Short Summary:

Ohana Matsumae isn’t like other girls. Her thoughts seem to be a bit quirky and she wants to break out of her boring life and experience something dramatic. Her wish is granted faster than she expected when her mother decides to run off with her boyfriend and send Ohana to her grandmother. Because Ohanas mother and grandmother aren’t on good terms with each other the latter and Ohana have never met. Before she leaves for the samll mountain village in which her grandmother runs an hot spring inn Ohana meets her best friend Ko to say goodbye. Unexpectedly Ko confesses her love for Ohana but leaves directly afterwards. The bewildered girl doesn’t know how to react.

Without another word to Ko she leaves and waits excited for her personal fairy tail to enfold. And indeed, the Taisho era inn looks beautiful, like out of a movie. But that’s about everything that’s fairy tale like for Ohana. The girl she has to share a room with tells her to die the first time they meet and Ohana’s grandmother sees in her a worthless child of the daughter she detests. Ohana has to work for a roof above her head and as there’s no other place to go to she faces whatever struggles may lie ahead.

My opinion:

Hanasuka Iroha is quite a suprise. As usual I dived into the show without any knowledge of the story or anything. Then we meet Ohana as this quirky heroine who’s got her head in the clouds. Her grandmother treats her and the other girls at the inn like crap. I’m sure we’ll get to know that woman’s motives but in my opinion there’s no excuse for slapping her employees. I can see myself watching this show if I’m able to warm towards Ohana.

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Wow, this is my first blog entry after almost three years. You might guess Dog Days is so amazing I must write about it xD It’s not actually like that. I simply feel like blogging here again, I don’t want this site to die for good.
So, welcome to the anime spring season 2011 with Dog Days. The show is about Shin-kun, a boy from England who lives in Japan and loves to do a very acrobatic type of athletics. His goal is to become champion in a big contest taking place September this year. But for now its spring and he plans to spend spring break with practice.
On the last day before the holidays he gets summoned to another world, where two neighbouring countries are at war: Cats vs dogs xD They do have a human form (with cats’ or dogs’ ears and tails) but when they are defeated in battle they turn into their animal form (at least the head…see screenshot no. 9). The princess of the Biscotti kongdom asks Shin to be their hero. At first he’s afraid he can’t do anything to help in an epic battle until the princess explaines the rules:
The battle is more of a Takeshi’s castle style with parcours and commentators but no real fighting like…killing each other what you’d expect when you hear the word “war”. Shin sees a chance to use this as training for his body and agrees. So a new hero is born.
While this episode starts as what looks like an epic fantasy tale suddenly twists into a strange but funny athletic battle to the end. I was startled and amused. It’s not a show to take too serious and that’s exactly the reason why I might like it ^^

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Strike Witches seems closely related to Sky Girls, though so far I prefer the latter. It had so much more charm from the beginning while Strike Witches is more or less childish. It’s strange the girls are flying in ths sky with only magical “feet” and it’s exaggerated they sound like big helicopters or old style planes.
All that doesn’t mean I don’t like Strike Witches. I’ll be sure to watch at least another episode before I decide wether it’ll be on my summer list or not. Ah, summer holidays after next tuesday…two and a half months!

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Sekirei got on my nerves within minutes…not to say seconds. I’ll leave this show to all the male bloggers out there ^_~

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After the first two episodes again I stopped watching Shigofumi for a while. Though I was sold on the idea of the show I didn’t like the thought of an episodic strucuture. I did not await such a brilliant storyline where everything comes together in episode 7. You get to know the different characters and their relations to each other. It makes me think about death a lot and I love the character of Fumika’s father. While he’s eccentric you could kill him yourself, but then he turns into a child that sees the world with a loving heart and have to think he’s simply gorgeous.

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The ending was just like expected. Perhaps I shouldn’t watch shows where every detail is so predictable. At least Ruby – perhaps the most interesting character of all – returned.
All in all Rosario + Vampire turned from my favourite show of the season into the the most annoying one. There’s not even a kiss at the end, though it’s clear Tsukune and Moka love each other. Argh!

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Yes, finally this show is getting very serious. Still I’m annoyed. Why did they bring up the Public Safety Commission so late. They could have been the enemy from the very beginning.
And I can’t laugh about Shirayuki popping out of nowhere anymore…though I can laugh about stalkers being stalked!

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After the last two episodes, that felt so much like a finale to me, I can’t cope what’s coming now. Well, this times there’s a bit more to it than usual, but it’s still the old rival appears, Tsukune and friends defeat it-thing!

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And so H2O comes to an end. It’s not clear, wether Hirose actually was able to see but it’s not that important. All in all this show was not excellent, but still enjoyable to watch and I like the message: Everybody can achive happiness!
Though he wasn’t able to see and he carried a heavy burden Hirose was strong enough to help everybody in the village and so they got strong enough to help him. Some characters, especially Hinata/Hotaru matured a lot and I love shows were you can see character development and…take alook into the future. Oh my God, Hirose’s feet are so thin and long *giggle* The ending is kitschy, but still I like it and it makes me feel good. Over all a three star rating out of five!

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Short Summary:
When Shiika arrives at the appartment Rina is already gone. Instead the strange woman, who had seemed to give a mushi to Asami, explaines she’s one of the original three – the Voracious Eater. Shiika gets rescued by Minmin who’s not a spy at all, but loves Haji Keigo and wants to bring him Fuyuhotaru. In a fight Minmin’s mushi gets killed by Shiika. But in the end she’s injured/she dies, too.
Meanwhile Rina is at GARDEN and meets Kaji. She gets to know mushi were created by humans that want to rule over all the hosts that have lost their dreams. Rina is shocked and has to fight against hundreds and thousands SEPB hosts plus mushis, but when she gets the chance to kill Haji her powers have gone and her mushi Nanahoshi wins. She truns into a big monster and destroyes half the city till Kakkou appears. Though he’s about to turn into a monster himself he wants to save Rina. But then the Voracious Eater appears.

My opinion:
Okay, this is getting a bit crazy now. I hope there’s a possibility for Rina to turn back, also for Kakkou. The Voracious Eater must be destroyed, still what about the other two original hosts?

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