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Many people may not like A-Channel that much due to the fact that it bears a lot of similarities to other slice-of-life/school life anime in that it has 3-5 girls attending school and the end of the anime is either during Christmas or graduation. I can see why people may give a low score for A-Channel due to those reasons but I believe the anime deserve more credit than it was given. Many slice-of-life anime can get boring to some and I can see why. There's no real story and it's just the story of the lives of people who aren't real and you don't ... know. However, I felt that A-Channel kept this in consideration as I was not bored one bit. It may be due to the fact that I love slice-of-life anime but I don't think that was it. Sure, the anime had no real story but what kept me glued to the screen were the characters. The personality each character had was quite generic but the combination of these 4 different personalities and how it interacts in daily life was what made it unique. You had the girl who looked smart but has her dumb moments, the girl who seems perfect in every way, the air head, and the last girl who I will talk about later because I felt that her personality was the most unique.

The smart-looking girl may seemed typical. However, what really made me smile was that she was actually very pretty without her glasses and she has odd habits like the way she calls her brother aniki instead of onii-chan (aniki is normally used by a younger brother, not sister).

The girl who seemed perfect in every way is one of my favorite personality because this sets them up for so many comedic moments. I really don't want to spoil the fun so you'll have to really watch A-Channel to understand what I mean.

The air head is just pure laughter because they made her into an air head but not a stupid air head. She isn't dumb nor is she uneducated. However, the things she does for her friends really makes you want to laugh but can't help see it as something so sweet. My favorite scene would have to be the doll, again, watch A-Channel to really understand.

The last of our heroine! Her personality was simply unique. I felt that it was a combination of Nagato Yuki and tsundere with a bit of innocence and maturity within the body of a child topped off with a bit of moe. Yes, you may think that she'll be a super cute girl that you'll want as a friend one day but get this, alongside all those features, she also bears the wrath of an angry mother protecting her child. You'll understand when you watch the anime. You can't help but laugh at the things she does in some scenes, question what the heck or why the heck in another, or just have one of those "Awwww" moments. She has got to be one of my favorite characters in A-Channel.

There are two others but they're just comedic relief, but you see quite a lot of them!

About the artwork, normally, i dislike artwork where the arms, body, and legs of the characters are ridiculously thin but in A-Channel, I felt that the proportions of he body parts to their thin structure was just right and it did not bother me at all.

There is not much to talk about the sounds, it was like any other anime. The music really sets the mood but what music doesn't do that in anime?

There is also not much to say about the story line either because slice-of-life anime normally doesn't have one set story line, if any at all.. So why did I give it an 8? Because since it has no story it doesn't mean it deserves a bad score, but that also mean it can't really receive a 10 either. The smaller stories within each episode was great though, some I felt like it was a tad bit slow but some I felt was right on the dot and made me laugh.

Overall, I would recommend this anime to anybody that loves Lucky Star or K-On. Word of warning though, if you did not enjoy lucky star whatsoever then I would not recommend A-Channel. These types of anime are unique in their own way and it really takes a person that loves these types of anime to really appreciate them.

Let me just say straight off the bat that Candy Boy is about yuri love between two fraternal twins. At first, many people may be turned down by just seeing that it's incest or yuri but I have to admit that this is a very innocent and sweet anime. It's quite short too so it shouldn't take up much of your time, in fact, I finished it in 1 sitting just now from 1am to 4am since majority of the episodes are only 10-20 minutes long and there's only 8+2 episodes.

There really isn't any negatives to this anime. There were parts that were either positive ... or remained neutral. Nothing really got me to say I disliked it. The story was very sweet in that it shows two sisters in love with each other. It's absolutely innocent and there's nothing dirty or perverted in this anime compared to other anime that contains incest. Not only is the love between these two twins sweet but the love they have for the little sister back home really warms up your soul. The characters were developed quite well as many of the questions I had were answered and it did not leave the viewer feeling empty. The anime also included a comedic relief in the form of a freshman girl and I find the comedy to be just right. It was neither too funny to ruin the touching mood nor was it too lame to really kill anything. It was also interesting to me to find out that the voice of the freshman girl was the voice of kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Unfortunately, one thing I did dislike was that the episodes and the anime overall was much too short. I'm a slide-of-life, school life anime type of guy and I really wanted to know more about the future of these girls. I would have at least wanted to watch the anime till their graduation but at least the way the creators ended the anime left a warm, fuzzy feeling in me after watching it. Overall, I give it an 8 out of 10 because it was very innocent and sweet. Those are probably the two words I would use to describe this anime...innocent and sweet. Since the anime is short, I would not mind rewatching it as it did make me smile and for some reason, kind of provided a nostalgic feeling probably due to the countless moments one of the sisters reminisced about their past.

