or a Redundant Post Title and Some Anime Recommendations
As I’m trying to improve my health and rearranging my priorities, I’ll be posting more reviews rather than politics. There are many blogs on politics worth reading right now and I’m just static on an already crowded tuner. So my writing here will be more for exercising my skills than attempting to change the world with my limited energy. Looking at the long view, things are going to get pretty bleak for the world fairly soon and I have limits to how much complaining I can endure from myself.
So I’ll be reviewing all eleven episodes of the anime Fractale and eventually finishing the review of TRON: Legacy that I started in December. There is an off chance I might write some original fiction and put it up here, but nothing anytime soon.
While I’m not impressed by anime as a genre, I’ve done some exploring of it of late while being hammered by two bouts of bronchitis and have found some ones I deem of merit. Fractale has already been mentioned. Others of recent vintage are:
Shinryaku! Ika Musume aka Squid Girl – A humanoid girl with tentacles for hair decides to invade the surface in revenge for ocean pollution. What follows is a very funny, silly and sweet comedy anime that is utterly charming. Suitable for most ages; beware of squidding amounts of punning and the most annoying theme in history, degeso. I can’t wait for season two.
Kimi ni Todoke Seasons 1 & 2 – A letter perfect adaptation of the brilliant manga about the slow moving and heartfelt romance between an ostracized shy, scary looking girl and the most popular guy in her high school class. While it sounds formulaic, the characters are fully realized and utterly believable which is a true rarity in anime. Sawako and Shouta are one of the best couples in any form of literature and the supporting cast are wonderful in their own right. There is no way I can heap enough superlatives upon Kimi ni Todoke. The concentrated goodness in it is the perfect antidote for when the poisons of the world get you down. Suitable for 14 and up.
Yumekui Merry aka Nightmare Merry – Magical girl falls on high school boy and adventures ensue. I can’t stand this kind of thing and it has been done many times in the genre, but this series is different. Discordant camera angles, surreal imagery, and a disturbing soundtrack make this a very stylish and attractive anime but it really shines with its likeable and stereotype defying characters. Merry herself is a marvelous character, a rare feminine tomboy instead of a tsundere (look it up). She also is a lost and amnesiac dream demon trapped in the real world fighting her way to get back home. The dream world segments are very reminiscent of Tim Burton films. Very talky and slow compared to most fighting animes. Suitable for older teens and up, not aimed at kids.
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