I happen to like this television series plenty, despite my gender (male) and the current times. Basically, this show consists of the various adventures of a sixth grader (Although you wouldn't know it by seeing) named Mimi and her friends, Elaine, and enviromentalist undershirt-wearer (And that fact happens to turn me on) and Russell, a good-intentioned sports-lover. Then we have the standard high school popular girl who rubs it in everyone's faces, a bully, and everyone else you'll expect in a standard school drama. Think of this as 'Lizzie Mcguire Lite', right down to the blatantly obvious attraction between protagonists.
Now, each episode seems to have a charm to them, except for a few, which aren't worth staying up until 6 AM to watch because they're so boring. The various episodes cover a lot of subjects and situations, such as the obligatory 'Western' episode (one of my personal favourites) right down to a crush on a foreign exchange student (Another personal fav.) and having Mimi and the popular girl, Sincerity, catfight over a movie star who's at least 20 years old. (Pedophilia? They're only 11...) There's a few stinkers, too, such as an episode where a fishing contest is involved, and it ultimately is poorly-done, but those are rare.
The animation is very well-done and bright, and most of the music is tolerable, even the remixes and original songs. The music doesn't quite have the impact as of composers of John Williams or Nobuo Uematsu, but it's decent. Voicing is great as well. Chiara Zanni does an amazing job portraying the laid-back, never-thinking-things-through Mimi, and many of the other voices are good as well. If you do see this show on TV, watch it a little. You aren't going to be disappointed.
Now, each episode seems to have a charm to them, except for a few, which aren't worth staying up until 6 AM to watch because they're so boring. The various episodes cover a lot of subjects and situations, such as the obligatory 'Western' episode (one of my personal favourites) right down to a crush on a foreign exchange student (Another personal fav.) and having Mimi and the popular girl, Sincerity, catfight over a movie star who's at least 20 years old. (Pedophilia? They're only 11...) There's a few stinkers, too, such as an episode where a fishing contest is involved, and it ultimately is poorly-done, but those are rare.
The animation is very well-done and bright, and most of the music is tolerable, even the remixes and original songs. The music doesn't quite have the impact as of composers of John Williams or Nobuo Uematsu, but it's decent. Voicing is great as well. Chiara Zanni does an amazing job portraying the laid-back, never-thinking-things-through Mimi, and many of the other voices are good as well. If you do see this show on TV, watch it a little. You aren't going to be disappointed.