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Hourou Musuko ! A boy wants to be a girl...or at least wants to wear dresses?

+/- Forgettable op/ed visuals, but decent songs (I esp. like the Rie Fu ending song)
+ Nice production with pretty watercolor palette
+ Unique story topic

Quick impression~ Nitori starts middle school. He has gender issues. His friend, Takatsuki, also has gender issues. This is a more serious take on boys dressing up as girls and vice versa. It's not crossdressing for fanservice sake, but a gentle look into pre-pubescent possibly transexual teens.

Fractale 1! There are a lot of fractals in the opening. FUNimation's video quality continues to suck.

+ Decent production
- Previews were better than it actually was

Quick impression ~ Other people have already commented that this has a Ghibli-esque appearance to the show. I agree. Clain lives on an island with doppels (digital robot people). He meets finds a injured girl who is being hunter by three stooges. This was trying to setup something mysterious and epic, but failed. I blame Clain, the ho-hum main character.