Thursday, March 27, 2014

Oreimo (How Can My Little Sister Be This Cute)

Oreimo is a fun little anime about a boy and his sister and they're relationship with each other. warning right now, this is siscon, or brocon, so it may be sketchy for you. The story starts out with the main character mentioning that his sister completely ignores him and looks down on him because she's better at school, his family also cares more about her. They're mother is the average anime mom, and they're father is a completely old fashioned man and completely anti-otaku (an otaku is someone who loves anime and purchases merchandise for it.)



One day the main character comes home from school greeting his sister, getting no response. He gets a drink from the fridge leaving the juice on the counter, after heading up to his brother he realizes he left the juice out. On his way back in he runs into his little sister and both of them fall over. She immediately blames him because she dropped her purse and once she picked it all up, she stormed out. After she left he realized she left something on the floor. He looked at it and it was a magical girl anime for mostly young children. He took it upstairs trying to figure out who it belonged to (mostly knowing it was his sisters) when he looked inside he found a hidden eroge DVD (18+) after she knew he had it she confessed that she was secretly an otaku, and asked him for life counselling advice.

So far, I've only watched a couple episodes of it, and it's funny, cleaver and brings up a lot of issues in modern day Japan, such as women being stuck up and not being tolerant of men for things like anime or dating sims, things like all of Kirino's friends being just like this towards the open otakus in the class even though she secretly loves anime.

So far i'm loving this show, at this point I would like to give this show about a 8/10
remember I've only watched a bit so I don't really have a fully complete opinion on it just yet.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Attack on Titan?

Is it okay for me to rant about Attack on Titan for just a moment? Attack on Titan is one of those wacky animes that brings up tons of laughs and smiles. When I say laugh and smiles I mean a character dies every episode by giant "Titans" as they're called.

Attack on Titan is a story about 3 friends, Eren Jeager (Main character), Mikasa Ackerman (best girl ever) and Armin Arlert. The story starts by saying that 100 years ago humanoid beings known as Titans started appearing and wiping out the human race, in defense of that humans built 3 walls that are 50m tall so that no titans would ever get in and completely wipe out humanity.



In the year 845 (the year in episode 1), The 3 main characters are still but children, Eren wants to join the Scout Regiment (people who go outside the walls and hunt Titans) and see the outside world, Mikasa wants him to be safe, and serve as his protector, and Armin just wants to see the outside world with his friends. People inside the wall are arrogant of the power of their wall and assume nothing will ever get through and cause awful events again. Eren thinks that these people are blind and that you should always be ready for attacks. Suddenly the Colossal Titan (60m) appears andquite litterally kicks in the door and lets a huge amount of titans in to slaughter the town. Including Eren's mother. This made him swear that he will kill every last titan in existance.

Overall I'm really enjoying this show, I haven't read the manga yet and I haven't competely finished the show. But so far I absolutely adore the animation, it's beautiful. The story is captivating and original. The Action and Blood is second to none. The universe is very interesting to say the least, some of the mechanisms and machinery are totally cool. I would say that I give this show a 9/10.

Fun Facts about Titans (that I know from how far I am)
They don't have reproducive cycles, and its unknown how they form.
They have no digestive system and they just puke up what they have eaten when they eat too much.
They don't seem to have any energy if its dark, or no sunlight.
They regenerate all damage taken to them besides a slash at the nape of the neck, which is the only way to kill them.