[June] Monthly Marathon: MADHOUSE

Allison to Lil­lia — MADHOUSE

So here is the lineup for what I plan to mara­thon based on YOUR recom­mend­a­tions! And by “your” I really mean lostty’s and a friend’s recommendation.

I’m not going to take on more series than I can handle in the allot­ted time. After each blurb I put down an estim­ate of the time it should take to com­plete the men­tioned anime series. Note: it is an estim­ate. For example, Kaiba is lis­ted as tak­ing 5 hours. Each epis­ode is about 24 min long includ­ing the op and ed. If I watch 3 epis­odes per hour then I can fin­ish in 4 hours. If I watch 2 epis­odes per hour then I can fin­ish in 6 hours. I took the aver­age and lis­ted it as 5 hours. It all depends on the cir­cum­stances if I can watch 2 or 3 eps per hour (e.g. gotta cook food, gotta pee, gotta shower…).  At the end of the post, I will total up the time.

Kaiba

Recom­men­ded by lostty, Kaiba aired for 12 epis­odes in the spring of 2008. At the time, I was watch­ing a bunch of other series the sea­son had to offer and com­pletely over­shad­owed this one. It’s art style is pretty abstract but I think I may get used to it after a few epis­odes. The only thing I worry about is that it’s Sci-Fi and I tend to lose interest in that type of show. I heard it was amaz­ing so it may not even happen.

TIME: 5 hours

Tatami Galaxy

Recom­men­ded by Richard, a friend of mine, Tatami Galaxy is another abstract anime I’ll be watch­ing. It has some seiy­uus I like such as Maaya Sakamoto, Mamiko Noto, and Nobuy­uki Hiyama. It’s the most recent of the bunch as it came out last spring. Judging from what I’ve seen, this may turn out to be my 2^nd favor­ite anime this mara­thon, second to Jubei-chan.

TIME: 5 hours

Jubei-chan: The Ninja Girl

I have already watched 10 of the 13 epis­odes of this hil­ari­ous series. Jubei-chan fol­lows a girl nick­named Jubei-chan (no big sur­prise) as she gets attacked by enemies because she was passed down the fam­ily heir­loom: the lovely eye­patch. All the char­ac­ters are much fun!  Hil­ari­ous antics are bound to ensue! It aired back in 1999 but it’s still great

TIME: 1 hour

Chob­its

I saw the first epis­ode a while back ago (maybe 6 or so years back XD) and either the 2^nd or 3^rd epis­ode (I will check up on that) so I just have 24 epis­odes to watch.  I never saw more of it because I had first watched it when I was like 12 or some­thing and the whole ecchi thing was really dis­turb­ing to me. Now I’m will­ing to watch it. I want to see what exactly Chob­its is about and the whole thing with Chii and Freya.

TIME: 10 hours

Rizelmine

I’ve marked that I watched 5 epis­odes if this series but I hon­estly don’t remem­ber any­thing about it so I’m watch­ing it all over again. Each epis­ode is about 14 minutes so it’s more of a 12 epis­ode series than a 24. All I really remem­ber about it is me get­ting annoyed. Hope­fully I can sur­vive and watch the entire series. I think the short epis­ode lengths will help me get through it because it will feel like I watched more and thus make me feel like I accom­plished some­thing XD

TIME: 5 hours

X

Hon­estly, the first two epis­ode of this series bored me to death. This mara­thon is the only thing that is push­ing me to watch it. The only thing I liked so far from what I’ve seen was say­ing “Hey, I know that guy! S/He was in Tsub­asa!” to every famil­iar char­ac­ter. Now there’s just 22 epis­odes left…

TIME: 9 hours

Total time: 35 hours

35 hours of anime in 4 days sounds feas­ible. If all goes well, it should all get watched. A post will be writ­ten up at the end of the day for all 4  of the days allot­ted. I’ll be watch­ing some­where around 21 epis­odes a day.