Ore Twintails Ni Narimasu: Attack of the Fetishistic Dimensional Aliens!

Twintails is a special breed of show, you go into it saying "Yeah this is gonna be shit"; but come out saying "Shit that turned out to be fun enough that I want more". Twintails has a stupid plot but it is driven by the crazy characters.

Earth has been invaded by the Ultimegil a race of fetishistic creatures who all seek attributes to feed their desires but serve greater masters, the greatest of which enjoys Twintails (really long pigtails Miku Hatsune style). A hero rises up to face them with his equal, if not greater, obsession with this hair style:

Sōji Mitsuka

This guy is so obssessed that im pretty sure he is in a padded room imagining all of this. He is a cardboard cutout like every character in this show and honestly is the least funny character in the show as his lines can be summed up with "Twintails are awesome, fuck you aliens, my passion is greater, i have the biggest dick even when I am a girl because hair is amazing"

He spends his fighting time (and a few episodes) as a girl simply called Red (real original guys)

This girl is young looking and draws people who enjoy lolis (this show is full of them). She ends up garnering the attention of just about every person on earth and leaves her allies behind in popularity, proving that the world is a bunch of pedos and that flat is justice.

 Speaking of; remember the fetish freaks from earlier? Well they attempted to answer the question of flat or plot and both died horrible deaths, but at least the flat lover was a tentacle monster.





Next in our main cast is Aika Tsube, a wonderful tall loli who has many cute moments in the show that mainly have to do with insecurities about her breast size and the many beatings of Twoearle.

This girl becomes Blue when she transforms, her outfit manages to be the most revealing of the trio and she manages to be the strongest physically. She is the ideal tomboy character and appeals to those who want a girl that can kick the ass of all the bullies at school because you don't feel like it (unless you are stronk like me and do 500 pushups a day at a minimum).

Finally we have a loli that actually is contending for a spot in my favorite characters because she peaks a meter deep in my heart. Erina Shindō, the class president with a submissive side and makes Kanbaru look tame.

She looks like serious jail bait and ends up needing to be saved for half the series. However, when she is given a chance, she proves to be a force to be reckoned with and is the only Tail to have a bust. She is Tail Yellow and will strip off her armor in a heartbeat only to become stronger.

Her biggest dream is to be Soji's pet, this is something that propelled this character so high in my esteem for her. This is because even if one can look objectively at something, they will inevitably enjoy something that brings them happiness and this is one of them. She is hilarious to watch and makes the show for me.



The Ultimegil are too numerous to count, but I guarantee that one of them has your fetish, go on, look on the wiki and find one.

The story is like a magical girl show (which I classify this as magical girl in every aspect, even down to the loli fan service) and thus is not too great.  The Ultimegil are taken down in troves and the girls occasionally have to get over some self issue in order to take one down. The show just kind of ends with the big boss character being called back on a mission from her boss.

The appeal of the show is the fetishes you have and the comedy, because the characters are one dimensional and only have fetishistic value to drive them.

Ratings:
Story: 5 Really not a story at all
Animation: 7 Good animation all around, no real good moments except the ending theme which has great hair movement at points
Characters: 8 Again one dimensional but will appeal to each on a fetishistic and humorous level
Sound: 8 This show actually has a great sound track, with the opening and ending really standing out
Enjoyment: 8 I enjoyed this show because of the previously stated reasons, with Erina being the shining star for me
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Overall:  7.2 Feed those fetishes my friends, and stay strong.

Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail Review: NSA get out of foreign affairs! You won't be slaughtered!

So today I watched Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail, it was good and left me wondering about myself and my own rage. Roberta's Blood Trail is an OVA which takes place directly after the end of Second Barrage.

It tells the tail of the aftermath of a NSA assassination which took out Roberta's master. Now if you have seen the original series you will know that Roberta would have killed everyone in Roanaper if it meant saving her master and his child. With the master dead, she goes after the NSA which have taken up residence in Roanapur for a little while. Garcia and another maid end up coming to warn them, what ensues is Rock becoming Light Yagami/Lelouch. He ends up figuring everything out by the 2nd episode and the rest is just him conducting his orchestra from the shadows.

Roberta is hyped up on meds and goes on a complete rampage. Annihilating all that stand in her way, not having qualms about how to kill them. She even seduces the guy that wants her to come to Cuba and she ends up using that to kill him. It is a brutal blood bath with some surprising tactics that are used in order to cause as little damage as possible. Overall it turned out to be a game of trying to figure out what will happen next and seeing fairly innocent people witness the cold hearted brutality of most of the people of Roanapur.

