Watching anime with the missus...  If you've read any of my
recent reviews it will probably come as no surprise that I am
fairly fond of anime. Actually, that is understating it quite a
bit. While I will agree that there is loads and loads of crap to
be found in this area, anime often has the ability to surprise
or move me, and any new series which manages to impress me is a
happy discovery. Animated film is maybe the most free of all
visual art forms in that it provides the artist with so many
opportunities, literally limited only by the imagination.
However, most commercially made anime have to align a bit with
"customer expectations" to be financially successful, and this
is what has caused several genre tropes which you sometimes need
to wade through. Fanservice of the "nude girl" variety sounds
fun on paper but can be quite detrimental to the quality of a
series if it gets too annoyingly obvious or disjointed from the
narrative. I tend to filter these things out while watching
them, happily delegating t