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This one was recommended to me by a friend, so give it a try I did. Although the concept of kids with special powers has been done to death, and the silly convienience of these powers only being available in your teenage years, I was still interested in what direction they would take it.

I immediately hated the selfish main character and how he used his power of taking over someones body for 5 seconds, to his own benefit, I mean that's realistic, most people would do that, but in an anime, I prefer my main character to be a goodie goodie do-no-wrong, I want him ... to set an example. Afterall you want someone you like, to be the lead, right?
(I didn't like the female lead either, she was just as big of an asshole, but I tried to look away from that)

Regardless, he quickly gets transfered to a school for kids like him, where he is forced into the student council, whose mission it is to hunt down other kids with special powers, and either enroll them in their school or convince them to never use their powers again, as doing so will put them in danger of getting captured by the government who will experiment on them. As I write this, I am actually surprised why this plotpoint wasn't explored more.

Initially, I got bored rather quickly, as ep 2-5 became a "monster of the week" kinda spiel, where the kids hunt down a new power user, beat them at their own game, convince them to stop using their power - lather rinse repeat.
It didn't really move the story forward at all, except maybe some minor character development, and it wasn't until episode 6 that it began getting good.

I won't get into spoilers, but when it finally started, almost halfway through the show, I was actually really hooked and invested in what on earth would happen next, as I now cared for the characters. It shouldn't take that long for an only 13 episodes long anime to get interesting in my opinion, but better late than never I guess.

Overall I liked it after it finally kicked off, but what disappointed me the most, was that the 13th episode, was completely rushed. It had material and potential to be an entire 2nd season on its own, but was rushed to conclude the series. In all honesty, I would rather pretend it didn't exist, and have the series end openly in ep 12.

If you like "teens with powers" and time travel plots, by all means give it a watch. It is not the best anime you'll ever watch, but I personally walked away satisfied, I was glad I had watched it.

Plain and simple, this is by far the most adorable anime I have ever watched!!

As someone who is more of a "shonen-person" aka over-the-top flashy battles and explosions, watching a quiet anime about a middle-aged man raising a little girl, was to my surprise a refreshing change of pace - I was actually quite surprised at how much I enjoyed it and how immersed I was.

The animation is simple, charming, and very unique, and the story is just 11 simple stories about the obstacles in every day life. Both from the perspective of the little girl, Rin, to whom everything about the world around her ... is new and unknown, and the middle-aged Daikichi, who has never had a child of his own, but does his very best to be a good father, and makes sacrifices of his own to make sure Rin is well.

One of my favorite episodes **SPOILERS** is one where Rin is upset that she is the very last one to get picked up at kindergarten because Daikichi works late, to the point where the institution is closed and she has to wait outside with the caretaker, until she gets picked up. Daikichi understands her frustration, and although he isn't making that much money to begin with, he has a talk with his boss to reduce his working hours, so that he can pick Rin up before it gets dark **SPOILER END**

If you like calm and gentle stories, that manage to touch your heart with very little, then this I can't recommend enough!

I had this anime recommended to my by a friend. At first, I didn't like it, quite the opposite, I didn't like the exaggerated nature of the animation, I didn't like how fast paced it was, and I sure didn't like the sexual overtones and fanservicy nature of the show.

Months went by, and I suddenly felt the urge to give it a second try; I still didn't like the fanservice, but everything else, I suddenly loved, and couldn't get enough of. I loved the high tempo, the over-exaggerated battles, the art style and overall animation, the nummerous plottwists, the whole friendship-is-magic theme of every other ... anime ever, and above all the personality of the main character. She is gentle at heart and puts others before herself, but has one hell of a temper and a smartass attitude towards her opponents.

It is also one of these classic tales of the main character striving towards a goal, and repeatedly getting stronger and stronger, going from the weakest link, to the most powerful character in the series that you don't fuck with.

I can't quite explain what exactly made this series so outstanding to me, except all of the above, it just spoke to me, and every episode was just filled to the brim with exciting action.

...also, while on the topic of "speaking", the english dub was nothing but phenomenal!! An anime can be as great as it wants, have good characters, good story, good animation etc, but if the voice acting is bad and you don't CONNECT with the characters and feel their emotions, then all of the above is meaningless. And EVERYONE, especially the main character Ryoko Matoi, delivered an amazing performance in the english dub. When she was fighting and yelling at her opponent at the top of her lungs, I was the edge of my seat!

Overall, this show is a tribute to classic over-the-top fighting anime and everything that makes those great. So if you love shows like Naruto Shippuden, DragonBall Z, One Piece etc, then definitely give this one a try!

!!Again, beware of fanservice!!