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I liked this first episode a lot.
So apparently Edward Elric is a Pokemon now.
^^ Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai.
So, thoughts about the season so far, based only on first episodes obviously.
Chuunibyou is going to be the source of a million gifs, and the butt shake in the OP will be remembered forever.
K obviously is trying really hard to be Code Geass, and so I'm sure it'll be fun even if it looks really stupid. Or it'll just be Guilty Crown again. Who knows?
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun seems boring and I dislike both main characters.
Kamisama Hajimemashita reminded me of Fruits Basket, so that's a good thing even if the similarities are fairly minor and only really go as far as the premise. The ending of the first episode was really cheesy, but I still liked it a lot.
Zetsuen no Tempest might be fun, though really I don't have much of an opinion on it just yet.
BTOOOM! seems like it's going to be fucking awful. For a little bit I was thinking that it couldn't possibly get worse than the first episode, but then I saw the preview for the second episode. On the plus side, it has a nice ED.
I've already commented on Shin Sekai Yori's first episode.
Kyousougiga is obviously awesome but waiting one month for 10 minute episodes is horrible.
And as for shorts, Wooser is decent and Litchi is bad.
Busou Shinki and Gyrozetter have both aired their first episodes already, but they aren't subbed yet so I can't really watch them for now. (EDIT: And now Busou Shinki's been subbed, so I'll watch that tonight too)
And I guess I'm going to watch Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb soon, but I already know what to expect from that and I have no reason to believe it won't be great.
So it is just GANTZ with bombs then?
So it is a series of shorts...
That's the show where the dude she likes basically tries to sexually assault her and yet they still fall in love right? (Cause no romance is complete without the threat of rape...)
Old-School shoujo was all the sexually abusing boyfriend, right?
Maybe not all of it, but there is a fifty percent chance that whatever shoujo title you pick up involves a boy treating a girl like his ragdoll and the constant threat of rape from either said boyfriend or other males in the series. Present or past.
So currently watching Ika Musume, Code Geass, and Chuunibyou.
Ika Musume is charming but nothing to write home about. They do some clever stuff with the literal fish out of water gimmick. If you don't like moeshit it won't change your mind.
Code Geass... it's an id anime with pretensions of being an intellectual piece. A friend complained that she couldn't take a character seriously because of all the fanservice, but I couldn't take anyone seriously in this show.
Chuunibyou is the most I've laughed at people with schitzophrenia in awhile.
Thanks to this awful page of this awful thread, I decided to check out Zero no Tsukaima. A harem show with a moe artstyle, huh.
Well, at least it uses classism as a central theme, which means it might have something to say at some point. But I have small patience for tsunderes, so Louise is royally vexing me. Saito is slightly idiotic and gets himself into some stupid situations, but at least he doesn't use feelings of inadequacy as an excuse to be nasty. He should probably just sleep with Siesta, anyway, since she seems to be the only woman there who values him for who he is rather than treating him like some kind of tool.
Code Geass is sort of a "so bad it's good" thing. Or rather, it has really high production values and the like, but most of your enjoyment is going to come from how completely ridiculous everything in it is, rather than anything actually intentional. It's a lot of fun though, since the whole idea behind it was to pander as hard as possible to every single demographic, which makes for something very silly.
Also, Malk made me remember that I still haven't seen season 2 of Ika Musume.
Or Code Geass for that matter.
R2 made even less sense but had nothing nearly as stupid as a certain plot point from the end of the first season.
^^Yeah, it's never boring. It's kind of like if someone took one of those TV Tropes 'Let's make an X anime' and gave it really action, animation, and general production.
I just feel like if it knew what it was (i.e.: really dumb) it'd be much better rather than reaching for intellectualism with a poor man's Death Note powers.
I've watched BTOOM!, it was... basically what DYRE said.
Of course it was, it was May'n!
K was weird and somewhat annoying to sit through with all it's... what everyone said about Code Geass. For some reason people are comparing it to Madoka because... the color scheme is somewhat similar and there's a girl with pink hair? Do people just look for reasons to compare stuff to Madoka? Is that why we've had almost no magical girls since?
I'm not sure if I should like the Chuunibyou anime or not.
Mostly because I have no idea what plot direction/life lesson whatever it will go in (if it even intends to have one.)
