Ugh. And ugh again. First let me say that I am a fan of the "J" series, I liked it. It was fun, cute and junk. But this title is as much as a disappointment to fans of SMJ as it should be to everyone in the world at large. It essentially takes what was good about the first series and makes bad luvin' on it with a rusty razor. Also J to X has the dubious distinction of being one of only two shows that I just could not finish watching. The other was the amazing lip flapping adventure slide-show called ".Hack". I have to give J to X credit for animating their characters in an adequate fashion, but it still doesn't save this forced march of an anime.
The entire time it seemed like the show had been handed to someone with very little knowledge of the source material and who had just been ripped away from their pet production of "Angsty Middle School Robot Pilots ZWEI" and forced to work on this. The show is flat, unfunny and boring for almost every second it graces your DVD player. After the five discs I saw whatever passed for a "plot" consisted of the bad guys giggling in the shadows and the main characters depressed and desperate for reasons outside of the machinations of their supposed enemies. The conflict in the anime never really takes place at any point. The cover art on the last three discs almost screams... "Please buy the rest of the show! Please! I mean, just look at the impossibly gravity defying head-sized boobs on these saber dolls! Look at them and buy the disc!" Here's a big fuk u to that. Plus, they somehow even ruined Hanagata, my favorite tights wearing frooty man. That was the worst crime of all.
My suggestion: I was reading a fellow blogger's comments on the whole BT/Kaaza thing, and he mentioned that some people believe that downloading anime is great publicity for the title in question. If that's true don't steal this one, all those anime execs might get the wrong idea and make something worse.
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OMG check out those vases! So awesome. Since this is an anime blog I was kinda hoping for some Dragonball Z vases or Hamtaro chamber pots or somesuch. But no luck. But doooooood, such amazing vases. I want all my loyal readers to click on that link, multiple times if possible and buy some vases. AND btw I am not saying this because he said my blog was outstanding. I mean I like that he did, but I'm not such a sucker to fall for something like that. These are just some SERIOUS vases of amazing aptitude.
Saber Marionette J->X wasn't my favorite either, but pathetic fanboy that I am I bought it anyway.
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