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Hatsu Inu has to be one of my favorite hentai OVA's, and the best I've seen.

Story:
The story doesn't have a lot to it, but I think its simplicity in being a romantic hentai helps make it so great. It isn't convoluted, it isn't confusing, and it makes sense. No cults, no demons, no anything but regular people. One boy, a few girls, love, and a whole lot of fun.

Art:
The art is high quality for a hentai OVA. the character animation is fluid and almost flawless. They look like actual human beings, which is definitely a bonus as well. Male lead (his name escapes me at the moment) doesn't have a member the size of mother Russia, and when his *ahem* "moment" comes, he isn't an unstoppable geyser. He is more of a human being than any other male in hentai. They way Fujino is drawn is cute, and she isn't a stereotypical hentai girl. She is a bit chubby (looking at her stomach/waist/thighs) but not overwieght. Her body type is very normal. She does have large breasts, but that probably comes with her being a little chubby as well. Mita is more of the stereotype in body, but she has a bit of weight too, so it is all very normal.

Character:
The characters are all very like-able and the women are cute; Fujino especially. Mita is a bit creepy, but you have to have one in every hentai, don't you? You get more character in the ART piece, because I don't want to spoil it.

Sound:
The sound is pretty basic in terms of sound effects, but the music is better then I have heard in a lot of hentai. I enjoyed the background music a lot, and I'm sure you will too.

Enjoyment:
This is definitely enjoyable. The characters are like-able and human, the music is great, the scenes are well animated and sensible. Nothing to make you cringe either, which you don't see as often these days. i definitely recommend it for anyone who likes a good, well rounded hentai. read more

Macademi Wasshoi!... I was certainly confused during the first episode, and still so in the second. However, I think this show has a lot going for it. So far, its managed to keep a lot of the energy it premiered with, unlike Kemeko, which kind of lost pace by repeating jokes.

The show is certainly unique. Not for the plot, but for the way it carries out. Sure, there are a lot of stereotypical characters, like the pretty-boy teacher, the ditzy male lead, the quiet girl, and lots of other crazies, but they are fun characters. Personally, the stereotypical pretty-boy is awesome. All of the characters have a unique role to play, setting them apart from the usual archetypes in anime.

I'll try my best to describe the plot without too many spoilers. Mage boy summons something for an exam, and ends up summoning Tanarotte, a little, extremely... "energetic" girl who has the powers of a god. Her cling to our male lead causes problems with other female characters, pretty-boy teacher (who is awesome) has a dog girl maid, and also: here there be DWARVES! Hilarity ensues. The plot is really kind of confusing, so I vote you check it out when you have the time.

Production values are pretty good. The art isn't amazing, but it isn't terrible either. It takes home the bronze at best, and scores 4th at worst. The BGM is decent; not incredibly memorable, but certainly can be fun. The show also has this weird claymation thing going for the "mature" scenes. I'm not sure if this is just a comical way of censorship, or the show just being its unusual self, but I'm not to angry about it. The only gripe I have is with the OP, which needs to be dragged out into the street and shot.

The show is certainly worth watching, if only for its hyperactive charm. I strongly recommend you check it out if you have the time. read more

Hyakko… I was actually looking forward to this one from the PV and the other materials I had seen. Needless to say I was greatly disappointed. I almost never drop a show before the tenth episode, but I am seriously considering it. Well, lets start with production values. The OP and ED are crap. The BGM fails to be memorable. The art is sub-par from what I expected, so were the BGs. This is a kind of short review, but I just don’t have anything good to say about this show. The story sits there… there isn’t really any memorable plot to be had. The characters are stereotypical, with the quiet girl who wants to establish herself, the prim and proper bitch, the loud and annoying, headstrong girl, and the weird “eccentric” girl who doesn’t say much. The only character that I liked was the teacher, simply because he was the only male I had seen the entire episode. That’s all I have to say for the show. It just fails to make a mark, or be unique in any way. I’ve got to give this a 4/10.

Production by Nippon Animation. Airs on Wednesdays. Subs by Ayako.
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Casshern… a series reboot of the original Shinzou Ningen Casshern back in 1973. Of all the new shows this season, I think this one is my favorite. Lets talk production values, people. I really enjoyed the OP and ED, I think they fit very well, and they have a nice melody. Music overall was certainly a strong point of the show. The BGM really fit well into the scenarios presented, and I think that they sound lovely as well. The animation is fluid, almost seamless, which goes along well with the simplistic character art and gorgeous post-apocalyptic backgrounds. The voices are another strong point. Personally, I had a fangasm when I discovered with glee that Utsumi Kenji was reprising his role as Braiking Boss. I don’t think anyone else could have voiced him better than the original guy. The voice of Casshern was good too, and you can see the talent of Furuya Tooru. My only gripe in the entire show is Ringo. That little girl is kind of messed up looking. To quote Tenka Seiha, she looks like she’s going to devour Casshern. You can really see the connections to the old series. The robot designs are the same, but the coloring is gone, rusted and corroded due to the ruin. They are as cruel and heartless as they were in the first version too.

