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Best and Worst Anime of 2008

Published by Adun December 31st, 2008 in ARIA The Origination, Anime Blogs, H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~, Series Review and To Love-Ru. 8 Comments 51,349 Views

As the year draws ever closer to an end, it’s time to stop for a bit and look back at the year that was 2008. Although this year I didn’t complete a lot of series that I was blogging, as well as not blog for an entire season, I still ended up watching them through to the end. Like past years, I have a few rules when it comes to determining if a series belongs in a certain year:

  • The series must have aired in 2008.
  • If a series has transitioned from last year to this year, majority of the episodes must have screened in 2008.
  • I must have watched the show.
  • If a show is transitioning from this year to next year, it will not be considered for this year’s awards.
  • It can be either a TV series, OVA, or movie.

So without further ado, here are my thoughts on the year 2008.

Best Action & Best Mecha - Macross Frontier

Without a shadow of a doubt that this year’s No.1 would be Macross Frontier. It provided all the action and more just more action that simply can’t be rivaled in any other series this year. Although transforming fighter planes is nothing new, it’s the principle that something from the past can still be so awesome in today’s otaku world.

Runner Ups: Code Geass (Best Action & Mecha), Hellsing Ultimate (best action)

Best Animation - Kara no Kyoukai 5th movie

Now most probably wouldn’t know about KnK 5 since the DVD doesn’t come out till January 2009, I did get to watch this in Japan back in August when it was screening on the big screen. But most know the quality of KnK movies so far and by far this is the winner for 2008.

Runner Ups: true tears, Wolf and Spice

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 12

Published by Adun March 24th, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 3 Comments 3,082 Views

Well it came to no surprise that Hirose had a mental breakdown and reverted to his younger self before his mother killed herself, but I found it more strange on how he perceived Hayami as his mother. I can’t really see the logic in that since he blames Hayami for his mother’s death, but then there really are no explanations for when people breakdown. What I expected before watching this episode was by some miracle Takuma would forgive Hayami and all is right with the world. But the way they make Takuma breakdown and with him and Hayami moving back to Tokyo was the better option. I would say this is the kind of story development I was looking for.

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 11

Published by Adun March 16th, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 2 Comments 1,797 Views

It was only a matter of time before Takuma would finally snap at Hayami, but damn I wouldn’t have fought he would actually beat her up. It kind of pissed me off seeing him trying to act as if he was sorry and tried to get Hayami to come back to his house, but even if he did, that lingering hate would revive once again. But poor Hayami, I can see getting beat up by the sleazy looking cronies is no big issue, but to be beaten up by Takuma to the state of having a broken arm is damn awful.

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 10

Published by Adun March 9th, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 1 Comment 1,850 Views

Right after a little happy ending to last episode, we’re now delving into the more serious side of the story and start looking into the mystery behind Hayami and Takuma. We’ve seen why the town hates Hayami’s family so much, but we never knew why people didn’t want Takuma associating with Hayami. However it seems only the adults knew about the incident between the Hirose and Kohinata family, but I wonder if there is still a deeper meaning to why Takuma must not be together with Hayami.

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 09

Published by Adun March 3rd, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 2 Comments 1,284 Views

Wait, are my eyes deceiving me? Is the animation actually gotten that little bit better since the seris started? Either that or I’m going horribly blind (well I wear glasses so I’m halfway there), so it’s got me wondering if they saved most of the budget towards the end of the series. But my guess is that it’s only a one off thing given that this episode is where Takuma confesses to Hayami. After last week’s somewhat bizarre filler episode, it’s good to see that we’re progressing on with the story. I figured as much that Otoha would stick around rather than disappear for good, as it means her role in the story has finished and she’ll simply be watching over everyone now.

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 08

Published by Adun February 27th, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 2 Comments 1,707 Views

I have two things to say about this episode, awesomely terrible and terribly awesome. If you are wondering WTF about that statement, then that’s exactly what I think of this episode. Recently H20 has taken a bit more of a serious character development with both Hayami and Hotaru and a lot of things got resolved pretty quickly but it also brought up other questions. With the episode titled Otoha, I thought we would see a bit more on Hotaru and Hinata, but instead we have the entire world tuned upside down and enter into the crazy world of Otoha.

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H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ - 07

Published by Adun February 18th, 2008 in Anime Blogs and H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~. 1 Comment 1,553 Views

Now that was a bombshell they dropped on us. here I was thinking we’d see more into Hinata’s past and about her sister Hotaru, but we get something entirely different. My original theory was that Hotaru died because of Hayami’s family not treating her, much like what happened with Yui’s grandfather, but the fact that the real Hinata had died and Hotaru taking her place is much more interesting. This answers the question of why Hotaru’s grandfather is so strict with her and I guess why she is always shuddering in fear and the need to be a good girl.

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