Jeoffrey

This anime series follows a pair of main male protagonists fighting against giant aliens (referred to as "neighbors") who enter their city through dimensional portals, using acquired alien technology. After watching two episodes, I am over it. The animation is not bad, and the subject matter is interesting, albeit relatively clichéd. However, the main characters were not interesting, and I found the treatment rather dull. It is not explicitly bad, although I do not feel the temptation to keep watching it anymore.

I watched the first episode with an astonished expression and thoughts like "Oh my God, what is this again?". Then I concluded that I was not going to get into this. I have seen a good few anime series about various obsessions and fetishes. Usually, there are obsessions focused on women's chests, lingerie, or even accessories like glasses, although I have never seen the obsession for girls' braids, and I do not think I want to. The beginning is a classic - Mitsuka Souji is a freshman student starting a new school and he is normal except that he loves the two-braid hairstyle, or Twintail, above all else. The alien Thuearle chooses him to protect the girls with braids because a bunch of lizard-aliens is after them. For this purpose, he is given a magical bracelet that turns Souji himself into a braided girl with superpowers, aka TailRed. Otherwise, there are two other important characters, Souji's friend Aika (unexpectedly a girl with pigtails), who has a thing for Souji. At the end of the first episode tt also looks like the student council president (another girl with pigtails), who is kidnapped from TailRed (Souji in girl form) after he rescues her, will play an important role. So much for the summary of the first episode; sorry for possible spoilers. Most of this information is also available for the description of this anime series on various forums, and thus this information would probably have reached you anyway. If anyone finds the summary of the first episode given by me to be a weird mess with a lot of emphasis on braids, then that is exactly the feeling I had while watching it. Sometimes I can get past such a weakness if the anime series is at least funny or a character interests me a lot, but unfortunately, that did not happen with this show.

Denkigai no Honya-san seems to be an anime series composed of short, supposedly humorous stories set in a manga shop. I did not enjoy the first episode; the sense of humor was quite poor, the plot was almost nonexistent, and the characters were not interesting; the only positive thing I could see was the animation, which was quite original and enjoyable. Unfortunately, that was not enough for me, so I am not going to continue watching this anime series.

This show seems like a version of Magic Kaito 1412 (also out now) for five-year-olds. There is a phantom robber who steals stuff, although this time in a slightly infantile and - perhaps for some - cute animation with a narrative that does not promise a very complex storyline from what I have seen. I like pretty things, and a lot of nonsense that most people dismiss can amuse me and perhaps even move me slightly sometimes, although this show did not do that for me. I do not know if it is because I do not want to get into two anime series with similar themes in one year. Perhaps it is because I have the feeling that I am watching something that I think would fit kids’ TV, or maybe it could be because I am not really into magic in the form of magicians using different tricks. (This could be one of the reasons why I might end up watching Magic Kaito 1412 in the future). Still, after the first episode, I am done. I may watch it again one day when I have more time, even though not now at the beginning of the fall season with so many interesting new shows coming out. Unfortunately, Kaitou Joker did not impress me.