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Fuck yeah!
When your Dad's the Devil himself, you've got a lot to live up to. Although it's turned his world upside down, teenager Rin Okumura hasn't let it get to him. He's a half demon who's determined to become a powerful exorcist and, well, check out the screencap above.
This screencap hurts. Trust me.
If you went into this anime with no knowledge about this anime, and what the main thrust of the plot was, you would think it was about a plucky teenage girl with a nice personality living her life in the city. That's only a part of the deal. This is a "city gal comes to the country" story, but this story is not just a silly comedy.
Matsumae is a girl with an eccentric Mom. One day her Mom just decides to skip out on her house and leave with her boyfriend. Oh, and she also doesn't want to take Matsumae with her; great parenting. Even though they have a severely estranged relationship with one another, Matsumae's Mom sends her to live with her Mom, the grandmother Matsumae has never met. It gets worse from there.
Matsumae's arrival at her Grandmother's inn doesn't go well. At one point, she's told to "die." What a welcome! Then, at the climax of the first episode, we get the screencap you've already seen. This is a slice of life anime, but what I like about it is that this is not a happy, dull tale. Hanasaku Iroha looks to be more engaging than other anime of its ilk. I don't mind seeing the struggle of a fish out of water. One can only hope that it does not become predictable.
This is a robot with a wind up key in her back, chasing a cat. For reals.
Hmm. Hmm. Where to start with this show?
IT'S TOTALLY CRAZY!!
Nichijou (My Ordinary Life) is what happens when a slice-of-life comedies goes insane. I don't watch many comedies, and with good reason; it's hard to get me to laugh. My Ordinary Life succeeds, for its weirdness alone. My Ordinary Life is both about school life and about nothing at all. The characters are used as props for absolutely lunatic situations. I love laughing out loud, and this show is the funniest anime I've watched in a while.
What makes this show so funny is how it exaggerates situations. Usually we go throughout our lives and odd or unfortunate things may happen. You might drop some of your lunch on the floor, for example. Now imagine if most of your life was done with anime speed lines, loud screaming, silly, expressions and total non-sequiturs. Each character has their own style of funny, which keeps the laughs going for the length of a show. Also, goats.
I've read My Ordinary Life being compared to Lucky Star (which I have not seen yet), so if you like that show, here's more for you!
Less panty shots, more of this!
In less than 30 seconds, We Without Wings- under the Innocent Sky went from being interesting to being the same panty-waving drivel I usually ignore.
I don't recall ever come across an anime that is in such a rush to introduce the harem so quickly as this show does. We open on Haneda, a personality-less, lucky-as-hell, unworthy-of-all-this-attention dude, attacked and fawned over on his way to school, even by a girl who is related to him. Although this looks like some kind of trite nonsense, I will give We Without Wings some credit. The bits where we hear the narrator commenting on the story is fun, and there are a few nice visual flourishes, but it still is not enough to keep my attention. Yes, I denounce this anime even though provides me with quick profiles of all its characters.
Get ready for more squid puns and tentacle humor, because one of last year's most adorably funny anime series is set to return!