Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise

and WTF was THAT. I felt like my life was ruined after watching this useless anime.
Imma make a list:
- an up to date amine with bad graphics
- subject matter that doesn't even match the required audience
- this is FREAKIN' Pretty Cure Rip-off
- unoriginal....just unoriginal
- the fighting scenes suck, even for a magical girl shoujo anime
- if ya want magical girl watch Shogo Chara
- unnecessary character emotion effects
- did I mention Pretty Cure RIp-off?
- character acting for kids, everything else for teens
And I still didn't watch the last 5 minutes.....I HATE THIS ANIME SOOO MUCH
The User ratings are a LIE

Okay, the series is unoriginal in the extreme (ex: Misty Knight - Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon); Seven Amulets - Lost Logia (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha); Butler - Butler (Hayate The Battle Butler); Salome & Mecha - Team Rocket & Mecha (Pokemon). However, the combination of these elements seems to be working themselves into a story line as of episode five. While I find nothing to really recommend this series, it is a decent time waster or fill in. I give it a five out of ten.

Here are my original comments based on episodes one and two. Suffice it to say that three through five were a major turn around. Just goes to prove that you have to watch more than the initial episodes to truly judge a series.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/twin-angel-twinkle-paradise/forum

Post series Review:

Okay, this series didn't make it beyond 5 out of 10. All of my above comments stand. I did kinda enjoy the series as a joke but it is far from being on my re-watch list. Oh, about the story line I mentioned above, don't get too excited. It is trite.

Cecil my dear friend, while normally I leave animes you have reviewed alone, I'm afraid I must disagree with you on this one. I fell in love with it from the first line of "Tomorrow I shall sell the high quality vegetables on the black market!"

So right off the bat we know the anime isn't taking itself seriously. This is a magical girl anime that is playing for laughs, and I cracked up! Now this isn't comedy gold like My Ordinary Life which I watched before this and made me laugh so loud the next door neighbour came over to ask what I was laughing about, but it has a lot of the same elements. At one point the Butler pops out from the floor board of the school to offer one of our main characters a handkerchief!

The transitions for this show are over the top stars that fly across the screen, adding something of a cutesy effect. however it was eventually used so much I started to notice it (never a good sign) and a little while longer I began to chuckle each time it came up.

Ok, you know what, lets make this simple. I'm going to throw out the animes this reminds me of, if you like those, you'll love this!

Pani Poni Dash
Bobobo
My Ordinary Life (Nichijou)

I probably won't continue this anime, purely out of lack of time, but I would recommend it. Just remember, this is not an ordinary magical girl show, this one is played for laughs.

You know what I don't have a da** good to say about this so called anime, so if you hate people "ditching" on your new "favorite show, you know what"?? Though sh** is all I have to say, I am not going to force you to read this, but maybe I should force you to watch this anime while using it as a sadist tool for torture.. Okay trailing off to much into my personal life that some of you don't need to know about. As of now I don't even think that the series is worth finishing off but perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps on a slow such as Sunday I will watch some it here and there but as of now I would rather not drink my-self to death.

Twin Angel or know as Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel - Kyun Kyun, Is based off of two ova's that came in out in 9/28/2008. This series much like Rio Rainbow Gate due in part that it's is based off a series of Pachinko-Machines with the same character designs on the machines. Personally I think this is lazy but Rio Rainbow Gate was still fun to watch and no where near as tedious. The story mainly revolves around our two main heroines Aoi and Haruka that are just your normal/average middle schoolers by day but then turn into magical crime fighters by night.

The main female leads of course go to an rich private school, have the typical cute mascot and there is even the long transformation that shows off pretty rainbows.... um yeah. So what went wrong?? The main problem that anybody can point is the fact that they are trying to damn hard to mimic other things and not trying to be it's own Individual show. "I do realize this is next to impossible in this day and age but it can still be done". Magical Madoka did it but that went to dark for some, hell even Milky Holmes was funny if not for the reaction faces/comedy in the show.

I personally don't hate magical school girl anime quite the contrary really. I personally love Card Captor Sakura, Pretty Cure, Sailor Moon, Moe-Tan, MagiKano, and Magical Madoka. I just hate lazy attempts at anime that try to parody these shows and just end up falling flat on their a** in doing so. Even the lame attempt/blatant rip-off of Tuxedo-Mask called the Misty Knight who happens to show up in the nick up time to save our ladies with roses. Parody's for magical girl shows can be done right however this is not case in Twin Angel. please go watch some cheap anime from the 90's instead.. oh wait a minute..

Sadly I could hardly find any-thing redeeming what so-ever for Twin-Angel. Hardly if any of the characters seem likable expect for the ninja butler and even then that was corny. Not even the music or art work is worth mentioning for twin angel and the OP sounds like shi*** generic song from the 90's, however I will admit I did like the ED due in part that tusndere queen "Rie Kugimiya" sings in it however that's enough enough to even keep some away. She is also in the show as well as the white angel named , but hasn't made an appearance as of yet.

Perhaps I am being a little to harsh on this Twin Angel but in all honesty I really expected better from J.C.Staff, I know they are capable of doing better than this. Toradora, Index, Rail-gun, Excel Saga, Hayate, Shana, Familiar of Zero are all decent so it's in the realm of possibility after all. As of know I am really close to dropping this anime but if I can get hold of some liquor maybe it will help.

Usually I do not go by first episode for any thing to determine if a show is worth a da** or not, but when I am able to list off nearly twenty bad cliches right off the bat somethings wrong. That's all I have to say on this show who knows maybe it will get better but as of now i need some pain meds and good night's sleep. Peace out everyone and look forward to more previews soon, Summer is shaping up to be good so far "with the excuse of this show". Now please excuse me while I go bang head against the wall for twenty minutes, due in part that it causes the same amount of brain damage as setting through an episode of this.

Edit Update: After catching episode two eh.. it bumped up a notch to a 2.5 so just an average series but still I have seen enough of these shows growing up..but if you are new to these shows... then be my guest.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Age Rating: 16+

Rating 2.5/5

Re posting this review with some edits