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K-ON! First impressions

post from AnimeSlice on 06 April 2009 11:15:00 PM. © AnimeSlice



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a clannad post trapped in a da capo one

post from blog?? on 06 April 2009 08:00:00 PM. © blog??



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Hanasakeru Seishounen (Youths in Bloom) Episode 1
- Innocent Girl

post from Cinnamon Ass on 06 April 2009 04:38:00 PM. © Cinnamon Ass

Why is this show going to slip through the cracks of Western fandom? Is it because Natsumi Itsuki isn’t very well known over here? I mean, Demon Sacred’s coming out from Tokyopop I think, and Jyu-Oh-Sei was a pretty good anime; I just don’t know why this show isn’t getting any exposure at all. Which makes me sad, because it seems pretty good - despite also appearing to be very, very simple.

To briefly summarise - Kajika Barnsworth is the only daughter of Harry Barnsworth, head of a massive financial corporation. Her mother died about when she was two. She was brought up in isolation from the world with only her pet snow leopard and Li-Ren, her Chinese sort-of bodyguard, for company. She starts attending Japanese junior high school where it is made clear that not only is she filthy rich and has lots of people willing to protect her (including an actual bodyguard), but she’s also a totally no-nonsense girl and utterly awesome, with amazing grey eyes that strikes fear into the hearts of feeble thugs and exquisite taste in strawberries.

However, she is summoned home to visit her father, who issues her with an ultimatum. He has selected three men to be suitors for her to marry; she must choose one, and then he will “reveal her destiny” or something like that. These men do not appear to include Li-Ren, however…

I find Hanasakeru Seishounen interesting because it feels like it’s trying to lull me into a sense of complacency. It seems like an open-and-shut reverse harem show, where Kajika and Li-Ren will end up together and that’s that. But there’s clearly something going on beyond that; I can’t believe that the suitorship is the be-all and end-all of this show, especially coming from the woman who came up with the Ring Caste system in Jyu-Oh-Sei. There has to be something more significant about Li-Ren; about Kajika’s half-Japanese parentage (and dead mother); and why set the show in this high-ranking environment? This isn’t just coming from reading up on the show, although I’m obviously aware there’s something more to it than what we see here, but I’m curious as to why it starts off so innocuously like this.

Anyway, even taken at face value the show’s got a decent amount going for it. It’s not the most beautiful shoujo show ever or anything, but the character designs and background artwork are attractive, the animation competent if uninteresting, and the acting is fine (Aya Endou really does a good job as Kajika).

It’s hard to really comment when this episode doesn’t give us much more than you can already glean from reading promotional material about the show. Even so, it’s executed more than competently and it’s an entertaining and interesting first episode; I doubt I can really do much to sell it on to people who haven’t really paid much attention to the show before, but I do think it’s something that shouldn’t just disappear under the radar, however likely that may be.



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Shangri-La is

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 06 April 2009 10:00:54 AM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

… Al-Gore sponsored anime? It’s show that has carbon tax levied on all nations, carbon credit hedge funds and a fucking Carbon Police. Not to mention the eyerape of okama supporting leads, one of which uses whips and kisses to disarm opponents and suspiciously sounds like Jouji Nakata. The credits only write ♥♥♥ for the [...]

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Saki is

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 06 April 2009 06:30:09 AM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

… moe moe yuri mahjong. Okay well, that IS to be expected, ahaha. First episode follows the manga pretty well, not much difference here. Seeing them animated is fun though, with the seiyuus doing a nice job of their characters. With such an all-star cast (Kana Ueda, Ami Koshimizu, Itou Shizuka, Jun Fukuyama, Rie Kugimiya, [...]

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fullmetal alchemist 2009 1

post from blog?? on 06 April 2009 03:00:00 AM. © blog??



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Tayutama is

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 06 April 2009 02:00:40 AM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

… pretty damn cute. But not sickly cute nor trying-too-hard-to-be-cute cute. In short, I’m lovin’ it! Plus, it has a non-fail-non-wimpy male lead for a start, so it’s getting off to be pretty damn enjoyable. I still lol’ed at how cute those “tayutai” are though… despite them being supposedly maligned to humans and stuff. Norio [...]

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