From less enjoyment to more enjoyment:Nobunaga Concert - My Lebanese grandfather once had a butter knife. A fine piece of art, it was: decorated with the best silver and gold. Every morning, without fail, he would sit down in his balcony, and eat some buttered pita bread, with some shakshouka and fresh jam. I'm sure buttering or jamming pita is not a particularly orthodox thing to do, but he insisted on using that one butter knife. 2010 eventually arrived, and he perished at 89 years old. My father inherited that one butter knife, but it was way too dull to even cleave through jam. It was less dull than Nobunaga Concert.
I also want to apologize to Polygon Pictures for thinking their Sidonia CGI was terrible, for I had not seen this abomination. Can we make up? Maybe a nice dinner. Some champagne would be nice. I would even let you drop Sidonia's frame rate to 6 FPS! Just
please, don't make me look at this again.
Magimoji Rurumo - Generic ecchi pervy male lead meets generic dull ecchi female lead. Hijinx ensue. As a general rule, I indulge in these kind of works as a guilty pleasure because I am secretly 12 years old. This was so dull it didn't even pull the "pervy smut hue hue hue" trigger in my brain.
ncidentally, the manga doesn't appear to be translated in its entirety, which is fine because the art was eye-searingly godawful and it was even more dull and generic.
Fran<3cesca -
What. The. Serious. Fuck.Sword Art Online II: I didn't care much for the first SAO. It didn't think it was
bad, it was
okay. Characters were, for the most part, somewhat dull. This one feels like a lazy rehash of the first one. It'd probably branch out and do its own thing but so far it hasn't. I'm willing to give this a couple more episodes and see what it does.
Free: There is a
plot!? Anyway, it's sports anime with plenty of mundane drama, a genre I am
not fond of. The manservice, something I'm
very fond of, has made it much more tolerable and I'll probably keep watching mainly because
half naked bishounen swimming.
Tokyo Ghoul: Yes! A genuinely tense, enjoyably gory, delightfully disturbing, and very well animated. I had no idea what to expect, really, but it managed to actually keep me engaged in the very first scene. This anime is made of win and awesome, and is the first quality series I saw Summer 2014.
Zankyou no Terror: Shinichiro Watanabe directing, Yoko Kanno composing. I had extremely high expectations for this anime, and it met them and then some more. The characters are somehow interesting and engaging despite (or maybe because) not much has been revealed about them. The plot is so far, pretty interesting and tense. The animation is
beautiful. Their faces are so expressive. Damn, this anime is so much joy.
So, congrats, Watanabe! You have another masterpiece on your hands.
(╯◕_◕)╯ALL HAIL BASED WATANABE╰(◕_◕╰)