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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I think I've realized something that probably contributes to some of my annoyance with the Aya/Rei trainwreck:  the first season had a big emphasis on the friendship between Ran, Aya and Miyu, with the romantic concerns taking a backseat.  While that theme  is still there in the second season, it isn't as prominent.  While I don't mind Ran/ ( Read more... )

 
There was an entire episode devoted to ramen and making ramen.  It made me so very, very hungry.  I must have real  ramen and okonomiyaki before I die.  It's a goal.

Meanwhile, I give up on Rei.  He may care about Aya, but at this point, he's the world's worst boyfriend, and really no good for her.  Honestly, I never look for alternashipping, but I ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, I remember that, for all that this is mostly a light and funny and girly and girl!friendship power show, it certainly does like to pile on the angst from time to time.

The Aya/Katase thing worked out better than I expected it to, thankfully.  Sure, it went to the blatantly manipulative place of cutting from a scene of Katase ( Read more... )

Was I complaining about Aya and Rei not getting to do very much with the first disc?  I may need to take that back.

(Honestly, I like Rei a lot and think he'll be a good boyfriend to Aya once he pulls his head out of...a place...but not only is he doing his best to prove my theory that at least half the guys in fiction don't deserve their ( Read more... )

CHARLIE'S ANGELS OF SHIBUYA!

*cough*

Anyway, Super Gals! returns with superheroine head Gal of Shibuya, Ran Kotobuki, and her friends, Miyu and Aya, on their quest outshop everyone and everything in existance, and maybe uphold justice and thwart evildoers along the way.  But Ran won't be upholding the family tradition of being a police officer.  Nuh ( Read more... )

Actually, I don't really have much to say that I haven't already said. Though that was a bit of an odd note to end the season on ( Read more... )

I bring you the cracktastic openning credits of Super Gals!

For they must be shared.

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SUPER JUNIOR DETECTIVES! DEBUTANTE ARCH NEMESIS! FAKE KIDNAPPINGS!  KENDO GIRLS!  GROUPIES!  BOYFRIEND COMPETITIONS!  ROMANTIC RIVALS!

*ahem*

I have decided that I truly pity any boy(namely, Yuya) to fall for Ran.  In her world, boys exist to look pretty and buy things for her.  Let us observe the boyfriend comptetion.  Now, to explain:  Ran has ( Read more... )

Meet Ran Kotobuki, the justice driven, bargain hunting, supreme Gal of Shibuya.  At 16, Ran is the youngest member of a family of police officers.  Her parents, naturally, expect Ran to be a police officer.  Her brother begs her to stop causing problems in his district.  Ran?  COULDN'T CARE LESS ( Read more... )