My namesake season of anime is coming up! And what does it bring me…? Almost nothing of interest. Damn.

Summer and Winter are always about half the size of Spring and Fall so I guess it can’t be helped. Still, this is probably the most disappointing season of anime for me personally since I’ve been blogging. I only found one new series I have any real interest in picking up.

Though it’s all for the best. I’ll be busy in Winter. Plus less anime = easier preview = earlier post!

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Last time I finally found a preview format that I liked, so I’m sticking with it. This time just making the images smaller to make things look neater and making the title more noticeable.

Same format though. Continuing Series, Sequels of Interest (none this time), New Series, OVA & Movies, and…the rest. There’s a lot of “the rest.” You won’t even get much enthusiasm from me on the new stuff I go in-depth for.

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Continuing Series

Continuing from the last season.

• Shugo Chara! Party!
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Fairy Tail
• Yumeiro Patissiere
• InuYasha Kanketsu-hen
• Kobato.

They go in order of what I think will not end first. Shugo Chara! places first because it’s never going to end. Kobato. places last because…it has 24 episodes which is mathematically the least amount of episodes. Fairy Tail places above Yumeiro Patissiere which we now know will probably have at least 52 episodes just based on most shounen stats. YumePati is already confirmed for just 52. Fullmetal Alchemist? Well it has at least a half a year to go I think.

Of course things always change. To make it simple: Only InuYasha and Kobato. are ending in Winter.

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New Series

New anime for the season.

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OokamiKakushi

Series: Ookami Kakushi
Adaptation: Game by Ryushiki07
Studio: AIC
Airdate: 01/??
Episodes: ?
Website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/okami/
(ANN) (Wikipedia) (MAL)

Seiyuu: Yu Kobayashi, Emiri Katou, Mai Fuchigami, Mariya Ise, Saki Fujita, Yuko Goto

Videos: show

A secret law in the old part of town brings together dread and mystery. It is the summer of 1983. 10 stories, intertwined by the idle thoughts of people caught in repeating nightmares. What could possibly be the truth therein!?

Always wanted to watch Higurashi, but I wanted to get it on DVD so it just hasn’t happened yet. Probably for Christmas (lol nice Christmas present). Didn’t watch Umineko because I just felt like I wanted to watch Higurashi first. But now we have a new anime based on a Ryukishi07 game and its character designs were done by Peach-Pit. So…Oh hell yes.

Watching? Yes.
Blogging? Doubt it.

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Durarara!!

Series: Durarara!!
Adaptation: Light Novels by Ryohogo Narita
Studio: Brain’s Base
Airdate: 01/07
Episodes: ?
Website: http://www.durarara.com/
(ANN) (Wikipedia) (MAL)

Seiyuu: Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Ayahi Takagaki, Daisuke Ono, Hiroshi Kamiya, Jun Fukuyama, Kana Hanazawa, Mamoru Miyano, Sanae Kobayashi, Yuuichi Nakamura

Videos: show

Ryuugamine Mikado is a normal high school boy who seeks peculiar beings. he moves to Tokyo’s rowdy Ikebukuro neighborhood, where teenage punks gang up and fight against each other. There is an urban legend “Dullahan” headless rider, who rides a black motorcycle without head lights nor sounds of engine.  A mad scramble for Dullahan’s missing head breaks out.

It looks like it could be good. Legitimately good. It has all the signs of being good. There’s only one downside. I usually don’t like things that are considered good. Or rather, I like them, but I don’t get excited for them. Strange. But I’ll still be watching this, even if it isn’t really my sort of thing. But the cast…the cast, I’d watch this even if I thought it was going to be crap.

Watching? Maybe.
Blogging? No.

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So•Ra•No•Wo•To

Series: So•Ra•No•Wo•To
Adaptation: Original Work?
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Airdate: 01/??
Episodes: ?
Website: http://www.sorawoto.com/
(ANN) (Wikipedia) (MAL)

Seiyuu: Juri Aikawa, Aoi Yuki, Aya Endo, Eri Kitamura, Mayuno Yasokawa, Misato Fukuen, Unshou Ishizuka, Yu Kobayashi

Videos: show

In the future there is a land that, after being marred by long-lasting wars, has settled into quiet decline. A 15-year-old girl named Kanata fulfills her dream of enlisting in the army and joins a unit of five girls who protect a fortress. The girls play music that reverberate across the skies over towns without people and seas without fish.

“K-On! Joins the Army” I guess (I was going to leave the character resemblance alone until I found out about the music). I’m willing to give it a chance if it’s just the art though and not the overall moemoemoe tone. Now I’m supposed to love shows with girls, but I’m worried about the moe-blobbery that’s been getting to me lately. So I’ll just keep a little tally going. It gets five “too stupid to live” moments in the first episode and then it gets dropped. Any yuri subtext that isn’t really subtext and is just there because it’s a series full of girls for the sake of fanservice gets it immediately dropped.

Watching? Maybe.
Blogging? No.

