Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

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Name: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Release date (in Singapore): 29 August 2013
Watched on: 29 August 2013

Summary:
In this retelling of Rick Riordans book, "The Sea of Monsters", Percy Jackson, accompanied by his friends Annabeth Chase, Clarisse La Rue and Tyson, his half brother, goes on a journey to the Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood.
Summary from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854564/plotsummary
Summary by: Michelle Stone

Personal Ratings: 2.5
It's kind of like a senseless movie that shows a sequence of events. Nothing much as compared to the first movie, which was btw very nice. I wanted more scenes with the gods in it. Fighting scenes were kind of pathetic... But I kind of liked how there was some humor to it. The last part where percy fought against the god was really stupid. There was no emphasis into it and it really just seemed like any of the other unimportant scenes. Throughout the whole show
Gave some credits to the unique ideas used in the other scenes. It was quite interesting.

Recommended for:
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 13 and above
Ratings: PG

Mortal Instruments: City Bones

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Name: Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Date release (in Singapore): 22 August 2013
Watched on: 25 August 2013

Summary:
When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld.
Summary from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1538403/

Personal Ratings: 4
Awesome Awesome Awesome! I always had this book for years back. However I never really brought myself to read it because it just seemed really thick for me. But after watching this, I'm so going to start reading the book. 
This show had a mixture of action, romance and comedy. Loved how they used serious comedy, my favorite kind of comedy so far. The romance part is really not that irritating kind (don't really know how to put it into words). At first I really thought that the first part would be really boring, and would only get more interesting towards the middle part. But from the start of the movie to the end of the movie, I was really into the movie. Really nice! I love the atmosphere and elegance (?). Love the strong personalities that they brought into the whole movie. Cannot wait for the next season (City of Ash, I think).
What I did not really liked for this movie was the lack of action scenes. I know that it would be hard to squeeze in to many actions scenes, especially since it was running kinda long. Towards the ending, I felt that it was kind of hurried as compared to the middle part of the movie, and the focus of the main character was not really there. I felt that it was really all over the place. 

Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 13 and above
Ratings: PG-13

Hataraku Maou-Sama

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Name: Devil is a part-timer!  はたらく魔王さま! Hataraku Maou-Sama 

Status: Completed
Episode: 13
Release date (in eng subs): - 


Summary:
Devil King Sadao is only one step away from conquering the world when he is beaten by Hero Emilia and forced to drift to the other world: modern-day Tokyo. As "conquering the world" are the only skills the Devil King possesses—and are obviously unnecessary in his new situation—he must work as a freeter to pay for his living expenses!

Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/15809/Hataraku_Maou-sama! 


Personal Ratings: 4
I really regretted not watching this anime when it first came out. I knew that there was a lot of people watching it, but i had my doubts at that point of time. At first when i saw the picture of this show, I really thought it would be one of those typical animes where by the person as always an ordinary man, but one day some random people come along and tells him he is not, blah blah blah. However, when i first started watching it, I realized how wrong I was. Really liked the anime. 

I loved how this anime was unique, and different from what I thought it was... Though, if they did not put in some of the scenes, i would have gave it a much higher ratings. I really liked the story line on how Maou actually changed, to becoming someone that actually liked humans. I really loved the first part of the whole anime. Loved how they slowly introduced new characters. All in all, the story line was real nice.

I did not liked the ecchi part, even though they did tone it down by Maou's denseness and this innocent side (surprisingly). I wanted them to show more about the other world. I also felt that the last episode was not really linked to what happened before that, but I liked how they did not end it the typical way of defeating your opponent and ending it straight. Conclusion: 2nd Season please!


Art Ratings: 4
Loved the character designs. Especially Lucifer <3


Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 15 and above
Ratings: PG-13

Minami-ke

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Name: Minami-ke みなみけ
Sequel: Minami-ke: Okawari

Status: Completed
Episode: 13
Release date (for eng subs): -


Summary:
There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.

Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/2963/Minami-ke
Summary Source: ANN


Personal Ratings: 2.5

Honestly I really don't like comedy animes, especially those stupid ones that actually try to make you laugh by doing stupid and dumb things. This maybe one typical comedy anime which is under that category, however, it actually made me laugh. 

