Turbo Anime Rant Z

I have been playing Pokemon Ruby because that is all I can think to do in my spare time. Also, I am watching Shin Mazinger, but that is serious business and will not wait for anything.
I bought an anime that I actually bought to enjoy and not because I hate myself, like when I bought Scrapped Princess. To be fair, it was the Volume 1 and Volume 4 boxsets with the figurines and they were ten dollars each and my sibling and I who buy this stuff together have a policy regarding "rescuing" cheap anime from dollar bins and such. But this is a different.
Maria+Holic is a charming show. I thought so when I first watched it less than a year ago when a friend of mine gave me all twelve episodes in .MKV format. I figured since I enjoyed the show extralegally I might as well purchase the show to enjoy legitimately because I am not some penniless failure who insists that downloads are better, but really they are just butthurt because anime costs money in the real world. I happily forked over the $35 dollars to watch this show in oh well standard definition hey the DVD upscaling is pretty good this show actually looks nice on my 1080 True HD monitor.
The show is essentially about this hard gay lesbian who goes to an all girls school to get lucky, but ends up being this transvestite guy's bitch. A bunch of other stuff happens too, and it's funny and cute. It could have used a lot more bending of gender roles, but we are basically left with this girl whose romantic pursuits (of other girls) make the kid in Golden Boy look like The Man Without Testosterone.
It was released by Sentai Media who, honestly, I've never even heard of and they did a great job releasing it.

Also, Seven of Seven is the greatest underrated anime that isn't a mecha show of all time. But the show is only good if you sit down and watch all 26 episodes in English, because Veronica Taylor can act. It is also proof that Imagawa is a great anime director, which brings me back to my first point because he directed Shin Mazinger Z.
There are so many shows that start out good but halfway through get terrible, or shows that have a lot of great episodes when watched individually but as a whole are just eyesores. It was refreshing to have a show which actually gets better as the series progresses, and Imagawa likes to build up to big final moments like in G-Gundam and the Giant Robo OVA. He's also good at the coming-of-age stories, which is why I'm surprised those elements aren't present in Shin Mazinger Z. Oh well.


Just to clarify, Imagawa didn't direct Maria+Holic, but I'm sure I just created an alternate universe where he did.