Akikan 1 subbed
Story: The story revolves around a typical high school boy named Kakeru Daichi and the can of melon juice soda that he bought from a vending machine. The can suddenly transforms into a beautiful but standoffish girl that Kakeru nicknames "Melon," and more "Akikan" ("empty can") girls appear. However, Akikan girls need to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.
Genre: personification/scifi.
Review: The guy is an asshole, I don't like him. And the girl is a bubbly airhead. The only interesting one is the men-hater lesbian classmate, but she barely got any screen time. I dunno.
Not much to expect here when a harem needs to be kissed to survive
Kurokami 1 subbed
Adaptation of a Korean manga.
Keita Ibuki, a high school student, meets a girl named Kuro. Then she's attacked by a guy with baseball bat. She beats him up. Then she goes away. End of episode 1.
Ultra-violence, fights, lots of deaths.
Typical of Korean manga: very good art/animation. And girls that are beaten up very violently, or killed with a lot of blood flying around. And stories that go nowhere.
To be watched for the style, not for the plot.
KissxSis 00 OVA subbed
"Keita has two older step-sisters, Ako and Riko, but since they aren't related by blood, they love him in a lustful way. After a mishap at school, Ako and Riko finally confess their love to him. Keita dislikes the thought of seeing them other then brother and sister, but as he tries to enter the same school as his sisters, he slowly becomes attracted to them."
Softcore porn.
The sisters are looking too young, so it's not very exciting for me as porn. And anyway the close-ups are mainly of the guy's boner... The guy is trying to be tsundere, but fails. The anime is not very funny, manga was better.
Renamed with how to do your sisters when the ball is in your court
White Album 01 sub
"The White Album game centers around Tōya Fujī, a college student dating a rising idol singer named Yuki Morikawa. The story deals with the challenges to the couple’s relationship from the other people at Fujī’s college, Morikawa’s work, and elsewhere."
Animated dorama.
I read a rumor that some studios have started to use voice actors from tv dramas. That would explain why last season some VAs sounded so crappy. Now watching this one, it seems that the studios have started also to use the style from tv dramas... Nothing much happens, besides a few nasties from idols to idols. Camera is fluid, but not focused, it's tiresome. The VAs sound like they are reading a text, not very convincing. Story is bland, and doesn't look like anything flashy will happen anytime soon, besides maybe a romance with one of the girls around... but which one? The weak suspense... is not killing me! ^^;;;
Maria+Holic 01 subbed
"The story centers on a sophomore named Kanako who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria — except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy..."
Trap yuri.
Blah, SHAFT... I don't like that studio. And the pseudo-shoujo is killing me, with the girl voicing her inner thoughts constantly... I would also become a sadistic boy if I was there. There's good humor now and then, but I can't stand to listen to that girl's ramblings. Next!
Pretends yuri only to say lesbians can be cured with the right man
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo 01 raw
"The story is set in the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, when humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidō encounters an abandoned, ill-natured artificial intelligence, called Leopard...."
Sci-fi.
Haha, funny. The delusional brain has the voice of Lelouch!
Ok, good animation, large cast. No intro, but the outro has good animation and music. I'm going to follow this.
VIPER'S CREED - 01 Raw
"After a world war, cities are isolated from each other. Fort Diba City is one of the most prosperous cities and the security of the city is maintained by a private military company. The unit "Viper" is a team of the guards of Alcon and the members carry out their jobs with the assistance of the operators. Sakurako is newly enrolled in the company and assigned as operator of a member of "Viper" unit, Saiki."
Armored bike/mecha chases.
Why don't they use helicopters to catch the runaways? And where are the civilians when these chases happen? How comes they have so much ammo? Why do the OLs (Office Ladies) control the bikes of the riders? How can these OLs type on their keyboards with such long fingernails? And who is going to pay for all those destroyed roads? Sigh. My "creed" is running low. I suppose I shouldn't question the plot and just look at the 3D.
Have you heard anything about Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou?
>>10
I read the title as VIPPER'S CREED and got excited, but unfortunately it was not to be...
Natsume has my attention too but it appears without in this season
>>11
Yeah, I guess it's the continuation of "Natsume Yuujinchou". I had a quick look, but it's the same as the first season: the guy is a loner, surrounded by spirits only. He has a weird spirit-cat as sidekick, probably for marketing, to make it cute and less depressing I guess. I got interested a little bit when the cat transformed into a girl, but it was short and the guy didn't seem interested anyway, so my interest quickly faded away.
