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Fate/Zero (Sequel to Fate/Stay/Night series, but story is about the war happened before Fate/Stay/Night)

I cannot stop clapping. That was how good the show was. Thank you Ufotable.

Ok, Fate/Zero. Unlike Fate/Stay Night first series, which cameo out from Studio Deen, Fate/Zero was designed under my favourite anime production centre; Ufotable, who gave us Kyoukai no Kara.

What can I say about the graphic. What can I say about the Arts? It is brilliant as usual. Crazy CG works (Money Works), amazing character design (Money Design)... Everything was too perfect.

So why didn't I gave it 10 out of 10 you ask? Well, it definitely deserves a spot on ... 10 out of 10 anime for my list, that is true...... But I couldn't stop but to think 'With such budget, designers, story, characters, sound works Ufotable had, couldn't have they gave us something more?'
May be I am being greedy. However, That was my honest opinion of Fate Zero.

Recommended for anyone really. You won't be able to close your jaws due to its amazing graphic.

That's it for Fate/Zero!

Sayonara!

Psycho-Pass season 2

So, season two of one of my favourite anime of the year; Psycho-Pass.

Let's just get into the main point. I honestly thought they could've done it more better. I mean, it was good. But I felt something was missing.

May be due to its amazing first season, its second season was not able to take up its hype to viewer's demand as it is usually the case for most of the anime. Story, Characters, Art... Nothing much has changed, but comparing it with first season's, perhaps the word 'Good' is suited to describe the second season and 'great' for its first season.

If there was ... something that has definitely has gotten better, that will be the sound-work. Ling Toshite Shigure (if you don't remember who they are, they sang 'Unravel' for Tokyo Ghoul) and Egoists joined to sing OP and ED for second season, and their songs perfectly emerged to the anime and made it into a wonderful wonderful BGMed anime.

(Enigmatic Feeling, Who what Who what By Ling Toshite Shigure)
(Fallen, All Alone with You, Namonashi Kaibutsu By Egoist)

All I got left is the movie, but I am actually quite worried about if they will be able to tell this fantastic story like they did in the first season.

Same as the season before, recommended for Mystery, SF, Story Lovers.

That's it for Season Two I guess...


Sayonara!

Psycho-Pass

Perhaps one of the greatest anime series I have come across so far. (After all, there aren't many animes that I usually give out 10 out of 10 for story.)

Yes perhaps many of you thought this anime was bit violent. Yes of course some of you may have thought that they were dragging the story and left the story off unclearly for second season and the movie. I do agree to all that part.

However, I cannot stop but to think the story of Psycho-Pass; The dystopian society where human are ruled under some sort of Computer Oracle System and people think they are ruling the ... system when the truth is they are being ruled by them, was far too great for me to give lower mark than 10.

As for voice-acting, my favourite Hanazawa Kana took on the main role (which always work out the best), so I basically had no complain about that. Another great part of this anime lied on use of BGMs as it was so perfectly suited for the anime.

I would recommend this anime to those of you who enjoy mysteries, SF, and those of you who watch anime for story. Not really recommended for people who dislike gore.

Well, that's it for Psycho-Pass really.

Sayonara!

One of very few anime work that I was actually happy enough to give out the full mark.

Am I being too positive on this Movie? Well then, let me explain.

Summer Wars was done by Hosoda Mamoru who gave us The girl who leapt through the time, Digimon - Our WarGame, and Wolf Children. Since I am a die-hard Digimon fan, I knew straight away that the movie was done my Mamoru due to its over the top brilliant art work.

If I had to pick an anime movie that I have to watch with my family, without a doubt I'll pick Summer Wars faster then any ... other anime movie, since it is that beautiful

Story of loving family and young couple's love story and a catastrophe, which was about to hit the world was far too brilliant. BGM tracks for this movie was also perfect for the movie.

But what I truly loved about this movie the most was the characters.

There was no 'background character' in this anime. Everyone played their role as an important, likeable characters to carry on the story together. I've never seen any anime which was able to do this with the characters except Monogatari Series in my life.

As for enjoyment? Do I need further explanation?

Recommended to you all. If you have watched it, watch it again and again.
If you haven't watched it, go to Youtube or something and watch it now.

I guess that's the end of Summer Wars review.

Until next time!

