Before I start with the review, let’s just get this out of the way. This show has probably THE BEST first episode in any anime or tv show or anything else. I’ll get to how I feel about the show as a whole, but just speaking about the first episode alone – it was amazingly well done and directed and the most awesome first episode of anything that I know of. This alone is worth watching the show for – or at least watching the first episode for. Though be warned, don’t go searching stuff about this show or you might ruin the awesome of this episode. Just go watch it if you haven’t.

Since finishing Kyouran Kazoku Nikki which I thought was completely excellent I’ve continued a good stride of apparently watching every awesome show I hadn’t watched in the past because I either never heard of it or thought it would be extremely mediocre at best. I had no intention of watching great shows, actually all these shows I’ve gone into expecting them to be shit. But surprisingly, only the opposite has happened;

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So following up with the horrible disappointment that was Durarara, I finished up Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and got the exact opposite. Now I’m, as usual, behind on reviewing this, and in this case I had actually never seen this – when it first came out I meant to watch but I kept forgetting the name and never got around to it because of that. So finally I just got a full torrent and have been watching a few episodes every day and finally just marathoned the last 5 today.

I wasn’t sure what to expect other than a fun silly type show that I always for some reason figured would be pretty good, and it definitely was those things. But ‘pretty good’ doesn’t really do it justice as it was probably one of the better shows I’ve ever seen – and I’ve seen a lot so at least for me that says a lot.

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