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Antz’ 2010 Year In Review: Top 5 Anime I Watched This Year
Normally when someone is doing a list of this sort it’s about anime that actually aired during the year. Unfortunately I can’t do a list like that because I generally don’t watch anime as it’s airing. I’ve just never been fond of having to wait a week between episodes. I prefer to watch at my own pace, so I tend to wait a while and watch something when the whole thing has been subbed or it’s out on DVD. While you’re all talking about your Oreimo and your K-ON!, I’m over in my little corner talking about Trigun. As such, my list won’t be top 5 anime that aired in 2010, but the top 5 anime I watched in 2010. The list is limited to shows I watched for the first time in 2010, and TV series only.
#5 – Princess Tutu
When a well-known writer died, he left behind an unfinished story about a prince and a raven. Now the story has started to spill over into the real world, causing its characters to come alive and finally bring about an end to the tale. One of the things that drew me to Princess Tutu was how silly the whole thing can be. It’s a series about a duck who changes into a girl named Duck, who then changes into Princess Tutu and solves whatever conflict has arisen through ballet. And her ballet teacher is a cat. It’s all so strange and odd, but when you take into the account that the series is supposed to be a fairy tale, it all strangely fits. The random talking animals, the duck changing into a girl; none of it is really that absurd for a fairy tale. It’s a cute, and sometimes emotional, little fairy tale and despite me being not even a little close to its intended audience I still found it entertaining.
Manga Review: Welcome to the NHK (Complete Series)
Welcome to the NHK is a haunting and chilling story, but in a good way. It takes risks that most stories never would, but question is, do those risks pay off? Well, for the most part, yes.
The story of Welcome to the NHK revolves around Sato, a hikikomori. He dropped out of school, has no job, and lives in his apartment by himself, too depressed and afraid of the world to go outside because he is convinced that the NHK, a popular Japanese television broadcasting company, is one big conspiracy to turn people into hikikomori just like him. One day, a religious missionary comes to his door trying to spread the word of God. Sato passes it off as a simple annoyance and tries to pretend that he’s just fine on his own, but the missionary’s niece Misaki sees right through Sato’s act, and goes on a quest to cure him of his hikikomori ways and integrate him back into society. However, Misaki has her own personal reasons for doing this, and as more and more people get pulled into her tenuous relationship with Sato, truths are revealed that will change these people’s lives forever.
