Thursday, February 29, 2024

Anime Special Review! Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories (1999)

 What is up everyone! Its the last day of the month so this Blog made it in just in time. I hope you all are doing well and staying safe.

One thing I love about doing these reviews is that it has opened me up to discover Animes that I never would have watched otherwise. When it comes to Detective Conan, I consider myself to be a casual fan, I really enjoy the series but I tend to jump in and out of it and usually just match the movies on a regular basis.

The review this week is a Anime based on the short stories from the creator of Case Closed. The Anime up for review is Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories.

I will start by saying, these  short stories all provide something different a creative in their own way, and if you enjoy Detective Conan you will really enjoy these stories. 

I wont go into much detail for the shorts because you need to experience them for yourself but my favorite one was the detective George short which involves a detective that's miniature. I love this short because not only is it just really good but the fact that there is no explanation as to why he is small and everyone arounds just accepts that he is. 

Another favorite was the Santa Claus in Summer short which is about a teen getting drunk and drunk dialing someone and accidently activating a government earth destruction device. The last short is a backstage look at the making of Detective Conan and shows the voice actors recording and its a really cool look at the process. 

Overall, this is a really solid collection of shorts and you can really see the storytelling style that Gosho likes to use and its honestly great. I found myself being hooked on each short, even the one's that were really short because they each had a solid story that just drew you in and made you enjoy them. 

I would highly recommend checking these out if you can find them. If you do a little searching there are pretty easy to track down. Once again, thank you all for reading and I will be back next month with another review for you all. Until next time..


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Friday, January 19, 2024

OVA Review! Air In Summer (2005)

 Hello everyone! The first blog of the new year is finally here. I hope you all are having a great new year so far. Since we are diving head first back into the reviews, I figured I would start off with one that is pretty simple to enjoy.

The anime that is up for review this month is Air In Summer. Air in summer is an OVA of the Anime air that from what I like to call the Clannad Universe. I watched Air a few years ago and much like Clannad it was great and had a great story so I was pretty excited to watch this OVA. 

The OVA features our three characters: Kanna, Ryuuya and Uraha and we go on this journey of them going on the run due to Kanna not wanting to change Shrines. Its a bit of a simple story but it is well put together. 

Even though the characters are on the run, the OVA does add in some elements of comedy and some really good character moments. If you have seen Clannad or Air then you know exactly what to expect from this Anime and the tone of the Anime is exactly the same as those. I will say the OVA isn't amazing or anything but it was a easy watch so it didn't feel like it dragged on. 

If you are a fan of these styles of anime's especially Clannad and Air then you will enjoy this ova and its only 2 episodes so you will be able to breeze through it rather quickly.

Once Again, thank you all for reading, I know these reviews are not the most in depth but I hope you enjoy them. I will be back next month with another review for you all so until then, stay safe and...



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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Anime Movie Review! Backflip!! Movie (2022)

 What is up everyone! Another month means we are back with a another review for you guys. I hope everyone is doing well and hope you all have had a great holiday. I'm not sure if this will be the last Blog for the year or not but I did signup for the myanimelist secret Santa this year so there may be a post coming from that.


The Anime up for review today is one that I watched a few season back and didn't realize it had a movie until now. The Anime for review is Backflip the Movie, for those that don't know Backflip is a Anime about a high school men's Rhythm Gymnastics team and its a decent enough anime so I knew the movie would be at least decent.

The movie starts off with them preparing for the Inter-High tournament and as exciting as that sounds this is where the movie takes its first dip. We see the team arrive for the competition but them it just transitions away from it and a few scenes later we find out that they lost. It was strange that they decided not to show the competition and from there the movie sort of just stumbles along. 

From here, we see the senior members prepare to graduate and do one last routine. The movie honestly just sort of treads along and you can sort of just tune it out for most of the second half and not miss anything. If you are a fan of the show then the movie is a decent companion piece but don't expect anything new or really much expansion of the story.

I hope you enjoyed this review and if this is the last blog for the year, Have a great new year!


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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

OVA Review! Angel's Feather (2006)

 What is up everyone! Its a new month so that means we are back with a new review for you guys. I hope everyone is having a good October and enjoying the current anime and Anime convention season.


Apparently lee, I am in that part of the year when watching Terrible Anime is the mission, because I just watched and reviewed a terrible for the podcast and now I'm about to review one that may have been a worse of that. The Anime in question today is the 2006 Anime Angel's Feather.


I dont even know what to start with Angel's Feather, firstly it is based on a Yaoi Visual Novel video game, and you can tell from the way the characters interact that its from a game. The main story is that our main character Shou is transferred to this new school and while there he finds out that one of the top boys at the school is actually his brother who he was separated from when they were kids. 


One the surface the story sounds like it could be a decent one, but the show quickly goes down hill. The issue with this OVA is that it's full of just random interactions that seem to come out of nowhere and dialogue that doesn't flow well. There is one part in the Anime where they just randomly start fighting monsters and then one of the guy's turns on the other and it just came out of left field.


Even though this Anime is a Yaoi, I'm not even sure I would recommend it to Yaoi fans because it honestly moves to fast for any fans to focus on any pairings or relationships because its just a quick rotation of guys that barely get more than a few moments of screen time. 


While I do plan to hunt down the game because well I have a problem lol , I cant recommend this anime at all.  The story had some potential and maybe if it was more than 2 episodes they could have fleshed it out more but as it is, its just a really rushed OVA that ends up falling flat.


Thanks for reading!


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