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Oct 29, 2017
If you've ever wanted a season long shoujo magical girl ala cerebus syndrome anime of Paprika (2006), with friendship and magic saving the day, then Flip flappers is the shit you've been waiting for your whole life.
With one of the hypesest openings made in the 21th century, soundtrack with both very ambient and poppish songs, Studio 3Hz pushing for new level of visuals I've never seen them do before, and original story on par with Paprika and Madoka in terms of creativity Flip flappers is sure to offer something for all anime fans. Combined with good voice acting, Flip flappers leaves very little room
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for non-nitpicky and non-personal preference sort of complaints.
Overall Flip flappers is up there with all the rest of the big heavy hitters of 2016 (Mobb, BnHA S1, Erased, Re:Zero, Gintama.. Although it won't appeal to everyone who found some of the prior entertaining.)
Especially recommended for fans of Panty and Stocking, and Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica and Paprika.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 14, 2016
To put it bluntly Heavy object is scattered.
The story in itself, character design, mood, art etc all isn't that bad alone but overall it just doesn't feel whole. This is strongly emphasized by the setting of military states battling each other with massive "object" war machines that require crews of hundred people to maintain, large home bases to set up and billions of units of cash to create then being contrasted with a duo being assigned time and time again to work together (this should never happen), single pilot being assigned to this war machine (common mecha trope, but makes even less sense in
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Heavy objects setting), just plain makes so many odd simplifications about warfare while trying to have grim serious world it is weird (Seriously, the objects main guns can easily destroy other objects but satellites/long range missile systems with the ability haven't been developed what??)
All this boils down to a world that feels very unreal and like it is a mosaic of pieces that don't really fit together.
Things I liked:
- Milinda Brantini, she was cute, I liked the pilot suit designs overall, very lovable girl.
- The The sexy secretary girls aka every high ranking female officer in the series. More or less just fan service, though. There could be something said for Froylatia and some others but in the end I don't really think that any female character is really well done as a character in the series. They are all more or less male fantasy tropes, in the end. (Not to say they don't have good moments.)
- The objects themselves were quite cool.
- The fire fights were cool time to time.
As you can see good points pretty much come down to fan service and flashy animation. Considering my favorite parts about the show were Milinda's and Qwenthurs baby love it tells a lot. (But there sadly wasn't a lot of it.) It pretty much isn't worth the watch unless you are coming from the manga or novel and liked those a lot, or you just have the free time to watch endless number or B-grade anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 19, 2014
PSG, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, an ominous work of art from studio Gainax, namely the director Imaishi Hiroyuki.
PSG is a western cartoon / toon styled anime about the girls "Panty" and "Stocking". They are both angels from heaven sent to protect humanity from ghosts, gaining heavenly coins for each ghost they defeat. They are mentored by ex-convict/dealer Garterbelt who more than once points out that their self-centered attitude is horrid.
Indeed, Panty and Stocking both are very unconventional angels bathing in their own greed and thirst for joy.
PSG has quite stereotyped character schemes with oddities mixed in to create controversial characters while
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maintaining satire towards recognizable icons. For the nature of gag series that lives of situational puns and action humour the characters aren't bad, and trust me jokes are the only reason besides fanservice you'll find to watch this, but they do come off bit plain. Overall PSG is rather ironic case. It gives you the feeling of having potential to be great story yet falls short because of it's inherent nature, that is just as it was planned. Quite honestly, angels that use their lingerie as weapons, slutty bitches, masochist priests and sex are pretty much what makes any action sell but PSG also manages to touch quite some interesting questions like sibling relationships, introspection and sexuality (like, every 20 seconds) so it comes to me as shame that the series fell short in that aspect. I mean sure I liked PSG, it was funny and nice watch. But I can also see in my head a lot longer and a lot deeper story with similar characters and setting.
In other hand being simple, exaggerated and down right dirty is one of the strenghts PSG has. I suppose it comes down to what you are looking for.
