Too plot involved for me to get much out of it, but the ending had a great scene.
Bleach 54 (fairly good/pretty good - 6.6):
After learning why it was so tough to break the
I can see why there was so much  and  going on. Lamune 2 (fair - 5.1): The animation is so flat it reminds me of regular "hentai" anime quality. The pacing feels stilted too. The characters reactions are SO slow. It's as if the producers of the anime kept things deliberately slow so that they wouldn't have to spend as much money animating it.  Jigoku Shoujo 3 (okay - 5.3): Things are becoming rather repetitive now. I guess quite a few people are getting tired with this.   Da Capo ~ Second Graduation 16 (okay - 5.3): I watched this because the story is picking back up again (sort of). Shakugan no Shana 3 (okay/decent - 5.5): This plot takes some thinking to figure out. It's less predictable than most of the new shows out this season and I appreciate that. How long it will continue that way is another story. Shuffle! 14 (fairly good - 5.8 ) : This was a pretty sad episode.  I can tell this was directed by the "Low Detail Hair" animation director.  Whatever the heck Ama-san is doing ends up being cute.  Noein 2 (watching it unsubbed - okay - 5.4): It was a bit unpleasantly angsty for me, but I got over it quickly. The Earth characters look more "normal" than the first episode. To Heart 2 ep. 3 (okay - 5.4): This felt very much like an original To Heart episode. Manaka, the soft-spoken class rep, comes out a changed person after being exposed to Takaki. Solty Rei 3 (okay - 5.4): This was a comedic, light episode. Nothing real special, but it did introduce at least a couple new characters and I did laugh a few times. Rozen Maiden - Träumend 1 (decent - 5.6): Just like old times? Not quite. The scene at the end was pretty cool.  I'm looking forward to getting more information on the philosophy of why the dolls have to fight each other.Mai Otome 3 (okay - 5.4): Mostly Pomp and Circumstances until the ending. I enjoyed the ending part the best. It was a semi-cliffhanger and then the HAPPY music came on.  It's going to take me awhile to get used to that music.We still have two weeks until Karin airs. *sigh* |
And I absolutely *loved* the show. I have been horribly disillusioned that something that wonderful could have been used to create such a total waste of bandwidth and cognitive load. Sheesh.
