This review is on the first half of K-ON!! and the Tatami Galaxy, expect the review for Durarara!! to come very soon, 2-3 days and the first first episode reviews of summer 2010 to come out the same day or the day after.
I will start with K-ON!! and go to the Tatami Galaxy later on. K-ON!! is actually the second season of the popular slice-of-life anime K-ON! that originally aired in spring 2009. For those who have not watched that, this is irrelevant and I am likely to never do sequels again in reviews. In any case, I feel that K-ON!! is a bit worse than its first season counterpart. There is less of the charm that the original series had and the OP is a bit more annoying. As much as I would like there to be some sort of plot, this is not likely to happen as I am suspicious that Japan is using K-ON to brainwash people. Personally, if you did not like the first series, you will not like this one and if you liked the first series, I still have my doubts that you would like it. There is little character growth and more cutesy than I would like and it almost sickens me, almost. I will likely continue to the end unless the summer season is really good, since I get bored easily.
Now I will move onto the Tatami Galaxy. The Tatami Galaxy or Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei is an anime based off a novel. It follows the main character, of whom we never get the name, and his college years. Each episode is basically a rehashing of him going through his college experience in a variety of clubs and ending in some sort of catastrophe. Each episode also involves the main antagonist, a strange creature of a man named Ozu, who literally leads to the main character's demise in every episode in some way shape or form. There are other characters who pop up, but those are the big two. A big feature of this anime in particular is the sense of deja vu that you get from watching every episode. As a result, I could not actually continually watch this series. The OP is done by Asian Kung-Fu Generation but sounds like pop music so I actually really hate it, the ED is a sort of electric synth pop that is actually pretty decent. The music is also pretty good but does not hide the fact that the art is definitely for the type of people who enjoy artsy anime. In addition, the characters speak at a crazy fast pace and it is hard to keep up at times.
Sorry if this post seems like a giant ramble, my thoughts do not seem to be quite in order right now. In any case Durarara!! is next on the review list and a weekly discovery is coming up tomorrow as well.
K-ON!!
overall: 7.5/10
Tatami Galaxy
overall: 6.5/10
*Note: you can stream tatami galaxy from funimation and hulu.com
--CsMiREK
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