Panties aren’t powerful enough to solve all the problems we’ve got here.

Update: I’ve been informed that this show isn’t over yet. This is the saddest news I’ve heard all day. I just assume it was over because everyone confessed their love, they fought a duel of giant video game cat monsters, and there is nothing left to happen. Since I already wrote this, I’ll leave it up since I doubt anything will change my opinion (and I have doubts on whether I’ll actually end up finishing watching this if it’s twice the length of what I’ve already seen…).

Sakurasou follows the formula that’s made other harem shows successful. Our lead male suddenly finds himself living with a bunch of cute girls. Then he spends the rest of the show complaining about his bad luck. Continue reading Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojou Review — D →

Our hero finds himself trapped on a deserted island in a game. The only way to survive is to kill seven other players with bombs and his wits.

Btooom! has a setup it could do some interesting things with. It could focus on the political entanglements, the endless betrayals and doubts the characters face. It could focus on the fighting itself— the combat with bombs leads to some interesting possibilities. It could focus on why the characters were sent to the island, and learning to overcome their shortcomings. Or it could focus on the relationship between the video game world and the real world. Focusing on any one of these components could have led to a good show.

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I liked the first movie, but this was just pointless.

The first half of the movie is spent skinny dipping with talking dolphins in the rainbow cyber ocean. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against talking dolphins. Howard was a pretty cool dolphin. But although this movie tries its best to be trippy, the Illuminatus Trilogy this is not. Japanese people on drugs are about as wild as sober Americans. Continue reading Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion Review — D+ →

This review is part of the Reverse Thieves Secret Santa project. I was also recommended Rainbow and Silent Mobius, which I was planning to watch as well. Unfortunately, that never happened. I probably would have enjoyed those more, but with my trip over the last two weeks I didn’t have much time.

Joe is a crusher. Which means he flies a spaceship and does odd jobs, from what I can tell. Along with his crew of a blonde beauty, a big guy and a short guy, he takes a job to transport a sick comatose woman. And then she is kidnapped… Continue reading Crusher Joe: The Movie Review — D →

In the first episode, we learned exactly what Joshiraku would be about:

They pretty much nailed it.

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