Middle School Titles Reviewed By Jan-Chan



  Name: Jan-Chan
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I got involved with anime about five years ago, primarily because of Cowboy Bebop and a number of other ‘odd’ animated series that I kept stumbling across. After a bit of research, I came to understand that what I was enjoying was all imported (R1-Licensed) Japanese anime and I became fascinated. It did not help that I had a couple of young nephews who were also into anime, so I started up a lending library.

Well, that was five years ago and since then, I have run out of shelf space for my library and have learned a bit more about Japanese Anime.

I enjoy posting to MIKOMI, but I tend to focus on the more off beat and uncommon series. My biggest concern with the MIKOMI site is that while we will always have our likes and dislikes, a single bad posting for a new series might turn off a number of anime fans from something fun & special, so I try to offer some depth on new series, such as images and background information to interest the visitor/reader.

Once upon a time, ANIME was something that was created, produced and animated in Japan, but that was in the past. Much of the Japanese anime series are now being out-sourced Korea. In fact the American series The Boondocks has much of its animated detail work done there. And we can expect China to step up and begin supporting the type of 'anime' that we currently associate with Japan. The world is changing and getting a bit smaller.

For contrast, I visited ANIDB.NET (an anime site) and ran a query on what they have listed for their top 20-some (most highly rated) anime series. You can find the results below – and yes, it did surprise me a bit and yes, I do not agree with it. But, it does call attention just how diverse our differing opinions can be. Some of their posted ratings do not appear to make sense, but it is a popularity contest. In any event, it is fun!!

When reading the listings below, be aware that ANIDB uses a 10 point scale (which is averaged between the number of votes). So when looking at the rating, remember to look at the number of votes.

Enjoy your anime.

Jan-chan. August 2007




Top 27 Anime series as listed at the ANIDB site

Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo (2006 - Movie) rating 9.03 (with 1,500 vote)
Nodame Cantabile (2006 – 23 TV episodes) rating 9.01 (with 641 votes)
Byousoku 5 Centimeter (2007 – 3part Movie) rating 8.93 (with 367 votes)
Death Note (2006/7 – 37 TV Episodes) rating 8.91 (with 1750 votes)
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Tsuiokuhen (1999 - 4 OVA episodes) rating 8.88 (with 6,000 votes)

Code Geass Hangyaku no Lelouch (2007 - 25 TV Episodes) rating 8.83 (with 1,000 votes)
Kanon (2006) (2006 – 24 TV Episodes) rating 8.87 (with 1,200 votes)
Monster (2005/6 – 74 TV Episodes) rating 8.76 (with 2,100 votes)
Mushishi (2005/6 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.76 (with 2,000 votes)
Nana (2006/7 – 47 TV Episodes) rating 8.74 (with 311 votes)


Great Teacher Onizuka (1999/0 – 43 TV Episodes) rating 8.73 (with 5,700 votes)
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi (2003/4 – 51 TV Episodes) rating 8.72 (with 8.200 votes)
Aria the Natural (2006 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.72 (with 244 votes)
Koukaku Kidoutai S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004/5 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.71 (with 2,500 votes)
Fighting Spirit (2000/2 – 75 TV Episodes) rating 8.70 (with 1,600 votes)


Tekkon Kinkreet (2006 – Movie) rating 8.70 (with 24 votes)
Hachimitsu to Kuroba II (2006 –12 TV Episodes) rating 8.69 (with 1,200 votes)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988/97 – 110 OVA Episodes) rating 8.60 (with 169 votes)
Juuni Kokuki (2002/3 – 45 TV Episodes) rating 8.68 (with 4,200 votes)
Major 3rd Season (see Major 2nd Season) (2007 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.68 (with 51 votes)

Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX (2002/3 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.67 (with 4,200 votes)
Hachimitsu to Kuroba (2005 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.60 (with 3,000 votes)
Mononoke Hime (1997 – Movie) rating 8.65 (with 4,600 votes)
Planetes (2002/3 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.65 (with 2,300 votes)
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001 – Movie) rating 8.64 (with 4,444 votes)

Kino no Tabi - the Beautiful World (TV) (2003 – 13 TV Episodes) rating 8.64 (with 1,200 votes)
Cowboy Bebop (1998/9 – 26 TV Episodes) rating 8.62 (with 6,500 votes)

