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Big_Adam
Yes, it’s late. Sue me.
Good: Clannad.
“Tomoya Okazaki is a third year student labelled as a delinquent. Everything seems to be unchanging for his school life until he meets Nagisa, and Tomoya finds that his life is about to change. He starts to have dreams of a bleak world and meets a girl who has the ability to fuse junk together in order to create things, and doing so, creates a body out of junk for him. He is then reborn into this empty world and follows around the girl, the only two existences who are “alive.”"
Okay, Clannad. I ripped through this series in a few days (that’s good) and really enjoyed it. It’s a lovely moving anime that almost bought me to tears in one or two instances but I have one massive problem with it.
It’s like AIR.
Air is an anime I watched a while back now about a guy who enter a town, meets a girl, girls weird, stuff happens, guy turns into bird and the story loops. It had a very annoy “pardon, what happen?” quality. Luckily Clannad doesn’t have this … past 10 odd eps. The story starts (after some intros and what have you) with Fuko. A little girl with a thing about starfish. Really, I can’t say much but the story goes fairly screwed up and weird then just starts over without Fuko … sort of. It’s very weird, but still good.
Anyway, bar that Clannad is very nice. I loved every character in it and really enjoyed watching stories unfold in a nice little order and it was all very lovely if a bit sappy. Still, if you want some nice romantic (mostly romantic) with some comedy and don’t fell like watching the 20,000 ecchi school comedies then give Clannad a shot.
Mmmm, old school: Outlaw Star.
“Outlaw Star follows the outlaw Gene Starwind and his eleven year-old business associate, Jim Hawking. Together they run a small jack-of-all-trades business on the backwater planet Sentinel III. After the two take a job as bodyguards for a mysterious outlaw, they find themselves the owners of the XGP15A-II, a highly advanced prototype spacecraft, and the caretakers of a bio-android named Melfina. Through the course of the series, the crew grows to include the assassin “Twilight” Suzuka and Aisha Clan-Clan, a Ctarl-Ctarl and former Ambassador of the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire.”
A bit of the old school for you, Outlaw Star. Been kicking about a while but I’ve just got back in touch with it so … meh.
A nice comedy mixed with a nice blob of action to keep everyone entertained. The story follows Gene the outlaw and his crew in search of the Galactic Leyline. Think pirates in space after treasure and your pretty much there. Just with more people and giant armed space ships … and castor guns.
The castor gun brings the silly-ness of magic into the mix. Gene owns a castor gun, it basically fire magic at people to achieve some random effect. Problem is the bullets are expensive and Gene is cheap, leading to hilarity.
Okay, some of the funny is a bit crap and the whole series has a bit of the Cowboy Bebop (was made just before though) and the animation is a bit shoddy and changes at times. BUT! The series has a nice bit of charm to it. It’s fun, silly and interesting. If anything it will keep you entertained while you’re watching and there some fan service if you need to go pocket mining at some point. I like this series, was one of the first anime I watched and it was on proper TV (CNX back when CNX existed and was awesome). Go on; give it a shot if you want something a bit simple to watch.
Well, that’s about it for now. Come back next week for more. Really need to do Lucky Star at some point too.
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