Reviews and previews
To be honest, I don’t have much experience watching Highlander stuff. I think I may have seen part of a movie, and maybe an episode of the TV show. The OP totally rocked! Anyway, I just got this anime version in the mail so I figured I’d pop it in my DVD player and check it out.
Remember that anime, 009-1, that came out in the Fall and went largely ignored? Me either! Apparently ADV licensed it! And they just put a site up for it! I had no idea until Natalie Lane shot me an email about it.
I pretty much gave the anime no attention last Fall, but I checked out the trailers on the site, and it actually looks okay. And by that, I mean it has panty shots and voluptuous cyborgs. The jury is still out on the character design, though. I guess I’ll have to , y’know, watch the anime to make an informed descision…
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is that one anime that takes a bunch of CLAMP characters and throws them into a totally unrelated plot. So it should be tons of fun for people who are into all the CLAMP characters. I am not one of those people…
I just read on the ANN that ADV’s gotten a bunch of licenses for Gonzo anime. Oh, and Magikano isn’t a Gonzo one, but the others are.
Out of the four, I watched a bit of NHK and all of Magikano. Red Garden repelled me with the mega-shnozzes. Pumpkin Scissors had a really dumb name.
Magikano is excellent! Excellent and stupid, but I love it. NHK was good, but I got into the manga and stopped watching the anime.
Oh, and one weird thing about this announcement is that I’ve always thought that Funimation had some sort of deal with Gonzo (they’ve licensed a bunch of their stuff in the past, like Basilisk, Burst Angel, Desert Punk, Kiddy Grade, Speed Grapher, etc). Oh, and there was that one deal with Afro Samurai that they made too, right? But yeah, here comes ADV in Funimation’s turf, licensing their animes. [Insert cat macro here]
So I got a review copy of Ah! My Goddess! Second season DVD. But I’ve never seen the first season. Although I did watch a few of the OVAs like, a hundred years ago. So yeah, I watched it anyway.
So I watched the 3rd DVD of the Cromartie High School anime. For some reason, it’s a lot easier for me to sit through one of these than say, Kino’s Journey. I guess that means I have a short attention span. HEY, LET’S RIDE BIKES!
So I’ve pretty much been watching Lovely Complex and Lucky Star as far as this anime season goes. I just finished watching Lovely Complex 5, and I have to admit, I didn’t see that coming. Seriously, uber cute girl being a trap? Anyway, I guess that means that the amazon is safe to dilly dally around for a few more episodes. She must be channeling Hamlet, waiting until it’s too late to kill her uncle king. Or in this case, date the short guy.
I couldn’t stop watching the Cromartie High School DVDs after I started, so here’s a quick review on the next DVD, entitled “Hey Dude.” Just like that old live action cowboy show on Nickelodeon!
Cromartie High School is a manga turned anime that’s in my favorite genre: random. You know, like Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Sexy Commando, and Gag Manga Biyori? I got the whole series during that ADV sale, so I figured I should watch some of it.
