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Satoshi_Miwa

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"More Winter Anime thoughts..." , posted Sun 25 Jan 21:40

Just had a chance to watch a few more of the Winter shows (subbed), so here comes some updated thoughts...

Gokusen - Yakuza drama meets high school punk class comedy anime. With a female in the lead! This is comedy gold, of course, as Gokusen has been an enjoyable series for the most. Yankumi is an intresting lead, and we have the typical class of trouble, but deep down loveable, students. And the ending is SO 1970's it's fun.

Cosprayers - So bad it's good! Well if your into fanservice cheese like I am, though I couldn't help but laugh at the series in places. Problem is, while it has a the potential to be an intresting plot it kinda of ruins everything with bad pacing, rushed plot, and a really unlikeable main character. Oh well, I agree With Momotato that the ending rocks but other than that...it's cheese, and it's laughable but I'll still be watching...:)

Daphne of the Deep Blue - Caught the 2 subbed eps, and found myself liking the show even more. Of course I'm a sucker for fanservice, but this is actually better written and better paced as an action show. And the main character Maia is much better than the Cosprayers lead. She's actually comptent in her field, which helps us relate to her more. Hopefully later eps will keep up with this trend, but I'll place this as my pleasent suprise of the season.

As for the shows I mentioned earlier, well Maria-sama and Yumeria are fighting for the best (subbed) show with Daphne and Mezzo fighting for second. As for unsubbed, well...Jubei-chan 2 wins that hands down...:)

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Fuchikoma

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"Re(1):More Winter Anime thoughts..." , posted Sun 25 Jan 22:08

I definitely second on Gokusen... I haven't gotten around to watching ep 2 yet, but from the first episode I'm already loving it. Definitely GTO inspired... but with a talking dog! Well he might just be a midget in a dog costume... I haven't figured it out yet... and am I the only one who thinks 2 of Yankumi's students look like Beavis and Butthead?

I checked out Cosmopolitan Prayers... and I like fanservice as well... I probably wouldn't have watched through Ikkitousen if it wasn't for service... and Mahoromatic and Godanar were more enjoyable with boobies... but Cosprayers is the kind of fanservice that kind of freaks me out. The girls just look a little too young.

I also checked out Diamond Dust Drops... but not my cup of tea. It's basically the same as any other Japanese love drama... just animated.

Mezzo DSA is really fun though, now there's even aliens in it! That's what I always though the OAV was missing... it had the hardcore porn, but it was missing aliens.

Freeter

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Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Re(1):More Winter Anime thoughts..." , posted Mon 26 Jan 10:13

Mezzo DSA ep 3: Great. This series has potential.

Wolf's Rain 27: Awesome. Very dramatic stuff, didn't let me down.

Tenchi OVA 15: Much better than the previous ep, pretty funny and packed a whole lot of plot twists. The char designs are the only thing that's bugging me though (too many exaggerated expressions, leaning too close to Tenchi in Tokyo).

Naruto: Great stuff. Sasuke's battle was cool, and the action's only going to get bigger now that the enemy's made their move. Can't wait.