Review for Space Dandy

Space Dandy. Square Enix. Funimation.

Two weeks ago was the premiere of the new Anime Space Dandy. The show focused on Space Dandy, a dandy guy in space, QT his robot and an alien cat whose kinda a pervert that they named Meow. Within the first two minutes it made it clear that this show is a comedy and shouldn't be taken seriously. Basically this is a fun anime set as a space opera that both plays homage as they parody it. I'll cover basically what I've gotten for the first two episodes.

Review of: Is This A Zombie? Of The Dead

Is This A Zombie? Of The Dead. Funimation.

Funimation brings in another dubbed season of the zombie turned magical garment girl comedy. I have already reviewed the first season so if you want to check that out feel free to look back on past reviews. Since I have gone into the main cast before I'll do a quick review of some of the other characters before I go into the plot and what's good and bad about this season.

Review of A Certain Scientific Railgun S

A Certain Scientific Railgun Title card. J.C. Staff.

The second season A Certain Scientific Railgun has finished airing a few weeks back and now its time to review and recap what happened. The season dealt with two story lines.

A little recap of what the show is about, Scientific Railgun is a spin off series of the A Certain Magical Index. It takes place in Academy City where science has found ways to develop powers in people. In this city Mikoto Misaka is ranked the third most powerful with the ability to control electricity. Though by most means she's just a middle school student but she and her friends get into troubles that grip the city and the dark side of it. The City has a dark side with researchers willing to do anything for their experiments. 

Review of Pokémon Origins

Pokémon Origins.TV Tokyo. Nintendo. Pokémon. The Pokémon Company

First off I have to come out that I have been a long time fan of the series and while watching the Pokémon Origins special there was a certain amount of nostalgia, so I'm a little biased. I don't think it's a bad thing though. The special deals with the first generation of Pokemon games and that has the greatest appeal to those who played them with they first came out. Let's get to issue at hand and review the four part special.

The special covers the entire plot of the first generation games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. The special does cover the whole plot but focuses on most of the actual story and on a few choice  major events. The story follows Red, the protagonist of the games, on his quest to become a Pokémon trainer and complete the Pokédex. The first part of the special deals with the start of his journey, picking his first Pokémon, battling his rival Green and his first Gym Leader. The second part focuses on the battle against Team Rocket in Lavender Tower and dealing with the ghost haunting the tower. Part three deals with Red's continuing fights against Team Rocket and his Gym Battle against Giovanni the leader of the Team. The Final part of special deals with Red battling the Elite Four, battling his rival for the championship and a battle against Mewtwo. Overall the writing staff picked some great parts of the games to focus on while still managing to cover the rest of the games along the way. The writers covered some Compelling, action packed, and emotional moments in the story.

Review of Servant X Service Season 1

Promotional Art. © Karino Takatsu/SQUARE ENIX, SERVANTxSERVICE Project

Servant x Service is a slice of life comedy that takes place in a civil servant's office. Yeah, doesn't sound great when it's described like that but in fact the show is pretty great. The show comes from the same mind that made the manga "Working."  The show provides a number of laughs and gives the viewers a number of unique characters. Now that the season has wrapped up we can look back at is as a whole. Let's start with a run down of all the major characters. As always, be weary of reading a head if you are afraid of spoilers.

Th series focuses on three new employs starting at a civil service office. The first one is the large breasted glasses wearing young woman that will be referred to as Lucy Yamagami. She's tends to be a hard worker, more than a bit naive and has an unquenchable love for books. Lucy is an odd name in Japan but her whole name is actually composed of several names that would take an entire two lines to write out. The sole reason she has become a civil servant is to find the civil servant that allowed such a ridicules name like hers onto a birth certificate and tell them off. Her entire reason for being there is simply revenge as she puts it.  Through the season we find out a lot about her and her past. Though it seems petty to go after someone for such a thing as a name the story tells how boys used to make fun of her name in school and how she was often isolated to the library where she developed a love of reading. There is also an arc about her dealing with her fellow employs and what feelings develop from that. Overall her character arc flushes out this naive girl and really makes her a realistic character and a large part of this world.

Review of Is This A Zombie?

Is this a Zombie? Funimation.

Is this a Zombie is an anime with a comedic take on the zombie genre. The anime has romantic subplots, harem comedy, mystery, dark humor and some truly terrifying moment along with some truly moving drama. It also has a main male protagonist that's a zombie and is forced to wear a pink frilly dress. Two seasons have been dubbed by Funimation and today we take a look at season 1.

The world of Is this a zombie take place in a world exactly like our own, except there is an unseen element the viewer get's to explore. Ayumu is a normal high school boy when he runs into a necromancer and soon after is killed by a mysterious serial killer plaguing his town. The Necromancer known as Eucliwood Hellscythe, incredible name by the way, revives him as a zombie. Ayumu spends his nights in an attempt to hunt down his killer and that bring him into the dark side the world. He starts to encounter, magical garment girls, vampire ninjas, evil animal beings dressed in school uniforms and a few other supernatural forces.

Anime Review Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends. AIC Build. Funimation

High school can be very hard on people, especially those who aren't social butterflies and today's review deal with an anime called Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends that is just about that. For clarification this review will deal with the first season that was recently dubbed and released by Funimation. 

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends is about a group of outcast that join together in hopes that together they can figure out how to make friends. The animes is a odd ball slice of life comedy with some romantic harem comedy mixed in. Each episode is another misadventure for the club while there is an underlying arc involving the childhood of two characters. The plots are easy to follow so each episode can be watch in a nice leisurely pace.

Review: Servant X Service Episode 9

This week's Servant X Service had a focus on romantic relationships. The show is about the daily lives of workers in a civil service office and anyone whose ever worked in an office knows relationship tend to happen so it's not out of place. Many shows try to do a relationship-centric episodes but ended making them feel forced or out of place but it's not the case with this one. The episode doesn't lose it's humor or the whimsy that viewers have come to expect from the series.

Review for Servant x Service

Review for Servant x Service

Promotional Art. © Karino Takatsu/SQUARE ENIX, SERVANTxSERVICE Project

Okay, there are a lot of animes that came out this Summer. It's the thing that happens, people have more time and the networks have shows for them to watch during their free time. This is going to be the first of some of the new animes that have come out. I feel it's a good time with Summer ending I got a good perceptive of them.