You know what the best 2006 anime release was?

SIMOUN.

(But first let me apologize for lack of posts - I've been sick since Christmas Eve or so and I've been calling in sick to work, staying home from school, etc, so I've just pretty much been playing internet games at Newgrounds for two weeks.)

Yes, Simoun was absolutely amazing. It makes it into the top five on my anime list.

But why? What makes Simoun so amazing? I mean, half the characters in the end turn into guys therefore totally depleting all the yuri potential right?

Wrong.

The characters that turn male are actually surprising. I don't want to spoil anything, but the characters don't always follow what they've through during the beginning of the series on what they're going to choose, since their character development completely changes that. So the yuri-fied characters stay yuri-fied. Isn't that something?

And a semi-happy ending for the yuri-fied characters. That's something too, isn't it?

So Simoun starts yuri, progresses as yuri, and ends yuri. It's amazing.

I think I might start rating the anime I watch on some kind of 100-point scale, but I'm not sure what parts I should focus on.

But no matter - Simoun gets 100 on all of them. Well, except music, where it gets 95. But the opening kicks because it's awesome. Check out the music video on YouTube - it's yuri too! Just search Simoun and it should be on one of the first pages.