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|  "New Summer Anime thoughts..."
, posted Sat 5 Jul 16:27
Summer season has started, so it's time for thoughts on the new anime offerings. So let's start with...
NaruTaru: Shadow Star - One of the few series where I was able to read a large chunk of the manga before watching the anime (Picked up SMB for awhile before I went GN only...I wish DH would drop the prices on their GN, but that's for another time). Neat opening song that's catch, and a nice slow ending. First episodes seemed to match the mood of the manga, though it looks like the second ep will be further ahead. So far it looks good and well animated, though, so I'll be checking more of it out.
Divergence Eve: Amazing Nurse Nanako team strikes again! Looking at the designs, I was expecting a light hearted fanservice in space thing. Instead I got hard sci-fi story with lots of fanservice. Kinda of split on this series, the fan-service detracts from the hard core sci-fi and the sci-fi detracts from the fan-service. They should of either went with the fan-service and did an Aika like anime, or go pure sci-fi and toned the fan-service down. I agree with Momotato that ending is neat though.
Ultra Maniac: Good, but not quite as good as the OAV. They added in the trappings of the magical girl anime genre (costume changes to cast spells) which was kinda of eh. I liked the idea of just using the computer..:P Seems to also ignore the manga for a quest to find magic stones. Still good fun, and Ayu is probably the best Watase female lead. A nice mix of Miki and Arimi. Worth seeing for Shoujo fans...
Stellvia and Scrapped Princess are heading into their second seasons, so I'll keep following those. I wonder how the second arc of Stellvia will play out, as I enjoyed the more school like aspects of the first season. And I hope they don't have Otoyama outshine Shipon..(I don't hate him, but Shipon is the main focus of the story).
As for new shows, I'm most looking forward to Happy Leson advanced and the new season of Juuni Kokki. Anything else I'm not too sure on, so I'll have to go in cold...
And Read or Dream just got licenced in NA before it hit the air...-.-
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| "Re(1):New Summer Anime thoughts..." , posted Sun 6 Jul 00:11
Happiness is when there is so much anime to watch, but I have no time to watch them.
I Love it.
Let's begin, my summer anime memories 2003!
Very spoilerrific post:
NaruTaru: Shadow Star
Aww... she flies on a cute star thing :)
If anime was cake, this would be strawberry shortcake, with a fire pepper deep inside it.
Beautiful to look at, and the story is light and happy happy for now, kekeke.
How can they show this anime on the Kid's Network?!?...
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seeing how it has super violence / sex later on? (well, in the manga that is).
I think Dark Horse didn't know that it would turn from a "kids" manga into the naughtiness it is now.
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Divergence Eve:
I agree, my left side of my brain appreciates the fanservice, while my right side digests the seriousness of the sci-fi story. It's a very Yin-Yang, Zen thing.
I agree with everyone that the ed is neat :)
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and the only girl without big breasts (outcast?) get's killed off so soon!
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Gadguard:
Story is getting better. I think episode 8 made a first in anime history?
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by not even showing the main character even once in the entire episode
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Matentei Loki Ragnarok:
Haha, from serious Witch Hunter Robin seriousness into the crazy comedy it is now ^_^
My favourite episode so far was episode 8:
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Where Heimdall was forced to do a "The Ring" creeping out of the TV parody, and then kicked down into a hole
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Stellvia:
I don't really like Kouta, he's like some Newtype of something. I want more Shi-pon x Arisa friendship!
I'll paste something I found on the Rice-Box forums.
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"Today's (June 1 the day Shi-pon's purity got
desecrated >"
"From now on, our beloved shi-pon gradually tainted by
Kouta's poisonous fangs! I can't bear to watch it,
argh!"
"Once, TWICE, and the next episode (13) too? Go to
hell, Kouta!"
"The staff at Studio XEBEC are of SATAN!"
"Onward, troops! We shall defeat Otoyama Kouta!"
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Green Green:
I follow the manga in Afternoon, so of course I'm getting this!
Downloading now, and it's slow...
POPOTAN I am waiting for you.
Ai Yori Aoshi s2 will begin in August, IIRC?
Same as Fumofflu / Full Metal Panic s2.
It will take over Wolf's Rain slot once it finishes it's 30 (yes, 30!) episode run.
I guess those 3 recap episodes were there to extend this series.
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why did you become a teacher? 
I will be checking out Cinderella boy when it starts airing though. 
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