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This anime is a slice of life comedy about two students in a classroom: Rumi Yokoi, a studious girl trying to pay attention to the teacher, and Toshinari Seki, a boy paying no attention to the teacher who plays around through every class.

Each episode, Yokoi is distracted by Seki's latest game, whether that be a twisted version of Shogi or him playing around with a toy robot family, with each scenario ending up with Yokoi completely absorbed in watching to see the humorous outcome. Each episode is 7-8 minutes long, just over 5 minutes if the intro and outro are removed (not that you'd want ... to remove them). It's great for brightening up your day, whether you've got 10 minutes to spare on an episode or 3 hours to binge the lot.

Tonari no Seki-Kun is a must-watch for veterans and newcomers alike, and its rating of 7.67 is criminally low. Do yourself a favour and go and watch this anime. Do your friends and family a favour and get them to watch this anime. Do the world a favour and rate this anime higher than a goddamn mediocre "good", because it deserves so much more. This may not be the show you deserve, but it's the one you need right now!

Angel Beats! starts off slow but it is easy to become attatched to the characters and towards the end becomes quite emotional. The ending was handled nearly perfectly, with the rest of the anime being pretty damn on point as well. Had it not been for one little "let's skip this cos there's no time for it" near the ending, I would've personally requested that a "rank 11" was made for this anime, as it is simply one of the best anime available now, and had it not had the slight rush on the end, would've shone out against even the best anime like an ... explosion in the middle of the night. As it is, it still blows 99% of anime out of the water, but *just* fell short of me bowing down and proclaiming it the best anime ever.

The characterisation is quite stereotyped, but different enough that it doesn't have any negative impact on the anime. The story starts slow, but becomes a rush to a climactic, and then highly emotional, ending, going at just the right speed to set up the characters, and then tell the story at a reasonable pace. The artwork is great, and the soundtrack (specifically the opening and ending credits) are the best I've heard on any anime, and fit the mood of the show perfectly, almost too perfectly at places, to the point where even hearing the outro after seeing an emotional scene will tug at your heart. It's thoroughly enjoyable, and comes with my highest recommendation, something reserved only for Angel Beats! Korkoro Connect, and Gosick.

This is an anime based on a PC game from a few years back. Having heard positive things about the game, I tried to find it on Steam, to no avail. After searching for a download, I found out about the anime, and decided to give it a shot.

What I imagine is the storyline from the game (the detective trying to find the killer) was drowned out by the main character pausing the plot every five minutes in order to have sex with nearly every girl that appeared in the anime, despite his mention at the beginning about having never found love again after his ... lover died.

The story itself is quite interesting, but the detectives method of "finding clues" usually involved inserting a certain part of his body into a woman as payment for information, and these scenes made up around half of the anime.

All in all, this could've been half the length and shown a really good gritty detective story in a short half-hour OVA, but instead decided to turn it into an hour long hentai with hints of detective work dotted between our MC getting his freak on.

The OVA is pure fanservice. There is no continuation of plot, and the characters just repeat actions from the series only in different situations.

There is little to no point in watching this, unless you're into seeing half-drawn boobs.

This anime is really quite easy to watch, as the plot is simple and (not counting five minutes of the last episode) the characters are believable for the situation they are in. It is those five minutes that has me refraining from giving the anime a rating of ten, as the main character nearly goes and ruins everything up for near to no reason. However, unlike most anime that has it's last episode as the weakest, it's repaired (although weakly) before the anime ends so it only subtracts minimally.
As I already said, the anime is easy to watch, and most of the characters are given ... enough time that you begin to understand them, something that's rare in a 12 episode anime containing this many characters.
The anime is brilliantly written, with the exception of the aforementioned scene, and is definitely worth checking out.