Shangri-La OP: Lolis, Trannies, and lots of Green

Posted: April 1, 2009 | Author: flomu | Filed under: Uncategorized |2 Comments »

Get it here (DDL).  Source: ANN, from ~two hours ago.

Or watch via utoob:
 

So basically…

Weapon: Folding Metal Boomerang

Setting: Lots of Green

Hmn.  Well, that was interesting.

The OP itself (as an OP) was pretty good.  I liked the song (Kimi Shinitamou Koto Nakare) quite a bit, though it sounds like a not-very-memorable song.

Uh… well, Mikuni looks funny.

She looks kind of like Hell Girl, only with white hair.

Karin is another loli.  This is starting to look like Strike Witches.

Well, I guess the genius loli archetype always works, right? 

Kuniko is the third loli.  She’s eighteen.  As in, eighteen.

I guess this anime could contribute a lot to that “Evolution of the Loli” post, huh?

Well, this anime shows promise.
The art is definitely good, and the characters seem interesting enough.
The setting is top-notch, and th-

I had to say it.  When I saw him/her (Mi-ko is a transvestite…) in the OP, I was like…

So in a nutshell, this show is about lolis, trannies, and Hell Girl in a world filled with trees and green stuff.

Oh, and ain’t he a “cleaver” fellow?

Finally (I know, there’s been a lot of random crap in this post):
Yuri wants to “free herself from her family name, [so] she has a strong wish to be married.”
That’s actually pretty interesting.  Even though her family name isn’t Yuri…

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