November 25, 2007

• Jimbo's Current Anime (November 2007)

  I'm watching quite a few series this season, so I thought
  I'd give you my thoughts on some of them. They are listed by priority, highest
  to lowest.

  Myself ; Yourself
  (genre: romance / drama)

  
  While the past few episodes seemed very shallow, this last episode I saw (eight) got very deep. You
  had a few characters doing this and that, but there was nothing that made you reenact
  Keanu Reeves' famous, "whoa." That all changed with the revelation of Nanaka's
  "issues". Albeit sudden, I loved this new story change and can't wait
  to see where it goes from here.

  Minami-ke
  (genre: comedy)

  
  This is one of the funniest series I have ever seen. It is
  very similar to Azumanga Daioh, in that it is a group of girls doing normal
  things in funny ways. I'm sorry if I blaspheme, but I would even go so far as
  to say this anime is better than Azumanga Daioh. It's funnier, I like the
  characters better, and it just seems so much cuter. Minami-ke is made of win
  and only just lost out to Myself ; Yourself for the number one slot.

  Kimi-kiss ~ pure rouge
  (genre: romance / drama)
  I don't know whether the producer for this anime was a
  genius or just lazy. You see, instead of just one romantic coupling in the series,
  you are given three. In one, you have two shy and quiet bookworms who like each
  other and are struggling past the awkwardness between them. In the second, you have a
  girl trying to break the brick-face defence of an aloof jazz player. In  the third, you have a love triangle between
  an otherwise boring guy, a female soccer (football, to you English readers)
  player, and an emotionless genius chick (moé-splosion!). It may seem difficult
  to follow, but Kimi-kiss manages to balance out all of the relationships to
  make it work very well.

  Clannad
  (genre: romance / comedy)

  
  While this KyoAni series is gold and I'm greatly enjoying
  it, it just seems to lack something that Kanon had (specifically Mai, but I
  digress...). Nevertheless, this show is entertaining. Essentially, this one guy
  goes around and fixes a bunch of girl issues. Hilarity ensues.

  ef - a tale of memories
  (genre: drama)
  This anime is very, how you say, avant-garde. It has a
  unique art style that really doesn't do anything for the story but be visually
  distracting, but I suppose that's what the producer was going for. It is
  essentially two stories mixed into one. One is the romance(?) budding between a
  book-worm guy and a girl with a 13-hour memory named Chihiro (remember
  her?). It also follows the far more troubling love-triangle between a
  teenage manga-ka, an over-zealous childhood friend, and a divorce-damaged
  stalker. This last episode (eight) seemed a little creepy, so I hope that whole mess
  gets patched up and it moves on to something a little more light-hearted.

  Da Capo II
  (genre: romance / comedy)

  
  When you have the kokuhaku in the first episode, you should
  be ready for a mediocre series. This one basically entails the quiet romance
  between the two main characters, and then the protagonist's interactions with
  several other girls in the series (no, not like that, you gutter-minds). I'm
  sure this series will get deeper as it goes on, but at the current time, it
  seems rather drab.

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