Day 127/366 Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is about a girl who is hiding her otakuness from everyone but of course one lucky guy finds out and she'll do anything to keep him quiet! Sailor suits with a twist are always fun. That's what these girls wear. Dark pinkish red skirt and jacket. The jacket has [...] No related posts.
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An advertisement on the light novel series of “Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu” has recently revealed that another anime adaptation for the series is currently in the works. According to the advertisement, the anime will lead... Related posts:Kampfer’s New Anime Project Announced Weiß Survive’s Anime 2nd Season Announced! New D.C. ~Da Capo~ Anime And Visual Novel In The Works
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ANN (via): An ad for the Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu light novels has announced that another anime adaptation is in the works. The new anime will adapt the story leading up to the final arc of the series. Unlike ZnT, they promise us an ending (not sure if Hidamari ever got one). Note though, 3 cours is [...]
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Other than watching anime and blogging, a lot of my time on the internet is spent on Youtube watching AMVs. Before I really got into blogging, I was obsessed with Youtube, and I checked my subscription box religiously. I needed to see every video that everyone one of my subscriptions had uploaded. However, Youtube is crappy, and a lot of the time, people's videos wouldn't even show up in my updates. Nowadays, I go on maybe once or twice a day as opposed to keeping a tab open all the time. This week I have found some pretty awesome AMVs that have been uploaded, so I'm going to share them with you, honorable reader. I'm planning on making this a weekly segment, so you'll likely see another one up a week from now. :) Vellure - 3 in 1 Editor(s): vellure Anime: mix Music: Dancing on My Own by Robyn, Physical by Olivia N. John and Jane Lynch, Targa by Russ Chimes, and Never Look Back by Russ Chimes Thoughts: I've always loved vellure's colorful videos. He usually picks pop or techno music and matches the footage to the beat almost perfectly. He hasn't uploaded any videos for a while, so it was nice seeing such a new video from him. :) Dreampod MEP Editor(s): Akenization, Luna, Replay Studios, Jazzy, darkreu, tkfx, Katzie, and RiceAMVAnime: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Otome Youkai Zakuro, Hakuoki, No Kami No Agito Gin'Iro, Fate Stay Night, Halo Legends: Prototype, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Kurozuka, Wonderful DaysMusic: Are Not We All RunningThoughts: In case you were wondering, MEP stands for Multi Editor Project, and it's when a bunch of AMV editors get together and make a video together, each editor doing a predetermined track that varies in length for each MEP. I really love the choice of music in this particular MEP, and the production value is very high. It's an all around great video. [A|S] Moe Moe Rebellion  Editor(s): VivifxAMV  Anime: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Kimi ga Nozumu Ein, Zero no Tsukaima, MM!, kanokon, KissxSis, The World Only God Knows, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Macorss Frontier, Princess Lover, Lucky Star, Saki, High School of the Dead, Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou, Full Metal Panic, Inukami, Onii-chan no Koto, Gurren Lagann, Mayoi Neko Overrun, Sora no Otoshimono, Shuffle, Angel Beats, Ichigo 100%, Madoka Magica, Moetan, Kampfer, Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan, Soul Eater, Death Note, Rosario + Vampire, Kamen no Maid Guy, Code Geass, Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny, Black Lagoon, Vampire Knight, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, Kuragehime, Maria Holic, Sensitive Pornograph, Junjou Romantica, Papa to Kiss in the Dark, Okane ga Nai, Kizuna no Kara Swagi Music: The Way We Talk by The Maine, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OST, We're Not Gonna Take It by Bif Naked Thoughts: I really love this AMV because of the story that's told through it and how well the editor matched it to the beat. You can clearly see how much time and effort went into making this AMV fantastic. I really hope that it wins a prize in Otakon because it definitely deserves it. YUMMY{taiga&ryuji♥ [130+subs] Editor(s): BlueAnima Anime: Toradora! Music: YummyYummy by Ohio-Express Thoughts: I love the simple, colorful AMVs like this one, and Toradora is such a great anime. The song really fits, too. Very cute. :) [A|S] E for Extinction   Editor(s): xXFlowaSanXx Anime: Ao no Exorcist Music: E for Extinction by Thousand Foot Krutch Thoughts: I love practically every AnE AMV that shows up, and I really like the song used in here as well.  ｈｏｎｅｙ ｔｒａｐ【TSS - Private Ludwig】 Editor(s): RinProductions Anime: Hetalia Music: Honey Trap by Jolin Tsai Thoughts: This was actually posted at the beginning of the month, but I love it so much. xD "I need your satisfaction." The timing is practically perfect, and the editor makes Germany look so damn sexy.[APH] touchin' on my - BFT Editor(s): piratemaki Anime: Hetalia Music: Touchin' On My by 3OH!3 Thoughts: I know; another Hetalia video, but people make so many awesome ones... Again, the timing in this one is impeccable, and I love how she zooms in on people's faces on a different beat. Great video. :) And that's it for this week's subscription update! I'll have some more next week as well, so please check it out! Also, the weekly anime review where I talk about what I watched this week is here.
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We have 26 new series this summer, up from 21 last summer and 22 the summer before. Trends? Four shows involving vampires, and lots of moe.I'm not sure we'll get shows as good as Shiki (summer 2010) or Bakemonogatari, Aoi Hana, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (summer 2009). But there are some good possibilities:● Blood-C -- A new entry in the Blood vampire series, written by Clamp, animated by Production IG, and starring Mizuki Nana and Fujiwara Keiji.● Dantalian no Shoka -- Bloody supernatural mysteries starring Sawashiro Miyuki as the super-tsun loli-goth key to the library of demonic wisdom. Her master/servant? Ono Daisuke.● Ikoku Meiro no Croisee -- Touyama Nao as a Japanese girl in 19th century Paris. Yuuki Aoi as her French friend. Directed by the director of Shugo Chara, written by the director of ARIA.● Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi -- A boy keeps dreaming of a mysterious girl, and finally remembers being bitten by a beautiful vampire whose poison binds him to her forever.● Kamisama no Memo-chou -- Another tsuntsun moe detective girl, this time one who stays in her room and solves mysteries using the Internet. The director of Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru, the writer of Railgun. ● Mawaru Penguin Drum -- The new mystery anime from the director of Revolutionary Girl Utena. The most anticipated show of the summer.● Mayo Chiki -- A new gender-bent comedy from Kawaguchi Keiichirou (Hayate), written by Yoshida Reiko (K-On, Marimite).● Natsume Yuujinchou 3 -- The third series of the popular show about a man freeing monsters from the bonds placed on them decades before by his grandmother.● No. 6 -- "Josei science-fiction" directed by the assistant director of Oh Edo Rocket and Gundam00, in his first independent directorial job. Adapted for anime by the writer of Railgun and Occult Academy. noitaminA.● Rou-kyuu-bu -- A high-school boy ends up as coach of an elementary school girls' basketball team made up of Hanazawa Kana, Iguchi Yuka, Hikasa Youko, Hidaka Rina and Ogura Yui. K-On is clearly in the producers' minds. The seiyuus have already put out a PV of their first single. ● Usagi Drop -- Warm family comedy/drama in which a thirty-year-old bachelor takes in the illegitimate six-year-old daughter of his deceased grandfather. From a well-known manga. noitaminA.● Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% -- Bishounen reverse harem set in a high-school for the performing arts. Directed by the director of Giant Killing and written by the writer of NANA and Nodame Cantabile. Sawashiro Miyuki stars.● Yuruyuri -- Slice-of-life comedy with a yuri tinge. From the team that made Minami-ke and Mitsudomoe.All this and a new series of Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, too. Click through from the following alphabetical list to full descriptions below, which are listed chronologically:● Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 2    ● Blade     ● Blood-C     ● Dantalian no Shoka     ● Detective Opera Milky Holmes - special edition     ● Ikoku Meiro no Croisee     ● Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi     ● Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel -- Kyunkyun Tokimeki Paradise     ● Kamisama Dolls     ● Kamisama no Memo-chou     ● Mawaru Penguin Drum     ● Mayo Chiki     ● Mayuu Himitsu Ken     ● MonHan Nikki Girigiri Airuu-mura G     ● Morita-san wa Muguchi     ● Natsume Yuujinchou 3     ● Nekogami Yaoyorozu     ● No. 6     ● Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou     ● Nyanpire     ● R-15     ● Rou-kyuu-bu ● Sacred Seven     ● The Idolm@ster     ● Usagi Drop     ● Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000%     ● YuruyuriNotes:-- info from official sites, Anime News Network, AnimeSuki forums, Anidb, 2channel, Japanese Wikipedia, MoonPhase, etc.-- I will post a weekly broadcast calendar when the season is about to start, including broadcast schedule changes that will probably occur between now and then.-- English titles link to the Anime News Network encyclopedia; Japanese titles link to official sites.-- click images to enlarge.Mawaru Penguin Drum   (jp: 輪るピングドラム)   jpWikibizarre mysteryThis may be the most anticipated show of the summer: a new offering from Ikuhara Kunihiko, the director of Revolutionary Girl Utena.Original character design by Hoshino Lily (Zakuro).We have little idea of the plot yet, but penguin plush toys and murder play roles.seiyuus: Kimura Subaru (Gian/Doraemon), Kimura Ryouhei (Akira/Eden of the East), Arakawa Miho, Miyake Marie. director: Ikuhara Kunihiko writer: Ikuhara Kunihiko. animation: Brains Base. chara-des: Nishii Terumi, Hoshino Lily (draft). music: Hashimoto Yukari. trailer. 24eps. forum. july. date and time not yet announced. Blade   (jp: BLADE)   jpWikivampire actionVampire-hunter "Blade" is the hero in this fourth series produced by Marvel Comics and Animax and animated by Madhouse. Follows Iron Man, Wolverine, and X-men. Fans of both Marvel and anime think this could be the best of the four.The director did Chi's Sweet Home and Kobato, strangely enough. The presence of Sakamoto Maaya and Ohtsuka Akio in the cast is a plus.seiyuus: Ohtsuka Akio, Sakamoto Maaya, Isobe Tsutomu, Saka Osamu. director: Masuhara Mitsuyuki (Kobato) writer: Fukusaku Kenta. Marv Wolfman (orig writer), Gene Colan (orig artist). animation: Madhouse/Marvel. trailer. 12eps. forum. fri 01 jul 22:00 MonHan Nikki Girigiri Airuu-mura G   (jp: モンハン日記 ぎりぎりアイルー村G)   jpWikigag animeA second series of mini-animes based on the wildly popular PSP game. Good cast. Unknown staff. The trailer is funny.seiyuus: Kobayashi Yuu, Seki Tomokazu, Takahashi Mikako, Miyake Kenta. director: Benpineko, Yamawaki Koutarou writer: Benpineko. animation: DLE. chara-des: Yamawaki Koutarou, Benpineko. animation supervisor: Yamawaki Koutarou. music: Noiz'n Girl, Sudou Yuuki. trailer. fri 01 jul 22:54 Rou-kyuu-bu   (jp: ロウきゅーぶ！)   