Genre
Action(5) Action Comedy(3) Adventure(5) Comedy(15)
Drama(6) Horror(1) Mystery(1) Romance(7)
Romantic Comedy(2) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(10) Historical(1) Modern(9) Sci-Fi(3)
Demographic
All Ages(6) Children(1) Seinen(4) Shoujo(3)
Shounen(2)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Classic(2) Dark(1) Fragmentary(1)
Kawaii(1) Moe(1) Silly-funny(2) Weird(1)
Keywords
Angels(1) Bishounen(1) Coming of Age(5) Competition(2)
Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Deities(2) Depression(1) Ecchi(3)
Epic(1) Erotic Comedy(1) Fan Service(5) Fighting(4)
Friendship(2) Harem(3) High School(1) Lolicon(2)
Magic(3) Mahou Shoujo(2) Martial Arts(1) Mecha(1)
Pantsu(3) Pervert(1) Psychics(1) Reboot(1)
School Comedy(1) Slice of Life(3) Spinoff(1) Spiritual(1)
Sports(2) Supernatural(2) Swordplay(1) Time Travel(2)
Violent(2) Vulgar(1)
Type
OVA(3) TV(17)
Release Year
2010(1) 2009(2) 2007(1) 2006(3) 2005(7) 2004(3) 2001(3) 2000(2)
1999(1) 1998(1) 1997(1) 1995(1) 1994(1) 1993(1) 1992(1) 1988(1)
1987(1)
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Title Rating Synopsis
A

AIR GEAR
Rent Microtechnology has created self-powered roller blades that allow a rider to rip along at blistering speeds, roar up walls and fly to incredible heights. And now AIR TECK (A-T) has become the new rage with all of the gangs. Ikki got the dickens kicked out of him by a roller-blade gang and the four sisters that he is staying with are not going to allow him to forget it. Of the four sisters, it falls upon fourteen-year-old Ringo to be responsible for looking after their trouble-some ‘adopted’ little brother whom they have nicknamed ‘baby-face’. When Ikki finds out that the girls are part of an A-T gang called the ‘sleeping forest’, he borrows one of their skates and rides off into the night vowing to learn to ride . A chance encounter introduces him to a cute roller-blade girl. Ikki follows her to a Stormrider (AT gang) gathering and learns that she is called Simca. Simca really seems to take a fancy for him (or perhaps she really enjoys teasing him), but when his sisters (most specifically Ringo) find out, they are not happy with Ikki’s new friend.
AirGear Rent See AIR GEAR
Akazukin (OVA) Unevaluated See Otogi Jushi Akazukin (OVA)
Alice Academy Watch See Gakuen Alice
Angelic Layer Rent See Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer
B
Battle Doll Angelic Layer Rent See Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer
Beating Angel Dokuro-chan Watch See Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
Bin-kan Watch See Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan Watch See Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
Watch Dokuro-chan is an angel who comes from the future, She begins living in Sakura-kun’s house. She looks quite young but has a glamorous body, and she is innocent and cute. And she's here to protect Sakura from being killed by other angels from the future (because in the future he'll be the intentor of the ultimate lolicon immortality technology which is something that God cannot allow toexist). However, every time something happens, she beats Sakura to death with “Excaliborg”, a special bat with thorns. But, don’t’ worry. When she casts a spell, “Pipil Pil Pil Pipilpi~”, he comes back to life... this is how, a bloody heart-warming story of Dokuro-chan and Sakura-kun starts.

Brigadoon
Watch Marin is a happy 13year old orphan, who lives with her adoptive grandmother in a boarding house filled with friendly and interesting people. Prone to an overactive and overdramatic imagination, she makes the best of her life. It is only when the skies over the city fill with a shadow of another world and she becomes the target of monsters even more nasty than she can imagine, that she begins to understand how special she is. And only with the assistance of a found friend, a robotic warrior named Marlen Blue who is dedicated to protecting her, does she manage to escape from repeated attacks. Through her friendship with Marlen Blue, she comes to learn that both she and Marlen have come from the shadow world overhead, from a planet called Brigadoon.
C
Campus Alice Watch See Gakuen Alice
Chu Bra!! Watch See Chu-Bra!!

Chu-Bra!!
Watch Nayu is a middle school girl with a strange hobby. She shocks her schoolmates on the first day of school by wearing black lace panties. She likes this kind of underwear, and she tries to "spread the word on the merits of fancy underwear" by forming an underwear club with her schoolmates, who are all worried about their bodies' development and which kind of underwear to choose. (Source: ANN)
Chuubra!! Watch See Chu-Bra!!
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