Review Kuroko's Basketball (Season 1)

Don't anger the manager

Teiko Middle school had a truly amazing basketball team with five legendary members known as the generation of miracles. Rumor has it that there was a phantom sixth member of the team. At the opening day two notable people join the Seirin basketball team, a tall and athletic man named Kagami and another man with no presence called Kuroko.

The ending animation are a constant source of entertainment

Kuroko's basketball is a very straightforward shonen sports show, and there is nothing wrong about that. In fact the most unusual thing about this show for it's genre is the main character and how he is reserved to the point of almost feeling emotionless instead of being the hotblooded stereotype. However he does have one of those in his partner Kagami. 

obligatory ass shot

This show has a reputation for being fujoshi bait. If you are someone who likes pairing off the characters go ahead and this is a great show for you. However if that isn't how you roll this show is still a great, action packed sports action show that knows how to hit all the beats so to speak. 

In short Kuroko's basketball is a great show that should appeal to a wide audience. I recommend it wholeheartedly

Rating the silver psibody (star driver) for being a show that you shouldn't miss regardless of any homoerotic appeal it might have.

Review Upotte

Girls that are guns

Seishou academy is a very special school in that the students there are guns in human form. One day a new language teacher (who is unamed) arrives at the school and quickly meets the Belgian made FNC assault rifle (who is called Funco) and gets shot when he embarrasses her. However this is only the beginning of the story with Funco and her friends.

No this is my yuri pairing

Upotte is a slice of life comedy show about girls who are somehow guns (this manifests as the girls being able to draw their guns from nowhere). The show incorporates a surprising amount of trivia about military firearms and manages to work it into the show is somewhat amazing, you might learn something.

Stop, hammer time

This show manages to have more of a plot than the usual slice of life show has, as girls that are somehow guns allows for some pretty good action sequences. Needless to say the show is usually better and almost always different than the first episode so don't let that episode turn you off of the show. The show isn't full of underwear jokes, I can tell you that.

overall I found Upotte to be a slice of life show with a gimmick that works just well enough to make the show entertaining.

 Rating the bronze Hetzer (Girls und Panzer) for being a decent cute girls and military show.

Dog Days (season 3) review

come you will an excellent addition to my harem It has been some time since Shinku as well as his friends Nanami and Rebecca have been summoned to the fantasy realm of Flonargd to Perform as their nation's heroes and to meet up with their friends in the realm. Everything was going according to plan when Shinku and Nanami were struck by lightning as they were being summoned and thrown way off course.  What adventure awaits them in their new and unfamiliar location? Yes girls, there will always be slime monsters in this show I have always found Dog Days to be a delightful but rather vapid sort anime show. What I believe is make this show different from many other shows in that it has it's own strange id as to speak, as it is a fan service show that follows it's own script rather than try to ape other shows. As such Dogs may feel a bit weird and slightly inane at times but it's fun and fast paced at the same time. What this show needed a shota rabbit This third season of Dog Days is about as good as the previous two seasons of the show. There isn't any substantial war games in this season but the show makes up for it with   plentiful demon hunting episodes. There are a few more characters adding to the show's already ponderous cast. Overall I found the third season of dog days to be simple stupid fun, just like the rest of the franchise. Rating the bronze chainsaw (kore wa zombie) for being a delightful mixture of action and moe service

Kofuku Graffitin

Even pyramid head goes moe

Ryou Machiko was a lonely girl ever since her grandmother died. Most importantly she couldn't cook as well she could. By chance her cousin Kirin had to stay in the city once a week do to her taking a class in the city. When she cooked for her Ryou found her true love of food for when it was cooked and eaten with another person.

The fourth wall is no match for Eel.

Kofuku Graffiti is a slice of life show about cooking. There are two big differences between this show and most slice of life shows is that in every episode the much ado about food and the fact that this show has a smaller core cast than most shows of the genre.  (although the show tries to convince you that Shina is a main character although she really doesn't have much presence in the show). I found this causes the show to be a rather weak example of the slice of life genre.

