Maken-Ki 01 - This is a pantyshot-heavy harem series, written with a pile of stereotypes formed into the shape of a script, for the most part. At least the show does have action, and not just harem comedy; if it was just the latter, I'm not sure if I'd watch, because it'd be even worse. As it is it's pretty bad, and I well might drop it at some point, we'll see... because yeah, it is very stupid.
So, the plot. The MC is a guy who had gone to a boys' only junior high, so in reaction to that he chose to go to a high school that used to be girls' only and now is open to boys for the first time, meaning that there are going to be a lot of girls around. He's a generic harem anime protagonist, however, so he's only planning to watch (and peek). Oh, and the school is a boarding school too, naturally.
He was so entranced by those facts that he didn't bother to look into it any more, so he has no clue about the other side of the school -- it has combat as well as academics. That is, some students have special powers called "maken"s (I think), and a few have really powerful items that I think are the maken-ki. They're weapons basically which give them what are either magic or SCIENCE powers, I don't know which.
So, anyway, the episode starts with the MC meeting his childhood friend, who now has quite large breasts and likes him (but tries to hide it). Then he runs into a second girl, a twintailed tsundere who tries to kill him after he sees her panties (she comes up with some other reasons too, but I think that was the core of it). He's saved by the third girl, someone he doesn't remember ever meeting who claims to be his fiancee, and has a full-on maken (to protect him with, she says).
By the end of the episode, he is, naturally, living with the three of them in a three bedroom apartment in a dorm on campus. Of course. This episode skips some bits from the manga, though -- for instance, that fight between the two other girls, that happened in the first day of school meeting before the confrontation I mentioned above, is almost entirely skipped, in the anime, but isn't really in the manga. Also I think the manga actually explained some of the tsundere's reasons for moving in. Eh, whatever, they're not big changes, and it's not exactly like the manga was good either, it's most certainly not. In either format, this is 100% generic junk.
The main thing I left out, of course, was mentions of the constant pantyshots. This show will not match Aika in terms of volume, but it does have frequent, detailed pantyshots, more so than most anime do. Pantyshot fans are going to like this. I'm not one, but the show is amusing enough that I'll keep watching for now.
Hellsing321 said:
Maken-ki
Panty shots. Panty shots everywhere.
If you need girls with big breasts fighting while showing off their panties, this will be more than enough to fill your quota.
Yup, that pretty much sums it up. All you forgot to mention was that it's a fairly generic harem show.
duckroll said:
To celebrate the glorious release of the
Vision of Escflowne Blu-ray Box Set coming out in Feb 2012, BS-11 will be
re-airing the entire series in HD starting tomorrow!
OMG THE JIZZ IN MY PANTS.
Pretty cool, I hope the transfer is good... Escaflowne is of course a favorite of mine.
Pachael said:
Even if you just remember it for the badass Kanno/Mizoguchi OST or the
Maaya OP, it's worth remembering.
Escaflowne definitely has one of the great anime soundtracks, that's for sure.
EmmanuelMunoz said:
So If I enjoyed EVA and didn't like escaflowne, I'm not cool?
Sure. You and mAcOdIn can have your own little "we hate Escaflowne" party.
DiGiKerot said:
Hmmm, Escaflowne had some early-era CG compositing effects as well. I bet a lot of those were done after the film was on video, so those particular cuts will probably be upscaled rather than proper HD.
Actually, I'm going to see a theatrical screening of the Escaflowne movie on Sunday. Not sure why - I don't really like the thing.
Re-watching the Escaflowne movie? Why would you do that?