Tokyo TV Anime, Winter, 2011 - Monday
Selected New Show Comments
Level E : A-
Now, this one's off the wall. Level E is based on a manga that ran in the 1990's, from the artist of Yu Yu Hakusho and HunterxHunter. The original was only 16 chapters long. The new anime series has completely new character designs that don't look anything like Yu Yu Hakuso. A high school baseball player moves to the countryside to start at a new school, in an apartment of his own. Only to discover that an alien has decided to share the room with him. Over time, the school student starts realizing that this handsome-looking man really is a hideous alien monster in disguise, and that he's not the only such one on the planet. The artwork's good, the story is weird, and the character designs are almost on the "pretty boy" shojo level. Worth monitoring to see where the story goes.
Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki ja Nai n da kara ne!! : C
If you want soft-core hentai, here's your show. Junior high school girl has a mjor crush on her older brother and manipulates him in a tsundere fashion. One day, she goes through his room and finds a family photo album. She's not in any of the photos, and it turns out that she's adopted... The character designs are cartoony and stylistic, the joke setups are predictable and obvious. Mostly seems to be just a school sitcom.
Dragon Crisis : B+
Dragon Crisis, like about half of the anime this season, is based on "a series of light novels". Light novels are typically short novellas (40,000-50,000 words) aimed at the 13- to 17-year-old range (similar to the target audience for Shonen Jump). So, you know the stories aren't going to get very deep or earth-shattering. Having said that, Dragon Crisis starts out pretty well. Ryuuji is a normal school student who has a couple of friends, plus one female classmate that is too shy to tell him that she has a crush on him. One day, Ryuuji's second cousin, Erika, pulls him out of school to pull a heist on a black market gang in order to obtain a jewel called Most Precious. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the case they grab includes a small blonde-haired girl they name Rose, who is attached to the jewel. A red pattern on her left hand gives her away as a Red Dragon. Rose starts out as having a one-word vocabulary - "Ryuuji", but she does start picking up other words fast after watching TV. Then the scientists and military get involved as expected and the other Dragons start showing up. A fairly light-hearted romp that starts out promisingly.
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