Tagged: Original video animation

vlcsnap-2012-04-07-15h42m06s219

Spring 2012 First Impressions: Medaka Box

You know, there’s a lot I can say about this show.

Continue reading →

Fridge Brilliance: Gothic themes in Black Rock Shooter

Multi-dimensional chess, anyone?

I know, BRS has consistently left a bad taste in people’s mouths. I frothed at the mouth when I finished the OVA simply due to how ridiculous it was, and how they attempted to splice Mato’s real life and Black Rock Shooter’s together to form an bizarrely inconsistent timeline. In the series, despite its awesome fight scenes and high entertainment value (as you can tell I rather liked this show, much more than @fkeroge did anyway), a lot of the symbolism and plotlines just across as hamfisted and forced. I mean, really? Another being in another world changing places with you just because you wanted to? How ridiculous is th-

Continue reading →

[WhyNot] Black Rock Shooter - 05 [6DB3B95E].mkv_snapshot_19.02_[2012.03.04_15.22.57]

Black Rock Shooter – is it judgement day?

After watching Episode 5 of BRS, we see the toll that the recent spate of events has taken on Yomi’s well-being. We watch her gradual descent into madness, with bracelets strung with her own hair and her obsession with cutting everything in her room up. We find out the ending to the story of the bird with the rainbow-coloured wings; how it eventually becomes black, dull and dies. We even see Saya trying to kill Mato in the most literal sense. Surely, this show must have entered the realm of psychological anime right?

No doubts about that. But is it a good anime?

Continue reading →

Black Rock Shooter: Symbolic or try-hard?

With every season, comes at least one anime which seems as though it’s trying to become thought-provoking, with some doing so rather successfully: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, for instance, turning the Mahou Shoujo trope on its end. The blogosphere is now abuzz with discussions on Ordet’s latest 8-episode offering, Black Rock Shooter. Will BRS live up to its initial hype, or will it just burn out?

Continue reading →

roflbot (2)

If there is a yuri-star , is there a …yaoi-star? Yuri Seijin Naoko-san and the existence of other worlds

(challenge : read this post in the voice of Satomi Arai, a la Naoko’s or Kuroko’s voice acting..)

If it’s anything that was moderately interesting about the less-than-interesting 6 minute OVA, Yuri Seijin Naoko-san, it’s the existence of Naoko-san’s home planet, Yuri Star. A planet where, as the name implies, everyone is lesbian – and female. While this might seem lame and uninteresting to most, to me , this poses an interesting possibility : what does this say about the existence of vastly different universes , beyond our comprehension and ability to locate?

Continue reading →

Kuttsukiboshi : Tangled Stars, OVA Episode 1 Review

You should be able to guess what happens to these tangled stars at the end.

Kuttsukiboshi is the latest anime to come out of Primastea, the company which brought you classics like Isshoni Training and of course, their only other work, Isshoni Sleeping. Done by one guy on his computer, you can’t blame him for the defects in art style. However, what you can do is praise him on the storyline.

Continue reading →