First Impression: Lucky☆ Star

Lucky☆ Star

What do you get when you mix Azumanga Daioh (perhaps the greatest show about nothing) and Kyoto Animation (one of the – if not the – greatest animation companies out there)? You get the super moe~ Lucky☆ Star.

First Impression: Darker than Black

Darker than Black: -黒の契約者-

When I first saw the preview to this anime, I felt a resemblance to Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. It has a kind of futuristic and cyberpunkish edge without being overtly futuristic or cyberpunkish.

First Impression: El Cazador de la Bruja

El Cazador de la Bruja

From the makers of Noir and MADLAX comes El Cazador de la Bruja (The Witch Hunter). I myself have actually been anticipating this one for a while.

First Impression: Claymore

Claymore

I heard that this series is a pretty anticipated one, so after some recommendations, I decided to check it out. It’s essentially a medieval kind of action series, as far as I can tell. The story revolves around this group of people that are called Claymores that are hired to go around, killing creatures called Yoma (demons, basically). Not much plot has developed yet, but it looks like that may change soon.

Anime Review – “5 Centimeters Per Second – Oukashou”

I’ve been anticipating this movie since the summer of last year, and it has lived up to and may have even surpassed my expectations. This movie is simply stunning.

From the masterful director Makoto Shinkai, who also brought you Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in our Early Days has released his newest work, 5 Centimeters Per Second, very recently. Now, the full movie only shows in Japan, so I haven’t had the opportunity to see it yet (and probably won’t until the DVD comes out). However, the people behind the movie put a stream of the first part of the movie, Oukashou, on the Yahoo! Japan website. Someone captured the footage and released it on the web. It wasn’t soon until I downloaded it and watched it.

And when I finished it, I watched it again.