No snow, just rain...

[seichan]

Katanagatari 12! the end. After what happens to Togame, Shichika basically goes against all of her orders. All the swords get humorously broken; the tenth was cute. The blond princess somehow redeems herself though I'm not quite sure how I didn't end up annoyed with her. Because you get attached to Shichika's relationships with prior characters, namely Togame, the end was a little sad.

Despite the title of the series, this isn't your typical shounen series, the fight scenes mock actual shounen anime and were usually ridiculously short. I suppose the focus was the push-and-pull dialogue between the characters. I didn't really like the character design, but it grows on you. The overall production style of the show was fair. Even if the episodes were extra long and they cut corners, the flaws were not too obvious. There was a rich palette and the background scenes were all very screencap-able. I did find the 50 minute episode per month not a real benefit. 50 minutes is a long time to listen to Nisioisin's dialogue and from month to month, you forget what just happened. ~8/10 rating~ I'd still recommend the series.

Denyuuden 23! Ah, a small break from all the dense, gloomy events of the last few episodes. It's Sion's birthday celebration. And then ends with an expected twist. If not for the fact that this isn't a popular series, there'd be some hardcore doujinshi running rampant. One more episode to go, right? or maybe a 2nd season?

Tegami Bachi: REVERSE 11! Did I ever mention that the very purple palette gets tiring to watch. Maybe at the end after they get rid of the artificial sun, there will be a change in palette and the munchkins will come out to play. The nuns working for Reverse meet their end (or they could have just lost their hearts?) Lag finally conveys his heart to Gauche. I read a little further in the manga and I like the twist that will come. I'm glad that this season has more depth. Last season was 85% throwaway.

Togainu no chi 10! some planes bomb the blond pervert's home interrupting Rin x Il Re x Akira's battle. This show was scarily terrible, but finally improved just a smidge near the end of this episode. The flashback was funny; unintentionally, of course.

Comments

[langwidere]

I liked the part in the Toga flashback when the two characters’ hands were suddenly made out of lunchmeat, for some reason. And their hair would randomly grow and shrink, possibly as a result of their intermittently swollen skulls. And no one thought there was anything weird about a strange dude showing up in front of an orphanage to give a small child a giant knife.

I think Keisuke will be killed soon, though, so there’s something to look forward to.

(Also I can’t check my comment, because your tags div is infringing on the side of the box. So all the misspellings are YOUR fault.)

[seichan]

i have no idea how to fix that.

strange dude is a bishonen. nuf said.

[langwidere]

strange dude is a bishonen.
Oh God, it really is a retelling of Weiss Kreuz, isn’t it? It is, isn’t it?
Speaking of which: Cough cough.