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Hanover Fist:
Detroit Metal City
Comedy - MAL
Torrents: 1080p, 720p, 432p
Souichi - a good country boy - came to Tokyo for college. His dream after college was to be a musician, and he loves cheesy sappy pop songs. To pay the bills, he became the frontman for a death metal band - Detroit Metal City. Onstage as Johannes Krauser II, he wields armor, corpse paint and a wicked guitar. Krauser sings songs of rape, hell and murder to a rapidly growing and very rabid fanbase.
As a pop guitarist Souichi is an ignored street musician and he envies his own band's success, fueling self-hatred. This comes out on stage as Krauser's rage, increasing DMC's popularity and adding wild rumors about Krauser's habits. Souichi also develops problems keeping his Krauser persona from spilling into everyday life. Finally he wants to hide his involvement in DMC from the college classmate he crushes on.
This little show/OVA of 12 half-length episodes is one of the funniest I've ever seen. I'm talking about wake-the-neighbors-up-with-your-mad-cackling type funny. :D The songs they use are good and excellently fit into the show. The voice actors are also well suited for their roles anywhere from soft-spoken and stuttering to metal growls. The visual style is stark and manga-like and might be mistaken for cheap-ass animation, but small details are animated quite well when Studio 4°C wants to.
However, it's not a show for everyone: The language and humor is very crude (as you can see in the screencaps). The razor-edged satire and rabid fan characteristics might also offend genre-specific-metal purists that can't take a joke.
Pictures
(click to show/hide)Souichi's dream ...
his crush ...
... and his reality.
DMC's manager
If she likes a song ... well ...
The lines between on-stage and off-stage begin to blur.
Things get out of hand, but the fans are happy.
Even the next generation loves DMC.
Krauser also had a cameo in K-ON!
Slightly random and slightly related: What if K-ON! became the Black Metal Club?
K-ON! = Dimmu Borgir - Puritania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxX0B8-ohto
Hanover Fist:
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
<Daily Lives of High School Boys> or <Nichibros>
Comedy, Slice of Life
MyAnimeList overview - Torrents: 1080p BD, 720p BD
I think Divine said it best in his first impressions post on RandomC:
At its core, this is a slice-of-life comedy where boys will be boys. Not only that, but where boys will be stupid ... stupidly awesome that is. We follow a trio of high school boys idiots from Sanada North. Cast-wise, Sugita Tomokazu and Suzumura Kenichi - two of the funniest seiyuu in person - bring all the idiotic goodness, while Irino Miyu tries to play the straight guy, only to epically fail every time for our personal amusement.
What makes the comedy work so well isn’t just the fact that the three of them do really stupid things, but the fact that they do those stupid things even when they know exactly how stupid they are. They ignore common sense and just go wherever their trollish inner desires take them. What’s more, they’re completely shameless, which makes their hijinks an absolute riot.
Even when things weren’t overly funny, all it ever took was one scene to change all that. The humor comes in all forms too, such as Hidenori’s sarcastic inner dialogue (hilariously reminiscent of Kyon in Suzumiya Haruhi thanks to Tomokazu), Tadakuni’s faceless sister and the Literature Girl, who don’t even have proper names.
Anyway, I’ll just leave you with one final recommendation: Go watch it. Go watch it NOW!
Pictures
Screencaps courtesy of RandomC as usual.
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Hanover Fist:
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
<Love, Chuunibyou & Other Delusions>
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
MyAnimeList overview - Torrent: [URW] 720p
XDCC: Search for "chuunibyou" on the Ginpachi-Sensei packlist.
Chuunibyou (8th grade syndrome) is a perilous disease where imagination bleeds into reality. Yuuta wants to put his chuunibyou episode into the past and live an entirely normal, fantasy-free life. Rikka, however is still strongly afflicted, and she knows his dark secret - he is the Dark Flame Master (he stupidly played it one last time, unaware she was watching).
The comedy in this show is top notch. The pacing moves along quickly and sets up the well defined characters immediately. The goofy interactions between everyone had me in stitches and the character designs were terminally cute. Overall it's great fun and shouldn't be missed.
Outside of the 12 episodes aired on TV, there are many extras: First are the six "Lite" five-minute shorts. These should be watched in sequence with the full eps (1, 1-lite, 2, 2-lite ...). Next is the OVA/Ep.13 and finally the seven three-minute Depth of Field BD specials (I-V,last,extra) to watch in one swell foop.
Pictures
Screencaps courtesy of RandomC as usual.
(click to show/hide)Yuuta's dark chuunibyou past: The Dark Flame Master.
Yuuta plays the Dark Flame Master one last time, unaware he has an audience.
Yuuta confronts Rikka: Where did you hear about that?!
Rikka displays the Tyrant's Eye of Truth.
Yuuta is not impressed.
The responsible class president, Nibutani.
Yuuta's chuunibyou resurfaces in front of Yuumin-senpai.
Rikka's older sister (allergic to cats) enters the fray.
Touka blackmails Yuuta into housing Chimera, the stray cat Rikka has adopted.
Rikka and Touka battle in the chuunibyou fantasyland.
Yuumin can nap at any time, any where, so long as she has her pillow.
Dekomori is Rikka's friend and wields her weighted twintails as a weapon.
However, Dekomori still has a few bugs to work out with that.
Battle of the Clubroom!
(The teacher tricked them into cleaning up an old storeroom.)
Dekomori reads from the Mabinogion, a codex from a legendary online witch.
Nibutani asks to join the club and also wants to visit Yuuta's home.
Yuuta isn't the only one hiding a dark past.
The “Oriental Magick Napping Society in Summer” now has a full club of members.
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