At first I thought Gatchaman Crowds was just going to be a flashy show about fighting aliens and stuff like that, but it turns out to be a really interesting exploration of the conflict between heroes (who publicly swoop in to save the day) and crowdsourced assistance (where ordinary people are able to pool their skills to help whenever something ( Read more... )

Watching the Shin Cutey Honey opening (definitely NSFW) is making me happy! Because I feel like basically all the 'good-looking' ladies in anime, especially these days, are built to one certain model. But the Cutey Honey of this show seems to have bigger shoulders and thighs and arms to go with the T&A, and I like that ( Read more... )

So, I have been watching Re: Cutie Honey! And enjoying it quite a bit. I love the animation style, love (most of) the characters, love the colors, love the music. I even like the T & A, which is rare for me. Usually panty-shots and obvious cleavage and that sort of thing really, really bother me, but when it comes to things like this I am ( Read more... )

I am going to have mixed feelings when the local library's anime club stops showing Gundam Wing. On the one hand, I will have to go to the effort of actually finding the DVDs and blocking out new space in my nonexistent timetable to watch them. On the other hand, I will no longer have to put up Mr DudeBro Jr & his friends saying that all the GW ( Read more... )

Two-and-a-half episodes in, and I am enjoying Creamy Mami a lot more than I expected to! Especially for something that came out eleven years before I was born. I like that it's not a fighting show, the way magical girl things usually are-not that I don't like those fighting shows, but they feel very formulaic. Creamy Mami is quite different; the ( Read more... )

This is the first time I've ever been in a fandom that has just one totally obvious m/m pairing, and it's kind of weirding me out. I'm used to being in fandoms that have lots of ships, or one het ship (well, okay, that's really just Gokusen), or no ships at all ( Read more... )

My favorite part of Seirei no Moribito so far-keeping in mind that it's hard to differentiate between 'amazing' and 'slightly more amazing'-is the short period of time where the main characters essentially go undercover-in-plain-sight AS A NUCLEAR FAMILY. Everyone is all domestic together and it's adorable, and meanwhile we all know that they are a ( Read more... )

Just watched the first episode of Suite Precure, and it is fabulous. The main characters are in high school, so it's a little bit serious, and the animation is positively gorgeous. (Well, save the CG, but you can't have everything.) Also, it is about MUSIC, which automatically makes me predisposed to like it. The villains are suitably scenery- ( Read more... )

I'm rewatching Initial D in the hopes of actually finishing it this time, and . . .

Well . . .

fdas;ljkdsjf NATSUKI IS SO CUTE. Seriously, she kills me with the adorable-ness. "Nee, Takumi, let's go on a nice long drive this summer! To the ocean! And I have a new bathing suit and I dragged you up to the roof just so I could tell you this!" I just ( Read more... )

I just found out Kaworu's seiyuu, Ishida Akira, is the same guy who did Hikari/Hiwatari Satoshi in D.N.Angel. It's been years since I've watched that show, yet the voice was still familiar . . . (Also, he seems to have done several Yaoi Guys/Ho Yay-ish characters apart from those two. Wheeeeee! Homoeroticism, Yay, indeed.)