Weekly Anime Talk: Week 1

2011 was a horrible year for this blog. But I'm going to try and get back into writing a lot more this year and I figured this would be a great way too keep at it. Much like my attempt at talking about a certain Anime, this one will be me talking about all the shows I've seen in a week. I actually had this idea kicking around for awhile, but was oh so lazy. Anyways, the new season of Anime has started (it's the winter season!) and a bunch of new shows are debuting. So I'll probably stick with the newer ones rather then the currently airing ones.

Aside from the obvious content issue of this blog, I've been known to stop watching Anime shows after the first couple episodes. I usually start big, then by the end of it I'm just watching two or three. So hopefully this will be a good way to either keep watching a show, or see exactly why I dropped it. Oh and I'm terrible with remembering names. Let us begin.

Another

Kouichi Sakakibara transferred from a busy city to a small town where his class is acting all weird. It's kinda told early on that some girl died and the class pretends she's alive. So he runs into said girl Mei Misaki who turns out to be that girl? I think... I'm pretty sure. So this whole Anime is horror based and a lot of it was set up. The tone certainly sets thing up like their is something going on that Kouichi doesn't know about. Almost a bit too much really. There was this one scene where some of the classes students went and greeted Kouchi at the hospital (he had a collapsed lung or something) and the eerie tone just seemed to forced. I get it, your trying to be scary. Great. Show me something more.

Aquarion Evol

So this is a sequel to another anime called Aquarion (though it has little to do with this series) which was a Mecha based Anime and this is no different. I didn't get a lot of the "lore" of the show but man was this a pretty looking show. Probably my favourite part was when they were actually forming Aquarion (The big robot the show is named after). I swear it was something out of Jam Project song. Other then that I'm not sure what's going on. Each pilot has some sort of element attached to them. The Main Character Amata Sora, seems to have a air element (cause he can float) which lets Aquarion fly or something. But then some other guy can see into the future or something, I don't know. Also there's some sort of sexual thing going on with the robots where guys and girls can't pilot Mech's at the same time, and if they touch they get all sexual... seems cool enough.

Brave 10

Do you like Historical Anime? Like loosely based Historical Anime? These shows seem to pop up every season where they take Japanese Historical characters and make an Anime out of it. This, like many others is based on the Ten Heroes of Sanada, but it involves all things Anime. But not a bad first episode. Some good fight scenes, the main female (Isanami) was likable and if you like to see how Anime treats it's historical characters, well this is for you.

Nisemonogatari

Ok, I'm going to cheat here a bit as this show is actually a continuation of Bakemonogatri which I loved. This episode was more or less a recap or sorts with notable characters from the first season. Koyomi Araragi still continues to be Koyomi Araragi and Hitagi Senjogahara still continues to be the best thing about Tsundere's out their. Aside from that everything is still the same, lots of banter and quick shots from different angles to compensate for lack of animation. Koyomi also has his youngers sisters introduced in this series and Tsukihi was first introduced, She seems nice.

Senki Zesshou Symphogear

This show was kinda crazy. It kinda had everything. Death, singing and action all in the first half. So get this, two girls (Kanade Amou and Tsubasa Kazanari) are in some sort of pop group and their signing, monsters show up called noise, they transform, continue to signing all the while fighting the noise. A girl by the name of Hibiki Tachibana is caught up in all this, Kanade saves her but dies and Tsubasa is all sad. Sometime later, Hibiki is being chased by the noise and what do you know? She can transform into whatever it is the other two transformed into. Also Nana Mizuki and Yuuki Aoi are in it (I know, I KNOW!).

So much happened in twenty-five minutes that I am left in awe. Like "This was awesome." kind of awe. It was kinda like Macross but not really and had to tell so much that I can't see how another episode can do so much. In fact, I'd be surprised if another episode tries to do as much as this episode did. This is one of the few that I'm not entirely sure I'll stick around for.

Bodacious Space Pirates (Or Moretsu Pirates)

Marika Kato finds out her dad was a space pirate and only she can captain his ship. That's pretty much the story so far. I don't know, space pirates. You like Pirates? I think that's what this show will be about. Not even a hybrid of Space and Pirates. But Pirates in Space. Which, I don't know. I guess that's the thing to do, cause if you don't then why call it pirates right? Marika seems like a likable character and the potential of her recruiting her fellow class mates is novel enough. BUT Kana Hanazawa is in this. So it's enough for me.

Lagrange -The Flower of Rin-ne (Or Rinne no Lagrange)

Not since Gundam Seed and GunXSword will I be watching two Mecha shows at the same time (Though I'm not sure if they both aired at the same time). Madoka Kyono is a do it all girl who will help anyone. She meets a girl named Lan who asks for her help to which Madoka agrees and next thing we know she's piloting a robot/ship thing. Much like everything else on this list it has an interesting premise and we'll see how it goes. I do tend to like Madoka and apparently she has some sort of history with that thing she's piloting, The most memorable scene had to be when Madoka was riding that plane. Priceless.

Waiting in the Summer (Or Ano Natsu de Matteru)

I'm not sure what this Anime is classified as. The begning makes it seems like some sort of fantastical sci-fi story or something, the middle is slice of life then it goes back to being all sci-fi. Anyways, Kaito Kirishima has a camera and wants to do something with it. His friends decide to film a movie because a new transfer student (Ichika Takatsuki) has arrived and Kaito has a thing for her. It's hinted that not everything is right with Ichika, as she seems to be trying tom hard to fit in. Bkah blah blah, Ichika moves in with Kaito, Kaito faints, Ichika kisses Kaito to heal him in some sort of bubble and that's how the episode ends. Oh and the beginning of the show had Kaito caught up in some sort of explosion with a mysterious person saving him.

I`m not sure why, but I'm more interested in the middle part of the story rather then the beginning or end. Maybe it's just because every other show I'm watching deals with fantastical situations and it's nice to have a change of pace? I would think. But to be honest the middle was so bleh. I honestly hate Kaito's hair. Maybe it's not anime enough for me. Or maybe it's the combination of the glasses and hair. Don't know.

High School DxD

So this is pretty much my guilty pleasure of this entire round up. It's basically a show to show off boobs. Yeah, I know, Anime boobs. Boobs that don't function like that in real life. Now I could be a real nice person and say "Oh this is derogatory towards women..." blah blah blah. And it is. But it's not for women... at least I don't think. You women have your own shows to like to watch. This.... this is for me.

So Issei Hyodo wants to go out with a girl, he does, she ends up being some big boob demon or something and kills him. Some other Big boob demon saves him, turns out she's Rias Gremory of the Gremory clan, who is a Devil and makes Issei into her slave or something. Yeah OK, I know. I'm a horrible person, deal with it. I liked this episode, it was just stupid fun that you could turn your brain off and not really worry about trying to dead those damn subtitles. Oh and that girl who killed Issei? Hot.