{"id":4429,"date":"2010-04-08T20:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2010-04-08T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:40:41","slug":"spring-2010-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/spring-2010-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2010 First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Omitted: Mayoi Neko Overrun (I might put it on here later), Rainbow (subs where??), other stuff
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Quadrant I<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Arakawa Under the Bridge<\/strong> is this season’s clear winner. \u00a0Despite how 4-komaish it felt (yes, I know the original material is not a 4-koma) with those… card things in-between scenes\/gags, the humor was very, very good. \u00a0I don’t think any company but SHAFT could’ve pulled this one off. \u00a0Yes, the ahoge thing and the shows-top-half-of-face thing were done before (Bakemonogatari), but that doesn’t make it any less great. \u00a0Hell, watching that ahoge droop down after Nino went into the drawer was the funniest thing I’ve seen so far this year.<\/p>\n

Given how boring Bakemonogatari was (for me, at least) and how shoddy a job Bund turned out to be, I wasn’t expecting a great SHAFT series this season. \u00a0Holy shit.<\/p>\n

Senkou no Night Raid<\/strong> is a series that took me by surprise. \u00a0I love A-1’s work with mellow anime like Kannagi and Sora no Woto (I’ll get to Working!! later…), but when it comes to action (Fairy Tail, Valkyria Chronicles), I loathe their works. \u00a0Heck, I hate most action shows (mecha unincluded). \u00a0Black Lagoon and Baccano are the only two action shows I actually liked.<\/p>\n

Senkou no Night Raid held a strange appeal to me. \u00a0It was unlike all the other action shows I’ve given up on, but with the powers, the appealing character designs and artwork, and the promise of a great plot (possibly episodic), I’m more than willing to follow the show.<\/p>\n

Also, the Chinese sucks.<\/p>\n

B Gata H Kei<\/strong>… \u00a0In a nutshell, this show is good, but shows very little promise. \u00a0The first episode was great, of course, but there is so little room for following episodes to be humorous that I’m not sure if I want to keep on watching. \u00a0I’d rather keep this fond memory of a funny, decent show than having to watch it deteriorate into a trashy romantic comedy.<\/p>\n

Giant Killing<\/strong> is very inspiring. \u00a0Most sports anime are inspiring, but few can hit that level with the first episode. \u00a0Even fewer can keep it up, but I have high expectations of Giant Killing. \u00a0Heck, I just want to see Tatsumi’s badassery kick in already. \u00a0Show those bastard fans what you’re made of!<\/p>\n

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Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou<\/strong> is “most surprising” for a reason. \u00a0As you may know, I hate fanservice, ecchi, etc. with a passion. \u00a0I just don’t understand why you would watch a series with all this flashing when you could be watching straight-out hentai\/porn or something actually good like Mushishi. \u00a0No, this doesn’t mean I’m changing my stance on fanservice\/ecchi (I watched the censored version, anyway). \u00a0I’m just surprised that an ecchi anime like Ichiban toolongofatitle no Daimaou can actually have good quality humor and a promising story. \u00a0My guilty pleasure for this season.<\/p>\n

Hakuouki<\/strong> is full of pretty men. \u00a0And those pretty men remind me of the Gintama Shinsengumi. \u00a0I spent the episode wowing at the art, animation, and how much Kondo acts like Gorilla Stalker. \u00a0I’m pretty sure I’ll drop this show, but the first episode left me with a decent impression.<\/p>\n

Kaichou wa Maid-sama<\/strong> is just what I expected it to be. \u00a0What I didn’t expect, though, is that I don’t hate it. \u00a0I read the first few chapters of the manga, and gave up in disgust. \u00a0After the initial “oh, she’s a maid?” (which in itself isn’t that appealing…) there’s nothing left. \u00a0Just a bunch of predictable shoujo crap. \u00a0Maybe it’s better animated, I don’t know? \u00a0I’ll be watching a few more episodes to see if the predictable shoujo crap turns up again.<\/p>\n

