If there’s one arche­type peo­ple fall back far too eas­ily into, it’s the tsun­dere. But really, this per­son­al­ity attribute is nei­ther that sim­ple nor cheap…

[Sora]

Since my post on explain­ing the real life psy­chol­ogy of yan­deres, I’ve been on the hunt for a rec­og­nized psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­or­der that would clas­sify the tsun­dere. Unfor­tu­nately, no such con­ve­nience seems to exist, and while the tsun­dere may be the most overused anime char­ac­ter arche­type of recent years, it is also com­plex enough that few series have truly done it jus­tice. Read the rest of this entry »

Ookami-san comes as a mixed bag for me: there’s the col­lapse of the fourth wall from repeated glares, the fairy-tale nar­ra­tion of the obvi­ous which only bores its tar­get audi­ence age, the narrator-explained force­ful humor, the already repeat­ing jokes… but the scopopho­bic Ryoushi does ride on the suc­cess of the Work­ing!!‘s Inami, and under the mighty glares of Ryouko, his deter­mi­na­tion just might blos­som to great rela­tion­ship devel­op­ment~ add a refresh­ingly rare first-episode con­fes­sion from the guy in a seinen series and I’ve found a great Sum­mer ship­ping already~

But Ookami-san is a fairy tale par­ody, and Cin­derella shoe kick-fitting put aside, the cast’s list of names and its folk­lore con­nec­tion is what I thought was most inter­est­ing dur­ing the expo­si­tions. Read the rest of this entry »

RETS PARTY!!! [もちこ]

But with noth­ing from Kyoani, Sun­rise, Gainax, or SHAFT, it seems like the anime indus­try doesn’t have much faith in this sea­son either. I guess it’s expected from the sum­mer sea­son; another rea­son why it’s the per­fect time to catch up on the back­log. Nev­er­the­less, there are some shows with potential~

Here’s the short ver­sion (and the chart here). Entries within each sub­cat­e­gory is ordered from most antic­i­pated to least.

Def­i­nites: Sen­goku Basara 2
Prob­a­bles: Kuroshit­suji, Ookami-san to Shi­chinin no Naka­mat­achi
Check­ing Out: Mit­su­do­moe, Shuku­fuku no Cam­panella, Leg­end of the Leg­endary Heroes, Amagami SS

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