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Personal thoughts on animes I’ve watched throughout the previous season as well as first impressions on upcoming ones.

WINTER 2009/NEW YEAR 2010

HIDAMARI SKETCH x HOSHIMITTSU
The one and only anime I care about for the season. The third season continues everything already expected of Hidamari Sketch: slow-paced slice-of-life with little extensive plot developments. If other animes tried to woo their audiences with recycled plots and tired fanservice, Hidamari Sketch comforts you with fragrant massage balm and a relaxing atmosphere which is really effective at drawing you in even if you’re originally not into its genre. As I had frequently mentioned throughout any Hidamari Sketch-related posts, this is one anime I wouldn’t mind having a fourth, fifth, even a sixth season, all the way until the manga calls it quits or until I suffered a catastrophic nutbladder failure.

SPRING 2010

ARAKAWA UNDER THE BRIDGE
Filling in the missing void of batshit insane comedy anime that Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei had left behind last year, Arakawa is everything you’d expect of the genre, and no guesses needed that only a drugged up studio like SHAFT is up to the task of animating the series. It’s Hiroshi Kamiya voicing yet another eccentric weirdo in an even weirder situation beyond the comprehension of man or the salvation of Jesus Christ. Take the psychostimulant pill and enjoy the acid trip.

B GATA H KEI
Finally, someone made an anime about sluts. The show’s premise of a female protagonist trying to get her vagoo j-j-jammed in had undoubtedly trampled upon the otaku’s sensitive flowerbed of purity, boots stomping Hell March style. Reception-wise, them silly bakagaijin reviewers went with their usual of shoving unwanted western feminism value as a part of their criticism against this anime. Having enraged viewers in two different continents presents a somewhat valid reason, if for the fun of it to watch this anime.

WORKING!!
An anime I watched for the sake of Kana Asumi turns out pretty good as far as my genre preference is concerned. Working!! came out of the blue and registered a loud, audible ‘ping’ on my radar for having Kana Asumi who voiced Yuno in Hidamari HHHNNNGGG voicing another equally petite, small-statured female character, differentiated only through her massive bust. Less than two episodes later and my seiyuu bias died off. If you’re into slice-of-life without the slowness of an old folk’s home paired with typically situational 4-koma comedy, this anime might just FUCKING SOMEWANWANWAN your day.

Oh, and my face throughout the anime.

And what of other shows for that season? Insufficient bandwidths to give a damn. Most of the time during this month is taken up from watching a number of classic animes, including the epically awesome Armored Trooper Votoms.

SUMMER 2010

ASOBI NI IKU YO
>>A mysterious girl with cat ears appear before him

My face.

BLACK LAGOON: ROBERTA’S BLOOD TRAIL
If there’s any anime I’d pick to persuade my non-weaboo bretheren to at least watch a few, Black Lagoon would be it. Black Lagoon’s other story arc is continued via OVAs ala Hellsing Ultimate. While this might slow the episode releases (and subsequent fansubbing), better animation and overall QC would offset this. And SHIT YEAH TERMINATOR MAID STORY ARC!

BLACK ROCK SHOOTER
I threw my money preordering a Figma figure for this. But really, other than it was based on a spinoff of a character based on Hatsune Miku, does anyone even bother to remember why did they care to place this anime on their watchlist? Let’s hope BRS lives up to its hype and not simply a BUY GSC FIGYAS marketing gimmick.

CAT SHIT ONE
More like, Battlefield Bad Company: Furry Edition. Seriously, it has guns, ragheads and OPERATORS, so why not?

DIGIMON XROS WARS

HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD
Zombies, titties, zombies, titties, zombies, titties, zombies, titties, GUNS. No further explanation needed. Obviously in the watchlist.

KUROSHITSUJI 2
Look at this
>>KuroSHITsuji 2
There you have it.

THE LEGEND OF LEGENDARY HEROES
>>Legend of Legendary
>>Legend of Legend
>>Legend Legend

SEIKIMATSU OCCULT GAKUIN
Repackaged Bakemonogatari. Wait, isn’t this supposed to be To Aru Majutsu no Index 2.0, or is it Angel Beats 1.5? Nein, not picking this up until other blogs convinced me to do so.

SEITOKAI YAKUINDOMO
>>the only normal boy among 3 female student council members
>>the only normal boy
>>3 female student council members
Not this shit again. Why can’t we have more cool bro male lead in a highschool harem comedy? Anyway, I’m putting this one on yellow alert status in case my assumptions were crushed on the testicles.

SENGOKU BASARA TWO
Souped up horsebike, over-the-top fight scenes and putting your guns on: Sengoku Basara delivers. I’m not really expecting anything new in the series other than more disposable characters, even more over-the-top fight scenes and the unambiguous burning manliness the anime is known for. If you’re not taking the campy dialogues and cheesy storyline seriously with the face of a disappointed father, this might burn your east red.

STRIKE WITCHES 2
Historical accuracy is what Strike Witches is best known for. *trollface*
Not on my watchlist because the History Channel has more fanservice and pantyshots than this.

TONO TO ISSHO
I’m guessing insurmountable amounts of bizarre humour on the level of Gag Manga Biyori and Astro Fighter Sunred. Not on the watchlist yet; more data required.