Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

This Friday’s showing:

1. Zenryoku Usagi 11
2. Detroit Metal City 9
3. Yozakura Quartet 1
4. Natsume Yuujinchou 13
5. Nodame Cantabile Paris 3
6. Mouryou no Hako 2
7. Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 13
   
8. Skip Beat 1
9. Slayers Revolution 13

Three series ended this week – Natsume Yuujinchou, Birdy Decode, and Slayers Revolution.  Birdy was decent adventure and managed a decent not quite happy ending, but Natsume will be missed the most. I’m glad there’s another series coming. Slayers ending was sort of a mercy, since it’s much more fun when it’s just goofing around as it does at the start of a season instead of trying to be dramatic at the end of the season.

Skip Beat was pretty decent. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good shojo comedy. I’ll show at least another ep. On the other hand Mouryou no Hako totally cratered. It went from creepy horror to relentless padding. Seriously, when you spend the entire second half of the show just driving around lost while dropping names you are doing the worst (and most boring) kind of exposition possible. The entire room was yawning.