Archive for the “Previews” Category

The summer season of new anime is approaching and here are the premiering series I am interested in watching. (I looked at this for basic information.)

Umineko no Naku Koro ni [show site]
I only managed to get through eight episodes of Higurashi’s first season before putting it aside, annoyed by the rebooting and a little turned off by the violence. Since Umineko has a closed island situation and presumably fewer CRAZY EYES moments, I’ll give it a shot. The latest PV (via pKjd) shows a little bit of face contortion but the rest looks okay.

Taisho Yakyuu Musume (Taisho Baseball Girls) [show site]
It’s about baseball so I must try it out. It has the potential to be pedantic with many of the girls just picking up the sport but the 1925 (Taisho 14) setting might give it a different feel. The voice actress playing the bright-eyed Komue, Kanae Itou, is also voicing the similarly lively lead girl in Sora no Manimani.

Element Hunters [show site]
This could possibly be a sleeper hit for me because of a pedestrian interest in chemistry and the sciences in general. It deals with the chemical elements disappearing into another Earth on the other side of a dimensional wall, which a team of Element Hunters will try to breach in order to return the elements to their proper planet.

CANAAN [show site]
I saw some commercials for a live-action Wii adventure visual novel called 428 late last year and then quickly found out there would be an anime series by Type-Moon based on the scenario.

Sora no Manimani [show site]
It’s about Saku, a quiet bookish student, who moves back to his hometown as a high school freshman and gets brought into an astronomy club by Mihoshi, his childhood friend. I’ve had a passing fascination with the cosmos since childhood so that’s the initial pull for me. I currently have no expectations regarding the romantic comedy angle so we’ll see how that turns out.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 [show site]
Mildly interested in this one because it’s BONES, even though I am not too keen about plots that involve a group of characters trying to escape from something (e.g., The Happening, Cloverfield). Perhaps there will be some intangible that grabs me like chemistry between the three main characters, the initial disaster scene, or the overall tone.

Spice and Wolf II [show site]
I somehow only saw the first episode of the first season but didn’t continue despite liking it. I’m definitely still interested but I may or may not wait for season one to come out on DVD in December.

There are still a few series from this spring that I have yet to start and others I have only sampled so I’ll attempt to catch up those over the next month.

It’s almost April and I feel obligated to disclose the series I am initially interested in out of the batch of spring premieres. That doesn’t mean I’m not willing to try out other spring series down the line as I hear good things about them. Just to let you know how far I am in the winter series I started, I’m behind on all except Hetalia and that is only because its episodes are 5 minutes long.
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Twenty-three anime will premiere next month as part of the winter 2009 season (eight of which are new seasons/continuations) and though a few seriously interest me, I may focus more on the series from this fall that I have been lax on keeping up with as well as series I wanted to check out but have not yet begun to, e.g. Ga-Rei Zero. I will provide short previews for each show to demonstrate why I am not very excited about the new season in the immediate future but may pick up some series down the line.
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I decided to do a summer anime preview even though I probably won’t be able to watch much in August and, for some reason, I haven’t gotten more than 3 episodes into most of my five picks for spring. Nevertheless, I feel I have to let you know what I am looking forward to watching and recap how my spring picks are progressing. If you want to hear me go through the list of summer anime premieres, download the 40-minute long second episode of Amateur Otaku Radio. Anyway, below are five summer anime that look good on paper to me right now (in order of premiere):

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The sun is out, flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping so it’s time for a slew of new anime to premiere in Japan. I’m actually gonna try to watch stuff this season because I want to stay somewhat current with what’s airing and being talked about. Anyway, here are five anime I am personally looking forward to watching next month.

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Flipping through the channels, trying to find something good…

In response to the 50+ anime premiering this fall and the fact that I’ll probably only follow three or less consistently, I decided to give very succinct, ten-word-or-less previews for seventeen of them. The ones that pique my interest can be found after the half-hearted one-liners.

WARNING: the following are superficial impressions compressed into a self-imposed word limit and are, by no means, comprehensive previews. If you are looking any semblance of detailed analysis, look somewhere else.
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As the shows of the spring and winter end, the summer shows take their place to get their time in the limelight before the. Twenty-four shows is a lot to do summaries of, so I narrowed it down to ten I’m looking forward to watching, if only for a couple episodes. Of course, I will try to watch the premieres of as many shows as I can but the following are the ones I think have the most promise.

Now about this preview being two weeks after everyone else’s. Since FLAG wasn’t widely released, I feel that the summer season really starts next week, thereby justifying my posting this now instead of on the 15th. Still should gotten this done earlier though… Read the rest of this entry »