Sora no Woto

Summary:
15 year old Sorami Kanata lives in a war torn land, and decides to enlist in the army. She joins a group of five and together they play music.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Hikaru no Senritsu" by Kalafina. I really love it, mainly because it's a genuinely thought out song, not hyper pop mush.
  
• Artwise, the faces seem squished and chibi-fied. The linework is clean however and the colors used are very realistic.
  
• The town Kanata is stationed in, Seize, has one flaw in it's design. The town is supposed to be based off of various rural towns in Spain, observable through it's architecture. However rather than children running around with mask inspired by Spanish culture they are running around with masks of geisha faces and Japanese demons. They should have had a guy for that kind of stuff.
  
• Oh yeah, and they use yen.
  
• Ohmigosh, TOWN FOOD FIGHT!!!
  
• The music in this series is really, really good.
  
• This show has a great legend in it, which is total foreshadowing for the rest of it.
  
• The ED is "Girls, be ambitious" by Haruka Tomatsu. It's pretty good too, will be downloading.
  

End Thoughts?
I think this has a lot of potential.

Click here to watch episode 01 of Sora no Woto on LovelyAnime.com!

Yumeiro Patissiere

Summary:
Ichigo Amano is a clumsy girl that wants to be a pastry chef. When she enrolls in to a culinary school called St. Marie Academy, she meets the spirit of sweets.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• I can't find the OP title or artist at the moment but it's super super happy. It is a good showcase of how Japanse people sometimes like to put together happy sounding English words with a 'go!' on the end and shout it.
  
• Only in an anime will a small girl fall down a flight of stairs and get asked, "What are you doing? Geez."
  
• The differences between her and her sister creates a feeling of failure in Ichigo, which I think will add a good complexity to this show.
  
• In fact, they remind me of the smart sister/dumb embarrassing sister skits from MADtv.
  
• I wish my grandma was an awesome pastry chef.
  
• It's hard to tell what exactly the cakes in the show look like, because they're all glowing.
  
• I'm glad this little girl has such a supportive family, I wish more families were like that.
  
• The ending is just as sweet as the rest of the show, with little chibis flying everywhere.
  
• I love the cards at the end that show you clips of France and the development of the anime. It almost reminds me of Sailor Says, but without the advice.
  

End Thoughts?
This was so sweet I just might watch again.

Click here to watch episode 01

of Yumeiro Patissiere on AniLinkz.com!

Kimi ni Todoke

Summary:
Sawako is a girl that has always been called Sadako, because of how creepy she seems. Everyone in school thinks she has supernatural powers while in reality she is a normal girl wishing to have a social life and a boyfriend just like everyone else. She has a crush on her classmate Kazehaya, who is the only one in the school that doesn't treat her like "Sadako".


Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Kimi ni Todoke" by Tanizawa Tomofumi. I absolutely love it! It's a good song yeah, but the art style of the background I adore.
  
• Sawako is such a genuinely good person, I love her to death. She reminds me a lot of Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket in this respect.
  
• Kazehaya is such a sweet guy, if there were more guys like this there wouldn't be divorce!
  
• Romantic anime always seem to start at the beginning of summer break.
  
• The ED is "Kataomoi" by Chara. It's a cute little song, and again I adore the artwork. It makes my soul happy :D
  

End Thoughts?
This made me happier and happier as I watched it, I will watch again :D

Click here to watch episode 1 of Kimi ni Todoke on LovelyAnime.com!

Kobato

Summary:
Kobato has a wish that she wants fulfilled, to do so she must go to Earth and fill a bottle with scarred hearts.

Her stuffed animal, Ioryogi leads her through her trials.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Magic Number" by Maaya Sakamoto. It's a lovely song with images of Kobato being cute,
  
• Ioryogi creeps me out. He shoots stuff out of his mouth!
  
• Fujimoto is pretty cute, his look kind of reminds me of Kio from Loveless, but with a different personality. ( ... and longer hair thats brown)
  
• Kobato gets on my nerves with her apologies, and screeching when excited voice.
  
• Kobato has to pass tests in order to get a bottle to put the scarred hearts in but they never tell you the nature of the tests, which I don't like. You can't guess either because she takes out a ladies trash and makes nabe for someone? Bleh.
  
