August 31st, 2007 by pmflood1
A rather good episode, even if all the fighting was decent at best. I swear that there must have been at least 15 stills of Miu hitting a sailor scout. There were some moments of relative quality, but they were all immediately followed up by some truly cringeworthy stuff. Just look at Miu’s face around the 16:45 mark. That’s up there with some of the terrible terrible Nanoha budget saving techniques from season 1. Ew. Just… ew. Still, the rest of it was pretty fun. It was just a practice in rapidly flipping between having a budget and not for the entire episode.
August 31st, 2007 by pmflood1
I really lament the lack of an animation budget that Kenichi has. That Ukita vs Berserker fight was pretty painful to watch. Next episode looks to have a bit better of a budget when Kisara takes on Freya at least. I can’t help but think that the whole Berserker setup is really a pretty hackneyed shounen fighting cliche that I’ve seen hundreds of times before though. Hero goes off to train, new guy shows up and clears house, hero comes back and mops floor with him to show his new and improved power before fighting the real villain. All we’re really missing is Loki or #20 screaming about Kenichi’s power level. Meh. Maybe Kenichi’ll surprise me.
August 14th, 2007 by pmflood1
While training in the mountains, Kenichi gets lost but is rescued by a mysterious man named Ogata Ishinsai, and receives from him a tempting proposal that could change his destiny.
August 8th, 2007 by pmflood1
Cats, survival, and Siegfried… oh my.Amazingly, actually a rather quality episode for absolutely nothing really happening but more generic training that will end with some Kenichi epiphany. Unlike most, it actually seemed to have a budget… although I could really have done without the 45 second 3 frame Sieg singing sequence. Aside from that, the Kisara moments were pretty funny/cute and the Elder makes a rather good antagonist for poor Kenichi.
July 26th, 2007 by admin
Why don’t anime characters ever just come out and say the reason that they’re pissed off at each other?Not a bad episode of Kenichi as far as Kenichi is concerned. The first half was certainly interesting enough with the Odin/Kenichi showdown. As soon as the eyecatch hit though, the entire tone and momentum of the episode changed as we went to nonsensical comic relief with Niijima, Siegfried and Tanimoto before trying to go back to being sort of quasi-touching with Miu and Kenichi. While it did include the arguably important return of Siegfried, it was a complete and awkward shift that totally lost the drama and impact of the first 12 minutes and really stuck out as fairly shoddy filler to pad out the episode.
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