This sort of reminds me of a beauty and the beast scenario. Cute, (yet dimwitted) petite girl falls in love with (also dimwitted) misunderstood giant. They are so cute together. Although in the twisted mind, I kept thinking "He is gonna break her." Too bad the anime didn't continue. Would have been nice to see them as well as the bishounen best-friend have happy endings. Had to read a obscure telling of the ending of the LN.
🌹 2nd Anime: [start date: 2-9 | end date: 2-9]🌹
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➸ Nourin
This reminded me of Gintama and SKET Dance but on a farm. Loved the humor and parodies. It left me wanting more. Was sad that the anime didn't continue and that I can't find the LN anywhere.
To be honest, I can see why this was dropped. Way too much story of the characters was shoved into two 11 minute episodes. It was all I could do to muddle through this. If you need something to put you to sleep, this is it.
[3/3] FYI, I'm horrible at reviews. I just wrote what I thought about the series.
First off I have never played the online game (although I would like to) nor had I watched Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru and Zoku Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru. Since I can't play the game, I started by watching the first 2 season before watching the spinoff, Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu. I was disappointed. You get little to no back story on anything and both seasons are nothing but fluff. I guess you are expected to have knowledge of the game and some of Japanese history. If you don't, you are somewhat lost. The only reasons I kept watching watching were the hot guys (yes, I shipped everyone) and the hope that Katsugeki would be better. Thankfully it was. Again, it needed some background information, but it was so much better. There were familiar characters but some had different personalities. This was more action packed with what I had expected to begin with. I would like to see another season with Katsugeki's story line.
🌸 2nd Anime: [start date: 3-2 | end date: 3-3]
➸ Charlotte
This really needed a 2nd season. A whole season was literally jammed into the final episode. Yuu just pissed me off after he started getting powers. It was fine to go back and save his sister but not Pooh? Then we get the ending where "Thanks for saving everyone. Your reward is you loose all you memories." I mean really now? If we follow that after adolescence you loose your ability, that could mean there's a chance Yuu regains his memories. Then again, the damage was probably already done. I guess I will never know since I can't find the translated manga anywhere. All in all, I liked it right up until the last episode.
So this was based off of an online game that was discontinued. Take a horny male teenage gamer and throw in a spoiled little princess, a transgender, a neko loving muscle head as well as a ton of parodies and you get one strange yet funny show. Kon, aka DT (male virgin), gets transported to another world in order to save it. He teams up with Mariandale and Sainglain to escort Princess Ecarlate so she can get married and avoid war. He makes an arch enemy out of Erekpyle (ED) by literally busting his balls. He literally wins fights with playing dirty and trickery. I had to love that used John Lennon's "Imagine" to halt the war and then ends it by lecturing the secret weapon. Then when ED wants to settle things for "his son", poof the Ixion magically restores his ball by giving him Mar's. I did say it was strange. After the ending credits there's a teaser for the non-existent season 2. >.<
This was all fluffiness. The sweet, naive, pure, innocent high school love story you can only find in anime. Altho Yuki was really pushing the perverted stalker role with Momo. I didn't read the manga nor do I plan to, so I don't know if it's further along than the OVA's. A second season wrapping it up would have been nice.
🌸 5th Anime: [start date: 4-15| end date: 4-17]
➸ Banana Fish
I loved this anime, well up until the end. It's your abused child gets neglected by his family, runs away from home, gets picked up by a scummy old man who drags him into the criminal world and uses him, and then he finally meets the pure and innocent person who he connects with type of story. Ash♥Eiji. Now for the ending, I get why it ended that way but it suxed. I'm not the only one who thought this and some wonderful person drew a few pictures on how it should have ended.
[5/5]
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Poor Minato and his target fear. I couldn't even begin to imagine how hard archery is and the pain and frustration he felt. The way of archery looked like a beautiful dance. All 8 from the team went through a lot and by the end they all became good friends. Since the manga is still ongoing, I'm hoping for a 2nd season. I liked how at the end they showed Minato as a child asking his mother, "What's that sound?" which they showed that through out. But this time we got to see a young Masaki standing beside him.
