Summer 2009 Preview 1

I’m halfway through my exams, and slowly watching anime here and there, catching up in more ways than one.

I guess the point of this post is a) to show I’m still alive b) apologise for not delivering some better blog post earlier (I’ve had plans for making one about the awesomeness of 0080) and c) look at what’s coming up next season.

I don’t know why people are saying next season is going to suck. There’s a dozen or so shows I’m interested in, and probably something similar for most people. The following is a list of shows and why you should check it out, or why they might be good, or why I don’t want to watch them.

Spring 2009 Continued

This season is turning out to be pretty good for the shows I’m watching regularly. Ignoring that K-ON makes my penis fall off every 2 minutes because it’s a fucking stupid moebomb of fucking “cute”ness, and Guin not being subbed by anyone decent, most other shows are getting along nicely.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FREAKISH STALKERS.

chrism

Jesus’ chrism (thank you spell check, this word is perfect) I want to watch this so bad right now.

In other news, Natsu no Arashi is turning out to be a lot more enjoyable than I expected it would be. I started watching 07 Ghost and it’s pretty fucking awesomely gay and hot. It even has hot nuns in case you aren’t gay. Ristorante Paradiso keeps getting better and better, as does Higepiyo. Cross Game is great too, and I need to get playing some more Umineko later.

I wish I had a maid like this

Review

I haven’t watched anything from the list I posted in the last episode, but I’ve kept up with most things I’ve begun watching (which is a rare change). Instead, I’ve decided I’ll belatedly make a awards-style review of shows I watched from Spring 08-Winter 08/09. (Read: I’m awesome and lazy at the same time)

Spring Anime #4

This season seems to be making up for a lot of the shit last year gave. Almost everything I’ve watched has been good and I’ve wanted more.

Cross Game was very, very nice. The characters are great, the voice acting is great, the soundtrack is great, the animation is great. It was a truly great first episode, and I can’t wait for more.

Guin Saga was surprisingly good. I looked at this show a few months ago and thought “that’s a silly premise, it’ll never work”, but lo and behold it turned out quite nice. I was confused whether the brother of the two was actually a guy, and I still think he’s a faggot, but other than that everything else was good. The fight was pretty awesome, but has nothing on the next show.

Sengoku Basara was an interesting game (though I prefered Sengoku Musou because I am/was a KOEI fag), but the first thing I thought when I heard it was going to be an anime was “Oh dear, this is going to fail spectacularly”. Way to prove me wrong, you bastards. It has epic fights, epic soundtrack, a great OP, some pretty slick voice acting and a subtle mix of comedy thrown in there (riding horses up walls, motorbike horses, the like) to make it one of the best shows the season, certainly in the top 5.

I think I should only have one of these to go, with Mazinger Z, Pandora, Phantom, Hanasakeru, possibly Hatsukoi, possibly 07 Ghost and HOPEFULLY Polyphonica.

Higepiyo

This is possibly one of the best anime you’ll ever see this year. I took screens from episode 2 because it has more characters and the softsubbed version was downloaded by the time I started this post.

Umineko / Spring Anime 03

I’ve been playing Umineko the past few days. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

It’s pretty awesome, ignoring the artwork (which you quickly get used to) and the flaws in editing of the translation. But still, I just finished the first episode today and pretty much everything is great. I can’t really say much without spoiling, but you should go grab it.

As for anime, I watched Shangurira, which I’m going to dub Carbon Economics, yesterday. It didn’t seem that bad, it only had a few traces of GONZO about really. Interested to see how future episodes are though.

Spring 2009 Anime #2

Eden of the East is pretty fucking awesome. Probably the best anime of this season based on the first episode. The character designs, OP/ED, music, story (or what I can gather of it), voice acting, animation… everything seems great. They even got people who can actually speak English to speak English lines, which is always a classy little bonus.

Disregard my previous post about Valkyria and Ayako because that faggot isn’t encoding so it looks decent. The show itself is good, but the redrawing of the details of the plot to be more anime friendly has resulted in some bad moves so far, such as 20-30 Imperial troops sieging one mansion with three people inside. Sense where?

Ristorante Paradiso is the gayest non-gay show I’ve ever seen. I’d go gay for those guys. Though saying that, the second episode looks pretty delicious. The animation quality I can’t say is anything special, and I don’t really like the character designs too much, but it seems like a decent show compared to some of the random shit this season is putting out. The OP/ED are nice too.

Slap Up Party is horrible. Horrible. But YMCK ED is great. YMCK <3

PS: Go D-backs! Fuck yeah!