Sayonara~

Mekaku City Actors (Blindfolded City Actors)

Was I disappointed you ask? Well, to be frank with you, I was.

I am a huge fan of JIN. He is master of controlling Vocaloids and creating musics and Lyrics into the song. Furthermore, himself is the one who wrote the story of 'Mekaku City Actors'.

But I honestly believe Anime messed it up to maximum.

May be I am being too prejudiced, for original work was brilliant unlike the anime. (I believe you'll understand how I feel if you have followed Kagerou Daze Series.)

Story itself was placed on another Alternative world from original world, and since it was only 12 episodes, ... I had the feeling that they perhaps rushed it too much. Furthermore, the art style for Mekaku City Actor was just above average even though it was done by so called famous 'Shaft' who gave us Monogatari and Nisekoi.
(According to rumour, Shaft tried to save as much money as possible, for they wanted to save up for Nisekoi season two. But somehow Mekaku City Actors made more money then Nisekoi season two. LOL)

Music was of course Beautiful, as it is all based on Original songs that I love so much.

As for enjoyment? Did I really enjoy it? I am not sure.

Recommended for those of you who like Vocaloids, and Mysteries.

Well then, Until my next review......

Sayonara~

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-Kun)

Without a doubt, this was one of the best 'Notice-me-senpai' anime I've seen so far.

Before the anime for this came out, I was able to have a preview of the show by Voice-Drama series which was posted on the Youtube and have a listen to it. I found the voice-drama hilarious, so I was actually expecting the show to be good.

But it was good. Actually really good.

Firstly, the voice actor for Main Girl character Sakura Chiyo was one of my favourite voice-actor; Ari Ozawa (Who if you don't remember, she played for Kurumi in Gakkou Gurashi and Papi in Monmusu) ... and Nakahara Mai. (Who if you don't remember, she played for Nagisa in Clannad and Rena from Higurashi...... Wait, how does that work!?)

Including her, number of great seasoned voice-actors were in the show to lighten up each character's personality and cuteness to maximum.

The story itself was well done and art style was quite fantastic as well for it was based on a Shoujo Manga.

I really love the story of 'Notice-Me-Senpai' and Oblivious man's story. (Except Kodaka's case. He can just go to hell.) As for that fact, Nozaki-Kun's story was 'Amazing'.

Really recommended to anyone even if you dislike Shoujo Anime.

Then, Until my next review......

Sayonara~

Jitsu wa Watashi wa (Actually I am...)

To be honest with you all, I never expected to see such decent anime from the summer-season (Heat Season for Ecchi anime) of 2015 like this one.

Okay. Let's be honest with ourselves. Arts for Jitsu wa Watashi wa was poor. There were number of my mates who thought the anime was going to be crap just by seeing the arts and genre under it, which was 'Romance' and 'Ecchi' and 'Comedy' and 'Vampires'.

Oooh, is it going to be 'Twilight' all over again...... That was what I was thinking.
How wrong I was.

Story itself was quite well designed and all characters ... were very loveable, But most of all, the show itself was very, very entertaining. I felt like watching a light-hearted shoujo anime show, and watching a great show about friendship and love story of Shounen Anime at the same time.

If art was good, perhaps I would even go far to give the score of 8, but I just couldn't say that art for this anime was near excellent.

For those of you who does not like romance anime, I recommend you this one to get into the world of 'Love-Come'. (Of course, those of you who love Love-Come can still watch it you know.)

Well then, until my next review......

Sayonara~

You know when you have practically nothing to do and want to watch an anime, probably comedy to have some laugh, and don't know that to watch? Then I will definitely recommend this anime: Acchi Kocchi (Here and there) to have a watch.

Welllll, to be honest, I thought this show is going to be pretty bad (Below 5) due to its Moe-Drawing style and it somewhat looks like Lucky-Star. However, it actually had something more that I did not expect to get from this show; which was 'Tsundere + Oblivious's romance story.

My favourite bits from this anime was the character structure. With only 12 ... episodes, the writer was able to input the personas of each character to us viewer and feel somewhat close to the characters. Furthermore, the Tsukkomi (punchline) in this anime was so funny I was laughing my butt off.

If you want to watch a light hearted comedy show (Even if you hate romance, I will recommend this to you), have a go!

Sayonara~