Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Anime

Attack on Titan - 2013
Titans attack the villages.
5 stars

Azumanga Daioh - 2002
Comedy following 4 high school girls. My sister loved it. I was bored the whole time.
 1.5 stars

Baka to Test to Shoukanjou - Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts - 2010
A comedy, a parody, apparently, following an eccentric kid in the bottom class of high school and his critical peers who summon beasts to rumble every once in a while. I didn't get it. I was bored.
.5 stars

Bakemonogatari - A Monster Story - 2009
A story about a pessimistic kid with a supernatural power.
0 stars

Clannad - 2007
A bored kid meets a lonely girl and is dragged along in her social redemption. It's a fairly popular series, although I don't know why.
1 star

Death Note - 2006
A gripping psychological tale of a boy who is given the  power to anonymously kill anyone. Yes.
4.5 stars

Golden Time - 2013
 A girl is obsessed with a boy who is avoiding her. The main character is a boy who gets stuck in the middle. He's had amnesia, and is just entering collage.
3.5 stars

Itazura na Kiss - Playful Kiss - 2008
An obsessed girl surrounded by a variety of characters is rejected by a cold intellectual.
5 stars

Kaichou wa Maidsama - 2010
A hard nosed girl at an almost all boys school secretly works at a cheesy perverted restaurant.
3.5 stars

Kotoura San - 2013
A psychic girl. The first episode is the best.
4 stars

Lovely Complex - 2007
Two awkward redheads fight like an old couple, much to everyone else's humor.
3.5 stars

Minami-ke - 2007
3 sisters.
4 stars

My Little Monster - Tonari no Kaibutsukun - 2012
A delinquent falls for a cold academic girl.
5 stars

Say I Love You - suki-tte Ii na yo - 2012
A slutty, can't say no, popular guy falls for a girl who has no faith in friendship and makes her softer.
3 stars

Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu - Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - 2009
A reserved boy is dragged into the activites of the SOS Brigade club, led by the eccentric Haruhi.
2.5 stars

Sword Art Online - 2012
A boy gets stuck in a deadly virtual game and falls in love.
3 stars

Nodame Cantabile - 2007
A talented but bored collage musician meets his match.
5 stars

One Piece - 1999
Got me into anime. Over 600 episodes so far. Not caught up.
A long story of an unraveling past and future for a group of rebel pirates and their world.
5 stars

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga nai - My little Sister can't be this cute - 2010
A brother discovers his little sister's perverted anime collection and obsession.
4 stars

Ouran High School Host Club - 2006
A scholarship student is taken in by a club of an elite group of boys who capitalize on female attraction.
4.5 stars

Psycho-Pass - 2012
A story that reflects on justice, corruption, revenge, and depersonalization.
4 stars

Skip Beat - 2008
A girl works instead of going to high school to support her boyfriend and childhood best friend as he rises to fame, until she learns that he is using her without conscience. Her dreams to make it big and her rage combine in vengeance.
4 stars

Toradora - 2008
A girl and a boy who clash comically share their crushes on each other's best friends.
4 stars

Ultra Maniac - 2003
An amateur magic girl from a magic kingdom makes a friend in the human high school.
1 star

 Vampire Knight - 2008
An intriguing high school romance in a world with humans and vampires.
4.5 stars

Movies

5 Centimeters per Second - Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru - 2007
Tragic romance told with the subtlety of lonely sadness from different points of view.
3.5 stars

Colorful - 2010
A boy arrives in purgatory with amnesia. He is given a second chance and sent back to the body of a boy in the ER who has just died.
3.5 stars

Castle in the Sky - 1986
A girl and a boy adventure to an island in the sky.
3.5 stars

Grave of the Fireflies - 1988
Immediate war/bomb aftermath through a young boy's eyes.
4 stars

Howl's Moving Castle - 2004
A girl transformed by a spell into an old lady seeks the cure.
3 stars

My Neighbor Totoro - 1988
Two young girls move into a country house and find an adventure involving a creature named Totoro. Good for little kids.
1 star

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - 1984
A girl in a post apocalyptic world searches for answers and a way to avoid war and genocide. Good music.
3 stars

Ponyo - 2008
A magic goldfish runs away and is rescued by a 5 year old boy.
4 stars

Princess Mononoke - 1997
A boy seeks to quell the fury of the animal gods in the iron age of feudal Japan.
2.5 stars

Spirited Away - 2001
On her way with her parents to a new home, a girl discovers another world and an adventure.
5 stars

Summer Wars - 2009
A boy is tricked into helping a girl fool her family that he is her fiancee. He receives a complex math problem as a text which he intends to solve, without knowing the consequences it would have on the world.
5 stars

 Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo - The Girl who Leapt through Time - 2006
A girl gains the ability to move through time.
4 stars