april anime (c)
First an aside: am I the only one who thinks the whole Miley Cyrus topless saga should be promptly thrown out the window, simply because far from looking suggestive or anywhere approaching seductive, she looks like a vampiric banshee just woken from her slumber and ready to dig her claws into the nearest warm-blooded creature?
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Meh, it's hard to get into a storm over a "suggestive" picture when all it induces is an "ew, uncool undead look?" from me >__>;;
Okay, back to anime!
Kamen Maid Guy
You'd never guess I got recommended this by a girl ==;;;; She said it was "like Combat Butler Hayate", which though rather brainless, was also rather cute.
I guess somewhere the basic concept is similar. The daughter of a ridiculously rich family needing constant protection from unknown assailants, and her protector also works as an all-purpose babysitter/housekeeper/butler/maid.
Somewhere there, the similarity ends. Where Hayate was big-eyed, serious-faced and somewhat cute, the Maid Guy - whose name I can't remember because I spent too much of the time agog at the glowing eyes from his mask - is....well...a man of godly proportions. Said god being the god of bodybuilders.
And while Hayate seemed somewhat of as a fairly gender-neutral story with a shoujo tilt, the amount of bouncing boobs in the opening was enough to alert any unwary peruser of the very, uh, specific audience Maid Guy caters to. The episode continues with similar such fanservice, randomly clothes being torn, bras being brandied, and of course, the obligatory nekkid shower scene.
Funny how in shower scenes that the first part of the anatomy girls immediately cover is their boobs. You'd think, being standing up, there is a more, ahem, important part (taking a leaf from Kodocha =P).
While there are some hints of the plot, it's not enticing to the point where I'd want to hang around and sit through all the underwear.
Recommended only for, ahem, its target audience.
Itazura na Kiss
I was told that this is a shoujo classic that's finally being made into an anime. To be honest, I didn't even give this anime a fair run, being so bored by 2 minutes into it that I utilised Realplayer's new and nifty fast forward function and watched the rest of the 20minute episode in about 8 minutes.
It's a classic and it shows. Even the art and opening/ending themes seem purposely dated. The story, from what I could make of it, was a girl who liked a guy and then confessed to him that she liked him but of course he didn't really care for her but through some random plot device stroke of fate their two families began to live under the same household. WHAT WILL THIS NEW CLOSENESS BRING TO THEIR RELATIONSHIP??????
It probably has more depth than that, but I've never been able to stand watching pure romance anime. Don't get me wrong, I read plenty of romance-type manga, so it's not like I'm totally averse to that sort of thing. But manga has a nifty feature called........."flip really quickly through the pages".
Of course, the sort of set-up is really reminiscent of romantic manga from the 1990s - the aloof, arrogant guy who's good at EVERY BLOODY THING and the stupid ditzy girl who can't wipe her ass to save herself. Okay, I'm probably being mean, and I think the character in Itazura na Kiss rises (slightly) above that. Nevertheless that's the stereotype she falls into and I've been sick of it ever since the heyday of Fushigi Yuugi and Sailormoon.
The only couple who's based on that stereotype but managed to make it work brilliantly is Nodame Cantabile and that's because Chiaki-sama deserved everything he got, including Nodame XD
Only recommended if you like watching pure romantic anime with plot in the vein of Marmalade Boy, or if you really liked the manga. I mean, it doesn't even have the quirks that made Hana Yori Dango or Aishiteruze Baby unique.......at least from what little I saw. Which was little, and sped up.
Gintama is cool. I have grown an immense soft spot for Hijikata XD My favourite is still Okita...anyone who deadpans while bazooka-ing his superior, then saying, "Tsk, missed again, huh" deserves my love XDD
Gokusen 3 (drama) is...............................
Maaaaaaaan, I'm torn between my love for Nakama Yukie (one of the few Jap actresses I like as one of the very few female characters I like) and the omgugliness of the main characters................
Noooooooooo gimme back MatsuJun and Oguri Shun and Kame and Jin!!!!!! And Koike! Koike is so cute! XD
And there ARE hot guys in Hey! Say! JUMP....why choose the ugly one RAARGH.
