A-Channel
Honestly there really is nothing in particular that I can point out that calls to me about this anime and there's nothing in it that I would normally enjoy...ever, but there's just something about this that's telling me to at least give it its fair try. The girl with the bat is kind of scaring me however, I mean really she looks ready to kill someone O.o She's even holding it in the trailer...though at the same time it makes her seem like a potentially appealing character. You know maybe that's it, shows with no plot are either hit or miss mostly because of characterization or lack-there-of, so maybe what I'm hoping for in this one is some good character development and a nice break from all the damn ecchi floating around as of late.
Ao no Exorcist
Aria Scarlet Ammo
My one worry: that it'll turn into ecchi. Why do I think this? Well besides the fact that everything's been resorting to ecchi lately, the way some of the girls breasts were drawn (not exposed, just the style of drawing) in the trailer hints at ecchi, because through the shirt they had that typical ecchi art style which raises a little red flag in my head. On top of that just a simple thematic equation here can lead you to the same conclusion. Girls. Obviously a huge majority of guys like girls. Guns. Again a huge majority of guys like guns as well. That would tell you that it'll more than likely be geared towards guys, which is all fine and dandy and makes up a majority of the anime that I watch. However anime centered around girls fighting AND with the added male obsession of guns, odds are the creators will probably throw in the male obsession of ecchi there as well. Thats just my thinking though.
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
I honestly can't even begin to explain this one in my own words...well....alright I probably could but quite frankly I'm too lazy but it has a lot to do with Japan almost financially collapsed but then they were saved by some organization but crime and unemployment rates still sucked. Then some guy makes a deal with some other guy and is drawn into the mysterious "financial district", cuz ya know, that sounds scary.Its not even so much that I'm into economics that makes me want to watch this cuz I'm really not...I had to sit through an economics class "assembly" on "understanding your paycheck" and was bored out of my mind...definitely not into economics. However I am into psychological stuff, specifically psychological thrillers and depending on the turn this one takes it could have some of that. I'm also a very visual person when it comes to anime (which is most of the reason I can't bring myself to watch Rurouni Kenshin) and that picture looks really cool. Honestly as long as the picture of a new series looks good enough there's not much I wont try. I also enjoy the character designs shown here. Sorta wish I had a little more background on it though.
Deadman Wonderland
Normally this is where I'd throw in my complaint about it turning ecchi, however despite the naked girl in the picture I'm not gonna do that here because shockingly I'm not really worried about that. The reason being is because most, if not all the pictures I see of that girl are not depicting her in a sexual fashion, she's naked yes, but not drawn in such a way where it's meant for fan-service. To put it in better terms, nudity for sexual gratification and nudity for art or plot or some other purpose are entirely different. Think: look at a lot of ancient/semi-ancient sculptures or paintings and compare that to todays porn or ecchi, they're completely different, like I don't think people go home and pleasure themselves to renaissance art, thats just weird. It's pretty much the same thing with this anime. So for once I'm not really worried about the ecchi.
Dog Days
I like the character designs and quite honestly fantasies and magic and mystical lands are something I wish I watched more often if it weren't for that pesky Shoujo theme that most have. Or they become overly dramatic or emotional like Shining Tears X Wind. So just simply because it's a fantasy that has the potential to be pretty decent, I think I shall try it.
I also feel the need to point out the blonde boys weapon. Take a second and look at that will you? What is it? A giant laser pointer? I mean really, that doesn't sound like a good weapon at all. What? Is he just gonna be like "Fear me cat-eared creatures! For I the almighty generic blonde kid will point at you then everyone will FOCUS ON YOU!!!! Muahahaha!" I mean if I was a villain I don't think I could take that sort of weapon seriously, unless of course it was a legit laser.
Hoshizora e Kakeru Hashi
Sket Dance
Well originally I really thought this was going to be about dancing with really cool music and an original plot and all. However its actually about the misadventures of a school club dedicated to helping other students. Sounds a lot like Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi huh? For those of you who watched it anyway, and if you haven't I'd recommend it. However given that this is another Shounen Jump series, the characters look cool and the plot seems at least moderately entertaining, I'm gonna give it a shot. On that note of the characters I really enjoy the girls design for some weird unknown reason, it's simple, semi-tomboyish, but effective as visually portraying her as a potentially good character. And honestly if any of my regular readers haven't figured out yet that my opinion of character designs is super-important to how I view an anime thats just kind of sad. Hoping this'll be good enough to watch through, but original enough to separate it from Ookami-san though I've rarely known a Shounen Jump anime to be particularly bad, save for Beelzebub.Sengoku Otome
This actually seems like it could be something along the lines of a cross between Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls and Rio Rainbow Gate....now if it could b a cross between Sengoku Basara and Hyakka Ryouran that'd b really sweet. But nooooooooo the anime industry has to be sooo obsessed with sex and boobs all the time to worry about historically good plots. So for anybody into tons and tons of ecchi this'll most likely be for you...while I'm sitting there face-palming wondering what ever possesed me to try this in the first 5 minutes of the first episode. Props to the accurate Date Masamune helmet on the girl and the plushie near the bottom though!
The World God Only Knows 2
Toriko
Granted I'm a food person, so I'm probably partial to this anime because of that, but in both the manga and the 1-episode OVA the characters were just superb. Its a very very typical Shounen genre anime, but at the same time its original, I can't say I've seen an anime about brutal food-hunting before. And some of the monsters Toriko fights are so epically grotesque yet impressive due to sheer awesomeness and often times size or deadly powers I can't wait to see them animated and in color. As I said before the whole reason I stopped reading the manga is because the art highly annoyed me, which definitely doesn't seem to be an issue based on the pre-release images of this anime. EXTREMELY excited for this one, highly recommend you give it a shot.
Steins;Gate
However lets assume for a second that it's not complete shit like its predecessor it actually seems like it could have a semi-decent plot. It involves these people who somehow manage to re-engineer their microwave and enable it to send text messages to the past. It sounds like it could turn down the route of a mystery genre where it could be pretty awesome, or go into sci-fi which depending on how it's done would probably be a bit less awesome given that it takes a lot for me to like sci-fi. Given that Chaos;Head had an awesome plotline but failed and turned out like absolute garbage, maybe since this one has a semi-decent plotline it'll somehow turn out really good. Just as long as it's not a direct sequel because if they refer to anything from Chaos;Head I shall be completely lost because almost nothing in Chaos;Head was ever explained, so that could potentially make this really hard to follow if the two are closely related. But nevertheless something's telling me I should at least try this one.
FINALLY! Wow after about a week or more in progress I finally got this done! Between getting side-trackeded, not having the motivation, having homework, playing Pokemon, talking with my friends, having anime to actually watch and the stupid web browser on the school computers not cooperating making me unable to edit this at school it was absolutely nuts! And in another week and a half I'll have another long post to do about Zenkaikon. So any comments would be greatly appreciated so I know all this frustration over this post wasn't all for naught.
Ao no Exorcist looks immense!
ReplyDeleteI've been craving a good shounen anime full of blood and killing lately!