Burning Up Devilman's Martian Successor Nadesico and a Rune Soldier

This Sunday I had the pleasure of watching four different anime that I probably would never have encountered if it weren't for my friend Hybridial. I met him for the first time on Sunday and we decided to go to his friend's flat and watch some anime. First of all, we watched the first volume of Burn Up Excess. Basically, it's about a group of people (mostly female of course) that are hired to act as a crime fighting/investigation team. So far it's been rather amusing. It made me giggle every so often. I'll probably pick it up at a later date.

After that we watched a Devilman OVA. It was essentially the same as Devilman Lady, except it was older, so you can imagine how aged it seems. Despite being rather gory, it made for some decent entertainment. It's not the kind of thing that I'll buy though. I may watch it again when I visit Hybridial another time.

Martian Successor Nadesico, volume 1, proved to be the highlight of the day. What I give it credit for is not the comedy (which is pretty good in its own right), but its ability to parody other mecha anime before they even aired. The most noticable parodies were of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Van Dread. From NGE, we have a whiney and annoying hero whose only useful attribute is being able to pilot his mecha well. From Van Dread, we have a girl who is constantly clinging to and , unintentionally, annoying the hell out of the hero. All I have to say is that if a hot girl started clinging to me, I sure as hell wouldn't tell her to get lost and constantly shout at her.

Lastly we moved onto Rune Soldier. It was pretty decent from what I saw. The comedy was pretty good, as expected, but something about the characters seems so typical, so I'll probably pick it up at a later date too.