Monthly Archives: June 2009

Summer 2009 Anime Preview

By | June 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm | 11 comments

It’s that time again: It’s time to look at what anime is airing in the Summer 2009 season. Shows are listed in alphabetical order.

There are 5 possible levels of ratings that I’ll give a show:

  • Will Blog
  • May Blog (presumes Will Watch)
  • Will Watch
  • May Watch
  • Won’t Watch

As usual, I’m leaving out anything that seems to obviously be a children’s show. Like always, thanks to the Fansub Wiki for keeping a great list of upcoming shows.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way…here we go!

Here are some quick links to the shows if you want to go straight to a particular show:

Bakemonogatari Canaan Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!
GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class Kanamemo Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Second Season
Needless Princess Lover! Sea Story
Sora no Manimani Spice and Wolf II Sweet Blue Flowers
Taisho Yakyuu Musume Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Josh’s Preview Round-Up

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I Survived a Japanese Game Show Season 2 Tonight

By | June 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm | 2 comments

I Survived a Japanese Game Show - Season 2Don’t forget, the second season of I Survived a Japanese Game Show starts tonight on ABC at 9pm, after Wipeout.

This season splits 12 people (vs. 10 for last season) into 2 teams to complete in the “Japanese-like” game show Majide.  This season is allegedly supposed to have more games and less behind-the-scenes dorama, which even I felt was the show’s biggest weakness last year.

Indeed, initial interest in the show was fairly decent (the season premiered at #2 in the time slot vs. America’s Got Talent, only to fall out of the top 4 by the end of it’s 7 episode run).  I’m guessing that the success of the zany obstacle course game Wipeout has caused ABC to decide to try again on ISaJGS since it’s very much up the same alley.  It’s just that Wipeout was obstacle course from start to finish while maybe only 1/3 of ISaJGS actually consisted of contestants competing.  We’ll have to see tonight how much ABC increased that ratio.  I’m not expecting start to finish games, but hopefully at least a majority of the episode is dedicated to games.

The show was orginally supposed to start airing in July, but was pushed up to this week (maybe the Goode Family wasn’t faring that well?)

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