Fall Season First Blush Part 2

Orenchi no Furo Jijo: One day Tatsumi inadvertently saves a merman from dying on the shore of a river.  Now he has to deal with the pampered bi-shonen refusing to return to the dirty natural waterways,  favoring his bath tub instead.

    Not sure how I feel about this one after its first 2 minutes episode. The animation is pretty shoddy and I'm not sure how long the gag will last even with the length each episode is.  I feel this thing could very easily turn into some weird fantasy BL thing.  If it does, whatever, as long as its entertaining.  Time will tell though how this one pans out.

Inou Battle wa Ichijou-kei no Naka de:  Five members of the literature club gain super powers,  but half a year later they still don't understand why and haven't found any justifiable reason to have them.

     This is a rather funny series that turns the super power genre on its head by keeping its characters in mostly mundane situations.  The only male member of the club is the only one expecting legions of bad guys to start showing up and insists on everyone honing their abilities and continuing to practice them.  The problem is that his power is apparently useless.  If this show maintains its mundane scenario it could be quite entertaining and enjoyable.  Hopefully it doesn't turn into some shonen battle shlock where these kids are chosen defenders of the world...then it would become truly mundane and uninteresting.  If it keeps up with the struggles of pointlessly having super powers, you want to hide, this could be good for a half a season or so.

Magic Kaito 1492: Kaito dreams of being a famous magician like his father who died 8 year earlier.  When a famous illusionist thief returns after an 8 year absence he discovers his fathers secret and decides to take up his mantle in order to find out if his father was murdered.

    This is a classic shonen detective story.  Its like a cross between Lupin and Conan mixed with illusionist parlor tricks.  The character designs are like something out of the 80s...the noses...like carrots.  The entire premise is cliche , especially since Kaito lives next door to his police rival, who appears to be a keystone detective.  With all of these faults I think I may enjoy this show.  It looks like its going to be a fun throwback to an older time that produced some quality shows.  I don't see this one being memorable but I do think its going to be a decent homage.

 Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete: The members of the astronomy club for some reason are known for their abilities to intervene in conflicts between students, sometimes rather forcefully.  When unease between its own members occurs the ones not involved do their best to correct the situation.  Two members, So and Kaori, are childhood friends and live together.  When Kaori's deep feelings for So start to cause problems regarding her jealousy the club does its best to make So aware of the situation and to make amends.  They confess their feelings to each other and things start to look like they will return to normal, when...Kaori gets killed by a bus.  Much misery and sadness occurs.  Then in the last 2 minutes of the episode time jumps back a few days and some mysterious girl crashes into the roof of the school, naked.

    OK, so this show is based on a galge of sorts.  It stinks of galge through out the first episode.  Ko is the main character and you can tell he's not actually interested in his childhood friend/house mate.  He's more got the hots for another girl in the club.  But when everyone pushes him to realize Kaori's feelings he goes along and thinks its a good idea too, but then shes killed, but then we jump back in time...  So I knew this show dealt with time travel to an extent but I do not understand how or why and to what end.  The president of the club has this mystery cube and apparently with it or something else has the ability to alter time.  She slyly demonstrated this through out the episode and her reaction to people wondering why she was always were she needed to be was pretty well done.  I love stories that deal with time travel but I have a growing disdain for galge based anime.  So I'm a bit torn.  I will keep going with this one until it gives me some solid reasons to not continue, as I am intrigued by the time travel aspects of it.  In some ways it also seems like a cheap knock off of Suzumuya Haruhi no Yuutsu.  When Kaori got obliterated by the truck I also has a flashback to the amazingly depressing Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.

Donten ni Warau: Taking place 11 years after the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and with it the samurai's status.  Factions of people still upset about the Meiji restorations attempts at Westernization sometimes plot to overthrow the government.  In order to deal with these dangerous factions a special prison is built in the middle of lake Biwa to contain them.  Three orphaned brothers who are famed for their swordsmanship are entrusted with transporting and helping to capture these rebellious samurai.

    Not sure how I feel about this show.  It looks nice and I usually enjoy stories that take place in this period of time.  But the the main characters are rather annoying and out of place.  Its like the only reason they were created was to make girls fawn over them and prime cosplay opportunities.  The series seems like it was designed by a committee that wanted to come up with a shonen battle series appealing to women.

Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis: In a world of high fantasy different factions worked together to fight the legendary dragon god Bahamut before it could do more damage.  1000 years later the world is a relatively peaceful place with its different races and factions living in relative harmony.  A flashy and reckless bounty hunter named Favaro ends up running into a woman who comes from a far away land who asks for help in getting home.  She has in her possession one of the two pieces that contain Bahamut.  He knows nothing about her or her secrets and thinks he a gullible woman like he toys with in bars.  Unfortunately for him shes way more powerful and intelligent than he suspect.

    Even though this is fantasy, which I'm not usually a fan of, and based on a video game, which I'm barely a fan of, I think I'm going to really enjoy this show.  The characters and the pace look like something you would expect from Watanabe Shinichiro.  The first episode was highly entertaining and I cant wait for episode 2.  So far,  fantastic, it's like Dungeons & Dragons meets Cowboy Bebop.

Ai Tenchi Muyo: We find the protagonist of this legacy harem title a new student teacher at an all girls school.  It seems Tenchi,  who has fought intergalactic terrorists, is a bit unsure of his new surroundings and the seemingly overtly sexual student body.

   The fact that the episodes are 4 minutes long should have been the first clue...but it looks like the anime that can be considered one of the originators of the harem genre is now being redone to fit modern day standards of the genre.  I'm not particularly enamored with this possibility.  In fact this rather pisses me off...and I thought Shin Tenchi was useless.  This show appears to be a barrel scrapping attempt to kill a semi respected franchise...so much hatred...  Things get even more confusing when episode 3 features Tenchi in a completely different scenario were Washu sends him to some past time to search for two friends of hers who are stuck there.  I'm sure there is some link between both story lines but I am not sure how eager I am to find out...