Hello everyone,
Here we are to review yet another series that is going to be aired in this packed Fall 2011 Anime Season. Today we'll talk about Cube X Cursed X Curious that using a rather basic and predictable premise is trying to emulate other animes of the past like Shana or Hidan no Aria.
Everything in this anime shouts Hidan no Aria to me, but strangely we don't have Rie Kugimiya picking up the main annoying little girl's role so this will likely be a factor in either the success or demise of this production. I'm also a little worried about the production studio named SILVER LINK that seems to be rather new to directing a whole anime series alone...
Let's start with a quick synopsis :
One day, Yachi Haruaki received a mysterious object sent by his father from abroad; an Unbelievably heavy black box. Haruaki smelled trouble, but he left the box alone, trying to convince himself that it was none of his business. That night, he woke up to a noise coming from the living room. He peeked through the door and saw a completely naked girl--- eating rice crackers that was placed on a low table.
As you can see this is one of the most common "sudden girl appearence" plot-line and adding up the supernatural powers of this girl (named Fear) and the small stature of the girl can easily be compared to any Rie Kugimiya production. (Shana, Hidan no Aria, Rizelmine, etc...)
The director is the same as Baka Test To Shoukanjuu (both seasons) and Pani Poni Dash so there is much to be expected giving the great works he has done in the other productions!
This particular trailer doesn't show us much about the "real" storyline (that should be a battle manga very much similiar to Shana), but is more on the light side showing us the comedy and romance that will likely ensue as with all the productions of this genre. As you can see there are plenty of girls to choose around, even if only a couple of them are really interesting (for my tastes at least).
I wonder what kind of personality they'll give to the main girl Fear, I just hope she won't be a Shana tsundere clone, but will have some interesting and different side. Just for the sake of originality! I mean while I love Kugimiya's roles, I want to explore something else sometimes...:P
Watching at the seiyuu going to work on this series we see many big names like Yukari Tamura (Nanoha Takamachi from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, Kaho Chikumaen from Mayoi Neko Overrun, etc...) in Fear's role, Minori Chihara in Konoha Muramasa's role, Chiwa Sato in Sovereignty's role and many others...
I'm a lot expecting Mako's performance as the Mummy Maker in this series. If you don't know about it, I love her voice after I heard her for the first time in her role as Yurie Hitotsubashi in Kamichu!
This is another series I'm going to watch this season even though I'm not sure if I'll blog this regularly. It will all depends on the first couple of episodes I suppose...
See you soon,
feal87