涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱

"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya." Its name is deceiving, for it isn't really the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, it's more like the adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya, but "The Adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya" probably was out of the question when naming it. You see, even though sometimes Haruhi is bummed, most the times it's only for a little bit, and then she's a Genki Girl again.
Even though I put "The Adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya" two sentences ago, I'd switch out "Haruhi Suzumiya" with "Kyon-We-Don't-Know-Your-Real-Name-kun," because Haruhi's adventures aren't half as exciting as what Kyon goes through (though Haruhi tries to be a detective and and solve a murder mystery in a two part episode). Haruhi may be the center of attention to the other S.O.S. Brigade ("…whose mission is to find aliens, time travellers, and espers, and have fun with them") members, but she doesn't know she is and the other members must make sure she doesn't, hence, adventures of Kyon and the other members, but Kyon gets more adventure than the others by learning why Haruhi is the center of attention, while the other members (Yuki Nagoto, Mikuru Asahina, and Itsuki Koizumi) already know.

Kyon-As-I-Mentioned-Before-We-Don't-Know-His-Real-Name-kun has just entered high school, hoping to just leave behind the idea of time travelers, aliens and espers with junior high.

Relaxed at his new desk in his new classroom after just making his introduction, the girl behind him stands up to make her introduction. She says her name is Haruhi Suzumiya, says that she is not interested in ordinary humans, and tells espers, time travelers, and aliens to come see her. Kyon turns around to see a beautiful girl saying these strange things.

Kyon's friend Taniguchi tells Kyon about this girl (having gone to the same junior high as her). He says she's "beyond eccentric" and he "can't remember a day when she wasn't doing something completely wacky." After that he tells him that along with being pretty, she's athletic and gets good grades. He says for a while she was going out with one guy after another, the longest relationship that he recalls was about a week, and the shortest one lasted five minutes.

Kyon finally decides to talk to this girl, and—to the surprise of his classmates—she engages him in conversation.

After Haruhi joins all the clubs for a bit and quits them, she complains to Kyon about there being not good clubs. Kyon comes up with the brilliant idea of making her own club… and that's what she does. Dragging Kyon along, Haruhi takes over a clubroom being used by the literary club, which only had on member, a first year named Yuki Nagoto, who, in very few words, said she didn't mind it being Haruhi's clubroom. (I guess she can still read well even with people talking.)

After kidnapping second year "moe" girl Mikuru Asahina to be their mascot, Haruhi comes up with a name for the club (but still hasn't established what the club would be about): "The S.O.S. Brigade" (SOS団).

Show Info:

Episode Length: They're about 25 minutes (once again, not including commercial), and they all have one episode in them

Total Episodes: 14

OVA: None

Second Season: Planned, premiere date TBA

Second Series: None

TV Special: None that I know of

Based Off Of: A light novel series

Licensed in America: Yes

Opening Themes:「恋のミクル伝説」(The Mikuru Legend of Love) Performed by: Yuko Goto

「冒険でしょでしょ？」(It's an Adventure, Right? Right?) Performed by: Aya Hirano

Ending Theme: 「ハレ晴レユカイ」(Sunny Sunshiny Happiness) Performed by: Aya Hirano, Yuko Goto, and Minori Chihara

Insert Songs: "God knows…" and "Lost my music" both performed by Aya Hirano

Personal Favorites:

Character: Yuki Nagoto

Villain: There aren't really any, and even out of the ones I'd consider "villains," I'm not going to dub any my favorite.

Episode: Hard one, hard one… it depends on my mood and how much and how long it's been since I've watched one… I'd probably say "Remote Island Syndrome" part 1 and 2 (I got away with two episodes again).

Opening: 「冒険でしょでしょ？」(It's an Adventure, Right? Right?)

Ending: There's only one ending.

