Akatsuki No Yona (12) - I was intrigued when I first heard of this or read the summary of this, mainly because it reminded me of The Twelve Kingdoms, which is one of my top favourite series (even though it's unfinished). I guessed it wasn't going be the same story obviously and considering the bishounens and the pretty/cute art style, it wouldn't leave the same impact on me as The Twelve Kingdoms did.
The first couple of episodes the protagonist is portrayed as a weak, spoilt princess and I have read that alot of people didn't like that, not surprised. But again having seen Twelve Kingdoms, knew better than to judge from just the first couple of episodes of this sort of story, I had hoped that our protagonist, Yona, would leave that little girl behind and grow up and thankfully, she did!
Stick with it a few more episodes and we see her gradually develop into a stronger character. Even though I'm 12 episodes in, we still have to meet a good few characters. There's a nice balance of comedy mixed in with the adventure and plot advancement. Although there's this nagging feeling inside me that there's aspects of reverse harem tropes and at the moment I'm rooting for a Hak and Yona ship. Alot of times there are these nice moments between the two of them but then it's usually interrupted, usually because of Yona's naivety. Ideally there should be other characters that the other guys can fall in love with....but how often does that happen in harem animes?
Parasyte (12) - What can I say about the show? I love it! Read the manga a long while back, so I don't remember alot of it just that it was definitely one of my favourite horror mangas or even just in general that I've read. The adaptation is great, wasn't sure at first, if I would like it but I've taken to it and honestly it's MadHouse so I really shouldn't have any doubts. It's pretty much all that I remember from the manga, the events anyway.
The show paces well, the animation is great, as well as the music, though I could do without the dubstep parts, but I've taken to that too. Since we're onto music, I'm quite enjoying the opening after the first couple of episodes, really gets me in the mood for the episode and the ending song, just the same, perfect song to end an episode of Parasyte. Someone mentioned it brings them a sense of nostalgia and I can totally agree! I like to think it's like before the parasites landed on Earth. One of the things I love about this series is the psychological aspect of it, the conversations between Migi and Shinichi are so interesting, and the way it's presented to us, all in all, it's definitely a show you should be watching.
World Trigger (12) - I knew nothing of this show before I watched it and I still only have a vague idea of what this show is about. To get straight to it, this show isn't great, I don't really enjoy watching it, actually I kind of dread having to spend time watching it. If not for the opening, I would've dropped this waaay sooner and probably asked myself much earlier 'why am I still watching this?'
You see the interesting thing in the opening that made me continue the show is the image above, I was intrigued with these cubes and the size of them, they seem to have some sort of significance to them and I wanted to know why. Eventually we do find out the reason why the little girl has the biggest cube also why she is holding a gun in the opening sequence (only found this out in the last episode I watched). The character designs aren't great and the first time they change their uniform to their special suits, trigger form, I was expecting to see some awesome design but was greeted with a lackluster combat suit of some sort....I don't even know, it just was way too ordinary for me :l. The only one of interest was maybe in the ep. 12, Konami, least she gets a haircut when going into her trigger form.
The show does way too much explaining as well, I'm sure other series do this too but, World Trigger does too much! It isn't presented well either which just makes me lose interest in what's being said and hence not know what's going on. Another thing that is off is the comedic timing, I know it's trying to be funny at some points and even though I see it and understand why the situation would be regarded as funny or should make me laugh, it doesn't, doesn't even make me crack a smile.
I know I've said alot of negative points about this, but it's the only things I can put my thoughts into words for, unfortunately it's not a show that's keeping my attention, so I will have to drop this or put it on-hold.
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