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Showing posts with label C3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C3. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2012

C3 Episode 12 [end]

and not even you could save this show
And another chaotic mess of a show reaches a chaotic mess of an ending.

It's an all out showdown between Haruaki's friends and Alice of the Families (who can apparently multiply herself). And it's also a showdown between two ideas of loving the Waas for what they are (killing machines) or what they want to be.
yeah...didn't see that coming.

As with most episodes, i found myself confused as to how things happened the way they did. There is no sensible progression of narrative.
or that.

Overall, this show has been similar to the experience of reading Tsutomo Nihei mangas: visually very interesting, but you never know what the hell is going on. Part of this is the problem of being a piece of a light novel series (i find few of these are getting good adaptations anymore), but it is most just bad storyboarding.
why are you stripping?

Overall Series Rating: B-

my feelings about this whole series.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

C3 Episode 10

My feelings about this whole episode.


I had not wanted to write more reviews for this series as the narration is annoyingly disjointed, but I am going to anyway.

Holy fan-service! That is basically the driving force behind this ep as we get to see as much of the student council prez, Kirika, as one could want. I can't post half the screenshots from this for fear of the moral state of my soul.

After a confrontation with a pursuer from the Biblios Family, girls keep popping up dead. Our heroes view this as a challenge and set out to stop the menace.

There is a massive fight (wherein Konoha's hair turns blue for a moment?) but they can't stop the woman who is both hunting Fear and apparantly commiting the murders.
That's Konoha. no joke.
During all this, Kirika is being blackmailed into not helping Haruaki and his friends. She has some secret she doesn't want him to know (and is the cause of all the fan service).

In the end, the group stumbles upon some information that makes it seem that the culprit in the murder cases is closer to home than they had thought.
Describes this whole ep. I only posted the tame stuff. 
Nothing much more to say. If you don't really like fan-service, this ep will grate on you. Lucky you if you do. Otherwise, same critiques as always: great art, narrative is splotchy at best, and this whole thing could benefit from a Bakemonogatari-esque sense of pace.

Rating: B- (for non-service fans) B+ (for service fans)

Saturday, December 3, 2011

C3 Episode 9

Uh, i have simply stopped caring about doing summaries for this show. It is basically screenshot fodder, ecchi service, and one-liners anyway. so i will merely provide that.

Rating: B-

Regular(ish) stuff.









Emotes.




One-Liners.


Ecchi.







Stich. [i debated about posting these as i like to feign respectability (and this is still technically a class blog), but i made them so i will post them ***EDIT*** nevermind. self-censored the fear/hair tentacle and the full of the student council pres from the op. but i do have them, fyi. ***END EDIT***]