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Animu that finished recently

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So a bunch of anime I was watching finished their run.

Darker than BLACK: Gemini of the Meteor

The problem with DtB was that it ended with a bunch of questions and answering very few of them. The problem with DtB2 is that it didn’t answer any of the questions from the last season and added new ones and didn’t answer those either. It also removed most of the likeable characters or the parts of characters that were likeable. So yeah, the moral of the story is that you shouldn’t need a sidestory OVA to explain things that we were waiting for you to explain.

So Ra No Wo To

A.K.A. that show that looked like K-ON! but was superficially similar. At worst, it was some slice of life in a small European town. It had quite a few moments though, from moonshining to PTSD to the revelation of a post-apocalyptic wasteland right outside the borders. Not spectacular, but definitely not bad.

Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆

More Hidamari, more awesome. I was dreading what might happen if we threw in two more characters, but Nazuna and Nori filled out the cast pretty well. They weren’t exactly the Yuno and Miya clones I was expecting them to be. We’ve also got new relationship dynamics now that we have all the years filled out. Another highly enjoyable wideface season.

Kobato.

Not my kind of show, but I still watched it. It was alright, I guess, and it had its moments. I did not enjoy the random LOL CLAMP moments near the end of the show though. I probably wouldn’t have missed it if I dropped it. Oh well.

Nodame Cantabile Finale

Surprisingly not bad and pretty well paced, considering this is Chiaki Kon we’re talking about. Unfortunately, she also chose to stick to the manga pretty closely and that means we still got the terrible manga ending. That said, the ending’s probably the worst part of the season, which places it well ahead of Paris Chapter.

Hanamaru Kindergarten

This was a very fun little show and it looks like Gainax put way more effort into the show than they usually do. I liked pretty much all the characters in the show except for Anzu, which is kind of unfortunate because she’s around a lot. Hiiragi is the best character on the show, with Hinagiku and her Yakuza family coming up in second.

Ookamikakushi

Ryukishi07, I am disappoint.

Baka to Test to Shoukanju

I was expecting this to be something terrible like Seitokai no Ichizon, but it actually managed to be pretty entertaining. I guess the way the jokes are written are much more appealing to me than that show I mentioned before. It also gets points for actually using the convoluted battle system premise in an interesting fashion.

Kimi ni Todoke

This went down pretty much like I expected. It’s a really faithful adaptation of the manga and paced just right to reach exactly the right spot to end on. And it was great; easily the best show from Fall 2009. I’m looking forward to a second season in between checking if the next chapter is out yet.

Eden of the East: The King of Eden

This was kind of disappointing. Even though things definitely happened, it felt like nothing was happening at all. I’m aware that it’s really setup for the next movie, but as a movie, it was really, really weak. Just about the only good thing to come out of it is school food punishment’s light prayer single.

What the hell am I watching? Fall 09 Edition

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Just ended my terrible string of being busy. Now I have time to squander away. The question now is how best to do so.

5. The Sacred Blacksmith

Everything about this is completely underwhelming. Quite honestly, I expected it to be this way, but I’ve been avoiding these fantasy/RPG types of shows for a while because this is exactly what I expect when I think of those. So far, I haven’t dropped it simply because it’s only twelve episodes, but it’s not soon after the start of the episode that I get the urge to.

4. A Certain Scientific Railgun

I didn’t get very far in Index. That said, while the premise of this is still kind of stupid, the first few episodes have kind of been amusing enough that I don’t mind. Yeah, people are complaining about how it’s boring school life and Kuroko is annoying and all. Oh well, I think it’s doing alright for a show about a girl who is a railgun.

3. Kobato

There are some shows that I wonder why I’m watching them and it turns out the answer is that it’s because they are nice. Clannad was once of these the first time I watched it (although now, I watch that sort of stuff without a second thought). I don’t find Kobato’s retard moe to be annoying like I did with Yui, but that may just be that there’s no Mio to compare her to here. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Her ignorance of how the world works does make me cringe sometimes.

So far it seems like a pretty nice going to help people out sort of show, kind of like Natsume Yuujinchou. Of course, people who are more familiar with CLAMP seem convinced that weird crap is going to eventually happen. Oh well, what could go wrong?

2. Darker than BLACK: Gemini of the Meteor

It’s still too early to piece together what happened in between the first and second season (and I guess there will be that OVA to help with that). At twelve actual episodes (not “twelve” two-episode arcs), I’m not sure how far they can bring the story and I’m pretty sure that we’ll be seeing another season. And even though they dropped the episodic format, they still seem to be introducing cool contractors and then offing them by the end of the episode. Everything’s still as well produced as I remember, so this’ll be pretty good.

1. Kimi ni Todoke

This is the show of the season. If you don’t like this, you are a bad person. Well, I guess if you don’t like shoujo, then you probably wouldn’t like this, but that’s okay. Kimi ni Todoke is one of my favourite shoujo manga, probably second only to Kare Kano. Of course, that’s based on the tiny number of chapters that are released and scanned. There’s a very good chance that it can top it.

I really like the anime. I wasn’t too thrilled with Noto Mamiko’s voice in the first episode, but I guess I got acclimatized to her voice so the second and third episodes weren’t as bad. So far, the anime is pretty much following the manga in lockstep. I’ve noticed a few people who were pretty unhappy with the direction, but I really haven’t noticed anything bad. And the production values on this thing are great, as expected from Production IG.

Fall? More like fail

This is a pretty bad season, a fact which is magnified by the fact that summer was one of the best seasons in a while. With FMA and Umineko, that makes seven shows, two of which are middling and would be dropped as soon as I don’t have enough time. I guess there’s always those extra episodes of Hidamari Sketch and Bakemonogatari to look forward to.