Review - Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan
Mon, 25 May 2009 19:47:35 +0100
Or, so I have been assured, "3rd Grade Alchemy" Magical? Pokaan, or just
Magipoka if you prefer. It matters not.
It's a story covering the life of four young "princesses", though you
might want to question that once you see them. We have Uma (pronounced
Yuma throughout the series, so I'm not totally sure why the ...
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Review - Yume Tsukai
Mon, 25 May 2009 19:48:30 +0100
The name is translated in the anime as "Dream Users" and appears to be a
play on the same sort of genre as that used by better known anime such as
Vampire Princess Miyu. The story is fairly simple in that the users (all
named after days of the week, so it seems) come to the rescue of people
for whom dreams have be ...
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Review - Seven of Seven
Mon, 25 May 2009 19:46:37 +0100
Also known as Seven of Nana, it's another title I picked up following a
recollection of the manga. It's also a title where the anime only loosely
follows the manga in its contents.
Basically speaking, the story is about a young girl, Nana Suzuki, who is
studying for exams while nursing an enormous crush on a boy ...
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Re: Aria
Tue, 12 May 2009 06:13 +0100 (BST)
Martin D. Pay(martin@starship-excalibur.co.uk) added
<snip>
> >> Just to clarify - its Touch I didn't get very far into. I've
> >> never seen anything of Aria. Something about there not being
> >> giant robots. ^_^
> >
> >Yes, it has to be admitted that Aria is remarkably deficient in
> >robots, giant or ...
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Re: Aria
Tue, 12 May 2009 06:13 +0100 (BST)
Rob Kelk(robkelk@deadspam.com) added
<snip>
> >> Somehow I think I could live without the thought of a gondola
> >> that transforms into a combat mecha. Although I suppose to keep
> >> with tradition it would have to be three gondolas that transform
> >> and combine to form a giant combat mecha.
> >
> > Not ...
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Re: Aria
Tue, 12 May 2009 06:13 +0100 (BST)
Justin(Justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added
> >> You mean you haven't come across Gundam Aqua? It's a
> >> character-lead (ahem) "slice of life" story about some gondiliers
> >> who discover some mecha in a drowned ruin and go on a killing
> >> spree.
> >
> > Somehow I think I could live without the thought ...
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Re: Aria
Mon, 11 May 2009 21:46 +0100 (BST)
Adam Jones(adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk) added
> > I've just finished watching Aria- The Natural. I can't remember
> > another series where the storyline drifts along at such a positively
> > glacial pace.
>
> That's because you've not read or watched Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
> You should fix that. :) (I'v ...
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Re: Aria
Mon, 11 May 2009 21:46 +0100 (BST)
Nick Roberts(tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk) added
<snip>
> > Just to clarify - its Touch I didn't get very far into. I've
> > never seen anything of Aria. Something about there not being
> > giant robots. ^_^
>
> You mean you haven't come across Gundam Aqua? It's a character-lead
> (ahem) "slice of life" s ...
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Re: Aria
Mon, 11 May 2009 21:46 +0100 (BST)
Justin(Justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added
> >>> I've just finished watching Aria- The Natural. I can't
> >>> remember another series where the storyline drifts along at
> >>> such a positively glacial pace.
> >> I never did get very far in,
> >
> > I can understand that. Aria is one of those series that ...
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Re: Aria
Sun, 10 May 2009 22:11 +0100 (BST)
Justin(Justin@briareos.demon.co.uk) added
> > I've just finished watching Aria- The Natural. I can't remember
> > another series where the storyline drifts along at such a
> > positively glacial pace.
>
> I never did get very far in,
I can understand that. Aria is one of those series that does reward y ...
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