I’m really enjoying the plot. A fanboy like myself has been coming up with so many conspiracy theories about the plot, and links to the old show back in the 70’s. Hell, I typed a three-page bullet list on my theories. Leave me a comment if you’re interested. So Casshern wakes up from a hundred year slumber with no memories. All we know is that he killed Luna, and the Ruin (the apocalypse) was triggered by this event. Humans are now few and far between, being slowly killed by the poisonous air from the Ruin and Ringo even comments that she has not seen one. The robots don’t fair any better. The poisonous air is corroding and killing them along with the humans. Casshern kills a bunch of robots that think that they can end the Ruin and become immortal if they devour him. A strange woman appears, and notes the patheticness of the robots, then vanishes. We see that Casshern is wounded as well, and he screams. An old man, Oji, realizes that Casshern has awakened, and Braiking Boss tells him it is so. Casshern later meets a little girl robot named Ringo, and she comments that he is as pretty as a human. (In the original series, Casshern was originally a human who turned himself into a cyborg to combat the robot menace.) Ringo says she’s broken, Casshern says she’s not, Ringo gives him a shell and runs off. Casshern has a few flashbacks of when he killed Luna, and this causes him to freak out every so often. (These flashbacks helped fuel my theories too). Casshern, the super-hearing sexy devil that he is, hears her shells drop as she is attacked by a robot, and rushes to help her. He carries her to safety, then turns into badass mode. Glowing green-blue eyes, and combat ready. He brutally destroys the robot in retaliation for hurting Ringo, but in return, he makes Ringo afraid of him. Oji carries her off, voicing his disappointment in Casshern (which was one of my conspiracy flags, comment on my profile if interested.) The enigmatic female that showed up earlier and notes how brutal Casshern is, and that he disgusts her. He is the cause of the Ruin, and that is all she needs to know to hate him enough to want to kill him.

Overall, I’m in love with this show. The production value is incredible, the story is intriguing, and it made me, a fanboy, come up with theories of conspiracy with renewed vigor. I highly recommend this series to fans of the original show, superhero fans, fans of a dark story, and anyone in general. My overall score is 10/10.

Production done by Madhouse. Airs on Wednesday. Subs by Shinsen.
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Ga-rei… where to begin… Apparently this is based of a manga with the same (or similar title). I have to admit that I was fairly confused by the first episode, which almost never happens to me… this might be because I never read the original source material. I think, for this one, I’ll start with the production value. Overall, the PV was amazing. The animation was fluid and precise, the artwork never suffered many flaws, and the few tiny flaws that it did suffer from are really of no concern. The characters have a decent range of emotional expression, which one really doesn’t see much these days. The music was good too. It had a bit of a Ghost in the Shell vibe to it, without Yoko Kanno’s musical genius. The show did have the tendency to rely on CG a bit heavily, but it was decent CG, and I think it made the Ghost in the Shell vibe even stronger (though production IG wasn’t even involved with this.) Ladies and gentlemen, activate the spoiler tags, because here comes the first episode. We learn that the show focuses around a combat squadron that fights against the supernatural. The strongest of these squads is Squad 4, who the story revolves around. We get introduced to the squad, including the bespectacled, fringed commander, his young squeaky girl assistant, Masaki (who I like because he is weird and has glasses, much like myself), this big guy with a scar who said a Buddhist prayer, a girl with a motorcycle that she can kill things with, and the male lead who’s name escapes me at the moment. The first scene is our male lead in front of a tombstone in a cemetery, and he has the first of many fucked-up flashbacks for the episode. From here on out, I’ll call them FUFB. He see’s this creepy kid with white hair, and he is standing over a body and surrounded in flames, then a gunshot is seen, and the male lead snaps back to reality. The motorcycle girl, Natsuki, picks up the male lead to bring him to the scene of a supernatural incident in progress. We first get to see a bunch of invisible zombie things, and they scare me a bit, called Category C, which I guess is low class. Then the main baddy for the show comes in. A Category B… A ROLLING, FLAMING CG DINOSAUR THAT SHOOTS FLAMING INVISIBLE ZOMBIES! I shit you not, this actually happens. Well, cut a long story short, the incident is solved after some bad-assery in a water plant… this is where stuff gets kind of fucked up. The lights flicker, and our friends from Squad 4 begin to die… which kind of weirded me out. Why introduce a bunch of characters if they all die? Well, a girl with a sword kills Masaki, and the other squad four members, pretty violently. The male lead desperately calls base for assistance, and we see that Mami-chan, the assistant to the director, has killed him, and has a face-hugger brain-sucker alien thing on her head… She speaks as two minds, and says “We’ll be going ahead” then shoots herself in the head… this show seems fucked up, eh? Male lead has another FUFB and sees the white haired child and the body again. The male lead is screaming “Aoi” which I guess is her name, and the girl with the sword (the one killing everybody) tries to convince him that she is no longer Aoi. Aoi stands up and walks toward male lead. Male lead pleads, Aoi presses against his gun, and he fires. As Aoi falls, a swarm of crystalline blue butterflies (which will most likely be recurring in this show) fly away. We snap back to reality, where the sword girl says “I told you to give it up.” She then proceeds to slay the male lead. As the credits role, there is no ED, just the almost surprisingly haunting environment noise of falling water. Overall, the show is pretty good, but I don’t feel like I’ll know what’s going on until the next episode. I give this in total an 8/10. The beginning makes it seem like it might be generic, but it was fucked up and confusing enough to hook me in for the next episode.