To say Haiji was persistent is an understatement. However along the way, everyone finds there own reason to want to run and participate in the Hakone Ekiden. I knew running was hard, but it is beyond grueling. There were many times I thought poor Prince was going to keel over. Considering the team was basically amateurs who just started training and that some weren't in the best condition, placing in the top 10 was a feat in of itself. I'd like to see a 2nd season picking up from just after the marathon, but I'm not holding my breath.
This is another sport where I really underestimated how insanely hard it is. Tatara and Chinatsu make one heck of a complicated yet perfect pair. I think I was just as shocked as everyone in the anime with them placing 1st in the last episode. I thought they would at the most get 2nd. I would hope a 2nd season would continue showing their growth and into the future. Of course the ending had a little teaser showing 3 pairs (Kiyoharu and Shizuku, Kaname and Mako, and Tatara and Chinatsu) walking out onto the floor so maybe there is hope for a 2nd season. I think Tatara's dad knows about him dancing but is waiting for him to tell him himself.
💧 4th Anime: [start date: 6/16 | end date: 6/17]
➸ All Out!!
Just like Masaru says in episode 6, "Rugby is nothing more than legal organized brawling." It is brutal. For Shingo to be able to take basically a loosing team and train them to that level in such a short period of time is a feat. Of course it's also because the team had the determination to work so hard. I have no idea what the manga is like and most likely never will but i would have liked to see a 2nd season showing their growth. It's impossible for them to make it to the nationals but I would have at least liked to have seen them get to the semi-finals for the 3rd years sake. Then maybe before the current first year graduate, they make it to the finals with everyone coming to cheer them on. Oh, I forgot to mention the hot, buff guys. >.<
[4/4]
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🍬 1st Anime: [start date: 10/9 | end date: 10/9]
➸ Death Parade
Decim, a puppet with a human heart (aren't we all? >.<), is an arbiter for the dead. I liked the spin on how ones fate for the afterlife is judged. Basically your fate depends on how you play the game which is designed to bring out your true nature and the "players" have no idea what's really going on.
I have this one marked as watched but I can't remember watching it. I'm glad it came up for a challenge because I liked it. It was pretty easy to figure out who or what was behind each File. Mai started to get on my nerves some with her not speaking up when she had her dreams and her dimwittedness. I especially liked File 7: The Bloodstained Labyrinth. As soon as I saw the house, I thought of the Winchester Mystery House, which they did make a reference to. I already spoiled the manga ending by reading the character bios, but I'm off to read the manga and the spin-off.
I was a little disappointed at first when it was all just a dream at the beginning. Each character has their own traumatic past to deal with but poor Tarou. I liked the concept of the "unseen world" and the entities. There are some that I wouldn't want to run into. I had to laugh at the main O.B.Es design since they reminded me of bobble heads. As silly as it may seem, they also remind me of a phone I had from the 80's. Makoto Oogami's wolf was pretty cool looking.
[3/3]
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❄️ 1st Anime: [start date: 12/15 | end date: 12/15]
➸ Yuri!!! on Ice
*silent screams* I am going to keep this one short because I am obsessed with it. This is one I will watch anytime it comes up for a challenge. ♥ Victor x Yuuri and Otabek x Yuri ♥ So poor Yurri is about to give up skating after bombing at the Grand Prix Finale. However after seeing a video of Yuuri skating to one of Victor's routines, Victor shows up at the hot springs Yuuri's family runs (sexy scene of a nakie Victor in the hot springs *nose bleed*) declaring he's going to coach Yuuri. Thus begins a journey of finding one's self, gaining confidence, and yes a pure romance (or two) begins. We can't forget the rest of the cast as well as Chris' ass. Some of those costumes don't leave much to the imagination. Now bring on season 2.
