First Episode Review for: Accel World

Summary : A social out caste at a school (mentally as well and physically) who’s only ability lies in the virtual world that is an every day part of school, is taken under the wing of a popular girl and introduced to “acceleration world” which lets him bring those virtual skills to the real world, but is there a dark side to this gift?

Animation : A strange style, sort of computer generated crayon, not sure it would go well in a lot of anime but with this subject matter it goes very very well

Plot Potential: Pulling the plot down to bare basics does not give me much hope, but it seems to have been perfectly implemented, which prenty of growth all round

Characters: The main character is a BIT tooo wimpy for my taste (needed a good slap), but the other characters were all done well, and despite only speaking about two words of Japanese the quality of the voice actors felt rich and vibrant.

Music: good general background music and a powerful end tune

Reminds me of: hmmm nothing springs to mind, lets say a mecha/tec version of yu yu hakusho

Overall: A excellent start to the new Anime season, and definitely on my repeat list

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: Black Star/Rock Shooter the Series

Summary : Girls in a normal high school have alter egos in a dark and sinister dimension that battle it out to determine the hearts of the girls in our world

Animation : The animation is mixed, the real world is just ordinary quality, but they have kept Black Star’s world up to the amazing quality of the original OAV (with an extra watercolour feel)

Plot Potential: I know this is at heart only another alternative personality in an alternative world anime, but it just feels as if its more going for it than normal

Characters: Oddly enough this might be the animes week spot, the good guys are a bit shallow, the bad guys more than make up for that (the girl in the wheel chair nearly made me hide behaind the sofa)

Music: A lot of piano tootling, but good rocking tunes to go with it

Reminds me of: hmm tough one, I think it’s going to be a somewhere between Angel Beats and Rozen Maiden

Overall: I have been waiting for this series to start for ages, and it really does not disappoint, its flipping awesome

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: Nisemonogatari

Summary : A quite reasonable guy (for anime hero standards) who’s world seems to be filled with only strange women and who seems to be a vampire of some sort, who knows other supernatural creatures and sometimes gets kidnapped tries to live his life (look don’t ask me I’m as confused as you are) but does all this strangeness have something to do with his possessive sisters?

Animation : Washed out and highly detailed but strangely abstract, like a modern artist was put in charge of a world filled with normal people

Plot Potential: Sodded if I know at this stage, but there are references to other anime so I suspect it will be a parody of some sort

Characters: Strangely formal but hugely endearing characters, all highly philosophical but innocent with it

Music: A lot of adding music to speeches for dramatic emphasis, the opening theme is very catchy

Reminds me of: An even odder Mawaru-Penguindrum (but with less humor)

Overall: This series started with a total WTF!! moved to a section that contains lots of WTF, but thankfully only ended in confusion, I think I need to watch more
EDIT: episode 2 makes more sense but its still a potty series

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: Smile PreCure!

Summary : The merchandise engine that is the PreCure brand pumps out another series, this time books seem to be the cause and cure to all the worlds evils

Animation : In the old days I would fear for the phosphor in my TV, now-a-days I’m just worried that my graphics card is designed to show that many vivid colours at once, on the plus side the animation is quite good even if the bad guys look half finished

Plot Potential: Same as all the PreCure, battles between innocence and evil in its most monochrome and pure form (with accessories for you to buy)

Characters: Too stereotypical to even look normal in an anime, the main characters look shiny and plastic to the point of disbelief

Music: All I can hear is “tinkle tinkle”

Reminds me of: The original PreCure (well it doesn’t actually remind me of it much but it would be good for you to go and watch it if you have not)

Overall: I remember the original PreCure (which makes me a very old man) and that had plot and even a serious couple of episodes, this one is just bouncy bouncy, but that makes it an ace background no stress anime

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: Moretsu Pirates

Summary : A happy normal school girls suddenly finds out that she is the daughter of famous (and legal) space pirates, can she leave a normal life with one of the ex crew as a teacher and a strange new transfer student? (holds face in hands).

Animation : The first bright anime of the season, bouncy cheerful and eye watering.

Plot Potential: How they have managed to get space pirates into a normal school anime is quite beyond me be they have done it, and bar a bit of head scratching it looks good fun.

Characters: Due to the odd mix of space and normal school themes the characters have not settled down but the stereotyping seems to have been kept to a minimum, so all good there.

Music: So so, nothing amazing, but it does have all the cute effects.

Reminds me of: Captain Harlock mixed with Galaxy Angel

Overall: Thoroughly entertaining, it wont win any awards but i will enjoy it each week as the most fun series of this season.

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!!