Art wise PSG is quite phenomenal. Think of PowerpuffGirls or Dexter in steroids, smoother battle scenes than anything ever made in western animation before Avatar the legend: and interesting use of special effects (such as stopmotion animation and style changes) and you pretty much have the gist of PSG's style. Obviously all of that in the professional level of Gainax. I could debate again that the series would have worked better if it was made in more general anime style the whole time (which I totally stand behind) but as noted before that's up to everyone to decide for themselves. (Those angel transformations though)
Music wise the series didn't strike me: Nothing major to criticize but neither did anything strike me as special. Arguably the them/tune "Fly away" is quite nice but, to be honest, I can't say for sure if my opinion is affected by the fact that I associate it with two hot ladies spinning around pole while stripping down.
Overall it's a show worth a watch, I mean what do you have to lose?
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 4, 2014
"Watashi wa himei o ageru"
"Hyouka" (lit. Frozen desert/icescream) is anime adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa's light novel series "Ko-tenbu" (Classic literature Club) which covers the story line of the series first 4 novels.
Hyouka is a mystery story. It heavily relies on mystery element for each episode yet doesn't differ majorly from other slice-of-life series in sense. Every story has it's carrying elements, after all. In Hyouka's case many of the events follow pattern of inspecting abnormalities or "interesting" factors and then using "logical" (quoted because of the certain aspects which I'd rather not regard logical but you will be able to make your own conclusion
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on that after watching the series) deduction to explain the case.
Hyouka revolves around the group of four: Houtarou Oreki, Satoshi Fukube, Eru Chitanda and Mayaka Ibara. These four first years join the Ko-tenbu (classics Club) that would otherwise be cancelled due to lack of members. The kotenbu itself is already a huge mystery: in addition to having no meaning to its existence it also has some peculiar links to people outside the school. Other point setting the kotenbu apart from other clubs is that, in what I could tell, it is the only club with no "senpai".
Story wise the series wasn't that good. On micro scale the individual mysteries/arcs were entertaining and the puzzles were rather enjoyable. It didn't feel forced or like the narrator was playing it dirty. Even though the mysteries themselves feel rather "out of place" time to time the execution feels good. That being said the there was little continuum in the actual story and after ten hours I didn't feel like there had been any particular development from the beginning.
Certainly the characters had grown and changed. There had been emotional turmoil. But in larger scale it didn't feel like miles had been traveled. Rather the end scene was more of a cliffhanger telling that everything is just about to start, which, considering there is no promise of the last book being turned into anime, was rather disappointing.
Lack of development isn't necessarily bad thing. Every story doesn't necessarily have to have plot that has definite beginning state and conclusion. However, Hyouka definitely feels like series that lives and dies by its development and it did feel like more should have happened. By this I don't mean that I wish the series to have flashy confessions, dokidoki-cuteness or anything of the sorts. I simply wish that the glimpses of characters exploring themselves had been more frequent.
Music and art wise Hyouka might as well be called masterpiece. The animation couldn't technically be better. There could be some arm-wrestling regarding whether or not the big eyed anime style was suited for the series, but there is very little room for improvement on the path the crew choose. Characters are beautiful, scenes are refined and appealing and various effects used in illustrating the mysteries are interesting. Music wise there isn't much I can say: beautiful, inspiring, moody and suiting. Part of good sound design is combining certain feeling with tune and making it work. When certain tune starts to play you know the case is going to be solved; when certain song plays you know it's play time. One thing I keep encountering more and more in new anime I come across is the heavily western sounds. But hell if I'd argue that as a bad thing I might as well blame all anime for being animated in low frame rates. I'm not going to be that picky.
All in all Hyouka is interesting package of mystery, slice-of-life and character interaction. If you can find enjoyment in viewing everyday life from another perspective, enjoying conversations between (Guy who was too busy to conserve energy to ever get to know himself) (Girl who pretty much finds everything mysterious) (Happy-go-around guy who has self-esteem problems) and (tsundere cosplayer librarian) and getting outsmarted Hyouka might be just the thing for you.
