12 Days of Anime Christmas - Day Five

Day Five- Studio Trigger

I’ve never really been a big follower of any particular animation studio. While I could recognize Studio Bonez or J.C. Staff or in the very least knew the names, I never considered myself a fan of any particular one or another, or a follower of any particular studio. But in the past year that has changed. I might actually consider myself an actual fan of Studio Trigger. 

12 days of Anime Christmas - Day Four

Day Four- Orenchi no Furo Jijou

As you may know, I watch a lot of micro series. A micro series, for those who don’t know, are any show that is unrealistically short, around 5-10 minutes, but usually less than 5. There have been a few this year, Tonari no Seki-kun makes the cut in my mind, Strange + and its sequel, the lesbian animal girl show Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san, but the show I want to talk about today is the homoerotic merman anime, Orenchi no Furo Jijou.

Twelve Days of Anime Christmas - Day Three

Day Three- Majin Bone

The bands all here

After two days of talking about transforming five man bands and guys in armor fighting monsters and other armored guys, let’s talk about a five man band who transform into armor and fight other guys in armor. Wait… But anyway, let’s talk about Majin Bone.

12 Days of Anime Christmas - Day Two

Day two- Kamen Rider

Like Super Sentai, every year there are two Kamen Rider seasons, one that ends and one that begins. Unlike Super Sentai, the show with the longer run time over the year is the old show, while the new show only gets the last few weeks of the year. As such, I am going to flip the order of what I am writing about, first talking about the current series and then about the one that ended a few months ago. Let’s first look at Kamen Rider Drive.

12 Days of Anime Christmas

12 Days of anime Christmas

So for the Christmas season I’ve decide to do the 12 days of anime Christmas. For those who don’t know what it is, here’s the long and short of it. http://thecartdriver.com/12-days-of-anime-project-call-to-arms-christmas-2014/ basically for the 12 days up to Christmas, and Christmas itself, I will be making a post a day about something that has happened in the past year that is anime related. From just talking about shows I liked to specific moments and many other things. So let’s start this off with a bang for day one. 

Garo: Honoo no Kokuin ep 7-8-9

Garo: Honoo no Kokuin 

It is coming to the end of the semester for me, so writing these weekly posts are getting a bit harder. Mostly because they are being interrupted with real work and everything. So at least this week’s post will be about the past three episodes. There is a decent amount to go over, so let’s just jump in. 

Garo Honoo no Kokuin ep 6

Garo Honoo no Kokuin 

This week, we learned a piece of the villain’s plan, how bad ass a father can be, and that Leon is a virgin. Obviously the last piece of information was the most important. In actuality Leon is shaping up to be an interesting character. On the outset he looks like he is a cool, calm warrior type. He cares about honor and working towards his ultimate goal. Distractions of drink, money, and flesh mean nothing to him. But that is only the most visible layer. In actuality he is still young, an adult by the standards of the time period of the show, but he is still a boy, and not only because he is a virgin. I mentioned before that he is naïve as a Makai Knight, but that naivety seems to stretch further than that. While he acts calm and cool, his emotions are always surprisingly just about to boil over. He is basically just a normal teen. But this gives me hope for his growth. Yes he is an emotional youngling right now, but by the end of the show? Who knows?

Ignore the shitty play button and animewow in the corner. I needed to make screen shots fast, alright!

                On the episode itself, I want to say that is was very standard. That isn’t a bad thing, standard Garo is still getter then most things on television. While the plot of the week was just ok, I have to admit I really like the villains plans. The idea of inducing the darkness that is required to be first consumed by a Horror, and then forcing the Horror into the person is an evil yet effective plan to build an army of the damned very quickly. While they don’t get a lot of screen time this season, I am really digging the villains this season. My only complaint is in the next episode it seems to be introducing another Makai Knight. This brings the totally up to four, and this one will actually be evil. I believe the most Makai Knights we have gotten before was in season two, but I am not counting the final battle with all the Knights, I mean just named ones. And they were working off of ones from the previous season. This season alone we have gotten three brand new Knights. I feel like we might be getting too many. But on the other hand, that is a benefit of animation over live action. It costs less to draw a new suit then to manufacture one and do the CG for it. 

This is a good plan. I am happy to be a part of it!