[Review]Hourou Musuko

One of my beloved Noitamina show for today, Hourou Musuko, since apparently I can't get proper files/subs for shows I want to see /sobs

This one is a slice of life mostly following a boy in his struggle to accept and make others accept that he'd better be a girl and a girl who'd better be a boy.

The characters are the main interest of the show. They're more or less all a bit weird or at least not the usual. You have the boy crossdressing, the girl wanting to be a boy, the totally weird but so loveable girl, the normal best friend, the arrogant and solitary girl, the big sister, the accepting father, the bully, and the best friend who's probably gay.
All of them interacting together out and inside school.
They're so diverse that there's a high chance you'll find someone to relate to.

Sorry but I'll just skip the "ears" part, I have nothing to say, everything fits. I didn't like the OP and the ED though but that's not a surprise.

The anime was boring, interesting but boring. I mean, nothing happened.
It doesn't mean you should pass it off like that, because it's interesting nevertheless, especially if you're interested in psychology and social behaviour and that kind of stuff. It's not every day you see an anime about this kind of issues.
Just expect something very calming and boring at times, probably not a good idea to try marathoning it but still  interesting to watch.

Can't say it's a definite must watch but if the topic interests you go for it.

[Review]Kore wa Zombie desu ka?

It's pretty amazing how much I can write when I actually know what to write.
Anyway let's move on to today's victim, mainly, Kore wa Zombie desu ha?

As they like to mention it at the very beginning of every episode the protagonist of this serie is a zombie, don't try this at home. That sums up pretty much everything. The main character is a zombie and he happens to run into other peculiar people whom he also lets freeload at his house.

Sadly the main character is not on the picture but he's generic so let's not care very much, he's nice though, despite being a zombie he still has human emotions, rare enough to note.
The girls however are : a vampire ninja, a masou shoujou, a necromancer and if I recall correctly the last one is a werewolf ninja.
It's ridiculous but they're not really bad, just, very stereotypical.

Music, OPs and EDs are forgettable, I think, not bad, just not wonderfully good either.
Cast is, well, not bad either. Nothing particular to say.

As for the anime, honestly, the first episode is the best first episode I've ever seen in my life.
You can skip the rest though. Well no not really it's still fun to watch but after the first episode I've been disappointed and waited for a return of the real crazyness during the whole thing.
Never happened /sobs
Oh well, at least it's not just a harem anime, there is a plot.
And a special episode, which could be renamed the idol episode. Because, because every girl tried to be an idol. Actually my second favourite episode.
I want the songs so bad. Especially Eucliwood's.

As a closing sentence : enjoyable, not a masterpiece but enjoyable. But if you don't feel like it just watch the first and last episodes, so you'll avoid the disappointement.

[Review]Dragon Crisis

I swear I promised myself I wouldn't do it, and do a general recap post, but then I thought "ooh but I didn't watch a lot of things I can review everything".
I'll probably regret this but let's do it anyway, I'll have something to blog about this way and I'm bored.

Today's victim is Dragon Crisis.
The summary is pretty simple, a dragon named Rose meets a boy named Ryuji, and they obviously loooove each other, BUT since it can never be that simple, things happen.

As you can see from the pic, most of the characters are girls, and everyone loooves Ryuji.
Ok I exagerate a bit but it's not too far from the truth.
Since I'm on the topic of characters let's continue. I have one thing to say : under-developped.
There are too many of them and as a result they change too much too fast.
Special mention for badass cousin Eriko and evil dragon Onyx. Mostly because they ... didn't change.
There are others who didn't change but they were boring and/or annoying in the first place so I don't want to bother.

Now let's move on to something else I find important in animes, music and voice acting.
I loved the OP (then again, I love Horie Yui and she did a wonderful job as Maruga), the ED was forgettable.
The music too, well it wasn't wonderful but it wasn't bad either, just fitting, which is, as I often say, the main point so good thing there too.
The voice acting was good, it wasn't a wonderful cast but no one got a not fitting voice so it's the most important. I tend to have a problem with Shimono Hiro and Kugimiya Rie in general though so my ears weren't always the happiest but the moments with Kamiya Hiroshi were worth it. I love his voice I can't help it.

Now on to the anime itself, easy, forgettable.
It's a fantasy action borderline loli harem anime, I don't particulary mind but it has nothing new and I got annoyed by the constant references to things particular to this world that were never explained (I still don't know what a Breaker is so if anyone has an idea I'd love to hear him out) and seeing the classmates reacting as if everything was normal when people barge into the classroom either with a bazooka or from the windows is kinda worrying.
The art isn't my cup of tea either but that I can manage.
I'm torn, because I think it some things would have been much better if longer, but it would probably have turned boring.

In the end, well no, not really. Watcheable but only if you're bored and have nothing better to watch.

[Facts]Beelzebub

Sometimes, as you probably already know it, Japanese come up with weird things in their animes/mangas/games and well in pop culture in general.
I don't catch all references, far from it, but it happens that I'm French and that Japanese apparently love to twist around French language and various other French things.
This season appears to be pretty rich with such occurences so let me start with the one I thought to be the most funny.
The culprit is Beelzebub, Ryuuhei Tamura's Jump serie recently made into an anime. (The name of the serie itself is a reference to mythological stuff but I'm not sure if you're interested in that ^^)

Anyway, as I was saying Beelzebub has a particular character named Alain Delon, have a pic below :

From there, nothing more memorable than the fact it does indeed sound French and it would be forgettable if another fact didn't come in consideration, mainly that Alain Delon exists. In the real world I mean.

And this is how he looks like :

He is/was a pretty popular actor so if you're interested, as usual go check The Wiki article