Picking up from the last post, here are four more shows my girlfriend and I have been watching recently.
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Chuunibyou, literally “2nd-year
middle school syndrome,” is a kind of delusional phase that can be best
described as a kid’s make-believe world spilling over into real life. That’s
not her sister – she’s actually a priestess from some magical organization!
He’s not really just a fifteen-year-old, he’s really the Dark Flame Master! She
wears an eyepatch not for medical reasons, but to seal the power of the
Tyrant’s Eye! The show revolves around a high school freshman who used to
suffer from chuunibyou, and his troubles having to deal with a female classmate
who’s reveling in her lack of
reality-fantasy barrier. The full title of the show translates into something
like “I’m delusional but I want to fall in love.” That’s a big hint, there.
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Code:Breaker – It’s a Japan where the cops are corrupt
and in cahoots with organized crime groups, and government officials are
running clandestine, inhuman experiments for their own ends. What do you do
when the law enforcement doesn’t even bother to hide their disrespect of the
law? What if evil is so high up and entrenched, that it can’t be touched by the
system? The answers to both questions are simple – you send in the
Code:Breakers. Each Code:Breaker is an individual possessing superhuman powers
that wouldn’t be out of place in the Marvel or DC Universe, and they behave
like the dark heroes of the 90’s. This is a mature show, where the question of
when is it alright to take a life, to destroy evil outright, is permissible or
moral as one of its central themes.
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Girls und Panzer – The premise is cute and amusing enough -
exclusive, all-girls schools holding mock tank battles as a co-curricular
activity. High school girls choosing which club to join normally don’t have
Tank Battle Club as an option, but here, it’s a status symbol. Once you get
past the initial weirdness, you can strap yourself in for turret-twisting,
tank-busting action, and be surprised by the issues and themes raised by the show.
Themes like the burden of having a prominent last name and the expectations
that go with it, going against family tradition, and sticking your neck out
for a friend, make a nice, feel-good backdrop against all the cannon fire and
war machines trundling about.
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Ixion Saga DT – A boy gets sucked into a world of sword and
sorcery, and must find a way back. We’ve seen this a million times before,
right? Now don’t go skipping over to the next show yet, because this one has a
lot of twists and sticks its tongue out at the clichés of this kind of story.
Our dubious hero is an avid MMORPG player, who knows that it’s suicide to use
an attack with a long start-up against an enemy who isn’t stunned, and is
willing to exploit this fact in this RPG-like world. The huge swordsman who
rescued him graduated from university, and the beautiful maid / bodyguard to
the bratty princess is not who she appears to be. Follow this not-so-typical
party of adventurers as they try to get our hero home, and prevent a war from
erupting in the process!
That's eight down, and twelve to go! Check back in a day or two for more animé we've been watching this season!
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