The glory days of anime are long gone. Finding something watchable is the equivalent to finding Waldo in the image below.
Recently, Hulu and Netflix's anime library has grown significantly, which makes trying out anime much easier than sifting through torrents or poor-quality streams. Netflix has allowed me to re-watch old favourites, and Hulu has introduced me to a few new series. (Please excuse me for being a year or two behind.)
One of them being
Tiger and Bunny. I am still only in the first half of this series and have yet to learn to love it. I can't stand the bishounen yaoi whatever in it and absolutely hate Barnaby's hair, but it has got to be the best use of product placement I have ever seen. The big robot anime fight thing is pretty generic, but the cast of characters make it amusing at times. (The best one so far is the Barnaby documentary episode.) I would say it's just okay, but I am going to stick with it a while longer to see what all the hype is about.
The second series I started is
Big Windup. I have always wanted to watch baseball anime, and since my Cubs are terrible this year,
Big Windup will have to do. It's a shounen series created by a female manga-ka named Asa Higuchi. The scaredy-cat main character, Mihashi, is annoyingly Shinji-like. Though, he is balanced out by his calm and collected
baby-sitter catcher, Abe. It is essentially watching baseball, but you get to know the players personally. A game will take up to several episodes, and much of those episodes are the thoughts inside the players' heads. Frankly, it can be boring like a baseball game, and I mean this in the most loving way possible because I
really love baseball. I love listening to baseball while I work and the best naps are taken while listening to a game on the radio. Not too long ago, I went to a Nats game. I can tell this anime absorbed me because the game was playing out to me like a
Big Windup episode. An element I love in this anime are the female characters. Maria Momoe is the head coach. She is brash, intimidating, and a strong leader. Chiyo Shino'oka is the team's manager. She is sweet, hardworking, and really loves her team. (She also has a really adorable Shiba Inu companion.) I recommend this series to anime and baseball fans alike.
Listen to me Girls, I am your Father is a completely ridiculous moe, lolicon, harem anime. As I've gotten older, I don't really subscribe to such. Unfortunately, I actually really like this series. It's incredibly cute and makes me giggle. Seeing 10-year-old and 14-year-old girls prance around in sexy pajamas is only slightly uncomfortable. The series is about three sisters who are suddenly put under the parental guardianship of their college student uncle, Yuuta. (Only the youngest and most adorable sister, Hina, is actually blood-related to him.) The oldest sister has always had a crush on him, but Yuuta is much more interested in his strange, but incredibly busty classmate, Raika. Hijinks ensue, and then I feel guilty for enjoying it.
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