Anime Review: Tsuritama

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Name: Tsuritama
Genre: Action, Comedy
Publisher: A-1 Pictures (JP), Sentai Filmworks (U.S)
Director: Kenji Nakamura
Script: Shinsuke Onishi, Toshiya Ono, Touko Machida
Music Composer: Kuricorder Quartet
This series is streaming for free on Crunchyroll.

Before it even aired, Tsuritama was an anime that was already praised for the originality of its theme and the fact that it was a work of Kenji Nakamura, the director of Ayakashi and the colorful Mononoke. As a result, many people immediately came to love this anime and claim it as one of the best anime of this year when it finished. Keyword: Many. As in, not I.

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Ginga E Kickoff 19 & 20: Demoralizating

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Ginga E Kickoff

“URRGGHHHHHHH”

So yeah…it was just my luck when on some random day that I don’t remember, some mysterious sub group picked up Ginga E Kickoff and basically subbed it. The good news was obviously that would mean more Ginga E Kickoff, and it seems no more delays (hopefully). The bad news is that they ended up releasing 4 episodes. Needless to say, I was not prepared to cover all four episodes. And in addition to that, I promised that I would never cover more than two episodes and write it in one post. But alas, I will be doing that for 19 & 20 and 21 & 22. I can only hope this will be the final time I do this. But as you’ve read in my other sayings about that, I’ve gone back on my word twice; I can probably expect to go back on it again.

So yeah, like the picture above, it’s a mess. But at least the episodes are pretty good.

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Anime Review: Sengoku Collection

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Title: Sengoku Collection
Genre: Historical, Genderbent, Fantasy
Publisher: Brains Base
Director: Keiji Gotoh
Script: Shijurou Mitaka
Music Composer:  Tomoki Kikuya
This series is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Keeping up on the trend I seem to have started for this season (and I swear it was not on purpose!) Sengoku Collection features more genderbent Sengoku generals and a few more like the Shinsengumi, but who cares about proper chronology since they’re all sent in the future anyway? The whole plot of this anime (that lasts 26 episodes) is for the generals to battle each other in modern times in order to get each other’s “treasures” to be able to go back to their own time.

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A Re-Do of The Spring 2012 Anime Genius Compendium

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Every new season I find it fun to decipher what will be the best anime and what will be the worst. I do so by prognosticating ineffectively and as inaccurately as possible by ranking shows. However, I never bother to look back at how I did. So today I’ll have my new thoughts on the Spring 2012 season. I would have done a look back at the Winter Compendium to see how did for the new shows that aired then, but I only finished Nichibros, Rinne No Lagrange, Moretsu Pirates, and Another. I’ll only remember Nichibros and Moretsu Pirates fondly.

So, where do I rank the shows now?

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Anime Review: Kids on the Slope

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Sakamichi No Apollon

Name: Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi No Apollon)
Genre: Romance, Historical, School, Josei
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Producer: Masao Maruyama
Script: Yuuko Kakihara
Music Composer: Yoko Kanno
This show is streaming on Crunchyroll

What does jazz have to do with anything? At first, nothing. Kaoru, a gifted classical pianist, is living with his relatives and joining a new school. He’s been moving around for most of his life, and because of it has no interest in making friends with anybody. After all, he’d just have to leave them again. However, after a chance encounter with Sentarou, a headstrong drummer, and Ritsuko, the daughter of a local music shop owner, Kaoru is drawn into jazz, and his encounters with the people there change him forever.

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Anime Review: Fate/Zero, Season 2

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Name: Fate/Zero, Season 2
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Ei Aoki
Producer: Atsuhiro Twakami
Script: Gen Urobuchi
Music Composer: Yuki Kajiuro
This show is streaming on Crunchyroll.

This started off right where Season 1 ended; a brutal battle between Castor and a few of the other servants. Covering from there to the end (and a little beyond) of the 3rd Holy Grail War, Season 2 was underwhelming and really showed TYPE-MOON’s propensity to tie properties in with each other in ways that really make it necessary to see them all in order to understand what’s going on. Let me say from the beginning: if you haven’t seen Fate/Stay Night or played the VN, then you will not understand the importance or meaning behind much of what happens and the relationships that are forged and broken within the final two episodes.

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