For me I have two. Technically three.
- Night Walker: The Midnight Detective.
This show is cheesy as heck. It's basically about this guy named Shido who becomes a vampire and fights these creatures called the Night Breed. The night breed kill humans and sometimes posses them to cause havoc. Shido fights them with blood swords and stuff. Why is it on here? The massive cheese factor, the questionable ending, and how it does nothing really new keep it from being a good anime. Another thing about it is that while it's not on the level of MD Giest (kids, please don't look up MD Geist; it's not appropriate for kids whatsoever) AT ALL, it still has quite a bit of violence and sexual themes. While it's mainly PG-13-ish, you can tell this show was adapted from a more... risqué visual novel (please don't look up the visual novel unless you're 18+), and apparently it was one of the first anime to be adapted from a visual novel. While this show is not exactly great, I still enjoy the retro anime aesthetics and it's at least entertaining. I'm not going to say the full title because anime these days have obscenely long titles, but I'll get a lot of looks from people for liking this show; heck, on tumblr it's a meme to make fun of this show or anyone who likes it. It has some.. Odd themes, but to me, Oreimo is about so much more than its controversial moments. Oreimo is basically about a brother (Kyousuke) and his little sister (Kirino) who hate each other greatly, but then Kyosuke's sister reveals to him a secret she's been hiding for years. You see, Kirino is a top athlete at her school and a teen fashion model who appears in magazines, but she's hiding a secret she can't let anyone know or else her reputation will be ruined. Kirino is an otaku who gets enjoyment from watching anime, buying figurines of her favorite characters, and playing risqué visual novels involving little sisters despite her being a little sister herself... She is a nerd with questionable interests; it's obvious why she'd want to keep this a secret, but the fact she has no one to share her nerdy interests with kinda isolates her. This is why she tries to get the help of her brother to help her find new friends who are otaku like her, and that's mainly what this show's about. It's about a guy who's sister makes friends with fellow nerds who then pull him into their crazy shenanigans. There's plenty of great moments in the first season and it's all about nerds who yearn for acceptance in a society who thinks they are nothing but freaks. There's plenty of memorable characters, like my favorite, Ruri Gokou, the girl who wears cosplays in fancy dresses all the time and pretends she's a dark magician all the time. There's a lot of funny moments with these characters. Why is this show so notorious? Well, that would be because of some of the subject matter. While the first season only jokes around about this but never really goes all the way with it, towards the end of the second season the show turns into a romantic comedy where the otaku girls become love interests for kyousuke... all of them... including kirino... Considering how this show's full title translates to "My Little Sister Cannot Be This Cute", you can see where this is going. A lot of people felt reasonably uncomfortable with this plot element, especially in second season's later part where it stopped being joked about and implied and more and more in your face about it. To me, I don't really like this element of the plot either, and kirino does act really mean to kyousuke as well, so why on earth would he fall for her anyway is beyond me. The second season is where Kirino goes from being just grouchy to being full-on plain mean yet people still bend over backwards for her and you can only sympathize with her for so long.
The season 2 OVA endings also are really sub par. The show becomes so engrossed in romance that it has to make these ovas to confirm the final pairing, but it does so in the worst way possible. It's almost as if they did it in a way to intentionally anger a portion of the fan base. Even if are some how ok with creepy sibling romance, you won't be happy with this ending either. Something happens at the end that makes everything all for nothing and will ruin a lot of characters for you.Over all, If you want to watch a show that's about a bunch of nerds having fun and a guy who works towards making his sister no longer hate him, just watch the first season and pretend the second one doesn't exist, or if you really need to see season 2, just watch it up until the last episode and then never watch the S2 OVAs; they will anger you.- Strike Witches.
This one I didn't finish because I was embarrassed I was watching it. This is some social life-destroying stuff. Strike Witches is about a group of girls from around the world who are a part of an international military air force known as Strike Witches; a group who flies around in magically powered jet boots and with giant machine guns fight this alien threat known as the Neuroi. This show seems alright. It's about a strong group of girls who hang out and fight evil with high-tech jet boots and cute cat ears, but why is it so hard for one to admit they watched this show? The fan service. Every five seconds there's a scene where the camera positions itself in awkward places. Even in fight scenes they take every opportunity to position the camera in shameful ways. It doesn't help that the strike witches themselves dress in suggestive clothing. The plot is interesting, but with all of the focus on dirty stuff, it's hard to enjoy this one, but I still enjoyed this show from what I watched.
