Standing On Boxes

I watched it last night. It wasn’t bad. The Ron/KP shippers must have loved it. I thought “Super Ron” at the end was a bit much. The whole episode was centered around him for some reason. He spent the whole thing stressing about life after graduation. Kept waiting for Kim to tell him to put a sock in it.
But it wasn’t the first episode where he obsessed over something and wouldn’t shut up. In the history episode (Ron and KP dream about one of Kim’s ancestors during a nap during a school trip to the museum) where he keeps commenting on all of the coincidences that keep happening.

First episode was on BBC America tonight – finally.
No real comments. It wasn’t bad. I’ll watch it next week.
The only character I really liked was Gwen. I wasn’t a Captain Jack fan when he was on Dr. Who and I wasn’t impressed by him in this first episode. He seemed a bit full of himself. Smarmy?

Picked this up used this morning… watched it this afternoon.
The packaging was designed to maximize profits. 6 episodes on 3 DVD’s in 2 different “volumes”. Could have been squeezed onto 2 DVD’s in 1 package. I paid $25 for it. Must have been over $60 originally. (It’s an OVA, so the shortness and high cost are common.)
(Okay… just looked it up on Amazon. The current/newer release IS on 2 DVD’s and is the same price as I paid for my 5 year old used copies.)
I watched the sub, not the dub like I usually do – after watching the first episode – which came in two versions – one “Special”epsisode with English, one only dubbed – and noticing how different the subtitles were compared to the dubbed version. Not huge differences but the dubbed version wasn’t as subtle as the original. And was a little cruder.
There was a sex scene (nothing graphic. Mostly nudity.) in the first episode (Poor Yohko, she has to be a virgin to become the official, ‘magic girl’ demon hunter and the demon she faces in this episode seems to know that and attempts to arrange for that condition to be taken care of before Yohko can become a demon hunter. But Grandma, an old demon hunter herself, saves the day…)
After that, there’s the occasional bit of female nudity – in the bath, magical girl transformation, getting dressed, etc.. And other mild forms of fan service.
But other than that, it’s a fairly decent story. Even if Yohko spends the whole series of episodes trying to get a boyfriend.