Anime Review: Kokoro Connect

What if, randomly, you and your friends suddenly began to switch minds? One moment you were you, another moment you were in the body of your friend and they in yours. What if you and your friends had sudden flashes of no self-restraint, and your secret desires and urges suddenly came rushing forth without you able to stop yourself? How would all of this affect your lives, your psyches, your relationships?

Anime Review: Mysterious Girlfriend X

On an impulse, guy tastes the new girl’s drool on her desk after she slept through class. Several days later he develops flu-like symptoms that won’t go away only to find, as said girl will later tell him, that he is having withdrawal symptoms. She gives him some of her spit and he’s cured. Thus our story of two unlikely love-birds begins.

Anime Review: A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives

Within the first few minutes I knew this would be something good. You ever notice that? When a show strides in and gives you that wink and he’s just so… confident and sexy… and… uh, we’re talking about a twelve episode anime series, right? Yes. Well. If it were anthropomorphized it would be a strapping young man with poise and purpose and your knees would buckle, man. Friggin’ buckle.

Anime Reviews: Papa-Kiki, Chuu-Bra!!, RecoRan

Instead of my usual droning thousand word essay I’ve bundled several shorter reviews this time. Mostly because these shows weren’t really deserving of a full review.

Anime Review: Tari Tari

It’s Glee meets Japanese animation, or perhaps who put K-On! in my Hanasaku Iroha? Three girls and two guys, for various reasons, come together to form a choir club and along the way learn a lot about life, dreams, aspirations, but most of all music and friendship. Yes, it is that kind of show.

Anime Review: Toradora!

The tiger and dragon stand together as equals. Thus does this too-often generic feeling rom-com begin. While funny and sweet and dramatic at times it feels held back by a lot of typically dumb decisions and watered-down commercial appeal. Even so, there is still a lot to like. A fun diversion, if a bit forgettable in the end.

Anime Review: Lucky Star

Never has there been a series that set out to be as pointless and pandering as Lucky Star. It has the slice-of-life comedy of four school age girls approach like Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou, albeit favoring the mundane and otaku over the awkward, random, and nonsense of the other two. And while it does what it does extremely well, its one-dimensional approach prevents it from ever being more than just a giant 20+ episode in-joke.

Anime Review: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Is this what we would get if Christopher Nolan attempted a magical girl anime? It is heavily influenced by its pedigree and yet it stops to ask itself constantly “How would this actually work?” It manages to make dark and gritty a genre well known for its colorful sparkles and obnoxiously sweet exterior. Although you wouldn't know it by looking at it.

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