So I finished a bunch of animes recently and want to give some short shoutouts to them.
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru was pretty damn good. The characters were all really good and the hole thing was pretty funny. OP and ED are amazing. And I recently learned that it was made by SHAFT and damn, they're really becoming my favorite studio. That ending tho...
D-Frag was also pretty good. Pretty funny and good characters. The setting was interesting as well, but I felt it was a little too much. I can't really put my finger on it, but something don't quite make it as funny as I thought it would be.
Mononoke. Oh shit that was AMAZING. It felt like I was watching Oshino Meme's ancestor dealing with [strikeout]apparitions[/strikeout] mononoke in style. The symbolism and abstraction here is great, and all the stories were really interesting, especially the incense one.
Yuyushiki I didn't like as much. I like random comedies, but here it wasn't really that well done IMO. Instead of something like the principal fighting a deer on school grounds, it's just 2 girls saying random stuff on the fly. It wasn't really funny. The best parts IMO were some of the club scenes, and when the other group (Ai IIRC and her friends) was involved.
Kill me Baby, I didn't like this much as well. It was certainly better than Yuyushiki, tho. I honestly got tired of the schtick quickly. IIRC it was an adaptation of a 4-koma, and I don't think it was that good of an adaptation if it that is the case. Everything that happened was supper disconnected. I feel it would benefit from having stuff, original additions, to connect what was happening. Every skit was almost the same. Time card (あさ
), Yasuna did something stupid, trying to pick on Sonya, something happened (an accident or Yasuna says something) and Sonya attacks her. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes the ninja girl appeared. And while some of them were funny, they never stayed with me long.
Haibane Renmei was surprisingly good. The story was beautiful, the characters were all interesting, and, while there was some melodrama in the middle, the execution of everything was superb.
Binbougami Ga! was funny. I didn't like Sakura, the priest and Inugami, but the rest of the characters were really good. I loved the antics of Momiji. The little drama at the end was surprising, and well done imo.
Tasogare Otome X Amnesia is kinda of a mess. I did not expect a mix of comedy, romance, mystery, drama, horror and a little bit of ecchi (they really focus on Yuuko's breast). Mixing that much can be dangerous, and here I think it was good enough for the mix. Some parts could be dropped, but overall I thought it had a nice balance. At least I was entertained.
Love Lab is amazing why didn't I watch this before. Eno is the cutest thing ever. <3
Serial Experiments Lain is 2deep4me. I got the general plot, but there were a lot of details that flew right over my head (for example, what Chika had to do with anything). I appreciate the abstraction though. It's definitively something I'll go back to, and I hope I understand more when I do.
