Angel's Anime Rating Guide

I watched BeheNeko: The Elf-Girl's Cat Is Secretly An S-Ranked Monster ... When Aria the elf finds an adorable little kitten, she quickly grows to love it a bit more than might be healthy for her. mainly it's because her sweet little pussy isn't really a cat at all! No, the cute and cuddly creature that Aria calls Tama is actually a former knight reborn as a Behemoth, a legendary S-class monster that merely happens resembles a loveable domestic feline! Fortunately, Tama loves Aria as well and is more than happy to use his powers to defend the odd elf girl from dangers, real or otherwise, in BeheNeko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! Aria, the resident warrior elf, comes across a stray kitten who is, in fact, a reincarnated hero in the body of a baby Behemoth, an immensely powerful monster that happens to look like a cat. The kitten gets to ride around between Aria breasts and is the star of the show at bath time. The cat, for his part, wants to keep...

A while back, I watched Daily Life Of A Middle-Aged Online Shopper In Another World ... Kenichi Hamada is just a regular, middle-aged man working as an illustrator in Japan. One day, he is transported to another world and wakes to find himself in the middle of a dangerous forest filled with ravenous monsters. He soon realizes he has the ability to use a massive online shopping site that can deliver him exactly what he needs. Join Kenichi on his search for relaxation in a new world! This story sees our average every-man, Kenichi, dumped in another world with nothing but his trusty shopping app that allows him to acquire items from our world, but, also conveniently accepts money and items from his current world as payment. Kenichi tries to keep his head down and not be noticed. His aim is to live a slow and peaceful life as a merchant. Kenichi soon discovers that common items from our world, like clothes pins are in high demand. This soon brings the kind of notoriety that Kenichi re...

I watched Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls aka Monster Musume no Oishasan ... No one expected the government to suddenly acknowledge the existence of demi-human species like harpies and centaurs, but when a careless Integration Agent shows up on Kimihito Kurusu's doorstep with an attractive Lamia in tow, he suddenly finds himself designated as a Host Family. This might not be so bad, except that while Miia's top half is all girl and quickly develops a crush on her new human host, her snakelike bottom half makes that crush literal with a tendency to squeeze the life out of him! Plus, there's also the little problem that it's illegal for humans and non-humans to have THOSE kinds of relationships. With woman-in-black Agent Smith always sniffing about for improprieties, things only get more hectic in the Kurusu household when bird-brained Papi the harpy and master-seeking centaur Centorea need places to roost and stable. As the house gets crowded with ev...

Yesterday, I took the time to see Familiar Of Zero ... Season 1 Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere's name is so long and her spell-casting skills are so poor that everyone at the Tristain Academy of Magic just calls her Louise the Zero. Louise's humiliation only increases during an important second-year test, where the other students summon up dragons and other mythological creatures as their familiars, and she inexplicably summons Hiraga Saito, a totally normal teenager from Tokyo. Now she's stuck with him and Saito's stuck with the lousy life of being a familiar. Except, maybe there's more going on than meets the eye, because Saito's not prepared to accept the social inequities that Louise and other aristocrats consider the status quo, and he may not be quite as normal as everyone thinks. And the reason Louise is so bad at magic might just be that she hasn't figured out what she's good at yet. In fact, they might even have the makings of a gre...

Recently, I watched Bayonetta ... Twenty years after her awakening, Bayonetta is still searching for clues that could help unravel the mysteries of her dark past. Aided in her quest by the clandestine weapon smith Rodin - and his deadly creations: Scarborough Fair - Bayonetta continues to leave a trail of angel corpses in her wake. Her search for answers leads to encounters with a mysterious - and eerily familiar - little girl, a vengeance-obsessed journalist, and a deadly white-haired beauty that seems to know more about Bayonetta than the witch herself. According to Wikipedia ... For the English-localized version of the film, FUNimation Entertainment contacted Jonathan Klein and Los Angeles-based New Generation Pictures to handle the production and requested that as many video game cast members as possible reprise their roles. Since Bayonetta voice actress Hellena Taylor had relocated back to the UK, Klein recorded her voice separately at The Egg Recording Studio located at Shep...

My travels into the world of streaming anime continue with Eromanga Sensei ... From the author of Oreimo comes a slapstick comedy about a novelist big brother and his illustrator younger sister along with a cast of charming characters! Masamune Izumi is a high school student who professionally writes light novels. Sagiri Izumi is a shut-in who never leaves her room. One year ago, they became siblings when their parents married one another. However, one day, Masamune discovers a shocking twist -- the artist "Eromanga Sensei," who has been drawing illustrations for his novels, is none other than Sagiri. His cute little shut-in of a sister, who has been living under his roof, is using an obscene pen name and drawing lewd illustrations. But there’s no way his little sister could be this dirty?! In Eromanga Sensei , we follow the misadventures of writer and illustrator Masamune and Sagiri as they explore awkward situations in the world of adult publishing and in their every...

In a break from my tradition of collecting anime on archival media, I waded back into anime streaming, to watch Frame Arms Girl ... When Ao found the package on her doorstep, she thought it was a present from her father, but inside the box was something truly unexpected: Gourai! A Frame Arms Girl, Gourai is a walking, talking, miniature artificial person with the intelligence of a ten-year-old human and a selection of snap-on weapons and armor. And the reason Gourai needs armor quickly becomes clear as two more Frame Arms Girls, Stylet and Baselard, arrive intent on testing Gourai's combat capabilities! It seems that Ao has been chosen to help test a new toy line and the good news is that she'll get paid for hosting her diminutive charges' battles! Of course, since they're mainly interested in fighting and gathering information, things are going to get awkward when they follow her to school.  According to Anime News Network ... Kotobukiya's Frame Arms models ...

