{"id":18,"date":"2007-04-09T22:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/09\/spring-season-instant-reviews-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T22:25:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T03:25:56","slug":"spring-season-instant-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/09\/spring-season-instant-reviews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Season: INSTANT REVIEWS 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I continue watching and instantly dismissing new series!<\/p>\n<p><b>The Really Good Shows<\/b><br \/>\nTengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann &#8211; so good we fansubbed it! More on that later.<br \/>\nHayate the Combat Butler<br \/>\nMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS<\/p>\n<p><b>The Probably Good Shows<\/b><br \/>\nBokurano<br \/>\nSteel Jeeg<br \/>\nOverDrive<br \/>\nLucky Star<br \/>\nTo Terra<br \/>\nTouka Gettan<br \/>\nSeirei no Moribito<br \/>\nGegege no Kitarou<\/p>\n<p><b>Not Good Shows<\/b><br \/>\nGigantic Formula<br \/>\nIDOLM@STER Xenoglossia<br \/>\nBlue Dragon<br \/>\nNagasarete Airantou<br \/>\nSeto no Hanayome<\/p>\n<p><b>Horrible Shows<\/b><br \/>\nKamichama Karin<br \/>\nPolyphonica<br \/>\nShining Tears X Wind<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m done offending everyone, actual reviews!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>GeGeGe no Kitarou (2007)<\/i><br \/>\nKids&#8217; show about a boy named Kitarou and a bunch of his friends fighting other ghosts because they&#8217;re jerks (the other ghosts, that is). The characters all have excellent names like &#8220;Catgirl&#8221; and &#8220;Rat Guy&#8221;, and one of them is apparently anthropomorphic toilet paper.<br \/>\nThis makes it a total winner.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=zkq89KL6d60\">opening song<\/a> is a nice remix of the same song they always use. Nekomusume is pretty mo\u00c3\u00a9. <\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: not really relevant<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: Japanese children\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Kamichama Karin<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koge-Donbo\">Koge-Donbo<\/a>&#8216;s cute show about a retarded magical girl. I deleted the episode, but I clearly remember that it sucked. The scene arrangement is complete nonsense for the first half of the episode and nothing about the genre appeals. Maybe I&#8217;m not the person to go to on this sort of thing?<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: lame<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkubentobox.com\/blog\/\">NegativeZero<\/a>, people that like Koge Donbo\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Polyphonica<\/i><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s like, this red-haired girl, and this guy? They have stupid trivial small talk for most of the episode, then some disaster happens? The girl transforms into a fairy and saves someone?<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell cares. This show is awful in every way. Don&#8217;t watch it.<br \/>\nIf you liked the scene with the transforming bike and synthesizer concert, there&#8217;s a much better anime about transforming bikes and synthesizer concerts. <a href=\"http:\/\/animeworldorder.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/anime-world-order-show-50-watch.html\">You should watch it instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: Awful<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: Nobody\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula<\/i><br \/>\nRealistic version of <i>G Gundam<\/i>, which removes the interesting part of G Gundam.<br \/>\nHowever, I&#8217;m pretty sure the first episode killed too many of the characters for it to stick to its official plot, so it may be alright.<\/p>\n<p>The robots are done in 3D CG, as well as, for some reason, everyone&#8217;s faces. This results in occasional strange animation errors.<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: acceptable<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: limited\n<\/li>\n<li><i>IDOLM@STER Xenoglossia<\/i>\n<p>Sunrise show; takes the famous pop idol raising game and makes them all giant robot pilots. First episode featured them eating corndogs and a good city-block-transforming-into-runway scene. Could be okay, but will probably take a while to get anywhere. High probability of mo\u00c3\u00a9 detected.<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: Sunrise-class<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: People who don&#8217;t mind moe in their giant robots.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Steel Jeeg<\/i><br \/>\nRemake of a very old and sort of bad giant robot show. This one looks kind of good.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img455.imageshack.us\/img455\/7771\/jeeg1ewg6.jpg\">Fanservice<\/a> and a JAM Project, uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rn1H72dUFcc\">rap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: Good, sharp and bright colors.<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: Giant robot fans only.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>To Terra<\/i><br \/>\nI&#8217;m told that this is an excellent shoujo-styled science fiction manga back in the day. Therefore, I&#8217;m not really worried that the first episode was somewhat uninteresting, but it is somewhat of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on it, but it didn&#8217;t quite pass the one episode test.<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: meh<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: somewhat general\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Bokura no<\/i><br \/>\nI liked this manga (from Mohiro Kitoh, the author of Narutaru and a guy who <b>really<\/b> hates kids), so I&#8217;ve somewhat been anticipating this.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion has been mostly chanting a long list of Ghibli-associated staff, without mentioning that this is the most feared of all kinds of modern anime. A GONZO show.<\/p>\n<p>First episode covers the first chapter of the manga, with the first robot fight, completely faithfully. This being Gonzo, they&#8217;ve used 3D CG everywhere they could. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s surprisingly bad CG, and is quite jerky. This detracts noticably from the episode :(<\/p>\n<p><b>Production quality<\/b>: good aside from the CG. This episode is mostly a night scene, which I&#8217;m not a big fan of.<br \/>\n<b>Audience<\/b>: Hopefully everyone; Bokurano is very good.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is getting far too long, so I&#8217;m going to cut it off here. I&#8217;ve got to be well rested before I write some kind of obsessive StrikerS review, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I continue watching and instantly dismissing new series!<\/p>\n<p>Includes a bonus list of what to watch if you&#8217;re me.<\/p>\n<p>(Nanoha StrikerS, Bokurano, Jeeg, and a zillion other shows follow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}