Winter anime

[seichan]

Ojisan to Marshmallow 1-2! is about an older, unattractive office worker who likes marshmallows and his female coworker who taunts him about his marshmallow addiction. Yes, Japan, you have weird fetishes...keep at it. The series is one of many 3-4 minute anime series this season.



Boku dake ga Inai Machi 1-2! is about a young adult who has a spidey-sense type feeling whenever something bad is going to happen and can go back a little in time to try to help prevent it. There's a kidnapping/murder mystery that results in a pretty interesting cliffhanger. This is one of the better series to come along this season. If you liked the Hollywood movie, Looper, you may like this.

Dimension W 1-2! takes place in a world where society relies on a new type of energy, power coils made by New Tesla...haha. Kyoma Mabuchi is a bounty hunter who hunts people selling illegal coils. On one job, he runs across a cutesy robot girl who was accidentally captured by his target. Of course the robot gets him involved in something bigger. You can tell that this is this season's 'hip' anime by the style of the action and 'cool' main character. The main character is similar to whathisname from Samurai Champloo. Despite some of the predictable anime tropes, Episode 2 was just as good as 1 at hooking you in.

Koyomimonogatari ONA 1-2! The straight to video Monogatari arc which takes place in the past while Oshino was still around to help Araragi. Koyomi and Stone, and Koyomi and Flower are two short stories about fake shrines.

Bubuki Buranki 1! is this season's CGI & action-filled anime. The first episode quickly moves along from a mother's sacrifice to a young boy searching for a way to see his mother again ten years later. Despite the young characters being typical angst-driven anime characters, the story moved quickly enough to make me curious about the next episode. As far as the production goes, they threw alot of money at the series, but it's rather sloppy.