Season preview part four Cute boys doing cute things

One thing that I have noticed over the years about anime is that Japan has a different take in what equality means; namely instead of protesting sexualization anime takes the approach of having fan service for everyone. In this group of shows there are two shows about attractive boys doing non action things and at least one of them looks pretty good.

Gakuen Babysitters

After losing his parents Ryuichi is taken in by a school's chairwoman, however with one proviso, Ryuichi is to take care of the children of the teachers. Can he both do this and take care of his younger brother Kotaro?

I found this show to be simply adorable. I like the main character and the children of this show are really cute. This show is cute and I think that even people who might not be in the show's demographic might enjoy this.

Sanrio Boys

Kouta Hasegawa is a normal high school boy who secretly loves the Sanrio mascot Pompompurin. He meets some other boys at school who also like Sanrio.

I found this show to decent show. I know that this isn't my kind of show and it isn't bad, however I can't really say that it is anything that looks exceptional.

Kokkoku

Juri is a woman who strives to a productive member of society, unlike much of her family. One day her brother and nephew are kidnapped and her brother. Her grandfather shows her a specials stone that allows people to stop time and they use it to save their family. However they aren't the only ones who can stop time.

Even though Anime strike is dead Amazon still has some new shows on it's site. This show likes like a serious science fiction mystery show. I don't know where this show is going exactly but it has me interested in it.

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.

winter 2018 season preview part 2 Friday Fantasy

Fantasy is something that you can use for a lot of anime shows since the idea of stuff like magic allows for a lot variations. So it is little surprise that the three new anime show (all on crunchyroll) are fantasy shows of some type.

Toji no Miko

Giant monsters called Aratama plauge the land and the only effective countermeasure is special maidens who train with special swords. There is also a special school where these young women train to be monster hunters.

I found this show to a decent take on "the military is made of teenage girls"type of anime show. The characters are decent although I found there is a small mystery regarding Hiyori and what is her hidden agenda. There is some cg animation but I found it to be rather decent.

Record of Grancrest war

There is a world where the nobles half special crests that can fight chaos. However instead of the lords upholding peace they fight among themselves. The fist episode is about the alliance between the low level lord Theo and the mage Siluca.

This show looks like it could be an interesting fantasy show with a bunch of fantasy politics. It's hard to say how good the show will turn out but I found the first episode to be mildly promising.

Ito Junji collection

Ito Junji is a well known horror mangaka. This anime show is a collection of his short stories.

I wasn't that thrilled by the first episode. However I have a feeling that is was a case of the episode not taking full advantage of Ito's speciality, his ability to make unsettling imagery.

Winter 2018 season preview part 1 Cute girls doing traveling things

Hello everyone and welcome to the Jeckyllcast and blog's winter preview of the 2018 anime shows. I planned to start blogging again but severe computer problems put my blogging plans on hold. Anyway in this bunch of anime shows to review it is pretty clear that it is a bunch of slice of life shows featuring a cast of moe girls. While none of them look like they will become show of the year at least a couple of them look like they will be fun to watch.

A place further than the universe

Mari is a normal high school girl with a desire to do something great but no idea of what to do. All this changes when she meets Shirase, a girl with a driving desire to go to Antartica.

This show looks fairly interesting show that looks like it could balance the adventure of going the south pole with high school girl antics. The first episode is mostly Mari becoming friends with Shirase and then learning about the idea of going to the south pole.

Ms. Koizumi loves ramen

When Yuu meets the lovely transfer student Ms. Koizumi she wants to become friends with her. However Koizumi loves ramen but has no interest in Yuu.

A great problem with many slice of life or comedy shows is that they have a concept that is too rigid. I have the feeling that this might be one of those shows. I found that the chemistry between the two main characters isn't much to be interested either.

Laid back camp

While camping near the foot of Mt. Fuji a calm and experienced camper named Rin runs into a lively but airheaded camping novice, Nadesiko. Rin ends up help Nadesiko and the two of them star to become friends.

