Daily Archives: Friday, January 18, 2008

First Thoughts: Shigofumi

By | January 18, 2008 at 2:45 pm | 1 comment

Shigofumi immediately started off looking like it may be the class of the Winter season. A fascinating story (a girl and her sapient staff sidekick deliver letters from those who have died – a person’s last words), good production value, and an interesting story (Nice Rocket?) made this first episode rather memorable. I’m definitely digging this series and can’t wait to see more.

My only question is whether this is going to be a single coherent series, or whether it’s going to be a series of shorter stories, lasting, say 2 or 3 episodes each. I could see it going either way, especially given how the first episode went.

First Thoughts: Spice and Wolf

By | January 18, 2008 at 12:42 pm | No Comments

Spice and Wolf is another series I wasn’t planning on watching and picked up after some good initial reviews. I’m still kind of out on Spice and Wolf, but it seems like it may be quite a bit interesting – how many stories about a wolf god going around as a girl in the Middle Ages are there?

I’m just not sold on the idea that an anime about a wolf girl going around with a merchant all over the place will be exciting, but if there is one thing I’ve learned about anime, a good series can always find a way to make things which would otherwise be completely unexciting and actually turn them into something interesting (I hold Kaleido Star up as the prime example of such a series).

As a result, since the first episode looked interesting, and the production quality and writing seemed pretty good, I’ll still watch this series with some hope that it’ll be pretty good.

First Thoughts: True Tears

By | January 18, 2008 at 10:19 am | 1 comment

I wasn’t originally planning on watching True Tears until I saw some reviews of the first episode on other blogs. Given that they seemed to be raving about it, and given that I was somewhat disappointed with the first episode of H2O, I thought I would pick up another visual novel-based romance series. In the end, I’m glad I did because so far after two episodes, True Tears is beginning to look like one of the better and more compelling series of the Winter season.

This series of course has your obligatory 3 main girls of different types, and of course you have to have the tomboy girl, the weird girl, and the shy, reserved girl, but then again, that’s part of what makes series like this interesting: taking each of those character types and revealing that they may not be all that they appear to be.

In any case, this series appears to have quite a bit of potential, and of course the requisite weirdness.