January 30

Re:Hamatora

Hey Guys,

welcome to the long-awaited second season ‘Re:Hamatora’. It seems like i love the first season so much of Hamatora, that i had way to high exspections of the second season. The first three episodes doesn’t get me like the first season did. But the season is still good.

Three Months later

I find it really stupid how the season starts. The first season ended with Art shooting Nice. From the position and everything you could have thought that Art killed him. But it was clear that Nice isn’t dead.. it is like Buffy, the vampire slayer without Buffy. But first episode is telling us that Nice is dead. But somehow the don’t make me sad. The scenes are not tragic. The characters are like they always are. The talking about Sex-DVD’s and pour Coke over the griefing picture. It feels just stupid. Hajime eating the offerings for the deseased. You don’t see the characters griefing. Yes makes you smile a little but it is not the feeling i want in this episode.

Art

Art is the big mysterious this season. Something changed Art and we don’t know what it is and why he seems so different and in the same time not so much. I really get what Nice tries to tell that somehow the way he act is totally Art but the reason behind it seems different. I love Art and i love the relationship Art and Nice have. Because i think that this is one of the most interessting one. Sadly when i look bad at the whole season it seems like the just forget that fact. Arts way of acting that has somehow nothing to do with Nice. At some point at the serie i actually stopped caring. What he did had so much influence of the people around him – people i love that i just wanted him to be stopped. Of course we get explained what changed Art and what he tries to achief…but with that Art lost a lot. He is so stupid and dump and actually i thought that he would know better. But the ending just let the feeling in me to hug him tell him that he is a stupid idiot, so dump and wrong but still never let him go.

Problems with the Minimum

Between the whole Art problematic and a few minimum terrorist or like they call them revolutionärs, they also have problems with their minimum. It seems like it begann to have side effects and maybe even vanish. The question is why is it like that and what will it do to the characters. How essential is the Minium for the whole being? What is an interessting question which leds to another question what is the Minimum? Is it something bad? Something good? Can we live without it?

The worst

In season two they started something that really annoyed my and also destroyed alot of the feeling of the serie. When the scene changed we got a picture of the scene with a zooming sound and that happens like 10 time in one episode. It is so annoying. In the last episode of the season it doesn’t disturb so much. Maybe it isn’t so often anymore or you just become accustomed to it. But it really is the worse thing the did in this season.

Wachting or not

The start is a little weak and somehow a few things feel of in the season but in the end everything get explained. We got the background story about Arts brother and of Hajime even about the Chief and his waitress (sorry i can’t remember her name). We got dramatic and see more about relationships. Ratio and Birthday, Nice and Murasaki… Nice and Hajime… everything is there. In the last six episodes everything is harmonising perfectly. The story, the characters and the humor and also the depth in it. Of course it is not Psycho Pass deep but it is enough for this serie. So yes watch it. Now i am waiting for a movie that explain the background of their informant. Because that is the only thing that we didn’t get explained in this season.

December 8

DW: An unearthly child – rewatch

Hey Guys,

I started my rewatch of Doctor Who and of course i start at the beginning with ‘An earthly child’. Just the first minutes were enough to remember why i don’t like Susan and love Ian and Barbara. Truth be told the first episode was kinda boring. Of course it is iconic and i love it but the first thing that i had problems with was the tempo of the stories. This is the reason why i say the first episode of boring. When we watch new series there happens so much in the first episode. Here just happend nothing. It is not a bad thing. I needed a few stories but i begann to love it. The story has enough time to evelope and the characters has so much time to shine.

The characters

They are so many things why i fall in love with the classic stories and almost everthing is already in the first epiosde. First of all the characters. I love a full TARDIS. So many people. I am not a big fan of Susan. She is the granddaugther of the Doctor and is almost everytime screaming…
Ian and Barbara are teachers. I love them so much. They stand on their own feets and have their own opinions. They stand up to the Doctor and don’t take any of his shit.
The second think is the Doctor. He is not nice or a hero. When the serie started he is the opposite. He is grumpy and just want help himself. Everything the new Doctor is started here with Ian and Barbara that teached him this.

