Hey look it’s chartfag’s poster for the 437th time!

As usual, every episodic blog­ger in the world already rushed out to take their stab at rat­ing each and every show. I’m not going to waste my time over that, but I do have some thoughts of my own on some of the series. My over­all thoughts on the sea­son are: looks awe­some, but in need of yuri (espe­cially since Rail­gun is fin­ish­ing). Also, there are sure a lot of excla­ma­tion marks.

Here’s the short ver­sion. Entries within each sub­cat­e­gory is ordered from most antic­i­pated to least. I think I have like… the strangest list.

Def­i­nites: Angel Beats!, Het­alia Axis Pow­ers, K-ON!, Da Capo Ext.
Prob­a­bles: Work­ing!, Kai­chou wa Maid-sama!, Senko no Night Raid
Tak­ing Peeks: Arakawa Under the Bridge, Ura­giri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitte Iru,  Haku­ouki, Mayoi Neko Over­run, B Gata H Kei
OVAs: Nodame Cantabile OAD, Gun­dam Uni­corn, Black Rock Shooter

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There’s no Impres­sion in regards to Nodame Cantabile at this point, one either likes it or they don’t after two whole sea­sons. Although, I find it mighty hard to appre­ci­ate the anime fully after enjoy­ing the live-action so much. The faces of all the char­ac­ters just look so… flat (=_= ). Not to men­tion how much they cut the per­for­mances down by.

In many ways, it felt like the Finale chap­ter had reset the stage once again. Lone­li­ness brought forth by genius seems to be a reoc­cur­ring theme within Nodame. For Chi­aki, his super­hu­man deter­mi­na­tion and drive, com­bined with unde­ni­able nat­ural tal­ents, are send­ing him off to the stars where none of his peers could match of being his equal. For Nodame, it’s her unique tal­ent whom few can rec­og­nize and understand.

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In the art of enjoy­ing blog­ging, I stopped car­ing about how late I am on post­ing things. This is win­ter catchup project #3, as I need to pre­pare for the series finale com­ing next season.

Only the live-action can bring such bril­liant tears to Chiaki’s eyes

I still haven’t for­given them for the unbear­able dis­grace that Toei calls Saikano, but Nodame cer­tainly went a long way in rec­on­cil­ing my rela­tion­ship with Japan­ese Live Action. Sto­ry­board wise, both the live-action and the anime fol­lowed the same path, with a few dif­fer­ences in pre­sen­ta­tion that more or less can­celed each other out in its pros and cons. How­ever, it’s the per­for­mance of the actors, espe­cially Chi­aki (Hiroshi Tamaki)‘s face, that really made the live action shine over its anime coun­ter­part. It’s ironic in a way: usu­ally I’m jeal­ous over the facials anime pro­duce that sim­ply aren’t pos­si­ble in real life, this time it’s the anime that falls short of depict­ing Chiaki’s moods (pre­pare for incom­ing com­par­i­son pictospam).

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