Thoughts on Garo: The Animation So Far...

So I have watched up to episode 16 or so, so far in Garo, I had planned to put this into part 2 of my 'Thoughts On Ongoing Fall Anime part 2' but I just haven't gotten around to completing that post, so decided to just post my thoughts on Garo so far separately! 

      I must apologize for the format of my blog posts, I know they're quite incoherent and though I try to edit them into a more understandable format, I'm just terribly awful at it, again sorry v.v

Garo: The Animation (16) - With knights, witches, magic and horror! Starts off with introducing us to the main characters in the show and some action scenes. Pretty good first episode if I remember right, paced well. Although I have heard people talk about how they don't like the armour design, I quite like it, I suppose it is over the top and a bit jarring to see the 3D armour in the show but I still think it looks quite cool haha! I also like the artstyle in this anime, it's a bit simpler but I like the angles of the lines, jagged or sharp, I don't know something about it makes it feel a bit 'edge-y'....sorry, it fits well with the dark tone of the show. One thing I am in love with, is the OST, love love love the music for this anime, it kinda reminds me of Nier's OST as well, definitely my favourite part of this anime!
      Onto the characters, I like the juxtaposition in personality between the father and his son, his son wanting to have nothing to do with his father's pursuits to find the next woman he'll sleep with, and his actions are too cute when the topic of being with a woman comes up! Ema's pretty cool, loves to tease Leon, I'd like to see her more in the show honestly. There's alot of brooding from Leon, he tends to lose control of his power when his emotions go a bit haywire, resulting in a berserk-like mode, not being able to tell friend from foe.
      As it is now, where I am at in the show, Leon is lost and I'm guessing, trying to find himself, now that he no longer has his armour. I quite like where Leon has ended up, just in small house in the country, working with the family there, the show has a nice mix of action and comedy in this dark atmospheric anime.....honestly not sure what else to say, so I'm just going to end it here.

Thoughts on Ongoing Fall Anime 2014

As I've mentioned in my previous post, most of the anime I picked out from the Fall line-up ended up being longer than I expected, so I decided to share my thoughts so far on the ones I have watched and kept up with. There will be either another 1 or 2 posts on this. The number beside the anime titles is the number of episodes I have watched since putting down my thoughts.

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.

Thoughts on Finished Fall Anime 2014

So having looked at the Fall anime line up, I decided beforehand what anime I was going to watch/keep up with during the season. Apparently I didn't pick many that completed within the season, most of them are still ongoing at the moment. However the few I did complete, I wanted to share what I thought of them ^^

Gugure! Kokkuri-san - Quite a fun series! This series totally grabbed me from the first episode right away, in the end thought it was a good comedy anime. There were a few episodes here and there, that were better than the rest, more comedic, made me laugh just a little more. This is definitely up there for one of the best I've seen out of what I've watched so far from the Fall line-up.
      I think one of the reasons this show caught my attention was how the main character, Kohina describes herself and acts in that doll-like way that she associates herself as. I mean she's so cute and adorable and the fact that she her favourite thing is ramen and will do anything for it, I don't know I just love that about her haha. I liked the other characters in the show too and wanted to see a bit more of the side characters. At the end though I kinda wished Kohina made friends with other people that weren't supernatural beings. I mean I think it would've just brought the anime to another level.

Donten Ni Warau - An alright anime that had it's moments, for me anyway. I found the second half of this series alot better than the first half. When it hit the halfway mark, I got more invested and wanted to know more, whereas the first half I was kinda just watching cause I picked it out to watch this season...
      I think it was all the twists and turns it held in the latter half and alot of times I was like 'Omg! What?! No Way!' but in a good way. Maybe it's something you might not enjoy however, it might seem like they're just making it up as they go along. It was just one revelation after another so I was like 'yep, ok, I'll just go along with it now'. Although I really loved the episode with Botan's past, I just love backstories haha! So all in all, it's probably an anime you can skip, if the synopsis doesn't interest you, but if you don't mind having a good few surprises in this short series, check it out!

Hi-sCool! Seha Girls - One I didn't hear many talking about from the Fall line-up, which from the first 2 episodes (which I really enjoyed) was surprised at. I assumed people might be interested in it because there would be alot of Sega game references, that's what caught my interest anyway. Personified Sega consoles that have to pass school by participating in different game worlds! Definitely a series you'll enjoy if you're a Sega fan I think, I don't even own any Sega consoles and only played a few of their games but I still enjoyed it quite a bit! Again the first 2 episodes were the ones I got the most out of and the last episode, for some reason I got such a nostalgia kick even though I did not grow up with much Sega stuff O.o, so it was weird that I got that feeling but ya know I still liked it and I'm ok with that ^_^/