It has been many moons pun intended since I've seen this. So many I don't even remember it. The wolves are so cute. I just want to scratch them behind the ears and rub their bellies. >.< Of course Kiba was my favorite. There really wasn't much of a rhyme or reason to the story except for the world is in ruin (which we never found out why) and the wolves who were thought to be extinct were trying to find paradise with the help of the Flower Maiden. Of course we have our bad guys hindering them. I really hated Jagara. She nearly killed an entire species for "her" paradise. There is a special place in hell waiting for her and her followers. I never watched the OVAs so I'm off to do that with the hopes that there is some sort of real ending.
*whimpers sniffles* So much for a decent ending. Let's just jam pack as much death, sadness, and disappointment into 4 episodes as we can. Also, I'm tossing Lord Darcia into hell right along with Jagara.
Let me just get this out of the way first. OMG the face proportions. It drove me nuts. All I could see was Sid from Ice Age.
Ok, moving on. This is the only one I've seen out of the anime, manga, visual novel. The entire time I'm waiting for an explanation as to why Yuuichi has no memory of what happened 7 years ago, but we get nothing. I get that the main focus is supposed to be the routes with the girls but some sort of reason would have been nice. I can only assume that it was because of the the trauma from what happened to Ayu. Then there's the last episode where everyone that is sick or dying from previous episodes is just miraculously healed.
There are just too many holes. It's one that could have been good, but got lost along the way.
❄️ 4th Anime: [start date: 12/21 | end date: 12/21]
➸ White Album 2
This is the only one I've seen out of the anime, manga, visual novel. This starts out showing future events right off the bat so you get the idea that you are about to be thrown into a high school love triangle. I think it was sneaky of Setsuna to go in for the kill after she sees Kazusa steal a kiss from a sleeping Haruki. Then she asks Kazusa if she can keep Haruki knowing full well she wouldn't tell her no. Then just as it gets to a turning point, we get throw backs to how everything came about. Although it did help fill in some of the gaps where we skipped events. I'm not condoning the things Haruki did behind Setsuna's back. I feel bad for all 3 of them, but in the end I ship Haruki and Kazusa. Where's my 2nd season? I need to see what happens. Me and my wishful thinking.
[4/4]
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I ended up having to re-watch some since the others are ones that are ongoing. I want to watch them, but I started waiting until the anime/manga are completed until I start on them.
With as many as I've watched/read I tend to forget what's going on and have to start them over when they are finished.
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*Note* Studio Ghibli is one of my favorite studios. I can watch and re-watch most of these movies over and over and never get tired of them. I've watched them so many times that I've lost track. >.< Having said that, the re-watch date will be the date I re-watched them for this challenge. Choosing favorites may prove to be difficult so I'm going to keep my answers short otherwise I could go on forever with some of them. I'm going to put all the pics and GIF's I add into spoilers so they don't take up so much room when reading my answers. With no further ado, let's begin.
who was your favorite character and why? No real favorite character, so everyone. See overall thoughts as to why.
what was your favorite scene? This one just made me laugh.
overall thoughts and rating? I loved the fact that everyone in town is just acting like the town flooding, Ponyo being a fish, seeing the magic of what's under the sea is just a normal part of everyday life. I would be wondering if something was slipped into my food.
who was your favorite character and why? Seita - No matter how bad things got, he did everything he could to make Setsuko happy.
what was your favorite scene? As sad as the whole movie is, my favorite scene is this one at the beginning that should be at the end, where Seita and Setsuko are reunited. They are together again and no longer have to suffer.
overall thoughts and rating? To be honest, this is a hard one to re-watch. It's based on real events and it hits you such much with the feels. Especially when you realize these aren't fireflies. Grab the tissue box for this one.
who was your favorite character and why? Howl, Sophie, and Calcifer. I mean just look at Howl. Sophie is relatable and Calcifer is just plain funny.
what was your favorite scene? This is one of them. You can just see how much detail went into creating just one scene.
