Spring 09 anime: First Impressions I
K-ON!
This is Kyoto Animation’s latest not-Haruhi project. Not much surprising here. Four girls, doing stuff. This time, they’re forming a band. Basically, unless you’re into slice of life, there really isn’t much for you here. I thought it was nice and fun so far. I have read some of the 4-koma and am looking forward to the rest. Interestingly enough, all of the voice actresses are all really new, so it’s nice not to have to hear Hirano Aya or Kugimiya Rie in every show you’re watching.
Asura Cryin’
My gut feeling on this one told me that I wasn’t going to like it, but for whatever reason, I decided to take a look anyway. I wasn’t completely wrong, but it’s kind of different from what I expected. For one thing, mecha? Although, it could be that the group that subbed it wasn’t spectacular. It’ll depend how I’m feeling next week that decides whether this gets another shot.
Hayate no Gotoku!!
I don’t know what people are complaining about, the art and animation looks the same. Actually, just about the only thing I noticed was that the colours seem to be a bit sharper. Of course, with JC Staff, art isn’t the huge issue, it’s the adaptation. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing some more manga stuff and hopefully, the fact that there’s no real overarching grand story means that JC Staff won’t be able to screw it up.
Tags: Anime, asura cryin, hayate the combat butler, k-on
Kugimiya Rie is awesome though! :3 I know what you mean though, it is kinda nice to see some new talent. Ritsu’s VA (forget the name) reminds me a lot of Tomatsu Haruka (Nagi from Kannagi).
I’m still not quite finished with the monstrous first season of Hayate no Gotoku. I’ve been putting it off the last few days, because Eclipse hasn’t subbed the first episode of the 2nd season yet, but as soon as they do I’ll probably feel up to blazing through the last few episodes.
Let’s make a light music band. NAO.