Misc 13

How this series has been making me feel...

I love that Oreki looked. LOVE it.

Arcana Familia 2

my face after watching an episode about chasing a damn cat.

Wait, what? Did the action series of the summer season really just have an episode -  and the second, let's-rope-in-the-audience episode - entirely focused on chasing and returning a kitten?

Felicita is distraught about her father's recent pronouncement. The others are looking out for her feelings, but this almost makes her more upset. So she distracts herself helping Nova find a kitten and using her Arcana to return the hapless furball.

Bored.To.Tears. Rule number one about when a shounen series is getting tired is that it turns into a slice-of-life. How can Arcana already be pulling that in the second episode? I thought this was a shoe-in series for this lackluster season, but if the next episode is like this, I'm not sticking around for the plot to thicken.

Rating: C+ 

Arcana Familia 1

the ojou in question.

The titular Arcana Family, a vigilante go-gooder mafia-esque group with special powers linked to the names of tarot cards, is shocked by the news that the family's Papa is thinking of retiring. But what is more shocking is that there will be a deal between the arcana wielders for not only the position of the next Papa but also for the hand of his daughter, the fiercely independent Erica.

The first ep works more as set up than as anything else, so it is hard to judge how good this might be. We get a short version of who the family is, what the arcana powers are, and then a lot of set up for the coming duel. I'm hoping that the characters aren't going to be as 2D as they are initially looking (i.e. filling in the usual stereotypes for a typical shounen).


Rating: B (for being almost totally stage-setting)