They said that the Doctor always has the same character traits but that is not complitely true. He become that man because he captured and took Ian and Barbara away with him. He wanted to protect himself and got family. But it is a really hard and long way. Especially Ian and the Doctor are always fighting with each other. But they change each other. But this is a little forward for this story. With the knowledge what is to come and everything else you can see all that stuff already in this first adventure.

Watching or not

The story is not the best. It started with a story of cavemen that search for a way to make fire. It gets harder to find something to eat and who can make fire is the leader. The tribe our friends met or get captured by has took in a outsider who wants to become the leader too. So the son of the old leader are fighting for this place. The story is developing slow and most of the time our friends get theirself captured again and again. The story has a few strong points when you get to see more inside of our characters but apart form this the story doesn’t have much to offer. Just look it and enjoy that the Doctor is so totally differnt form the NewWho.

That is also the reason i will every Fan of NewWho tell that they should go and watch the classics. Because this is the journay that made the Doctor the person he is now. It was a developement. Everything that happend to the Doctor is changing him. Every companion has their influence on him. But Barbara and Ian are the most important. They teach him to care about other, they teach him to help. This developement is so amazing to see. So go and watch the classic who stories.

November 30

Detektiv Conan/ Closed Case: Movie 19

Hey Guys,

i am a big fan of Detektiv Conan or in english i think it is called Closed Case. I fall in love with it at the first episode and started to read the Manga. Now i have 88 volumes of the Manga standing in my cupboard and 19th movies – okay to are still missing because i wanted to have the special edition. But i think you can totally see that i love Conan. I don’t get tired of it like many of my friends. I love it still the same – when not even more – when i first watched it. For me didn’t lost any of his magic. A few characters – especially Ran – are problematic in a way that she is a really sweet girl and you would totally like her if this story wouldn’t play with out time. Her is getting on your nerves with Conan and Shinichi and she never get’s it. That is one problem of the lenght of it but everything else i love. The most of course Heiji and Kaito Kid (a pair i ship instat of Shinichi and Kaito). I started even watching Kaitos own Anime Kaito Kid/Magic Kaito. The movies are always nice to watch and like you all can think now the ones with Kaito Kid are my favorites.

Still nice but doesn’t satisfy

Normaly the only point at the Conan movies i don’t really like (but just because i can’t japanese) are the quiz of the Professor. They are always word quiz that only function in japanese. But this movie is a little disapointing. I have high standards and the Conan Movies got better from Movie to Movie. Sadly this was a step back. The story is quite nice. It is about the sunflowers of Van Gogh (here can learn something xP).
Than Kaito Kid seems to want to steal the sunflowers that Sonokos grandfather bought or not?
Because is not stealing them. He is just making a big show out of it. That everyone would think that he is just promoting Sonokos grandfather.
But until than everything is fine. Kid got a show and we love him for it and when he came on board as Shinchi we all know that this will be fun. Than the let down starts.

Spoilers – Conans failure

Kaito Kid is a kind of a person that is acting like he has a code. He is only stealing juwels and he is always giving them back (without money). Everyone who nows him apart from Detektiv Conan/Closed Case, knows that he is only stealing us Kaito Kid because he search for a special juwel, which was the reason for death of is father. He wants to find them. This is his motivation. Of course he also has fun with it but this stands behind it. Kaito Kid is also someone who will try to save everyone he can and Conan totally know that. He made Kid at so many occasions. Kaito Kid saved Conans life on regular basis. He came to a wizard meeting to stop a murder. This kind of guy is Kid and Conan knows that.
So why his he not knowing that something totally different is going on? Kaito Kid stealing a picture? Kaito Kid should be responisble for an exploision a plane? That is stupid and Conan should know that. Conan should also know that Kid would not want money. He should know that something different is going on but he doesn’t. He take the whole movie to find out what we knows from the start. Kaito is not stealing the picture, he is protecting them and something totally different is going on there. The whole freaking movie. Kaito is acting as Shinichi. This alone should tell Conan that something is going on.
Also the whole case doesn’t get closed by Conan. No Kaito is telling him everything that is going on. So he is just telling everyone what Kid told him. That is a detektiv… also the last quiz of Kid was quite obvious. With all the hints to the apostels and the picture of the communion from Da Vinci. He should have getting behind the quiz earlier. The only good thing about this is that Kid is seeing at the same and tells Conan that he thought that Conan would come behind the quiz faster.