Really this OVA is more of the blood soaked goodness of the original series, fan service for the Gib freaks that we are. So watch this when you just feel like watching psychopaths go on rampages and try to kill each-other.

Ratings:
Story: (new category) 6 It is mainly meant to be fan service for previous fans and thus doesn't have the best story around
Animation: 8 It looked great, but what do you expect from madhouse, hardcore gun action
Characters: 7 No real qualms, they aren't deep characters, they are characters who shoot people; end of story
Sound: 7 It works all throughout, the opening track is not so good in this one as the original Mell opening was great and memorable and this just remixes it
Enjoyment: 7 Honestly I didn't enjoy this as much as the original show, it was good, but felt like some of the humor was lost in this OVA
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Overall: 7 If you enjoy Black Lagoon watch this, if not skip it cuz this is just a minor extension of the show




This post was origionally started May 5, 2015 but remained unposted due to events in my life.

Black Bullet Review: Badass Lolis the Anime

Well I just finished Black Bullet, surprisingly it turned out better than I thought it would. The show had felt mediocre and I didn't think I would think too highly of it, though the last few episodes end up shining against the rest.

For most of the show things felt oddly pointless, characters seemed like they had their own personalities but they still felt a little flat. That is how the entire show felt, flat. Deaths felt like they had no meaning and were just sprinkles on your freezer burned ice cream. It was like the show saw how successful Attack on Titan was and decided that it was popular due to the deaths. So it introduced a character only to have them die within a few episodes. This formula was persistent through the entire show and it got bland. I did have to chuckle at the end when Rentaro is sobbing on Enju talking about starting to not be fazed by death as the entire show I wasn't too fazed. I just sat there going "Why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the cool guy, why does it have to be the loli." Though I will say that a few deaths were executed well, but for the most part characters were introduced to be more cannon fodder for your emotions because "oh my god they killed a kid".

There are plenty of shows which have children dying, I mean Deadman Wonderland starts with a class being slaughtered (wow that totally didn't happen in Black Bullet off camera). Black Bullet feels like it see's the popularity of other shows and tries to mash it into their show. But this doesn't work if you can't execute it well. I will say that one thing they executed well was the characters that lost their sanity, they did a good job at portraying people that have seen the gates of Madness and have no care in the world.

There were also a few scenes which I genuinely got goosebumps at, mainly some of the scenes where amazing things or amazing shots happened. Like the scene towards the end about the festival that helps them in the battle. I also really enjoyed the scenes where kagetane appeared. He is the top hat guy with the bat shit crazy loli girl that is a mantis type.

He is just a fun guy to watch that in a lot of ways I can relate to. He views the world as scummy and wants to rewrite parts of it. He wants to see a new world order and does it looking like a dapper gentleman. I don't want to rewrite things, but I am not content with society as it is and would like to change parts of it. Though I have come to accept that you cannot change things by yourself and will condone society temporarily because I am far to lazy to campaign for change. I realize I just slightly contradicted myself but it is simply how my brain works. I can make a change but I don't feel like it so I will condone something I see issues in simply because I am lazy. Though Kagetane isn't lazy, he acts and he is very good at playing mind games. Another feature I saw is his love to flaunt his power, that is something I enjoy doing when the situation permits it. For the most part I don't flaunt such things around because I have no desire for people to see how much I can do; that simply means more publicity and more hassle which I want to avoid for now.

Honestly the show doesn't have a ton to root for other than its somewhat heart of darkness esque look at things. Heart of Darkness is about thinking you are doing something good when really you are the evil. This was explored from a military point of view in Spec Ops the Line, really recommend the game. But certain characters feel like they come to this realization and other characters feel like they are teetering and don't know what is right.

I ussually introduce a bunch of characters but really with a show full of people dying why would I, they would just die suddenly because I said "Hey I like this character". I will say that other than Kagetane I have two characters I liked a fair amount.

Tina Sprout

A cute loli character that during her "arc" she has some very funny scenes and she is someone that has seen death all around her and has come to reconcile with it. She is fine with it all so long as she could carry out her goals, but that changes and she learns to love. She is probably the most mature character on the show and she is like 10. Also she is really cute, has a nice dress, has cool arm things, leggings, a sniper, really good eyesight. I just really like her character, and how cute she is. I love my lolis and this is a girl that made it into my top 10.

