Sekirei is a bit more interesting than most harems of its type, but its dated feel, bland male lead, and action sequences leave a bit to be desired. Title: Sekirei Genre: Harem, Ecchi, Fantasy, [...]
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A late post on the early airing of Sekirei's second anime season premiere. It's funny how the only guy in the squad gets left out of picture. A typical day at Izumo Inn. Button up your shirt if you don't want to see your own man-boobs. List of highlights: - An iteration of the Disciplinary Squad consisting of Miya, Matsu, Kazehana, Karasuba, and a male Sekirei destroys an army task force. - Minato and his Sekirei are still fooling around at Izumo Inn. Kazehana is still bumming around drinking wine and Homura struggles with his body. - Uzume visits her Ashikai Chiho at hospital but is bothered by a guy in a suit and wearing glasses - Benitsubasa, still fuming from her embarrassing loss to Yume/Musubi at the end the last season, beats up some random Sekirei. - Meanwhile, Haihane tries to dig up information on the old Disciplinary Squad. She discovers that the second iteration consisted only of Yume and Karasuba, and all the data for the first iteration has been deleted. Not sure why I took this screen shot... other than that Chiho's neck and face look a little strange. There wasn't anything good on TV so Benitsubasa decided to visit Izumo Inn for entertainment. A lot more of this to come! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sekirei is back for a second season on the TV screen. This was a special early screening that everyone except me seemed to know about, and the series officially starts on either June 27 as written on the persistent message that covered half of the screen. I guess the makers of the show really wanted to make sure we remembered to watch the darn show when it actually starts. Anyways, the episode consisted of a bit of character re-introduction, recap of the first season, some flashbacks and hints of things to come, and of course some fan service to round things out. It was a lot of stuff, but there wasn't any particular focus. The episode was aimed at bringing fans back to speed and giving a small preview of what's to come, and for those tasks it did a decent job. Nothing important or exciting happened though. The flashbacks and hints were drawn from manga chapters that chronologically should fall somewhere in the middle of the season, but it's not a bad idea to show a bit of them in the beginning. On to the non-story aspects, the animation looks similar to the first season: not super high quality but decent enough. The OP and ED are once again sang by the seiyus of Minato's four main Sekirei and the songs aren't particularly notable. Given that the Sekirei manga is still in serialization and progressing ever so slowly, ~Pure Engagment~ probably won't be the last season of Sekirei, but it should cover a few good parts of the story. Since I cover the manga and the first season of the anime, I am obligated to cover this season of the anime as well. From A Product of Wasted Time
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…Or, OH GIRLS! MORE AND MORE GIRLS! For every Otaku need, there is a sekirei suitable! The episode starts out with a loud bang and girls destroying stuff, old fashioned superpowered females beating the crap outta the army, navy, air force, super! The song is OK, sounds exactly like a second season’s [...]
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An early airing of Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~ is out and as expected, we are back to the harem acts of Minato and his, well, harem. What else did you expect? Of course, there is more to the story than that. Because most of this happened in a time even before the second round in the [...] Related posts:Sekirei Favorites KKN & Sekirei Chat
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What can I say, pokegirls are awesome, even if the animation is quite sketchy (lots of flat coloring on the faces, some blush — where did I see it before?). The anime seems inoffensive, if one can stomach poor drawing. Myself, I would have finished Yoakena if the writing were any less dumb. So, perversely enough, [...]
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Sekirei got on my nerves within minutes...not to say seconds. I'll leave this show to all the male bloggers out there ^_~
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Sekirei, the answer to my need for fanservice this season? OP: “Sekirei (セキレイ)” by Saori Hayami, Marina Inoue, Kana Hanazawa, and Aya Endo Upon first inspection of the “Elfen Lied”esque scene that came at the beginning of the first episode, one might think that Sekirei is going to be an action-packed horror anime that may be unsuitable [...]
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The Summer anime season has only just started, yet it appears that we already have ourselves a prime contender for 'fan service series of the season'. Minato Sahashi is your typical male anime protagonist for this kind of thing, a guy who has failed to get into University twice and appears to have no prospects in life or love... That is, until some mysterious girl literally falls into his lap. A cute, big breasted mysterious girl. Who has no qualms about undressing in front of him. Or kissing him out of the blue. Or sprouting wings from said orgasmic kiss. See what I mean about the fan service?Anyway, the girl in question is called Musabi, and she's a Sekirei - A girl who appears to be little more than a plaything for the director of a hugely powerful company, who seems intent on creating some kind of game where said Sekirei fight one another. Who are these Sekirei, and why is he doing this? Well, that's one for a future episode...While the first half of this opening episode is really rather disjointed at times (making it a little more tricky to follow), I suppose it does a reasonable job of laying out the baseline for the plot, although the whole thing seems a little rushed overall. You certainly can't accuse the plot of being revolutionary either, gluing together plenty of well-worn elements in a suitably predictable fashion - We certainly won't be seeing any new ground broken here. Still, there are some decent character designs and an almost ridiculous wealth of big voice actors on show, which does give this effort something of a high quality feel. Personally, I was particularly intrigued by the opening scene which (girl with sword aside) felt like it had been ripped straight out of Half-Life, from the klaxon sounding to the design of the corridor and security guards.Anyway, all of that aside, this was a pretty average opener to what promises to be a pretty average series. Still, it could be entertaining enough, so we'll have to see what it can muster up (although the preview suggests that the word 'harem' may well appear in my episode two deconstruction).
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Opening Sequence: OP: “Sekirei” by Hayami Saori, Inoue Marina, Hanazawa Kana, and Endo Aya A group collaboration from all the four main female seiyuus and it’s about average for me. Still can’t beat Bamboo Blade in terms of group songs. Well the OP sequence was quite actiony and I wonder if it’s an indication that the series [...]
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Or with the power of kissing. Or boobs. Whatever. Flavor: Sour Initial reaction: So, the story is set in year 2020, huh. I never understood why people bother with these dates. Well, this ended up being the first show I decided to check out from the whole batch of new summer anime series… last season, if I’m not [...]
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