• CLAMP has improved on their habit of making characters limbs ridiculously long.
  
• Kobato is so gracious and kind but Jesus, she's annoying.
  
• The ED is "Jellyfishes Confession" by Megumi Nakajima. It's kind of slow and sleepy, but it's fun to watch the bottle spin and see where the shards go.
  

End Thoughts?
Even if Kobato's wide eyed screeching gets on my nerves it was really cute, I might watch this again.

Click here to watch episode 01 of Kobato on

AniLinkz.com!

Miracle Train

Summary:
There is an urban legend that a secret subway car exists - a luxury car full of gorgeous men. This train appears to women in love trouble, or in other words helpless. They take their stress away!

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Montage" and I'm pretty sure it's all the seiyuu singing. It reminds me of host club, but with trains.
  
• All of the man hunks in this show are named after different train stations around Tokyo. Of all of the things I've seen personified this is the first time I've seen it apply to train stations, that's neat.
  
• This show is kind of creepy. You feel like crap and get on a train to go home only to find it full of bishies that just kind of appear behind you, and everyone knows your name and your problem.
  
• I'll be honest, I didn't finish this show because it was horribly boring. The entire show takes place in the train and all they do is talk about random crap.
  
• The ED is "Stories" Shuhei Kita. It's a little soft rock, with views of the stations together in casual scenes.
  

End Thoughts?
It's cute, but incredibly boring. It's nice if you want to look at some pretty guys but that's all the value this show holds.

Click here to watch episode 01 of Miracle Train on WatchAnimeOn.com!

Sora no Otoshimono

Summary:
So there's this kid, Tomoki. He has weird dreams at night of a girl he does not know and can't remember when he wakes up. He reluctantly goes to the school shut-in-pervert-nerd (that somehow has his own room of stuff in the school building) to ask for help. He suggests that it's related to a giant hole that has been travelling through the air around the Earth. They arrange to meet when the hole travels over the town, and out pops a "pet-class angelroid" that imprints herself to him. She claims, "I am here to fulfill your every desire, my master." After a wish that accidentally erases humanity Ikarus turns it all in to a dream and decides to stay by his side.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Ring my Bell" by Blue Drops.They don't actually play it in the first episode, so right now I have nothing to say.
  
• The Angelroid, Ikarus, is in a top that covers the middle of her back and her nipples. Oh, and a miniskirt.Wow.
  
• Ikarus can fulfill any wish Tomoki has. Of course, the second one he chooses is to turn invisible and spy on his neighbor while she puts on her bra, naturally complaining that "it doesn't fit!" and "they grew again!" Again, wow.
  
• The third wish is to stop time while he runs around his campus naked. He also takes this time to run to the nearest adult bookstore.
  
• They try to put emotional importance on their relationship when he accidentally erases humanity. Through tears he asks her to stay, boo hoo hoo. They showed too many shots of her chain stuck between her boobs for me to care.
  
• The ED is "Soba ni Irareru daka de" also by Blue Drops. This was the best part of the episode.
  

End Thoughts?
No.


Click here to watch episode 01 of Sora no Otoshimono on NarutoHits.com!

Letter Bee

Summary:
Amberground is a place of perpetual night lit only by one artificial sun that is always overtop of the capital city Akatsuki. Gauche Suede is a Letter Bee, basically a risky business-will-deliver-anything postman. Gauche picks up an odd package, a boy named Lag Seeing who has lost his mother.

Fine Points/Thoughts:

• The OP is "Hajimari no Hi" by Suga Shikao feat. Mummy-D, It's cool and mellow and (abstract as this may be) fits the color pallet for this anime.
  
• I'm not feeling the moe.
  
• I love the color pallet for this anime! X3
  
• I'm not sure how I feel about Lags's flashbacks, I feel there is always better ways to tell what happened in the past but he is a kid, I guess.
  
• This anime follows it's manga to the T, for now.
  
• The ED is "Hatenaki Michi" by Himeka. It reminds me of a jpopish FullMetal Alchemist ending. I'm not sure that I'd download it to my Zune, probably not.
  

End Thoughts?
It's kind of boring, but I'm sure it will pick up. I might continue watching, but I detest moe and Lag gets on my nerves. I'll put this in the maybe pile.


Click here to watch episode 01 of Letter Bee on AniLinkz.com!