Jan 11 2008
Mega Round-Up: January 11th
Fellow anime fans, heed my words- never, ever let a massive backlog build up, for it will crush your very soul. Sadly, there is still much I have to catch up on, but in the meantime enjoy my coverage of what I have managed to get through since mid-December.
Reviewed this week: Aria the Origination 1, Baccano! 13, Clannad 8-12, Dennou Coil 21-6, Genshiken 2 7-12, Himawari!! 1, Kaiji 7-13, Minami-ke 7-13, Oh! Edo Rocket 21-6, SaiMono II 27-31, Spice and Wolf 1, Tsubasa OVA 1
…and in manga: .hack//Link 1, Akagi 7-8+108-9, Chokotto Sister 48, Clannad 5, Claymore 75-6, Elfen Lied 79-81, HxH 267-70, Kaiji 1, MariMite 23-4, Meine Liebe 7-8, Nodame 94-9, Oniisama E… 10, REC 34-6, Risky Safety 2-3, Solanin 10-28, Spiral Alive 11-16, Spiral 60-66, Tsubasa 172-7, Yotsuba& 49-50
Thanks to the likes of Fruits Basket and Red Garden, I’m hardly a stranger to angst-drenched series, but there was one I had never laid my hands on- Oniisama E (aka Brother, Dear Brother). Created by the mangaka who brought us the somewhat better known Rose of Versailles, Oniisama E is one of the forerunners of that special genre that shows us that, in anime at least, all-girls’ schools are hotbeds of melodrama and HARD YURI (I really don’t remember it being like that at my school; in fact, unless you counted the PE teachers, we didn’t even have an evil lesbian trio).
