The Familiar of Zero

I've seen all the episodes and it's one of the more "fun" anime that I've gotten a chance to watch.
At first I found our heroine Louise to be arrogant, even contemptuous, I even found myself disliking her character quite a bit but I realized that most all the students at her school are like that. As the series progressed I found myself liking Louise more and more.
Louise kind of makes me think of Charlie Brown & Lucy having a kid . . .
. . . although I never wanted to pinch Chuck's ass . . . or Lucy's either, (pretentious girls always annoyed the hell out of me.)
Louise has a rather common trait, she learns by screwing up . . . I guess that's what I would find most endearing about her after the first episode.
I like a girl that gets humbled by her own hapless incompetence despite her pretentiousness. She does have more endearing traits but that might be spoiling it for some of you and you'll get a chance to see if you watch the anime.
The ratings for this show seem to be really good and I haven't been disappointed at all.
There's a mix of some really good ideas from shows and novels like "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and "The Last Unicorn" or the Japanese equivalents . . . they even tossed in some stuff that looks like it might be from "Elemental Gelade" or "Scrapped Princess". Despite the mix of familiar ideas {no pun} they used some very original ideas to move the story along and make you wish more.
This anime has the rarest of qualities, they needed to make it longer.

I think it deserves a solid 7.5.
The second and third series . . . not so good.

Since there seems to be a few of you nuts out there that like the previous offering of a "life-sized-image" I figured this might be another nice one to stick out there.

You will probably need a large format printer or you will have to divide the image into small enough parts to get it through your printer. The image is a little over 34 by 70 inches.
Louise is about 1.5MB
Enjoy . . . but in moderation,
Please.