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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

Series: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
Adaptation: Light Novels by Kenji Inoue
Studio: SILVER LINK
Airdate: 01/??
Episodes: ?
Website: http://www.bakatest.com/
(ANN) (Wikipedia) (MAL)

Seiyuu: Hiro Shimono, Hitomi Harada, Emiri Katou, Kaori Mizuhashi, Kouki Miyata, Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Videos: show

There is an academy rigidly divides up the student body into classes based on the results of tests. Prodigies are in the heavenly A class, but our “baka” Akihisa is in F Class, the lowest rung of the school ladder which is as bad as A class is good. Mizuki Himeji is also in F class, but is actually one of the smartest girls in Akihisa’s sophomore year. Besides Mizuki (who Akihisa secretly adores), the F class also has class president, Yuji Sakamoto, who has been Akihisa’s friend and since freshman year. So they…start a revolution…with mascot characters…

My seasonal “pick up something that looks bad so I can watch it when I’m bored” pick. I have one every season. These picks I usually choose based on character designs and the potential for some romance in the plot, but lately I’ve been picking them out for ridiculousness that may make me laugh. Of course, it’s worth noting that excessive fanservice just gets kicked out and I pick up something else that’s idiotic instead.

Watching? Maybe. -_-
Blogging? No.

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OVAs, Movies, & Etc.

Released without first airing on television.

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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st

Series: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st (Film)
Adaptation: Redone of a Series that was a Spin-Off of an Eroge!
Related Series: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (+ A’s & StrikerS)
Studio: Seven Arcs
Release Date: 01/23
Website: http://www.nanoha.com/
(ANN) (Wikipedia) (MAL)

Seiyuu: Yukari Tamura, Nana Mizuki

Videos: show

Nanoha Vs. Fate -> Nanoha & Fate Team-Up in all of its big screen GLORY!!! Plus their non-mahou shoujo clothes are cuter this time around I think.

Nanoha!!! Ass-kicking loli befriending magic on the BIG SCREEN! The original befriended story! Damn I wish I was in Japan. At least I’ll enjoy the build-up and the merchandising like I’m in Japan. (Got a pre-order in for my Nanoha nendoroid!)

Really though, this is one series that having a recap movie beats having a new storyline. The first season could use some tweaking to make the action and story work better. So I’m very excited.

Watching? YEAH!!!…on DVD.
Blogging? Maybe when I actually watch it.

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Other Anime for the Season

TV series I probably won’t be watching.

Chu-Bra!!: If the title isn’t obvious why I won’t watch this than the website certainly is. I don’t seem to be the intended audience.

Dance in the Vampire Bund: I just don’t like vampires guys. I think they’re the most overrated…thing ever. The only vampire story I ever liked was Karin which put a unique spin on it and had the plus of being a comedy…and the manga being just plain good. But if the promo art for a vampire story looks vampire-y I generally stay away.

Hanamaru Kindergarten: When I saw this I originally thought it seemed cute. Then I realized that my tastes have changed and that stuff like this bores me nowadays and pisses me off if I don’t realize it bores me. Go figure.

Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3: Owari Naki Unmei: Stupid long name, I’m glad I’m staying well away from you. Anyway, this reeks of fantasy otome game adaptation or something resembling that so I’m just staying away.

Hidamari Sketch×☆☆☆: Haven’t watched it yet. Don’t know why I’d start now.

Katanagatari: I may miss out on a lot of good stories this way, but I have the opposite reaction that most have to something that looks unique and possible interesting. At least for anime. If it looks weird at all I just want to stay away.

Ladies vs. Butlers: The title sounded interesting, but then any further research into it ruined it all with its horribly generic…everything.

Nodame Cantabile Finale: Even though I really do want to watch this I can’t catch up in time. I will take this opportunity to actually watch it though. The promo art did me in.

Omamori Himari: Those evil bastards try to lure me in with their cute big riboned-girls and their romantic comedy summaries. Luckily this time I was able to scroll down and I decided it wasn’t for me.

Seikon no Qwaser: You almost had me with your mildly pretty art. But I saw those unnatural looking boobs and I ran. Even so I don’t think it looks very interesting anyway.

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All information was gathered in other places and all I did was simply collect them into one post. Resources include The Fansub Wiki, Wikipedia, Anime News Network, and the anime sites themselves.

As a warning, if my resource was wrong, then I’m wrong. But I try my best to collect information I believe is correct.

The adorable Rin image up top was brought to you here. (Image itself is also clickable)

As always, when information changes or becomes available, this post will change accordingly.

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Thoughts

…I totally want to skip over this season, just grab Ookami Kakushi along for the ride and go to spring. There’s four anime that I was interested in enough to get the full information. Four. But on the other hand…there’s just 14 total in this post.

For once I can’t really see myself picking up anything this season that I didn’t preview and that’s just disappointing.

Of course I don’t have much to complain about when I have Spring resembling Fall in being perfect for my tastes. And they’re the big seasons that really matter.

Angel Beats! will be watched and almost guaranteed to be loved by this fangirl. Black Rock Shooter…which everyone is watching (and screw you if you’re not). Likely Kaichou wa Maid-sama! which…should need no explanation.

Plus Iron Man which actually gets a bigger FUCK YEAH than the rest from me. I secretly love comic book superheroes, but I just don’t read them because of their convoluted intertwined stories. Plus I don’t like different writers working on the same thing. It irks me because the trouble I know it can lead to. But movies and anime? That’s just fine with me.

And this is how boring I find Winter. All I can talk about is Spring. I’m not going to blog anything, am I? Only one “doubt it” and the rest are flat-out no. More time for Project R and school then.

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