Hatsukoi Limited was good but it was not great. I would say it's worth mentioning but in all honesty, there are other anime that I would recommend over Hatsukoi Limited. When I saw the first episode, I immediately compared this anime to Amagami SS and I can see that many other people have done the same. I will have to agree with everybody and say that Amagami SS is better than Hatsukoi Limited. That doesn't mean that Hatsukoi Limited was not a good anime. I just felt that there was room for improvement. Let's start with the negatives and we'll work our way to the ... positives because despite having some bad points, this anime is worth it for me to leave you, the reader, with a positive impression of it in the end.

Negatives:
I felt the storyline was very typical. Much more typical than other romance anime. What I found unique was that each character had her own story and in the end, it all tied together. Everybody's story tied together; however, I felt that the point of the anime started to stray off it's path and onto a different path. When the anime starts off, i felt that I was going to enjoy it because I get to learn about each character, go through their lives, their struggles, the love. However, towards the end of the anime, or about 2/3rds through, I felt that the anime started to focus more on one couple. Not only did it start to focus on this couple more but it was the most typical of the couple. You had the school's prettiest girl who starts off as shallow with a boy that constantly tease her. Both seem to hate each other but the tables are turned towards the end. I'm not going to even consider this a spoiler because it's extremely obvious and very predicting. I was quite disappointed that the anime started to focus on this couple towards the end rather than to stick to a broad focus on all the characters. Speaking of the characters, this is one of the anime that I've watched that had quite a handful of characters. This isn't a bad thing and I actually liked it; however, I was left disappointed with the character development. I felt that the anime rushed through some of the characters and spent more time with others. The anime made it clear that these people were the main characters, but then next episode it seems to just drop that character and move onto another. I wanted to know more about girl A or I wanted to know about the past of girl b. One girl that showed up quite a few times didn't even get a storyline nor a sweetheart. In fact, they introduced her as the older sister as one of the other main girls but they didn't even bother mentioning her name. They probably did mention it, but I don't remember it because they hardly mentioned her yet she showed up quite a few times and even interacted with all the characters. The creators put her on the cover with all the main girls, they put her in the opening, the closing, yet me as the viewer don't even get to know anything about her? What's up with that? One of the boy characters seemed to also have an interesting past yet they explained nothing of his past. All you know is that he is feared, he gets in a lot of fights, and he wins a lot of fights. However, I want to know why he gets in these fights, why is he like this, why do people want to beat him up, why is he undefeated? None of those questions were answered, he simply showed up as someone who is scary, can fight, and loves one of the girls. In one of the scenes towards the second half of the whole anime, one of the girls go "you're fast right?!" and she makes him run. I thought "why is he fast and how did you know he was fast?" Again, the question was left unanswered. One last negative was that one of the girl was shown as to having a boyfriend already; however, she did not start with the boy. The anime eventually explained how they met up but I felt that their story was the most rush as all this happens in approximately 1 episode. I want to know more, I want to know more of this girl's past and this boy's past. The character development was probably one of the worst aspect to this anime. I felt so empty from some of the characters.

Positives:
Despite some of the negatives, I felt that it did not really hinder the overall enjoyment of the anime. The stories were cute and very sweet despite being quite typical. One of the first story you are introduced to is a straight up copy of Beauty and the Beast. The title of the episode is even called Beauty and the Beast. However, despite being a story we all heard before, the way the creators tackled it was cute and very funny. I enjoyed the large amount of characters and I'm glad they all had their own story and their own love interest. Some of the stories were much more unique than others and that's okay since the anime is composed of a bunch of short stories. One of my favorite aspect to the anime is that in the end, everyone's story ties together. Despite having some predictable scenes, it was still very cute and got me smiling when the scene came. EXAMPLE: Sure, you can watch an anime and say "they're going to kiss" but when the scene actually happens I can't help but still smiling due to how the creators really tackled it in Hatsukoi Limited. Each character is drawn very well and I just absolutely love the art style. It resembles the art style of Amagami SS which I think gives a very mature and real-life atmosphere to the anime. The art style didn't really exaggerate all the love in the air of the anime which really made everything so much sweeter.

Overall, I give this anime an 8 out of 10. It would have gotten a 9 if the characters were further developed and the stories kept going but I felt that some stories were just too short and some were just too rushed. I would still recommend this anime to all your romance anime lovers but if you haven't seen Amagami SS then watch Hatsukoi Limited first, then watch Amagami SS. I would definitely rewatch Hatsukoi Limited but I probably wouldn't watch it more than twice.