Sumire Muroto

She is a scientist that has a funny sense of humor. She accuses Rentaro of being a lolicon and nearly convinces Tina that he is amassing a loli harem. It is quite funny to see, she seems to be the only character aware of the show she is in and nearly breaks the fourth wall all the time. Her voice is also nice, it is the voice of someone that has seen it all and is only mildly intrigued by things that others will be exceedingly energetic about yelling, screaming, etc. In most scenes she reminds me of The earl of pudding (Lloyd Asplund) from Code Geass. Though he was a little more energetic especially when his work was threatened. They both remain calm in the face of destruction and death; true Sociopaths. 

Overall the show was above average when you factor in some good characters and some good scenes and really should be a show you save for a rainy day as there isn't much the show accomplishes that isn't done much better in other places. Well except if you want harems of loli's, then you should go watch Fate/Kalied (ha you thought I would say this show excels in some regard, fucking pleb tier bullshit). 

Animation: 6 (the show as a whole looked ok, but the Gastrea had really bad CGI for a lot of scenes)

Characters: 7 (again the show had some good character but most had less character than the cardboard cutouts of race car drivers at gas stations)

Sound: 8 (surprisingly the show did good with the opening, ending and general background songs. Though many songs felt cliche because songs like it are always used to make scenes more badass)

Enjoyment: 7 (i felt meh about the show for the most part, with cetain characters bringing a smile to may face, but I wasn't loving any characters; except for you Tina, you get a pass)

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Overall: 7 (watch this for your rainy days or loli pleasure if you exhausted other better shows, this will get you to to the next one piece episode most likely)

Blood Lad Review: Otaku Vampire the ani- oh crap we ran out of time

So I decided to watch the show Blood Lad after watching funny scenes from anime and seeing this in it. I had previously seen it in a countdown of vampire anime or comedy anime and had meant to watch it. So because I felt a little burnt out on anime I took a hiatus after watching 1 1/2 episodes of Kiss X Sis... don't judge me, a girl I knew in middle school loved the show. 

After returning I decided to watch a comedy show to get the anime juices flowing, it was that or one piece which i started during an all nighter (25 episodes in one night while doing work). Blood Lad won and I began watching, over the past three days I have been watching the show more and more and kept loving all the characters. The show somehow manages to make every character have a likable personality on top of being quite funny. I loved the characters and found myself wanting so much more, yet suddenly the show just ends and I am left sitting there questioning why the show hasn't received more. From what I have seen there is a manga series, yet the anime just stops really abruptly and goes 

I'm sitting there going seriously, just after revealing all this shit and telling us all this info as well as setting up whole new plot lines it just ends and leave us out to dry. The series was very funny and was wonderful to watch yet leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when it ends. I feel the same way finishing this as I did when I finished Deadman Wonderland in one night. Both end just as things are set up and don't get a sequel. Can we please just try to give series an ending or license more time. Blood lad only got 10 episodes while Deadman Wonderland got 13 episodes, both series have nearly the same amount of chapters and I saw much more accomplished in each episode of Blood Lad than I did Deadman Wonderland which at points just dragged on with a particular plot point dragging for multiple episodes before being resolved when it could have been solved in a shorter length of time. Though this also comes from a difference in genre, Blood Lad is more of a comedy shonen while Deadman is a horror type show. Not so much horror as Higurashi but still with the horror element, So horror will have more suspense while comedy shonens can really do what they want when they want.

The sound in the show is really only noticeable in the opening and ending, some scenes use it but not many. The opening is quite catchy though, my favorite part being when it picks up pace and Fuyumi's tits bounce to the rhythm of the song as the camera pans up to a fight between Staz and Wolf. I just noticed that I haven't really talked about the characters which I have praised so much. This is in part due to the massive cast of characters with most of them coming back at some point and being great on their own. 

The main characters are:

Staz

An otaku vampire that is obsessed with human culture and is an extremely powerful slacker. He essentially could represent anyone who is like me and can do pretty much anything but likes to loaf around and go with the flow.

Fuyumi

Fuyumi is the klutz of the group, she dies in the first episode and is a ghost, she is cute and innocent. She is also well endowed which every girl in this show seems to be save for the three eyed bar keeper and Staz's little sister who is like 9 so that is to be expected.

