First Episode Review for: Maken-Ki

Summary : A lad joins an all female school from being at an all boys school, only to discover the existing female students fight it out with super powers on a regular basis.

Animation : Good quality.

Plot Potential: Looks like a standard school Harem anime.

Characters: Fan service strikes, and strikes hard.

Music: Nothing of note.

Reminds me of: Too many to mention, but i suppose Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls

Overall: This is a good fun background anime, and will be watched each week as its so low stress,

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First Episode Review for: UN-GO

Summary : A brilliant but non-political private detective solves cases that conflict with the ruling elite in a post-war country with the help of his very demonic-looking sidekick

Animation : Clear with highly detailed backgrounds, nice movement, a pleasure to watch.

Plot Potential: Great plot potential, all sorts going on, both on a individual episode basis and from what looks like a series length plot

Characters: Really amazing! Enough strong characters to fill 3 series, even the 1 episode disposable characters have depth.

Music: Fab, both start up and ending tunes are good and there is even a good song linked to plot lines.

Reminds me of: Umineko no Naku Koro ni and Code Geass but in a police drama setting

Overall: Really really enjoyed this, can’t believe I missed the first few episodes

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First Episode Review for: Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai

Summary : A transfer student unfairly branded a delinquent and rabble rouser, accidentally makes friends with the schools “perfect student” (so perfect that she has no friends as no one will go near her), they form a club to help others get over the same problems and make “real friends”

Animation : A bit flat but nothing that detracts from watching

Plot Potential: This is a very Japanese anime (even more so than normal) in that the characters actions are driven by forces that we bailey think about in our lives

Characters: Initially very standard characters but given a depth due to the plot, visually nothing original.

Music: Funky opening theme and pleasant bouncy music during, good ending to boot (The end animation sequence is ace)

Reminds me of: A much lighter version of Usagi Drop

Overall: I will be watching as long as the plot holds, lets hope it grows nicely (I dread the traditional No. 7 “bath house” episode)

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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

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!!