Toradora! ...where do I start? I just finished this anime and I'm still smiling. The story is just absolutely wonderful. The anime was so wonderful that I had to write a review for it right away while everything was fresh in my head. If you love anime that has great, unique characters, love-polygons, and comedy that will make even the saddest bunch laugh then you'll definitely love Toradora! At first, the title really didn't interest me. That's the first thing we all see from an anime and that is its TITLE! The next thing we see is the cover art. I saw the title and ... I thought "toradora!" ? doesn't really sound interesting. I read the genres and saw the cover art and I told myself that it didn't look half-bad. Boy... I was wrong about the anime, I started watching it and didn't stop till the next day. I skipped my dinner and sleep for this anime and i'll break it down for you guys right now.

~STORY
Just let me start off by saying the story is unique and extremely cute. I would even say it rivals that of Clannad but in the end, Clannad still squeezed through by a bit but I'll leave that for another review. Toradora! will seem like the typical love story at first where a boy loves a girl and another girl loves the boy's best friend, so the two team up to help each other out. Yeah... it's pretty typical, but the creators did such a good job at leading the viewers to think this for a good 15 episodes until you suddenly start to see the change in the story... a change that was pretty unsuspecting to the viewer. The climax of the anime was not anti-climactic whatsoever, the creators did a wonderful job at keeping the viewers on the edge of the seat wanting more. The ending made my heart ache at first but then a sudden twist that relays a message from the beginning of the anime got my heart to skip a beat and just made me fall in love with the anime. The ending to Toradora! is one of the cutest endings ever; it would have been the cutest ending if had not been for Clannad to take first place there. Toradora! is the second anime to have ever made me laugh and cry and jump out of my seat in excitement. I gave the story a score of 9 because even though it was one of the sweetest stories I have ever heard, I still felt that Clannad is still ahead.
~TRUE SCORE: 9.5/10

~ART
The artwork was eye catching. The artwork definitely did it's job. When the scene called for a serene atmosphere, you got it. When it called for an eerie atmosphere, you got it. When it called for a cute and sweet scene, you definitely got it. The artwork covered all range of the spectrum even during moments where it called for extreme dramatization. The title of Toradora! didn't really catch me at first, it was the artwork that reeled me in and convinced me to watch it. I gave the art an 8 because it was definitely great, but there were some scenes when I thought that they could have done better. (i.e. the bird was a bit to... comedic)
~TRUE SCORE: 8.5/10

~SOUND
The sounds of the anime were your typical anime sounds, some sounds I've even heard from other anime. There's really not much to say about it. I'll talk about the seiyuus in the characters.
~TRUE SCORE: 7/10

~CHARACTER
The characters were amazing. The development of each character definitely excelled among other anime. You learned about each of the main characters and majority of the supporting characters. The anime included a comedic relief in multiple forms but did not overdo the comedian. The two main characters would be Ryuuji and Taiga. The way they really made these characters are just... I really have no words to describe how much I loved those two. Despite Clannad receiving a higher score, the characters of Toradora! and Clannad are perfectly even here. They didn't leave out any characters nor did they cut short on any characters. They definitely gave it some thoughts on their characters. They gave Taiga a personality you would call a tsundere but the way they tackled it felt like they didn't rush it nor push the personality on her. The way she changed was subtle and excellently executed. The seiyuus they chose for the characters really did match how I would imagine the characters to sound like. Especially that of Aisaka Taiga. The reason why I loved the seiyuus they chose is because not only does the music, the art style, and location sets the mood of the anime but it's really the voice actors and actresses that seals the mood and they couldn't have chosen anybody better for each character.
~TRUE SCORE: 10/10

~ENJOYMENT
I was kept on the edge of my seat at all times. Even though I skipped my sleep and dinner, I neither felt tired nor hungry. I did not even yawn! The story was just too captivating and the comedy came at the right moments to really keep you glued to the screen.
~TRUE SCORE: 10/10

~OVERALL
Overall, I would definitely recommend this to anybody that loves a good love story. If you've watched Clannad and loved that then I would definitely recommend Toradora! Toradora! is just one of those "must see" anime, in my opinion. It includes drama, romance, comedy, and even a bit of action in a few episodes. I gave it a 9 because yes, I enjoyed it and this anime made it to the top of my list but my number 1 spot still belongs to Clannad, just by a little.
~TRUE SCORE: 9.5/10