The movie should wear the name Detektiv Conan/Closed Case it should be called Kaito Kid. Because he did all the work. Closed the case, got the evidence, saved the pictures and saved Ran…and Conan just ran after him without even having a clue what really is going on there.

Watching or not (still with spoilers)

So yeah watch it for Kaito Kid, but still one point left that i dislike. The solution is unsatisfied. The motive of the murderer is quite stupid… i mean really stupid…
Also the way Kaito Kid found out about what is going on is not quite satisfied. But this can also be that the translation wasn’t quite right or not clear enough. But in german it sounds like Kid got an Whats Up acount as Kaito Kid and everybody can call him and give him jobs.

The only thing that would made sense would be if he got the job from his butler and he wanted to steal the pictures for him and when he researched and spoted everything out he found out about the other thing. It is not the best solution, it still doesn’t make totally sense but better than someone leaving him a voice mail…

November 9

Veronica Mars: The Movie

Hey Guys,

This is the end of my addiction of Veronica Mars. The serie got me with one character – Logan Echollos. In the first episode of season one it was Weevil who made me watch until we see a little more of the different sides of Logan.

Piz?

When i moved on, i fall in love even more with Logan and Weevil and until the end i hoped to see a friendship between them. But i also fall in love with the many other characters – Cliff, Mac, Mag, Vinny and even Lamb. Yes i loved him too.
One person i never get warm with is Piz.
Okay, many of it is just this name. Who calls himself Piz?
Piz is a really nice guy. So nice… and i really don’t want to write it because it is bullshit in a way… He is too nice. I believe that there is nothing like that but he is like that. Always nice and always accepting any choice. He is not a fighter. Of course you have to accept a no but if you really carr for someone you fight for this person.
Also I don’t like the way he acted when Logan was around.
But this is not the thematic of this article.

When the serie ended you left all this people you began to love and doesn’t know what happend to them. So everyone who loved these characters should watch the movie to see where they end.
We met alot of people again and see what their lifes became. What bugged me the most of Wallace as a teacher in High School. What happend to engeniering?

9 years later

What happend in the movie. The movie plays nine years after the serie. Veronica changed her life completely. She is one the way to become a lawyer and has a normal ‘boring’ life. This is so not Veronica. But that is kinda the point. When Logan gets accused of murder again. He calls Veronica for help and of course she came. This time she actually trust Logan what is a nice change.
But the murder is not the only thing going on in that town. The police is corrupt and plant wrong evidence and terrorize the poor people in town. Not the 09ners of course. We all know from the other three seasons rice people never comitt crimes.
I don’t want to tell to much. Sadly the Movie doesn’t really talk about ther organization Veronica finds out about. This would be really interesting.
But the story function. She is nothing great but works like the serie very well and everything else came with the amazing characters which all met at the class reunion.

What starts like a totally not Veronica Mars story ends like one and you know what ever happens now Veronica Mars is back and she is there to stay.

October 26

Veronica Mars: Season 3

Hey Guys,

welcome to the third season of Veronica Mars and Logan and her actually stay together and don’t break up in the first episode. Which makes it for me a great season. But i am pretty sure it can’t stay that way.

Epic LoVe Story

This season shows us how much they love each other and how great the can be when just work a little for it. It shows us how bad they are for each other. Logan lost alot in the the seasons before. He is broken and lonely. He needs someone that believes him, someone who trust him. But Veronica can’t do this for him. Logan needs someone he can protect but Veronica can’t give him that. She can’t trust. She is controlling and needs to see things with her own eyes before she believes it. She is strong and can’t accept real help. She needs the danger and jumps right in, but Logan lost so much already he can’t lose her too. The are so good together and at the same so bad for each other. The constantly are hurting each other.
But this is totally the season for me. This what makes the season so good.

Great Story

This season the big case is the rape that already became a theme in season two. The case as alot little sidestories. Sadly a few thematics didn’t get enough time. But it is a really good story with really bad guys and not so bad people doing really bad things. It has alot of gray characters and this is what i likes the most. Sadly the story doesn’t goes like all the other over the whole season. The last few episodes are showing us something bigger something i really want to know more about but we don’t get it. Sadly the second storyline is ending with the serie and doesn’t give any answers.

So except for the ending that was really horrible because this is no way to end a serie. The season is as good and amazing as the other two season and should be watched. Now i just have to watch the movie.