出ましたっ！「出ましたっ！パワパフガールズZ」

"They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z"

"…possibly, they decided 'Powerpuff Girls Y' sounded stupid."
"The city of Townsville…" Anyone who's watched one or more episodes of the original Powerpuff Girls—created by Craig McCracken and origanally aired on Cartoon Network—has probably heard this line at least once. Well, in "Powerpuff Girls Z," it would be more like "The city of Tokyo…".
Though based off of the American animated series, it pretty different (and I'd say better). They both have three super-powered, school-aged girls called Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, at least contain "Powerpuff Girls" in the group name of their trios, both Blossoms are the self proclaimed leaders, both Bubbles are ditzy, both Buttercups are tomboys and the quickest to anger of the trio, the trios fight villians, contain alike characters (Professor Utonium, the mayor, Miss Bellum, Miss Keane, Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, et cetera…), the Mayor usually calls in when there's a monster, you never see Miss Bellum's face (in the American animation, you see her face when she's a dog), the trios have the same colors for each girl (pink, light blue, and green), and they both leave pretty beams of light of their corresponding color behind them as they fly. Besides those things, their pretty different. You may think "How can it be much different? That's pretty much the whole show right there.", but, lets start with one major thing: how they were created.

"Sugar, spice, and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls… but Professor Utonium accidently added an extra ingredient to the concoction: Chemical X. *boom* And so the Powerpuff Girls were born! Using their altra super-powers, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup have deticated they're lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil! *do… do do do do do do…*" So anyway, that about sums up the American animation version of their creation. The Anime verison is more like this:
A daifuku fell into a vat of Chemical X, changing the chemical into a more powerful one, which ユートニウム博士 (Professor Utonium) names "Chemical Z" (they skipped Y). Then, weather all over the world went haywire—iceburgs near Japan, snow in Egypt, no rain in Italy, et cetera. 北沢ケン (Ken Kitazawa) (a young boy who helps Professor Utonium in the lab) is eager to use the Chemical Z to correct the weather, but Professor Utonium tells him that they need to test it first. Ken decides to test it… on the weather corruption, and before Professor Utonium can stop him, he shoots the Chemical Z at one of the iceburgs.
The Chemical Z works. The weather fades back to normal (at least in Tokyo), but, out of the iceburg come beams of white and black light.
赤堤ももこ (Momoko Akatsutsumi) is just about to bite into a candy bar while sitting on a bench when she sees one of the beams of white light heading straight for a little girl playing with a yo-yo. She rushes to the girl and covers the girl up. Being hit by the white light, she transforms into ハイパー・ブロッサム (Hyper Blossom), her "weapon" a yo-yo.

豪徳寺みやこ (Miyako Gōtokuji), after shopping, stops to watch a little girl blow bubbles, adoring how pretty they are. She notices a beam of white light heading towards the little girl and grabs the girl, covering her up. Being hit by the white light, too, she transforms into "ローリング・バブルス" (Rolling Bubbles), her "weapon" a gaint bubble wand.
松原かおる (Kaoru Matsubara) is skateboarding down the sidewalk to see a light boy holding a toy hammer kneeling by a bench with some other toys on it. She sees a white beam of light heading towards the little boy, and jumping her skateboard, flies in front of the little boy. Being hit by the white like, she transforms into "パワード・バターカップ" (Powered Buttercup), her weapon a big toy hammer.
After Professor finds them and brings them all to his lab, they become パワパフガールスZ (Powerpuff Girls Z).
The girls are in middle school (instead of kindergarten like in the American animation), their outfits are better, they can change between their normal selves and super-heroine, they have to keep the fact that they are Powerpuff Girls Z a secret, they're personalities are a little different, and other things. Most of the villans' stories are different, too, and there are new villains (usually only one episode ones, though). At least, I believe, most of the villians were hit by the black beams of light (pretty easy to guess that). Some of them are hit by them and turn evil and stay evil, but others need something to trigger their evil form (some switch between their forms, some stay evil, and at least one turns evil, stays evil for a while, and when turned back to normal stays normal).

