Shinryku Ika Musume (Conquer, Squid Girl!) is a humorous, kawaii anime that focuses on the plans of Ika Musume (Squid Girl) to take over the world, starting at an oceanfront cafe, the Lemon. Each episode has three vignettes that feature some degree of character development and plot (in other words, Lucky Star, this is not). [...]
Posts Tagged ‘comedy’
Shinryku Ika Musume: Decent Squidliness
Posted in guide, tagged comedy, ika museme, kawaii, slice of life, squid, squid girl on December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yumeiro Patissiere Guide
Posted in guide, tagged comedy, cooking, episode guide, food, magic, romance, shoujo, Yumeiro Patissiere on October 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yumeiro Patissiere is a foodie anime`. It traces the trials and travails of Amano Ichigo (yes, her last name is Japanese for strawberry) as she follows her goal of being a confectionary artist. She is given an invite to an esteemed school for patissieres, the St. Marie school, and immediately finds herself thrown in to [...]
Sora No Woto: From Excellent to Pretentious in Six Episodes
Posted in graveyard, guide, tagged comedy, post-apocalyptic, romance, slice of life, sora no woto, war on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve held off on posting because I hate to see a series crash and burn. Even more, I hate being taken for a ride (or admitting that I don’t know how to pick good series, whichever works). I think I’ll keep around the early episodes, though, because they were that good. In the end, the [...]
Onegai My Melody Guide
Posted in guide, tagged comedy, onegai my melody, parody, romance, school, shoujo on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Onegai My Melody (official site in Japanese) is a humorous, warm, good-hearted shoujo anime` with a good bit of character development and parody riffs on anime` themes and Japanese culture in general. It’s cute, but never just cute, and often satirizes super-cuteness. Plotwise, three visitors from Mari-Land (a counterpart to the human world populated by [...]
Toradora! Jumps the Shark
Posted in graveyard, guide, tagged comedy, drama, romance, school, toradora! on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, Toradora! (official site in Japanese) jumped the shark. Episode 16 captures why the show has a heart of tin — not gold, not silver, not even brass, but tin. It combines together the most dramatic (and often ridiculous) moments of high school with overly-sentimental emotions, long plots where important things are hidden from the [...]
Gunparade Orchestra Guide
Posted in guide, tagged comedy, drama, gunparade orchestra, mech, mecha, romance, school, SF, slice of life, war on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thing I’ve discovered is generally anime` based on games are nothing but disappointment squared. Sure, there are exceptions, but Gunparade Orchestra, sadly, is not one of them. The structure of the series is to blame, because it starts over with a new set of characters every nine episodes, so by the time you’ve gotten [...]
Vampire Knight (Season I) Guide
Posted in guide, tagged comedy, romance, school, vampire, vampire knight on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vampire Knight is set in Cross Academy, a prestigious private high school where the headmaster has arranged for vampires and humans to live side-by-side in hopes of fostering peaceful relationships between the two. It’s a promising setting, but the show just doesn’t hit on all cylinders consistently. Sometimes it’s too silly, sometimes the characters are [...]
