Summer 2011 Anime

Now that the season is three episodes in for most shows its time for reviews and commentary. Because having an internet connection and not being a retard makes me an expert on everything. This may contain minor spoilers, deal with it, its the first three fucking episodes, there won't be any big plot reveals this early on that matter.

Blood C: The newest installation in the Blood psuedo-franchise. To put it simply, the show is slow and mostly boring. It plays out like a slice of life show that's even less interesting than your average slice of life show, followed by a seemingly random bloody fight scene at the end. I'd do all kinds of perverted things to the new Saya, however.
Rating: Mediocre Timekiller, don't bother unless you're bored.


Dantalian no Shoka: A guy goes to his dead grandfather's house and finds a black-haired bookworm girl in his basement. Then they go to the house of the guy that they think bumped off his gramps and end up fighting wild animals and a murderous clown that came out of a magic picture book. Somehow he kills them by pulling another magic book out of the girl's chest, then they travel around capturing more books by pulling other books out of the girl's chest.
Rating: Pretty damn entertaining so far.


Idolmaster: A show based on a long running series of video games capable of stopping the publishing schedule of berserk. For the unaware, its about a production company trying to get an assortment of female aspiring idols to become famous. The show is cute girls and singing, don't go in expecting anything aside from that and you'll be fine. The cast is diverse enough to pander to pretty much any popular anime girl archetype and the opening/ending songs change every episode...or maybe just one of them did.
Rating: Miura Approved


Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi: A guy is made immortal by a clingy vampire. Some kind kills him repeatedly and seals her away somewhere until he remembers her when he gets to high school, which summons her somehow and they spend like five minutes gushing on eachother before being interrupted by the student council president who happens to be a gigantic douchebag with some kind of ditzy Mahou Shojou servant. Douchebag's douchebaggier brother shows up with some kind of big spider monster partway through the fight forcing them to team up, and for whatever reason they don't go back to fighting after he runs off. The show is minorly fanservicy and the MC is actually a pretty cool guy so far instead of some lameass otaku self insert.
Rating: Unexpectedly, not bad.


Nurarihyon no Mago Sennen Makyou: Its the second session of Nurarihyon no Mago, if you liked the first season, you'll like this one, if not...probably not. Fairly standard shounen, the manga is apparently long as hell. Has a good mixture of violence and 14 year old girls that look 20.
Rating: Keeping the ball rolling.



Mayo Chiki: A guy finds out the campus pretty-boy is actually a girl in disguise. She has to pretend to be a dude for all of high school because apparently in Japan girls aren't allowed to butler. The dude also nosebleeds whenever a girl touches him for some reason, and he gets blackmailed and threatened into keeping the butler girl's secret. Shenanigans, random nonsensical violence and fanservice ensue. The only really thing that separates this from most fanservice shows is that the main character isn't a spinless fuckwit.
Rating: Butlers girls are almost as good as maids.


Mawaru Penguindrum: A couple guys have a dying little sister. They take her to the zoo or something and buy a weirdass penguin hat. She dies, the hat reveals itself to be some kind of magic penguin spirit, rezzes her, and tells them to find something called the Mawaru penguindrum otherwise it'll let their sister die and gives no other useful details. Shenanigans ensue. Oh, and they have some smarter than average penguins that only they can see.
Rating: SEIZON SENRYAKU-Wait what. What the fuck is going on here. No seriously, what?


Kamisama Dolls: A guy moves to tokyo from his hometown in bumfuck japan. His hometown is apparently home to some kind of temple that houses psychically controlled robot things and functions as some kind of crazy shadow government or something. One of them is controlled by his sister, one of them is controlled by his childhood friend who is a serial killer that just broke out of prison and came to tokyo to make his life miserable. His apartment gets wrecked in the first episode resulting in his moving in with a chick with a huge rack that goes to his school or something for some reason.
Rating: Mediocre, Generic.


Kamisama no Memochou: A kid meets a girl that's a complete shutin hacker with a billion computer screens that solves mysteries. She lives above a ramen shop and has a cast of oddball friends/sidekicks, including a military fanatic and a gang of yakuza that suck with computers. The kid gets conscripted as her assistant and goes on solving mysteries and fighting crime. Surprisingly, this is entertaining. The mysteries aren't really anything like genius detective work, but well, its anime.
Rating: Better than expected, considering how otaku pandering it seems.

Soylent Jello

A group of scientists with Chinese sounding names have announced that they've found a way to synthesize human-based Gelatin. So instead of eating ground up cow bones when you order some Jello you can get people instead- well, actually, it'd be made by splicing the human gelatin gene into yeast, because from my experiences yeast seems to be the go-to microbe for splicing random shit into its genome. At some point all these spliced yeast genomes are going to end up in one yeast microbe and we'll have some kind of man-eating super yeast monster, just watch.

Gelatin also has medical uses and stuff, but this honestly just makes me think we'll be seeing jello-beer at some point in the next few years.

ScienceDaily

Power rangers and Nostalgia

So, Today the Dragonzord I ordered arrived. Along with something extra because it took forever to get shipped. (Not the anime girls)

Fuck Yeah.

CHRISTINAAAAAA (Toy Review)

So I finally got around to unboxing my figma Kurisu and fiddling with her. Her articulation is about the standard for a figma-good. The only thing blocking any of her range of motion is her brown jacket, though I'm not totally sure figma hip joints swing that wide anyways. As with any long-haired figma, her neck articulation is hindered a bit due to the hair getting blocked. She has the standard assortment of figma hands, along with a phone and a bottle of Dr Pepper, both attached to the hands holding them. She comes with three faces, a neutral face, a winking face, and a yelling face. Between the three she has a pretty good set of posing capabilities.

The notable difference from most figmas is the crossed arms, which is actually two pieces that stick together. Getting her regular arms off the joints was a bit of a struggle, and I was worried about accidentally yanking the shoulder joints out of their sockets, but they seem to be attached by some kind of balljoint that doesn't pop out as easily as the sliding part does, once they're on and clicked together however, they look great. Her stand is somewhat difficult to get in the peghole in her back, which is somewhat annoying since her feet are kinda small making her hard to get to stand unassisted(Though it isn't impossible by any means). I ended up just propping the stand between her back and her coat, it was easier than trying to wedge it into her back. One of my friends says the red color of the tie rubbed off on her shirt a bit, but I have yet to have that problem. Overall, a very good figma, though my opinion my be skewed by my enjoyment of Steins;gate. Now, ON WITH THE PICTURES.



The world's deadliest weapon combo, a totally-not-a-lightsaber and a bottle of Dr. Pepper



Yeah, I'd be protective of my drinks too.


"What the fuck is this shit"


The Arms crossed piece makes for some great smugness


They're also good for when she's pissed off.


I think she wants her arms back. Though I suppose disarmed Kurisu is moe in her own way.