Space Patrol Luluco: Starting off with a 'bang' Space Patrol Luluco is a short gag comedy dealing with a perfectly normal middle school girl who is forced to work for the Space Patrol after her father was accidentally frozen. When she took him to the Space patrol office where he works his boss, Over Justice, forces her to join the force to help pay for her fathers thawing and revival fee's. She is being tasked to patrol her school, which is harboring new criminal activity. Stepping back a little bit, her town is the epicenter of intergalactic commingling on earth, where aliens and earthlings coexist together as part of a greater galactic organization.
This is shoddy in design, hectic in pacing and dialog and absolutely welcomed by me. I love these off beat, idiotic comedy shorts that are becoming more and more common. There is zero substance here, this is something to watch for the stupidity and absurdity. In some ways it has a similar feel to aspects of Kill la Kill...which it should as its by the director of that series, Imaishi Hiroyuki. I have never really enjoyed his other works, but the shorter time format may be just what is needed to get me to enjoy his brand of nonsense.
Kuma Miko: Kumade village is a remote hick town somewhere in the Tohoku region of Japan. Village legend speaks of an ancient practice of sacrificing a maiden to the bears of the mountains to keep them from attacking. One maiden was 'taken' by a bear and children were spawned who could speak human languages. The decedents of that bear/human mating have gone on to maintaining the peace between the villagers and the bears. Machi, a descendant of that family is the current shrine maiden. It is her job to pray and bring offerings to appease the bear of the shrine, Natsu. One day she approaches Natsu about attending high school in the nearest city, 2 hours away. Natsu stoutly refuses, not wishing to have his shrine maiden leave him for the big unknown...Natsu speaks fluent Japanese and has a strange sense of humor.
There is some potential for an enjoyable comedy in this show. Natsu is an entertaining character but Machi embodies some annoying moe/otaku girl character personality traits. One bright spot with this is how it handles ecchi humor. The ecchi isn't purposeless and isn't absurd. It is a well integrated part of the comedy in this off beat slice of life super natural story. In short, I think this one will be enjoyable and strange.
This is shoddy in design, hectic in pacing and dialog and absolutely welcomed by me. I love these off beat, idiotic comedy shorts that are becoming more and more common. There is zero substance here, this is something to watch for the stupidity and absurdity. In some ways it has a similar feel to aspects of Kill la Kill...which it should as its by the director of that series, Imaishi Hiroyuki. I have never really enjoyed his other works, but the shorter time format may be just what is needed to get me to enjoy his brand of nonsense.
The Lost Village:Thirty people embark on a journey to a lost and mythical village where they hope to restart their lives for a variety of reasons.
The first episode really introduces the premise of the show and does a brief introduction to all of the characters and a little more in depth introduction for a few as well as setting up some of the conflicts and suspense. The animation is standard fare, nothing amazing. The voice acting and character personalities range from idiotic to generic. Everyone on the bus seems to personify the worst traits of netizens. All of the characters introduce themselves with online handles and each have their own reason for wanting to disappear and start over. Most of them seem like pampered kids who don't feel their life is the way they want it to be and are willing to throw everything away for this mystery trip based on nothing but net rumors and conspiracy theories. It could be interesting to see how the mystery unfolds but i fear many of the characters disagreeable personalities may make the story unbearable.
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096: A longer TV based retelling of the MS Gundam Unicorn OAV series from 2010. The story takes place 96 years into the Universal Age and with Gundams deals with mobile suit based political intrigue and maneuvering.
This is the most proper Gundam installment we have seen in a very long time. Very happy to have this as part of the Spring line up. Classic artwork, classic mobile suit designs, classic Gundam. What more could you ask for?
Pan de Peace: A short moe slice of life story about four high school girls who find friendship over obsessive fascinations of bread based products. Honestly, not so sure about this one. The artwork is rather boring and there is little draw for a series even at 3 minutes a pop. I'll give it a few episodes to see if it actually developed into anything. On a side note it reminds me a little of Yuyushiki for some reason.
Macross Delta: The preview episode back in January is the first episode of the series that aired this week. So if you want a break down of my thoughts on it go here. Yes, I know I called things by HG names, which was also on purpose. HG deserves this Macross... I am not amused with Macross really trying to tap into the Love Live market. Even if idols have been a central plot point of all the prior series' it hasn't been this bad.
Kuma Miko: Kumade village is a remote hick town somewhere in the Tohoku region of Japan. Village legend speaks of an ancient practice of sacrificing a maiden to the bears of the mountains to keep them from attacking. One maiden was 'taken' by a bear and children were spawned who could speak human languages. The decedents of that bear/human mating have gone on to maintaining the peace between the villagers and the bears. Machi, a descendant of that family is the current shrine maiden. It is her job to pray and bring offerings to appease the bear of the shrine, Natsu. One day she approaches Natsu about attending high school in the nearest city, 2 hours away. Natsu stoutly refuses, not wishing to have his shrine maiden leave him for the big unknown...Natsu speaks fluent Japanese and has a strange sense of humor.
There is some potential for an enjoyable comedy in this show. Natsu is an entertaining character but Machi embodies some annoying moe/otaku girl character personality traits. One bright spot with this is how it handles ecchi humor. The ecchi isn't purposeless and isn't absurd. It is a well integrated part of the comedy in this off beat slice of life super natural story. In short, I think this one will be enjoyable and strange.
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