Bell

Bell is a fun character that manipulates space and uses frames to do so, she is a treasure hunter (though we never see her go for treasure), a traveler/guide and a friend to Staz after a while. She is a fun character that can get what she wants in most situations. She is also well endowed. 

Something to add to this I noticed her, then the rest of the cast did one thing most anime/manga don't do. They changed clothes often. I have watched a lot of anime and most times they wear the same clothing through the whole series, rain or shine, ripped to shreds, covered in blood, it doesn't matter. But in this show all the characters changed clothes at times when you would expect someone to change. For instance after their boxing match Staz and wolf are given clothes by Wolfs underlings. In another moment Staz's shirt is covered in holes from his brother scenes earlier but only in places which he had been shot. Then after the fight he has more holes because the teeth of his enemy pierced him through. He changes his shirt off screen but it makes sense because he is fairly close to his house. All these changes were natural and occurred when they should, though Bell could just change her clothes at will due to portals. 

Blood Lad was a wonderful show that though lacking in some regards payed attention to itself and if you look close enough there was fore shadowing to many of the events that happen later on. It was a smart series that though at points felt like it crossed the line with ridiculousness kept conscious of this. Overall I loved it.

Animation: 7 (moderately good animation, at times the shots felt reminiscent of monogatari but lacked the quality)

Characters: 9 (quite enjoyable characters that I would like to see more of)

Sound: 6 (the opening and ending are good but the OST is almost nonexistent)

Enjoyment: 8 ( I really enjoyed the show and smiled at many scenes)

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Overall: 7.5

Post Spring Break Aftermath and Warframe

Well spring break was last week and surprisingly I did not watch a second of anime or read a single word of a manga though when I got back to school I ended up finishing Dive in the Vampire bund which is so short it doesn't warrant a review so it receives an 8/10, seeing as its a manga I can't judge it on normal standards so it is just judged on visuals, story, and personal enjoyment. Moving on from Dance in the Vampire Bund which will be done in another review once I finish the series (one more omnibus to go, already skipped ahead to the new series). I also started up Black Bullet again and will go through that in the next few days.

Now how did I spend my spring break I hear the uninterested crickets in the crowd chirp, well I spent it as any normal nerd would and spent the whole time playing games while talking with friends, save for a day when I toured a mall while bored and a day I went hiking because of the partial hippy I am. The games I played were WoW, OSU!, Minecraft Tekkit, and lastly Warframe. There were other games but these were the main ones. I spent the first half of break playing WoW, leveling a death knight and later a pandaren monk. Interspersed between leveling was me tending to my home in tekkit, making an automatic coal generator with a condenser, setting up hundreds of power flowers, setting up a shop, losing said shop 3 times, being raided, making a new base, etc. Also tossed in there was OSU! which is a rhythm based game for those who don't know, it is like guitar hero but with circles and lines.... wait that guitar hero, well instead of them coming down at you they appear all over the screen and go to the rhythm of the song. So that was my week up until Wednesday.

Wednesday was the day that I decided to play Warframe, I had the game downloaded for probably 6 months and had never touched it. Boy was I missing out, the game is loads of fun, it is like if destiny was actually good, I know amazing concept. The game came out in 2013 and is amazing, you are a tenno and you have a warframe which is essentially a body of armor, this armor has different abilities and thus you as a tenno can play whatever class you choose. If you want to be stealthy make the loki warframe, if you want to be tanky make the rhino warframe, etc. These warframes are made in the foundry with blueprints you find while playing the game, these aren't just given to you though, you have to work for them, which means playing the game a bunch. You have to find a total of 4 unique blueprints for each warframe and then you have to find all the ingredients, so it takes a bit. The game goes on a 3 weapon loadout system with you taking a primary, a secondary, and a melee. Now I spent 98% of my time meleeing because it is badass, I get to run, jump, parkour, and slice/mash my way through people while blocking like a Jedi master. You feel amazing, and the game has so much more, there are stealth missions, slaughter type missions, kidnapping missions, and assassination missions on top of other objective mission like mobile defense, defense, and survival (note the previous titles are not the real titles but a simplified layman's term for them). The game is exceedingly fun, hell it even has space combat with the archwings as well as pets and little sentinel companions that do more than talk to you (they are meant for fighting and don't talk like dinkle bot from destiny). The game is so much fun, the last mechanic I will mention is the Clan mechanic which is robust and adds more layers to this amazing cheesecake, the clan mechanic is like having an entire living population. You have a clan dojo which people can access if they make the key, it is a place where you construct a safe house if you may and make it as nice as you want with as many commodities as you want. You can have tons of research facilities which allow you to make a bunch of items only clans can make, one of which is a solar rail which allows people to access dark sectors around planets, the only negative being that you must pay a tax to use this rail which is a portion of all the loot you get in your stay at that dark sector. You can deploy spectres which are AI to defend your rail, as well as contract other people to defend it from rival clans who can start a war by deploying their rail in the sector. There is so much to the player economy and behaviors it leaves me awestruck. I one time needed polymer bundles on a brand new character and I was playing a mission on mercury to get it, when I told a dude why I was there he took me to neptune and did 20 waves of defense so I could get all the polymer bundles a man could ask for. The players are very nice and helped me when I had an issue. Now all that I have just covered is only scratching the surface of this game so I suggest you play it for yourself to see if you like it, it is free on steam and their website.

