Rating: 8.5/10 & 8.9/10

Impressions:

Ok, so my mind still hasn’t fully adjusted to the plot style of this show, though at the moment it seems simple enough. Everything is on a really small scale, and the characters are quite shallow, though at least the show isn’t boring. I’m not saying this anime is a work of art, but it’s something I can sit through, laugh, enjoy etc. Speaking of laughter and enjoyment, Kuu’s attempt at bringing out her weapon was rather embarrassing, though disturbingly hilarious as well. And after that, her stripping was super hot. By the looks of it though, she was rejected! (How is that humanly possible? Lol) Anyway, hopefully something meaningful will happen next episode…

Rating: 8.6/10

Impressions:

Lol when did the sub for this come out? I totally missed it! Anyway, this episode is by far the most eventful, and we discover that Kuu is actually a Zettai Tenshi (Absolute Angel) as well, which is kinda obvious anyway! Still, the show is as funny as ever. The way Kuu reacts to when she succeeds in getting Kyoshiro to go shopping with her is just golden! Her overreactions are priceless. Also, another bath scene and more kissing woot! Lol how low can I get…But storywise anyway, a lot of stuff happens that I really can’t be bothered to comprehend. I guess this is just the nature of the show; being too open and simple…(I would write more but Naruto manga is calling me, need to finish reading it before Shippuden lol).

Preview:

Next episode – #6
What will Kuu do, now that she knows she is one of ‘them’?

Rating: 8.4/10

Impressions:

Kyosora remains as entertaining as ever, with Kuu’s semi-nonsensical jabbering and exaggerated emotions. Well, she’s semi-nonsensical only to me because I tend to not take in whatever she says when she starts her sentences off with ‘Haikei, watashi no ouij-sama’. I dunno, somehow I still react to it if its funny, but a minute later if you ask me what she said, I’d be completely blank. Still, Kuu is amazingly cute with her little gestures and facial expressions, as well as her tendency to blurt out all her personal thoughts. She would be completely ridiculous in real life, but she’s awesome in this anime!

Heh, no bath scenes of kissing this episode…that makes it semi fail. But then there’s actually plot and the revelation of some interesting back-story, so that’s a semi non-fail (there I go, making up words). In the end, it’s still pretty average, though entertaining enough for me to call it a good episode. Kyoshiro’s resolution to kill all the Absolute Angels is supposed to be a shock I think, but I kind of tuned out when the origin of the Angels was explained, meaning I didn’t really react to Kyoshiro’s announcement lol. Really, this show just makes me switch off my brain at the most important times. I’m surprised I still remember how Kyoshiro’s brother died to save the world.

I suppose this episode is meant to make us (the viewers) think, as it proposes an interesting state of diplomacies. We now need to decide upon ourselves who is good and who is evil. I’m going to say straight out that the woman with the blue haired Angel is evil, based solely on the fact that she is always shown with red lighting. Yes, I’m that simple. But now the questionable thing is how good or evil Kyoshiro is, as well as his scarred brother. Kyoshiro wants to kill all the Angels, and treats them like weapons instead of humans. His brother on the other hand, wishes to save the Angels as they are sad and pitiful.

Will Kyoshiro automatically be named as good since he is the main character (apart from Kuu)? Or will sympathy surface in his brother’s pool? (What the hell is that metaphor, I just completely made that up). I personally don’t care, as I said before I don’t like to think about this show. I’m glad this series is only 12 episodes long, as I doubt I would still be interested in it 20 episodes later, unless the repetitiveness ceases. I would also like to see how things are resolved as soon as possible, and how Kuu turns out (I’ve mentioned before that Kuu is the only reason why I like this show). And btw, is Kyoshiro’s hero of a brother really dead? Was his corpse found?

Preview:

Next episode – #5
Kuu and Kyoshiro…go shopping?

