Well, we’ve come to the end of another round of anime reviews by me. As I did last time, I’ll finish with a few comments on all the OPs.
Last Exile – I’ll say it up front. The Last Exile OP is one of my favorites of all time.
“OF ALL TIME!” (Shut up Kanye.) I mean, [...]
I’ve saved the best (or at least, the most important to me personally) for last. This week is the crown jewel of this season of Xbolt’s Anime Reviews.
A Touhou anime.
Granted, it’s not an official anime done by a professional studio, but honestly, who cares? The fans who put this together did a superberiffic job! It’s [...]
And don’t forget that exclamation mark.
Toradora! is your standard anime about normal people, who do normal things. No metaphysics to see here! But I thought it was a fun anime. It’s a comedy show, but it has a story to it that can get dramatic at times too. Which is a good thing.
Ryuji Takasu is [...]
Rozen Maiden. A show that came highly recommended from the venerable Loremaster of the CQFF. He talked about Rozen Maiden even before I watched Sugar, but I never got around to watching it — until now.
The Rozen Maidens are a collection of dolls created by the great dollmaker Rozen. And each one is actually alive. [...]
Blood is horror movie. Normally, I don’t watch horror movies, but I watched this one because I read one of the light novel adaptions several months ago. My Dad got it out of the school library for some reason unknown to me, and then I read it after him. And I liked it well enough [...]
Bamboo Blade is a show about a high school kendo club. Hence the name “Bamboo Blade”.
Toraji Ishida is the club’s instructor. He makes a bet with a friend of his, who is the kendo teacher at another school. They would each get five girls and have a match with each other. And if Toraji wins, [...]
Haibane Renmei came highly recommended from the same person as one of the two guys through which I found out about Sugar, all those years ago. (Does one and a half years entitle me to use that phrase?)
And I do see similarities between the two. Neither one is a grand tale of heroes and villains, [...]
5 Centimeters Per Second is story about how the passage of time can cause people to drift farther and farther apart.
Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara start off as elementary schoolers who grow to really like each other. But at the end of their final elementary year, they have to move away from each other. But [...]
For New Year’s, I stayed up watching Air until midnight. Air was the last of the “Key Three”, three animes based on visual novels by Key Visual Arts. Kanon and Clannad were the other two.
The story is about Yukito Kunisaki, who travels around doing a neat puppet show, and lives off of the generosity of [...]
Hayao Miyazaki. If you know anything about the Japanese film industry, you almost certainly know the name Hayao Miyazaki. He is widely hailed as one of the greatest animators living today.
Spirited Away is his most famous work. Since it was released in 2001, it became not just the highest grossing animated film in Japanese history, [...]