Ghost in The Shell Review: RoboCop Tit Upgrade Enabled

My Adventure with:

Ghost in the Shell

So I got sent to ISS, which if you little kiddies or oldies out there don't know that is in school suspension. Why was I sent there you ask? well I will tell you my fine chap. I was perusing the interwebs as I often do and found a funny picture which I decided to show my hardcore otaku friend. He promptly chuckled and went to work searching for something to gross me out. What was this you ask? Well that was tons of cartoon network character hentai which got me flagged. Side note I am a denizen of the internet and wasn't grossed out in the slightest, the things I have seen would make a Vietnam vet want back on the battlefield so they can run into some chemical orange and maybe blind themselves. I digress though, the point is this caused my school laptop to be flagged and then the attendance/diciplinary officer called me down and confiscated it so he could search it. Hope he enjoys 100gb of anime. Now the only thing I had on there that I was iffy on was the Ghost in the Shell movie, so I decided to watch it while in ISS to pass the time.

In ISS you are essentially in a permit test cubby where you can't see except if you turn around, so i thought it was perfect for watching considering the privacy. I begin watching and the titillage begins, I kid though the movie was very serious and touched down on many philosophical topics. There just happened to be a lot of tit scenes tossed in there, with the majors thermoptic camo only working when naked save for a belt. The technology is another thing worth mentioning, it is so diverse and you are told nothing except that people have different augmentations that help them with every day life.

This movie had something that I don't see in many shows today, subtlety the show knows how to toss all these scenes and dialog at you that don't make sense to you at the time but are known by the characters. The dialog seems natural and not forced in any way, you don't have long exposition dumps as many modern anime do. For instance an anime which I have been watching is Black Bullet, the show is good, with great action scenes and dialog from the villian but the rest of the characters have seemingly forced dialog, many shows have this issue especially when first explaining something. Some it is justified like in the case of Death Note where Light knows nothing about the shinigami powers and how the notebook works, so it is logical for things to have to be explained. In many shows they state things which should already be known by the characters and it feels unnatural. Ghost in the Shell has many things that it states but doesn't explain, they mention ghosts a lot and you come to realize throughout the film that a ghost is the augmented brain, later you they talk about a shell but you aren't sure what they mean for a while until you figure out that it is the body. The dialog is different from normal speech to us but is normal to them so they don't have to explain it, you just realize it through repition similar to learning a language by exposure.

The movie has multiple scenes which go on between others that further elude to what will happen next, the show seems to have mastered the environment and that is by far the best part of the movie. The cyberpunk dystopian future where everyone is augmented but it leads to further complications. It brings up many points like what makes a human special, what if a soul is a simple algorithm, things like that. Things which a cyborg would go through, especially when confronted by a construct that was artificially created but as sentient as a human. These partial machines feel more human than almost anything I have seen from animation and I loved it. I sat through the whole movie in awe of the cinematography and had to remind myself that this movie came out in 1995 because it looked better than most shows that I have watched.

The soundtrack was something that had no real outstanding tracks but as a whole it immersed you into the universe that was being illustrated, I felt enthralled by the bewitching soundtrack that conveyed a sense of lapsing reality in some scenes but could switch to a fast paced scene as well without feeling jarring. The whole soundtrack flowed well with the movie and helped to cement it into my mind as something to think about.