It's so weird seeing sweet-faced Yabu all grown up now >__>;;;;
And he looks so differently.....Unlike Ryou....who never changed XDDD
...Man, sorry, long post ==;
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Meh, it's hard to get into a storm over a "suggestive" picture when all it induces is an "ew, uncool undead look?" from me >__>;;
Okay, back to anime!
Kamen Maid Guy
You'd never guess I got recommended this by a girl ==;;;; She said it was "like Combat Butler Hayate", which though rather brainless, was also rather cute.
I guess somewhere the basic concept is similar. The daughter of a ridiculously rich family needing constant protection from unknown assailants, and her protector also works as an all-purpose babysitter/housekeeper/butler/maid.
Somewhere there, the similarity ends. Where Hayate was big-eyed, serious-faced and somewhat cute, the Maid Guy - whose name I can't remember because I spent too much of the time agog at the glowing eyes from his mask - is....well...a man of godly proportions. Said god being the god of bodybuilders.
And while Hayate seemed somewhat of as a fairly gender-neutral story with a shoujo tilt, the amount of bouncing boobs in the opening was enough to alert any unwary peruser of the very, uh, specific audience Maid Guy caters to. The episode continues with similar such fanservice, randomly clothes being torn, bras being brandied, and of course, the obligatory nekkid shower scene.
Funny how in shower scenes that the first part of the anatomy girls immediately cover is their boobs. You'd think, being standing up, there is a more, ahem, important part (taking a leaf from Kodocha =P).
While there are some hints of the plot, it's not enticing to the point where I'd want to hang around and sit through all the underwear.
Recommended only for, ahem, its target audience.
Itazura na Kiss
I was told that this is a shoujo classic that's finally being made into an anime. To be honest, I didn't even give this anime a fair run, being so bored by 2 minutes into it that I utilised Realplayer's new and nifty fast forward function and watched the rest of the 20minute episode in about 8 minutes.
It's a classic and it shows. Even the art and opening/ending themes seem purposely dated. The story, from what I could make of it, was a girl who liked a guy and then confessed to him that she liked him but of course he didn't really care for her but through some random plot device stroke of fate their two families began to live under the same household. WHAT WILL THIS NEW CLOSENESS BRING TO THEIR RELATIONSHIP??????
It probably has more depth than that, but I've never been able to stand watching pure romance anime. Don't get me wrong, I read plenty of romance-type manga, so it's not like I'm totally averse to that sort of thing. But manga has a nifty feature called........."flip really quickly through the pages".
Of course, the sort of set-up is really reminiscent of romantic manga from the 1990s - the aloof, arrogant guy who's good at EVERY BLOODY THING and the stupid ditzy girl who can't wipe her ass to save herself. Okay, I'm probably being mean, and I think the character in Itazura na Kiss rises (slightly) above that. Nevertheless that's the stereotype she falls into and I've been sick of it ever since the heyday of Fushigi Yuugi and Sailormoon.
The only couple who's based on that stereotype but managed to make it work brilliantly is Nodame Cantabile and that's because Chiaki-sama deserved everything he got, including Nodame XD
Only recommended if you like watching pure romantic anime with plot in the vein of Marmalade Boy, or if you really liked the manga. I mean, it doesn't even have the quirks that made Hana Yori Dango or Aishiteruze Baby unique.......at least from what little I saw. Which was little, and sped up.
Gintama is cool. I have grown an immense soft spot for Hijikata XD My favourite is still Okita...anyone who deadpans while bazooka-ing his superior, then saying, "Tsk, missed again, huh" deserves my love XDD
Gokusen 3 (drama) is...............................
Maaaaaaaan, I'm torn between my love for Nakama Yukie (one of the few Jap actresses I like as one of the very few female characters I like) and the omgugliness of the main characters................
Noooooooooo gimme back MatsuJun and Oguri Shun and Kame and Jin!!!!!! And Koike! Koike is so cute! XD
And there ARE hot guys in Hey! Say! JUMP....why choose the ugly one RAARGH.
It's so weird seeing sweet-faced Yabu all grown up now >__>;;;;
And he looks so differently.....Unlike Ryou....who never changed XDDD
...Man, sorry, long post ==;