While the show does have it's premise and if handled properly it would have been more interesting the show simply repeats itself too much. On top of this I found Kirin slightly annoying with her usual selfishness, which given she is usually about half the cast kills the moe aspects in the show. 

In short Kofuku Grafiti is a weak slice of slice show that hangs it's premise mostly on a food gimmick but fails at it.

Rating the tin mermaid (ponyo) for being a work that fails to measure up despite a prominent director.

Review Hibike (sound) Euphonium

I am all over this pairing

Kumiko Oumae is a girl who has been practicing the Euphonium for years although she had no great plans for music. When she entered high school school she joined the orchestra club almost as a matter of course and meets up with some news friends as well as Reina a friend from middle school who is more serious about music. As always this is a new chance and what will happen this year?

Got your nose

Hibike Euphonium is a coming of age story based around a school orchestra. Being from the studio it does (Kyoto animation) comparisons to the show K On are inescapable (to be entirely fair I referred to Reina as Trumpet Mio for a couple of episodes). However given the show's plot and emotional weight it is wrong to call it a slice of life show.

Senpai noticing you comes with it's own dangers

This show has a fairly large cast of minor characters, this being a show about an orchestra. I found that this show uses them to introduce new angles in the overall theme of working hard to be good at music in a competitive environment. All this is done while not taking too much time away from the main cast and giving them enough time to feel fleshed out. 

Terrorist fist jab

Overall I found Hibike Euphonium to be a really good story in terms of looks, theme and characters. It's an all around solid package.

Rating the silver Minmay for being such a great musically driven show. 

Summer 2015 Season overview part seven final jokes

I haven't reviewed everything this season but this is all I think I can get around to for now. I am over half way through July so season previews are a bit old now. Anyways these last three shows are all comedies if various types and qualities. No hits out of the park though.

Castle town Dandelion

In a small but kingdom there are nine super-powered and royal siblings, yet who live in a normal house instead of a castle, who are in a contest to see which one of them with be the next monarch.

This show is pretty much a harmless comedy with a really wacky premise. Although there are some underwear jokes in the first episode you don't see the character's panties so I can't really call this show fan service laden.

Seiyu's life

Futaba is a brand new Seiyuu (voice actress) who just landed her first job in a new anime show but she lacks confidence.

I found this show somewhat instructive as well as entertaining. I would think of the show as something of a Shiro Bako lite.

Shimoneta a world without dirty jokes

In the near future all sexual material and even words are banned but there is rebel called blue snow who fights back while wearing underwear on her head.

My biggest problem with the show is that I live in a world with ample porn so I need more than this show's elementary stabs at dirty humor get me off so to speak.

Summer 2015 season overview part six Where the weird things are

Anime blogging is like war. No seasonal plan survives contact with reality. I planned on watching God Eater (that way I could perfectly fantasy theme this block of shows) by now but I was able to watch three at least somewhat interesting shows. They may not be for everybody but at least they aren't stinkers like a couple of shows this season. Besides I think I am out of monster puns already.

Overlord

Momonga is the last member of his guild to stay online when the MMO game he likes goes offline. However something strange happens, he remains in the game and the npcs start gaining personalities.

This show takes a very different tack to it than other shows of it's theme given the main character's social isolation. This could be very good or not but here is to hoping.

Chaos Dragon

The island of Namul has been mostly conquered by two other kingdoms. However there is a band of adventurers chosen by destiny and the guardian dragons who might just change things.

This show is reported an adaptation of a rpg played by some famous creators. However the first episode is mostly the country is conquered and some kid gets superpowers with some hints of a more involved plot down the line.

Ranpo Kittan Game of Lapace

A young man wakes up to see his teacher has been murdered and a bloody hacksaw in his hand. Questioning this leads him to a teenage detective.

This show looks like it could be a series of short stories, from the genre (mystery) and episode title. I was really taken aback by the directing in this show and would recommend it to more artsy types of anime fans.