I really don't expect to be watching this one past a few obligatory episodes. The animation is pretty shoddy and the characters are less than interesting. It reminds me if a poorly done 70s seinen manga. On top of the shoddy art and disinteresting story it’s graphically edited for its more extreme violence...or so it seems.
Gundam G no Roconguista: Set far in the future on the Gundam timeline, Earth appears to be peaceful and prosperous thanks in part to a system of space elevators. A group of trainee pilots, on the first official visit to orbit, find themselves under attack from pirates. In a daring attempt the youngest recruit, Bellri, is able to combat the pirates mobile suit well enough to capture it with the help of two other squad mates. A mysterious and semi catatonic girl who is also aboard the elevator reacts to the strange mobile suit and its feisty female pilot.
I really dig the throw back to the 70s character designs in this show. Something tells me this pirate group is not really a pirate group and may be something more akin to the mysterious Gundam organization from Gundam 00 (episode two reveals the feisty girl is royalty from another country, global war is afoot!). So far the story is light and easy going, the characters appear to be enjoying themselves, even under duress. I'm sure that will change at some point in the story when harsh reality sets in. It will be interesting to see the stories message unfold.
Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken: A normal woman ends up marrying a professional otaku blogger, for reasons even she doesn't understand. Yet in some ways she finds happiness and only has to figure out how to manipulate her obsessive husband to suit her wants and needs.
Aside from the paid blogger thing this is kind of like my life!! Maybe not totally, but my wife is completely normal, non-otaku and shakes her head at my passions. So, that being said, I think I'm going to enjoy this series, even if the episodes are four minutes long. It will be interesting to see if it develops beyond random scenarios and builds an overall story line.
Sora no Method: Years after moving to Tokyo, Momoka returns to the small village of her early childhood, but her memories are lost to the mists if time. The first full morning at her old home she is greeted by a bizarre girl calling herself Noel, who seems to know her. Confused by the situation she tells the strange girl to leave. Fragments of memory start to come to her and she realizes the Noel is a girl she became friends with before moving away. Noel is also related to the alien ship that remains dormant above the village.
Not sure what’s up with the spaceship or the girl’s connection to it. On the onset the story is about Momoka returning to a forgotten past and dealing with her mother being dead. It will be interesting to see her being reunited with her lost friends and discovering the secrets behind Noel and why Momoka moved. But this series also seems rather stereo typical of mundane shojo slice of life dramas. The brief flashes and encounters with past friends seem to be establishing them as rote personalities. Glasses girl, tsundere, etc. On top of that, the character designs look pretty shoddy...so I'm not sure how long this one will stick around.
Okami Shojo to Kuro Ooji: With her high school debut, Erika, who has a nasty habit of lying ends up befriending 2 questionable girls who brag about dating men. She fabricates a boyfriend of her own to impress them. When her lies start to be questioned she tries to cover them up by taking a photo of a random guy on the street. Unfortunately for her that guy is one of the more sought after guys in her school. When he learns about her predicament he agrees to help her out. On the condition she is his dog, almost literally. What started out as a lucky break now seems to be a fitting punishment for her lies.
Not sure how I feel about this one. The feminist in me really wants to hate it for what it represents. It’s also a worn out plot devise that's seen quite a few incarnations recently. But, I'll give it a shot even though the ending can be seen from a mile away.
World Trigger: A remote town in Japan is one day perturbed by the appearance of a gate to a different dimension. Powerful creatures dubbed Neighbors come through the gate and conventional weapons are unable to defeat them. All hope is lost until a group of people show up who claim to have been preparing for this event for long time and are able to defeat the invaders. They are welcomed and set up a defensive perimeter in the city. Four years later the Neighbors still show up and the group dispatches them with their specially trained powers. A new recruit of an unusual sort arrives to help out, a humanoid that is from the other side of the gate and can use their powers to combat invading neighbors.
I will not be continuing to watch this beyond episode one, it’s a shoddy, played out and hole riddled plot shonen battle series. It comes complete with power ups, transformation sequences, catch phrases and relatable adolescent characters. The art work is horrible and of little depth. The comedic segments seem forced and out of place. There are to many clichés in this series for me to even want to begin addressing...I guess if you yearned for a kid friendly Attack on Titan this is what you would get.
Gugure Kokkuri-san: A lonely orphan girl summons a fox spirit with the Japanese version of an Ouija board. The fox spirit decides to stick around and haunt her to become her guardian. The girl, who rejects contact and feelings does what she can to keep him at bay, but at the same time coyly welcoming a break from her lonely life.
This could end up being my favorite show of the new season. Its pretty funny and has some moments of sentiment and emotion, unfortunately those moments are disrupted in text book fashion. Either way the main characters are enjoyable and the real test will be to see how additional characters are integrated. So far though, entertaining and enjoyable.
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