Something I catch myself thinking about are all the media which seem to have taken inspiration from this movie, from the style, to the setting, to the philosophy of indisinguishable man and machine. This is a topic which has been addressed over and over again from characters that are partially machine fighting with the urge to go full machine and sacrifice their humanity (alla teen titans), to AI wanting humanity (alla a metric shit ton of space movies, with an honorable mention going to AI rampancy in the Halo universe), to just the struggle of man and machine (terminator). It is something that seems to have predicted the future as people become more and more engrained with technology, before we know it we will begin augmenting ourselves more than we already do and you will start seeing cyborgs in every day life. Though this is only speculation as we could just go the Star Trek route but then you have the Borg. More man and machine conflict.

Overall Ghost in the Shell was a highly enjoyable experience, it can't even be described as a movie, but an experience. One has to watch it for themselves because it is filled to the brim with amazing animation and subtle hints at how the universe actually functions. So I sugjest that you go watch this masterpiece of a movie.

Animation: 10 (still holds up amazingly today)
Characters: 8 (the focus was more on the environment than any individual character)
Sound: 10 (had me entranced the whole way through
Enjoyment: 10 (I loved every minute of this movie, I went into this expecting the matrix due to the matrix being heavily influenced by this movie but got something so much better)
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Overall: 9.5

Nisemonogatari Review: Supernatural Little Sisters

Well I finished Nisemonogatari, taking it much slower than I did Bakemonogatari and I think I liked it more. This may be due to my love for shows like Oreimo and other shows having to do with little sisters, but I liked it a decent amount. So here is the review of Nisemonogatari:

This season focuses on three characters which got essentially no screen time in the fist season:
Karen:

Tsukihi:

Shinobu:

Now personally I loved all these characters with Shinobu being my favorite, followed by Karen, then Tsukihi. I was predisposed to Shinobu though because she is the whole reason I even watched this show, though I am seeing more and more that I am Araragi though not with such a sense of justice. 

The show begins with the Karen Bee arc and pretty much goes around seeing what all the other girls from Bakemonogatari are up to, and then doesn't address Sengoku or Kanbaru for the rest of the show, with the others having some roles to play. Eventually it finally brings the focus to Karen and then Shinobu, this is where the season really kicks off and gets into the funny over the top scenes lined with beautiful set pieces. All the characters focused on in this season were addressed in the first season but not developed. Karen and Tsukihi were just pushing Araragi at the end of every arc in Bakemonogatari and Shinobu didn't say a word.

Karen is a strong character who constantly tries to better herself similar to Rock Lee from Naruto (speaking of doing too many hand stands). She can at points be tsundere but for the most part is happy go lucky and whimsical in nature. Later in the Tsukihi Pheonix arc is where she really shines as her conflict has been resolved and she is allowed to be herself. She has this fun attitude and just makes me laugh and smile. Though i have noticed a trend throughout this series that characters seem to become so much better once their issues have been addressed, its like your waiting for their issue to be fixed so you can see if you truly like them.

Shinobu is the next character I will address as she is the next to be developed, she is just what I was wanting out of her. A character which knows that they have fallen from grace but refuses to accept this and still exudes power and superiority. She does not want to admit she wants to help a human and thus demands that Arraragi command her to do what he wants so that she feels she has no choice and doesn't have to acknowledge that she has fallen to his level. She is a cute tsundere character that admits to being tsundere as most characters in the show do. Her voice actor is great and it fits that role of a vastly superior yet young person. I loved every moment that she was once screen.

Tsukihi is the last character I will address, she is funny in the way that she is psychotic in many ways, when she walks in to find Araragi and Shinobu in a bath together she comes back with a knife ready to murder Shinobu and Araragi, when the infamous toothbrush scene comes up she asks what they are doing in a demented way before going to the store to buy an Awl. She is a character that though quite tsundere and just as psycho bitch as Senjougahara still loves Araragi as a brother. Tsukihi was the only character so far that actually was fleshed out as her character really is before and during her arc, save for Hanekawa though she had her issue addressed before the show began.

This show had a large amount of fan service in it, though in my opinion it was fine because it matched the overall tone of this season. It was happy, awkward, and just plain weird at points

But that is how the show is, there aren't many other shows where in one episode you can get a philosophical talk, loli fanservice, imouto fanservice, beautiful artwork, amazing fight scenes, and hilarious visuals. There just aren't many out there. Whereas the first season was something you really should sit back and watch to admire the set pieces and the conversations, this season focused much more on fanservice, and hilarious visuals. Which made it a fun ride all the way through.

Also up for mentioning is the Karen bee opening which I loved on a visual level and an auditory level, to the point that I downloaded the song to my phone and put in my ever growing anime song playlist. 

