Dear Shin, you pedo.

I have a confession to make. The way you want to be queefed by lolis, the way you want your face to be stamped into the ground, the way you choose the worst girl of the three in Love Plus, your passion for that disgusting alien abortion bitch, your diehard vhost…

I love hate them all. Die in a fire, you pedo.

(I will never forgive you for this)

How the hell do I still get daily views?

Anyway, I haven’t really been keeping up on Summer anime, and I don’t think I’ll be keeping up on much next season (Natsu no Arashi, Trapeze, Kobato and Nogizaka aside), but I have been watching some of my backlog!

I’ve finally gotten around to watching Lucky Star, I’ve started Toshokan Sensou, VOTOMS, Starship Operators and Battle Programmer Shirase. Whether I can finish any of these before I go to university is a completely different matter though.

I guess I might make a content-filled blogpost soon. Maybe.

Okay, it’s pretty much past the first week now, and I’ll just take a little time (literally about 4 minutes) to review what I’m watching.

Aoi Hana
Wow this show is pretty. Characters seem fine, looking forward to how the lesbian romance turns out and how serious it’ll be.

Bakemonogatari
Wow this show is pretty much the best piece of artistry in anime I’ve seen this year, at least. Good going SHAFT. Subbing this is actually fun.

CANAAN
The first episode had a nice bit of action but nothing much really happened. Hoping the second episode will actually have a genuine plot in it.

Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!
Oh god why am I doing this to myself.

Princess Lover
Me? Liking a harem? What is happening?

Taishou Yakyuu Musume
A little gem and a guilty secret that I’ll probably end up loving this show by the end of the season.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
ANGST BAWW ANGST WHY DOES THE WORLD HATE ME. Seriously, cut the Evangelion shit, it’s annoying as hell. Also CG people are hilarious bad, BONES. Will mosy certainly get better.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Oh man, Battler, why do you look like a 5 year old with those eyes? Also I’m not too happy about cutting/removing some tracks from the game, but then again I wasn’t expecting too much.

To watch:

Spice and Wolf II

Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Less a Preview now, I know.

Taishou Yakyuu Musume
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: No
Why: 1930s girls playing baseball in Japan. Kimonos. Baseball. Cute girls. But it’s actually incredibly stupid. Check it out if you want, but the first episode didn’t really have much going for it apart from the pretty cute singing scene after the OP.

Umi Monogatari
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: Probably not
Why: CLAMP with anorexia. Stupid characters, stupid plot, the whole thing is stupid.

Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!
Am I watching: God knows why but yes
Should you watch: No
Why: It’s a stupid ecchi show with fucking tit mounds in the ED.

Sora no Manimani
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: Maybe
Why: >Show about astronomy club // >Studio called Comet // ( ´_ゝ`)

NEEDLESS
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: No
Why: Apart from the ED the show is incredibly stupid and horrible. Nice work, Madhouse.

Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: No
Why: Stupid moefag shit, almost as bad as K-ON, very stupid.

Kanamemo
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Maybe
Why: >middle school

GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: No
Why: waffo is subbing it, it’s going to be terrible. Also the character designs are horrible.

Princess Lover
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why: Although I normally dislike harem shows, I actually enjoyed the first episode here. It’ll be interesting to see if they can keep up that quality of animation for the whole show.

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.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why: Amid cries of BONES I’m actually watching this because the premise seems interesting — disaster and post-disaster anime are usually quite interesting if done seriously and from the PV it looks like it’ll be a pretty good show. The voice actors announced so far definitely don’t seem annoying and I’d go as far to say as Satomi Hanamura is good (from what I remember of 5cm/s and Battle Royale).

CANAAN
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why:  You’re kidding me if you need a reason. With those voice actors and staff and the very linking to Type Moon this show is either going to be very very good or a great (but probably funny) disappointment, and either one would be good entertainment.

Cobra The Animation: Rokunin no Yuushi
Am I watching: No
Should you watch: Probably not
Why: Unless you like the manga or the previous TV series, you probably won’t find this interesting. The gimp masks don’t really do it for me. However, I’ll keep an ear out in case it’s good, because anime has been lacking a good Space Opera recently.

ELEMENT HUNTERS
Am I watching: One episode
Should you watch: Perhaps
Why: Every female seems flat! It seems pretty stupid, and apparently it’s main purpose is to teach children chemical elements. I find educational anime mainly horribly boring, but this one might turn out to be one of those shows aimed at kids that you end up enjoying. There’s also an English option on the website.

Aoi Hana
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why: JC STAFF ( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼. Yuri ヽ( >∀<)ﾉ AHAHA AHAHA AHAHAHAHA. But seriously, it could be pretty good. I’m going to watch it either because I’m forced to by fansubbing or forced to by some faggots like windex.

Spice and Wolf II
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why: Unless you didn’t like the first season, you’ll probably be watching this. The OVA that was released a few months ago gave us a bit of a taste of things to come, with the animation being done by Brains Base too, and I enjoyed it a lot. Looking forward to little Horos in the season finale (please, don’t cocktease us anymore).

Bakemonogatari
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Probably
Why: SHAFT SHAFT SHAFT SHAFT. Romance. Supernatural. Comedy. Hiroshi Kamiya. Chiwa Saito. Shinbo. SHAFT.

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Am I watching: Yes
Should you watch: Yes
Why: Fuuuuuuuuuck, Umineko. Also awesome OP.

Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Am I watching: Yes, because I know the gods will shine down and subs will be provided
Should you watch: Yes, if you’ve enjoyed any of the previous series.
Why: This line is now redundant.

Hetalia Axis Powers 2
Am I watching: The DVDs, because of the scheme I worked up
Should you watch: If you aren’t watching season 1 already, go and do it
Why: It’s fucking hilarious

Next time I’ll do the other half of the chart.