I found this show to a rather nice slice of life show. The characters were fun to watch and the music and backgrounds were also beautiful. I wonder if the show will have more instructive segments like the fire starting segment in the first episode. If you like slice of life shows you should watch this.

Review Alice and Zoroku

It is the Christmas review so I just had to

Sana appears to be just another young girl wandering around in the rain being chased by some government agents. But the truth is she is a runaway psychic ( whose powers are called the dreams of Alice) being with immense power. Well on the run she happens to run into an elderly florist by the name of Zoroku. The man decides to take sauna in and they begin living together.

Cute girls plotting destruction

Alice and zouroku is an anime adapted from a manga of the same name. Even though the manga is still ongoing the anime does manage to have a satisfactory ending to it. It is an interesting mix of action mystery and some slice-of-life elements causing it to be a bit hard to the classified men genre except for some violent scenes in episodes 4 & 5 there's little to be offended by in the show.

It's actually not as bad as you think

I found Alice to Zoroku to be an interesting mix of genres, being that the show has to much action in it to be a slice of life by any stretch of the imagination. However it's more laid back segments allow it to ground the characters and make the relationships more solid. However I found the show most interesting for having a child protagonist in a show with that much action while staying true to her character. 

Overall I found Alice to Zoroku to be an interesting and somewhat overlooked take on magical girl genre without much of the trope baggage.

Rating the Silver Diclonious (Elfin Lied)

fall 2017 season preview part 4 Sequels all the way down

I usually make it a policy not to review multiple seasons of a franchise since I feel the most boring post I can make is one that says "this show is pretty much the same as it was last season" which I feel I would be doing if I reviewed most second seasons of shows. However I haven't been blogging for over a year so there are several shows that didn't get the review treatment of the first season. Here are three of those shows

Himouto Umaru chan R

Umaru Doma is a beautiful model student who lives with her older brother Taihei (I actually had to look up his name). However at home she is a tiny girl who wants to do nothing more than laze around and play video games. This show is a light comedy who reminds me of Oreimo without the incest sub plot. This first episode doesn't explain much so you should probably watch the first season first.

Shokugeki no Souma San Sara

Yukihira Souma is a hot headed teenage cook who goes to the prestigious and harsh cooking school of Totsuki academy. This time he is gearing up for the right to challenge one of the elite ten and not get expelled in the process. This looks like it will hopefully be as good as the previous two seasons with orgasmic good food and hot blooded cooking action.

Yuki Yuna is a Hero 

Sumi, Sonoko and Gin are three magical girls who are tasked with defending their city from monsters that come from beyond the long bridge. This show is a prequel show to the original Yuki Yuna is a hero. I found it to be a magical girl show with a nice aesthetic. I don't want to give away spoilers but expect this show to get dark in upcoming episodes. 

fall 2017 season preview part 3 girls and their vehicles

Whoever said the whole addition of cute girls as the main characters in anime would ruin it as an art form didn't know what they were talking about. At least two of the shows in this batch of new shows (even if one of them is a second season to something rather old) are clear examples of shows with cute girl protagonists and a good deal of philosophical thought in them. The other one, while a decent so isn't but you can't expect that out of every show.

Girl's last tour

Chito and Yuuri and two girls who travel through the war torn ruins of an empty city. This is the story of their daily lives as the two scavenge the ruins for supplies. This is a very simple and quiet kind of show and yet I find that this is an evocative show and I look forward to future episodes.

Kino's Journey the beautiful world

Kino is a traveler who wanders the world with only the talking motorcycle Hermes. Kino visits each country with the stipulation of only staying three days in each one. Kino's Journey is a well known anime series with a previous season airing in 2003. This show looks to be an episodic show where each episode explores some idea, sort of like old school science fiction. The art style is updated and I like the look of it.

Two car

Megumi and Yuri are on the side car motorcycle racing team. They are both in love with their coach and are at odds with each other, but can they work as an effective team? This show is a simple sports show and I can't say that the first episode of it impressed me all that much.