![]() So when you license a series from Japan, you have to get the Moving right along, the licenses themselves are split into Were a top 15 list, perhaps it would make it. Though that doesn’t mean it wasn’t really great, it was. Perhaps if I watch the KyotoĪrc of the TV show, I’ll like it more. Storytelling, but it wasn’t the Kenshin I knew. I loved Kenshin when I was a kid because it In a way that you don’t 100 percent expect. Gives away what’s going to happen (spoilers: it’s betrayal). It’s also tragic to see Kenshin grow up like he did. This show really capturedĪ lot of what I liked about the franchise as a whole, yet put it in a much more Now, when I watched it again, I was really impressed. At the time, I didn’t really like it that much. When Toonami was on weekday afternoons (which included Rurouni Kenshin). Going through that huge nostalgia phase where I watched everything I did back I watched this back in high school, when I was Really appreciate the animation in it, because it is top notch. If you like it, watch the rest of his stuff. Stories are just told fantastically and if you want to check out Shinkai as a While Voices emphasizes trying to be together,Įmphasizes the tragedy of simply drifting away from those you love. ![]() Place at first (given my introduction to him was Sanzo in Saiyuki, it’s understandable), but he outshines as always. I’ve only seen the ADV dub of theįilm, but I thought it was outstanding. ![]() Second is something that I’ve really been meaning to revisit, but I’ve seen Watching the sub that Shinkai acted in himself, then watching the dub again. I remember getting it in the mail, watching the dub, watching the sub, He can do as an animator, director, and writer are his debut Voices of a Distant Star and the feature However, his two works that really represent what I also have very little recollection of Place Promised in Our Early Days, but I I haven’t seen Children Who Chase Lost Voices, but I’m Simply for lack of a better place to put them. The also-rans here are simply the works of Makoto Shinkai, Magical girl genre won’t have another great show like this in a good five years This and it is played absolutely brilliantly. These are middle school girls dealing with all of And it just gets darker andĭarker and darker from there. Then episode three hits you like a ton of bricks. It starts off as a pretty typical magical girl fare…and Magica takes deconstructing a genre to the level that hasn’t been done in To be created and it almost certainly wouldn’t be the same without their own Like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura paved the way for this Viewing for anyone who calls themselves a fan of the magical girl genre. Novels and second season as well as the fall 2012 season’s sci-fi Psycho-Pass) that should be a required It is an absolutely brilliant piece of work from Gen Urobuchi (the Rushed and wrapped up nicely, when they could have done something like Oreimo and done a few extra ONAs and Have that final push to make me love it completely. Toradora is a show that I immensely enjoyed, but it just doesn’t Last, but not least, of the also-rans is Toradora. Revisit that down the line, but not anytime soon.” Which is why it has to be I was left with, “That was really, really good. But it’s a really subtle show, and thus doesn’t leaveĪ huge impression on you. Thing, but it doesn’t get into who they are and why you should like them fastĮnough and the first half of the first season suffers for it, unfortunately. It’s completelyĭependent on you liking the characters to like the show, which isn’t a bad Next is HoneyĪnd Clover, which I really have to and want to revisit because I think it’sĪ show that really grows on you more the more you revisit it. Which is reallyīest shojo out there, ever. Looks like we fans may never get an ending to even the manga. Which suffers from the same things that Fruits It just doesn’t have that complete greatness that the rest And the second half is really where the show The rest of the also-rans are: Clannad and After Story,īut the first half drags on for maybe too long.
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