Shikabane Hime Kuro 01 subbed
Continuation of "Shikabane Hime Aka". The main actor is finally getting better with his voice acting, it's not as irritating as in the first season. The girl too, has gone better with his voice acting. They are both still a long way to go tho, it seems; it's still whining-sounding now and then. But I've grown to like this show so I'll continue to follow it.
Asu no Yoichi 01 raw
"Yoichi leaves his mountainside's home after his father tells him there's nothing more he can learn in martial arts there. The boy ends up in a martial arts dojo in the city with four girls."
Romantic comedy.
Old-fashioned teenager who knows nothing of the big city's life, lands between 3 girls + a child. Should be funny, but this is an oooold theme, many times used in the past... I didn't laugh even once. But the 3 girls have big breasts, so it should become interesting, somewhere along the line... maybe. Or maybe it won't.
Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 2 - 01 raw
Continuation of Tetsuwan Birdy Decode. Looks like it's gonna be the same watered-down, kiddified plot. For example, why does she need to go in her spaceship in orbit to get a briefing? Because it looks good? And how can she trip on a ball, and the ball not break? Because she lowered down her power levels, or something? It seems we are going to get a new romance going on -- can the guy watch when they go in bed? But he seems to be so indiffrent to Birdy running around naked...
Kemono no Souja Erin 01 raw (NHK-E)
"The story is about a young woman who is drawn into a war between kingdoms. She has the ability to command animals, including dragons, as if she was playing a musical instrument."
Fantasy.
NHK-E = NHK Education. People are talking with pauses, to give the viewing kids the time to grasp concepts, I guess. Art style is poor, like from a documentary. For kids.
Chrome Shelled Regios 1 sub
"The world was infected by “Pollutant” years ago - world cracked open and generally screwed up. This Pollutant spawns nasty “Pollutant Beasts”, but it’s also resulted in people gaining special powers. The story follows a guy named Lei-Fon Alseif who starts at a new school and gets recruited into the special 17th Platoon in order to combat Beasts."
School life, fantasy.
Confusing super-powered battles battles with creepy monsters. Then it moves to a cheesy school. The guy has the voice and behavior of a wimp, but moves like a superman when needed. Lots of girls... as cannon fodder? Or as visual candy? There were no deaths in this episode, so it's probably gonna be a romance, with battles tacked on now and then.
RIDE BACK - 01 Raw
"Ride Back tells the story of a girl and her “Iron Horse” robot motorcycle in 2020, at a tumultous time of anti-governement student protests."
Mecha ballets.
Eeek... The main girl got a moe-ification treatment makeup. She became shy and hesitant, and got slapped with a bunch of "do your best" genki(=enthusiastic) cheesy girlfriends. In the manga she was cool calm and collected, not a victim. But luckily the original manga is showing thru in the riding scenes, pushing away the crap the anime writers shoveled in. Those riding scenes were great.
None appear to understand viewing interest other than more Natsume
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo - 02 Raw
The intro appeared... and it's by Ali Project! Barf... Their singers can't sing. Oh well, I turned off the sound.
Somehow they can manage vocals that horrible using only one person
Munto TV - 01 sub
"In the sky there exist a Kingdom called the Heavens, kept afloat by a power known as Akuto. The amount of Akuto is dwindling, and only the Magical King Munto can save it. But he needs the help of Yumemi, the Girl of Destiny who is the only Earthly person who can see the Heavens."
Fantasy.
Wiki says it's a sequel, but it looks like it's the same as the OVAs. Are they going to reuse the same plot and make it 13-episode longer? I managed to finish watching the weak OVAs back then, because it felt like it was done by some promising talented amateurs, but I couldn't even finish this first TV episode. It was verbose and syrupy... Well drawn, but boring.
Asura Cryin' - 01 RAW
"The main character is Natsume Tomoharu. Although he appears to be a normal high school student at first glance, there's one thing about him which isn't normal: he's haunted by the ghost of a young girl, Minakami Misao. One day, a girl named Kurosaki Shuri appears with a trunk which Tomoharu's brother told her to pass on to him...."
Fantasy, school life.
Ep1 was enjoyable. Let's see ep2 to check if this doesn't become a bunch of battling power levels with mechas.
K-ON! - 01 Raw
"K-On!'s story revolves around four Japanese high school girls who join their school's light music club to try to save it from being abolished. However, they are the only members of the club, and none of them have any experience playing musical instruments or reading sheet music."
By Kyoto Animation.
Music club's school life.
I see the better animation, it reminds me of Kannagi. The girls are kindergarten-level brain-dead, tho. And they are in high-school?? Completely unrealistic. Is this a girls-only school? I saw no guys. Z-zzz...