Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

Weekly Anime Showing – 2010 Mar 2

Finally posted on time!

• Hipira 2
• Nodame Cantabile Finale 10
  Nodame’s back… and Chiaki… uh oh. Honestly not sure how the last ep will go. Which is good.
• Cheburashka Arere 20
• Durarara!! 10
  Plot is still advancing at a decent rate… and suddenly the nebbish finds his niche. Still waiting for sword girl to show up though.
• B Gata H Kei 1
  I would have sworn this was based on a porn game, but instead it’s based on a 4-koma running in Young Jump about a girl who dreams of having 100 sex friends.  But she’s nervous about being a virgin, so she picks your typical male nebbish hero as her first, which puts it back in cliche retread territory. It’s a slight dynamic shift, but I can’t really recommend it.
• Ippatsu Kikimusume 8
• Heroman 1
  Bones’s new project. The production values are top notch, and it’s really strange (but in a good way)  seeing an anime based in Los Angeles rather than Tokyo. The look is spot on, so they must have taken a field trip and taken thousands of reference photos. In the end, though it still comes down to giant personal robot/wish fulfillment machine controlled by digimon type hand glove and actually gets less interesting at that point.
• Cooking Master Boy 14
  Hah, we knew 13 couldn’t be the end of it!
• MnF Kaiketsu Zorori 15
  Second rate writing with second rate animation, and Nelly-chan showing up always means a second-rate episode… but the payoff at the end was surprisingly good and it’s always good when Zorori’s being the bad guy.