I think it would have been a lot better if they actually made more real life reference for this anime, and less of the ecchi (perverted) parts. Some parts which I know will never happen in real life, which involves the reaction of the character to a certain situation, irritated me (especially those that ran for quite a long time in the show).

Art Ratings: 3.5

I actually kind of liked the animation and art for this anime. Liked the character designs and colours. I actually liked the close up animation of the character when they are being serious. Really gets me into the seriousness (maybe it's just cause I like serious jokes).

Recommended for:
Gender: Female
Age: 15 and above
My Ratings: PG-13

Samurai Champloo

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Name: Samurai Champloo

Status: Completed
Episode: 26
Release date (for eng subs): -


Summary:
Kasumi Fuu one day meets two samurai, Jin and Mugen. After their encounter, Fuu made Mugen and Jin promise to help her find the samurai who smells like sunflower. They traveled through Japan to find that samurai, while traveling they met with many different people and situations. 

Summary from: AngelaAgness


Personal Ratings: 3
Watchable. Honestly, I only started watching this anime because it was ranked quite high under animecrazy website. I really expected a lot for this show. I thought that the fighting scenes would be awesome, but in the end, only some fighting scenes were nice, and half the time you can't really get the whole picture of what is happening during their fight. Honestly, I actually kind of liked the ending.

I liked the episodes where they were all separated, but still end up together. It's really interesting how they make the characters all have their own different situations, but still ending up together in a way or another. Nice fighting scenes, though I wanted them to have more of those. I liked how even though the anime is in the olden Japanese period of time, they still add in random modern things in, which makes the anime a little more unique and easier to watch for the younger generations.

I really thought that each situation should at least have some link to the samurai that smells like sunflower. It seems that the whole anime was not really linked or connected. I think that even though the main purpose of this anime is on the samurai that smells like sunflower, I feel that in the end, it seemed more like the purpose of this anime is on the relationship between the three of them. I think that there are things in this anime that has not yet been cleared, about Mugen. I really want to have an episode about his past, and what is truly happened. 


Art Ratings: 2
I did not really like the drawing. The drawing looks out of shape, especially the eyes in the back few episodes. I also did not like the outline that they did for the first few episodes. Did not really make use of the thick and thin lines properly. 
I liked the animation though.


Recommended for:
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 17 and above
My Ratings: NC-16

Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rouge (Movie)

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Name: Hunter X Hunter: Phantom Rouge 
             劇場版 HUNTER×HUNTER 緋色の幻影（ファントム・ルージュ）
             Gekijouban Hunter x Hunter: Hiiro no Genei


Release Date (in Singapore): 14 March 2013
Release Date (In Japan): 12 January 2013
Watched on: 2 August 2013

Summary:
Kurapika became a Hunter to take vengeance on the Class-A crime group Phantom Troupe who massacred his clan for their unique eyes. The eyes of the Kurta clan turn scarlet in times of anger or emotional agitation and are considered the most beautiful treasures in the world. Kurapika continues to pursue the Phantom Troupe but an unknown party has stolen his "scarlet eyes". With the help of Gon, Killua and Leorio, Kurapika' s life was saved. However, the Phantom Troupe shows up before them and blocks their way. The true identity of the one with the No.4 spider tattoo is about to be unveiled. 

Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/13271/
Summary Source: Hunterpedia

Personal Ratings: 2
Since I saw the trailer, I really thought it would be awesome, and I could not wait for it to come out. I thought it would be more in my favorite character, Killua.
After watching the whole movie, I was really disappointed in it. In the trailer, it looked like the movie had a lot to do about the spider group, and totally nothing much about Kurapika. However when I watched it, it had almost nothing to do with the spider group, which was already very disappointing. To add on to the disappointment, the whole time, Killua was pretty much useless, and the fighting scenes were just terrible. I actually wanted to see more of Killua in action for this movie. I think that for this whole movie, there seem to be no objective and climax in it. The whole time, it was just like a series of event happening. I was expecting at least some awesome fighting scene at the back to make up for the front. But that did not occur.
One thing that I actually liked was the relevance of this movie to the anime. The anime had always been saying how Killua has a fear of this brother and his brother's rules. But than in this aspect, I think they overused it, in such a way that I don't think it is a line with the character that Killua truly has in the anime and manga.

Recommended for:
Gender: -
Age: -
My Ratings: PG-13