First Episode Review for: Inu X boku Secret Service

Summary : A young and ultra privileged girl moves in to an elite apartment block to find someone has hired a secret service bodyguard for her who is quite insanely faithful, but is the apartment complex all that it seems.

Animation : Subdued tone but good quality throughout, every frame would make a perfect computer wallpaper, I like it, thought some of the backgrounds are a mite plain.

Plot Potential: Great plot I don’t know if it will hold a full series but they have tons to work with!!

Characters: Brill characters, good fun with plenty of interesting quirk’s , which i’m not going to spoil

Music: Pleasant back ground music sadly nothing that attracted my attention.

Reminds me of: Part Ai Yori Aoshi part Black Butler with a bit of Inuyasha chucked in.

Overall: I cant wait to see where they go with this, please please don’t let them screw this plot line up.

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First Episode Review for: Another

Summary : A young lad transfers from Tokyo to a strange school in a much smaller town, the only problem is the class he is transferred to is very very haunted (shudder)

Animation : Blood and sand!! the animation is real life quality, by far and away the best I have seen in a long time

Plot Potential: Awesome, a real mystery horror I was glued to the screen the whole episode

Characters: Only a tiny bit stereotyped, no more that you would expect in a school based anime, both plot and setting give them variety and make them enjoyable to watch, partially the primary characters (shame the costumes are so generic it would be a good series to cosplay)

Music: Sounds like Ali Project are back with their trade mark opening music, also some great horror sound effects in just the right places

Reminds me of: Something like Vampire Princess Miyu

Overall: A really really enjoyable start to a series, its been a while since we have had a nice horror anime, I eagerly await episode two.

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First Episode Review for: Brave 10

Summary : Mysterious priestess meets a rouge ninja in a forest, hooks up with him (against his wishes) and off we go on another whirl wind adventure (with a bit of revenge chucked in for extra fun).

Animation : Good quality dark animation, its not going to win any awards but perfect for this type of anime.

Plot Potential: Nothing yet, but its still early, looks like the feudal Lord they fall in with is gathering a bunch of good super super ninja to take on an unknown bad guy.

Characters: All the normal characters you would expect in a ninja anime, and even the normal names and techniques ( people substituting them self for logs and such).

Music: Nice battle music and good rabble rousing opening and closing tunes, fun stuff.

Reminds me of: Ninja Scroll with a bit of Narutos humour.

Overall: Hooray!! proper ninja battles, its been a while and this is gratefully received, as they say withing 5 mins of this series starting “Bring it 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!!

First Episode Review for: Zero no Tsukaima F

Summary : Enter the forth series of the popular Zero no Tskaima where a human lad transported to a magical kingdom is the familiar of a female student wizard

Animation : While clean and clear it has that flat edge that denotes a “made for TV” anime that the animators are starting to get bored with.

Plot Potential: I never read the original light novels so don’t know if this series was part of them, but I’m going to give them 7 out of 10 for the continuatio of the story, the new plot seems a little tacked on but is adding to the growth of the characters.

Characters: The characters are total stereotypes but endearingly done and one of the series best points

Music: Nothing much, pretty normal fair

Reminds me of: Just watch the first 3 series Zero no Tsukaima

Overall: This anime was good for the first series, but now is starting to look a bit tired, the new characters have a shallow feel to them as if each series is bolted on to the next rather than a cohesive long story

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First Episode Review for: Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Summary : A young girl is saved from certain death by a super powered singing duo, one of them dies in the process so the girl vows to follow in their footsteps and then the attack happens!!

Animation : A mixture of good and excellent, whoever is doing the backgrounds deserves a raise all the other animation is crisp and clean, a pleasure to watch

Plot Potential: Surprising for such a cheerful looking anime people actually die in a nasty way which helps the plot considerably

Characters: Costumes are amazing (they would be a devil to build for cosplay) , there is slight stereotyping but the actually threat of death gives them more depth, you feel like they are genuinely fighting for their lives.

Music: Amazing music throughout (i loved the battle songs) complemented by good use of sound especially the use of interrupted rain noise and the sounds of clothing moving

Reminds me of: Sailor Moon crossed with Dirty Pair directed by Quentin Tarantino

Overall: Well dang me what a moving anime, quite gave me the shivers, particularly as it should be in the normal “transforming schoolgirl” mold, definitely one to watch

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!!