Another is when Howl is throwing a tantrum because his hair changed colors and he claims he sees no point in living if he can't be beautiful. Sophie is like, you're such a drama queen and takes him back upstairs.
Another is a combination of two scenes.
overall thoughts and rating? I see people complaining how it doesn't follow the book. I've never read it and really don't plan on it. I liked the movie the way it was. The animation was fantastic as usual. Sophie starts out with no self-esteem, but by the end she's found herself and her true love. Such a cute love story.
who was your favorite character and why? I guess I'd say Jirou. Even though he can't be a pilot, he still dreams of building planes. Although it's quite sad that something he finally achieves is used for war.
what was your favorite scene? I'd say this one since Jirou is still young and idealistic. Life's hardships haven't hit him yet.
overall thoughts and rating? Yet another sad one based on real life events. It was sad that Naoko died from something that is preventable now, but that's how it was back then. I was happy to see that she wasn't made out to be bitter about Jirou leaving for the test flight and that in the end, she was still encouraging him.
who was your favorite character and why? Jiji paws down.
He's Kikki's faithful companion and looks out for her amid his sarcasm. Plus who wouldn't love a talking cat. Wish I knew what mine had to say. Ok, Kiki too. At only 13, she's venturing out on her own. I was probably just excited about entering high school at that age.
what was your favorite scene? As silly as it is, this is one of my favs.
overall thoughts and rating? In the end Kiki was able to find her confidence through all the people she met. I just wonder what she does after her year of training is up. Does she go back home or can she stay on as the town's witch? Another one where I wish there was a sequel.
Plus it was cute to see the little girl in the end dressed as Kiki.
who was your favorite character and why? Moon - Such a cute chonky boy. But I'd say both Seiji and Shizuku. They both recognized the flaws in themselves and decided to continue to work towards their goals. They were doing it not only for themselves but for each other as well. Such cute, innocent young love.
what was your favorite scene? Where Seji played the violin for Shizuku and then his grandpa and his friends joined in.
overall thoughts and rating? A cute coming of age story about finding oneself the sweetness of a budding young love.
who was your favorite character and why? I liked the creepy little Kodama and the Forest Spirit. They are just both such a interesting concepts.
what was your favorite scene? One is when San has her knife to Ashitaka's throat. It's like "Might as well tell her she's beautiful before she kills me." >.<
overall thoughts and rating? We really need to listen to the "hidden" story of stop killing the planet. Although it seems like we are too late in that aspect.
who was your favorite character and why? I guess I would say Marine because I felt so bad for her having to go through everything.
what was your favorite scene? When Marine and Anna are in the boat and Marine stands on the end of it. She still seems sad but a little free at the same time.
overall thoughts and rating? To be perfectly honest I was thoroughly confused the entire time. Was Anna imagining all of it? But then if she was, how could she have know what Marine looked like? Was it a parallel dimension type situation? Next time I watch it, I need to pay more attention.
who was your favorite character and why? Haku. Simple answer, I like both his human and dragon form. Kaonashi because he's such an underrated character. He just wants some love. >.<
what was your favorite scene? Any with Haku in it. >.< Ok, I'll go with when he and Chiro are flying back from Zeniba's house and then when Chiro tells him his true name.
overall thoughts and rating? This is the first Ghibli movie I ever watched so it holds a special place. I think it's interesting that an abandoned amusement park was a gateway to the spirit world. Now I want to go exploring. I, along with so many others, want to see when Haku finds grown-up Chihiro. Maybe she can go back and visit old friends. Yes, yes wishful thinking.
who was your favorite character and why? Dola and her gang. She is such a tsundere and her gang are a bunch of kindhearted idiots.
what was your favorite scene? Even though the robot isn't able to show expressions, you can tell how happy he is with his little friends.
overall thoughts and I'd like to know what happens to Laptua at the end. Does it just float around in space? What about all the little animals on it? All in all it's still a cute story.
