First Episode Review for: Working’!!

Summary : The second series of Working (you can only tell that by the hyphen before the “!!”) continues exactly where the previous series left off, with the life and times of the dysfunctional staff of a restaurant

Animation : Seems a tiny bit better than the last series. but mainly normal quality over shaded/CGI set piece back grounds

Plot Potential: As normal for this series there is not a lot of series plot going on but it potters along, keeps you entertained and you cant help but grin at some of the set pieces

Characters: They are already fully formed from the first series so no surprises but they still hold plenty of fun

Music: Very nice bouncy music, cant get the opening tune out of my head “pan-pan-pan”

Reminds me of: Strangely enough it reminds me of Ranma 1/2 but with no magic

Overall: This series as far as i can tell is just more of the same when compared to the first series, but i really like it, its low stress but keeps your interest, about 40 seconds is the “look away” time

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First Episode Review for: Kimi to Boku

Summary : School based anime about a bunch of old friends and their choices in the second year of high school

Animation : flat and clear, but a bit lifeless

Plot Potential: weeeeelllll, if you like soaps, loads I suppose, as for me Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Characters: Deep but not that strong as yet, i suppose in this series character depth will have to hold most of the plot together

Music: No bad at all

Reminds me of: None, sorry, i never make it very far in series that have NO excitement

Overall: Sorry again I did not even make it to the end of the first episode, even as a background, it was both boring and full of social ineptitude, I flicked thought the second episode to see if anything else might be happening, but no, this is a true soap opera in cartoon form, if thats your thing then fine, but for this reviewer, I think i’ll skip it

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First Episode Review for: Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing

Summary : A group of sky pirates and a talented pilot get into trouble when they take on something a bit tooo big

Animation : Good, but some slight layering and you can really tell the different between the CGI and normal animation, still very watchable

Plot Potential: Excellent as there was a lot of life left in the Last Exile world, a little bit of its mystery has gone of course but can’t wait to find out the full plot

Characters: Same style of character as Last Exile but more light hearted, seems well formed and pleasant

Music: Again the same style as the previous series

Reminds me of: Well, Last Exile really

Overall: I loved the first series/story, and this does look as if it will be nearly as good, although not nearly as grim and serious

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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

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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!!