The new ED seriously rocks. It’s still on my mind. Anyway, the episode was great once more. The previous one introduced the problem, while this one solved it. And it was indeed more than just telling the older twin to “always look on the bright side of life”. The younger twin proved to be much [...]
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First of all, this episode comes with a new ED, and it totally ROCKS. Seeing Maru and Moro on the air guitar like that, and Mokona on air drums, without overdoing it is so incredibly awesome. The song really fits the dark moods of the show as well. Two thumbs up for the creators. About [...]
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I don't get this. How can a professionally made product such as this series looks this horrid? Just look at the character design for the twin sisters. They are nothing like their manga counterpart. Their eyes are dull and have no life. Similarly, even thoough the character design for the regulars looked quite good during the previous episode, in this one everyone looks awful. Did Production IG outsourced this episode to an amateur company or did they ask some work experience kids to draw the characters? Either way, it's disappointing to see what could otherwise be an interesting arc ruined by bad character design. It's a good thing that xxxHOLiC also has an interesting storyline because otherwise there is little incentive to watch this series. As a side note, a new ending theme called Kagerou is being used starting with this episode.
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I'm sorry if I've been slow in catching up with some of the older series. The new anime that came out this week and the fact that I tend to be away during the day really cause a havoc on my timetable. Anyway, this turns out to be a rather interesting episode. I don't really like the fact that Kuda-Kitsune large form also has that green tea color but I love the creature so this is a minor problem. I also think that the animation seems to be slightly better for some reason. The scene where Kuda-Kitsune fight against the Hane parasite was quite exciting and dynamic to watch. If the animators can maintain consistency in the character design and adds more complex shading into the background, this would have been a better anime than it currently is at the moment.
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xxxHolic returns with a normal case again, this episode. This time, we have a fallen angel. It’s a strange creature who can attach itself to a person who wants to be stronger so badly, that he doesn’t care if he loses control of himself. The fallen angel then lives as a parasite on its host, [...]
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This episode was a special one. It was specifically aimed at the relationship between Watanuki’s relationship with Hinata and Domeki. To top everything, the creators tried to implement some really scary scenes, combined with some awesome comedy. Guess what? It actually worked. This episode was probably one of the best yet. We start with Yuuko, [...]
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This episode explains why the anime writers decided to alter Himawari's horror story from Episode 10. It seems they simply wanted to use that story as an original anime episode. Although if you think about it, can you actually call this an original story? In essence, the anime writers simply modified the story from the manga and turned it into a stand alone episode. In addition to this, you would think that for an original episode like this one they'll actually increase the animation quality but nope, it's still as crappy as ever. Thankfully the storyline is quite good and creepy but that's not really hard to do given the fact that they simply had to modify the original storyline, which was already creepy to begin with.
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This episode continued the awesomeness that xxxHolic managed to start in the previous episodes. Both in terms of comedy as in terms of stories. I just love seeing Yuuko, Maru, Moro and Mokona getting giddly over just about everything, and this episode was no exception. The scenes which happened in the air treated the viewer [...]
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This is a really good episode that basically improvises and change the original storyline a little bit. There is even an appearance from another character which we've already seen from the previous episode. Anyway, I'm sorry that the summary is brief summary and there is no impression at the moment but I have an errand to do. I'll come back and add in more details and impression as soon as I have the chance to do so.
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A month or so of not watching xxxHolic does wonders for my expectations; I enjoyed this episode a lot more than I’ve enjoyed the earlier ones, to be honest, even though the show is just as “nothingy” and not particularly well animated this time round either. I dunno, maybe it’s just my expectations are [...]
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