Winter 2018 season preview part three various fruits

I know I wanted to post this a day earlier but crunchy roll outages and a surprise shift at work conspired against my blog. However I post today and I am glad I watched the shows that I saw being that usually around this time of the season the better shows start coming out.


Citrus

Yuzu is a fashionable girl who is changing schools due to her mother remarrying. Not only is she is unused to a strict all girls school she has a new sister in law, Mei will have to sort out her feeling with her.

This is show is a fairly dramatic yuri show and those are kind of rare. I really liked Yuzu as a main character and feel that she has the strength of character to carry this show.

Card captor Sakura Clear card arc

It has been a few years since Sakura had her adventures collecting the clow card. She is now in middle school and Syaoran has has returned to Tomaeda town. One day the clow cards turn clear and a new adventure begins.

The first episode is mostly set up for the new plot. However it is still nice to see all the characters from a show I liked so much in the past. It looks like it will be a good show this time as well though.

Pop team epic

Popuko and Pipimi do stuff. It is hard to explain it in clearer terms than that.

What the H E double hockey sticks did I just watch? This show is a crazy comedy with heavy emphasis on the crazy. This show might not be for you but it is worth giving it a try.

Slow start

Hana Ichinose is a shy girl who is just starting at a new school. She wonders if she will find any friends but luckily she does.

I found slow start to a be a very average cute girls type of slice of life show. The characters are decent enough but nothing really makes this show stand out in the genre.

Spring 2016 season over part two Cute girls save the world

I have posted and now posted again in timely fashion so I can honestly say that this blog isn't dead. So I have decided to review the first episode of three new shows, this time the theme is groups of girls, something that is very common in anime. In truth these shows are rather different as there is a slice of life and the latest installments of a seminal magical girl and mecha shows. All three of these shows are at least decent and worth checking out.

Bakuon

Sakura Hane is a new high school student who rides to school on a bicycle and one day meets a girl who rides a motorcycle to school and is introduced to the world of motorcycles. In short this is show about cute girls riding motorcycles. Judging by the first episode I am finding this show to be something that uses it's premise to good use like a girls und panzer. Also I found the character designs to be slightly old school and I found that to be a slight plus.

Macross Delta

In the future humanity has expanded out into deep space and have run into various types of aliens. The latest threat is a disease called Vars which causes people to turn violent. There is an idol unit called Walkure that is used to combat the threat of Vars. The first episode does little more than introduce the two main characters as well as the fact that this show will contain a lot of singing and well doe cg dog fighting. You can only get this off of fan subs but I found this to be an interesting show.

Sailor Moon Crystal

Sailor Moon and her friends have defeat the threat from the future but a new threat looms and it seems that Mugen academy could the be the center of the problem. This show continues the sailor moon tradition in reanimating the third story arc of the sailor moon epic. It look like there is better animation than the first season of sailor moon. There is also a new ending showcasing why a lot of people are interested in this season in particular.

Review Yuki Yuuna is a Hero

Pill Popping magic girls

Yuki Yuna is a middle school girl who is in a group called the Hero club with three other students. One day they learn that there is more to club than simple odd jobs, they are chosen to be warriors defending the sacred tree Shinju from invaders. However this is not the only secret there is to the world and the ones left uncovered can be terrible to behold once they are held up to the light.

Sadly Fu never realizes her dream of becoming a pirate

Yuki Yuna is a Hero is a magical girl show with several episodes of being a slice of life show. I found these segments not only blended together but complement each other. For example the plot points in episode four for example not only stand on their own but also reinforce a particularly dramatic scene in episode nine.

The average viewer by the end of the show.

While this show is something that will be instantly compared to Madoka Magica I do feel that this show does manage to be different enough that the show stands on it's own. It does have an interesting art style but it is more reminiscent of a mecha show from Bones than trying to copy Shaft. I also found the darker elements to be not only supported by the narrative but also something that doesn't look like it trying to copy other shows.

Overall I found Yuki Yuna is a Hero to be a good and interesting magical girl show which is a good watch for anybody even slightly interested in the genre.

Rating the Silver Kyubey (Madoka Magica) for being a really good dark magical girl show.

review Nanoha the movie 2nd

Hammer time!

It is about six months since Nanoha had her first adventure and finally she gets the chance to meet Fate again. Quickly enough a new threat appears in the form of four warriors hunting the magic of other mages. Their motives are unknown at first but they connect to their relationship with a young paraplegic girl named Hayate.

Don't worry he only mauls some of the children

The Nanoha 2nd movie is the movie adaptation of Nanoha A's. As you can't break a thirteen episode series down to less than half it's length without some cuts the movie can feel slightly disjointed at times, even more so if you haven't seen either the first movie or the original Nanoha series.

Never mess with a nine year old devil

However what this movie wants to deliver to the audience is high intensity battles with lots of energy beams, explosions and little girls and it does it very well. There is also a decent amount of character development in the movie, particularly the antagonists, who have one of the more memorable motive deconstructions in anime. However this is sandwiched in between the four extended fight sequences in the movie.

Overall Nanoha the movie 2nd is a nice action packed magical girl movie that has a bunch of bright imagery and good characters.

Rating the bronze