October 12

Veronica Mars: Season 2

Hey Guys,

i wanted to make a break between the first season and the second of Veronica Mars. But with that ending i just had to look the next season. The gifs held there promise and Logan became my favorite person. I really love Logan over everyone in the serie even Weevil – who still have to little screen time.

My crazy love

Logan had a really hard time in season one and actually nobody didn’t really help him. His bestfriend is giving him up and what ever he said it was because Logans father has killed his sister. He left Logan alone the moment he got together with Veronica. It is really unfair that Logan tried to do everything right after the death of his Mum. They more i look the more i begann dislike Duncan. He is such a asshat friend. Also he has so little emotion… and i don’t see any chemistry or anything between him and Veronica. What he does remember me alot of stalking and then she was still with Logan.

You see that i am totally in love with Logan and i just want to hug him and tell him everything will be good. Because it seems like nobody is doing this. So i really cross with everyone that let him alone. Yes Veronica too… no i take that back i am extremly cross with her. Because she goes back to Duncan… can she not wait even alittle bit more than just a few weeks? She most totally be in love with him…Sorry you see how much i love him. This season will be so much pain for me. I just want him happy and maybe even a little Weevil Logan get back together and become kinda friends?

Big Cases

Like in the first season here is a big case. Okay kinda two cases. In the end of first season Logan got accused to killed a friend of Weevil. So this is one of the mystery of the next season. Also we have a bus crash, where many people found their death and Veronica was just lucky to be not at the bus. Sadly the first part with Logan and Weevil has way to little screen time. Am i objective? No totally not, i am so not objective.

September 30

Tokyo Ghoul √A

Hey Guys,

the first season of ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ got me very fast, but the second season ‘Tokyo Ghoul √A’ is not so convincingly. When i started watching the second season i hadn’t read the Manga yet. So i can’t say if it is better or not as that. But what i can say is that the Anime is going a differnet way than the Manga.

Kaneki

The last season endend with Kaneki on a crossroad. He thinks that he needed to change and do bad things when it is for the rigth reasons.
So he eat Jason, who had tortured him and joins the group Aogiri. This decision is not really explained. It kinda comes out of nowhere. Jason, who also was a member of the Aogiri tortured him and Kaneki accepts not is Ghoul part but Riz from which he has the organs. This is a big differents. So he beginns to eat Jason, but why he came from that to joining the same group is behind me. I am sure that it has something to do with protecting who is important to him. Because if that is not the case it doesn’t get along with the character we already knew.
But we got very, very little scense with him.

Antique

We see alot about Toka and Himori. It is alot talking and very slow. Toka is not one of my favorite but it is alot about the girls living with Kanekis decision. Nishiki is getting also very little screen time.
But i definitly want more of Hide. He seems to know alot more than he let on. For me it is clear that he heart the conversation in the first season from Kaneki and the owner of the Antique. So he knows that Kaneki is a Ghoul. But it seem like i am the only one that seems to see it that way.

Alot of unanswered questions

We got alot new characters and the backstories are mostly really amazing. But i am sad that the old characters fall into the background and we got not enough information about the new persons. So much doesn’t make sense. Why are so many humans now Ghouls? Why would anyone do something like that? What has the whole storyline from the first part of the second season to do with the second part which is emotionally amazing and really good. Also it brings us characters back to the person they were.

Watching or not

Truth be told. If a season 3 will come i will be watching. This season was big let down for me. It is not that apparently the story is different form the Manga. I have no problem with that. My problem is that the decision is not logic and that we don’t get an explaination for it. We got so many new characters so many plotlines that ends nowhere. The last part of the season is emotionally bringing me down. It is final that makes my cry and break down it is for me the niveau of the first season but it doesn’t conacted with the first part of this season for me? Why is Kaneki now going back when we not even know he even started to leave. What was the reason for all the characters we never say again and never get really explained like the twins? Why are they Ghouls when they were human. Who made them Ghouls. Have i missed a few episodes? Because all that doesn’t make any sense for me. So yes i would watch it but it is totally a don’t watch this season…

September 28

Veronica Mars: Season 1

Hey Guys,

yes i started a new serie (or an old one) Veronica Mars. I had to look into the serie that got a film years later and i saw a lot of sweet gifs of Logan (don’t know how they can exist). From the gifs of the serie i thought Logan should have been my favorite character. A sweet boy… yeah no sweet boy – little asshole is the better discribetation. Of course there is alot more to him than that, but that is another story. Truth be told i know nothing about the serie expect for the fact that Logan and Veronica were characters in it and that there is that chemistry between them and the big question did the end up together. In season 0ne it doesn’t look like it.

