The deluge proper begins with the first weekend of the fall season. We’re still in the “Modestly Interested” portion of the preview with Shabake, but perhaps a bit less modestly than the first two premieres of the season. It’s a novel adaptation, and as such was sort of an outside sleeper despite lacking notable names …
This may be the least Santa Santa I’ve seen. Impressions: It’s probably cultural, but there’s something really weird to me about the show. It’s very much like bad improv, or the ‘good’ seasons of Aquarion, that it starts talking and clearly doesn’t actually know where it’s going or what it’s talking about, but it’s …
Our hero is finally popular with the girls. But only because they’re all trying to murder him. Ok, so this show is trash, but you know what? It was one of my favorite shows last season. It knew exactly what it wanted to do and it did it well. I am satisfied. Storytelling – B …
Time travelling bowling anime. I almost dropped this for being a sports anime until I got to the end of the first episode… Overall, I enjoyed it. Definitely an interesting premise. Suffered from the usual “cute girls doing cute things” aspects that always bother me about the genre, but definitely top of the bunch. Much …
Our hero fights Kaijuu. He also is a Kaijuu. There were certainly aspects of this I enjoyed. The fights are mostly cool. The characters are fun and relaxed. It looks pretty awesome. But largely Kaijuu No. 8 ended up as a disappointment. It had no focus. The show draws viewers in initially with the main …
Punch lady punches. Sanda is the final new show for today, but I have an (annoyingly) early dinner appointment, and then evening social activities, though I expect a break between them in which I’ll get to it, and possibly the two second episodes of this and the cyborg harem show thing. Impressions: With that …
