Category Archives: Impressions

Kimi to Boku — First Impression

Impressions,

I second the cat.

Four young gentlemen sit on the roof, prep up each other’s hair and whine, while sakura blossoms drift past. A breathtaking scene.

This is the next iteration in the cute girls do cute things genre. Except it’s guys instead of girls. And they have no enthusiasm whatsoever. And it isn’t funny at all. Those are the two components which made this genre interesting in the first place. Stripped of them, it’s just people sitting around complaining. Why would I want to watch a show that makes my own life look like Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan by comparison? Dropped.

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Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon — First Impression

Impressions,

Screenshot pretty much sums it up.

I guess this was supposed to be a fun intro episode to get the viewer hooked. But it failed miserably. Why? Because the viewer has no bloody clue what’s going on. The entire thing was just technobabble. And breasts. HUMONGOUS breasts.

I don’t understand the appeal of these massive lumps of fat. Up to a point, sure, but this is just disgusting. Is it physically possible for these girls to see their feet? How can they even walk? I guess they grow giant drill hair as a counterbalance.

And am I supposed to take this confession seriously? This guy comes out of nowhere, gropes his teacher, and announces his upcoming confession to everyone. They all take it seriously like it’s some sort of tragedy. Except we have no idea who this girl even is.

Lastly, those animations of the teacher running sure were obnoxious. They should give warnings for people with epilepsy.

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ϕ Brain — First Impression

Impressions,

This wasn’t bad, per se, but I’m underwhelmed.

The premise is dumb but interesting at the same time. Our heroes, (non)-members of the puzzle solving club, solve puzzles with life or death stakes. The puzzles look interesting, even if the means of solving them are completely outside the audience’s hands. I feel that if you’re going to make a show about puzzles, you should at least make it possible for the audience to think about the puzzle and solve it themselves.

The biggest problem is the characters: none of them particularly interest me. It looks like our usual shounen school setting, filled with wacky hair styles. Our protagonist is full of himself. He has a violent childhood friend. The mysterious student council president is hiding something. I don’t really care about any of these people.

The way they develop the protagonist’s motivations and talents is especially pathetic. He made a childhood premise with what looks like his father to “free the puzzles.” Hilarious. Then to convince us of how smart he is, the creators have him solve a Sudoku puzzle. And everyone in the puzzle club is amazed. Seriously, guys? Is everyone at this school an idiot? It even took the person who wrote the puzzle an entire day to solve. How is that even possible?

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Fate / zero — First Impression

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I’m a Type Moon fanboy, so I thoroughly enjoyed this episode just for the sake of going back to the Fate / Stay Night universe. But this episode was pretty disappointing for a double length episode. The entire thing was just setup. This could be forgiven in a single episode, but for a double whammy? Get to the meat of the story already.

Much of the fun from the original Fate / Stay Night derived from not knowing what was going on, and figuring it out as we went along. But here it seems like they’ve revealed nearly everything up front. I’m not sure how that’s going to work out.

Kotomine and Emiya were two of the most intriguing characters in the VN, so having them in starring rolls will be nice. It’s a vast improvement over Shirou, to say the least. Emiya’s wife doesn’t thrill me at the moment: I guess her main purpose is to die some tragic death. The Matou household is always exciting. And little Rin and Sakura are cute.

But what’s up with Waver, this kid from the magician’s association? Is he supposed to be a joke? He already seemed like he was going to be the first one to die, and then he went and summoned an orangutan?

The production is up to snuff for ufotable, and the music is great. The episode served to get me psyched for the rest of the show, even if it wasn’t that exciting. There was a sense of building tension just through the dialogue. I’ll probably be blogging this, depending on the second episode. As an aside, more anime need snow. Snow makes everything better. Just look at Haruhi.

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Hunter x Hunter — First Impression

Impressions,

This is a remake of an older series, and I haven’t watched the original. So I’m looking at it from a fresh perspective. Normally I wouldn’t bother watching this kind of shounen show, but Mira claimed it was awesome so I decided to give it a try.

And it was actually pretty good. The biggest reason I can’t stand shounen fighting shows like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece is that the pacing is so slow. It’ll take multiple episodes to get through a single fight. And I’m already bored of the battle after the first five minutes. This episode stayed well clear of that problem: if anything, the pacing was too fast. This episode was filled with action and didn’t leave you time to catch your breath.

The characters seemed interesting enough, the animation and music were nicely done, and it managed to keep my attention. Generally this kind of show will lose my interest as it goes on, descending into long battles, adding more and more characters, and generating louder screams and newer powers. But for now, I’ll stick with Hunter x Hunter.

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