In which I give my impressions on shows that everyone’s already talked about for the past week.
Maria+Holic
Maria+Holic doesn’t fall in my target radius for stuff I’m really interested in. The main characters are a closet lesbian who falls for a guy who’s crossdressing for reasons that haven’t been made apparent yet. But, I really like SHAFT, so I decided to have a look at at least one episode. The show is still awkward to watch, but the trap character is a lot funnier than I expected him to be. We’ll see how the rest of this goes.
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
One of a billion sequels this season, this one is for a show that most people didn’t follow from last summer. This second season starts with the advantage of having the characters already gone through some development. This is a really character driven show and the first episode gives us a Natsume and Nyanko that are comfortable in their relationship already and who know how to react when problems show up. It’s a nice watch that’s pretty much only for those of us who liked the first season.
Minami-ke Okaeri
I really didn’t like Okawari and I was unimpressed upon learning that asread would be doing Okaeri. But, it looks like they’ve listened to a lot of the criticism of Okawari. For one thing, the writing and direction is a lot closer to that of the first season. There’s no constant barrage of Mako-chan, there’s no annoying original character, and the glimpse of the Minami brothers in the OP gives everyone hope. On the downside, it looks like the animation quality took a hit. I guess it’d be too much to ask for them not to screw anything up.
Everyone loves traps! :p I didn’t get much awkwardness from it, it was more hilarious than awkward I felt. The interactions between Mariya, Kanako, and Matsurika have already proven to be quite hilarious. I look forward to more lulz.
I haven’t seen either of those other series, since they’re sequels. I’m locked out of pretty much every sequel this season, and half of the new shows seem to be sequels. A shame really :/
This is becoming an anime blog of sorts :)
I can’t believe I forgot the maid, I really liked her too. I can’t say the same for Kanako though. She comes off more as annoying than hilarious to me.
@xau: That will change once school becomes an unbearable burden, which it will once algorithms, OS, group theory, and interviews all get going, or once Parliament resumes and does things that I can criticize. Either way, it’ll give me something else to write about, like during the US Presidential election and how I wouldn’t shut up about it.
That is very few titles for the winter season, I must say. I have not yet started looking at the winter line-up, but I think I will be picking up a couple more shows.
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