First Look

So the first look at the serie is nothing i thought it would be. It is actually a little like a crime serie. The cases Veronica is taking are mostly just teenage problems but there is that big case. The death of her best friend that she wanted to solve even when the murderer had confessed. Okay back to the start. Veronica has some of the cool kids. She was dating the cool guy Duncan and brother of her best friend Lily. Lilys boyfriend is or better was Logan.
Veronicas father was the sheriff and when Lily got killed the sheriff suspect the father of her and Duncan. He couldn’t let that theory go. After a colleague arrest someone the case got closed and Veronicas father lost his job. Veronica got an outsider in the school and this is where we start of. Veronica is a taff girl, who actuelly is really good at making friends.
So who killed Lilly and will Logan and Veronica end up togther?

The group

There is no actuall group. We have Veronica and her best friend Wallace. Wallace is there to get the school files of the students for her. Than there is one of my favorite characters, who sadly have not enough screen time – Weevil. He is the leader of a motor bike gang. One of the big bad guys, who are actually really nice. He helps Veronica out a lot with infos or a little backup.
Later we also have Mac or Cindy, who is computer expert and does the hacking and programming jobs for Veronica. She is a pretty funny girl with a nice style.
Of course there is also Logan. Logan does provide help for Veronica. He is more of trying to annoy her the most he can. He and Veronica have a little war going on between them.
Than there is Meg, who is a really sweetheart. She is kinda the nicest girl in school and really popular. She can like everything – okay she can’t but she is doing a lot of stuff – muscial, news reader, cheerleader and so on.
The characters are all very sweet and loveable. Just Duncan is for me not really sympatic. He is way to passive. Yes, Logan is an asshole but he knows when he is done something wrong. He doesn’t hide that he is an asshole. He just hide that he has a really kind heart. He is the typicall teenage boy that tries so hard to be cool. After his girlfriends death he is getting even worse.

Watching or not?

When i would be still a teenager than this would totally one of my favorite series. Maybe the big mystery case would even be a mystery. Don’t get me wrong i don’t know what really happend. But the conlusions Veronica draws are things i suspected at least three episodes before her. So the story is nice and good but nothing that really can surprise me – maybe the finale can.
But the characters grow on you so fast. I love Weevil and Logan is growing on my every episode. In the second part of the serie he and Weevil are my favorite persons.
So good story. Even better characters. This is totally a go and watch the serie.

September 14

Elementary: Season 3

Hey Guys,

here i go and watched the 3rd seaon of Elementary. The last season left me on really big high. I was judging Watson for not seeing in what dark place he was. That he was running away of the feeling of losing her. I had a great excpetions of this season and one was that we see Sherlock on a really low point in his life. It doesn’t happen like i thought… and i still have very mixed feelings about the third season.

First point: Time jump

The season starts month after the last season and Sherlock is already on a better place than i thought we would see him. He is already fighting his way back and i thought that we would see him fall. Joan built a life for her own. She is working for the police and got a boyfriend, making nemesis. Sherlock is running away and getting a new student.
I dislike the time jump. Because i felt betrayed a little of the fall of Sherlock. It is not that i want to see him fall. I wish him a really great and good life but that show isn’t a happy one. Beneath all the laugh and fun it is really dark and crappy place. The people are pretty broken and we left Sherlock at a place where he lost all ground beneath his feet. He fall…and we didn’t see that. Later in the season we got a flashback and see how worse he was but it was just not enough for me.

