I'll save you the bother of readign this week's review:

It's disappointing.

Now is that the review, or the anime?

eiken review

"The Eiken of the title is an after-school club type thing that doesn't really have any actual purpose. Unlike, say, a manga club or a tennis club, Eiken is just a club with no activity. Well, except for fan service.

Most of Eiken's members have enormous boobs. And I don't just mean regular enormous, this is a vast cornucopia of boob flesh. There's enough boob-poundage between Eiken's members to make at least four whole people.

And the members that aren't well endowed have other ample charms--shapely curves, delicious butts, moe cuteness, etc, etc. The same principles also apply to all the other random women in the series."

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ai yori aoshi review

"You know, I don't think I've been quite this disappointed in an anime series in quite a while.

I mean, the series isn't really bad, as such, it's just it feels like it could have been so much more.

The first three or four episodes of Ai Yori Aoshi basically only feature our two main characters--Kaoru and Aoi--and we're given the fundamental premise. Aoi and Kaoru were arranged to be married at a very young age. Luckily, Aoi also fell head-over-heels for Kaoru, and presumably something similar is roughly true for Kaoru, although this is part of what the series goes on to explore."

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girls bravo manga review

"Heck, the anime even has the same cast of characters, with everyone who's in the manga also appearing in the anime and via similar plotlines too.

So why is the anime better? Well, it all feels less arbitrary and random in the anime. It feels like there's a central plot in the anime, that we're actually going somewhere and that there's an ultimate goal to the show.

In the manga it just feels like the author is making it up as he goes along. It's like he introduces the new characters just because he wants to have yet another sexy chick to draw, or for Yukinari to stumble across while they're half naked."

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X review

"For those not in the know (is there anybody?) CLAMP are an all-female manga production team who, it could be argued, are some of the most successful out there. Certainly they have a massive and dedicated following of rabid fans both in Japan and around the world and there stuff always sells in buck loads.

CLAMP started life as a doujinshi group, producing fan manga. It's not a culture that really exists in the same way here, especially in the UK, so it may bare some explanation. Basically, doujinshi is almost invariably pornographic. Generally it involves characters from actual commercial anime and manga either in situations or displaying emotions/desires/actions that are pretty much uncharacteristic.

This is a convoluted way of saying it's all about straight male characters "gettin' it on" together and female characters getting molested."

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a cock and bull story - review

"I think this review is actually going to be a fairly short one.

The reason is that it's often much more difficult to explain why you do like something than why you don't. Criticising and pointing out bad stuff is easy. It's so easy in fact that you may have noticed reviews where I do actually like what I'm reviewing I actually end up pointing out the few bad bits I don't like.

But there really isn't much not to like about A Cock and Bull Story."

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