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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 43

Saturday, September 22, 2007 – 11:22 pm

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 43Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #43 is now online! In this podcast, I review the anime series Girls Bravo.

This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 23:29
Download Size: 16.1 MB

Opening theme:
“Finally” by Sowelu
First opening theme to Angel Heart

Ending theme:
“and then” by Miyuki Hashimoto
Second ending theme to Girls Bravo

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Enjoy!

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Anime Review: Girls Bravo - 56.5%

Sunday, March 25, 2007 – 9:54 pm

The Essentials

Girls BravoName: Girls Bravo
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 24 (11 in season 1, 13 is season 2)
Released: July 5, 2004 - September 27, 2004 (season 1), January 27, 2005 - April 21, 2005 (season 2)
Based On: Girls Bravo manga y Mario Kaneda
Director: Ei Aoki
Produced By: Fuji TV, Kadokawa Shoten
US Distribution By: Geneon

Major Japanese Cast

Yukinari Sasaki: Mamiko Noto
Miharu: Ayako Kawasumi
Kirie Kojima: Chiwa Saito
Kazuharu Fukuyama: Ryotaro Okiayu
Koyomi: Masayo Kurata
Tomoka: Ayaka Saito
Lisa Fukuyama: Yuki Matsuoka

Major English Cast

Yukinari Sasaki: Yuri Lowenthal
Miharu: Michelle Ruff
Kirie Kojima: Jennifer Sekiguchi
Kazuharu Fukuyama: Liam O’Brien
Koyomi: Carrie Savage
Tomoka: J-Ray
Lisa Fukuyama: Hunter MacKenzie Austin

Scores

Animation: 7/10 (x 4 = 28 pts)
Story: 5/10 (x 4 = 20 pts)
Music: 7/10 (x 4 = 28 pts)
Coherence/Story Arc: 5/10 (x2 = 10 pts)
English Dubs: 7/10 (x 1 = 7 pts)
Gut Score: 4/10 (x 5 = 20 pts)

Total: 113/200 (56.5%)

Review

Girls Bravo is a show about a boy named Yukinari who gets hives whenever girls get near him. This was caused by girls making fun of him when he was little. Out of fear of his outbrek, Yukinari keeps him away from girls as much as he can. He gets this rash around all girls, even his childhood friend Kirie.

However, this changes one day when he was pulled through a portal into the bathtub of Miharu on the planet of Seiren, a planet made up of about 90% women. After being chased around by a bunch of man-starved women, including Miharu’s older sister, Yukinari is eventually able to escape, but brings Miharu with him back to earth. From that point on, Miharu lives with Yukinari, which is good for him since he doesn’t get a rash whenever he is around Miharu. The story then follows their adventures living together, as well as the adventures of two more girls from Seiren - Koyomi and Tomoka - as they try to find a husband for Miharu’s sister. However, things aren’t nearly that easy as sex-crazed Fukuyama and his sister Lisa, who is pursuing Yukinari, do their best to get what they want from Yukinari and company.

There appears to be one, and only one reason for this series to exist: fan service. Not only does this series have fan service, but it comes in excessively copious amounts which would probably be considered to be straight up pornography if it were in almost any other medium. In fact, the Geneon DVDs of the series explicitly say that the series has the equivalent of an NC-17 rating. Each episode seems dedicated to putting the female characters into situations where they can become naked.

This gets to be ridiculous, not only because the likelihood that the characters would be put into so many such situations is ridiculously low, but because the characters seem to stupidly walk into the situations like they haven’t learned anything from all the episodes that came before it. If Fukuyama’s plan yesterday and the day before and the day before that and the day before that all resulted in the girls ending up naked, or in some other type of sexual situation, it’s likely that his plan for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will as well. However, the main characters, not even Kirie, despite how aware she is of Fukuyama’s fetishes, seem to learn this.

The problem established at the beginning of the series appears to be the dynamic in the Yukinari/Miharu relationship as well as what the dots on Miharu’s forehead are. While the series does sort of follow the two character’s relationship, it is hardly the center of the story (the before-mentioned fan service is the center). Meanwhile, the strange dots on Miharu’s forehead aren’t even addressed until the last 3 or 4 episodes of the series.

While the series does have average to good animation and music, in the end it is little more than a mindless collection of fan service moments.

First Watched: May 2006 - February 2007
Do I Own: No
Do I Recommend: No

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I”s Pure and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Friday, May 12, 2006 – 6:46 pm

There are now two being-released-in-Japan-right-now series that I am currently following (at least the best I can with my internet connection): I”s Pure, which I’ve been watching since it first came out in December; and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which I’ve just finished downloading the six episodes that are out on torrent so far (7 have aired so far).

