the potential for this thing, because at the very least: this was a very solid set-up. For the standards of a high school romance that is.
OP: Don’t like the song, but the visuals are gorgeous.
ED: This guy can actually sing pretty well. It’s got this retro-feel, which I like.
Potential: 75%
Futari wa Milky Holmes
Short Synopsis: Our lead character are magical girl detectives.
No. No. No no. Milky Holmes is a parody: it is supposed to make fun of the mahou shoujo genre with its ridiculous premise. What on earth made the cretors think that they could take the setting of a school for mahou shoujo detectives seriously? What happened to the oversexed teacher with his own hug pillow? What happened to the god of lard? What happened to the characters who took “being an idiot” to an artform? What happened to the IQ of the blond policewoman? What happened to the awesome animation (seriously, this looked like crap). Why did they stuff incredibly wimpy and generic male characters among the cast? What producer found it a good idea to get money from this? It was so good. Now it’s just a boring detective show where cute girls solve a bunch of superficial crimes with magical powers.
OP: Ugh, what a generic opening!
ED: Seriously, what happened to the main cast!?
Potential: 0%
haha psgels the town where u live will be excellent for i dont know maybe 10 episodes aka 30 chapters maybe not sure it goes way down hill later when our protagonists decides to become the generic harem king he was destined to be 😛
This is all because the Japanese just can’t appreciate the beauty of Milky Holmes. Yesterday’s livestream was painful for me, but I’ll still be watching it.
Dunno if the manga is good or bad, but reading it pisses me off.
It is incredibly contrived akin to a soap opera in the worst possible sense of the word. There is nothing much to say about the series since it is just that bad.