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impressions on comics i read

Elektra by Greg Rucka
Very nice, despite the variety of the art, most of which was bad or ill fitted to the series. Only trouble is, Huntress: Cry for Blood was better; and kinda-sorta the same story >_>;

Picked up Hexed: the Devil I know in what of those impulsive thing I do, and I'm very glad I did. It was great. Darkish Urban fantasy, kickass female character, beautiful art and a nifty plot. I want to read more stuff like that.

Anime of last season

(because I still don't feel like doing any proper review)

I'm left with a rather disappointed feeling about the spring season.

C : the Money of Soul and Possibility Control was a big mess of a failed concept, possibly too ambitious to be well executed in such a short series; but even there, the only way it ever managed to address the themes of economics crisis etc. was through a whole lot of pompous monologues that didn't mean much; and the shounen aspects didn't work either because the system of fighting never coalesced into something that makes sense to the audience besides a lot of impressive graphics.

Ano Hana, felt annoyingly clichéed the whole way through, steeped into too much pathos to work for me as melodrama and for the characters to feel genuine, despite the excellent execution of the concept otherwise, in direction, animation and overall atmosphere.

Hanasaku Iroha, which gave me a very good impression based on the first couple of episodes, totally failed to follow through on following episodes, to be replaced with boring comedy and icky fanservice, to the point that I dropped it.

ETA: I forgot to talk about the X-Men anime! It ended up pretty crappy as well. The plot was pretty much boring, the direction was godawful, with a lot of scenes having everyone hanging around discussing (via a lot of repetition) while villains do their stuff or wait for them to catch up; extremely bad direction of the fight scene as well; and the most tragic of it all, the characterisation was a black hole, with characters having either no characterisation at all, or one made of one note trait that is hammed it to eleven. The only thing the show had for itself were excellent production values, with gorgeous animation and a very nice soundtrack./end eta

Which leaves us with the only two shows I've still got a positive impression on as they are being continued on this summer:

Ao no Exorcist, while being a thoroughly classical battle shounen series really work, with endearing characters and dynamics between them. Also like the art; it's fun to watch.

Tiger & Bunny, to my surprise, is the series left that stands out the most; it built up slowly up to the mid season climax really well, with great works on the characters and their dynamics, and establishing the setting. It's funny, has cool plot, and works pretty damn well as a reconstruction of super-heroes.