Seriously I just slept a disgusting amount of hours in a row without anyone being able to wake me up. I was like Sleeping Beauty only with more tossing and less doing what the Beauty’s supposed to be doing; waking up from kisses.
Onwards with Anime!
Yesterday I started watching Rental Magica another new anime airing this year. I never thought I’d watch an anime that involves winning by fainting, but there you go. Or more accurately being badass for three minutes and then fainting, every single episode and sometimes more than once! The anime itself is running on an interesting premise, magic exists in our world the main character is the second President of a Magician Rental company and offers a small, but eclectic choice of Magicians (from Celtic through Shrine Maiden) for hire. The President in question is also Captain Faints-a-lot and the object of affection between no less than two beautiful and highly powerful female magic users. Of course.
Did I mention he’s also a coward that only gets badass for about three minutes an episode and then faints from his own awesome?
No, this anime has it’s flaws, but it’s definitely very interesting and after nine episodes we’re well into a nice arc featuring a cool villain. I just wish they’d *not* decided to air the episodes in such a bizarre fashion. Like Fullmetal Alchemist episode one starts you off in the middle of a night’s work and then two goes back to the beginning and shows some origins…okay so that means they’ll keep going forward with origins until they reach the action again, right? Wrong! Episode three goes back into the near past (i.e. a few months before the events of episode one?) of the characters lives, episode four is another origin episode of a different character…though maybe it is in a kind of order?!?
Yeah, the first five or so eps made me want to tear my hair out trying to figure out where they stand chronologically. Episode two is the easiest as it’s a childhood, here’s how I got my motivation ep, but the other ones. Ugh. That said once you get past those chrono-deficient first few it starts to get very interesting and I love the cast. A lot.
Overall I may complain about the ordering, but at least they’re not filler first episodes, though seriously people, trying to confuse your viewers, especially ones who haven’t brushed up on your show via Wikipedia yet is kind of silly. The show has been pretty meaty and I really need a nice meaty action anime. 
Back to Ninomiya, from a previous entry I’ve now watched nine episodes of that and my enjoyment levels are falling. It’s quickly meandering into “hey we want to offer fanservice, so we’re going to invent convoluted situations to throw our characters into and then wacky hilarity will ensue! Right? Guys?!?” And titular main character is transforming into whiney, kind of pathetic harem character, though really I wish they’d show more of his fight scenes because BAD ASS!
Also, the interesting little twist I won’t reveal for anyone who likes harem anime and is interested in this? Yeah, it’s not so interesting when it appears that EVERY SINGLE FEMALE IN THE SHOW IS ONE/HAS THE ABILITY! Or at least almost all the females who are chasing the main character.
They’re also using the “I knew you as a child, but for some mysterious reason I can’t remember anything before the age of like fourteen except in cryptic dreams of mysterious crypticness…”. *wiggles fingers* Oooh mysterious. *headdesk* That cliche should be banned from all relationship and harem anime FOREVER!
I mean who is comfortable with not remembering the girl they were in love with when they were freaking 10? “Wow, I sure have a lot of holes in my memories…ah well, they couldn’t be anything important right?” I’m going to give the anime a couple more episodes, but it’s on my teetering towards not caring side at this point. *Bad harem anime! No cookie!*