Also the main character annoys me just a little bit on the basis of him trying to be a normal, socially desired guy. If there were a bunch of socially awkward people with delusions of grandeur that made the whole place look like a costume party in 8th grade for me i'd have actually wanted to attend school because lulz. Maybe I just feel that way because I missed out on that specific teenage phase though.
Zetsuen no Tempest kind of feels like it's trying too hard (for the first episode anyway)...unless it's one of those absurdly short anime. (less than 12 eps)
I have a feeling that says K will mostly be entertaining on the ridiculousness too.
Of course 12 episodes isn't short for an anime.
The sheer amount of 12 episode shows makes me think that that may even be the average at this point.
But I fear the day the average amount of episodes anime gets is 8...
It is the average (Actually it might be 13)...
And Zetsuen no Tempest is 12 episodes long.
I recall there being a fair amount of 13 episode shows...some time ago.
But now whenever I hear that a 12 episode-looking anime actually has 13 i'm all like "SAYWUT?!"
(and inb4 someone calls me out on using "average" wrong like how the average of human legs per human isn't 2)
Y vuelve la puerca y jala el cuero. that plot point was gonna be there from the start, and was properly foreshadowed and stuff.
So I finally watched the first couple episodes of One Piece (1-7) instead of finishing Kamen Rider Hibiki.
While it hasn't got me hooked yet, I do like it and it is fun. The music is nice (and I love old anime themes)I don't know if it's worth sitting through 517 episodes... maybe a I'll do chunk at a time.
Too many episodes of One Piece are filler, IIRC. I even remember there being like 5 consecutive episodes or something which was literally just recycled footage with two annoying black bars added to the sides. At least Gintama did something amusing with that kind of episode (dub the lines with different characters for shits and giggles or comment on how stupid the situation was then)
Speaking of which, I absolutely despise filler in anything 13 episodes or less.
I'm all like, THE FUCK DO YOU NEED FILLER IN THIS FOR??
The anime's much worse in some ways, not gonna lie. It's currently dealing with such bad pacing issues that filler would be preferable. Watching it through Alabasta or Skypeia is fine (skipping all the filler except G8), but after that, there's no reason not to read the manga instead. And, really, the only reason I recommend against just reading through it all is I've heard the scans online are terrible for the first 200 or so chapters.
It does take a while to pick up, yeah. Once you get to Arlong Park, things pick up big time. Hell, even Baratie becomes a lot cooler (and it's cool anyway) once you've read 50 or so volumes ahead and look back.
I guess I might as well read it then (After I'm done with watching it, so probably next year). I don't really mind filler at all as long as it isn't horrifically stupid.
Then again, I have the first three volumes of Fairy Tail that I haven't read through yet (this was a very good year for licensed manga though, and re-reading ParaKiss with the Vertical reprint takes a while).
First episode of Shinsekai Yori was interesting. They're pushing the "THIS TOWN HAS A DARK SECRET" thing ridiculously hard, but considering it's a 2 cour show, I suspect they're getting that out of the way ASAP.
@Alex: Siesta has always been too bland for me. Tabitha is like Rei but with Asuka's backstory.
I've now started watching Futari Wa Precure and Fresh Precure. Futari Wa because it has the song "Shining Star", and Fresh because it has Cure Passion.
Which series has Cure Moonlight, btw?
The English cast for Studio Ghibli's next film has been revealed. Naturally, there are a few questionable choices here and there, such as Jeff Dunham. Then again, they made casting a Disney Channel actress work, so what do I know?
I'm only a few episodes in right now, but so far, Siesta's blandness seems like Saito's only potential source of genuine stability and social comfort. Perhaps in his shoes I'd make a different call, but so far, it's between her, Louise and Kirche. Louise is physically and psychologically abusive. Kirche is much, much better to him, but in a sort of sad and pathetic way; she's an honest-to-goodness, unashamed slut, and I don't use that as an insult against her. And she's that way because her feelings run away with her all the time, as far as I can tell, and I can't blame anyone for that. The sad part is the only way she knows how to handle men is with her sex appeal, and when that fails, she takes the traditionally masculine approach and tries to give Saito gifts. The scene is played for humour, but it was honestly kind of miserable, because Kirche just doesn't understand that Saito needs to be treated like a person rather than a slave or something to win. Siesta, out of all three, has so far been the only one to treat him like a human being.
Tabitha hasn't had much part in the story so far, mostly just being funny via keeping a level head under mildly distressing circumstances.