But remember, while I have my complaints, both of these actresses have also played some of my favorite roles, because they also have their strengths. Noto sounds great when her shyness is a little more subdued or the character is more confident and she can display some truly impressive emotion (as she even does as Kotomi in Clannad). Tamura, meanwhile, just generally sounds better when she isn’t pushing the cutesy factor too much and is showing any kind of intense emotion, wherein she excels. These elements of their voices are what we get on full display in Twin Angel, which has them both in possibly my favorite roles from either of them.
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Taishou Yakyuu Musume has one of the best starts to a first episode ever. This leads into a charming slice-of-life anime with excellent direction, pretty art and animation, a very soothing soundtrack, and an interesting premise (girl’s baseball in 1920s Japan). The episode is what one might call ‘very good.’ However, it is also what one might call ‘very goddamn boring.’ — HOWEVER, when I did a little research to decide if I should drop the show, I found myself so dumbstruck by the show’s insane pedigree that I honestly just couldn’t bring myself not to continue. If there’s one thing that can absolutely be said about Ichinose Kotomi, it’s that she has amazing feet. Her feet (as well as her knees) are plastered all over the arc, even in the parts where she is a little kid. Damn, those lolicons at Kyoto Animation know how to get my jeans tight. (protip: I never wear jeans.) Oyakata-sama does not ‘ride’ a horse. He ‘rides’ a pair of horses that share a saddle. He ‘rides’ them standing up while holding a massive axe. He mounts his double-horse by slamming his axe into the ground, propelling him 50 feet in the air and he lands on the double-horse while it is moving. He then rides this horse straight up a several-hundred-foot vertical wall. At the top, he is attacked by a ninja who he guards against within a centimetar of being stabbed in the eye. The ninja proceeds to decapitate his horses and enter into mortal combat with him. After he’s punched the ninja through a building, he proceeds to kill the ninja’s master by vaporizing him with sheer manly energy. My friends. This is the greatest anime ever made. And what’s more, it appeals to everyone. Simoun is one of those anime that is accurately described as ‘amazing’ and anyone who disagrees has ‘no taste’. It’s ‘brilliant’, if you will, and that may be why it doesn’t have enough fans. It stands a little too far on the threshold of goodness where it can’t really become popular. Kind of like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Honey and Clover or something, where it has a following of dedicated fans and is truly top-tier stuff but somehow just never reaches the heights that it should in popularity. |
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