Mainichi Anime Yume
After hearing that Sola was voted as the “best anime of 2007” in a Japanese poll of two million votes, I decided to check it out as soon as I could. And after finally getting through the 13 episodes series this summer, I can definitely see why it’s thought so highly of…
After hearing about and seeing images from 5 Centimeters per Second, I decided to sit down and watch it a few nights ago. And I’m glad I did take an hour out of my time for it because it is absolutely gorgeous…
As I said in my first impression review of Kanon(2006), I have not seen the previous 2002 series and knew nothing much about Kanon before I started watching it. After watching the first couple of episodes, I thought the show was okay but it didn’t particularly catch my interest. But now that I’ve watched 13 episodes of it, I have to say that I have a lot more respect for it.
When I first started watching Asatte no Houkou, I could tell that it was different and I liked it, but at the same time, I thought it would get boring pretty soon because there didn’t seem to be enough of a story to it to keep it interesting. But now that I’ve watched over half of the episodes(there’s 12 episodes total I believe), I felt that I just have to give it the praise it deserves, especially after watching episode 8.
I just finished watching episode 25 of Digimon Savers, and even though I’m not exactly sure how many episodes the series is going to have, I’m calling this the halfway mark review since all the other Digimon series’ ended up having about 50 episodes and this one probably will too. Now I’m not a major Digimon fan(Pokemon on the other hand…), but it is one of the first animes I got into back in my early days of anime fandom. I used to watch the dub all the time when it aired on Fox Kids and then I eventually began to watch some of the fansubs. Since then I’ve watched all the episodes of all the Digimon series’, so I decided to stick with that record and watch Digimon Savers as well. But although I like Savers, I honestly think it can’t hold a candle to the old Digimon series’.
Well, I’ve finally watched half of the Nana TV series(25 out of 50 episodes), so I figured it was time to write a review about it ^^ I have to admit, I thought Nana was a bit boring at first. I’m sure those of you who’ve seen Nana know that it’s more like a Japanese drama than an anime. I’ve never watched any Japanese dramas(since I’m so busy watching anime, LOL) and I usually tend to stay away from major shoujo/drama series’ that don’t have any fantasy in them. But I heard good things about Nana and the story sounded interesting, so I decided to check it out and I ended up liking it a lot. I don’t think it will become a favorite, but I really respect it for being a well-made, unique, and deeply involved series.
Asatte no Houkou is one of the other new series’ I started watching recently. I picked this one just because it sounded “different.” And it is, but in a good way…
As of today, the only new fall 2006 series’ I’ve been watching are Death Note, Kanon, and Pokemon Diamond & Pearl. Though I would like to, I don’t have time to watch every new anime that comes out. So I read about each one, pick a few that sound the most interesting, and watch those. Usually they all sound good to me, LOL, so it’s hard to pick just a few to dedicate my time to XD But Sumomomo Momomo was one that sounded like it might be a lot of fun, so I sat down today and marathoned the 4 episodes of it that have been released so far…
I’ve actually never watched the original Kanon series from 2002. But a while back I felt like reading up on what the new fall 2006 anime series’ were going to be about, and after I read about Kanon, it sounded like a very interesting story. Plus I really enjoyed Air, and since it’s by the same company, I figured Kanon should be worth checking out.
I was originally planning to write a review of just the first episode of Death Note. But it took a while before I finally had the time to watch it, and by then the second episode was already out, so I figured why not write a review on both instead =P Anyway, just so you know, this review is written by someone who has never read the Death Note manga. I’m not as big a fan of the style of manga as I am of anime, so I decided to wait until the series was made into an anime. Before I watched the episodes, I only had a vague idea of what the series is about and that’s it, so my mood is that of a very satisfied new fan ^^ The series sounded interesting and I heard good things about the anime, so I decided to give it a try…