Review of Katanagatari

Hmmm I wasnt so sure about this one. Overal I think it was sort of enjoyable. The pacing was far to slow! I mean it. i went for this anime because of the promise of action and decent martial arts fight scenes, well i got them, but usually they lasted little under a minute and all the other time was taken up with pointless chatter and conversations, carried out while the characters looked on emotionlessly, promising death or injury without even the minutest change in their expressions. Anyway the fighting, I usually skip forward when watching something that bores me and because of this I veryoften found I had to go back and find the fighting bit again because even if I skipped only a few seconds forward i would miss it, I actually skipped whole episodes threw sheer boredom.
Anyway thats what I think of it, I found that some people liked the dialogue and I found, when I could be bothered to actually watch those bits then it was quite good, but im personally an action girl and the sheer amount of dialogue just ruined it.
Also the voice of Nanami (shichika's sister) was so increadible annoying I very nearly gouged my ears out, just the pitch and the way she generally spoke was enough, in my opinion, to cause wide spread mass suicide if heard on speakers of any kind! :(