jpWikimoe sports comedyA high-school boy ends up as coach of an elementary school girls' basketball team.Great cast includes Hanazawa Kana, Iguchi Yuka and Hikasa Youko. Plus young idols-turned-seiyuus Hidaka Rina and Ogura Yui. Plus Itou Shizuka and Kaji Yuuki.The staff is a bit more problematic, with the director of Sekirei and Dog Days and the writer of Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi. Character design based on original novel illustrations by moe illustrators Tinkle. You can see from the entertaining live-action trailer that the show is being sold partly on the good looks and stardom of its seiyuus. Basketball club? Light Music Club? The producers seem to have K-On in mind.seiyuus: Hanazawa Kana, Iguchi Yuka, Hikasa Youko, Hidaka Rina, Ogura Yui, Itou Shizuka, Kaji Yuuki. director: Kusakawa Keizou (Inukami, Sekirei, Dog Days) writer: Itou Michiko (Ookami-san to Shichinin; 5 eps of KimiKiss, 7 of Suzuka). Aoyama Sagu (novel). animation: project No.9×Studio Blanc. chara-des: Noguchi Takayuki; Tinkle (orig). trailer. forum. fri 01 jul 23:30 Kamisama no Memo-chou   (jp: 神様のメモ帳)   jpWikishounen detective moe romanceThe story centers on hikikomori detective Alice and her assistant, a high school boy called Narumi. Alice spends her days in pyjamas with her stuffed animals, solving cases online without ever leaving her apartment. A bit like a modern-day Victorica (Gosick), but with more fanservice.Famous teen idol Ogura Yui takes on her first starring role. With fast-rising Kayano Ai (Menma in AnoHana), and Matsuoka Yoshitsugu, who did an excellent job as the sister's boyfriend in Hourou Musuko.Strong supporting cast includes Sakurai Takahiro and Nabatame Hitomi, as well as Miyata Kouki, Matsukaze Masaya, and Ono Daisuke. Can't get much better than that.Director Sakurabi Katsuchi did the under-appreciated Asatte no Houkou and Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru. Writer Minakami Seishi did Asatte, Railgun, and Birdy the Mighty Decode 2.I have hopes for this show. The first episode will be a 60-minute special.seiyuus: Ogura Yui, Matsuoka Yoshitsugu, Kayano Ai, Sakurai Takahiro, Nabatame Hitomi, Miyata Kouki, Matsukaze Masaya, Ono Daisuke. director: Sakurabi Katsushi (UraBoku) writer: Minakami Seishi (Railgun). Sugii Hikaru (novel). animation: JC Staff. chara-des: Sano Keiichi; Kishida Mel (orig). music: Iwasaki Taku. trailer. manga. forum. sat 02 jul 23:00 Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000%   (jp: うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ マジLOVE1000%)   jpWikiromantic comedyHaruka succeeds in getting in to an elite high school for the performing arts. Her goal is to be a songwriter. But first she has to choose a male partner for the big audition at the end of the year. Which of the six "princes" will it be? From a game for girls.Solid staff headed by director Kou Yuu (Loveless, Giant Killing) and writer Konparu Tomoko (Nana, Nodame Cantabile). Solid cast headed by Sawashiro Miyuki, with Terashima Takuya, Suzumura Kenichi, Taniyama Kishou, Miyano Mamoru, et al. Sure this is "just" a bishounen reverse harem, but the cast and staff make me think something could be going on here.The trailer is for an upcoming version of the game.seiyuus: Sawashiro Miyuki, Terashima Takuya, Suzumura Kenichi, Taniyama Kishou, Miyano Mamoru, Yusa Kouji, Suwabe Junichi, Toriumi Kousuke, Shimono Hiro, Wakamoto Norio. director: Kou Yuu (Loveless, Giant Killing) writer: Konparu Tomoko (NANA, Les Miz, Nodame). Broccoli PSP otome game. animation: A-1 Pictures. chara-des: Mori Mitsui, Kurahana Chinatsu (orig.). animator: Mori Mitsui. OP Miyano Mamoru, ED seiyuus. trailer. forum. sat 02 jul 24:00 Sacred Seven   (jp: セイクリッドセブン)   jpWikischool battle actionA new school fighting anime, with protagonists who have the ability to transform matter and living things, and who fight against monsters.The director of Witchblade, who was also heavily involved in Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto. The writer of some Yu-Gi-Oh series. I believe the fanservice will be at a comparative minimum here.Interesting cast features two excellent male seiyuus: Irino Miyu and Okamoto Nobuhiko. Also featuring Nomizu Iori (Nymph in Sora no Otoshimono) and Nakajima Megumi (Ranka in Macross Frontier).seiyuus: Nomizu Iori, Irino Miyu, Okamoto Nobuhiko, Nakajima Megumi, Terashima Takuma, Nanase Ami, Konishi Katsuyuki, Ookawa Tooru, Tozuka Rie. director: Oohashi Yoshimitsu (Witchblade, BakuKikanIro chief dir) writer: Yoshida Shin (Yu-Gi-Oh series), Yatate Hajime (pseudonym for Sunrise staff). animation: Sunrise. chara-des: Chiba Yuriko, Nakata Eiji; Inomata Mutsumi (orig). OP Fiction Junction, ED Nanri Yuuka. trailer. forum. sat 02 jul 26:28 Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou   (jp: ぬらりひょんの孫 千年魔京)   jpWikishounen supernatural action adventure comedyA new director and writer take over for this sequel to the supernatural shounen comedy featuring a young demon lord who wants to be an ordinary human. I lost interest very quickly in the first series, which had far bigger names heading the staff, so we shall see how this starts. This series will apparently follow the Kyoto arc in the novels, which fans say is the best part of the story. Great names such as Fujiwara Keiji, Noto Mamiko, and Kusahima Houko have joined the cast.Includes one of Hirano Aya's few remaining anime roles.seiyuus: Fukuyama Jun, Hirano Aya, Horie Yui, Maeda Ai, Fujiwara Keiji, Noto Mamiko, Kitamura Eri, Kuwashima Houko, Konishi Katsuyuki, Nojima Kenji, Neya Michiko. director: Fukuda Michio writer: Koyasu Hideaki. Shibashi Hiroshi (manga). animation: Studio Deen. chara-des: Oka Mariko; Tagashira Shinobu (monsters). music: Tanaka Kouhei. OP LMC, ED Hirano Aya/Horie Yui/Maeda Ai. trailer. manga. forum. sun 03 jul 17:30 Ikoku Meiro no Croisee   (jp: 異国迷路のクロワーゼ The Animation)   jpWikimoe comedy dramaIn the late 19th century, Japanese culture is gaining popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French merchant, Oscar, back to France to gain experience working at his family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew, the current shopowner, Claude, reluctantly accepts her.Stars young seiyuu Touyama Nao (19), with Yuuki Aoi (also 19) as her French friend Alice. Also starring Kondou Takashi and Yahagi Sayuri.Directed for Satelight by Yasuda Kenji (Shugo Chara), and written by Satou Junichi (Aria) and Ikeda Mamiko (Emma, Hanasakeru Seishounen). The story and Yuuki Aoi made me interested in this show, but the staff-list makes me eager for episode one.seiyuus: Kondou Takashi, Tanaka Hideyuki, Touyama Nao, Yuuki Aoi, Yahagi Sayuri. director: Yasuda Kenji (Shugo Chara) writer: Satou Junichi (Aria, Tamayura); Ikeda Mamiko (scripts; Emma, Hanasakeru Seishounen). Takeda Hinata (manga). animation: Satelight. chara-des: Inoue Hideki. music: ko-ko-ya (Ristorante Paradiso). trailer. manga. forum. sun 03 jul 24:30 Natsume Yuujinchou 3   (jp: 夏目友人帳 参)   jpWikiintelligent shoujo fantasy with monstersThe third series of this successful episodic fantasy. Natsume can see spirits, as his grandmother could, and with her "book of friends" (yuujinchou) he goes around releasing spirits from the spells she bound them with.Kamiya Hiroshi, in one of his signature roles.The trailer link below connects to streamed versions of season one.seiyuus: Kamiya Hiroshi, Inoue Kazuhiko, Suganuma Hisayoshi, Suwabe Junichi, Ishida Akira, Kobayashi Sanae, Kimura Ryouhei, Horie Kazuma. director: Oomori Takahiro writer: Murai Sadayuki. Midorikawa Yuki (manga). animation: Brains Base. chara-des: Takada Akira. trailer. manga. forum. mon 04 jul 25:30 Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel -- Kyunkyun Tokimeki Paradise   (jp: 快盗天使ツインエンジェル ～キュンキュン☆ときめきパラダイス！！～)   jpWikimagical girl actionOriginated as a pachinko slot machine game. Stars Noto Mamiko and Tamura Yukari as high school friends by day and villain-fighters by night. Kugimiya Rie, Horie Yui, Yuzuki Ryouka, Asano Masumi -- lots of big names.Different staff from the 2008 OVA series. Directed by the director of Zero no Tsukaima and Hayate 2. Written by the writer of Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi.Excellent cast, questionable staff -- but JC Staff, so it will likely maintain a bit of quality.seiyuus: Onosaka Masaya, Noto Mamiko, Tamura Yukari, Shintani Ryouko, Yuzuki Ryouka, Horie Yui, Kugimiya Rie, Asano Masumi, Koyama Rikiya, Asakawa Yuu. director: Iwasaki Yoshiaki (Zero no Tsukaima, Hayate 2) writer: Itou Michiko (Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi). animation: JC Staff. chara-des: Ooki Ryouichi. animation supervisor: Ooki Ryouichi. trailer. mon 04 jul 25:45 Yuruyuri   (jp: ゆるゆり)   jpWikiyuri slice of life comedyFour middle-school girls, their daily lives and yuri romances.The director and writer did Mitsudomoe and Minami-ke. Neither of those found my funny bone, but a lot of people loved them.The four stars are relative unknowns, but Tsuda Minami was Phryne in Fractale.I have no idea how this will work out, but anything purporting to be yuri gets my attention.seiyuus: Mikami Shiori, Ootsubo Yuka, Tsuda Minami, Ookubo Rumi, Fujita Saki, Toyosaki Aki, Katou Emiri, Mimori Suzuko, Taketatsu Ayana. director: Oota Masahiko (Minami-ke, Mitsudomoe) writer: Aoshima Takashi (Minami-ke, Mitsudomoe). Namori (manga). animation: Douga Koubou. OPED seiyuus. trailer. manga. forum. mon 04 jul 26:00 Kamisama Dolls   (jp: 神様ドォルズ)   jpWikisupernatural action mystery with violenceSome people have superhuman "God Dolls" they can summon and control. The story involves an ex-summoner and a woman who is an old neighbour and with whom he would like to get closer; his little step-sister and her Doll; and his twisted big brother, who is going around randomly butchering people with his Doll.Popular manga and some good cast-members, including Okamoto Nobuhiko and Sawashiro Miyuki. Young Kayano Ai (Menma in AnoHana) is also here, but she is not one of my favorites. Kobayashi Yumiko (PuniPuni Poemi) however, is.seiyuus: Okamoto Nobuhiko, Fukuen Misato, Kayano Ai, Murase Katsuki, Sawashiro Miyuki, Kobayashi Yumiko, Kimura Ryouhei. director: Kishi Seiji (Seto no Hanayome, Angel Beats) writer: Uezu Makoto (School Days, Seto no Hanayome, Katanagatari, Qwaser, Zombie). Yamamura Hajime (manga). animation: Brains Base. chara-des: Morita Kazuaki. animation supervisor: Motohashi Hideyuki. music: Ishikawa Chiaki, Nishida Masara. OPED Ishikawa Chiaki. trailer. manga. 13eps. forum. tue 05 jul 25:30 Morita-san wa Muguchi   (jp: 森田さんは無口)   jpWikimoe comic-strip comedyFebruary's OVA spawns a series. Morita-san is a high school girl who considers everything she is about to say so thoroughly that she never ends up saying anything.The animation of the OVA was very simple, and the humor hit or miss, for me. But there were some good moments from voices like Hanazawa Kana, Hayami Saori, Tomatsu Haruka, and Nanjou Yoshino.The trailer is for the OVA.seiyuus: Hanazawa Kana, Nanjou Yoshino, Hayami Saori, Tomatsu Haruka. director: Hayashi Naotaka writer: Karasuma Ryou. Sano Tae (manga). animation: Seven. chara-des: Yamashita Toshinari. trailer. manga. forum. tue 05 jul 25:30 Nyanpire   (jp: にゃんぱいあ The Animation)   jpWikiA stray kitten on the brink of death is rescued by baptism with a vampire's blood, and revives to live forever, enjoying heartful days among the vampire cats.Director Yoshimatsu Takahiro is doing only his second show, following Kaitou Reinya. Writer Takahashi Natsuko, however, has done Blue Drop, Tales of Agriculture, UraBoku, Nurarihyon, etc.Koshimizu Ami stars, with Fukuyama Jun, Gotou Yuuko, Hirota Shion and others.Who knows? At least we know Amisuke and Jun-chan will be good.seiyuus: Koshimizu Ami, Sugiyama Noriaki, Fukuyama Jun, Gotou Yuuko, Maeda Nozomi, Hirota Shion, Tachibana Shinnosuke. director: Yoshimatsu Takahiro writer: Takahashi Natsuko (Blue Drop, Moyashimon, UraBoku); yukiusa (doujin). animation: Gonzo. chara-des: Yoshimatsu Takahiro. OP Asou Nyatsuko and Nyandine. trailer. wed 06 jul 22:54 Usagi Drop   (jp: うさぎドロップ)   jpWikicomedy drama w/family moeNoitamina. Daikichi is an awkward bachelor of thirty. His grandfather dies, leaving behind an young illegitimate daughter whom no relative knew of or wants to take in. Upset with them, Daikichi decides to take her himself, despite the fact he is single. Little Rin already seems to feel comfortable with him, because he looks like his grandfather. Rin moves in with Daikichi and they begin to learn to live with each other.A live-action movie is also coming out this summer.This is not lolicon so much a heartwarming story of family love and the troubles of being a single parent. But the little girl is definitely cute. Good supporting cast includes Ueda Kana, Sakamoto Maaya, and Ohara Sayaka. Director and writer are unknowns. Production IG.seiyuus: Tsuchida Hiroshi (Skull Man), Matsuura Ayu (The Bears' School movie), Ueda Kana, Sakamoto Maaya, Ohara Sayaka, Sudou Nanako, Sakai Noa. director: Kamei Kanta writer: Kishimoto Suguru. Unita Yumi (manga). animation: Production IG. chara-des: Yamashita Yuu. OP Puffy, ED kasarinchu. trailer. manga. forum. thu 07 jul 24:45 No. 6   (jp: NO.6)   jpWikijosei science fictionSet in 2013 in a future model city called "No.6." A boy named Shion has been raised as a top-ranking elite since the age of 2,  and lives in an exclusive area of the city. On the night of his 12th birthday, he rescues a boy who calls himself Nezumi (Rat). Nezumi has run away from the city's Special Security Area. From that moment on, Shion's life changes dramatically….Directed by the assistant director of Oh Edo Rocket and Gundam00, in his first independent directoral job. Adapted for anime by the writer of Railgun and Occult Academy, from a novel by the author of Telepathy Girl Ran (a show I lost interest in about halfway through the first episode). The backstory sounds great. The staff seems questionable. But anything Noitamina is interesting. And anything anidb is calling "josei science fiction" is pretty intriguing, too.seiyuus: Hosoya Yoshimasa, Kaji Yuuki, Shindou Kei, Terasoma Masaki, Yasuno Kiyono. director: Nagasaki Kenji (asst dir Gundam00, work on Oh Edo Rocket, etc.) writer: Minakami Seishi (Railgun, Occult Academy, Shigurui). Asano Atsuko (novel; Telepathy Girl Ran). animation: Bones. chara-des: Ishino Satoshi (Nogizaka Haruka); toi8 (orig). conceptual design: toi8. trailer. manga. forum. thu 07 jul 25:15 The Idolm@ster   (jp: THE IDOLM@STER)   jpWikiidol entertainment competitionPopular arcade and console game gets a full anime series. Idolm@ster Xenoglossia was a mecha show based on the original. This is the original brought directly to anime.Personally, I'm looking forward to hearing seiyuu Nakamura Eriko, who has become very popular as a seiyuu personality in Japan.I don't have a lot of hope for the show itself. This is the director's first directorial job. We shall see.seiyuus: Wakabayashi Naomi, Nakamura Eriko, Shimoda Asami, Numakura Manami, Hasegawa Akiko, Hirata Hiromi, Imai Asami, Kugimiya Rie, Takahashi Chiaki. director: Nishigori Atsushi (eps and boards) writer: Machida Toukou, Nishigori Atsushi. Bandai Namco Games (orig). animation: A-1 Pictures. chara-des: Nishigori Atsushi (Gurren-Lagann, Panty-Stocking); Kubooka Toshiyuki (orig. game). animation supervisor: Iizuka Haruko, Takata Akira. OP 765Pro Allstars. trailer. forum. thu 07 jul 25:25 Blood-C   (jp: BLOOD-C)   jpWikivampires actionAn anime original vampire tale from Production IG (Blood+) and Clamp (xxxHolic). Stars Mizuki Nana (who also does the ED) and Fujiwara Keiji. Directed by Mizushima Tsutomu (xxxHolic, Ookiku Furikabutte, Ika Musume). Written by Ohkawa Nanase of Clamp (Kobato, Cardcaptor Sakura).This could be good.A manga version will begin in the July edition of Monthly Shonen Ace.seiyuus: Mizuki Nana, Asano Masumi, Fujiwara Keiji, Fukuen Misato, Nojima Kenji, Suzuki Tatsuhisa, Abe Atsushi, Miyagawa Miho. director: Mizushima Tsutomu (xxxHolic, Big Windup, Ika Musume) writer: Ohkawa Nanase (Clamp; Kobato, CCS, etc.). Clamp (orig). animation: Production IG. chara-des: Kise Kazuchika. animation supervisor: Gotou Takayuki. music: Satou Naoki. OP Dustz, ED Mizuki Nana. trailer. forum. thu 07 jul 25:40 Mayo Chiki   (jp: まよチキ！)   jpWikigender-bender moe school romantic comedyKinjirou accidentally discovers that the cold but beautiful boy who is butler to his wealthy classmate is actually a girl. The butler and her mistress enforce silence with physical threats. This is nothing new to Kinjirou, since his mother and sister are martial arts practitioners who already use him as their punching bag.The director of Hayate and the writer of K-On give us this gender-bender-with-violence romantic comedy. Stars Hino Satoshi (Yuuji in Shana) with Kitamura Eri as the wealthy but sadistic classmate, and Iguchi Yuka as the butler. The manga is a fairly witty mish-mash of memes. This has a chance to be a good show of its kind.seiyuus: Hino Satoshi, Kitamura Eri, Iguchi Yuka, Asumi Kana, Hanazawa Kana, Ise Mariya. director: Kawaguchi Keiichirou (Hayate, Nyan Koi, Yutori-chan) writer: Yoshida Reiko (Marimite, Saiunkoku, K-On). Asano Hajime (novel). animation: feel. chara-des: Kawamura Kousuke. animation supervisor: Kawamura Kousuke. music: Hashimoto Yukari. OP Kitamura Eri, ED KitaEri, Iguchi Yuka, Ise Mariya. trailer. manga. forum. thu 07 jul 25:55 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 2   (jp: バカとテストと召喚獣にっ！)   jpWikicomedySeason two of the successful comedy from Oonuma Shin (ef memories, melodies). We follow the fortunes of the stupidest class in a high school where classes conduct strange, almost magical battles against each other for honor and the most comfortable classrooms.Excellent voice acting, characters, and imagery, but I lost interest in the first season about halfway through.The trailer link is to part of episode 2 of the first season.seiyuus: Harada Hitomi, Isomura Tomomi, Suzuki Tatsuhisa, Mizuhashi Kaori, Miyata Kouki, Shimono Hiro, Katou Emiri. director: Oonuma Shin writer: Takayama Katsuhiko. Inoue Kenji (orig). animation: Silver Link. chara-des: Ooshima Miwa. animation supervisor: Ooshima Miwa. trailer. manga. forum. thu 07 jul 26:15 Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi   (jp: いつか天魔の黒ウサギ)   jpWikivampire action mystery w/moeAn ordinary high school boy named Taito keeps seeing a girl in his dreams. In a crisis, he finally remembers having been bitten with a magic poison by the female vampire Saitohimea, binding him to her forever.Stars Tachibana Shinnosuke (Minato in Sekirei) and Takamoto Megumi (Ushio in Sasameki Koto, Winry Rockbell in the new FMA). With Fukuyama Jun, Nakamura Yuuichi, Nomizu Iori and Mina.Directed by Yamamoto Takashi (Nanatsuiro Drops, Jewelpet Tinkle). Adapted for anime by Morita Shigeru (scripts for Qwaser, Zombie, Blood+). If the trailer is any indication, this may be a cross between Nanatsuiro Drops and Blood+, with more fanservice.seiyuus: Tachibana Shinnosuke (Minato/Sekirei), Takamoto Megumi (Ushio/Sasameki Koto), Nomizu Iori, Horikawa Chika, Nakamura Yuuichi, Fukuyama Jun, Mina. director: Yamamoto Takashi writer: Morita Shigeru (scripts for Qwaser, Zombie, Blood+). Kagami Takaya (novel). animation: Zexcs. chara-des: Isono Satoshi. animation supervisor: Sakura Masaaki, Isono Satoshi. OP Harada Hitomi, ED Shikata Akiko. trailer. manga. forum. fri 08 jul 25:05 R-15   (jp: R-15)   jpWikiecchi comedyBrilliant teen Takuto has been a porn novelist since middle school. He rises to be a leader in his class in an elite high school full of elite students.Directed by Nawa Munenori, director of Nogizaka Haruka and of Otome wa Boku ni Koi wo Shiteru. That doesn’t turn me on as much as the writer does: Uetake Sumio did Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora and Kannazuki no Miko. Character designer Fujita Mariko did all the Galaxy Angel shows, as well as the visually lovely Shukufuku no Campanella.Whatever else it is, this is a vehicle for new seiyuus from the Production Ace agency, which contributes the entire named cast. Production Ace is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten, publishers of the novels. The two stars are the only names with prior roles: Gouda Aya (Qfeuille in Kiddy Girl and…) and Tsukimiya Midori (Eucliwood Hellscythe in Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?).I have a feeling this may be more entertaining than it seems at first glance. I hope so.Video of Tsukimiya Midori. Video showing main seiyuus.seiyuus: Gouda Aya (Qfeuille/Kiddy Girl and), Tsukimiya Midori (Eucliwood/Zombie), Kashiyama Nanami, Komatsu Mana, Tsumita Kayoko, Murakami Madoka, Murai Risako, Tsukimiya Midori. director: Nawa Munenori (Otoboku, Nogizaka Haruka, KissxSis) writer: Uetake Sumio (Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora, Kannazuki no Miko). Fushimi Hiroyuki (novel). animation: AIC. chara-des: Fujita Mariko (Galaxy Angel, Campanella), Fujimi Takuya (orig). OPED seiyuus. forum. sat 09 jul Nekogami Yaoyorozu   (jp: 猫神やおよろず)   jpWikimoe supernatural comedyHorie Yui runs an antique shop. Tomatsu Haruka is a cat-goddess who looks like a moe young girl. She lives with Hocchan's character and invites other gods over to have fun. Unsurprisingly, the other gods also look like moe young girls. Sanpei Yuuko, Taketatsu Ayana, Kayano Ai, Toyosaki Aki, MAKO…. Director Sakurai Hiroaki did Di Gi Charat, Les Miserables Shoujo Cossette, and Kaichou wa Maid-sama. Lead writer Machida Touko and scriptwriter Kaneda Tomoko are both well-known anime writers. Good cast. Good staff. Not so sure about the story.The manga link is to raws. The manga is marginally amusing.seiyuus: Tomatsu Haruka, Horie Yui, Sanpei Yuuko, Taketatsu Ayana, Kayano Ai, Toyosaki Aki, Mako. director: Sakurai Hiroaki (DG Charat, Les Miz) writer: Machida Touko, Kaneda Tomoko (scripts). FlipFlops (manga). animation: AIC Plus+. chara-des: Watanabe Atsuko. animation supervisor: Watanabe Atsuko. OP Horie Yui and Tomatsu Haruka, ED Tomatsu Haruka. trailer. manga. forum. sat 09 jul 08:30 Mayuu Himitsu Ken   (jp: 魔乳秘剣帖)   jpWikimammary fighting comedyFrom the director of Seikon no Qwaser comes another fighting comedy fixated on breasts. In this fantasy samurai world, the bigger the breasts, the more prestige you have.Expect this to be a competent anime of its kind, with a director who understands the genre and a writer who has some skill, having done Railgun and Occult Academy.The seiyuus, too, are experienced in the genre: Kotobuki Minako and Mizuhara Kaoru in Hyakka Ryouran, Toyosaki Aki in both that and Qwaser, and Noto Mamiko in Queen's Blade.seiyuus: Kotobuki Minako, Mizuhara Kaoru, Noto Mamiko, Toyosaki Aki. director: Kaneko Hiraku (Seikon no Qwaser) writer: Minakami Seishi (Asatte no Houkou, Railgun, Occult Academy). Yamada Hideki (manga). animation: Hoods Entertainment. chara-des: Takagi Jun. animation supervisor: Takagi Jun. trailer. manga. sun 10 jul 25:00 Dantalian no Shoka   (jp: ダンタリアンの書架)   jpWikimystery horror supernatural tsundereA young man named Huey inherits his grandfather's old estate. In the basement, among stacks and stacks of books, sits a girl dressed in black, with a large lock around her neck, quietly reading. She is Dariane, the gateway to the Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian, the library of forbidden books of demonic wisdom.Sawashiro Miyuki plays Dariane, the super-tsuntsun heroine. Her master/tool Huey is played by Ono Daisuke. I'm hoping the bloody supernatural mysteries are as good as the seiyuus perfroming them.Clothing design by gothic lolita designers Baby the Stars Shine Bright.seiyuus: Sawashiro Miyuki, Ono Daisuke. director: Uemura Yutaka (new) writer: Mikumo Gakuto (novel). animation: Gainax. chara-des: Kinoshita Sumie; Yusuke G- (orig). music: Tsuji You. trailer. manga. 13eps. forum. fri 15 jul 25:23 Detective Opera Milky Holmes - special edition   (jp: 探偵オペラ ミルキィホームズ 特別編)   jpWikimoe detective adventureA special episode of the surprisingly successful moe mystery franchise, which spans games and anime. Directed by the director of Onegai My Melody and Lilpri. Written by the writer of Kamen no Maid Guy and Kaempfer.The couple of episodes I watched of season one bored me, but the show is popular enough that there have been various well-attended live events featuring the four seiyuu stars singing and dancing.Trailer link is for season one.seiyuus: Mimori Suzuko, Kitta Izumi, Sasaki Mikoi, Tokui Sora, Morishima Shuuta, Akesaka Satomi, Kishio Daisuke, Shimono Hiro, Terashima Takuma, Sawashiro Miyuki, Nanjou Yoshino, Shintani Ryouko, Tamura Yukari. director: Moriwaki Makoto (Onegai My Melody, Lilpri) writer: Fudeyasu Kazuyuki (Kamen no Maid Guy, Kaempfer). animation: JC Staff. trailer. forum. 25 AugustThe new Last Exile anime, which will premiere at Anime Expo in Los Angeles next month, could still slide in to the summer season, but is more likely to begin in October.
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So Summer is finally drawing close! Beach, swimsuits, ice creams.... NO.. Not for me. I've finished all my papers and am going to a deserted island for my Combat Evaluation Examinations. Same goes for you people... Instead of planning on your holiday trip to a summer resort and having fun at the beach, you people are looking at the anime line-up for summer, planning to spend summer tucked in your cozy pajamas with your hot cocoa and watch some animes. And there's where I come in, to help you people sort out the trash Why waste your time watching mediocre titles when you could just waste your time reading my opinion about how I wrote something which looks long winded just to waste your time. But if you have better things to do (I doubt so, since you're on the internet) then I guess you can just skip ahead and read the EXPECTATION INDEX METER, those are the words with all CAPS on. (I'm purposely doing that, I'm not raging or anything) As always, I try not to write too seriously in any of my reviews because I know how easily some words and opinions can manipulate a person's perception especially for those with a weak will or stance. It is your call and your take on animes that matters. If you're a lolicon and love loli animes, the bygone stand proud by it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. APPLESEED XIII Third time's the charm! Masamune Shirow's manga is getting animated again for the third time. Will it fail? Will it succeed? Heck you tell me after you're done watching it cause I never did pickup the whole APPLESEED series and I don't think I would anytime soon. Why? A love story between a female soldier and a cyborg in a post-war torn land. Not my cup of tea. Now if you tell me the cyborg dude gets a harem throught the series, then I might reconsider. No? Damn.. But all hope is not lost for those of you who loves a good CGI (though the series cost the producer company to go bankrupt) Directed by Hamana Takayuki, the same guy who directed Idaten Jump, Prince of Tennis and Moshidora.... Wait a minute, aren't those all sports themed? What the heck is he doing directing a romance sci-fi series?? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: ROMANCE BETWEEN A GIRL AND HER GIANT WALKING VIBRATOR! Natsume Yuujin­chou San Or it's english title Natsume's Book of Friends (Three). I know what you're thinking. "Aww this anime is for little kiddies since it has the word 'Friends' in the title..." WRONG! Apparently you did not watch the first two seasons for this anime. And since I'm a kind hearted soul who wishes not for you to Google up the summary of the series as I did, I shall summarize it myself for you. Guy's name is Natsume. He can see spirits. He inherited a book from his grandma. (Way to go granny, giving a book to your grandson in your will). This book enables Natsume to be friends with all the spirits and they live happily ever after. That is until a spirit cat appears and wants to kill him. So main plot of the story, Natsume dissolves contracts that spirits had with his granny with the help of the spirit cat. The series had a huge fanbase especially with girls (they're probably suckers for the cool guy look) and TRazor (not implying his sexual preference here) Characters are exceptionally lovable. So I don't see why anyone who had been following the manga or series would not want to continue. As for me, spirit cats scares the shit out of me (childhood trauma) so yeah, I won't be watching but everyone have quite high hopes on this. Probably including TRazor since he has this anime as his background layout on his formspring. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: CAT GHOSTS JUST WANT TO USE YOU FOR YOUR BODY! Mayo Chiki Based on a light novel about a guy who is actually a girl working as a butler. Ahh, why do girls wanna pretend they're guys. Because we're awesome that's why. Although in reality, being a girl would have it's perks. I mean, why do you think thousand of guys fly all the way to Thailand and pay lots of money to sex change into a girl? Not to fondle their own breast that's what I know! Anyways, expect fanservice as always when it's a story about cross dressers. Not to mention re-used flat chested jokes (because only flat chested girls could pull of looking like a guy without chest binders) Oh, and the director is the same guy who did Moetan, so don't be surprised if yousee any magical ducks. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS ANIME MAKES YOU CONFUSED, IN A SEXUAL WAY! THE IDOLM@ASTER Get this straight. The anime is "THE IDOLM@STER". You, the watcher will be "THE IDOLM@STURBATOR" Capiche? Namco Bandai's hit game series, The IDOLM@STER is finally getting an anime. Girls aiming high to be idols. While the game revolves around you as the manager, managing these girls to their stardom, the anime is probably going to focus on the individual routes of the girls as they venture into Idolism, a popular religion now worshipped by otakus everywhere. Now this isn't a new religion, Idol worship have been around for ages though modern Idols probably took it to a whole new level. I'm probably going to watch this series just to kill time, not for the scripts or plots because I doubt they would have one but of course for the bonerification. I doubt there would be any significant male character as well so yeah, sorry to you female audiences but don't worry there is something else in store this season. And yes it has something to do with idols as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDOLM@STER GAME, Y U NO LET ME CAST GIRLS AS AV IDOLS?! Blood-C A new original Blood anime project and original character design by CLAMP and animation by Production I.G. Directed by Mizushima Tsutomu the same guy who directed Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan and the other blood series which means lots of gore and blood! Somehow watching the Blood series reminds me a lot about Twilight. (Not that I watch Twilight, mind you) Emo girl surrounded by hunky, sparkly guys. Gasp! Do I smell a reverse harem? As the series is a whole different story from the original Blood franchise, one need not have watch all the previous version to get a good feel about this one. Same story, girl named Saya (again?!) fighting Chiropteran, that's the fancy name for bat like species, like vampires. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I WONT BE SURPRISED IF THERE'S A CHIROPTERAN NAMED EDOWADO KAREN (Edward Cullen) Baka to Test to Shoukan­juu Ni! Second season of Baka To Test to Shoukanjuu which features idiots and perverts doing the best they can to cope with their cruel fate in the worst of the worst class, only to have their mishaps sink them way past rock bottom. To be honest, I loved this series. It takes the "School life" genre to a whole new level for me. Though, I wasn't amused with both the OVAs as they tend to just recycle old jokes from the first season. Hopefully they won't repeat them for the second season as I grew tired of the whole trap, forced marriage and gay jokes.  Expect the same animation team and director so nothing would deviate far from the first season. Nevertheless, I was a fan of the first season so I guess I would be having high expectation for this season as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDIOTS ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE WHO ONLY DECIDE TO READ SENTENCES THAT ARE BOLD AND/OR CAPS-LOCKED. THIS MEANS YOU. Usagi Drop Based on a manga by Unita Yumi. A story about a guy named Daikichi whose grandfather recently passed away, who is a dirty old bastard and had an illegitimate daughter named Rin (which would mean the little girl is Daikichi's aunt) and none of his relatives are willing to look after her because they're ashamed of the scandal. Daikichi decides to take good care of the little girl because he's a lolicon and he loves incest. Ok I'm kidding about that last sentance. The guy has a good heart. No one should have negative thoughts about him. Did I mention he is single? Yes! And everyone knows having a kid when you're single is a chick magnet, am I right? No? Did I mention this is based on a Josei manga which means it's targeted mainly towards female audiences. So if you're a guy and you're watching this series and you think, "So when is the dude going to bang his aunt?" it will never happen okay? So get your incest guilty pleasure somewhere else. This is a slice of life anime which deals with conflict and family relationships so get your fapping sources somewhere else. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I'M EXPECTING MY GIRLFRIEND TO FORCE ME TO WATCH THIS WITH HER! NO.6 That's refreshing. An anime title that actually really short compared to what we've been getting this past couple of months. A sci-fi anime about a boy named Shion who was trained to be an elite since the age of 2, living in a future model city "No.6" in the year 2013. Shion was judged as having "highest-ranked intelligence" when he was two years old and was allowed to live in the luxurious area "Cronos". On his twelfth birthday, he met a beautiful boy called "Nezumi," who had escaped from a reformatory. Shion protected him, but the Public Security Bureau deprived Shion of all his privileges and expelled him from Cronos to "Lost Town". Oh uh. I hope this is not going to where I think it is - BOYS LOVE! Please tell me it isn't so! Oh great another Naruto-Sasuke bromance. So yeah, um, I'm not risking myself crossing to the 'other' side so I'm skipping on this one. But it doesn't mean you should if you're a fan of the sci-fi genre and love, um, boys love.. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL IN THE YEAR 2013 Ikoku Meiro no Croisee Same guys who made Gosick which means stuff a little girl in frilly clothes, take her out from her original habitat, and put her somewhere in the 19th century along with a foreigner (I hope he has a cool moustache since he's French!). The perfect recipe for inter-racial relationships. As much as I find the main female lead, Yune, adorable, that would not be a valid reason for me to watch the series. I am watching it for it's beautifully designed backgrounds, pleasant nostalgic music, observing the relationship between little princess here and Mr. Frenchy (that's not his real name) bloom as they transcend from the racial barrier.... Ahh.. Who am I kidding... I'm watching it for the little girl. There, happy I said it? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I EXPECT EUROPEANS TO SPEAK JAPANESE FOR NO APPARENT REASON Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi Based on the light novel by Kagami Takaya, same person who did Legend of Legendary Legend of Legendary Heroes of Legend (Until today I still have not got the title right). Anyways, produced by ZEXCS (I know it sounds like when an Italian guy says sex) thus I have low expectations of this series even though they have a solid and interesting plot. A story about a guy and a vampire girl. Need I continue? Can we ever have enough vampires as plot devices in an anime? No. Sigh. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: AFTER THE TWILIGHT FIASCO, IT WOULD TAKE YEARS OF VAMPIRE ANIME TO RECORRECT THE DISEQUILIBRIUM TWILIGHT BROUGHT Nekogami Yaoyorozu Cat gods and booze. Yep. Supposedly based on a comedy manga FLIPFLOPs (yes, flipflops...) produced by Studio AIC+. I know every season we must have an anime about the product of some interspecies orgy. I don't think there is a plot nor any sort of conflicts in this anime. It's just about a bunch of cat gods drinking, merrymaking and having fun. 'Nuff said. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: PART TART, PART CAT, SHITTING RAINBOWS AND FLYING OFF TO SAVE THE GALAXY (NC much?) R-15 Akutagawa Takuto is a teenage porn novel writer (amazing..). He enters Hirameki Gakuen, which accepts only geniuses with outstanding talent. He leads his classmates with his porn skills to win the interclass competition (outstanding..). Directed by Nawa Munenori. HIM! IT'S HIM - The director of Kiss X Sis, Da Capo S2, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Rental Magica. Which means only one thing.... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: LOTS OF FAN SERVICE!!! (oh and I'm expecting this to be a harem as well, SCORE!) Dantalian’s Library The story is about who inherited a which is a mansion and given the responsibility to look after Sounds interesting? What if I tell you the producers are GAINAX and the story is based on the light novel by the same guy who wrote Asura Cryin? Still not interesting enough for you? How about if I tell you this is about demons? Still not good enough for you? Yeah, me neither. My intuition is telling me that this anime would provide lots of plot that makes you go, "What is this... I don't even..." so if you're a mental masochist, then go ahead and your senses numb by this. Nevertheless, I would like to give anime the benefit of doubt and watch at least 3 episodes before making any judgement. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOW COME I'VE NEVER INHERITED A MANSION AND A CREEPY GIRL BEFORE? LIFE IS SO UNFAIR! Nurarihyon no Mago 2 Yeah I know the picture above shows "1" Screw it, you expect his hairstyle to change in the second season? Not likely. I've watch only 2 episodes of the first season before I dropped it because:  It is a shounen  The glassess dude didn't get a harem  I'm not a fan of multiple personalities male leads. Reminds me Yu-Gi-Oh and Hidan No Aria So yeah, I didn't have a problem with the anime on whole since it wasn't really targeted towards me. But the negative externalities was still conferred upon me. (Having to witness people cosplay as the main character. How do you get your hair to ridiculous proportion like that?!) If you enjoyed the first season, then I see why not you would avoid the second season since it's shounen and it's all about the number of episodes... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THE POLLS ARE IN; Rikuo's other personality's haircut [/] Justin Bieber's new haircut. [X] Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel A kid friendlier version of Panty and Stockings? Two best friend who looks like normal schoolgirls in the morning but at night fight villains as the blue and red angel. Two girls with different personalities but are best of friends. Isn't that sweet. I felt like hundreds of blades stabbed my cold, heartless soul. Ok, I admit it the song is catchy and upbeat. It reminds me of eroges' opening songs. Even though I said this was a kid friendly version, I doubt the show main targeted audience are little girls. But more of middle aged man who are lolicons. Sigh. EXPECTATON INDEX METER: UNDER-AGE PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ILLEGAL IN MOST PART OF THE WORLD. BLADE Another Madhouse and Marvel collaboration. If I didn't bother to watch Ironman, X-Men and Wolverine, I wouldn't bother about this one as well. Some things are best left not animefied. Moving along... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: WE NEED MORE 'DARK SKINNED GENTLEMEN' IN ANIMES! Kamisama Dolls I was expecting a comedy anime, but knowing Japan, anything to do with dolls are most probably twisted and horrifying. This anime is totally the unexpected for me. When I think of dolls, I thought about those long haired girl dolls with the scary blank stares. (You may think of barbie dolls because you're not a REAL man) But when I watched the preview, the dolls are actually huge freakin balls of metal! (Literally ball shaped, not testicles) So the story is about a bunch of grown men playing with their balls which coincidently are dolls. I'm just kidding of course. Animation and art wise is superb and characters are in their maturity stage. Produced by Brain's Base, you would think that this is going to be one hell of a anime. The theme of the story is quite dark. Murders, anger, hatred, deception and of course giant metal ball robots massacring humans. Sorry but I don't fancy seeing people chopped into shreds so maybe I'm going to skip this out. But if you're a sadist and you like dark mysterious plots, then knock yourself out. (Not literally of course) EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS IS WHY GROWN MEN SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH DOLLS AND/OR THEIR BALLS... Sacred Seven School battle action themed. So what else is new? "People memories can change the world!" Yep, that's the tagline of the anime. My intuition tells me this is another Super Galactic Pretty Boy genre. So yeah... NEXT! EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IM GUESSING IT'S CALLED SACRED SEVEN BECAUSE THERE'S SEVEN CHARACTERS ON THE POSTERS? Kami-sama no Memo-chou What if Keima from World God Only Knows married Victorique from Gosick and had a daughter? WRONG. They wont get any children because Victorique would probably be a 100 year old granny by then with no reproductive ability. Ok, but what if they were in the same time line and did get a daughter? Introducing Alice. She's a NEET detective girl. Pair her up with a generic male partner who is probably going to provide little to no character development for her. Solving crimes with her NEET powers (Yes, people it is a fact that NEET people have superpowers!) and using her wide known connection on the internet (Right? Because Internet is used to broaden your connection, not to surf for porn..) Same old concept from JC Staff. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GIRL VERSION OF 'L' FROM DEATH NOTE. HELL, EVEN THE TITLE TRANSLATE TO GOD'S NOTEBOOK. Ro-Kyu-Bu Sports + Comedy + Lolis = Ro-Kyu-Bu Ah... Girls who clearly did not get affected by the laws of time. But wait, this time they ARE really elemantary school girls. I have nothing more to say about loli animes anymore. I used up every single joke I had against lolicon. So yeah. I'm just gonna copy and paste the summary of the story here and hopefully my boss does not find out I'm slacking off (TRazor edit: That's it, your promotion has been cancelled. You are no longer the Harem King - you are a mere Harem Prince.) Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11 year old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them. Shh.. No one has to know I just copy pasta this from Myanimelist. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: A HAREM OF LOLIS FOR A HIGHSCHOOLER! FORK YEAH! Manyuu Hikenchou I am baffled. I am speechless. I am bewildered. An anime about breasts and nuturing them. And I thought Seikon no Qwaser took the cake for most absurd usage of breast as a plot device. No. I'm sorry. Manyuu Hikenchou wins it by a long shot. "Breast are the symbol of status. If you lack them you are rarely considered of being a human." Ouch. Tough love for all the flat chested girls out there and breast cancer patients. But there is hope for you! (Pointing at Rie Kugimiya's tsundere characters) There is a scroll with knowledge on how to nuture and grow breasts! And no, fondling them does not make them grow bigger. That's a busted myth. So yeah, shame on you to all the guys who used that excused to fondle with their girlfriends' breast. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GRAVITY WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF THOSE BIG BREASTS! Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% See I told you girls there would be an idol anime for you. Based on a PSP game made by Broccoli (the same people who brought me Galaxy Angels, brought me this, is unthinkable!) so yeah you can guess by the poster it's a reverse harem. You know how much I despise reverse harem .............. There will be blood.................. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IT IS MY SWORN DUTY TO REVERSIFY ANY REVERSE HAREM And now I'm going back to podcast ideas for the blog. This was just a little detour from a suggestion by trzr. 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So Summer is finally drawing close! Beach, swimsuits, ice creams.... NO.. Not for me. I've finished all my papers and am going to a deserted island for my Combat Evaluation Examinations. Same goes for you people... Instead of planning on your holiday trip to a summer resort and having fun at the beach, you people are looking at the anime line-up for summer, planning to spend summer tucked in your cozy pajamas with your hot cocoa and watch some animes. And there's where I come in, to help you people sort out the trash Why waste your time watching mediocre titles when you could just waste your time reading my opinion about how I wrote something which looks long winded just to waste your time. But if you have better things to do (I doubt so, since you're on the internet) then I guess you can just skip ahead and read the EXPECTATION INDEX METER, those are the words with all CAPS on. (I'm purposely doing that, I'm not raging or anything) As always, I try not to write too seriously in any of my reviews because I know how easily some words and opinions can manipulate a person's perception especially for those with a weak will or stance. It is your call and your take on animes that matters. If you're a lolicon and love loli animes, the bygone stand proud by it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. APPLESEED XIII Third time's the charm! Masamune Shirow's manga is getting animated again for the third time. Will it fail? Will it succeed? Heck you tell me after you're done watching it cause I never did pickup the whole APPLESEED series and I don't think I would anytime soon. Why? A love story between a female soldier and a cyborg in a post-war torn land. Not my cup of tea. Now if you tell me the cyborg dude gets a harem throught the series, then I might reconsider. No? Damn.. But all hope is not lost for those of you who loves a good CGI (though the series cost the producer company to go bankrupt) Directed by Hamana Takayuki, the same guy who directed Idaten Jump, Prince of Tennis and Moshidora.... Wait a minute, aren't those all sports themed? What the heck is he doing directing a romance sci-fi series?? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: ROMANCE BETWEEN A GIRL AND HER GIANT WALKING VIBRATOR! Natsume Yuujin­chou San Or it's english title Natsume's Book of Friends (Three). I know what you're thinking. "Aww this anime is for little kiddies since it has the word 'Friends' in the title..." WRONG! Apparently you did not watch the first two seasons for this anime. And since I'm a kind hearted soul who wishes not for you to Google up the summary of the series as I did, I shall summarize it myself for you. Guy's name is Natsume. He can see spirits. He inherited a book from his grandma. (Way to go granny, giving a book to your grandson in your will). This book enables Natsume to be friends with all the spirits and they live happily ever after. That is until a spirit cat appears and wants to kill him. So main plot of the story, Natsume dissolves contracts that spirits had with his granny with the help of the spirit cat. The series had a huge fanbase especially with girls (they're probably suckers for the cool guy look) and TRazor (not implying his sexual preference here) Characters are exceptionally lovable. So I don't see why anyone who had been following the manga or series would not want to continue. As for me, spirit cats scares the shit out of me (childhood trauma) so yeah, I won't be watching but everyone have quite high hopes on this. Probably including TRazor since he has this anime as his background layout on his formspring. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: CAT GHOSTS JUST WANT TO USE YOU FOR YOUR BODY! Mayo Chiki Based on a light novel about a guy who is actually a girl working as a butler. Ahh, why do girls wanna pretend they're guys. Because we're awesome that's why. Although in reality, being a girl would have it's perks. I mean, why do you think thousand of guys fly all the way to Thailand and pay lots of money to sex change into a girl? Not to fondle their own breast that's what I know!&nbsp;Anyways, expect fanservice as always when it's a story about cross dressers. Not to mention re-used flat chested jokes (because only flat chested girls could pull of looking like a guy without chest binders) Oh, and the director is the same guy who did Moetan, so don't be surprised if yousee any magical ducks. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS ANIME MAKES YOU CONFUSED, IN A SEXUAL WAY! THE IDOLM@ASTER Get this straight. The anime is "THE IDOLM@STER". You, the watcher will be "THE IDOLM@STURBATOR" Capiche? Namco Bandai's hit game series, The IDOLM@STER is finally getting an anime. Girls aiming high to be idols. While the game revolves around you as the manager, managing these girls to their stardom, the anime is probably going to focus on the individual routes of the girls as they venture into Idolism, a popular religion now worshipped by otakus everywhere. Now this isn't a new religion, Idol worship have been around for ages though modern Idols probably took it to a whole new level. I'm probably going to watch this series just to kill time, not for the scripts or plots because I doubt they would have one but of course for the bonerification. I doubt there would be any significant male character as well so yeah, sorry to you female audiences but don't worry there is something else in store this season. And yes it has something to do with idols as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDOLM@STER GAME, Y U NO LET ME CAST GIRLS AS AV IDOLS?! Blood-C A new original Blood anime project and original character design by CLAMP and animation by Production I.G. Directed by Mizushima Tsutomu the same guy who directed Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan and the other blood series which means lots of gore and blood! Somehow watching the Blood series reminds me a lot about Twilight. (Not that I watch Twilight, mind you) Emo girl surrounded by hunky, sparkly guys. Gasp! Do I smell a reverse harem? As the series is a whole different story from the original Blood franchise, one need not have watch all the previous version to get a good feel about this one. Same story, girl named Saya (again?!) fighting Chiropteran, that's the fancy name for bat like species, like vampires. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I WONT BE SURPRISED IF THERE'S A CHIROPTERAN NAMED EDOWADO KAREN (Edward Cullen) Baka to Test to Shoukan­juu Ni! Second season of Baka To Test to Shoukanjuu which features idiots and perverts doing the best they can to cope with their cruel fate in the worst of the worst class, only to have their mishaps sink them way past rock bottom. To be honest, I loved this series. It takes the "School life" genre to a whole new level for me. Though, I wasn't amused with both the OVAs as they tend to just recycle old jokes from the first season. Hopefully they won't repeat them for the second season as I grew tired of the whole trap, forced marriage and gay jokes. &nbsp;Expect the same animation team and director so nothing would deviate far from the first season. Nevertheless, I was a fan of the first season so I guess I would be having high expectation for this season as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDIOTS ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE WHO ONLY DECIDE TO READ SENTENCES THAT ARE BOLD AND/OR CAPS-LOCKED. THIS MEANS YOU. Usagi Drop Based on a manga by Unita Yumi. A story about a guy named Daikichi whose grandfather recently passed away, who is a dirty old bastard and had an illegitimate daughter named Rin (which would mean the little girl is Daikichi's aunt) and none of his relatives are willing to look after her because they're ashamed of the scandal. Daikichi decides to take good care of the little girl because he's a lolicon and he loves incest. Ok I'm kidding about that last sentance. The guy has a good heart. No one should have negative thoughts about him. Did I mention he is single? Yes! And everyone knows having a kid when you're single is a chick magnet, am I right? No? Did I mention this is based on a Josei manga which means it's targeted mainly towards female audiences. So if you're a guy and you're watching this series and you think, "So when is the dude going to bang his aunt?" it will never happen okay? So get your incest guilty pleasure somewhere else. This is a slice of life anime which deals with conflict and family relationships so get your fapping sources somewhere else. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I'M EXPECTING MY GIRLFRIEND TO FORCE ME TO WATCH THIS WITH HER! NO.6 That's refreshing. An anime title that actually really short compared to what we've been getting this past couple of months. A sci-fi anime about a boy named Shion who was trained to be an elite since the age of 2, living in a future model city "No.6" in the year 2013. Shion was judged as having "highest-ranked intelligence" when he was two years old and was allowed to live in the luxurious area "Cronos". On his twelfth birthday, he met a beautiful boy called "Nezumi," who had escaped from a reformatory. Shion protected him, but the Public Security Bureau deprived Shion of all his privileges and expelled him from Cronos to "Lost Town". Oh uh. I hope this is not going to where I think it is - BOYS LOVE! Please tell me it isn't so! Oh great another Naruto-Sasuke bromance. So yeah, um, I'm not risking myself crossing to the 'other' side so I'm skipping on this one. But it doesn't mean you should if you're a fan of the sci-fi genre and love, um, boys love.. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL IN THE YEAR 2013 Ikoku Meiro no Croisee Same guys who made Gosick which means stuff a little girl in frilly clothes, take her out from her original habitat, and put her somewhere in the 19th century along with a foreigner (I hope he has a cool moustache since he's French!). The perfect recipe for inter-racial relationships. As much as I find the main female lead, Yune, adorable, that would not be a valid reason for me to watch the series. I am watching it for it's beautifully designed backgrounds, pleasant nostalgic music, observing the relationship between little princess here and Mr. Frenchy (that's not his real name) bloom as they transcend from the racial barrier.... Ahh.. Who am I kidding... I'm watching it for the little girl. There, happy I said it? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I EXPECT EUROPEANS TO SPEAK JAPANESE FOR NO APPARENT REASON Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi Based on the light novel by Kagami Takaya, same person who did Legend of Legendary Legend of Legendary Heroes of Legend (Until today I still have not got the title right). Anyways, produced by ZEXCS (I know it sounds like when an Italian guy says sex) thus I have low expectations of this series even though they have a solid and interesting plot. A story about a guy and a vampire girl. Need I continue? Can we ever have enough vampires as plot devices in an anime? No. Sigh. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: AFTER THE TWILIGHT FIASCO, IT WOULD TAKE YEARS OF VAMPIRE ANIME TO RECORRECT THE DISEQUILIBRIUM TWILIGHT BROUGHT Nekogami Yaoyorozu Cat gods and booze. Yep. Supposedly based on a comedy manga FLIPFLOPs (yes, flipflops...) produced by Studio AIC+. I know every season we must have an anime about the product of some interspecies orgy. I don't think there is a plot nor any sort of conflicts in this anime. It's just about a bunch of cat gods drinking, merrymaking and having fun. 'Nuff said. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: PART TART, PART CAT, SHITTING RAINBOWS AND FLYING OFF TO SAVE THE GALAXY (NC much?) R-15 Akutagawa Takuto is a teenage porn novel writer (amazing..). He enters Hirameki Gakuen, which accepts only geniuses with outstanding talent. He leads his classmates with his porn skills to win the interclass competition (outstanding..). Directed by Nawa Munenori. HIM! IT'S HIM - The director of Kiss X Sis, Da Capo S2, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Rental Magica. Which means only one thing.... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: LOTS OF FAN SERVICE!!! (oh and I'm expecting this to be a harem as well, SCORE!) Dantalian’s Library The story is about <INSERT GENERIC MALE HERE> who inherited a <INSERT GENERIC INHERITANCE HERE> which is a mansion and given the responsibility to look after <INSERT GENERIC UNKNOWN FEMALE CHARACTER HERE AROUND WHO THE PLOT WILL EVENTUALLY REVOLVE HER> Sounds interesting? What if I tell you the producers are GAINAX and the story is based on the light novel by the same guy who wrote Asura Cryin? Still not interesting enough for you? How about if I tell you this is about demons? Still not good enough for you? Yeah, me neither. My intuition is telling me that this anime would provide lots of plot that makes you go, "What is this... I don't even..." so if you're a mental masochist, then go ahead and your senses numb by this. Nevertheless, I would like to give anime the benefit of doubt and watch at least 3 episodes before making any judgement. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOW COME I'VE NEVER INHERITED A MANSION AND A CREEPY GIRL BEFORE? LIFE IS SO UNFAIR! Nurarihyon no Mago 2 Yeah I know the picture above shows "1" Screw it, you expect his hairstyle to change in the second season? Not likely. I've watch only 2 episodes of the first season before I dropped it because: &nbsp;It is a shounen &nbsp;The glassess dude didn't get a harem &nbsp;I'm not a fan of multiple personalities male leads. Reminds me Yu-Gi-Oh and Hidan No Aria So yeah, I didn't have a problem with the anime on whole since it wasn't really targeted towards me. But the negative externalities was still conferred upon me. (Having to witness people cosplay as the main character. How do you get your hair to ridiculous proportion like that?!) If you enjoyed the first season, then I see why not you would avoid the second season since it's shounen and it's all about the number of episodes... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THE POLLS ARE IN; Rikuo's other personality's haircut [/] Justin Bieber's new haircut. [X] Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel A kid friendlier version of Panty and Stockings? Two best friend who looks like normal schoolgirls in the morning but at night fight villains as the blue and red angel. Two girls with different personalities but are best of friends. Isn't that sweet. I felt like hundreds of blades stabbed my cold, heartless soul. Ok, I admit it the song is catchy and upbeat. It reminds me of eroges' opening songs. Even though I said this was a kid friendly version, I doubt the show main targeted audience are little girls. But more of middle aged man who are lolicons. Sigh. EXPECTATON INDEX METER: UNDER-AGE PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ILLEGAL IN MOST PART OF THE WORLD. BLADE Another Madhouse and Marvel collaboration. If I didn't bother to watch Ironman, X-Men and Wolverine, I wouldn't bother about this one as well. Some things are best left not animefied. Moving along... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: WE NEED MORE 'DARK SKINNED GENTLEMEN' IN ANIMES! Kamisama Dolls I was expecting a comedy anime, but knowing Japan, anything to do with dolls are most probably twisted and horrifying. This anime is totally the unexpected for me. When I think of dolls, I thought about those long haired girl dolls with the scary blank stares. (You may think of barbie dolls because you're not a REAL man) But when I watched the preview, the dolls are actually huge freakin balls of metal! (Literally ball shaped, not testicles) So the story is about a bunch of grown men playing with their balls which coincidently are dolls. I'm just kidding of course. Animation and art wise is superb and characters are in their maturity stage. Produced by Brain's Base, you would think that this is going to be one hell of a anime. The theme of the story is quite dark. Murders, anger, hatred, deception and of course giant metal ball robots massacring humans. Sorry but I don't fancy seeing people chopped into shreds so maybe I'm going to skip this out. But if you're a sadist and you like dark mysterious plots, then knock yourself out. (Not literally of course) EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS IS WHY GROWN MEN SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH DOLLS AND/OR THEIR BALLS... Sacred Seven School battle action themed. So what else is new? "People memories can change the world!" Yep, that's the tagline of the anime. My intuition tells me this is another Super Galactic Pretty Boy genre. So yeah... NEXT! EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IM GUESSING IT'S CALLED SACRED SEVEN BECAUSE THERE'S SEVEN CHARACTERS ON THE POSTERS? Kami-sama no Memo-chou What if Keima from World God Only Knows married Victorique from Gosick and had a daughter? WRONG. They wont get any children because Victorique would probably be a 100 year old granny by then with no reproductive ability. Ok, but what if they were in the same time line and did get a daughter? Introducing Alice. She's a NEET detective girl. Pair her up with a generic male partner who is probably going to provide little to no character development for her. Solving crimes with her NEET powers (Yes, people it is a fact that NEET people have superpowers!) and using her wide known connection on the internet (Right? Because Internet is used to broaden your connection, not to surf for porn..) Same old concept from JC Staff. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GIRL VERSION OF 'L' FROM DEATH NOTE. HELL, EVEN THE TITLE TRANSLATE TO GOD'S NOTEBOOK. Ro-Kyu-Bu Sports + Comedy + Lolis = Ro-Kyu-Bu Ah... Girls who clearly did not get affected by the laws of time. But wait, this time they ARE really elemantary school girls. I have nothing more to say about loli animes anymore. I used up every single joke I had against lolicon. So yeah. I'm just gonna copy and paste the summary of the story here and hopefully my boss does not find out I'm slacking off (TRazor edit: That's it, your promotion has been cancelled. You are no longer the Harem King - you are a mere Harem Prince.) Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11 year old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them. Shh.. No one has to know I just copy pasta this from Myanimelist. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: A HAREM OF LOLIS FOR A HIGHSCHOOLER! FORK YEAH! Manyuu Hikenchou I am baffled. I am speechless. I am bewildered. An anime about breasts and nuturing them. And I thought Seikon no Qwaser took the cake for most absurd usage of breast as a plot device. No. I'm sorry. Manyuu Hikenchou wins it by a long shot. "Breast are the symbol of status. If you lack them you are rarely considered of being a human." Ouch. Tough love for all the flat chested girls out there and breast cancer patients. But there is hope for you! (Pointing at Rie Kugimiya's tsundere characters) There is a scroll with knowledge on how to nuture and grow breasts! And no, fondling them does not make them grow bigger. That's a busted myth. So yeah, shame on you to all the guys who used that excused to fondle with their girlfriends' breast. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GRAVITY WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF THOSE BIG BREASTS! Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% See I told you girls there would be an idol anime for you. Based on a PSP game made by Broccoli (the same people who brought me Galaxy Angels, brought me this, is unthinkable!) so yeah you can guess by the poster it's a reverse harem. You know how much I despise reverse harem .............. There will be blood.................. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IT IS MY SWORN DUTY TO REVERSIFY ANY REVERSE HAREM And now I'm going back to podcast ideas for the blog. This was just a little detour from a suggestion by trzr. Having gone for a long break (studying isn't really a break) I owe my boss here lots of posts. Hope you guys would read my future post just to humor yourselves. And as always, thanks for reading.
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So Summer is finally drawing close! Beach, swimsuits, ice creams.... NO.. Not for me. I've finished all my papers and am going to a deserted island for my Combat Evaluation Examinations. Same goes for you people... Instead of planning on your holiday trip to a summer resort and having fun at the beach, you people are looking at the anime line-up for summer, planning to spend summer tucked in your cozy pajamas with your hot cocoa and watch some animes. And there's where I come in, to help you people sort out the trash Why waste your time watching mediocre titles when you could just waste your time reading my opinion about how I wrote something which looks long winded just to waste your time. But if you have better things to do (I doubt so, since you're on the internet) then I guess you can just skip ahead and read the EXPECTATION INDEX METER, those are the words with all CAPS on. (I'm purposely doing that, I'm not raging or anything) As always, I try not to write too seriously in any of my reviews because I know how easily some words and opinions can manipulate a person's perception especially for those with a weak will or stance. It is your call and your take on animes that matters. If you're a lolicon and love loli animes, the bygone stand proud by it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. APPLESEED XIII Third time's the charm! Masamune Shirow's manga is getting animated again for the third time. Will it fail? Will it succeed? Heck you tell me after you're done watching it cause I never did pickup the whole APPLESEED series and I don't think I would anytime soon. Why? A love story between a female soldier and a cyborg in a post-war torn land. Not my cup of tea. Now if you tell me the cyborg dude gets a harem throught the series, then I might reconsider. No? Damn.. But all hope is not lost for those of you who loves a good CGI (though the series cost the producer company to go bankrupt) Directed by Hamana Takayuki, the same guy who directed Idaten Jump, Prince of Tennis and Moshidora.... Wait a minute, aren't those all sports themed? What the heck is he doing directing a romance sci-fi series?? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: ROMANCE BETWEEN A GIRL AND HER GIANT WALKING VIBRATOR! Natsume Yuujin­chou San Or it's english title Natsume's Book of Friends (Three). I know what you're thinking. "Aww this anime is for little kiddies since it has the word 'Friends' in the title..." WRONG! Apparently you did not watch the first two seasons for this anime. And since I'm a kind hearted soul who wishes not for you to Google up the summary of the series as I did, I shall summarize it myself for you. Guy's name is Natsume. He can see spirits. He inherited a book from his grandma. (Way to go granny, giving a book to your grandson in your will). This book enables Natsume to be friends with all the spirits and they live happily ever after. That is until a spirit cat appears and wants to kill him. So main plot of the story, Natsume dissolves contracts that spirits had with his granny with the help of the spirit cat. The series had a huge fanbase especially with girls (they're probably suckers for the cool guy look) and TRazor (not implying his sexual preference here) Characters are exceptionally lovable. So I don't see why anyone who had been following the manga or series would not want to continue. As for me, spirit cats scares the shit out of me (childhood trauma) so yeah, I won't be watching but everyone have quite high hopes on this. Probably including TRazor since he has this anime as his background layout on his formspring. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: CAT GHOSTS JUST WANT TO USE YOU FOR YOUR BODY! Mayo Chiki Based on a light novel about a guy who is actually a girl working as a butler. Ahh, why do girls wanna pretend they're guys. Because we're awesome that's why. Although in reality, being a girl would have it's perks. I mean, why do you think thousand of guys fly all the way to Thailand and pay lots of money to sex change into a girl? Not to fondle their own breast that's what I know!&nbsp;Anyways, expect fanservice as always when it's a story about cross dressers. Not to mention re-used flat chested jokes (because only flat chested girls could pull of looking like a guy without chest binders) Oh, and the director is the same guy who did Moetan, so don't be surprised if yousee any magical ducks. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS ANIME MAKES YOU CONFUSED, IN A SEXUAL WAY! THE IDOLM@ASTER Get this straight. The anime is "THE IDOLM@STER". You, the watcher will be "THE IDOLM@STURBATOR" Capiche? Namco Bandai's hit game series, The IDOLM@STER is finally getting an anime. Girls aiming high to be idols. While the game revolves around you as the manager, managing these girls to their stardom, the anime is probably going to focus on the individual routes of the girls as they venture into Idolism, a popular religion now worshipped by otakus everywhere. Now this isn't a new religion, Idol worship have been around for ages though modern Idols probably took it to a whole new level. I'm probably going to watch this series just to kill time, not for the scripts or plots because I doubt they would have one but of course for the bonerification. I doubt there would be any significant male character as well so yeah, sorry to you female audiences but don't worry there is something else in store this season. And yes it has something to do with idols as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDOLM@STER GAME, Y U NO LET ME CAST GIRLS AS AV IDOLS?! Blood-C A new original Blood anime project and original character design by CLAMP and animation by Production I.G. Directed by Mizushima Tsutomu the same guy who directed Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan and the other blood series which means lots of gore and blood! Somehow watching the Blood series reminds me a lot about Twilight. (Not that I watch Twilight, mind you) Emo girl surrounded by hunky, sparkly guys. Gasp! Do I smell a reverse harem? As the series is a whole different story from the original Blood franchise, one need not have watch all the previous version to get a good feel about this one. Same story, girl named Saya (again?!) fighting Chiropteran, that's the fancy name for bat like species, like vampires. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I WONT BE SURPRISED IF THERE'S A CHIROPTERAN NAMED EDOWADO KAREN (Edward Cullen) Baka to Test to Shoukan­juu Ni! Second season of Baka To Test to Shoukanjuu which features idiots and perverts doing the best they can to cope with their cruel fate in the worst of the worst class, only to have their mishaps sink them way past rock bottom. To be honest, I loved this series. It takes the "School life" genre to a whole new level for me. Though, I wasn't amused with both the OVAs as they tend to just recycle old jokes from the first season. Hopefully they won't repeat them for the second season as I grew tired of the whole trap, forced marriage and gay jokes. &nbsp;Expect the same animation team and director so nothing would deviate far from the first season. Nevertheless, I was a fan of the first season so I guess I would be having high expectation for this season as well. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDIOTS ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE WHO ONLY DECIDE TO READ SENTENCES THAT ARE BOLD AND/OR CAPS-LOCKED. THIS MEANS YOU. Usagi Drop Based on a manga by Unita Yumi. A story about a guy named Daikichi whose grandfather recently passed away, who is a dirty old bastard and had an illegitimate daughter named Rin (which would mean the little girl is Daikichi's aunt) and none of his relatives are willing to look after her because they're ashamed of the scandal. Daikichi decides to take good care of the little girl because he's a lolicon and he loves incest. Ok I'm kidding about that last sentance. The guy has a good heart. No one should have negative thoughts about him. Did I mention he is single? Yes! And everyone knows having a kid when you're single is a chick magnet, am I right? No? Did I mention this is based on a Josei manga which means it's targeted mainly towards female audiences. So if you're a guy and you're watching this series and you think, "So when is the dude going to bang his aunt?" it will never happen okay? So get your incest guilty pleasure somewhere else. This is a slice of life anime which deals with conflict and family relationships so get your fapping sources somewhere else. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I'M EXPECTING MY GIRLFRIEND TO FORCE ME TO WATCH THIS WITH HER! NO.6 That's refreshing. An anime title that actually really short compared to what we've been getting this past couple of months. A sci-fi anime about a boy named Shion who was trained to be an elite since the age of 2, living in a future model city "No.6" in the year 2013. Shion was judged as having "highest-ranked intelligence" when he was two years old and was allowed to live in the luxurious area "Cronos". On his twelfth birthday, he met a beautiful boy called "Nezumi," who had escaped from a reformatory. Shion protected him, but the Public Security Bureau deprived Shion of all his privileges and expelled him from Cronos to "Lost Town". Oh uh. I hope this is not going to where I think it is - BOYS LOVE! Please tell me it isn't so! Oh great another Naruto-Sasuke bromance. So yeah, um, I'm not risking myself crossing to the 'other' side so I'm skipping on this one. But it doesn't mean you should if you're a fan of the sci-fi genre and love, um, boys love.. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL IN THE YEAR 2013 Ikoku Meiro no Croisee Same guys who made Gosick which means stuff a little girl in frilly clothes, take her out from her original habitat, and put her somewhere in the 19th century along with a foreigner (I hope he has a cool moustache since he's French!). The perfect recipe for inter-racial relationships. As much as I find the main female lead, Yune, adorable, that would not be a valid reason for me to watch the series. I am watching it for it's beautifully designed backgrounds, pleasant nostalgic music, observing the relationship between little princess here and Mr. Frenchy (that's not his real name) bloom as they transcend from the racial barrier.... Ahh.. Who am I kidding... I'm watching it for the little girl. There, happy I said it? EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I EXPECT EUROPEANS TO SPEAK JAPANESE FOR NO APPARENT REASON Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi Based on the light novel by Kagami Takaya, same person who did Legend of Legendary Legend of Legendary Heroes of Legend (Until today I still have not got the title right). Anyways, produced by ZEXCS (I know it sounds like when an Italian guy says sex) thus I have low expectations of this series even though they have a solid and interesting plot. A story about a guy and a vampire girl. Need I continue? Can we ever have enough vampires as plot devices in an anime? No. Sigh. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: AFTER THE TWILIGHT FIASCO, IT WOULD TAKE YEARS OF VAMPIRE ANIME TO RECORRECT THE DISEQUILIBRIUM TWILIGHT BROUGHT Nekogami Yaoyorozu Cat gods and booze. Yep. Supposedly based on a comedy manga FLIPFLOPs (yes, flipflops...) produced by Studio AIC+. I know every season we must have an anime about the product of some interspecies orgy. I don't think there is a plot nor any sort of conflicts in this anime. It's just about a bunch of cat gods drinking, merrymaking and having fun. 'Nuff said. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: PART TART, PART CAT, SHITTING RAINBOWS AND FLYING OFF TO SAVE THE GALAXY (NC much?) R-15 Akutagawa Takuto is a teenage porn novel writer (amazing..). He enters Hirameki Gakuen, which accepts only geniuses with outstanding talent. He leads his classmates with his porn skills to win the interclass competition (outstanding..). Directed by Nawa Munenori. HIM! IT'S HIM - The director of Kiss X Sis, Da Capo S2, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Rental Magica. Which means only one thing.... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: LOTS OF FAN SERVICE!!! (oh and I'm expecting this to be a harem as well, SCORE!) Dantalian’s Library The story is about <INSERT GENERIC MALE HERE> who inherited a <INSERT GENERIC INHERITANCE HERE> which is a mansion and given the responsibility to look after <INSERT GENERIC UNKNOWN FEMALE CHARACTER HERE AROUND WHO THE PLOT WILL EVENTUALLY REVOLVE HER> Sounds interesting? What if I tell you the producers are GAINAX and the story is based on the light novel by the same guy who wrote Asura Cryin? Still not interesting enough for you? How about if I tell you this is about demons? Still not good enough for you? Yeah, me neither. My intuition is telling me that this anime would provide lots of plot that makes you go, "What is this... I don't even..." so if you're a mental masochist, then go ahead and your senses numb by this. Nevertheless, I would like to give anime the benefit of doubt and watch at least 3 episodes before making any judgement. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOW COME I'VE NEVER INHERITED A MANSION AND A CREEPY GIRL BEFORE? LIFE IS SO UNFAIR! Nurarihyon no Mago 2 Yeah I know the picture above shows "1" Screw it, you expect his hairstyle to change in the second season? Not likely. I've watch only 2 episodes of the first season before I dropped it because: &nbsp;It is a shounen &nbsp;The glassess dude didn't get a harem &nbsp;I'm not a fan of multiple personalities male leads. Reminds me Yu-Gi-Oh and Hidan No Aria So yeah, I didn't have a problem with the anime on whole since it wasn't really targeted towards me. But the negative externalities was still conferred upon me. (Having to witness people cosplay as the main character. How do you get your hair to ridiculous proportion like that?!) If you enjoyed the first season, then I see why not you would avoid the second season since it's shounen and it's all about the number of episodes... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THE POLLS ARE IN; Rikuo's other personality's haircut [/] Justin Bieber's new haircut. [X] Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel A kid friendlier version of Panty and Stockings? Two best friend who looks like normal schoolgirls in the morning but at night fight villains as the blue and red angel. Two girls with different personalities but are best of friends. Isn't that sweet. I felt like hundreds of blades stabbed my cold, heartless soul. Ok, I admit it the song is catchy and upbeat. It reminds me of eroges' opening songs. Even though I said this was a kid friendly version, I doubt the show main targeted audience are little girls. But more of middle aged man who are lolicons. Sigh. EXPECTATON INDEX METER: UNDER-AGE PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ILLEGAL IN MOST PART OF THE WORLD. BLADE Another Madhouse and Marvel collaboration. If I didn't bother to watch Ironman, X-Men and Wolverine, I wouldn't bother about this one as well. Some things are best left not animefied. Moving along... EXPECTATION INDEX METER: WE NEED MORE 'DARK SKINNED GENTLEMEN' IN ANIMES! Kamisama Dolls I was expecting a comedy anime, but knowing Japan, anything to do with dolls are most probably twisted and horrifying. This anime is totally the unexpected for me. When I think of dolls, I thought about those long haired girl dolls with the scary blank stares. (You may think of barbie dolls because you're not a REAL man) But when I watched the preview, the dolls are actually huge freakin balls of metal! (Literally ball shaped, not testicles) So the story is about a bunch of grown men playing with their balls which coincidently are dolls. I'm just kidding of course. Animation and art wise is superb and characters are in their maturity stage. Produced by Brain's Base, you would think that this is going to be one hell of a anime. The theme of the story is quite dark. Murders, anger, hatred, deception and of course giant metal ball robots massacring humans. Sorry but I don't fancy seeing people chopped into shreds so maybe I'm going to skip this out. But if you're a sadist and you like dark mysterious plots, then knock yourself out. (Not literally of course) EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS IS WHY GROWN MEN SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH DOLLS AND/OR THEIR BALLS... Sacred Seven School battle action themed. So what else is new? "People memories can change the world!" Yep, that's the tagline of the anime. My intuition tells me this is another Super Galactic Pretty Boy genre. So yeah... NEXT! EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IM GUESSING IT'S CALLED SACRED SEVEN BECAUSE THERE'S SEVEN CHARACTERS ON THE POSTERS? Kami-sama no Memo-chou What if Keima from World God Only Knows married Victorique from Gosick and had a daughter? WRONG. They wont get any children because Victorique would probably be a 100 year old granny by then with no reproductive ability. Ok, but what if they were in the same time line and did get a daughter? Introducing Alice. She's a NEET detective girl. Pair her up with a generic male partner who is probably going to provide little to no character development for her. Solving crimes with her NEET powers (Yes, people it is a fact that NEET people have superpowers!) and using her wide known connection on the internet (Right? Because Internet is used to broaden your connection, not to surf for porn..) Same old concept from JC Staff. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GIRL VERSION OF 'L' FROM DEATH NOTE. HELL, EVEN THE TITLE TRANSLATE TO GOD'S NOTEBOOK. Ro-Kyu-Bu Sports + Comedy + Lolis = Ro-Kyu-Bu Ah... Girls who clearly did not get affected by the laws of time. But wait, this time they ARE really elemantary school girls. I have nothing more to say about loli animes anymore. I used up every single joke I had against lolicon. So yeah. I'm just gonna copy and paste the summary of the story here and hopefully my boss does not find out I'm slacking off (TRazor edit: That's it, your promotion has been cancelled. You are no longer the Harem King - you are a mere Harem Prince.) Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11 year old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them. Shh.. No one has to know I just copy pasta this from Myanimelist. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: A HAREM OF LOLIS FOR A HIGHSCHOOLER! FORK YEAH! Manyuu Hikenchou I am baffled. I am speechless. I am bewildered. An anime about breasts and nuturing them. And I thought Seikon no Qwaser took the cake for most absurd usage of breast as a plot device. No. I'm sorry. Manyuu Hikenchou wins it by a long shot. "Breast are the symbol of status. If you lack them you are rarely considered of being a human." Ouch. Tough love for all the flat chested girls out there and breast cancer patients. But there is hope for you! (Pointing at Rie Kugimiya's tsundere characters) There is a scroll with knowledge on how to nuture and grow breasts! And no, fondling them does not make them grow bigger. That's a busted myth. So yeah, shame on you to all the guys who used that excused to fondle with their girlfriends' breast. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GRAVITY WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF THOSE BIG BREASTS! Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% See I told you girls there would be an idol anime for you. Based on a PSP game made by Broccoli (the same people who brought me Galaxy Angels, brought me this, is unthinkable!) so yeah you can guess by the poster it's a reverse harem. You know how much I despise reverse harem .............. There will be blood.................. EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IT IS MY SWORN DUTY TO REVERSIFY ANY REVERSE HAREM And now I'm going back to podcast ideas for the blog. This was just a little detour from a suggestion by trzr. Having gone for a long break (studying isn't really a break) I owe my boss here lots of posts. Hope you guys would read my future post just to humor yourselves. And as always, thanks for reading.
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So Summer is finally drawing close! Beach, swimsuits, ice creams.... NO.. Not for me. I've finished all my papers and am going to a deserted island for my Combat Evaluation Examinations. Same goes for you people... Instead of planning on your holiday trip to a summer resort and having fun at the beach, you people are looking at the anime line-up for summer, planning to spend summer tucked in your cozy pajamas with your hot cocoa and watch some animes. And there's whereI come in to help you people sort out the trash. Why waste your time watching mediocre titles when you could just waste your time reading my opinions about how I wrote something which looks long winded just to waste your time. But if you have better things to do (I doubt so since you're on the internet) then I guess you can just skip ahead and read the EXPECTATION INDEX METER, those are the words with all CAPS on. (I'm purposely doing that, I'm not raging or anything)As always, I try not to write too seriously in any of my reviews because I know how easily some words and opinions can manipulate a person's perception especially for those with a weak will or stance. It is your call and your take on animes that matters. If you're a lolicon and love loli animes, the bygone stand proud by it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. APPLESEED XIIIThird time's the charm! Masamune Shirow's manga is getting animated again for the third time. Will it fail? Will it succeed? Heck you tell me after you're done watching it cause I never did pickup the whole APPLESEED series and I don't think I would anytime soon. Why? A love story between a female soldier and a cyborg in a post-war torn land. Not my cup of tea. Now if you tell me the cyborg dude gets a harem throught the series, then I might reconsider. No? Darn.. But all hope is not lost for those of you who loves a good CGI (though the series cost the producercompany to go bankrupt) Directed by Hamana Takayuki, the same guy who directed Idaten Jump, Prince of Tennis and Moshidora.... Wait a minute, aren't those all sports themed? What the heck is he doing directing a romance sci-fi series??EXPECTATION INDEX METER: ROMANCE BETWEEN A GIRL AND HER GIANT WALKING VIBRATOR!Natsume Yuujin­chou SanOr it's english title Natsume's Book of Friends (Three). I know what you're thinking. "Aww this anime is for little kiddies since it has the word 'Friends' in the title..." WRONG! Apparently you did not watch the first two season for this anime.And since I'm a kind hearted soul who wishes not for you to google up the summary of the series as I did, I shall summarize it myself for you. Guy's name Natsume. He can see spirits. He inherited a book from his grandma. (Way to go granny, giving a book to your grandson in your will). This book enables Natsume to be friends with all the spirits and they live happily ever after. That is until a spirit cat appears and wants to kill him. So main plot of the story, Natsume dissolves contracts that spirits had with his granny with the help of the spirit cat. The series had a huge fanbase especially with girls (they're probably suckers for the cool guy look) and Trzr (not implying his sexual preference here) Characters are exceptionally lovable. So I don't see why anyone who had been following the manga or series would not want to continue. As for me, spirit cats scares the shit out of me (childhood trauma) so yeah, I won't be watching but everyone have quite high hopes on this. Probably including Trzr since he has this anime as his background layout on his formspring.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: CAT GHOSTS JUST WANT TO USE YOU FOR YOUR BODY!Mayo ChikiBased on a light novel about a guy who is actually a girl working as a butler. Ahh, why do girls wanna pretend they're guys. Because we're awesome that's why. Although in reality, being a girl would have it's perks. I mean, why do you think thousand of guys fly all the way to Thailand and pay lots of money to sex change into a girl? Not to fondle their own breast that's what I know!Anyways, expect fanservice as always when it's a story about cross dressers. Not to mention re-used flat chested jokes (because only flat chested girls could pull of looking like a guy without chest binders) Oh, and the director is the same guy who did Moetan, so don't be surprised if yousee any magical ducks.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS ANIME MAKES YOU CONFUSED, IN A SEXUAL WAY!THE IDOLM@ASTERGet this straight. The anime is "THE IDOLM@STER". You, the watcher will be "THE IDOLM@STURBATOR" Capich? Namco Bandai's hit game series, The IDOLM@STER is finally getting an anime. Girls aiming high to be idols. While the game revolves around you as the manager, managing these girls to their stardom, the anime is probably going to focus on the individual routes of the girls as they venture into Idolism, a popular religion now worshipped by otakus everywhere. Now this isn't a new religion, Idol worship have been around for ages thoughmodern Idols probably took it to a whole new level. I'm probably going to watch this series just to kill time, not for the scripts or plots because I doubt they would have one but of course for the bonerification. I doubt there would be any significant male character as well so yeah, sorry to you female audiences but don't worry there is something else in store this season. And yes it has something to do with idols as well.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDOLM@STER GAME, Y U NO LET ME CAST GIRLS AS AV IDOLS?!Blood-CA new original Blood anime project and original character design by CLAMP and animation by Production I.G.Directed by Mizushima Tsutomu the same guy who directed Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan and the other blood series which means lots of gore and blood! Somehow watching the Blood series reminds me a lot about Twilight. (Not that I watch Twilight, mind you) Emo girl surrounded by hunky, sparkly guys. Gasp! Do I smell a reverse harem? As the series is a whole different story from the original Blood franchise, one need not have watch all the previous version to get a good feel about this one. Same story, girl named Saya (again?!) fighting Chiropteran, that's the fancy name for bat like species, like vampires.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I WONT BE SURPRISE IF THERE'S A CHIROPTERAN NAMED EDOWADO KAREN (Edward Cullen)Baka to Test to Shoukan­juu Ni! Second season of Baka To Test to Shoukanjuu which features idiots and perverts doing the best they can to cope with their cruel fate in the worst of the worst class, only to have their mishaps sink them to way past rock bottom. To be honest, I loved this series. It takes the "School life" genre to a whole new level for me. Though, I wasn't amuse with both the OVAs as they tend to just recycle old jokes from the first season. Hopefully they would not repeat them for the second season as I grew tired of the whole trap, forced marriage and gay jokes.Expect the same animation team and director so nothing would deviate far from the first season. Nevertheless, I was a fan of the first season so I guess I would be having high expectation for this season as well.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IDIOTS ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE WHO ONLY DECIDES TO READ SETENCES THAT WAS BOLD OR CAPSLOCKED. THIS MEANS YOU.Usagi DropBased on a manga by Unita Yumi.A story about a guy named Daikichi who's grandfather just recently passed away, who is a dirty old bastard and had an illegitimate daughter named Rin (which would mean the little girl is Daikichi's aunt) and none of his relatives are willing to look after her because they're ashamed of the scandal. Daikichi decides to take good care of the little girl because he's a lolicon and he loves incest. Ok I'm kidding about that last sentance. The guy has a good heart. No one should have negative thoughts about him. Did I mention he issingle? Yes! And everyone knows having a kid when you're single is a chick magnet? Am I right? No? Did I mention this is based on a Josei manga which means it's target mainly towards female audiences. So if you're a guy and you're watching this series and you think, "So whenis the dude going to bang his aunt?" it will never happen okay? So get your incest guilty pleasure somewhere else. This is a slice of life anime which deals with conflict and family relationships so get your fapping sources somewhere else.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I'M EXPECTING MY GIRLFRIEND TO FORCE ME TO WATCH THIS WITH HER!NO.6That's refreshing. An anime title that actually really short compared to what we've been getting this past couple of months. A sci-fi anime about a boy named Shion who was trained to be an elite since the age of 2, living in a future model city "No.6" in the year 2013. Shion was judged as having "highest-ranked intelligence" when he was two years old and was allowed to live in the luxurious area "Cronos". On his twelfth birthday, he met a beautiful boy called "Nezumi," who had escaped from a reformatory. Shion protected him, but the Public Security Bureau deprived Shion of all his privileges and expelled him from Cronos to "Lost Town". Oh uh. I hope this isnot going to where I think it is. BOYS LOVE! Please tell me it isn't so! Oh great another Naruto-Sasuke bromance. So yeah, um, I'm not risking myself crossing to the 'other' side so I'm skipping on this one. But it doesn't mean you should if you're a fan of the sci-fi genre and love, um, boys love..EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOMOSEXUALITY IS LEGAL IN THE YEAR 2013Ikoku Meiro no CroiseeSame guys who made Gosick which means stuff a little girl in frilly clothes, take her out from her original habitat, and put her somewhere in the 19th century along with a foreigner (I hope he has a cool moustache since he's French!). The perfect recipe for inter-racial relationships. As much as I find the main female lead, Yune, adorable, that would not be a valid reason for me to watch the series. I am watching it for it's beautifully design backgrounds, pleasant nostalgic music, observing the relationship between little princess here and Mr. Frenchy (that's not his real name) bloom as they transcend from the racial barrier.... Ahh.. Who am I kidding! I'm watching it for the little girl. There happy I said it?EXPECTATION INDEX METER: I EXPECT EUROPEANS TO SPEAK JAPANESE FOR NO APPARENT REASONItsuka Tenma no Kuro-UsagiBased on the light novel by Kagami Takaya, same person who did Legend of Legendary Legend of Legendary Heroes of Legend (Until today I still have not get the title right). Anyways, produced by ZEXCS (I know it sounds like when an Italian guy says sex) thus I have lowexpectation of this series even though they have a solid and interesting plot. A story about a guy and a vampire girl. Need I continue? Can we ever have enough vampires as plot devices in an anime? No. Sigh.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: AFTER THE TWILIGHT FIASCO, IT WOULD TAKE YEARS OF VAMPIRE ANIMES TO RECORRECT THE DISEQUILIBRIUM TWILIGHT BROUGHTNekogami YaoyorozuCat gods and booze. Yep. Supposedly based on a comedy manga FLIPFLOPs (yes, flipflops...) produced by Studio AIC+. I know every season we must have an anime about the product of some interspecies orgy. I don't think there is a plot nor any sort of conflicts in this anime.It's just about a bunch of cat gods drinking, merrymaking and having fun. Nuff said.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: PART TART, PART CAT, SHITTING RAINBOWS AND FLYING OFF TO SAVE THE GALAXY!R-15Akutagawa Takuto is a teenage porn novel writer (amazing..). He enters Hirameki Gakuen, which accepts only geniuses with outstanding talent. He leads his classmates with his porn skills to win the interclass competition (outstanding..). Directed by Nawa Munenori. HIM! IT'S HIM!The director of Kiss X Sis, Da Capo second season, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Rental Magica. Which means only one thing....EXPECTATION INDEX METER: LOTS OF FAN SERVICE!!! (oh and I'm expecting this to be a harem as well, SCORE!)Dantalian’s LibraryThe story is about [INSERT GENERIC MALE HERE] who inherited a [INSERT GENERIC INHERITANCE HERE] which is a mansion and given the responsibility to look after [INSERT GENERIC UNKNOWN FEMALE CHARACTER HERE WHICH WILL THE PLOT WOULD EVENTUALLY REVOLVE AROUND HER] Sounds interesting? What if I tell you the producers are GAINAX and the story is based on the light novel by the same guy who wroteAsura Cryin. Still not interesting enough for you? How about if I tell you this is about demons? Still not good enough for you? Yeah, me neither. My intuition is telling me that this anime would provide lots of plot that makes you go, "What is this? I don't even..." so if you're a mental masochist, then go ahead and your senses numb by this. Nevertheless, I would like to give animes a benefit of a doubt and watch at least 3 episodes before making any judgement.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: HOW COME I'VE NEVER INHERITED A MANSION AND A CREEPY GIRL BEFORE? LIFE IS SO UNFAIR!Nurarihyon no Mago 2Yeah I know the picture above shows "1" Screw it, you expect his hairstyle to change in the second season? Not likely.I've watch only 2 episodes of the first season before I dropped it because;a) It is a shounenb) The glassess dude didn't get a haremc) I'm not a fan of multiple personality male lead. Reminds me Yu-Gi-Oh and Hidan No AriaSo yeah, I didn't have a problem with the anime on whole since it wasn't really targeted towards me. But the negative externalities was still conferred upon me. (Having to witness people cosplay as the main character. How do you get your hair to ridiculous proportion like that?!)If you enjoyed the first season, then I see why not you would avoid the second season since it's shounen and it's all about the number of episodes...EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THE POLLS ARE IN; Rikuo's other personality's haircut [/] Justin Bieber's new haircut. [X]Kaitou Tenshi Twin AngelA kid friendlier version of Panty and Stockings? Two best friend who looks like normal schoolgirls in the morning but at night fight villains as the blue and red angel. Two girls with different personalities but are best of friends. Isn't that sweet. I felt like hundred of blades stabbed my cold heartless soul. Ok, I admit it the song is catchy and upbeat. It reminds me of eroges opening songs. Even though I said this was a kid friendly version, I doubt the show main targeted audience are little girls. But more of middle aged man who are lolicons. Sigh.EXPECTATON INDEX METER: UNDER-AGE PORNOGRAPHY IS STILL ILLEGAL IN MOST PART OF THE WORLD.BLADEAnother Madhouse and Marvel collaboration. If I didn't bother to watch Ironman, X-Men and wolverine, I wouldn't bother about this one as well. Some things are best left not anime-fied Moving along...EXPECTATION INDEX METER: WE NEED MORE 'DARK SKINNED GENTLEMEN' IN ANIMES!Kamisama DollsI was expecting a comedy anime but knowing Japan, anything to do with dolls are most probably twisted and horrifying. This anime is totally the unexpected for me. When I think of dolls, I thought about those long haired girl dolls with the scary blank stares. (You may think of barbie dolls because you're not a REAL man) But when I watched the preview, the dolls are actually huge freakin balls of metal! (Literally ball shaped, not testicles) So the story is about a bunch of grown men playing with their balls which coincidently are dolls. I'm just kidding of course. Animation and art wise is superb and characters are in their maturity stage. Produced by Brain's Base, you would think that this is going to be one hell of a anime. The theme of the story is quite dark. Murders, anger, hatred, deception and of course giant metal ball robots massacring humans. Sorry but I don't fancy seeing people chopped into shreds so maybe I'm going to skip this out. But if you're a sadist and you like dark mysterious plots, then knock yourself out. (Not literally of course)EXPECTATION INDEX METER: THIS IS WHY GROWN MEN SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH DOLLS AND/OR THEIR BALLS...Sacred SevenSchool battle action themed. So what else is new?"People memories can change the world!" Yep, that's the tagline of the anime. My intuition tells me this is another Super GalacticPretty Boy genre. So yeah... NEXT!EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IM GUESSING IT'S CALLED SACRED SEVEN BECAUSE THERE'S SEVEN CHARACTERS ON THE POSTERS?Kami-sama no Memo-chouWhat if Keima from World God Only Knows married Victorique from Gosick and had a daughter? WRONG. They wont get any children because Victorique would probably be a 100 year old granny by then with no reproductive ability. Ok, but what if they were in the same time line and did get a daughter? Introducing Alice. She's a NEET detective girl. Pair her up with a generic male partner who is probably going to provide little to no character development for her. Solving crimes with her NEET powers (Yes, people it is a fact that NEET people have superpowers!) and using her wide known connection on the internet (Right? Because Internet is used to broaden your connection, not to surf for porn..) Same old concept from JC Staff.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GIRL VERSION OF 'L' FROM DEATH NOTE. HECK EVEN THE TITLE TRANSLATE TO GOD'S NOTEBOOK.Ro-Kyu-BuSports + Comedy + Lolis = Ro-Kyu-BuAh... Girls who clearly did not get affected by the laws of time. But wait, this time they ARE really elemantary school girls. I have nothing more to say about loli animes anymore. I used up every single joke I had against lolicon. So yeah. I'm just gonna copyand paste the summary of the story here and hopefully my boss (Trzr) does not find out I'm slacking off. Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11 year old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them. Shh.. No one has to know I just copy pasta this from Myanimelist.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: A HAREM OF LOLIS FOR A HIGHSCHOOLER! FORK YEAH!Manyuu HikenchouI am baffled. I am speechless. I am bewildered. An anime about breasts and nuturing them. And I thought Seikon no Qwaser took the cake for most absurd usage of breast as a plot device. No. I'm sorry. Manyuu Hikenchou wins it by a long shot. "Breast are the symbol ofstatus. If you lack them you are rarely considered of being a human." Ouch. Tough love for all the flat chested girls out there and breast cancer patients. But there is hope for you! (Pointing at Rie Kugimiya's tsundere characters) There is a scroll with knowledge on how to nuture and grow breasts! And no, fondling them does not make them grow bigger. That's a busted myth. So yeah, shame on you to all the guys who used that excused to fondle with their girlfriends' breast.EXPECTATION INDEX METER: GRAVITY WILL BE THE DOWNFALL OF THOSE BIG BREAST!Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000%See I told you girls there would be an idol anime for you. Based on PSP game made by Broccoli (the same people who brought me Galaxy Angels, brought me this is unthinkable!) so yeah you can guess by the poster it's a reverse harem. You know how muchI despise reverse harem.............. There will be blood..................EXPECTATION INDEX METER: IT IS MY SWORN DUTY TO REVERSIFY ANY REVERSE HAREM...And now I'm going back to podcast ideas for the blog. This was just a little detour from a suggestion by Trzr. Having gone for a long break (studying isn't really a break) I owe my boss here lots of posts. Hope you guys would read my future post just to humor yourselves.And as always, thanks for reading.
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I think I love to spoil myself on the blogosphere before giving any series a look. This is my impression of what's going on in the series, right before I watch it myself: Ohana's tired of her current life her irresponsible mom gave her, and now that she ran off with her debt-ridden boyfriend, she took it as a chance to start anew. She dumped her boyfriend and moved to the countryside to live with her grandmother, who isn't as loving as she though she would be. She end up having to work for her keep and once got bitch-slapped so hard she nosebled. I've never been so misled by synopsis of other websites before. Ohana's mom didn't exactly ran away from her responsiblity to look after her, she ran away because of her boyfriend's debt. Ohana didn't dump anyone, the guy just confessed and never appeared again (I suppose he would have a bigger role in the future). And Ohana just have a higher tendency to nosebleed more than other people, it wasn't exactly due to the slap she got from her grandma. But there's one thing that the paragraph above pictured correctly: Ohana's life is totally fucked. One thing that really got to me is how indifferent Ohana's reaction is to all the crap she's been taking throughout the episode. It's not that she doesn't have a reaction, but I would find it normal if she did rage over it. I guess it tells you a lot about the life she had for the last 16 years under the care of such an irresponsibly mother, so much that the head waitress Wajima Tomoe thinks her mom's a total whore. But once the light of the situation finally sets in, I guess it is too much for a little 16yo girl to handle after all. That's what I really loved about this particular scene. She might have be pretty indifferent throughout the whole episode and always putting on the strong front, but the tears that welled up in the end really tells you how much crap she tried to kept bottled up. That is quickly followed by a motivating yell as she cleans the corridor, showing that there's still plenty of fight left in her. GAMBATTE OHANA! I never really took notice of voice actor Ito Kanae, but I'm surprised by how well she voice Ohana. It feels a world apart from the Asobi ni Iku yo's Elis, which was a pretty dumb character. What really surprised me was Miamiko Noto. I've hated most of the roles, particularly Nogizaka Haruka, but I'm pleased to see how well she can voice normal, sane characters as well. There's a better use for her voice than for shy, clumsyfuck characters. Anyway, I enjoyed the OP as well. I couldn't find any information on the group nano.ripe, but can anyone confirm if the lead singer is the same as the one who sang Honey & Clover OPs?
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