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| 2. Tempy
 
Steel Angel Kurumi starts out nice enough - dimwit Nakahito
encounters android maid from the future, somehow ends up with her, as well as
2 of her "sisters". Kurumi is even dimmer - she's your typical shounen
stereotype robot girlfriend, in maid clothing, dumb, all-serving, ends sentences
with -desu, has cute sound effect "kyuuin", and likes to go super deformed
as well. The art is nice and bright, and the girls are very boobalicious. It's
fitting that the "ultimate" steel angel we encounter later in the show
exhibits the largest mammary glands. So far not very deep, but enjoyable in a
shounen fanservice type way. But when the story starts kicking in, things start
to get bad. The show throws away the comedy, the plot elements become even more
unbelievable, things get more serious but not in a good way. It becomes more apparant
that Nakahito is totally useless; is he the main character or is it Kurumi? There
are lots of fights, but they're hardly interesting, and can't hold a candle to
shows like Kenshin. Perhaps it lacks emotional attachment to the characters.
Karinka starts off as an evil character, and the brutality she displays during
her initial fights turns the show into a mean-spirited one for a while. The last
8 episodes of the main story are totally bereft of any form of comedy, and wearily
I approach the predictably vomit inducing ending. An additional 4 episodes were
tacked on to the show marking the return to what the show does best - fillerish
comedy. |
| 1. Jeneki
Steel Angel Kurumi is another "bunch of girls with
superhuman powers live with one unworthy guy" show. Kurumi, Saki, and Karinka
are Steel Angels, female androids that just happen to kick butt. There's a bit
of fan service, but not as much as the import covers may lead you to believe.
There's also heavy emphasis on fight scenes, so if you like watching cute girls
duke it out you'll probably like this show. Although it starts off a bit slow,
the second half of the series picks up quite a bit and is very interesting. |
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