You killed me didn’t you!!!

I’m nei­ther a Noit­a­m­ina fan nor typ­i­cally have any inter­est in mystery/horror (too creepy!), but I’m quite impressed by this first episode. Given that this is Fuyumi Ono, the writer of Twelve King­doms (and Ghost Hunt), the expo­si­tion is expected to take some time before we catch the main plot. But in the mean­time, they cer­tainly know how to set up the atmos­phere and back­ground well~! 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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