2011 Spring Season Anime Picks: Hidan no Aria(aka Shakugan no Shana-magic+guns)

I’ll start off by saying, my little brother picked this. He likes guns, loli’s and action. All of which Hidan no Aria has, wrapped up in neat little not-to-fanservicey package. Which is also great, because he’s only 13 XD I don’t want him exposed to the kind of thing I was at the same age. I’d already read Chobits by his age. And was working my way through Love Hina & other stuff. I know the Tokyopop age rating was only a rough guide, but they were selling me Chobits when I was 12, & it was marked 16+ XD. I was tall for my age though… STILL. My little broseph can wait. He’s seen anime based on eroge/VN’s as it is lol. Non-ecchi ones though :3

Also, he loves Shakugan no Shana, even bought the DVD boxset(go him!!). So we both noticed the similarity to Shakugan no Shana lol. It’s basically the same thing, only Aria has guns+swords instead of magic+swords XD. (He also loves 24, so lots of guns/violence/chases etc, he loves it XD) We checked afterwards for voice actors and both lol’d at the fact Shana’s seiyuu is voicing Aria XD.

2011 Spring Season Anime Picks 1: Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi

The lovely Ui ❤

It’s those eyes. The blue with green. It’s not that common to do that with (optical)eyes. And I LOVE Feng’s artwork. It’s too cute. Theres that figure in the polkadot bikini I still want. I think I like Ui because facially they’re quite similar, hair colour isn’t dissimilar too. And both have a cute hair decoration. So yeah, I’ve fell for the main chara in just the first ep XD, the ditzy, stereotypically moe girl, so what? They’re meant to be appealing!! I don’t mind moe, I get that theres been WAY too much of it recently, but it honestly doesn’t bother me lol, I simply don’t want much of the moe-driven anime. But when certain character designs attract my attention, I give them a chance at least.