| 7:01pm | Some Quick First Impressions: Himitsu Kessha Taka Tsume Countdown | | | | Thriller Restaurant Short Synopsis: Our lead character visits a supposedly haunted restaurant building. I must say, the kiddie shows this season are surprisingly good. This obviously is compared to most other kids’ series out there and I don’t mean in the way of the WMT, but in the same... |
| 3:08pm | Konnichiwa Anne - 28 | | | | So, this was really the episode that would make or break this series: it was going to be the first episode of Anne, as she settled in the Hammond family, and visited her new school for the first time. The result is really a mixed bag, but I think that the creators are going to be able to make something... |
| 6:40pm | Some Quick First Impressions: Aoi Bungaku and Table Cat | | | | Fairy Tail Short Synopsis: Our lead character destroys entire cities and ruin thousands of people’s lives with his powers. And is supposed to be the good guy Well, so here we have another one of those shounen fighting series. And to be honest, it feels like a rather half-assed attempt. You can... |
| 5:46pm | Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood - 27 | | | | Recap. We basically saw Hohenheim and some strange woman talk while the past twenty-six episodes were recapped. I’m not complaining however, because for a recap it was a very good one: it contained the best bits of animation along with the best soundtracks for an intense 20 minutes. Hohenheim... |
| 9:36am | Cross Game - 28 | | | | Yeah, this was by far the best baseball match of Cross Game, in which Kou and Azuma finally get a real threat posed to them. The matches still are nowhere as intense and exciting as in Touch, but it’s getting there. If the second half of the series can further develop the fact that Kou and Azuma... |
| 5:10pm | Letter Bee - 02 | | | | Okay, this episode convinced me to start blogging this series. It had a bit of an uneventful first episode, but you can see that it was holding back. This episode showed a bit more of this series’ potential, and showed that it can very well write a nice dramatic scene. Lag is a bit too much... |
| 1:44pm | White Album - 15 | | | | As for the shows I’m not going to blog: - Out of the onslaught of moe comedies this season, Seitokai no Ichizon definitely stands out as the best and funniest. Nevertheless, I see no potential in blogging it weekly. - Kuroko’s lesbian siscon fantasies in Railgun were just painful to... |
| 10:16am | Some Quick First Impressions: Usaru-san | | | | Usaru-san Short Synopsis: Our lead characters are a bunch of talking cats and dogs. Okay this is the perfect example of “so annoying it becomes funny”. I think that anyone who watched this episode wanted to kill that freaking poodle. Her voice actress just just would not shut up. In fact,... |
| 6:51pm | Omoshi Magical Theatre: Risky Safety Review - 85/100 | | | | When I posted my first impressions on Kobato, I noted how incredibly cute its lead character Kobato was. I then started watching Risky Safety, and suddenly Kobato looked more like Hamako from Gintama in comparison. Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety has got to be one of, if not THE cutest anime... |
| 5:13pm | Armed Librarians - The Book of Bantorra - 02 | | | | As for the series I’m not blogging: - Kämpfer is just yet another stereotypical fighting show with no depth whatsoever. - Nyan Koi had a really disappointing and shallow second episode. Plus, it’s obvious that the creators have never owned cats. As for the Book of Bantorra, I think... |
| 9:17pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni - 15 | | | | Holy crap! How many extra dimensions can a story get within just one arc? Turn the chessboard upside-down? How about reaching into a completely different dimension to find an extra side of that chessboard hidden! With this episode I’m really starting to see Ryukishi07’s brilliance as a... |
| 7:22am | Some Quick First Impressions: Sasameki Koto | | | | Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini Short Synopsis: Our lead character stopped getting haircuts. It was quite a surprise to see that this first episode focused on mostly completely new characters, but yeah: this was the best first episode of the new season. It’s got the intriguing setting of... |
| 8:02pm | Brigadoon Marin to Melan Review - 85/100 | | | | I’m getting more and more impressed at Sunrise’s lesser-known mecha series. Sure, they have made plenty of series that just consist out of a string of random action-scenes without much substance, but on the other hand there also are series as Overman King Gainer, Zone of the Enders, Zegapain... |
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