I didn’t even have an idea of what was airing in the Winter 2010 season until most of the new shows already started airing, so I’m having to make decisions about what I want to watch based on less information and time thinking than I usually do.
From the Fall Season, Kimi ni Todoke, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kobato, Railgun, and Letter Bee are all continuing, so I’m looking for 3 to 4 shows to replace the shows that have finished up. Here are some quick thoughts on some of the series airing in the fall. I’ll skip anything that looks too kiddie or which is a sequel to something I haven’t seen:
Chu-Bra!!
A show about a middle school student starting an “underwear club” to spread the merits of wearing sexy underwear. Um, double triple quadruple super duper duper hell no.
Sora no Woto
So basically, this looks like it’s like K-ON!, except worse, because they’re in the middle of a war.
Ladies vs Butlers!
I’m not even sure what to think about this series. It definitely looks like a harem, and it’s along the “girls go wild over young-looking-boys” type. I guess that’s better than the young-looking-girls shows. Maybe.
Omamori Himari
Another orphaned-boy-taken-in-by-neighbor-girls-parents story. Except this time the magical girl who pops up is a cat girl. And the boy is allergic to cats. This at least sounds mildly interesting. At least far more interesting than any of the shows so far.
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
This kind of sounds like Special A, except in reverse. I’m not sure about the summoning creatures part of this show though.
Dance in the Vampire Bund
I’m not really one for Vampire shows, but this show actually looks (visually) interesting, and it’s done by SHAFT, which definitely helps it.
Durarara!!
Basically sounds like gangs looking for a mythical head of a headless motorcycle rider. Mmmm…not the worst show I’ve seen this season but I still think there are better things to watch.
Ookami Kakushi
This is a show based off of a game made by the people who did Higurashi. I’ve never seen any of those series, but I’ve been curious about them.
Seikon no Qwaser
A show about people who can manipulate iron and who draw power from breast milk fighting each other. That sounds like there is too much that can go bad here.
Hanamaru Kindergarten
This is by GAINAX which, of course, means this show won’t have a proper ending.
Katanagatari
An actually somewhat decent looking Edo-era sword fighting show. I’ll have to see if it ultimately makes my cut or not, though.
So, My Watch List Is…
I wasn’t planning on picking up another series to blog this season unless there was just something that looked fantastic, and there isn’t, so I’ll only add shows to watch. I think this time, I’ll only add 3 shows. I felt like I was going to add either 3 or 5, and I didn’t want 5 new shows, so I went with my top 3, and they are:
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Omamori Himari
Ookami Kakushi
Josh’s Anime Blog Returns (again)
As people might have seen, I went on a rather long hiatus from the blog this time (with a brief come back over Christmas break), which was probably the longest in my blog’s history. I think I went an entire month without a post (February 2010) for the first time in the blog’s history.
This was mainly caused by getting more interested in a few other things than I was in anime, and thus doing those things went higher on my priority list, and I basically didn’t have time for anime anymore while I was doing those things. However, I believe I am back on track as far as doing anime things again so, hopefully, I’ll be back for a while.
Over the next 3 to 4 days, I’ll be catching up on my blogging (10 to 11 episodes of Kobato plus an episode of Shana S), so pardon the slew of posts of old episodes during this week. As far as blogging series in the Spring season – I haven’t decided yet. On the one hand, I’m afraid of going straight into blogging something right after coming back from such a long hiatus, but on the other hand, if I don’t blog something…I’m not sure what I’ll write about, and thus possibly risk going back into a hiatus again. I’ll probably make a decision sometime next week after I investigate what series are airing in April.
Also, as you may have seen, I’ve once again updated the design of the site. I thought I probably should to help launch me out of a hiatus (and, heck, if I have the time/energy to redesign the site and catchup on 12 or so episodes of blogging, hopefully that’s a sign that I am actually back). This is version 8.0 of the blog (yes, there have been that many) and I hope people like it.