Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

Weekly Anime Showing – 2010 March 26

Okay, I swear I am going to stop doing these a week late. Work has been insane recently, but that’s just whining, not an excuse.

• Hipira 1
  A short series of short episodes about a vampire boy in a vampire town who can’t fly. One of the group assures me this is based on a book. It was definitely amusing enough for me to keep showing them.
• Cheburasha Arere 19
• Nodame Cantabile Finale 9
  So good. Nodame’s concert debut. But I have the horrible feeling that this is only going to 11 eps.
• Durarara 9
  I called this long ago, but we finally find out what happened to Celty’s head. The plot is advancing faster than it seems to be. What next?
• Ippatsu Kikimusume 7
• Katanagatari 3
  This might be the best episode so far. A very interesting opponent, as usual the art was gorgeous, it was funny, and it hardly felt padded at all.
• Kaito Reinta 7
• Cooking Master Boy 13
• Kaiketsu Zorori 14
  The second half of the ‘Ramen Yojimbo’ episodes. I really love this show when it has the good artists, the good writers, and Zorori is actually trying to be a prankster, and these are a good example.

I should note that Cooking Master Boy is the only series that everyone feels free to MST3K. It’s so ridiculous and over the top that it’s just natural – but this is not in a bad way! We all look forward to that golden gleeaaaaaaaaaaam as this week’s insane concoction explodes in someone’s mouth like [simile deleted].