Category: Favored Topics

S.W.A.T. Reviews: Spring 2013 Pt. 2

Leave a comment

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful. Here are 8 from the new season:

RSS Feed     –     iTunes Feed

Listen – Episode 1 of Devil Survivor 2 The Animation from Pony Canyon with the opening “Take Your Way” by livetune adding Fukase from SEKAI NO OWARI. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of Majestic Prince from Dogakobo and Orange with the opening “Sayonara tte iu” by Chiaki Ishikawa. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of The Devil is a Part-timer! from WHITE FOX with the ending “Sankaku e.p.” by nano.RIPE. It is streaming on Funimation.

Listen – Episode 1 of Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet from Production I.G with the opening “Kono Sekai wa Bokura o Matte Ita” by Minori Chihara. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of The Severing Crime Edge from Studio Gokumi with the ending “Kimi to Futari” by Karin Takahashi × Yurika Endo. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of Muromi-san from Tatsunoko Production with the opening “Nanatsunoumi Yori Kimi no Umi” by Sumire Uesaka. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU from Brains Base with the opening “Yukitoki” by Nagi Yanagi. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live from Dongwoo Animation and Tatsunoko Production with the opening “BOY MEETS GIRL” by Prizmmy☆.

Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: Mysterious Heroine X

Leave a comment

This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

Nanako Fantasy Version Ω

Leave a comment

Every year Type-Moon rolls out some special little treat for the fans on April Fools’ day since 2005 when they jokingly announced the Neco-Arc: The Movie. Some years the joke is more complex than others. Last year’s event seemed pretty simple as they were working hard on getting out Mahou Tsukai no Yoru which had been delayed several times. So they just had a poster for a Koha-Ace: Chemical Maid Kohaku movie and some accompanying Koha-Ace comics. But this year they went all out almost as if making up for the simple project they did last year. 2013 gave us a whole mini-visual novel around the most unlikely of heroines.

No. Not Bazett Fraga McRemitz. Lets not talk crazy talk. I mean a story surrounding the adventures of Satsuki Yumizuka aka Sacchin.

This was fairly complex as there was an intro page, a back story page, a cast page, and then 13 episodes of a visual novel that were released one episode at a time over the course of April Fools’ day. Most of the story is a Saint Seiya parody with a bit of Madoka thrown in the mix. There were a few chapters were you had to fight Pokemon style battles. (Thankfully you don’t need to do any EV training.) They took most of it down but people have saved it all if you know where to look. You can find the 13 raw episodes here if you missed them.

Rojiura SATSUKI Chapter Heroine Sanctuary is a story about 3 main members of the Back Alley Alliance Sacchin, Sion, and Riesbyfe (because Len was probably too good for this) trying to become gold ranked heroines. To do this they must fight their way up the ladder of popularity by defeating all the heroines above them in rank. They easily take out all the silver heroines but then their mentor Shiro is taken out in turn. So they vow to defeat the 12 Gold Heroines before the end of April 1. The 12 Gold Heroines are of course the “most popular” Type-Moon characters and therefore some tough customers. During the last leg of this journey they are joined by Ciel and Mysterious Heroine X who help them in their battle.

Continue reading →