First Episode Review for: Guilty Crown

Summary : In a land with a mixture of normal and corrupt/oppressive political elements a young lad comes into possession of a supper weapon when he combines with others (surprisingly this can be anyone which is a nice twist)

Animation : Very good details and excellent environmental effects (smoke and such)

Plot Potential: Really good the ability to combine with anyone is a good touch and political rebellion anime are always good for a go.

Characters: Hmm not original (sort of a mix between Code Geass and Oh My Goddess!) but well rounded with depth

Music: Very very good, good opening music and closing tunes, CD buying worthy, with the one problem that the voice of the main female character was obviously different from the one that when singing.

Reminds me of: Code Geass but with the main protagonist swapped with one from a Harem anime

Overall: This is this seasons must watch anime, one of our guests to the flat was practically glued to the screen

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

First Episode Review for: Ben-to

Summary : A young student wakes up bleeding with amnesia, after many dark warning this turns out to be caused by getting involved in the deadly combat for the half price bentos at the local supermarket (WTF)

Animation : Good anime which lots of little details in it (such as good lighting when cars go past an mites in the air when people get hit)

Plot Potential: errrr heck knows, i suppose the whole ancient combat training is the only way to go, but where do you train for something like this, a sushi stand the woods maybe?

Characters: Visually very ‘stock’, but verbally no so much, you could predict no more than about 50% of what they were going to say next

Music: Fairly weak

Reminds me of: Battle Vixens set in a supermarket (after you have a had drink)

Overall: Massively puzzling but still it was very entertaining, another one to watch (the version i had had a lot of artifacts in the video, so will be searching for a better one)

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

First Episode Review for: Phi Brain – Kami no Puzzle

Summary : A rebellious puzzle genius is lured into a world where common brain puzzles are magnified to fatal levels and given a super human “puzzle power” (yes i did a WTF as well)

Animation : Just ordinary quality, bordering on the good, the giant puzzles are well done though

Plot Potential: well its like a franchised version of bayblade, you would think it would be boring but it was the most engaging none ‘serious plot’ aniume i have seen in a while

Characters: Quite fun, like Pokemon characters but 5 years on

Music: Not bad opening theme and quite a bit of “the clock is ticking” type of music

Reminds me of: As i said before, a more serious none franchised form of Bayblade

Overall: Only the Japanese could do a series like this basing a really fun series on the most feeble premise, this should be geeky and sad but its as good as any but a few anime, very watchable, thought i don’t know how they will keep the quality of puzzles up

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

First Episode Review for: Chihayafuru

Summary : The story of a beautiful but unconventional and therefore unpopular girl who is obsessed with a card game called Karuta and her search for other people to play it with

Animation : Nice and bright with a slight haze overtone pleasant to watch

Plot Potential: I don’t know if this is going to be like Yu-Gi-Oh! or if the game it just a link for the characters, but it was a good mix in the first episode

Characters: Very good and original characters with lots of depth and background even in only one episode

Music: Light background music

Reminds me of: A more solemn version of Yakitate!!

Overall: A surprising anime, and one that makes me want to actually play the card game, ill be watch this from now on.

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!