A Centaur's Life  was just sitting around daring me to ignore it, so, of course it had to come home with me... High school is complicated for any young centaur, but shy, sweet Himeno won’t have to clop through it alone! Surrounded by friends, she’ll face life’s trials one day at a time. But her world isn’t all butterflies and rainbows. In this society of hooves, horns, and halos, there’s no room for discrimination, and prejudice -- even if accidental -- is punishable by law. A Centaur's Life is a slice-of-life series that follows the exploits of our local centaur, Himeno, as she goes to school and hangs out with her friends. This is a parallel world were nearly everything is the same, but, the people have floppy ears, wings, horns, halos, tails, snake heads and some are centaurs or merfolk. The series consists of vignettes featuring a cast of animal people. Much of the events in the series are fairly benign like girls at school, girls having doughnuts, girls at home interac...

In Another World With My Smartphone  seemed like something I might enjoy... Touya Mochizuki is killed. To make it up to him, God grants Touya a second chance at life in a fantastic new world. Adventure, fame, fortune, and a harem of cute girls await him across this otherworldly realm. But despite being a magical and physical prodigy, balancing the affections of his companions with his day-to-day activities is one challenge he's definitely not prepared for! In a premise similar to the classic live-action movie Here Comes Mr. Jordan , In Another World With My Smartphone updates this classic tale and adds a magical twist of its own. After Touya dies unexpectedly in our world, he has a meeting with God and as part of the bargain for being brought back to life, Touya asks for his smartphone to still work in the non-technological realm where magic use is commonplace. Touya is a nice easy-going guy and although he finds the circumstances a bit inconvenient, Touya handles this unusual ...

Recently, I took the opportunity to watch Clockwork Planet ... A thousand years after the world was rebuilt with clockwork, machine-obsessed Naoto Miura becomes the master of an automaton named RyuZU. When this beautiful piece of machinery crashed into his apartment, Naoto's superhuman hearing allowed him to fix her broken cogs-but little did he know it would land him squarely in the middle of a horrific government conspiracy. In Clockwork Planet , not unlike Madox-01 , where an advanced piece of exotic hardware literally falls off the back of a truck, RyuZU, likewise falls off the back of a transport vehicle and lands in the apartment of Naoto, a boy so obsessed with clockwork mechanisms, that he keeps a collection of broken clocks in his apartment. Naoto manages to repair the automaton and RyuZU decides to serve Naoto. Although, Naoto professes his love for RyuZU and her marvelous clockwork mechanism, RyuZU finds such a relationship unfitting for a servant and her ma...

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid marks a milestone as this is the first time that I've streamed an entire anime series... Season 1 What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That's Miss Kobayashi's new reality when Tohru, her new maid-slash-dragon appears in her life! And if one wasn't enough, in comes Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Soon, Kobayashi has a house full of adorable dragons - one serving tail and the other serving serious moe. Season 2 The mischief and mayhem continue for Miss Kobayashi and her bevy of dragons—including her devoted maid, Tohru. Their lives get turned upside down by the arrival of Ilulu, a powerful chaos dragon who doesn't believe humans and dragons should coexist. Movie: A Lonely Dragon Wants To Be Loved Kanna’s father returns to drag her back to the dragon world as the chaos and harmony factions descend toward war. While torn between duty to her family and loyalty to her friends, a hidden fo...

No Game No Life seemed like something I might enjoy... On the internet, they're legends: the tag-team duo known as BLANK, famed for their incredible game-playing skills. In the real world, however, the lives of 18 year old Sora and his 11 year old stepsister Shiro have been spiraling out of control. Now existing as shut-ins, they rarely leave their house and are unable to be separated without suffering panic attacks. Games, for them, are the safest retreat from reality. Until they win a chess match against a mysterious opponent known as Tet and find themselves pulled into a game bigger than any they could have ever imagined. Now, in a world where the outcome of games determines the fates of both civilizations and species, they must defend Humanity in the ultimate challenge, vying against a host of otherworldly competitors for the right to rule them all! But if they fail, it means slavery or destruction for all mankind. No pressure, of course! Can two misfits who can barely han...

With High School DxD , I saw scantily clad girls with wings on the cover box and thought that I should look into this series... Season 1 A war between heaven and hell is raging on Earth - and a hot mess of hormonal fury is raging in Issei's pants. The guy is dying to get some action. Which is funny, since his first date ever turns into a winged monster and tries to kill him. Fortunately, ridiculously curvy redhead Rias comes to his rescue. She's president of The Occult Research Club, a club that doesn't actually research the occult. They ARE the occult - and Rias is a Devil. Rias takes Issei as a more-than-willing slave and begins training him to use magic in battle against the Fallen Angels, the long-time enemies of Devils everywhere. If Issei can improve his mystical skills, he'll be able to help his hotter-than-hell master and her scorching supernatural schoolgirl friends defeat their foes. Even better, he might end up with a few sexy slaves of his own. Seas...

Rail Wars spoke to me and said "Buy Me", so I did... All train fanatic Naoto Takayama has ever dreamed of is becoming an engineer, but when he finally makes the grade and scores a trainee position with the JNR, his ambitions are totally derailed. Now, instead of the big front cab of his dreams, Naoto's stuck in the security division working with a squad of gorgeous girls and escorting pretty idol singers. Oh, what a nightmare! Okay, so there are the occasional bomb threats, thieves, and members of the rogue railway privatization group RJ to deal with, but that's what trigger-happy harpy Aoi and Sho, the squad's only other male member, are for. And if Naoto's one-track mind could just see the light at the end of the tunnel, he might realize that he's already on an express train to paradise with multiple lovely cabooses. Will getting railroaded take on a whole new meaning? Find out as everyone gets off on the wrong side of the tracks in Rail Wars! In R...