Well, Happy New Year ^_^
Phase II of my series of Anime reviews begins. Phase
I, while good, needs some improvement. I started out this with one aim-to
highlight the anime series/OVA/Movie I own or have seen and tell people what I
like about them, even also pointing out what the flaws are (big and small) . Granted, most of
my reviews are on the short side, but only due to the length of the stuff I
reviewed.
Now, with the New Year at hand, I am deciding on
several changes to my anime reviews. First off, there will be no more numerical
ratings, since my reviews are more informal in nature then most. I will just
put either a recommendation towards watching it or not watching it (pass it
up). Secondly, I will try and shake thing up a bit. By that I mean, I will
review just not anime OVAs (which was the primary focus of Phase I). I will
also look at movies and other long series (13-26 episodes long). Of course, in
the case of longer series, I may spend a few weeks of review posts talking
about them. One review of a long series wouldn’t suffice for me personally. I
will do reviews of some of the manga (Japanese comics) I own. Third, I will
look at some current series (ones that are online via Crunchyroll or similar
site). This way I am not just looking at
shows from the past, but also from the here and now. Finally, I will do themes
for each month of reviews (unless it’s a month of reviewing one long series).
So, being January, I am doing 3 reviews this month.
Here they are:
January 14-15: Moretsu Pirates Episode 1 Review/First Impressions
(2012)
January 21-22: Maze the Megaburst Space OVA (1996 OVA)
January 28-29: Read or Die (2001 OVA)
The theme centered
upon these 3 reviews is “Odd Notion of Genre”. I’ll explain in further detail next
weekend in my “Moretsu Pirates” Episode 1 review. Also, I’ll be watching
Moretsu Pirates during its run on Crunchyroll. A review on the whole series
will be out sometime in July. Another series I will watch will be the 8 episode
series “Black Rock Shooter”, with a review on that sometimes in April. More details later.
Lastly, I want to give out my thoughts on what I look for in an anime. It
has to do with what I call “exploration of the odd and strange”. What I have
found during my years of watching anime is that I like the anime that are well
oddballs or strange in terms of concept, premise, characters, setting, etc. In
Phase I of my anime reviews, one can conjecture that a lot of anime I own are
odd/strange in at least one aspect or another. With Phase II, I will point the
oddities and strange aspects of the titles if applicable.
Well, see you next weekend with my review of Moretsu Pirates Episode
1/First Impressions.
Until then, enjoy this:
(from Crunchyroll)
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