Secret Santa Project Review: Ah! My Goddess (TV)

When Narutaki and Hisui of the Reverse Thieves announced the return of the Anime Secret Santa project, I was elated.  When I participated in last year’s event, I had a great deal of fun, watched a pretty decent series I had never heard of before, and “met” a whole bunch of cool bloggers.  I was so excited that I would be participating this year as well.

Unfortunately, this year, things didn’t exactly go as I had hoped…

My three Secret Santa picks were Ah! My Goddess, Saki, and Special A.  Oddly enough I had just finished watching Goddess, and since I felt that it would be kind of “cheating” to review a series I had already watched anyway, eliminated it as a possibility.  Saki I could easily watch online thanks to my Crunchyroll membership (best deal in town if you want to watch anime legally and help the production companies, in my book).  It was also one that I had wanted to watch, so it wasn’t my first choice either (my feeling is that the spirit of Anime Secret Santa is to watch something I haven’t heard of or intended to watch).  That left Special A, which was available on DVD and could also be streamed online at Amazon‘s video on demand service.  Unfortunately I can’t afford any DVDs (or Amazon’s $1.99 per episode streaming service) at the moment, so that was out.  (thanks to some slowdowns at work and needing to save up for next year’s cons, I am back in “broke otaku” mode.)  So I was all set to watch and review Saki., but as the fates would have it, I have had an extremely busy and stressful end of year, and just could not get to it. And now here we are on Christmas Day, and I had a choice: marathon Saki and bang out a halfhearted review (which still probably wouldn’t be done until the middle of next week), or sit down and bang out a quick but heartfelt (is that the opposite of halfhearted?) review of Ah! My Goddess (which I at least watched already).  I figured that doing a writeup on Goddess would be the less lame of the choices (but not by much).  And here we are.

So, with all that out of the way, click on through the cut for my review of Ah! My Goddess.

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