Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan

Third-rate Magical Pokaan
Episodes: 12

Aired: April, 5 2006- June, 21 2006
Runtime: 26 mins per episode (5.2 hours total)
Producers: Shinobu Yoshinuma, Nobuhiro Osawa, 室谷陽平, Katsuhiko Nozawa

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To be honest I found this anime while deciding to trawl through anime with "idol" in the tags, this one popped up. I looked at the character design and animation style and it reminded me of my beloved 90s anime. Read briefly it was about four princesses.. and I thought, why the heck not!
The opening sequence was the clincher, however I later found it didn't really portray the anime at all- for this, my friends is very much a parody.

DISCLAIMER:
This anime has quite a lot of fanservice and I wouldn't recommend it for young teenagers due to this. In clicking past the cut you are saying you are above the age of 17.

Lovely Idol

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It's no secret that I have a happy penchant toward the brilliance of all things moe, especially idols. so earlier this year I made a promise to myself to watch all the current idol anime (Idol Defense Hummingbird) and re-watch a few of the old favourites like Full Moon. Who knows I may even brave the Marcoss series with Dr Boyfriend and watch him relive childhood dreams!

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of uplifting, cute plot with enough CD merchandise to build a small, yet comfortable house out of!

Review: Digimon Adventure

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I'm sure all of us around the age of 15-25 remember watching Digimon; that techno opening and the dream of travelling with a strange monster that could actually tell you stuff (sorry Pokemon...).
If, like me, you watched it in a country other than Japan or America, you probably suffered the same problems trying to watch it in sequence; the local channel would buy 10 episodes, loop them randomly then suddenly have a new episode, then you're right back to episode one. I'm not sure if it was editing or if the battle with Devimon was actually that long!

How does the subbed version of this classic stand? I dedicated loads of time to watching all 54 episodes of this and I regret nothing. Read more after the break!

Review: Idol Boueitai Hummingbird

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Japan privatises it's defence force... you know what that means folks- idols! 

Idols in fighter jets playing high acrobatic games of tag, but singing cringe-inducing pop songs with lyrics such as..."the cockpit of your heart".

Strap yourself in for some high-flying 90's moe.
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Review: Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte Z

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I've always been a fan of moe things; cute costume design, cutesy voice actors, magical girl genre..mix that together with a healthy dose of parody, milking tropes, cynicism, internet humour and breaking the 4th wall and you've got Komugi-chan.

I must stress this is not a kid's cartoon, while it's not explicitly adult, it's not appropriate for children.

Review: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

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As an artist I thought it would be interesting to watch this as it focuses on a young man who creates shoujo manga. I had no idea it would be this funny or informative and it's one of those rare titles that re-affirms a hobby or makes you want to try it. From the very start this anime has been incredibly enjoyable! 

Review: Happiness!

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This in an anime I've tried watching on and off for months; it's based on a visual novel (usually meaning deep and emotive plots), it seems to have high quality animation and very original character designs and consists of magical girls. It seemed to be everything  I'd enjoy in an anime.... however..

It's never a good sign when you get half way through episode two and decided "yeah... I don't need to do laundry... but I think I'll go do that now". Also not a good sign when you've tried watching it from the start 6 times over 3 months and your mind refuses to take it in. Not to mention the derp-singing I do when I hear that theme tune that makes me IRONICALLY not happy at all.

*shudder*