Anime Focus Post Breakdown

I wrote for Anime Focus for almost three full years, and during that time I reviewed a lot of stuff - movies, figures and TV shows. Here's a masterpost of all the stuff I wrote, conveniently arranged by rating.

TV Shows and Movies

One Star

Nothing!

One and a half Stars

Eureka Seven AO Part 2

Two Stars

Tekken: Blood Vengeance
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts
Blue Exorcist Part 1
Dragon Ball Z Season 2
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts 2
Ga-Rei Zero
Dragon Ball Z Season 7
Fairy Tail Part 5
Eureka Seven AO Part 1
Nisemonogatari Part 2
Dragon Ball GT Part 2

Two and a half Stars

Ninja Scroll
Bakemonogatari Part 1
Bakemonogatari Part 2
Dragon Ball Z Season 8
Guilty Crown Part 1
Dragon Ball GT Part 1

Three Stars

Rideback
Welcome to the NHK
Fairy Tail Part 1
Dragon Ball Z Season 4
Persona 4 The Animation Part 2
Dragon Ball Z Season 9
Mobile Police Patlabor OVA Collection

Three and a half Stars

Fairy Tail Part 2
Roujin Z
Dragon Ball Z Season 1
Squid Girl
Blue Exorcist Part 2
Dragon Ball Z Season 5
Kids on the Slope
Persona 4 The Animation Part 3
Nisemonogatari Part 1

Four Stars

Freedom
Broken Blade
Dragon Ball Z Season 3
Trigun: Badlands Rumble
Persona 4 The Animation Part 1
Dragon Ball Z Season 6
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2

Four and a Half Stars

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Fairy Tail Part 3
Black Lagoon
Fairy Tail Part 4
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Five Stars

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Penguindrum Part 1
Penguindrum Part 2

I'm pretty happy with the spread of scores overall, and I don't think there's anything I desperately feel the need to go back and change. My criteria was always to try and be as focussed as possible and restrict the higher ratings for genuinely great stuff, and I think I by and large succeeded. Maybe I'd knock Fairy Tail 3 & 4 down half a star, and I genuinely considered giving Eureka Seven AO a one star review. It's a pretty good indication of my tastes though, and I'd fight for any one of these reviews.

Figure Reviews

Good Smile Company's Tenshi
Revoltech Yotsuba Summer Vacation ver.
Alter's Nanoha Takamachi School Uniform ver.
Figma Madoka Kaname
Alter's Yui Hirasawa
Nendoroid Mami Tomoe
Alter's Ritsu Tainaka
Bandai's D-Arts Thanatos
Figma Chie Satonaka
Alter's Alvis and Lavie
Good Smile Company's Ultimate Madoka
Nendoroid Teddie
D-Arts Blastoise

No point in grouping these by score, since as they're all from my personal collection the scores are universally pretty high. Unlike the DVD reviews there are a few of these I wish I could take back, mostly because of the poor photo quality. Figma Chie is a particularly bad example, as I was deprived of a lot of my normal equipment.

I also wrote a fun little History of Dragon Ball as an accompaniment to the release of the first season.