As a warning though: be ready for some cliche and SERIOUS repetitive carry elements.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 28, 2014
I'm listening to Koubou, by Kawada Mami, around half an hour past the ending of Shakugan No Shana Final. During the last couple days I begun watching the series, got caught in it's pace, and finally finished it. Rather than speaking only of the third season this review is for the whole series as that makes more sense for me.
Shakugan no Shana, to me, is a coming of age story smashed up with romance and lots of fantasy, or perhaps I should say romance smashed with coming of age. Regardless of that the series revolves around questions such as "what path should I follow" "Who
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am I?" and "Do I love?" which, in contrast to the flashy animation and unrealistic setting, feel rather off time to time.
Shakugan No Shana doesn't gave a very complicated setting. Parallel to world of humans exists the world of Guze, from which Guze no Tomogara also called Crimson Denizen, traveled to the world of humans. Being existences foreign to the world of men these creatures soon notice that they can't continue existing like they used to without ample supply of power of existence, which conveniently can be gained by devouring the existence of humans. However, some of the Tomogara soon notice that the devouring causes interference in the balance of the world. Aiming to secure the balance of the world they contract themselves with humans, creating an existence called Flame Haze, and hunt for their kind that disturb the balance.
The series protagonist, Flame Haze contracted to the Flame of Heaven Alastor, named Shana (after her sword Nieto No Shana) by Sakai Yuji, is a young looking girl with dark hair and eyes. When she battles her eyes and hair lit with flames and she wears a long leather cloak.
The series male protagonist Sakai Yuji is an ordinary kid who gets pulled in to the world of Flame Haze and Tomogara by chance, which he later describes as fate.
Under the surface Sakai and Shana are very similar characters, in sense of both development and characteristics. Both characters start of with solid footing, find themselves confused with events and feelings they don't understand, look for their own road to cope and finally arrive to conclusion.
Large amount of the series rotates around the interactions of Shana and Yuji. Due to this nature whether one will enjoy the series or not comes down to connecting with the feelings of the characters.
Time to time I found myself irritated with the shallow feeling the series left. It could be because of the highly unrealistic setting, the art style which didn't really fit the mentality sometimes or simply because the characters didn't feel consistently genuine, but the series certainly lacked something. One major fact for me was that after the ending climax I felt like the conclusion could have been reached in much easier way. Like most of the series was pointless.
Then again life isn't always that easy. Sometimes things just have to be done. And in sense that's one of the points the series is trying to drive in. That love and life all full of bumps that may seem like they are ridiculous or not realistic, that there are events that should not happen yet happen, in sense that's what it's all about isn't it. Because if everything was logical and reasonable we would call them facts not feelings right?
Shakugan No Shana is story wise lot about giving it a chance and stepping into the characters. If you keep thinking about what is plausible and what is not you will evidently miss what you could claim by rather accepting "this is what is happening" and then proceeding to consider the series from there on. Because albeit feeling shallow and try-hard at times Shakugan No Shana has the moments that will just leave you overflowing with emotions.
The series has very beautiful visuals. The scenery looks amazing from individuals to landscapes, characters are stunning, battles look great and rather than feeling like tricks are used to achieve things the series consistently delivers from beginning to end.
The series has a very styled and generic anime feel to it having everything from big eyes to clothes teared in implicate way.
One of the best parts of the show are the various different special skills the Flame haze and Tomagara use in battle, rendered in visually stunning fashion with little competition. Music wise the series is solid with vocals that emphasize the story and acoustics that help build appropriate mood.
All in all I feel bit confused with Shakugan no Shana. In the end when I evaluate it it's nothing that special, yet the fact also remains that I feel very satisfied with the series. I suppose in the end the feeling invoked by the ending scene is worth more than any analysis of the characters or plot could be, and every viewer will have to see it for themselves.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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