...what are you watching...

Guin Saga 3! Hm, still not convinced that this is something worth watching. The fight between Guin and the Dark-lord-type bad guy was rather badly directed, silly even. Anyway, Rinda hooks up with an annoying monkey-girl in who is in the opening song, so darn, we are stuck with her.

07-Ghost 4! Studio Deen is failing at making the manga-to-anime transition exciting. Nothing of interest happens in this episode. I'll give it the old 6 episode test and see if it makes a turn around.

Too much salt this week. I feel pickled.

Higashi no Eden / Eden of the East 1! Did he say he was Jason Bourne?

+ Great production
+ Great opening/ending visuals and songs.
+ Interesting story
+ Attractive characters
+ Humor!

Quick impression~ A girl decides to try to throw a coin into a fountain in front of the White House. She gets in trouble, but a naked guy distracts the policeman. Things happen and they head to Japan together. It's funny that the Americans look like Americans while the Japanese look like anime characters. I'm really interested to see how they approach the terrorism angle. And there's already a movie planned?


07-Ghost 1! Gotta love the Church in anime.

+ Attractive designs
- Generic production
- Standard cast of characters
+ Story with possibilities...and fanservice.

Quick impression~ Standard anti-social boy, Teito, and over-enthusiastic boy, Mikage, are students in a military academy. Teito has a flashback, and thinks that the one of the military leaders killed his father, so he attacks, and flees the school. This would be really good if the cheap choices in animation didn't stand out so much. The first episode pretty much digs right into the story and drama and...yaoi fanwork material. I think I'll keep watching for the fanservice.


Tales of the Abyss 22-26! the end. The weak part of the show is that everyone is coincidentally so connected that it gets a little boring after awhile. The 'significant' deaths go by so quickly; Natalia's real father, Asch, and everyone beforehand. The strength is always the last five minutes of each episode where they throw some 'cool' twist in. The final boss fight was very RPG and weak-looking, but the final final scene was pretty nice. I enjoyed Asch's rants about his replica, Luke, and their relationship was pretty unique. It would have been more interesting if the story had revolved around Asch. The story really fell apart when you realize that everyone basically wants the same thing. Anyway, 7/10 rating for some good twists and turns. Tear's fonic hymn is nice.