Well I’m sure I mentioned previously that I liked the OP. Really it is cute, and I probably only like it for the engrish. Up until last night this was another of the ‘been building up a collection but never actually watched’ shows I have… But as I mentioned before I have an issue of the manga. So right away I noticed things happening wrong, or in most cases in the wrong order. Nothing big though, things like… Amu getting the Humpty Lock before she’s supposed to, doing a chara change early… running into her first X egg on her own when in fact… the Jack chair guy is supposed to take her out looking for them. Little insignificant things really, the story line’s unaffected. Now I wouldn’t have pegged this as mahou shoujo because Volume one ends just before she does her fist character transformation to beat an X egg, which they found running around on it’s own and nowhere near that 3rd grader kid. It happens much much faster in the anime, and comes complete with ‘nekkid’ transformation sequence. It did succeed in something that nothing since… Nanoha has done, by making me feel creepy. You think “She’s cute.” Then the fact that she’s in the fifth grade sets in…
Someone once asked if anyone who watches this show watches it for something other than the goth loli. Which makes me keep looking for it but all you ever get is Amu’s little sister… There’s punk… which keeps getting labeled as goth punk which isn’t fashion but a music style. Sure she wears a lot of black and red but that doesn’t make her goth any more than it makes the rest of the girls in her school who wear the black blazer and the red plaid skirt uniform. And they discriminate fairly. Girls have to wear skirts… boys have to wear shorts. Only teachers get to wear pants… Oops I lied, seems at least in artwork she’s worn something you could qualify as goth loli. she doesn’t seem to wear any of this in the anime… nto yet anyway she’s still got forty or so episodes I guess.
Seriously though, I’ve got a red t-shirt and black jeans… am I goth too? I don’t think so Tim.
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