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| 5. Tyrenol
 
I'm not gonna call Pioneer by its new name. To me they're always
gonna be Pioneer. Or atleast AIC. These are the type of people that would do a
show like The SoulTaker and would still fit an onsen / bath scene or an
Obon festival kimono / yukata scene somewhere. At any rate, Hand Maid May
is probably one of the more senseless series that I had a chance to watch since...
well... Tenchi Muyo. You have Nanbara and
his insane, in-your-face attitude. You have Kazuya and his absent-mindedness.
May and Kasumi with their girl-next-doorish competition over Kazuya's heart. Rena
and her lollicon brattiness, Sara and her insane lust for ramen noodles, Kei and
her "processing loop," Mami and her "are-are-are-are-are..."
A new bunch of lunatics, says the back cover. Personally,
I think it just sends the characters of El Hazard into the current settings.
And even though the series was senseless; it had its serious moments when the
characters stop being typecasted and started trying to rescue each other. |
| 4. Olmanek
 
The first time I watched this series, I was quite new to anime,
and I thought the idea of Maids back then was novel, these days I still like the
idea of a maid series and I strive to make sure I have all maid series made, but,
noticeably, re-watching these type of series actually makes me turn away because
of the awkward situations that I know are about to arise. For the majority each
episode is devoted to a new character, which, if you like cute girls is great,
each character is super cute and for most of them prone to panty shots, however
it does become a bit disturbing when the girl is about 10 or a bit younger but
well I'm sure someone out there liked it. Ahem. Nanbara is one of my favourite
ever characters, amazingly over the top and refers to himself as Kazukis Best
Friend / Mortal Enemy which he manages to portray quite well, a fantastic achievement!
Basically this is a fun series, which, just towards the end, tries to attach a
fairly complicated storyline to itself, which didn't work too well but didn't
detract from the series at all which was good. In retrospect I enjoyed this series
a lot more than say Love Hina, some aggression is funny, however, throughout
that series, Keitaro was constantly being attacked by a trained swordswoman, mecha
turtles armed with missiles and other heavy weaponry, and an extremely moody woman
with powerful right and left hooks, all of which got very annoying because in
almost every scene Keitaro was blasted off in to the distance which didn't allow
for ANY character depth or even romantic situations, the evil world of harem,
that series was created to show the downside of being surrounded by cute girls.
Thankfully in this series Kazuki is a nice likeable intelligent fellow who had
some good luck befall him, and is capable of walking and talking without constantly
falling and landing in awkward positions and without constantly saying things
to aggravate the edgy females. Hand Maid May is the thinking man's Love
Hina. |
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