Okay, I will admit something. I REALLY love anime. And today, I will be reviewing Sket Dance.
The anime focuses on the
misadventures of the "Campus Support Group" or "Sket-Dan", of Kaimei
Gakuen, a club devoted to solving any and all problems brought to it by
the staff or student body for the general improvement of campus life.
Due to its general lack of meaningful assignments and unglamorous 'group
of handymen' reputation the organization is treated with widespread
contempt and it is composed of only three members.<- www.animeshippuuden.com/watch/sket-dance/
Sket-dan stands for
S-Support
K-Kindness
E-Encourage
T-Troubleshoot
While it does have its meaning in japanese, it basically adds up to club of helpful people of a club that helps people.
The anime mainly focuses on comedy, most of the episodes feature useless and random requests from differet characters in the anime. The anime focuses on tehe 3 main characters.
Fujisaki "Bossun" Yuusuke-
He is the main character who is rather strange for me. He is very different yet similar to other male protagonists. Normally, male protagonists are clumsy and annoying in every aspect but bossun is one with many talents though they are rather...queer... His talents is mainly in art, though he does have a special talent. When he puts on his goggles, he can concentrate however it will tae a lot of energy. He has other talents that are certainly not normal but they certainly are entertaining. You might not be able to understand a few jokes as the jokes are based on Japanese people. While he is mainly and pretty much useless, he is still an enjoyable character and he does have an interesting history.
I find his character adorable and maybe I sympathise with him a little. That is why I find him to be my favourite chara.
Onizuka 'Himeko' Hime
This girl is also an interesting character. Her background is rather amusing as she was once a famous gangster by the name of Onihime (lit. Demon princess). Her talents are mainly towards the strength type. However, she is quite good in housework considering her history. Her weapons are mainly Hockey sticks and she is seen powerless without them but she is still pretty strong, i suppose.
She does indeed have a sad backstory to all this and I wont spoil it for you:D.
Usui "Switch" Kazuyoshi
He is te brains of the club and is a very popular character in the story. He is my second fav chara as his story is the saddest. There is a reason behind him using a computer to talk but that will spoil you if i tell you. Just get ready fr a few waterworks cos this is the most explained back ground. It takes about 2 and a half pisodes to explain compared to Himeko's half an episode.
Although I do like comedy anime, I gravitate more to dark plots and those types. I like tragedies and phychological thrillers. So my fav episodes would be 24 and 25.
The story was written very well and it ends very tragically. I cold actually feel the pain and agony Switch went through. Honestly, I cried at the end. It was hard seeing the supposedly stoic character break down and cry. How he was in denial, how he tried to fight against the truth. That is why i love this. They never actually end it and leave it on a cliff-hanger... well somewhat of a cliff-hanger. They never explain that part. I am actually hoping they make another season, just to explain it. Although I don't really mind if they don't.
Well, here is my review of Sket Dan. I recommend this to anyone who likes comedy as most of this anime is whacked out nonsense!
Friday, 14 December 2012
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Rise of the Guardians
Okay, let's start with intros. Hi I am Anonymous. Please call me Risako. I am a critic and if you want, you can like, somehow contact me and tell me what you want me to critic. If i can at least. I am still a student, so no adult things.
Anyway, Rise of the Guardians. Yes I am talking about the recent movie.
Frankly, I find this story pretty interesting. The art is amazing, I actually heard from my family that
girls are only going there to watch Jack Frost (who they think is hot). Could just be my family though. Anyway, I do agree with that point though. They are very well drawn and I believe my sister is falling for a 2-D character... Weird.
The story itself is also pretty interesting. For one, the backstory of Jack is pretty dark.
SPOILER TIME
Jack is actually a normal boy who was a joker. He played arond, never serious about anything. The day he died, he actually brough his sister(I think) to a frozen ice-pond. However the ice was too thin and the girl was stuck in the middle of the pond with the ice cracking beneath her. So, Jack tries to reassure her by telling her to think of it as a game of hopscotch. She does that and as soon as she gets close enough, he pulls her to safety using her stick. However, he was in turn pushed to the cracking ice and falls into the icy cold water to his death and then the man in the moon turn him into Frost.
Now the movie then skips over that as it is primarily a kid's show. However should we actually think of the little girl, what do you think she feels? Her brother died in front of her! So she would actually feel that it is her fault, or she would be so traumatised she would develop some phychological thing. You have seen in other movies, no? Some girl sees her parents die in front of her then they reappear in front of her saying its her fault or something? Well, then she would blame herself and if she cannot handle it, do something she would rather forget.
Another one would be when Pitch loses. Okay, the good guys win, the bad ones lose. But what actually happens is that Pitch gets attacked by his own element (i.e. Fear) and dragged into some hole. This is dark in its own way and actuall, despite all he has done, he still doesn't deserve it.
SPOILER END
The story is actually so-so. What could have made it better would be more interaction between Pitch and Frost, seeing as which both know the feeling of not being believed in and how much it hurts. I would have like to see more of Pitch trying to get Frost to his side. To remind Frost of how much it hurt to be unbelieved, forgotten even. The writers can even bring out a darker side of Frost, make him feel jealous to the main guardians because he was forgotten and they were widely believed in. But that might make it darker than what a children's film is.
Out of five stars each,
Art- 4/5
Story-3/5
Overall- 3.5/5
But I still think that it was good, so I recommend you to check it out.
Anyway, Rise of the Guardians. Yes I am talking about the recent movie.
Frankly, I find this story pretty interesting. The art is amazing, I actually heard from my family that
girls are only going there to watch Jack Frost (who they think is hot). Could just be my family though. Anyway, I do agree with that point though. They are very well drawn and I believe my sister is falling for a 2-D character... Weird.
The story itself is also pretty interesting. For one, the backstory of Jack is pretty dark.
SPOILER TIME
Jack is actually a normal boy who was a joker. He played arond, never serious about anything. The day he died, he actually brough his sister(I think) to a frozen ice-pond. However the ice was too thin and the girl was stuck in the middle of the pond with the ice cracking beneath her. So, Jack tries to reassure her by telling her to think of it as a game of hopscotch. She does that and as soon as she gets close enough, he pulls her to safety using her stick. However, he was in turn pushed to the cracking ice and falls into the icy cold water to his death and then the man in the moon turn him into Frost.
Now the movie then skips over that as it is primarily a kid's show. However should we actually think of the little girl, what do you think she feels? Her brother died in front of her! So she would actually feel that it is her fault, or she would be so traumatised she would develop some phychological thing. You have seen in other movies, no? Some girl sees her parents die in front of her then they reappear in front of her saying its her fault or something? Well, then she would blame herself and if she cannot handle it, do something she would rather forget.
Another one would be when Pitch loses. Okay, the good guys win, the bad ones lose. But what actually happens is that Pitch gets attacked by his own element (i.e. Fear) and dragged into some hole. This is dark in its own way and actuall, despite all he has done, he still doesn't deserve it.
SPOILER END
The story is actually so-so. What could have made it better would be more interaction between Pitch and Frost, seeing as which both know the feeling of not being believed in and how much it hurts. I would have like to see more of Pitch trying to get Frost to his side. To remind Frost of how much it hurt to be unbelieved, forgotten even. The writers can even bring out a darker side of Frost, make him feel jealous to the main guardians because he was forgotten and they were widely believed in. But that might make it darker than what a children's film is.
Out of five stars each,
Art- 4/5
Story-3/5
Overall- 3.5/5
But I still think that it was good, so I recommend you to check it out.
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