Quadrant II<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Angel Beats<\/strong>, Angel Beats… I really had a hard time placing this show on my graph. \u00a0It was really good, but also not that good. \u00a0It was shocking, but not very surprising at the same time. \u00a0In the end, I just stuck it here. \u00a0I can’t remember why.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll start with the pros. \u00a0Interesting story\/setting, nice theme(s), good characters, Haruhi, and Brock (Guns? \u00a0Pfft. \u00a0Where’s your Onix?).<\/p>\n

Cons? \u00a0Wannabe Kyon, concert, bad character designs (dem eyes), not very funny when it tries to be, shows little promise (really, where can the plot go?).<\/p>\n

Yuri is a really nice character. \u00a0Very reminiscent of Haruhi, but that’s definitely a good thing. \u00a0On the other hand, Otonashi is no Kyon. \u00a0His straight man act needs some cleaning up.<\/p>\n

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K-ON!!<\/strong> had some really good things going for it in this episode. \u00a0Too bad they were drowned out by large amounts of moeshit and forced humor. \u00a0The opening scene was really, really good. \u00a0It’s the best opening to a second season I’ve ever seen (sounds less than impressive, but I assure you, I loved it). \u00a0And then came that eardrum-shattering OP. \u00a0How come the animation was so impressive when the music was so bad…?<\/p>\n

The episode itself had some really funny parts (“copying homework” was great), but things like moe-fying Ritsu<\/a> (something that the first season almost never did, unless it was Ritsu teasing Mio), making Mio suddenly moe+crying (take some tips from Kagami, yo), and worst of all, Mio imagining Azusa “lonely”<\/a> covered up any vestiges of good humor. \u00a0Hell, if you don’t think that last example was forced, you’re a failure of a human being. \u00a0That was so terrible I hate it I hate it I hate it I hat-<\/p>\n

What’s worse, besides the humor, there was nothing but preachypreachypreachy stuff, and it didn’t work at all. \u00a0I don’t think anybody wants to watch Azusa struggling over this situation (and apparently, KyoAni realized that too, and put in extra moeshit humor in an attempt to keep the audience entertained).<\/p>\n

By the way, the ED was good. \u00a0Not too hot on the outfits, but at least the animation looked better than the first season ED. \u00a0The music was also better.<\/p>\n

Quadrant III<\/span><\/h2>\n

Don’t judge based on appearances… don’t judge based on appeara-<\/p>\n

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Heroman<\/strong> is a complete failure of an anime in my book. \u00a0Blah blah giant robot blah simple blah OH WAIT, THIS SHOW SUCKS. \u00a0Exaggerated character designs and hermaphrodites are the least of Heroman’s problems. \u00a0I think this show is stupid. \u00a0It’s really stupid. \u00a0Stupid stupid stupid. \u00a0Heroman is stupid. \u00a0Joey Jones is stupid. \u00a0The evil cockroach aliens are stupid. \u00a0The birds living in that afro are stupid.<\/p>\n

On a different note, read Snark’s post<\/a>. \u00a0The captions are hilarious and he makes a good argument (even though I totally disagree because Heroman is stupid).<\/p>\n

Working!!<\/strong>? \u00a0More like Shitting!! \u00a0This show displays all that is wrong about slice-of-life comedies. \u00a0I can’t bring myself to defend the genre because this show is so bad and so wrong in so many ways. \u00a0There is no background. \u00a0The male lead just comes in and who is he I don’t know what the hell. \u00a0The loli-looking character needs a haircut. \u00a0None of the jokes are funny. \u00a0I dropped the episode halfway through.<\/p>\n

Yutori-chan<\/strong> is an interesting show. \u00a0The art is terrible, but the characters look pretty good. \u00a0The humor is just the same jokes over and over and over agai- \u00a0Actually, pretend I moved that dot on the graph down quite a bit. \u00a0This isn’t even worth talking about.<\/p>\n

Quadrant IV<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Kiss X Sis<\/strong> was shockingly bad. It really was. The OVA was pretty entertaining, but this first episode of the TV series was over-the-top and predictable (more so than usual, anyway). You can count on me watching the last OVA episode, but finishing the TV series? Not a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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