Pre-Viewing Impressions: Fall 2010 Anime

This season seems completely amazing already, my record of the most anime I want to see was 5 from this summer, this upcoming fall season has bumped it up to somewhere between 9 and 13! Not only that, but for the first time in a while, this season seems to be much lighter on the ecchi dosage than it's predecessors. Without any further ado lets get started cuz there's a lot so this'll be a super long one. (Note: In the interest of saving time and space I'm only doing the ones I'm at least semi-interested in)

Oh by the way, a red title means that the show is not 100% for this season but a good possibility. Source: http://neregate.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/neregate-wordpress-com-fall-2010-animes-v5.jpg (Click for full list)

Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls:

This one is basically an alternate version of History, it takes place in I think modern day but the Tokugawa Shogunate sustained power so Samurai still exist and everything. So its basically these samurai girls who help this boy rebel against the oppressive student council.

The phrase "Samurai Girls" immediately caught my eye, because for almost two years now I've been looking for a good anime involving girls that fight...or simply fighting in general in a school setting, samurai if possible, without ecchi. This one fits the first two perfectly, it's historical (in names and time period at least)...however judging by the trailer it seems like it'll be ecchi on par with Seikon no Qwasar, highly disappointing in that reguard, but I hope it'll at the very least be bearable.

Sounds interesting in theory, definitely gonna check it out and pray to the anime Gods that they don't mess it up by turning it into a porno -.-

Yosuga no Sora:

Fraternal twins return to the town where their grandpa lives after their parents died to live with him. They used to love visiting him prior to this. They go to school there and make new friends, but apparently there's dark secrets and a promise the twins made to each other years ago, and a hidden reason they chose to return.

Seems interesting enough, dark hidden secrets interest me. It seems like it could turn out to be a mystery of some sort which I always like. The premise of it reminds me a little of Ookami Kakushi for some strange reason. My only fear is that it'll wind up turning into twincest which would just kill the entire thing and make me drop it right then and there. However though this is one that I'm going to try out.

Togainu no Chi:
Champion street fighter Akira is arrested for a crime he didn't commit. A mysterious woman offers to let him out of jail if he takes out the champion of a no-holds-barred street fighting ring that's somehow tied in with drugs.

This is probably one that I'm looking foreward to the most, however its also the one that's got me the most scared. It's based off a shounen-ai visual novel which is something I absolutely HATE. My hope is that they leave it out of the anime, which seeing how the character design isn't bishounen and its not in the summary I think there's a pretty good chance of that.

It kind of reminds me of the Fast and Furious movie series, except street fighting instead of street racing; both right up my alley (no pun intended). Not only does the story seem extremely gripping and interesting, but I LOVE the design of the main character. Two years ago he woulda made it on my fangirl list easy, even still though, I like his design. Hell I like everything about this anime from what I know aside from the possible yaoi. *sings to a immature lil tune* please oh please oh please anime Gods don't let there be any yaoi.

Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai:

An otaku boy famous in online dating sims for being able to "capture" the heart of any 2D girl in said games. One day a devil comes to him with a request to help her "capture" run-away spirits that house themselves in girls hearts. And the only way to get them out is to "capture" their heart (make them fall in love)...which the main character is reluctant to do but he has no choice.

Strangely enough, there's really nothing particularly appealing about this one, there's not really anything I dislike about it, other than the fact that there's nothing outright appealing.

I'm truly stuck on the fence as to whether or not I want to see this one...and said fence is beginning to hurt my butt. I think with this one I'll wait until its a few episodes in and see what other people are saying about it. If it's popular and people's comments make it seem interesting to me, I'll check it out. I do have some interesting gut feeling though that somehow I won't particularly dislike this one...although there is always the ecchi potential of it to be considered.

Shinryaku! Ika Musume:

Ok so Squid Girl is mad at humans for polluting the ocean so she goes ashore to get revenge...but she messes up and winds up working at a seaside resturaunt instead. Clearly a comedy series, and I'll give it credit just for it's originallity. With those reasons in mind I actually think I'm gonna check this one out.

Hope it'll actually be funny and not stupid and childish like some other things this season seem like they might be.

Hmm...actually I really don't have a whole lot to say about this one. The girls funny little squid hat already gave me a chuckle. I can't say I've ever heard of an anime about squid before so this aught to be nice and fresh (pun intended).

Now I wonder...does it happen to be a sushi resturaunt she works at? Cuz that could proove to be fairly problematic...squid sushi is yummy.

