I’m not counting Rose of Versailles because I haven’t finished it. I think I blogged everything fairly extensively, so just a few brief comments each.

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WTF, ANIME???

I'm not sure what's worse.  The cows, Pee(yes, that is a characters name) or the climax of the final battle.  (In another anime, that wouldn't have been as bad, and probably would have had the desired affect, but here?  No way.)

Buried somewhere in here was a pretty decent shounen plot with an interesting take on the idea that the ( Read more... )

I no longer understand what is going on.  Possibly, they are starting to explain things.  I do not know.  I did catch the explanation of the first Meros warrior and the origin of the Monster King, as well as the reveal about Koko's identity, but then I watched ep 21 and all semblance of thought and abilty to process was chased from my brain.  And I ( Read more... )

I no longer understand what is going on.  Except that Sayoko needs to reapply for a life with better people in it.  And I have seen the so-not-phallic-banana in the sea of so-not-symbolic cherries.  Or are they apples?  Also, must question Koko's taste.  Why go for Bocca when I'm sure any of her little harem would be happy to accomodate her?  ( ( Read more... )

 First of all.  There are fowl of DOOM!  They show up in all the stories to jabber at people.  As I am not the only one here obsessed with Japan's obsession with fowl of DOOM!, here are caps of an entire army of them:


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These episodes toned down the other stuff enough that I could appreciate the plot.  Kind of.  (By "toned down," I mean they reduced the misogyny to the 5 eps combined having about what one other episode had, and about 5-10 times as much as the average other anime I watch has.)  It helps me look past that stuff and appreciate the pretty decent ( Read more... )

These episodes featured Bocca and Sayoko in a resort-type town where the citizens know about the monster, but quietly let it take their children as long as it lets them live in peace, aside from the occasional lynch mob.  
Essentially, the whole part of anime where Our Heroes go around checking out how other parts of their society and seeing how ( Read more... )

MoO is about...uhm...ok, I think this is what it's about:  In a near future Japan, monsters who look like humans rule the world, but most people don't realize it.  The monsters leave the humans alone as long as they're regularly offered sacrifices in the form of children.  There are warriors known as Meros who want to overthrow them, and they ride ( Read more... )