The show doesn't really have a ongoing plot (thought the first 3 have the beginning plot on how they became Powerpuff Girls Z, and I think there is a little plot strung through some episodes (and the end episodes might have more of a plot)). The episodes after words have mini plot stories (how major villians came to be, I've seen at least one plot that had two edisodes, ect.), but usually, it was like the original show with the fact that most episodes were random battles with villians (hey, anyother thing to add to that list above!).

Show Info:
Episode Length: about 25 minutes long (not including the commerical break) and include two episodes in it (though there are quite a few two part episodes also known as one whole episode)
Total Episodes: 52 episodes (I have not seen them all)
OVA: None
Second Season: None
Second Series: None
TV Speical: None
Based Off Of: The Powerpuff Girls
Licensed in America: Yes (so I can't watch anymore until it's aired on Cartoon Network)
Opening Themes: 「希望のカケラ」(Pieces of Hope) Performed by: 北出 菜奈 (Nana Kitade) (Episodes 1-26)
「ジグ THE アッパー」(Jig THE Upper) Performed by: Hoi Festa (Episodes 27-52)
Ending Themes:「真夜中のドア」(Door of Midnight) Performed by: Liu Yi Fei (Episodes 1-13)
"LOOK" Performed by: HALCALI (Episodes 14-26)
「通り雨」 (Rain that Passes by) Performed by: Wiz-US (Episodes 27-39)
「ひまわり」(Sunflower) Performed by: Hearts Grow (40-52)

Personal Favorites
Character: Miyako/Rolling Bubbles
Villain: タカアキ Takaaki (タカちゃん (Taka-chan)) (2 episode villian)
Episode: Probably 12 and 48 (I cheat; I put down 2)
Opening:「ジグ THE アッパー」(Jig THE Upper)
Ending:「ひまわり」(Sunflower)

Taka-chan

アニメの少女

Hi there! Welcome to my blog. As you can tell by various things, this is an anime blog (duh). If you look at my info, you'll find I'm a fourteen year old girl in the 8th grade (just look under Haruhi).
アニメの少女 (Anime no Shōjo) is Japanese which is literally translated to "Girl of Anime".
So, the first thing I will start with is a list of anime I have watched (in the order watched).

• When I was little, I watched ポケットモンスタ(Pocket Monster, better know in America as "Pokémon") and モンソターファーム(Monster Farm, once again, better known in America as "Monster Rancher"), とっとこハム太郎 (Trotting Hamtaro, and for the third time, better known in America as "Hamtaro") and possibly more.
• デジモン (Digimon)
• 出ましたっ！パワパフガーレズトZ (They're Here! Powerpuff Girls Z) (unfinished)
• 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
• カノン (Kanon) (stop watching then)
• 杓眼のシャナ (Shakugan no Shana) (finished later)
• デスノート (Death Note) (stopped watching)
• カノン (Kanon)(re-watched and finished this time)
• ななついろ★ドロップス (Seven Colored Drops)
• D.C. 〜ダ・カーポ〜 (D.C.~Da Capo~)
• D.C.S.S. 〜ダ・カーポセカンドシーズン〜 (D.C.S.S.~Da Capo Second Season~)
• D.C.II 〜ダ・カーポII~ (D.C.II ~Da Capo II~)
• 涼風 (Suzuka)
• sola (finished later)
• がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート! (Manabi Straight!)
• らき☆すた (Lucky✭Star)(watching)
• ひだまりスケッチ (Hidamari Sketch)
• ひだまりスケッチx 365 (Hidamari Sketch x 365)(watching)
• イタズラなKiss (Itazura na Kiss)
• のだめカンタービル (Nodame Cantabile)
• アイドルマスターXENOGLOSSIA (IDOLM@STER Xenoglossia)

I may have forgotten some, and I've seen some of other animes (like I've watched some episodes of ナルト (NARUTO)), but anyway, I will be posting separate posts in the future about each of these anime (besides Pokémon, Monster Rancher, Hamtaro, Digimon, and Naruto), with a spoiler-free premise and spoiler labels.