I”s Pure should be done in June (at least it’s Japan released…as far as being fansubbed…we’ll see about that) and TMoHS, if wikipedia is correct about it being a 14 episode series, should be done in late June as well. I hope to write reviews of both when they finish.

I’m also one DVD away from finishing His and Her Circumstances, so I should be able to post a review of it in not too long. Also, I almost posted a review of Please Twins! earlier, but I wanted to re-write it a little before I posted it.

I’m currently working on my first long series through blockbuster in Cardcaptor Sakura, which is something like 18 volumes long (it has 70 episodes) and blockbuster put volume 5 in the mail just a couple days ago.

I still have quite a few other series I wish to review as well. I’m renting DearS through blockbuster so I can listen to the English dub before I review it (I saw a subtitled fan sub of it before), ditto with Girls Bravo. I’m in the process of buying Koi Kaze, and the same watching it dubbed thing applies.

Ai Yori Aoshi and Love Hina are ones I’m finished with but haven’t gotten into a mode to write a review of. I want to see Neon Genesis Evangelion again first, and, if I don’t run out of anime to review before then, I want to wait until KimiNozo finishes it’s release in December before I review it.

Well, thats all for now.

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Ebay package 2 of 3 has arrived!

Monday, March 13, 2006 – 11:40 am

Alright, now we’re talking. The other package may be small enough to fit in my mailbox, which I haven’t checked yet, but I did get the other package at my door this morning (usually the mail doesn’t come until after I leave for work. They must have been eager to get it to me today).

This package included the thinpack Last Exile collection as well as The World of Narue collection which, while it’s not a thinpack, is still packaged to save space.

So thats complete series #6 and #7 in my anime collection.

I’m also going for a set of 5 Ai Yori Aoshi DVDs which are on ebay for pretty cheap. Now they’re set up, the shipping will end up being a little much (it’s full price for first item, and 50% off other items, which means if I get all five, shipping will still be around $20), but given how cheap it looks like the actual DVDs will go for (2 already had bids, but the other three I got with Buy It Now for $4.95 each). Unless bidding on the other two DVDs go insane, I should still save more money than most auctions over the 5 discs together.

I also got Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum volume 4 and Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventures volume 3 from blockbuster over the weekend. Why Volumes 4 of NGE had only 3 episodes, I’m not sure, but I suppose there is a logical reason somewhere.

That means I now only have 2 volumes of NGE left and 1 volume of Dual! left. Neon Genesis Evangelion #5 was sent out by Blockbuster Thursday, so I should get it in another day. Blockbuster should send the next movie on the list to me next, which should be Dual! Volume 4, which will finish that series up.

Some other notes:
I was (finally) able to find an (English) subbed version of I”s Pure episode 2 (thank you c1anime!). They said episode 3 should be out soon, so, hopefully they’re right about that.

I haven’t really decided what anime to start watching after Dual! and NGE. After the last volume of Dual! is shipped, then the last volume of NGE will ship. Other than Volume 3 of Cowboy Bebop, which has been sitting in the #1 slot of my queue with an availability of “Long Wait” for months, I need to select 2 or 3 more series to watch.

One already on the list (just stuck below NGE and Dual!) is Cardcaptor Sakura, since it’s CLAMP. The biggest problem with this series is that it’s 16 volumes long, which means that it’ll probably take something like 4 months to start watching it.

Other series on my short list to add to the top of the queue include: Fushigi Yugi, His and Her Circumstances, Ah! My Goddess! the TV series, and Kaleido Star.

Another option that I’m thinking is to re-rent some anime which I’ve already seen but haven’t heard the English dub to (either because I didn’t listen to it when I rented before, or I downloaded a fansub which didn’t have English on it). This list would include, out of anime I’ve finished, Dears, and anime I haven’t finished, Girls Bravo.

The only thing left to say is that there is no anime review today (duh!) and tomorrow is Tuesday, thus it is the big anime DVD/manga release date of the week, so I’ll list the major releases for that. The next review may come on the 15th.

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Anime I am currently watching

Sunday, March 5, 2006 – 2:37 am

If you’re wondering, there are several series which I am currently in the middle of watching:

Cowboy Beebop: 2 volumes (I’ve been on this one since October. shows how often blockbuster has it in to send it to me)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 2 volumes
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure: 2 volumes
Girls Bravo: 1 season
I”s Pure: 1 episode*

Two notes about I”s Pure. First, this series just started in december, and I’ve tried to watch it as soon as the torrents have shown up for them. However, it’s now been 5 weeks since episode 2 came out and no english subbed torrents have come out on it. I have watched a non-english subbed (it was actually chinese subbed) version of episode 2, which I of course couldn’t understand. I did somewhat know what was going on, though since I have read the manga through where the episode finished.

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