If You Are Female Please Ignore The Following Entry
At least once a week, I tell myself. At least once a week.
Spring is here, and that means a few awesome things.
Baseball is here.
Fantasy Baseball is here.
The sun is out.
Better movies are coming out.
And the new season of Anime will be starting.
This last season was pretty stale by most standards. I watched maybe 3 shows regularly, but 2 of them were guilty pleasures. Nothing universally spectacular by any standards. Yeah stuff like Mushishi was good but it was pretty much eye-candy. No show really had that epic story that made it a must watch. Everything was too slice-of-lifey. Fate/Stay comes close but there's not nearly enough tension or conflict (all characters seem relatively unscathed so far) to even care about it. Shana was pretty good, but I felt the last bits dragged on while the middle parts were a lot better. Pretty much a dreadful season.
But there is hope in the new season! There's like 60 different shows of varying styles and subject manners that make for a Sizzler Salad bar of entertainment. Lots of sequels, lots of crazy mecha stuff, good studios doing newer stuff, plenty of adapted manga stuff. I'm kinda stoked, but its still a long way from a new Gundam or a Samurai Champloo or something like that. Gonzo needs to raise another few billion and put it into some insane project. A few worth watching:
School Rumble 2. More love-polygon angst that never ever takes itself seriously.
Ray the Animation. Read the manga and it wasn't half bad. Like a cross between BlackJack and Speed Grapher. Girl doctor with super eyes saves lives but also tries to hunt down the black market merchants that stole her original eyes as a child.
Black Lagoon. Pirate Bounty hunters with attitude and a lot of guns. Also first fight is against a zapatista-turned-housemaid.
Ergo Proxy. Not as good as GitS but what are you going to do.
Disgaea. I hope they get through the story in 3 episodes, then have 49 episodes of item world.
xxxholic. Nominated for the "least gay CLAMP series."
Also a few guilty pleasures that I'm sure will embarass me every second that I watch them.
Oh yeah one more thing. I'm tired of all these super cute slice of life shows that everyone loves. Aria, binchou-tan and whatever the fuck is being made. Stupid shows featuring little girls living their daily fantasy fairy lives, on par with shows like BRATZ or something. And they're just getting more and more popular. What gives, Japan? It's called a story, it has a beginning, middle and end, and has conflict. Please try and keep up.
Spring is here, and that means a few awesome things.
Baseball is here.
Fantasy Baseball is here.
The sun is out.
Better movies are coming out.
And the new season of Anime will be starting.
This last season was pretty stale by most standards. I watched maybe 3 shows regularly, but 2 of them were guilty pleasures. Nothing universally spectacular by any standards. Yeah stuff like Mushishi was good but it was pretty much eye-candy. No show really had that epic story that made it a must watch. Everything was too slice-of-lifey. Fate/Stay comes close but there's not nearly enough tension or conflict (all characters seem relatively unscathed so far) to even care about it. Shana was pretty good, but I felt the last bits dragged on while the middle parts were a lot better. Pretty much a dreadful season.
But there is hope in the new season! There's like 60 different shows of varying styles and subject manners that make for a Sizzler Salad bar of entertainment. Lots of sequels, lots of crazy mecha stuff, good studios doing newer stuff, plenty of adapted manga stuff. I'm kinda stoked, but its still a long way from a new Gundam or a Samurai Champloo or something like that. Gonzo needs to raise another few billion and put it into some insane project. A few worth watching:
School Rumble 2. More love-polygon angst that never ever takes itself seriously.
Ray the Animation. Read the manga and it wasn't half bad. Like a cross between BlackJack and Speed Grapher. Girl doctor with super eyes saves lives but also tries to hunt down the black market merchants that stole her original eyes as a child.
Black Lagoon. Pirate Bounty hunters with attitude and a lot of guns. Also first fight is against a zapatista-turned-housemaid.
Ergo Proxy. Not as good as GitS but what are you going to do.
Disgaea. I hope they get through the story in 3 episodes, then have 49 episodes of item world.
xxxholic. Nominated for the "least gay CLAMP series."
Also a few guilty pleasures that I'm sure will embarass me every second that I watch them.
Oh yeah one more thing. I'm tired of all these super cute slice of life shows that everyone loves. Aria, binchou-tan and whatever the fuck is being made. Stupid shows featuring little girls living their daily fantasy fairy lives, on par with shows like BRATZ or something. And they're just getting more and more popular. What gives, Japan? It's called a story, it has a beginning, middle and end, and has conflict. Please try and keep up.
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