It’s the halfway point of the spring season, so I thought; why
not rank the new shows I’m watching.
Below is their order from greatest to least.
#1. Mushi-shi (蟲師 続章)
No surprise here,
I loved the original and the continuation of this excellent series does not
disappoint. Right now my two biggest
problems are; which episode is my favorite and what will I do while the series
takes the summer off?!
#2. Knights of
Sidonia (シドニアの騎士)
This is a fun and
interesting space mech opera. We still
have yet to get into the meat of the story and it’s already been a really fun
ride. I keep trying to convince people
to stop watching Attack on Titan and watch this instead…but no one ever listens
to me.
#3. World Fool News (ワールド フール ニュース)
This one popped up out of nowhere on
Crunchyroll and perked my interest.
Oddly drawn but wryly written gag series that apparently is getting
limited broadcast time in Japan. If you
have a good handle on Japanese gag humor you can take a lot out of this
one. Best gag so far, the baby who runs
a construction company.
#4. The Kawai Complex
(僕らはみんな河合荘)
I really, really
see this as a modernization of Maison Ikkoku and have been enjoying its offbeat
humor and glossy animation. The last
episode was a bit of a downer but I hope to see the series rolling strong and
perhaps betting an overall plot to it besides ‘dude wanting to hook up with
girl’. There are teasers in the OP that
could make this series really interesting.
#5. Mekaku City
Actors (メカクシティアクターズ)
With researching
its vocaloid origins and finally starting to see more of the story after a handful
of episodes, this series is becoming interesting. The animation though is kind of annoying, but
I won’t let that deter me from this unique series.
#6. One Week Friends
(一週間フレンズ)
This series is
nice but is really dry…almost too dry…I want to like it more, but it’s starting
to really become boring. Maybe it’s
better off as a manga, time will tell.
#7. Soul Eater Not! (ソウルイーターノット！)
This spin off of
the excellent original is faring better than I expected but still has to deal
with moe trappings. My reception to it
is tepid currently and unless the series kicks into gear and starts to go
somewhere I may drop it.
#8. The World is
Still Beautiful (それでも世界は美しい)
If only she would
stop FUCKING singing every single episode!!!
I would like this series quite a bit better. It’s fun and brainlessly enjoyable
otherwise. No new territory, hell the
art looks like it came straight out of 1997.
But enjoyable, accept for that same damn song being sung, almost each
and every time!!!!! Knock it off already;
we get it…push the single. Geez.
#9. M3 (Ｍ３ -ソノ黒キ鋼)
I have only
watched the first episode of this supernatural series and it seems mildly interesting,
need to really catch up before I can have a better feel for it, but so far, not
so bad.
#10. Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット)
If it wasn’t for
all of the loli characters I would probably like this series more. But they just so happen to be part of the
central plot so it get annoying. There
are also shonen battle series trappings as well…which are also annoying.
#11. Captain Earth (キャプテン・アース)
For all of its
faults, and it has a shit ton of them, I keep wanting to watch more to find out
what the subterfuge is all about in the story.
The animation is semi garbage.
The mech design is shitty and unoriginal. The recycled mech formation sequences are
incredibly trite. The fact the enemy is
after humanities libido is one of the dumbest plot devices I have ever
seen! I want to know what’s up with all
the organizations involved and what the hell these enemy beings really
are. I honestly could care less for the
success or failure of the good guys. Oh,
and if it wasn’t bad enough, they had to toss in a cute iconic animal ala
Magical Knights Rayearth to make it even more ‘fan’ appealing.
#12. Brynhilder in
the Darkness (極黒のブリュンヒルデ)
While the story is
interesting, almost all of the characters are so goddamn annoying., moe and
loli…fuck!! Good thing there is some
gratuitous violence, not like Elfen Laid, but enough to keep me watching with
all of its faults. I mean, the story is
interesting to a degree, but they keep pulling these worn out plot devices out
of their ass to keep the story rolling.
(Knights of Sidonia)
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