Produced by AIC spirits, airs Saturdays. Subs by Aero.
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This one was… interesting. I was originally going to avoid it because of the pedophile vibes that I was given. A show about a young boy and his creepy butler just sounded wrong… However, I decided to watch it, and grabbed the subbed version from Shinsen… The OP was pretty good… there are certainly better, but there are many worse ones this season. The ED doesn’t have a good song, but the mountains of chibi awesome-ness make up for it. The art is very nice, all the backgrounds are hand painted, and the character art is decently consistent. The CG (what little they use) tends to be a bit dodgy in spots, but I think that can be overlooked. The story of this anime focuses on Ciel Phantomhive, the orphaned heir to the Phantomhive estate. How his parents died hasn’t been established yet, but it apparently caused him to make a contract with a demon… who is his butler. Let me say here, that Sebastian (insert Lucky * Star reference here) is the single most badass butler ever. Watch the show for yourself if you don’t believe me. I’m going to have a hard time summarizing the first episode, but I can say some other things. The atmosphere is very good at shifting. It can be comical and ridiculous the first moment, but then be pants-wettingly creepy. Not many anime these days can switch back and forth so well. Ciel comes off as pretty creepy as small boys with eyepatches come. The rest of the house staff is comical, complete with the girl who loves Sebastian. Sebastian is honestly the best of the whole character set. He switches back and forth from comical to creepy along with the rest of the show. He has red eyes, pallid white skin, and dark hair (as well as an angular face, which makes him remind me of the black swordsman from Comedy.) From what I can tell, he is a demon, but I can only tell from the vague description I can get from the show. He says “I am but a butler,” but the way he says it, it can be also translated as “I am but a demon.” Anyway, Sebastian is obviously the most badass demon butler to ever grace the screen. I really don’t have much more to say on this, because I have no plot summary. Watch it if you want, you will probably enjoy it. I enjoyed it enough to bring me to the second episode, providing Shinsen gets the subs out with decent speed. It really isn’t half bad, and it was a lot better than I expected it. To sum it up, less pedophiliac, more ridiculous, and certainly more entertaining then I expected it to be. Check it out if you want to. I give it a total score 0f 7/10.

Production by A-1 Pictures. Airs on Thursday. Subs done by Shinsen.
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Shikabane Hime… I wasn’t going to do this one either… seemed a bit too generic. But I bit the bullet and watched it anyway. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t bad. It was just… decent. I’ll probably watch the next episode to decide if I keep it on my roster for the season. Production values were all right. The OP isn’t really memorable, and neither is the ED. The general BGM throughout the show is okay, but isn’t really memorable either. It’s kind of a shame that music isn’t memorable at all in this show. I thought it could really have potential, considering the premise of the show is somewhat Bleach like, and Bleach had great music. The animation was all right as well… a bit jumpy in some spots, but generally fluid. The character art was decent, and semi-consistent, though I say that their noses are far too large for anime. Its just kind of a shame that nothing really stands out as spectacular in this anime. I suppose I should give it time to see if it blossoms, but my cynicism won’t let be get my hopes up.

The premise of the show is very Bleach like, which is not to say that it’s a knock off of Bleach, but they are very similar. Spiritually sensitive kid lives in a temple, and sees spirits. He has three friends that have anime stereotype personalities (Rukia is the only good female main character in Bleach, god dammit!). He stumbles upon the main female character Makina, who is a shikabane hime (someone who hunts shikabane, I’m guessing) and he is startled that she’s dead. He has a trippy run in with a spirit cat that tells him things, but eventually he shrugs it off. Yagami, the male lead, moves out after this incident. It turns out that Yagami’s aniki Keisei is the head of this secret society that hunts shikabane. Shikabane are corpses that have enough will to keep moving after death, and its Makina’s job to hunt them. I’m guessing that Keisei loves Makina or something, because they make it pretty damn obvious when you compare his attitude towards her to the other members of the society. Well, nothing really happens for most of the first episode, then at the end, Makina kicks ass with sub-machine guns and takes out the shikabane for the episode.

We can all guess that soon, Yagami will delve into all of this business, as he has met Makina. He saves her from being permanently dead (which had a trippy mind-fuck sequence) and then she slaps him and books it. I’m kind of disappointed in the first episode. It had real potential to be memorable, but it just didn’t wow me. Check it out if you want. I’ll probably watch the next episode before deciding anything. I give the show a total 6/10. I should note that this show is already slotted for a sequel, even before the first episode aired. It better turn out damn good, or I get to get out the pimp hand.

Produced by Gainax. Airs on Thursdays. Subs by Lunar.
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