Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 2 – Purezza
Short Synopsis: Our lead character gets to date the most popular, perfect and rich girl in school.
And yere we have yet another moe show: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu’s continuation. I’m not really interested in all of the otaku-ish hobbies, but I figured that I might as well give this show a second chance to get me interested, but ultimately it didn’t. By far my biggest problem with this episode was that the many attempts at comedy were shallow, not funny and often downright atrocious, a problem I have with a lot of the moe shows this season. As for the romance, I admit that that part was pretty cute. The love triangle is just a copy of any other love triangle out there, but the romance between the lead character and Nogizaka Haruka, despite cliché, was pretty cute. Though I don´t really think it was cute enough for me to keep watching this…
Also on a side-note: is Japan really such a xenophobic place in which you get immediately labelled as loser in middle school when they find out that you like watching cartoons? Strange country.
OP: A bit of a mock opening of Haruka’s favourite show, but did the creators really have to go with something so cheesy?
OP2: I remember how the OP of the first season was abysmal, so this is a very good improvement. Catchy J-Rock and an inspired visual style.
ED: Way too cheesy and badly sung J-Pop.
Potential: 10%
Anymal Tantei Kiruminzoo
Short Synopsis: Our lead character can transform into cute and fluffy animals.
So yeah, this is a series aimed at kids. Just about everything in this show is designed to be as cute as possible, and it revolves around the premise of a bunch of kids searching around in their parents’ attic and finding a bunch of magical thingies that transform them into mahou shoujo. But really, for a kid’s show it’s actually not that bad at all. For once we have kid’s show that actually not as cheaply written as possible. The two characters are likable, and the episodes played out quite natural. What especially struck me is the surprisingly good soundtrack. This is probably a good series for the Shugo Chara-fans who have been turned off by how it jumped the shark with Party! As for the rest of this series, it could be a fun, relaxing series. If we are to believe the title, the girls are going to use their powers as detective. I guess that has promise as a light watch.
OP: It will never leave! It will never leave!
ED: Korean vocals, of all things, and again just too catchy.
Potential: 30%
Shin Koihime Musou
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a “honorable warrior” in ancient China.
It’s series like Koihime Musou that ruined any chance of me, being able to take the Romance of the Three Kingdoms-saga seriously. One of the classic Chinese novels? It’s probably going to remain in my mind as a series of very stupid and girly stories you can only laugh at. This sequel of Koihime Musou seems to do exactly the same as its predecessor: it’s here to deliver cute girls, more cute girls, and in between even more cute girls. I doubt that I’m going to continue watch this one since it’s really not my type of genre, but if you like moe and boobs doing nothing you’ll probably enjoy the slice of life in this series. It’s just too stupid for me with little else that caught my attention, and in that it didn’t really seem to have changed from the first season.
OP: Spunky OP. Not exactly something I want to listen to again, but definitely not among the worst this season.
ED: Too much sugar and squeaky voices.
Potential: 20%
Nuuuu what can it be wrong with a show that… shows in all the ways possible (and impossible) nice girls from the first image to the last????
Anyway the first serie was nice, so i’m surely following this other also. Of course i don’t expert a masterpiece out of the subject 😉
For your information…the OP and ED for Anymal Tantei Kiruminzoo are not korean, they are Thai.
Ehm by the way, the title of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 2 – Puzerra is not spelled right. It’d be “Purezza”, the italian word for “purity”
Yes, Japan really is a place where watching cartoons = lose, starting from about middle school. Watching Naruto when you’re in elementary school is fine, though. Any older and you’re an otaku freak loser.
Looks like this season full of kid’s show. Does japan finally realize that animation is not only for otaku freak but also can be used to educate children?
Anyamaru’s OP & ED were catchy and lovely to my ears.
And I think the anime is Satelight’s next Shugo Chara and HAL’s next Princess Tutu. Lawl
Also, the script-writers totally aren’t just some unknown script-writers if you’ve actually seen the news on Anime News Network. The production value is quite high… O,o even for a kid’s show. :’o
Btw, I thought the OP & ED were Chinese at first, but they’re actually a duo of Thai girls. :’3 They’re pretty cute.
yeah, I agree that that OP was really nice and catchy. My problem with it though is that I’m never going to be able to get that song out of my head now. 😛
And yeah, I was pretty surprised when Shouji Kawamori popped up as the original creator of this. O.o