Paprika

Director: Satoshi Kon
Overall Rating: 9

Impression: Just got back from watching, maybe it was the big screen, which makes all emotions seem larger but the movie still makes my knees wobble. As I stood on the bus stop I was afraid to breath, fearing that something important will disappear. Some bits (very few, might I add!) were slow but the procession, the tension, the animation and the story more than made up for it. As with any movie, i also got teary at one point))
It was so scary, so beautiful, so touching and both the protagonists and the antagonists were right to some extent. It made you doubt what is really real, what is really right. Made me jealous that I will never be able to create something like that, after all - it has already been made by Kon.

PÖFF

Yay! PÖFF is starting, am at the same time happy and miserable: I want to see all Chinese, Japanese and Korean movies but there are so many of them and an Iranian movie sounds interesting but I doubt that I will ever squeeze enough money out of both mother and polli. P.K. said that he might work there for a while so he could sneak me in, but it would be damn embarrassing if I kept popping up every day, he could get fired an all. Hmm... life is full of difficult choices.

Zero no Tsukaima

Overall: 3
Average Boy-meets-Girl story. The art doesn't help on account of there being very little. Story is kinda weak as well.
The style is exactly the kind I dislike: all round and shiny.
The actual story: Girl lives in magical world, which has all to many HP references. Can't do anything, how original, then summons Boy into her reality and they happily fall in love for no actual reason apart from hating the sight of each other.

Ayakashi

Overall score: 7
Bad side: since the arcs were all done by different people then the animation style and the animation itself weren't always what you'd hope them to be.
Good side:

• the stories had nothing to do with each other so every time you had the nice feeling of anticipation because you had no idea what's going to happen.
• They different styles were rather refreshing
• The opening song is bloody addictive and the opening was redrawn for each arc so that all-an-all it would be the same but the elements in it would be ones that had something to do with the current arc.

Advice: Skip the Goddess in the Dark Tower and just go for the other two. Also get yourself the opening song and go insane happily. Although the Bake Neko arc does lose to the actual Mononoke it is still nice, even though you can feel that they hadn't really gotten to grips with the style.