Yeah, it’s a book “review”. I bet you all look like Firiel here. Tokyopop released the first volume of the Good Witch of the West quintology late last year. Some of you may be familiar with its anime counterpart, which is somewhat incredibly different from the actual novel. How different, you ask? The creators of the anime [...]
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…huh? I watched this this morning and I can’t even remember what happened, so nonsensical has this become. WHO IS THE OTHER GUY WITH THE HAT? Why is the King a fat woman firing darts at people? WHY DID THE MIDDAY STAR FALL? Oh, whatever. So WestWitch ended up being something of a disappointment, really. Individually, [...]
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Whu? Where did the OTHER Bard come from? Did I miss something really obvious, or had we never seen this other guy before? Muh. I don’t really care, the story’s fallen apart; the Midday Star is letting the dragons through to invade Grale, Leandra’s being led on a wild goose chase by Lot [...]
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I’m really not sure what to say about this. It was certainly an enjoyable watch, but at the same time it was somewhat lacking in intensity. The climax towards the end, well, wasn’t all that climactic to me. Even though the show did have a single overarching storyline to it, much of the time [...]
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This is it?! That’s the ending?! How lame can you get?! How stupid can you get?! This is really disappointing indeed. This show is not a comedy and yet we get comical scenes in the darkest of hours!! Did the director and producers lose their minds or something?! I was hoping this show would have a decent ending so that I can include it in my 2006 spring season top shows’ list but alas, all that went down the drain now. This show is and will always be a second class show. Oh well. At least Adale shined all the way to the end. She definitely was the real star of the show as far as I’m concerned and is one of the finest anime characters of all time. She even deserves her own show. Feriel and Roux were also quite good but definitely not as good or as interesting as Adale. I’ll end this post with two nice pictures I’ve found which I hope will console other people who found the ending as disappointing as I have.
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Every time I sit down to watch this episode of WestWitch I get about five minutes in, think about how lovely it is and how much I’m enjoying it, and then get distracted by something else and forget about it. But no longer! So, Firiel goes through the Invisible Wall and ends up in the [...]
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Wow, actual fantasy! A really rather good action sequence makes up a large chunk of this episode, plus we get a nifty cliffhanger ending; top-notch stuff all round. Eusis and his fellow unicorn-riders set out as Dragon Slayers to take care of the ones that were devastating the nearby towns; Firiel and Igraine go to [...]
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Waffly bad summary follows in extended entry. I’m not quite sure why, but I liked this episode quite a lot, much as with most of WestWitch it seems; I can’t quite put my finger on what I enjoy about the show so much, but even with little momentous happening (no witches bursting through windows [...]
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Eusis’ mother attempts to pressure Firiel into accepting Eusis’ engagement in order to help Roux. Firiel goes to meet him and confesses that she’s still in love with him, but Roux is bent on vengeance against Count Riez and drugs her so she won’t interfere despite how much he loves her. Riez, unfortunately, [...]
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Rumour flies around the palace that Eusis has proposed to Firiel; by the end of the episode, he actually has, along with the insidious Duke Riez for reasons that I don’t quite understand (what did he have to do with Edeline? I must have missed that somewhere along the way; and Firiel doesn’t have [...]
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Firiel and co. head off to the capital, Heiralgrion, so that Firiel and Adale may be presented as queen candidates (well, it seems that only Adale is a candidate; Firiel is just along for the ride judging from what Eusis says later). While Leandra steals much of their thunder, Firiel has at least gone [...]
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What an odd episode title, but what a cracking episode! Also - HUGE BREASTS! Bet that got some people’s attention… Relatively basic summary, since I can’t be bothered with a blow-by-blow one (and doubt you lot can either) - Roux gets a message summoning him to the Student Council room, where he is confronted by [...]
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