This is kind of long. Sorry!
It's been a long while since I reviewed a show, so here are one sentence reviews for the stuff I've recently finished:
Stratos 4 and its OVAs: Stratos 4 straddles the line separating decent and great; I don't expect many other people to like the show, but I thought the characters were usually endearing, and I enjoyed the premise and technological aspects of a world faced with fending off a constant barrage of comets and meteors.
Samurai Deeper Kyo: This is a terrible show; it's an incredibly generic and unremarkable fantasy-samurai story with awful, uninteresting characters.
Heroman: Heroman is fantastic; it's a fun show that knows how to use standard comic book archetypes to its advantage, which resulted in a fresh, sharp-looking superhero show despite what could have been typical and uninteresting.
Mitsudomoe: Mitsudomoe is a hilarious comedy that uses crude humor from misunderstandings between its characters as the basis for its skits, and it stayed true to its theme until the very end, which had some of the best skits out of the whole show, and I thought the ending was very fitting and endearing — I'm looking forward to the second season that was announced.
Occult Academy: Occult Academy is awesome; it has fantastic animation, interesting, realistic characters, and great comedic relief, such as the facial animations of the characters — I love their expressions! The story wasn't particularly spectacular, but it was good enough; I liked the ending, even though it was bittersweet and slightly odd, and episode 11 was

ing mind-blowing, like I mentioned previously.
Also, this is sweet: Netflix is getting more anime for its instant streaming service. Here's
a list from 1UP:
009-1, Afro Samurai, Aquarion, Basilisk, Black Blood Brothers, Blassreiter, Burst Angel, Claymore, D. Gray-Man, Darker Than Black, Desert Punk, Devil May Cry, Fruits Basket, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gunslinger Girl, Hell Girl, Jyu-Oh-Sei, Last Exile, Le Chevalier D'Eon, Mushi-Shi, Origin: Spirits of the Past, Ouran High School Host Club, Samurai 7, Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Soul Eater, Speed Grapher, Trinity Blood, Vandread, Vexille, Witchblade, Xenosaga and XXXholic.
That doesn't include recent additions like Ghost Hound, Clannad, Golgo 13, Blue Drop, Now and Then, Here and There, and Gurren Lagann.
[quote name='DuelLadyS']The Viridian Collection releases are garbage.[/QUOTE]
I agree; that's why I've been avoiding them, but they were so cheap that I thought the inexpensiveness would outweigh the awful packaging.
[quote name='ChibiJosh']Speaking of packaging, I just got my Toradora replacement discs. They were in just an envelope, not even a padded one. I'm glad they weren't cracked in half or anything.[/QUOTE]
I received my replacement discs as well. The discs don't look pristine — they look beat to hell — so I'm gonna check for any read errors, and through the magic of the passage of time, there doesn't seem to be any read errors — here's hoping there aren't any playback issues!
[quote name='XxFuRy2Xx']I bought Kamichu! and Ah My Goddess season 2 yesterday. I'm hoping Kamichu will be the nice box art and not some gimped thinpak packaging.[/QUOTE]
Which set did you buy? Shouldn't you already know what you're buying, haha? I bought the original set from eBay, and it's a really nice art box. It also comes with a cover that looks like real wood; it's a really cool effect.