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Jul. 30th, 2011 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaSAINT TAIL
Genre: Magical Girls
How much seen: three episodes (subbed)
What it's about: This is sort of a hybrid between a kaitou series and a magical girl series. The main character is a 14-year-old girl whose father is a professional magician and whose mother was, apparently, a kaitou in her own right. Meimi's best friend is a nun-in-training who gets all the good information, and who sends out Meimi as the kaitou Saint Tail to steal back things that were once stolen. Of course there's a love interest, who of course is the young detective who is absolutely dedicated to catching Saint Tail.
It's not really a kaitou series, though. It has some of the trappings, yes, but if you go in expecting the kind of back-and-forth that you get in an actual kaitou series, you'll be disappointed. The detective doesn't have anything like the intelligence needed to keep up with Meimi: the only reason he can even get close to her is because she likes him. It's a magical girl series, complete with a transformation from Meimi to Saint Tail that may or may not be an ordinary clothing change. (I rather hope not, though. The first time occurs right in the middle of the church. Admittedly, it's evening and nobody's there but her little nun friend, but still.)
Overall opinion: "Because of her classy figure, people call her Saint Tail." Kay tells me that's really not what the Japanese says. I find that reassuring, actually. Lord knows the Japanese can be pervy, but not usually in the series that are aimed for children.
Er. Anyway. It's a possibility, but I'm still mildly disappointed in the kaitou tease without the kaitou follow-up. It's not on the A list, let's put it that way.
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We are sitting around watching stand-up comedy and discussing local soccer teams. Somehow this led to the clearly urgent need for an anime where there is a boy who magically transforms into a girl because there's no boy's soccer team or something. Apparently this needs to be in the Boston area, so the boy can be from Salem and the reason he can transform is because he's descended from the witches.
Yes, I know, the number of implausibilities/impossibilities in that paragraph is, uh, fairly high. But it's certainly no worse than some of the anime I watched for this. :grimace:
Genre: Magical Girls
How much seen: three episodes (subbed)
What it's about: This is sort of a hybrid between a kaitou series and a magical girl series. The main character is a 14-year-old girl whose father is a professional magician and whose mother was, apparently, a kaitou in her own right. Meimi's best friend is a nun-in-training who gets all the good information, and who sends out Meimi as the kaitou Saint Tail to steal back things that were once stolen. Of course there's a love interest, who of course is the young detective who is absolutely dedicated to catching Saint Tail.
It's not really a kaitou series, though. It has some of the trappings, yes, but if you go in expecting the kind of back-and-forth that you get in an actual kaitou series, you'll be disappointed. The detective doesn't have anything like the intelligence needed to keep up with Meimi: the only reason he can even get close to her is because she likes him. It's a magical girl series, complete with a transformation from Meimi to Saint Tail that may or may not be an ordinary clothing change. (I rather hope not, though. The first time occurs right in the middle of the church. Admittedly, it's evening and nobody's there but her little nun friend, but still.)
Overall opinion: "Because of her classy figure, people call her Saint Tail." Kay tells me that's really not what the Japanese says. I find that reassuring, actually. Lord knows the Japanese can be pervy, but not usually in the series that are aimed for children.
Er. Anyway. It's a possibility, but I'm still mildly disappointed in the kaitou tease without the kaitou follow-up. It's not on the A list, let's put it that way.
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We are sitting around watching stand-up comedy and discussing local soccer teams. Somehow this led to the clearly urgent need for an anime where there is a boy who magically transforms into a girl because there's no boy's soccer team or something. Apparently this needs to be in the Boston area, so the boy can be from Salem and the reason he can transform is because he's descended from the witches.
Yes, I know, the number of implausibilities/impossibilities in that paragraph is, uh, fairly high. But it's certainly no worse than some of the anime I watched for this. :grimace: