You know, I actually am keeping up with the spring anime season. Seventeen series, in fact. Well...okay, there are eighteen, but one of them I haven't watched since episode one...not because I didn't like it, I just keep forgetting.
Anyway, my thoughts on these series at the moment? Well, let's talk about that. I'm going to assume at this point in the season that everyone knows what things are about already, and if not...that's what MyAnimeList is for.
So long as they can find the slave database and all. That helps. I have at this point divided my season into four specific sections: The Good Ones, The All Right Ones, The Passable Ones and The Ones I Just Want to Stab. The Ones I Just Want to Stab
Spring 2011 Anime List
I figure it's always best to start with the crap, because...well that's the order I watch things in. If I hate something, I want it out of the way. So we'll just go from least favorite to favorite here. If it's in this section, I want to kill it. I am only still watching it because I'm too stubborn to know what's good for me.
I should really stop watching it if I value my sanity. But I'm not going to, because I am an otaku and I know that sanity is highly over-rated.
Dog Days
Oh. My. GOD. How stupid can an anime possibly get? I mean...all right. You have this war. Or should I say “war”? Because that definitely does NOT qualify as actual war. I mean, they get points, and instead of anyone dying they become little “furballs” who are not nearly as cute as my cat, and they're just like...disqualified.
Seriously? This is how we fight a war, and I am supposed to have any faith at all in this? I think not. It really disappoints me that Mamoru Miyano is in this crap.
Another messed up part of this is that before the season started, I said I wasn't going to watch it! And here I am, watching it! Something was obviously wrong with my brain when I made that fatal error.
Sket Dance
In the first episode...maybe the first two, I thought Sket Dance had some potential. Then everything after that happened and I changed my mind.
I don't want to say it's an inherently bad series, because I can still almost see the potential...it's just that the execution is flawed.
The series is presently boring me out of my skull, so if the stupidity of Dog Days doesn't kill me, I'll achieve death by boredom.
Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera
This...no. Just no. I was kinda looking forward to it pre-season, and then actual-season happened and I changed my mind.
The only thing this series has going for it at this point is the talking hat, and if I'm getting a talking hat, I think I'd rather have the Sorting Hat. At least then I'm going into Ravenclaw instead of like...more random nudity for the ice princess.
Deadman Wonderland
Here's the thing about this series for me...I recognize it as being a pretty high-quality series. Really, I do. I can tell that it's being well-done.
But...thanks to some things in my background that I'd rather not get into, I get really, really pissed off when any sort of justice is fucked up or just seems to have ceased to exist. Which, clearly, in the case of Deadman Wonderland, there is no justice.
So that's just got me ticked right off and resenting the series when for the most part, it hasn't actually anything wrong another than be a serious dick with a messed up legal system and common jail-inhabiting assholes (Wow, lots of swearing in this paragraph).
Also, it messes me up for this same voice/personality: To be coming from this character: The Passable Ones. If it's in the Passable section, it means that while I don't love the series, I also don't especially dislike it. It means my feelings are mixed and that I can live with it but it's not something I'm going to tell all of you to watch.
Maybe it just doesn't match my tastes, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it. Or maybe it's okay in some ways but nothing spectacular. I dunno.
Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai
Based on the first episode, this series would have been in The Ones I Just Want to Stab.
Then it followed up with progressively less-disturbing content, some stuff that almost (if you look through very good glasses, from just the right angle) resembles character development, and it's not turning out to be one of the worst things I've ever seen, other than the random other-world stuff that's just weird and annoying.
So I can live with this anime. I don't particularly like it, and it's not something I will ever rave over and it'll probably get like a 4 or 5 when I review it, but it isn't 100% suck-tastic at least.
Hidan no Aria
This is a series I just don't entirely see the point of. I feel like it's trying to actually do something, but the execution isn't being pulled off very smoothly and the characters are two-dimensional at best.
Some are just completely flat say, our supposed-friend villain with a the huge breasts. There's not much actual substance to this anime, but I'm giving it some credit for trying, and because I keep wanting to hug Aria.
A-Channel
I don't even know what to say about A-Channel. Are these girls lesbians? Other than the little tiny one (no, I do not know her name, and no, I cannot be assed to go look it up), I'm just not sure.
For her I'm positive, but the others are questionable and this is just...just...what? The only thing I can say for certain is that the art is far too pretty for a series this pointless. The All Right Ones
Anything in the All Right section, I am enjoying. I'm just not loving it. There's something missing that means I can't love it. But I like it, and it will at the very least score around a 7 when it gets a rating.
So they're good things, they just aren't wondiferous things. And wondiferous is most definitely a word, because I said so.
Lotte's Toy
I cannot believe I'm enjoying this series, at least not based on the premise. But you know...it really is cute. I'd even go so far as to say adorable. I mean, Lotte? She just needs hugs. Lots of them.
From me. Naoya can go climb a tree for all I care, but Lotte I will glomp and spoil. Also, I want some of those little gnome-looking things that are living at Naoya's house in his absence.
They're freaking adorable. Maybe even cuter than the succubus princess. Oh, and her mom reminds me of Cecilie from Kyou Kara Maou.
Nichijou
I was really looking forward to this anime, on one principle, it came from Kyoto Animation. At a KyoAni devotee, I was like 'wheeeeeeeee!'.
Then I started watching it, and while it's certainly pretty good crack, and yes I am enjoying it (there's a lot to be said for the simple things in life), but it's not as good as say...Clannad, or AIR, or Angel Beats!, or Haruhi. Good, just not living up to expectations. Darned expectations.
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi
Anyone who knows just how much of a yaoi fan I am (shouldn't that be anyone who has ever read this blog?) might be surprised to see that I'm only giving Hatsukoi All Right, not Good.
But here's a little factoid about me: much as I love gay content and collect way too much of it, when it comes to yaoi as a genre, I don't actually like it much.
Shonen-ai, sure. But I've found that the MORE hardcore gay something gets, the LESS focus other aspects seem to get.
The storyline in this series is so-so, the characters are only what I would call okay, and on the whole...well, it's nothing spectacular. And I'm not going to lie and say it is just because there are pretty boys kissing.
I'm not that easy to please. The Good Ones Obviously, if it's in this section, I really, really like it. I would almost say love it, but I don't know yet. I'll decide later if I love them.
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi
I...I don't know. I really, really like this series. I haven't the faintest clue why, but I do. It has problems, it is incredibly far from perfect, and honestly, looking at it from my usual critical stance, it's not that good. But for some freaking reason I'm mooning over it (Also, that is the first time I have ever used the word mooning, in any context, since I was like nine).
Ao no Exorcist
While I certainly don't like this series as much as my significant other does, I am definitely enjoying it. And it took until the second episode. Until the it was under All Right. It's very good though.
I'm apparently supposed to cosplay Yukio, or whatever his name is (there are really only a few names sticking in my head this season, and the ones in this anime are not included)... the brother. It's good, okay?
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
This anime tricked me. I thought it was going to be crack, based on the first episode, and you know what? I totally would have been all right with that.
I really would have. But then episode 2 happened, and it made me tear up a little bit, and let's just say that I totally stood corrected. Which is okay. It's still very good.
And of course I had a friend post a status saying “this girl wrapped herself up in a futon” and knew immediately what she was talking about.
Hanasaku Iroha
I didn't really know what I would be getting with this anime, but uhm...it delivered? If it's possible to deliver something you're not expecting, anyway.
This anime somehow managed it. I really, really like it. As in if I could move to that inn, I would do it in a heartbeat. But I would have to thwack the author guy on the head, and then teach him how to write fiction properly, because that is something I know how to do (other than my mess of a first novel, anyway).
Ano Hana
I don't want to delve into this series too much, but let's just say I'm a glutton for punishment.
See also: Ano Hana Anime Review
The more something makes me cry, the more I love it. Which really, explains a lot (my love of Clannad, Kanon, AIR and Angel Beats!, for example) and it explains why I love Ano Hana as much as I do.
It just keeps making me tear up. Then it does it again, and again, and...well, you get the point. So much love for this anime.
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
Well...okay, during the spring preview, I didn't really understand, at all, what this series was actually freaking about.
Like I was reading the description and sitting there scratching my head and more-or-less saying 'uhhhhhh'. But I figured I would give it a chance, because I am ALL FOR giving chances. And I am SO FREAKING HAPPY I gave it a chance.
I love, love, LOVE this series. I love Masakaki, I love how there's a freaking battle system that's economic (will someone please explain to me why this does not exist?), I love it ALL.
So there. I finally acknowledged that this season exists.
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