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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu

I love this anime.  Not only did it have the best character, but it surprised me that it was actually semi-serious.  The rest of the Full Metal Panic! animes are also a must see.  Some of the most bizarre things happen in Fumoffu, but they don't seem related to season one or two.  I enjoyed this anime immensely.   I rate this anime a 4.5 out 5 stars.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Psychic Detective Yakumo

I really enjoyed this anime.  It was a great show with unique characters.  The premise was that the main character, Yakumo, was born with a single red eye which allows him to see 'spirits of the dead' or human souls.  Based in Japan, where the idea of spirits is more readily accepted than America, Yakumo deals with a lot spirits.  Hauntings, possessions, and 'living' spirits or astral projection.  Of course a girl is involved, Ozawa Haruka, who seems to complicate his life, but ultimately saves it.  I would recommend this anime to anyone.  I would rate this anime at four out of five stars.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ayashi no Ceres vs. Battle Programmer SHIRASE

Ayashi no Ceres or Ceres: The Celestial Legend was a good anime, but it seemed to fall apart in the middle.  I stuck with it and finished watching this anime, although it took me over a month to watch the entire thing.  The premise was good and the ending was also very good, although it started slow.  This show was fantasy oriented and overall was about three out of five stars.

Battle Programmer SHIRASE or BPS was a fast paced anime.  Full of relevant and current ideas this show was very good.  Each episode was only about twenty minutes in length and segmented into three-part episodes, but the entire anime was tied together very well.  This show was realistic fiction oriented and overall was about four point five out five stars.

Personally, I would have liked to see more episodes of BPS to see where else they would have gone, but I guess that it wasn't very well liked, so they discontinued the show.

Friday, January 13, 2012

A really good anime!

So, my list of anime has grown slightly with a little over seventy entire anime watched and two ongoing.  A third if you count by seasons.  The meaning of this blog though is to draw your attention to an anime called Steins;Gate.  It isn't a typo, there are no spaces and yes; there is a semicolon in between the two words.

Premise: Time travel and time machines using pseudo-physics (physics, but not really good physics) and a number of interesting characters.

Timeline:  Around 2010, but other years are mentioned and portrayed.

Review:  This anime brought tears to my eyes by having an interesting plot, intriguing characters, making me laugh and using some really cheesy physics.  I did notice some errors, but argued with myself about how and why certain situations happened and why certain other situations didn't arise.  However, this by far was an enjoyable anime, regardless of the small technical errors, and I would totally give this anime a thumbs up, five stars, etc.

In short - Watch Steins;Gate and see for yourself why this anime rocks.