Anime Spotlight! Ah! My Goddess (2005)

ONA Review! Aharen-san wa Hakarenai Mini (2022)

 What is up guys! A new month means that I'm back with a new blog for you guys. Hope everyone has been doing well. In a small update, you may notice that a need rss feed has been put on the blog and that feed is for my Kpop/Jpop themed podcast so feel free to check it out lol.

    The review for this month is from a Anime that just wrapped up last season and one one of my favorites due to the randomness and of course all the Esteem( hope you get that reference). The Anime that is up for review today is Aharen-san wa Hakarenai. 

For those of you not familiar with the service, it revolves around the Reina and Raidou who are classmates and get into the most random situations...and Reina has a stalker lol. The ona series is basically a mini version of the show in Chibi form with them getting into weird situations all under a minute.

The ona series is made up for 18 one minute episodes that were released on Twitter,  and one thing that I really enjoyed about these episodes, even watching the episodes raw, were that they felt like a really good introduction into the series and feels like an easy way to tell someone not familiar with the series exactly what the shows is about. 

While all of the shorts are pretty simple and to the point, my favorites all included their teacher who catches a nosebleed every time she see's Reina and Raidou together because she just cant handle all their esteem and its hilarious, she is easily one of my favorite characters. 

Overall these are just some fun little bonus episodes to help give the fans of the series some extra content and I enjoyed them. If you haven't seen the original series yet, I would recommend these just to give you a taste of what you are in store for.

As always, thanks for reading and ill be back next month with another review for you guys! Until next time stay safe and.....

MAHO OUT! 

OVA Review! Aika Zero (2009)

 What is up guys! is is that time once again and we are back with another blog for you guys. This month we continue with the Aika series and I bring you the last piece of that pervy Anime Pie. I do hope that you all have been doing well and if you have been able to, I hope you have been enjoying con season. 

    Now that the introduction is out of the way, its time to jump into another episode of Agent Aika and this time the series we are looking at is Aika Zero. Aika Zero takes place after the R-16 series and as weird as it sounds, this was probably the most pervy series yet. 

    In Zero we find out that Girls are starting to be kidnapped and taken hostage by a group of students who only take the girls the find to have certain assets that make them stand out from the rest. Did I mention that the girls are attacked by this electric wire that attacks them in the area below if you catch my drift. Once Aika and the team catch on to watch is happening they began to plot their rescue mission. 

    The plan consist of Aika going undercover and trying to find the girls while she is fooling them into thinking she doesnt know their plan. I'm sure you know how well this plan works and it turns into a lets rescue Aika mission as well. I feel like I have said this before but Aika is a decent series that is held back by their need for Panty Shots every 15 seconds and at some point is just becomes hilariously annoying and it takes away from the show.

    Overall the show is a decent story with some decent action and its Aika so you do know what you will be getting but overall the series is just not great and a clear mid 2000's anime.

As always thank you guys for reading, the year is winding down but I still have a few more reviews coming so I hope you all look forward to them.

MAHO OUT!

Anime Spotlight! A Channel (2011)

OVA Review! Agent Aika ( 97-99)

 What is up guys! I am finally back with a new blog for everyone. I hope everyone is doing well, Con season is in full force so I hope everyone is staying safe, I went to Momocon recently and thankfully I didnt come back with that C19. 

I decided to come back this month with a banger of a Anime to review. This ova is so top tier that everyone should watch it at least once. This Anime is none other than Agent Aika aka the anime that spams the panty shot button lol.

Agent Aika is a very hard anime to explain, first this is a sequel to Aika Zero, but I haven't seen that one yet so I may miss a few things. This is a 7 episode OVA and it follows Aika, her side kicks Shuntaro and and Rion and the comic relief character Gust. The main villain in this series in a guy named Rudolf and then eventually his sister/night partner (Gotta love Anime right?). 

I will say that the cat and mouse game that we get between Aika and Rudolf can be entertaining at times because he really is just a evil guy and Aika is a solid agent with good fight skills but like much of this Anime the reliance on it constantly being pervy takes away from the little bit of story that is there. As much as I did enjoy Rudolf as a character I will say that his sister is actually a better enemy for Aika because she is just as clever and is willing to be a bit more underhanded.

One of my favorite characters in this series has to be my dude Shuntaro who is just a complete air head but also hilarious because he is just there to annoy Rion and to look surprisingly cute in the outfits of the enemies.

Despite the pervyness I will say that Aika does a good job at having a all female anime cast that are all made to look strong and tough and I did enjoy that but we also say way to much of their underwear and as much as I love my pervy anime even this got a bit overboard.

Aika is a experience and with so many shows in the franchise I say give it a watch and I think if nothing else you will get a few good laughs from it, but you should probably watch alone or with the door closed.

Thanks for reading and ill be back next month with another review!

MAHO OUT

Manga Spotlight! Romeo x Romeo

OVA Review! .hack//Quantum (2011)

 What is up everyone! Hope you are all doing well, I was hoping to get this review up weeks ago but I may or may not have just been being lazy lol. Hope everyone is staying safe and enjoying the current Anime Spring season. 

I am back with a new ova review for you guys and this ova was another disappoint from a franchise that I really want to love but they are not making it easy. The series in question is .Hack and the series ill be reviewing today is .Hack//Quantum.

The series revolves around the friends who all play the game together until one day, one of the friends just disappears. The other friends them begin this search of not only finding out what happened to the friend but also solving some other weird things that are happening. If any of this sounds familiar, that's because its basically every virtual reality Anime you have every seem. 

Later around episode 2, we find out about another character and how they play a role in everything that is happening. Without spoiling to much, the character is someone the girls do not suspect due to their friendliness but their backstory clears that up in no so great detail. This series much like another .Hack series I watched refuses to actually take time to expand on the story and instead they just try to pile as much stuff into one or two scenes as they can and it just makes everything feel cramped and hard to follow.

    In episode 3, we finally get to see what really happened and why a character did what they do and why but to be honest I was just glad to see it all be wrapped up and done with. .Hack seems to be a franchise that is just for those who love the games because they are written as if they expect you to be fully aware of the story before watching and to me that just isolates those who have not played it. 

The anime wasn't terrible just not great, so for that I will give it a 5/10 but unless you are really into .Hack I would say you can skip this OVA.

Thank you all for reading, and I will be back next month with another semi decent blog for you guys lol. If you have seen this show then leave a comment. Until next Month....

    MAHOU OUT!