Best Student Council

Length: 26 Episodes
Episode Length: 25 Minutes
Genre: Comedy

The series is based around a young girl named Rino Rhonda. At the beginning of the series you learn that she is transfering to a new school thanks to help from a pen pal names Mr. Poppit. The reason that this person is helping her is not clear at first, but you also learn that her mother has passed, and that Mr. Poppit is the only person who Rino believes she can rely on. Rino also carries with her a puppet, who is names Puchan (poo-chan). When Rino arrives in town she finds that the apartments she was planning to stay in have been burned down (including her stuff that had been sent ahead), and so she heads to the school to find out what she can do about it, after groveling to almost the enitre town. Little does Rino know that soon her life will be completely different. The school she is now going to has its own student council (I am not going to type out the entire annoyingly long name that I can't even say), Also know as, The Best Student Council. This is not your ordinary student council. In fact, the head of the student council holds more power in her hand than any of the staff working there. This Council also has two divisions in which it can be seperated into, the Assault Squad and the Covert Division.

I won't spread too much information about the series just in case someone actually bothers to read my posts and wants to watch it.

Grading Scale: 1 to 10 (I didn't do this for Fooly Cooly because... well... no, I just couldn't do it)

Visual Effects: 9
Plot: 7
Sound Effects: 9
Follow Through: 10

The Visual Effects were very good; the explosions, movement of characters, their looks, everything was was well done. My only complaint would be about most anime, Firstly Eyebrows don't show through hair. Which is not whay I'm down grading it to a 9. I am actually down grading it to a 9 since they don't seem to show characters quite to their roles in form. While most characters fit thier style, I have to say that 3 do not. Firstly, the Head of the council is supposed to be loved and adored and every one thinks she is the prettiest, this may just be how everyone views her, however, the character doesn't seem like she would be that type of girl. Next is the head of the assault squad, while all the characters are girls, I would have thought that the leader of the assault squad would be slightly more butch, and where things that are less girly when not in uniform, however, the anime does make up for this later on with a little comical side to her. Finally it is the Puppet Puchan. He just looks disturbing, and he is really really weird, I just don't like the art work for him, but I think I can get over it for the series.

Plot only got a 7, why you ask if that got a 7 and the others so high? Because the anime is just a combination of off shoots about characters that Some how lead to a conclusion. The anime is almost never consistent in the storys, there is really only one episode that is more a sequel to the rest, and on top of that, when you find the big plot twist at the end, it is almost obvious, plus they don't play it up afterwards, just treat it as though it had been around the whole time.

Sound Effects got a 9 for good reason. Firstly, there were amazing effects for explosions, cars, crashes, and other sounds which i won't inform on to save you time reading. Secondly, all of the voices were great, but one... and a half. This is the only American girl in the enitre show, they treat it as though she could only speak a foreign language. While it did have some comic effect to the series, they treated it this way throughout the entire series, instead of her voice slowly coming through, one other american does show up in the series, and while sometimes what she says comes out perfectly, otehr times it doens't come out at all, and it bugged me a lot because it was inconsitent.

Follow Through was perfect, as it is based on if they accomplished what they planned and stuck withing the genre. This was a comedy through out, even the dramatic parts, and serious parts had some form of comedy somewhere around. The anime completed its goal in leading you to the conclusion.


Overall this anime was amazing, I would recommend it to anyone who likes comedy anime and ones where the whole thing is based around kick ass girls.

I give Best Student Council an A.

Fooly Cooly (FLCL)

Length: 6 Episodes

Episode Length: approximately 25 minutes.

I decided that Fooly Cooly would be the most appropriate anime for me to start off with. The series is based mostly around a boy, Naoto Nandaba. He is a grade schooler who is very closed off and is always down. He spends most of his time out of school by himself thinking of his brother, who is playing baseball in America, or with Mamimi Samejima. It starts by introducing you to both Naoto & Mamimi while talking to each other. Mamimi is explaining how to hit a baseball in context to hitting a person with the bat. This is a good example of their relationship with each other. It shows how Mamimi tries to treat Naoto, and how he shows no caring towards anything. Shortly after, you meet another character important to the story, Haruko Haruhara. Haruhara bursts onto the scene and runs Naoto over with her scooter.

Firstly, I shall rate it on its visual effects. Now you may assume that most anime is going to be similar in rating on this scale, because most anime use the same style. However, in this case I will say that Fooly Cooly has a great style of visual effects. They have very cool looking robots, and the characters are very well drawn. Also, they avoid showing too much detail around the city, and even show exactly what is needed in the foreground. When they do manga scenes, they have good drawing style and they can show characters in extreme personality. My main complaint is Eyebrows… Those Eyebrows! Overall, I cannot complain about the drawing of this anime.

The plot line may not be truly obvious to those who are watching it for the first time, for even those who have just not watched it in many years. I am the latter of the two. The plot line does get explained near the end of the series, however, it id not too apparent for the first half. They left you thinking a lot on concepts and what it was based on. They even had an ending which could lead to a sequel, which, I am happy to say, was not created. They kept along the same story line for the entire series and didn’t have off shoots. While I have heard many arguments that the second episode is nothing but filler, it ties the story line nice together. If you think the first episode as pure introduction, and the second as a bridge to the series, then it fits in nicely. Overall, Fooly Cooly has a very good plotline.

The voices of these characters are nearly perfect. The Sound effects are also great. The only character that didn’t have a voice that fit with the character is the main character. While when they have a situation where emotions flow the voicing is perfect. However, when the main character is talking because he is bored or depressed, he sounds like a teenager. The sounds of things crashing together and explosions are perfect. This anime has a full range of sounds and nearly all fit the situation nicely.

Follow through is based on if the anime follows its main genre type throughout. Since Fooly Cooly is mostly robot action Scifi, it is pretty simple to say that it does follow its main genre. However, Fooly Cooly is part Insanity, and you need to know if it follows its partial genre. I don’t think I need to explain this thoroughly, but just simply say that OMG WTF?!?!

This anime is full of fun, hilarity, stupidity, “WTF?!” moments, action, and as most great anime have: perverted moments. After watching this anime I have to say that it is mostly likely to be in the top 10 anime for anyone I know. While this anime is amazing, I must say it is not an anime that you should watch over and over again. It should be watched every once in a while.

Fooly Cooly gets an A.

Review details

I am planning on rating anime that I watch in 4 categories. Visual Effects, Plot, Voice acting, and finally follow through. Visual effects are simple, if it is a regular anime then I will judge how well the shows background, foreground and characters look. Whether the details are over done or under done. If it is more CG, then I will of course add in the graphic quality. Plot line is also self explanatory. Does the anime have a solid plot line that they follow along with and don’t stray away from? If I am reviewing a sequel or secondary season, then of course I will do comparisons to the original series and if it works in or not. Voice acting will also be based in 2 areas. Firstly, I will judge the voice chosen for the character and if it fits them or not. Secondly, I will be judging how well the voice acting fluctuates according to the situation. For example, do they sound scared if they are meant to be. We don’t need an anime with voice acting like Keanu Reeves declaring that there is a bomb on the bus.

First Post

I would like to fist just say that I will be posting about anime starting from as soon as I have the time to type up my first review. I should be able to have my first one up by sunday night or monday morning. I will be posting once i have watched each anime, I will not be making posts very often because it can take a while to watch animes.

Thank you for your time, I will see you again with my next post.