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.
I can’t help but plug Cross Game first because it’s pretty awesome as a Coming of Age show in general, because there hasn’t been a lot of important baseball going on. Higepiyo is getting better with every episode, this picture an example of why you should watch it.

Oh, and can I just ignore that Valkyria Chronicles is pretty much fucking stupid. I think this sums it up:

(21:06:54) (&Kaze) oh god koda I just watched valkyria 6
(21:07:18) (&raspberry) (´_ゝ｀)
(21:07:31) (&Kaze) Jann is pretty fabulous
(21:07:34) (&Kaze) and Marina is cute.
(21:07:40) (&Kaze) as for the rest of the episode
(21:07:41) (&Kaze) …
(21:07:43) (&raspberry) lol…
(21:07:44) (&Kaze) no comment.
(21:07:51) (&Kaze) Edy is pretty awesome too.
(21:11:08) (&Kaze) oh my god
(21:11:09) (&Kaze) the preview
(21:11:12) (&Kaze) for episode 7
(21:11:15) (&Kaze) Jaeger…
(21:11:34) (&Kaze) absolute rockstar

Eden is still awesome, but I’m thinking it might be taking this “Johnny” thing a little too far. In other related news, Mittan is pretty fucking fuckable.

RisPara is pretty awesome too, I wasn’t expecting it to turn out to be this great. Hot Gentlemen, lolis, where can you go wrong?

I’m behind a bit on BASARA, 07 Ghost and Shangri, too. Considering dropping Saki (RisPara is more about wine than Saki is about mahjong) and Charady (she’s a fucking whiney whore).

In other news, the voice cast for Umineko was finally completed yesterday. I’m a little saddened that there was no Wakamoto as Kinzou or Fujikei as Rudolf, but I’m fine with Mugihito and Koyama. There’s some surprisingly big names for the parent characters in there too, and I can always hope that Ronove will be Fujikei~

Edit: Whoops, I forgot about Natsu. It’s pretty damn awesome, and episode 6 was surprisingly deep. Also Arashi is pretty hot.

GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FREAKISH STALKERS.

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 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)

Action:
I’m looking back at the things I’ve watched and there’s not a vast amount I liked action-wise. However, a series I did love was Kurenai, so I’m putting this down, because it was pretty much fucking awesome. When did BSS stop subbing good shows and start on shit? If I watched it, I reckon Birdy would be up here too, and Kurozuka was also pretty badass.

Comedy:
Unintentional comedy was all over the place in last year, but I’m going to choose between things that are actually meant to be comedy. There were some pretty decent comedies, such as Kannagi, Maria Holic, Hetalia and Kemeko DX, but I have to split this award between Detroit Metal City and Tentai Senshi Sunred. Both were the only ones that made me laugh aloud on a consistent basis and they’re both absolute gems.

Fantasy:
Did I watch much fantasy? I think I watched some, but only Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo sticks out. Feel free to point out anything I’m missing, because I may have watched it. On another note, Yakushiji was pretty cool.

Fan Service:
I made this category why? Whenever I watch this kind of shit I normally cringe and then die. I’m going to go with Koihime Musou just because I finished it.

Gay:
Antique Bakery.

Mecha:
None of them, because they all sucked dick and I’m still waiting for a good, recent Mecha anime. [I don't count Xam'd as Mecha, but that would win this category hands down]

Mystery:
Kara no Kyoukai.

Romance:
I like romance, but the majority of romance shows are shitty high school “comedy” type shit, or stupidly bawww all the time. This cancels out almost everything, but I already chose my winner beforehand. Kaiba was an amazing show.

Sci-fi:
It’s easy to put some things here, especially things that have already won awards. However, I’m going to go with Eve no Jikan, because the artistic direction is great and although it hasn’t finished it is about a length above most other things in this category. It’s also bizarre because it has Fukujun in a perfectly likable, normal-sounding role.

Slice of life:
Oh god, I’m torn. I really want to put Hyakko here but Chi’s Sweet Home is one of the best anime I have ever seen.

Animation:
This is the part where I realise I shouldn’t have dropped a lot of things so early into their broadcasts.  I’m failing to think of one that stands out as incredibly awesome, but for originality and consistency I’m going to award Kaiba again.

Soundtrack:
Kara no Kyoukai, again.

Opening:
Tytania.

Ending:
Maria Holic for kyun(!).

Insert:
I’m going to go with Tentai Senshi Sunred because the song is awesome.

Disappointment:
Oh god, there’s so much to put here. Geass R2, Gundam 00 s2, Kurokami… But Tytania was probably the worst for me. I seriously was expecting LOGH-style epicness with modern flashy animation, but instead we got some boring shit.

Quarity:
90% of shows in 2008.

Failure:
The worst show of 2008? Well, I missed a lot, but Macademi Wasshoi is probably the thing I dropped fastest.

Worst Voice Actor:
Yoshino Hiroyuki (Allelujiah Haptism, Nishijou Takumi, Idris Tytania, probably something else). His voice is pretty damn annoying.

Worst Voice Actress:
Kugimiya Rie. Because she is fucking everywhere and her voice is SO FUCKING RAGE INDUCING.

Best Voice Actor:
These tend not to stick out, and I could faggot out with WAKAMOTO but I’ll go with Fujiwara Keiji because of his roles in Antique and Xam’d.

Best Voice Actress:
Toss up between Inoue Marina and Tomatsu Haruka, for me. It’s not like Haruka’s voice is anything awesome, but she can sing well and she’s actually hot.

Well, that’s all I can think of. That certainly did pass some time, I must say. Feel free to rage at me for anything.