Second point: Kitty

Kitty is the biggest point why i have mixed feelings about the season. Just to be clear. I love Kitty. She is an amazing character and her story is really great and i really feel the hole she left. Truth be told I didn’t liked her the first two episodes but she really grow on me. She is a really strong character and utterly broken. That one point i love of her arc is the relationship with Sherlock. Both are so broken. Sherlock needs her to so he doesn’t drown. He concentrate everything on her. He needs her more than she needs him. She needs someone to help her heal and Sherlock is not the right one for it, he himself is to broken for it. But in the end he is it what really helps her heal none aless…
Between Sherlock and Watson it feels like the two has beneath Clyde adopted Kitty.
On the other hand is Sherlock so focused on Kitty that we see Bell just as a cop in the background. He has like zero interaction with Sherlock just with Joan. That is for me a really negative point.
You see my troubled feelings?

Third point: Everyone so broken

The second part of the season is all i missed in the first part. But now i miss Kitty…
Bell and Alfredo get interaction with Sherlock again. We see that fragile friendship grow and how broken they are. Sometimes i forget that Alfredo is a broken junkie like Sherlock. We see him not often struggle and episodes when he does are so good and sad.
Bell is such a lonley character but we never really saw many of that but in the second season it becomes so much clearer.
Also we have to deal with a Watson that is trying to isolate herself when everyone else is struggling to fight the loneliness.
One of my favorite scenes is were Bell and Sherlock through cards at the hockey-cup. Right now he needs just that.

I love the third season. But it is totally not what i thought i would be. But in a way this is better, isn’t it? Maybe i even love that i have such mixed feelings about the season because it is just like the life. It isn’t black and white. Everything is just gray…

February 6

Psych: Season 8

Hey Guys,

i finally watched the last season of Psych. I was really sad about the fact that this will be the last season and heart just good things about the final so i had really high hopes for it. When you now that this will be the last season you watch the show with one eye crying and one laughing. If you haven’t watched it yet go and watch this season.

The cases

The first episode are mostly the most obscure episodes ever. When you watch something like Criminal Minds and a day later you start with Psych and their are Shawn und Gus -in a Harry Potter outfit – before a ganovor. You ask yourself what you are doing. But the episode is really amazing. It is about one of the most loved character on the show the art thief Despereaux with a totally new story about the character. But can we really trust him? The season is playing with a lot of things.
We got the new chief that is not a fan of Psych or Lessi. Shawn tries to go work, like you can think it doesn’t end well. Gus is got all he had together and changed something important in his life. It goes about Juliet and her partner Lessi, about becoming a father and of course about the friendship between Shawn and Gus.

Like we started

In the second part of the season they are concentrating on the friendship between Shawn and Gus. Often it is just them and in the end Lessi. Juliet is not having a big role in the last episodes. But i love it. Because so they have enough time to actually remind us of the fact that they both just need each other in their lifes. Season one started with a big change in Shawns life. He and Gus started Psych and i am sure it is the first job he does longer than… it is the first ‘real’ job he had. He made a step to grow up. This season ends with a big decission which will change his life – just like we started.

Just Psych – nothing more, nothing less (Spoilers!)

The last episode is the end of Psych. It is the end of an era. A end of so much amazing friendships – not that they really stopped. The last episode shows us a Shawn again that is running. He is making a decission to move to his girlfriend and leave all other back in Santa Barbara. He is trying to tell Gus that this is the end of Psych. The only one that really know why Shawn is acting so strength is Lessi and it is just perfect.
In the end we got Shawn runing but he is leaving them messages. They are so sad and sweet. It feels so much like goodbye. One of the most perfect scenes is the message for Lessi. He wants to tell him that he was right, that Lessi was always right about him. But before Shawn can tell him, Lessi stop watching and broke the CD. It shows so much without words or any out of character actions how much Lessi learnt to respect Shawn in a way. It shows us how much he actually cares about them.
But it wouldn’t be Psych if it just ends like that. We all now that and we are getting our little crazyness when Gus throw everything to run after Shawn. Because he is not leaving is best friend. What actually leads to the most perfect things. At first to the question if it really the end of Psych or just the beginning. The other thing is the most Shawn like way to hold on for Juliets hand.
We don’t see a perfect world. They all made decissions this season and they all need to live with them. But it is crazy like Psych always was. It is not totally dramatic, sad or funny. It is just like every other season. It is just like Psych. I never saw such a perfect end for a serie. The end is so fitting and feeling just right. It is the end and a start. I will miss them. I know their life will be complicated alone because Shawn will make it that way but they are together and they will find their way.
Everything changed but in a way everything stayed the same. Psych you out in the end…