Anime show I'll be watching this Fall
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abymageOkay this season doesn't look quite as terrible as I feared after a first look.
Kuragehime, one of the Noitamina show this season, had an awesome first episode. With a focus on female (for once ^_^) geeks and the female main character being obsessed by jellyfish meetings a "princess" who's really a crossdressing guy. Great voice, characterizations and comedic timing so far.
Star Driver is the other main intriguing show, with a very confusing, pretty, and fabulous set up of mecha + high school + magical girl transformation for its male lead; plus a whole lot of surrealism, self-aware humour, psychosexual vibes à la Utena. It's at least going to be a fun show; and possibly maybe one of those awesome brain breaking show. I hope.
Psychic Detective Yakumo looks decent enough, with a Ghost Hunt-like occult investigation premise revolving around one snarky antisocial male lead and a cute and perky (and smart so far) female sidekick. Plotting has been very average so far, but it shows hints promising a metaplot; and the texture and characterizations make it fun enough to watch for now.
Otome Yokai Zakuro is set in an alternate universe version of Meiji era Japan where people live by side with Yokai, but where modernity and westernization is pusing them by the sidelines, so a program seeks to pair three military officers with four half-blood yokai damsels in order to foster better understanding. Characters are little more than gimmicks so far, though it's kind of interesting to see both a set of pretty boy and moe girl archetypes in the same show (the manga it's adapted from is technically a seinen, though written by a yaoi mangaka) ; and at least the female lead is rather endearing (also gorgeous, ritualistic looking fight scene with traditional music). I hold a faint hope it could turn into an interesting show.
Togainu no Chi will be my guilty pleasure homoerotic fanservice show this season, with a post appocalyptic street fighting tournament story adapted of a BL visual novels. Despite my warriness against visual novels adaptation, i have a moderatly good feeling about this one : despite bad production values, it's already pushed some of my kinky buttons, the fights are actually fun to watch, and it's already shown more promises of actual plotting and character than, say, Uraboku.
I won't be watching Panty and Stocking, despite the interesting art and animation, I find the humour too unappealing to my taste. I had checked out The World God Only Knows because some people were saying it was deconstructive of harem shows, but it actually contents itself with lampshade hanging so no, thanks. Shinryaku! Ika Musume looks like a pretty good moe gag comedy show, but that's a genre that doesn't interest me enough to stick with it. And Bakuman has shown all the signs of being one of those pretty boring adaptations that don't add anything to the manga.
I'll continue watching Shiki, Legend of the Legendary Heroes and Katanagari. Dunno yet if I'll bother catching up with Hakouaki Hekketsu-Roku.
So what you guys gonna be watching? Did I miss anything of potential interest?
Kuragehime, one of the Noitamina show this season, had an awesome first episode. With a focus on female (for once ^_^) geeks and the female main character being obsessed by jellyfish meetings a "princess" who's really a crossdressing guy. Great voice, characterizations and comedic timing so far.
Star Driver is the other main intriguing show, with a very confusing, pretty, and fabulous set up of mecha + high school + magical girl transformation for its male lead; plus a whole lot of surrealism, self-aware humour, psychosexual vibes à la Utena. It's at least going to be a fun show; and possibly maybe one of those awesome brain breaking show. I hope.
Psychic Detective Yakumo looks decent enough, with a Ghost Hunt-like occult investigation premise revolving around one snarky antisocial male lead and a cute and perky (and smart so far) female sidekick. Plotting has been very average so far, but it shows hints promising a metaplot; and the texture and characterizations make it fun enough to watch for now.
Otome Yokai Zakuro is set in an alternate universe version of Meiji era Japan where people live by side with Yokai, but where modernity and westernization is pusing them by the sidelines, so a program seeks to pair three military officers with four half-blood yokai damsels in order to foster better understanding. Characters are little more than gimmicks so far, though it's kind of interesting to see both a set of pretty boy and moe girl archetypes in the same show (the manga it's adapted from is technically a seinen, though written by a yaoi mangaka) ; and at least the female lead is rather endearing (also gorgeous, ritualistic looking fight scene with traditional music). I hold a faint hope it could turn into an interesting show.
Togainu no Chi will be my guilty pleasure homoerotic fanservice show this season, with a post appocalyptic street fighting tournament story adapted of a BL visual novels. Despite my warriness against visual novels adaptation, i have a moderatly good feeling about this one : despite bad production values, it's already pushed some of my kinky buttons, the fights are actually fun to watch, and it's already shown more promises of actual plotting and character than, say, Uraboku.
I won't be watching Panty and Stocking, despite the interesting art and animation, I find the humour too unappealing to my taste. I had checked out The World God Only Knows because some people were saying it was deconstructive of harem shows, but it actually contents itself with lampshade hanging so no, thanks. Shinryaku! Ika Musume looks like a pretty good moe gag comedy show, but that's a genre that doesn't interest me enough to stick with it. And Bakuman has shown all the signs of being one of those pretty boring adaptations that don't add anything to the manga.
I'll continue watching Shiki, Legend of the Legendary Heroes and Katanagari. Dunno yet if I'll bother catching up with Hakouaki Hekketsu-Roku.
So what you guys gonna be watching? Did I miss anything of potential interest?
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Date: 2010-10-17 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 07:04 pm (UTC)Hahaha, I had a pretty low expectation of Yakumo so I'm okay with it so far XD the third episode was verrrrrry average though.