Comments on: Summer 09 Anime – First impressions, part one

By: fangzhao

fangzhao — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:42:15 +0000

I somehow managed to obtain a spanish version of Aoi Hana episode 1. It bored me.
I didn’t know what was going on, and I was bored. Now that’s saying something.

If later episodes turn out to be good and/or draw lots of rage, I’ll pick it up again. Never before has a slice-of-life show bored me so, though. LOLRHYME

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:20:23 +0000

2nd or 3rd paragraph on Aoi Hana is a SALE!

Canaan seems to use the same undescriptive technique which we saw in Darker Than Black; haven’t watched this Canaan episode, but read there’s some similar staff. The way you explain it is almost spot on, the experience we had as we met /character/Hei/

I dunno about the last two. Didn’t plan on Fight-chan (or w/e), but I’ll check out Needless, though… yea… dunno.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:24 +0000

Yes, and it was fairly more enjoyable than the first episode of Umineko. For one thing: I dislike the characters. And the setting.
Of course, I’ll watch the other episodes, too, but the first impression was worse than Higurashi’s.

By: nekosasu

nekosasu — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:17:40 +0000

No need to be so NEEDLESSly rude, tough boy, keep your habits to yourself. I knew Juuden would be bad, but not as bad as I thought it’d be (ie. Queen’s Blade bad) so I was relatively clement. It even made me laugh at times, but the whole concept is just ruined and awfully executed. I know I may have angered butthurt urine lovers and lolicons, my deepest apologies for that.

NEEDLESS, however, was a big unknown to me. I expected something great, but, needless to say (oh oh), I simply don’t like it. (oh oh ooooh wow that was such an awesome transition, so original! Yay me and my Needful? Needy reviews.)

P.S. 1 week later: Why do I even have to justify myself to a raging troll with rabies anyway! I sound stupidly apologetic. Sorry to myself.

By: digitalboy

digitalboy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:53:47 +0000

Uh, did you WATCH the first episode of Higurashi?

By: digitalboy

digitalboy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:52:13 +0000

How’s that stick in your ass treating you? Let me ask you, did you try at all to like Juuden-chan or Needless, or did you just assume they were horrible because they weren’t intelligent or original? There’s a lot to like about both shows, but I’m not sure you’ve captured any sort of reason to dislike them. All you said in either review was basically ‘it was shit’. I think it’s your reviews of these episodes, sir, that was Needless.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:48:27 +0000

Dunno about the first (I’ll check out), but this season is meh. Ok, I got Zetsubou Sensei, and I’m overly happy about that and I thought Umineko would be as great as Higurashi… No. From the first episode it looks boring with uninteresting characters. Meh.

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:56:39 +0000

Out of these four, the only one I watched was Canaan. Maybe that was a good decision lol.

By: Seinime

Seinime — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:08:10 +0000

At least in Needless the girl got what she deserved. BOOT TO THE HEAD!

By: kimagure

kimagure — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:39:23 +0000

Canaan only has 13 eps so, at least to me, the rushed nature of the first episode was fine. I gave it a second watch, and it made more sense, but that shouldn’t be required, I just loved the production values that PA Works brings to the show. Their work on True Tears was nothing short of amazing, and to translate into the action genre worked well on my account.

I guess I’d rather have a rushed first episode, than a rushed ending, but we’ll see about that when I get to episode 13.