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This comes a bit late, but last month, fellow aniblogger Valence had a great idea and asked what we would do if we could rewrite anime. In my years of anime watching, I have amassed a long list of anime that I would like to see changed, but for this post I thought I’d focus on the three biggest let-downs of my anime-viewing career: Chaos;Head, Code Geass R2, and Venus Versus Virus.

WARNING: Spoilers below.

One of the anime I would’ve liked to have seen rewritten is Chaos;Head. It’s the prequel to the currently airing series, Steins;Gate, and is about a delusional hikikomori, Takumi, that believes everyone is  out to get him. From the start, Takumi is presented as an unreliable narrator. His views and descriptions are inconsistent with those shown during the third person and even conflict with some of his own experiences, leading to some very confusing moments for him. At first I thought Chaos;Head was going to be a very in-depth story about the fall of a teenage boy into the depths of insanity where he would be lost forever, or realize the extent of his illness and wake up one day in a mental asylum. Oh how wrong I was.

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I had so much paper build up on my desk during the last couple of weeks that my copy of Megami Magazine volume 106 got lost in all of it. This volume features Nagi and Zange on the cover and includes part 2 of the book-in-book section for Kannagi. There were some nice posters this time, but I don’t know where half of them are from, I guess I’m really falling behind on my anime. (more…)

It’s been a few weeks since Chaos;Head ended, but I never got around to writing about what I thought about it.

I know the Chaos;Head anime was based on a game, but I haven’t played it so I don’t know whether a lot of stuff was just left out or this is actually how things were meant to be. The beginning of the series was really good with the potential of becoming a popular psychological-horror-mystery type anime, but somewhere along the line it turned into another sci-fi + superpowers show. I was pretty upset when I realized that Chaos;Head was no longer a horror mystery and had done a complete 180. It actually reminded me of Scrapped Princess and Utawarerumono, both of which were good fantasy anime but then turned into sci-fi near the end. I guess the Japanese just really like their science fiction or something. Despite the change in genres, I thought that the ending might end up being good, but man was I wrong. (more…)

I’ve been writing quite a bit about anime lately, but there’s just so many good series airing this season. I watched Chaos Head last night and it could potentially be one of the best anime this year. According to wikipedia, Chaos Head was originally a PC game that they made into an anime. Here’s the plotline from wikipedia: (more…)