This show really should be watched, especially if you enjoyed the first season.

Ratings:

Animation: 9 (not as abstract as season one, more grounded)

Characters: 10 (in my opinion the characters were better though I just love these more this go round)

Sound: 8 (Just as good as the first season with the only standout track being the Karen bee opening)

Enjoyment: 10 (this honestly barely missed going into my top five favorites)

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Overall: 9.25

Bakemonogatari Review: Art, loli's, and worplay

Well i just finished Bakemonogatari and it was great, it literally took me from 10am to 4am the next day, but that is due to me spending multiple hours doing other things such as watching documentaries. The show is very artsy and is a treat to the eyes, each scene feels like it is an abstract painting. Though because of this style the show often feels quite lonely with you not seeing any conversations save for the cast of characters which is extremely varied. The show for the most part focuses on conversations and uses a large amount of wordplay. It may be because i watched pulp fiction before watching this but i can see correlations between the two at least with the witty dialog and wordplay. The show makes a ton of references to other anime/manga and breaks the fourth wall fairly often (a couple times an episode). So there is a nice balance between philosophical talk and comedy in this show. I could go into more but this is a quick review as I am attempting to watch the entire series in one go and i have already lost a ton of time.

Animation: 10 *absolutely beautiful*
Characters: 9 (this show is driven by dialog so the characters had to be strong)
Sound: 8 (the overall ambience sticks to the style of the scene with the ending being wonderful and the opening changing each character arc, and it conveys their personality well)
Enjoyment: 9 ( I highly enjoyed this and found it to be a treat to watch)
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Total: 9 *Watch this show if you want a beautiful show that can make you do some philosophical thinking, like Mushishi, though that show is more relaxing in nature*

Review of Strike Witches: Neko Witches in Propeller Legs

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Strike Witches is a action comedy ecchi show, if the picture didn't make it apparent. The show takes place during WW2 but instead of people it is aliens which invaded in 1939. The only thing that can even fight these aliens called Neuroi (which are essentially modern aircraft with lasers) are witches which sprout animal ears and a tale when they use magic. They also fly around in propeller legs called strikers which is how the show gets the name Strike Witches, or more precisely how the 501st Joint Forces got its name which correlates to the shows name. Overall it is rediculous especially with the fanservice considering that no women in this universe wears a skirt.

The show starts off a bit slow and cliche with Miyafugi being a pacifist and not wanting to fight but then essentially realizing that the Neuroi aren't human she becomes a bit better at killing but actually only kills two Neuroi that I remember, the cube Neuroi swarm and the military robot that fuzes with a battle ship. So the show never really turns her into a killing machine and she keeps her Morales throughout, she isn't the weakest of characters and that seems to be true for most of the cast which only really has 4 people that do anything amazing being blonde chick, brunette chick, red haired chick, and major Sakamote. Thats right there is a problem with the show, names are pretty much impossible to remember as there are 11 girls  in the cast and some of them barely get screen time or just weren't important enough to remember their name. I know the red haired chick was the commander and if I really think about I remembered her name was Minna but only because that happens to be the name of one of my favorite characters in anime. The show is made up of pairs it seems except for Perine who seems to be a loner. For instance the loli and the big breasted Shirley which I only remember because her English voice actor is the same as Panty from Panty and Stocking. So the characters all together are hard to remember but fun, they all have good designs and feel nice in the show. Hopefully the second season fleshes them out more. But here is the list of characters

Some of the characters have nicknames however such as Charlotte who goes by Shirley. 

As you can see it is a large cast, the character development of these characters is what the show focuses on so  you better get used to them. They all have their quirks and generally have good character designs. They  are all some sort of trope character and slightly stereotypical so the show starts to become Hetalia but with panties shots and fighting aliens.

The soundtrack is sub par usually just keeping the show, not contributing in any way, The ending was upbeat which i liked and i often times didn't skip it due to the visuals, and that is what this show really has going for it, nice visuals and cute characters. It is nice to look at and nice to see the characters living out their lives, this show was pretty much slice of life with an alien race thrown in for them to fight with a new tactic of some kind. It is enjoyable and i enjoyed it enough that i bought the box set the day i finished it. I recommend people watch this show, if they can stand a lot of panty shots they will find a cute show that has nice characters.

Ratings:

Animation: 8

Characters: 7

Sound: 5

Enjoyment: 9

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Overall: 7.25