For me I have two. Technically three.
- Night Walker: The Midnight Detective.
This show is cheesy as heck. It's basically about this guy named Shido who becomes a vampire and fights these creatures called the Night Breed. The night breed kill humans and sometimes posses them to cause havoc. Shido fights them with blood swords and stuff. Why is it on here? The massive cheese factor, the questionable ending, and how it does nothing really new keep it from being a good anime. Another thing about it is that while it's not on the level of MD Giest (kids, please don't look up MD Geist; it's not appropriate for kids whatsoever) AT ALL, it still has quite a bit of violence and sexual themes. While it's mainly PG-13-ish, you can tell this show was adapted from a more... risqué visual novel (please don't look up the visual novel unless you're 18+), and apparently it was one of the first anime to be adapted from a visual novel. While this show is not exactly great, I still enjoy the retro anime aesthetics and it's at least entertaining. I'm not going to say the full title because anime these days have obscenely long titles, but I'll get a lot of looks from people for liking this show; heck, on tumblr it's a meme to make fun of this show or anyone who likes it. It has some.. Odd themes, but to me, Oreimo is about so much more than its controversial moments. Oreimo is basically about a brother (Kyousuke) and his little sister (Kirino) who hate each other greatly, but then Kyosuke's sister reveals to him a secret she's been hiding for years.
You see, Kirino is a top athlete at her school and a teen fashion model who appears in magazines, but she's hiding a secret she can't let anyone know or else her reputation will be ruined. Kirino is an otaku who gets enjoyment from watching anime, buying figurines of her favorite characters, and playing risqué visual novels involving little sisters despite her being a little sister herself... She is a nerd with questionable interests; it's obvious why she'd want to keep this a secret, but the fact she has no one to share her nerdy interests with kinda isolates her. This is why she tries to get the help of her brother to help her find new friends who are otaku like her, and that's mainly what this show's about. It's about a guy who's sister makes friends with fellow nerds who then pull him into their crazy shenanigans. There's plenty of great moments in the first season and it's all about nerds who yearn for acceptance in a society who thinks they are nothing but freaks. There's plenty of memorable characters, like my favorite, Ruri Gokou, the girl who wears cosplays in fancy dresses all the time and pretends she's a dark magician all the time. There's a lot of funny moments with these characters.
Why is this show so notorious? Well, that would be because of some of the subject matter. While the first season only jokes around about this but never really goes all the way with it, towards the end of the second season the show turns into a romantic comedy where the otaku girls become love interests for kyousuke... all of them... including kirino... Considering how this show's full title translates to "My Little Sister Cannot Be This Cute", you can see where this is going. A lot of people felt reasonably uncomfortable with this plot element, especially in second season's later part where it stopped being joked about and implied and more and more in your face about it. To me, I don't really like this element of the plot either, and kirino does act really mean to kyousuke as well, so why on earth would he fall for her anyway is beyond me. The second season is where Kirino goes from being just grouchy to being full-on plain mean yet people still bend over backwards for her and you can only sympathize with her for so long.
The season 2 OVA endings also are really sub par. The show becomes so engrossed in romance that it has to make these ovas to confirm the final pairing, but it does so in the worst way possible. It's almost as if they did it in a way to intentionally anger a portion of the fan base. Even if are some how ok with creepy sibling romance, you won't be happy with this ending either. Something happens at the end that makes everything all for nothing and will ruin a lot of characters for you. Over all, If you want to watch a show that's about a bunch of nerds having fun and a guy who works towards making his sister no longer hate him, just watch the first season and pretend the second one doesn't exist, or if you really need to see season 2, just watch it up until the last episode and then never watch the S2 OVAs; they will anger you.
- Strike Witches.
This one I didn't finish because I was embarrassed I was watching it. This is some social life-destroying stuff. Strike Witches is about a group of girls from around the world who are a part of an international military air force known as Strike Witches; a group who flies around in magically powered jet boots and with giant machine guns fight this alien threat known as the Neuroi. This show seems alright. It's about a strong group of girls who hang out and fight evil with high-tech jet boots and cute cat ears, but why is it so hard for one to admit they watched this show? The fan service. Every five seconds there's a scene where the camera positions itself in awkward places. Even in fight scenes they take every opportunity to position the camera in shameful ways. It doesn't help that the strike witches themselves dress in suggestive clothing. The plot is interesting, but with all of the focus on dirty stuff, it's hard to enjoy this one, but I still enjoyed this show from what I watched.
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