Thursday, February 28, 2008

Gallery Fake


Fujita Reiji is the owner of an art gallery, Gallery Fake. He deals with fake items, and is also familiar with the black market. However, he has a special talent for art, and used to work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a curator.

Plus
I love those animes that connect anime and history into one. This anime has done it with Art history! It go from rare painting to rare watches. It's good learning for art history. Anime itself doesn't stop at the just basic art history, but it go into actions of gun shoots and love comedy. It has all the genre that I want to see in this kind of anime. Anime's art itself isn't bad at all, it's well done anime.

Minus
For this one, I'll just be picky. I wasn't too fan of some of the voice actor and actress they have chosen. Most of the main-chara's voices I don't have much complains, but other sub-charas, they might of chosen better voice actors and actresses for.


Rating
Over all of this anime rating I'll give
8/10

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Shiawase-Sou no Okojo-San



Haruka Tsuchiya is a plain and simple university student who has a pet by the name of Okojo-san. Okojo-san was actually born in one of the mountains in the North and brought to one of the pet shops to be sold. Determined to get out of the pet shop, Okojo-san formulated an escape strategy and ended up in the house of Haruka. There are always funny and strange occurances happening around the two, be it the people or animals who are near them. This is a gag anime in which absurdity is the main feature of the story.

Plus
See the view point of pet's feeling and acts from both animal and human is pretty funny. The pet might think "What you wanna fight grrrrrr~~~~!", but for human "Are you hungry?" It's funny to see the main character almost never talks. When he talks he only say "Ah!" or "Thank you" other than that he only nods. Same time Kojopi the Okojo is really tough guy and try to fight with everyone. Each episode has 2 stories and both of them is unique and has good laugh at it.

Minus
Things that I see that make this anime a boring is that, even though one episode has 2 stories to it, story flow really slow. If you watch is anime in late night, I can guarentee to fall a sleep. Maybe how they prep for good part is bit boring that make this anime bit doll.

Rating
It's bit hard to give this anime a rating, but this is my rating 4/10

Girl's High




Eriko and her friends Yuma and Ayano are excited about entering high school. Their excitement leads to their breaking of the rules when they toured the school before the opening ceremony. They find out their preconceptions about the all female school may not be as true as they had first thought. Despite that, Eriko and her friends are joined by new friends. They aim to get through high school life together.


Plus

As anime, it's pretty amazing to see this kind of genre to publish on TV. Yes, that much of panty shots and other fan services were in this anime..... But it wasn't bad in my opinion, more like it made this anime a lot more funny! It's daily life of 6 high school girls, but some episodes are just bit more over board to make it funny, other are just regular girls problems that they go through.


Minus

Each episode has their problem and those 6 girls go through is fine, but too much pointless crazy happenings are making this anime so lame. How they solve the problems is too quick or too stupid way didn't match the way this anime should be.... I kinda hope little bit more from this anime.

Rating
Over all rating I'll give is 5/10

Friday, February 22, 2008

Nodame Cantabile


At a top music academy in Japan, Shinichi Chiaki's arrogance is matched only by his top-notch piano playing. But when Chiaki and the teacher get into a fight, he's demoted to the reject class. Chiaki is left to pursue his dream of being a composer while surrounded by a bunch of loser musicians and one annoying girl, Noda, who has proclaimed herself Chiaki's girlfriend. It doesn't help that Noda, who insists on being called Nodame, lives right next door to him.....

Which Animenewsnetwork is commenting for the plot.

Plus
I've only seen up til episode 12, but the series go til episode 24 (half way done), but name itself is pretty funny. Even if you're not into classical music due to comedy mix in this anime that make this series a lot more interesting. Voice casts were chosen well too. I didn't expect to hear Sgt. Sagara from Full Metal Panic voice actor: Seki, Tomokazu as main hero Chiaki, Shinichi. At the same time, I think it was good choice. Because how Shinichi get upset and yell at Nodame or other friends was "Just fit" in my opinion.

Minus
Maybe only things that I don't like about it might be the speed of storyline. It's okay to pace up the anime series, but over using is bit of annoying. Some of the part you don't know what happened because they didn't show it in the anime, but only in manga. So fans that know about this serie before it came out on anime know, a lot more than fans that start watching from anime is bit off-guard of what is going on.

Rating
So far rating I'll give is 7/10