Watching: Nijuu Mensou no Musume
Nijuu Mensou no Musume, way to spark my animu interests. To new-ish series, anyway. (All I’ve been re-watching are old stuff nowadays.)
First, I have to say that I’ve only seen the first episode. But, man. You know that gut feel that you’re gonna be watching something potentially awesome. It’s the same feeling I had with Fantastic Children. And FC is one of my all-time favorites evah.
After absorbing the first episode, the urge to marathon the available eps was remarkable; Restrain saved the day. Instead of stealing time from my odd schedule, I have a feeling I need to set specific hours for this series. So I dub this coming weekend as the weekend of twenty faces, thankyouverymuch. I want to indulge on the show while my mind and body are fully rested.
Hm. If Nijuu Mensou no Musume turns out to be a disappointment, I’ll blame bateszi. Then again, the dude has excellent taste. Plus, he said the magic word in his review. He mentioned Luffy.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Oh, I’m glad you’re excited about it, and more so that my Luffy mention worked on you! Just as planned :) Anyhow, I know what you mean about that gut feeling, simply because I get it too, I mean, the first episode wasn’t OMGAMAZING!! or anything like that, but something about it totally caught my attention, and just a few episodes later, I’m already finding the series so utterly endearing; to that end, your Fantastic Children comparison is very apt, right down to how both are rather pulpy, retro-looking anime mostly concerned with story (ironically, back when FC was airing, I was following yours and BluWacky’s blogs on it (remembering how both of you had similarly black blog layouts and covered a lot of the same anime (Gankutsuou was another), was very confusing!)). As ever, I’m looking forward to hearing (if you feel like writing about it, that is) what you think of the next four or five episodes, as some big stuff happens.