Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

Friday Anime – 2010 Mar 12 – Summer Wars!

• Nodame Cantibile Finale 7
• Cheburashka Arere 17
• Summer Wars
• Higepiyo 38
• Cooking Master Boy 11

Due to lack of the normal shows and the arrival of Summer Wars I decided to do something a little different and risk sticking a two hour movie in the middle instead 3-22 minute eps. This is really quite a risk, since people are used to something new every 20 minutes, so an almost 2 hour show is like 6 eps of the same show in a row without a respite.

Luckily, Summer Wars is awesome. As soon as this thing shows up for official buying in the US I am going to be all over owning a hard copy of it. It’s by the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the best animation company in Japan (Madhouse) so both the story and the art are great. The designs will remind you a lot of Dennou Coil. The story hinges on a massive worldwide MMO called Oz which has more than a passing resemblance to Second Life except there are inexplicably no penises. If you know anything about computers some of the MMO related items will require a bit of suspension of disbelief, but I suggest just rolling with it – and every time you think ‘Man, there is no way a company with a huge worldwide MMO would do something so stupid,’ just remember that Linden Labs would has repeatedly done stupider things.

And oh yeah, Nodame continues to be awesome. I assume this is only 11-13 eps, and this is the final series (for the anime and the manga), so where the heck is this ending up?