Fractale

 In a far distant future there is a boy named Clain living in a world where humanity have embraced a system called "Fractale" that governs everything and keep everyone in the world happy by giving them the freedom to do what they want in life and never having to be tied down to a single home, or family for that matter.

One day Clain meets Phryne, a mysterious girl that seems to be on the run from something, or someone. After helping her she disappears by the next morning, leaving him with a pendant. Clain realises that the pendant contains some sort of data and when trying to open it he ends upp summoning a girl-shaped avatar named Nessa. Together they leave on a journey to find Phryne again and to discover the truth behind the Fractale system.

The first episode of this show sort of gave me high hopes since the artwork for the backgrounds were so beautiful, almost Ghibli-esque, but unfortunatley the show turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. The story never really managed to catch a hold of me and I did not like the main characters, although some of them did grow on me further on in the show, this together with the style in which the characthers are drawn just left me feeling kind of "meh". Yeah, I think that pretty much sums up my impression of this show: "meh". If I were to say one good thing about it though it would be that the background animation did keep a high standard throughout the show so there were some really good moments on that front.

Fractale gets 2,5 out of 5 otakus.

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Scrapped Princess

Imagine yourself being on the run since the day you were born becaue everyone around you wants to kill you, that's how life has been for the young girl Pacifica Cassul.

When Pacifica was born a prophesy was made that she would be the poison that would destroy the world and that a catastrophe would occur on the day she turns sixteen. Because of this Pacifica leaves her home in the village of Manhurin and together with her adoptive siblings, her brother Shannon the talented swordsman and siser Racquel who is proficient in magic, she is now on the run from the followers of the god Mauser who are doing everything in their power to see to it that she will not live to see her sixteenth birthday.

It was not a spectactular show and it will not make it into my favourites, but I liked it. The storyline is decent and easy to follow, the characters are likable (although some of them I just wanted to slap from time to time, like our spoilt little princess for example) and the artwork is decent enough, even though more attention seem to have been spent on the characthers rather than on, let's say, their horses... All in all it was enjoyable to watch and it had just the right amount of excitement to still be counted as an easy-to-watch show.

Scrapped Princess gets three out of five otakus.

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