Anime Club
Feb. 8th, 2009 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesOne new show for anime club this semester. I don't know if I'll enjoy it.
We're watching Familiar of Zero, which appears to be a comedy series about a country where mages are nobles and non-mages aren't. The female lead is a talentless mage who summons her familiar -- except she accidentally summons a teenaged boy from Earth. Wacky hijinks ensue. Judging from the opening, there's supposed to be a romance between the female lead and the teenager from Earth, except I usually have problems since right now, she's treating the relationship as a standard master/magically-bound-creature, and he's all 'WTF, I didn't sign up from this, so I'm going to rebel as much as I can'. Yeah, not seeing the light-hearted romantic comedy.
Gurren Lagann also is a bit WTF, if only because the two seasons have such a difference in tone, while being about the same people in the same world. It's kind of amazing, actually.
The other stuff is pretty similar. Holic continues to be hilarious, though I prefer the 'mystical stuff happens' episodes to the 'karma bites woman in ass'* episodes. Twelve Kingdoms continues to be interesting, though suffering from severe pacing problems, Mushishi is a nice, thoughtful, pretty thing, and NHK continues to be both funny and painful (in the sense that a story about a character with severe social anxieties strikes a bit too close to home to laugh at sometimes, though I'm far from the recluse that Sato is.)
* Nearly always a woman. I'd say it's because women are statistically more likely to see fortune tellers like Yuuko appears to be, except things get drawn into Yuuko's house without much regard for intentions.
We're watching Familiar of Zero, which appears to be a comedy series about a country where mages are nobles and non-mages aren't. The female lead is a talentless mage who summons her familiar -- except she accidentally summons a teenaged boy from Earth. Wacky hijinks ensue. Judging from the opening, there's supposed to be a romance between the female lead and the teenager from Earth, except I usually have problems since right now, she's treating the relationship as a standard master/magically-bound-creature, and he's all 'WTF, I didn't sign up from this, so I'm going to rebel as much as I can'. Yeah, not seeing the light-hearted romantic comedy.
Gurren Lagann also is a bit WTF, if only because the two seasons have such a difference in tone, while being about the same people in the same world. It's kind of amazing, actually.
The other stuff is pretty similar. Holic continues to be hilarious, though I prefer the 'mystical stuff happens' episodes to the 'karma bites woman in ass'* episodes. Twelve Kingdoms continues to be interesting, though suffering from severe pacing problems, Mushishi is a nice, thoughtful, pretty thing, and NHK continues to be both funny and painful (in the sense that a story about a character with severe social anxieties strikes a bit too close to home to laugh at sometimes, though I'm far from the recluse that Sato is.)
* Nearly always a woman. I'd say it's because women are statistically more likely to see fortune tellers like Yuuko appears to be, except things get drawn into Yuuko's house without much regard for intentions.