Otome Youkai Zakuro:

More alternate reality feudal Japan? Sure I'll take it. Its an alternate reality where humans and youkai co-exist. And there's this organization with representitives from each side to keep this existence in balance. In that organization is a 1/2 human 1/2 youkai girl named Zakuro.

This seems interestingly remeniscant of InuYasha except the animal-eared half demon is a girl and the plot is much less involved.

I'm going to be checking this one out, hopefully it does't suck, though the blonde bishi-looking guy is kinda giving me doubts despite how bad-ass the girl with the dagger (?) may look.

Bakuman:

Follows the story of these two kids, one of which is realy good at drawing and the other is really good at writing, so they decide to form a partnership and strive to become the best mangaka in Japan. With a little underlying lovestory as well.

YAAAY! FINALLY! Its about time this gets an anime adaptation! I've seen this manga in Shonen Jump magazines, but I never had any desire to read it, figuring it'd be much better as an anime. So now I finally get to check it out!

I'm pretty excited for it, the plot seems nice and original, and there are few Shonen Jump series' that I particularly dislike, thus giving me pretty high expectations for this one. Plus, I'm always curious to see Shonen Jump manga/anime that break the stereotypical mode of tons and tons of action (not like I'm against that). Definately gonna check this one out.

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo:
A college student named Yakumo has the abillity to see ghosts with his red eye (gee, reminds me a lot of Allen Walker of D.Gray-Man O.o) and believes that ghosts are tied to this earth for a reason, if you eliminate that reason they leave. So he teams up with a girl to do just that.

Woot Woot! A new mystery, hopefully this doesn't fall through like some other potentially good ones. That and it sorta freaked me out when I did some wiki search on it and it said that the manga is shojo -.- And some of the artwork made Yakumo look kinda bishoujo, wonderful *rolls eyes* what's with all the bishis this season? Can't we have a normal season with just story, leave out the sex-appeal? I suppose it's better than gratuinous amounts of ecchi though. High hopes for this one, looking foreward to seeing it.

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes:

Taking place in an imaginary world in a time called "The Age of Detectives" the story follows 4 girls who aspire to be great detectives.

Seems kinda childish if you ask me, that and it reminds me a little bit of Bottle Fairy but with detectives instead of fairies...color schemes are pretty similar too.

Eventhough it seems childish, there's a part of me that wants to try it, just on the off chance that it's not childish and if the mysteries are any good. So if I hear good things about this one I'll definately check it out.

Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan 2:

Title is self-explanitory, its the sequel to Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan from the Spring 2010 season.

I've been greatly looking foreward to this one since I finished the last one since it ended with such a cliffhanger...a very sad one at that.

Can't wait to watch this one, more awesome Samurai epicness, more of the awesomeness that is Okita and hopefully some sort of conclusion, maybe Yukimura finding her father, the Oni being defeated, something like that. Eagerly awaiting this to air though...I just hope it's subbed faster than the last series cuz that just sucked.

Yozakura Quartet ~Hoshi no Umi~:

This one is an OVA retelling of the original Yozakura Quartet series.

I'm hoping to watch this one if it's long enough seeing as how I'm planning to watch the first series eventually and since this is a retelling, I'd assume it means you don't need to watch the first series to understand it right?

That being said I suppose I should explain that this is basically about people wit supernatural abillities which is always a fun topic, among one of my more preferred ones actually.

Starry Sky:

I know I know, it's probably super-shocking to see a reverse harem on a list of mine, not only that but a reverse harem and it has bishis. It focuses on a recently gender-intergrated school. No I promise I'm not going even more insane.

I do have justfication for wanting to watch this though, each of the 12 said bishis represent one of the zodiac animals, similar in fashion to Fruits Basket but I dont think they turn into them. I like zodiac, therefore I want to try this one out.

That and not all the bishis look to be too too girly to the point where it'd freak me out.

Goulart Knights:

OMFG!!! Those Character designs are completely AMAZING...unless of course the black haired one and the white haired one are guys, then they suck.

Anyway though: There's these creatures called "Archons" invading the world and they threaten to destroy all of humanity. This story follows the group called the Goulart Knights chosen to defeat the Archons.

This just sounds awesome through and through, from the story to the character design I'm really looking foreward to this one and I really hope it and Starry Sky do air this season cuz I'm psyched about both of them.

My only worry about this is that it could turn into being about Vampires in some way, judging by the epic win character designs...god I want those boots that the white-haired person has XD