Rating: 8.4/10 (what can I say? I’m growing fond of this show)

Impressions:

I have to admit I have a strange lust for this show and its absurdity. Kuu is the only reason I watch this show, and she is one of the most outrageously naive and unbelievable character I’ve ever seen. This is not about her character design, which I adore anyway, but about her amazingly attractive personality. I love her ‘letters’ to her prince, what they contain are awesomely exaggerated thoughts on every little event or surrounding she can throw her gaze on. I mean, she has all these extremely deep emotional thoughts about Setsuna and Kyoshiro, envisioning them together and like a prince and princess, then to how Kyoshiro is mistreating Setsuna, and finally to her own romantic fantasies of being with Kyoshiro. They just don’t work together, yet she somehow find no trouble in squeezing these thoughts into her head. Shirukii compares her rants to Kyon’s, and I totally agree. This is just what makes Kuu the highlight of the show. I hope it keeps up and I’m looking forward to sitting back and laughing at some more randomness!

More good points! Heavy over-usage of bath/shower and kissing scenes. Someone has to take a bath or shower every episode, gender unexclusive. And apparently to make it less like pure fanservice, the script writers make all the important self discussions and planning happen during these scenes. However, I’m sure many people will be distracted to take in any important information that is discussed during these times, like I was. Really, I don’t know what the hell is going on anyway, and I still can’t match names and faces apart from the main three characters. Also, kisses: they are just really hot, especially yuri ones. Setsuna’s little peck with Kuu was completely unexpected, yet oh so satisfying. It’s always satisfying when your favourite character gets a kiss! However, the number of kisses Kyoshiro gives out is far too many and has already decreased their value to almost…nothing. Oh well, at least the yuri kisses are still good! Oh and before you start thinking I like everything about this show, I should also mention I hate the catgirl. She’s annoying and I hate her cat sounds.

Preview:

Next episode – #4
Kuu and Kyoshiro are falling…falling…zzz…

Rating: 8.1/10

Impressions:

I enjoyed this episode much more than the first. This episode is presented in a much more orderly fashion, without too much randomness and hectic plot advances. It’s a lot more calming, without too much happening at once, and is far easier to follow than the first episode, where I just did not get anything and what the hell was happening. Well, there’s also bath scene to start things off, which is severely out of place in my opinion. Just because they were dirty they had to wash immediately? What if they stepped in a puddle! Off to the baths again! And some time after, we get another naked girl in water, only this time it’s night and the water looks extremely cold (there’s no steam). They didn’t even give a reason for this lol. It’s probably to make her, Kaon, seem more elegant…dunno how that works but it’s an idea! Also, there’s an ‘onna no ko to onna no ko no kisu!’ Which means ‘girl and girl kiss’, which is described as ‘beautiful’ by Kuu, but obviously it’s just another piece of fanservice.

And that brings me to Kuu, who is actually a really likeable character. I find her especially cute, and I love the character designs. Her personality is awesome, but anime-only though. She’s just too gullible and naïve; believing everything she is told straight away. She never shows any shock or surprise either. This is like the perfect example of the personality of your typical maiden in distress, though probably with less screaming. And speaking of gullibility, Kaon’s explanation of her kind, the Absolute Angels, is far to farfetched for anyone to believe, yet Kuu still believes it. You can’t just materialise matter of such quantity like that…I don’t care how many years people researched, I refuse to accept it. It’s not even close to science fiction. I would be much more satisfied with a fantastical explanation, but they just had to make this supposedly explainable by science. Oh well, it’s not something really worth complaining about though; just wanted to get it off my chest. Anyway, as I have blogged this second episode, I guess that means I will be following this series!

Preview

Next episode – #3
Er….coking?

