The House of AnimeJB

Here are a few series that Eurkos and I can’t even do full reviews for, and will not be moving on to our ever-so-grueling six episode test. I’ll put up some brief summaries here so you aren’t totally lost as to why we decided not to continue on with them.

Though I’ll be writing the summaries, know that Eurkos either didn’t get through it also, or flat out refused to get them based on the fact that I couldn’t get through them - I have a slightly higher tolerance for retarded than he does.

Three shows this time around - read on for a few screencaps and very short thoughts on each.

Touka Gettan

Honestly, episode one of this show was a muddled jumble of confusion. The art was admittedly gorgeous, but that’s no good when scenes jump around and you don’t know what’s going on at any given time.

The only sense I got out of it was that Touka loved some girl Momoka, and then Momoka died and Touka was sad, and then Touka was reincarnated as a boy? Or something? And re-met Momoka and love at first sight? But there was all this other garbage in between, with Momoka being a book character or something, and stuff dealing with Yumiko (the mom) and Nene (the maid) and some ugly guys and nothing is what it seems to be, I think.

Can you see why I was confused? I don’t even WANT to make sense out of it at this point. I have more interesting shows to watch this season - ones that managed to capture my interest and give me things to wonder about without it being this huge retarded mystery plot.

Lucky Star

Okay, I admit, this anime is sort of like crack. I really like the intro, and the rest of it amused me for a while, but a while can only last for so long with a layout like this.

After it’s established that the main girl - Kana - is lazy, snarky, and an anime-fanatic, we are then shown about 5 minutes of nothing but a conversation of how the girls eat certain foods. Various weird slice of life scenes and conversations are shown, including ones where Kana flat out talks about different tropes, one about the flu vs the cold, one about after the girls get weighed and measured for their exam, etc, and that’s pretty much it.

So while it’s a very crack-tastic show, it gets old fast. As with the above series, I have other crack-induced shows to watch this series that don’t bore me. Like Hayate no Gokuto.

Bokurano

This is the first of the dropped series’ that has a plot. A group of 15 kids on a trip to a beach end up stumbling upon a cave and being convinced to join a game by a man who was in the cave. The “game” involves piloting a giant black robot against other robots. As of yet it hasn’t been revealed why he needed all of them to do this, nor why he can’t pilot it. Before he disappears, he says that they are saving the world, revealing that it isn’t really a game, and is cut off as he tries to say he’s sorry.

Eurkos didn’t even manage to get up to the point where they got to the cave, and said something about hating the mecha design. I got through it, but I was pretty bored with the whole thing. As you can imagine we’re both burned out from watching so much anime at this point, and it’s simply not worth it for us to pursue a series that we’re barely interested in.