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Anime Relations: Baccano!, Baccano! Specials

I just finished Baccano! AKA Isaac and Miria Up In Smoke (and started the OVAs. dude, FUNIMATION RELEASD THE 3 OVA SPECIALS ALONG WITH THE SERIES ON YOUTUBE!! I fucking WISH FUNimation would have picked up Durarara!)

. . .and, okay, okay, okay, you guys are right. Baccano! IS in fact better than Durarara! Personally, I still rate them both 10s.

I think both of them were too much fun to end when they did. Baccano! could have been AT LEAST two seasons. . . but it is based on a book, and if the entire thing was covered (it probably was) there's no reason to do anymore. . . .

That's just how it works. The ones that leave you wanting more, are usually just as long as they need to be (wussup Jormungand). The ones that make you say "okay, okay, stop already" come from Shonen Jump.

I can barely pick a favorite character but Isaac and Miria are the shit. Ladd is the shit. Claire Stanfield is the shit.

There's so much going on, it's not necessarily in chronological order, and not a second of it is boring. It's just bloody enough, it's just funny enough, it's got just enough action, and I can't really compare these characters to too many others (other than Chane being kinda like Shiki Ryougi from Kara no Kyoukai. . but that's just because she doesn't talk and WILL CUT YOU BITCH!). Even the whiniest character(Jacuzzi) in the show, has BRASS ONES.

The hype is real, folks. Adult Swim/Toonami need to just pick this one up.

Anime Relations: Kara no Kyoukai Movie 1: Fukan Fuukei, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen), Kara no Kyoukai Movie 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 4: Garan no Dou, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 5: Mujun Rasen, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 6: Boukyaku Rokuon, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 7: Satsujin Kousatsu (Go), Kara no Kyoukai Remix: Gate of Seventh Heaven, Kara no Kyoukai Movie 8: Shuushou

I rate ‘em like this.

1. 5

2. 3

3. 1

4. 2

5. 4

6. 7

7. 6

mushy as fuck in the end, but that is not enough to ruin the entire thing.

Anime Relations: Steins;Gate

Man, that was a ride.

I was watching it on FUNimation's Official YouTube channel, so It was about 2 months between seeing the first half and the second.

Most people are bored by the first half of the show, I loved it.

It had me laughing a lot.

Shit got real at the 12th episode, and it became SQUIRRELS;Gate.
(now, to explain, "squirrels" is a term i use when something gets sad. It comes from a song by a band called Shellac. "squirrel song". At the beginning of the song, Steve says "this is a sad fuckin' song, we'll be lucky if i don't bust out cryin". So, if I saw something is "squirrels", it means it's sad.)

I felt terrible this guy, trying to save his best friend and he can't do anything about. Really heavy stuff.
Very interesting show all around. . . until around the 3rd to last episode when it becomes a chick flick.

Very cheesy ending. I can't give it much more than a 7.

Still, I like the show a lot. (even if it is written by a guy who ships the 10th Doctor and Amy Pond :) )

My favorite character is probably Suzuha. She was pretty cool in the first half, and then in the second half she becomes REALLY fucking cool. I hope she is involved in the upcoming movie somehow.