Genres: Fantasy, mecha, romance
Episodes: 12
Studio: TNK
OP: “Cross Heart” by CooRie
ED: “Madoromi no Rakuen” by Ceui
Official Site: http://www.kyoshiro-sora.net/

Rating: 7.6/10

Impressions:

Well, I wasn’t overly impressed with this first episode, though it was quite fun to watch. I’m not sure I want to blog this show or not either. I would have preferred it to be a simple school life/shoujo/romance type, but after about 15 minutes its thrown in the most whacked up combination of genres, really. There’s a lot of mecha, fantasy and mahou shoujo, not to mention a flying horse, a supposed Prince-like figure who does not know the appropriate ways of treating a girl in public, a freaking loli neko vampire villain who has way too much hair, too much glittery junk and falling petals, a lead girl who doesn’t know she should replace her clothes if they are ever ripped off in public instead of running all the way to the roof before doing so, as well as a school which has a completely screwed up order of power (the teacher got owned by the student council or whatever they are). Wow, that’s some strange list, though I’m not exactly bashing this show. Firstly though, why the hell isn’t the flying horse a unicorn? Lol man that’s just not right! But otherwise, despite the horrendous and distasteful mixture of crazy notions, it’s an enjoyable watch, and that’s all that matters.

I need to give it one more episode to decide whether to blog it or not though. Let’s hope it doesn’t take a plunge in terms of quality. The music and OP/ED are fairly good, suiting the shoujo/fantasy genre quite well. Quality-wise, the show is rather high, and the character designs are quite appealing as well. The bishounen aren’t too exaggerated either, which is good. I usually can’t stand shoujo stuff where all the guys are princess with long hair and huge eyelashes. But then again, it still depends on the overall style of drawing; for example, Ouran had an awesome character design style. Story wise though, this first episode is quite eventful, but not very appealing. I don’t like the mechas at all; I wish the battles that take place would just be standard mahou shoujo spell casting and whatnot. Not that I especially like that genre, but I prefer my mecha where people pilot them from inside, instead of materialising them with magic or whatever. Despite this, the action was rather well done. I guess it’s rather daunting how I have no clue as to what the hell happened in the entire episode, but then again, I guess I’m not meant to yet. And yay, new characters are gonna be introduced next time. I always love shows with many characters.

Short Summary:

Ok here goes my attempt to illustrate the details of this random and hectic first episode. Kuu, the female lead, a girl in er…university(?), who often has dreams about her ideal prince. Of course, the guy is handsome, charming and flashy, who reaches out to her and tells her to ‘Go with him together’. And what happens next? The guy from her dreams shows up as a transfer student in school. He also has special ESP abili- I mean, he also has special pimping abilities, as he is able to attract a crowd of eager and perhaps desperate girls to encircle him as soon as he starts playing the violin.

Of course, all this time, Kuu is thinking about what his appearance means, as he looks exactly the same as the guy from her dreams. And then the unthinkable happens! The guy, who is later revealed as Kyoshiro, takes notice of Kuu, walks up to her and rips open her shirt. Yeah, I would have been WTFing if I hadn’t already seen the numerous bra-shots of Kuu circling the internet already. Well, it seems Kuu has some glowing thing in her chest, which is probably some indicator that she is the ‘chosen one’ or something like that, which is apparent in all fantasy shows.

Anyway though, Kyoshiro leans forward and it looks like he’s going straight for her breasts, before she pushes him away and runs up to the roof. And for some reason, she doesn’t fix up her shirt until she reaches the top, and she must’ve passed a lot of people on the way. Kuu then notices a beautiful girl on the roof, but she disappears when some wind blows and conveniently forces her to look away. A while later, after collecting her thoughts, she decides to confront Kyoshiro after school, but finds him making out with the beautiful girl from before. Kuu runs away in tears, but sees her best friend get attacked by the loli neko-girl vampire.

The loli then attacks Kuu, but upon getting too close realises she is not a normal human. Even so, she proceeds to er…kiss her and suck her blood(?) before the beautiful girl from before saves her. She, known as Setsuna, summons her not-so-big mecha and starts fighting with the loli neko-girl, who also summons her mecha. After a series of exchanges, the building starts to collapse, causing Kuu to fall down with the crumbling floor. Of course, Kyoshiro saves her with his flying horse. In the end, the neko girl is defeated, and Kyoshiro kisses Kuu for reasons not yet revealed.

Opening Sequence:

[Cross Heart] by CooRie
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Ending Sequence:

[Madoromi no Rakuen] by Ceui
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