Thoughts on the previous season

Rather then go through with a crappy paragraph on each series, I thought I’d just write about various elements from the season gone.

 

Favourite series of the season: Panty and Stocking. The end part of the series wasn’t quite as good as the start, but it was crude, at times stupid but very entertaining. Some elements made me laugh quite a bit, and the animation style was enjoyable. I initially worried I wouldn’t like it, but soon enough that fear passed.

 

Favourite Opening of the season: Shinryaku shinryaku shinryaku shinryaku. Catchy song, with some interesting scenes to go with it. I also enjoy the homage to games from the past.

 

Favourite ending of the season: P&S ending. Quite simple, with far less dynamic animation then Ika Musume, but it’s been stuck in my head for weeks. I enjoy listening to it and sometimes hum along with it.

 

Pleasant surprise of the season: Ika Musume. I thought I’d probably enjoy it, but luckily it didn’t turn out to be as generic as I feared it would be. Quite amusing with a quirky cast and some funny moments.

 

The better then I expected it to be series: Otome youkai Zakuro. Again a series I thought could be generic but actually has an interesting cast of characters. The story isn’t truly amazing, but I was expecting something cookie cutter and it turned out to be interesting.

 

The Hanamaru/Mitsudomoe award for I’m glad it wasn’t what I thought it could be: My little sister can’t be this cute. Even after the first couple of episodes I wasn’t quite certain if this was going for an ick ending. Luckily while it covered such games, it was a cute, amusing and at times heart warming series.

 

Favourite character of the season: Squid girl \o/ Honourable mentions also to Panty, Stocking, Garterbelt and Scanty and Kneesocks :p

 

Favourite transformation sequence: Scanty and Kneesocks :teeth:

First series from last season finished

Well after falling quite far behind on the previous seasons shows (as seems to happen with every season, and as such is one reason I don’t bother with episodic blogging) I’ve finally managed to complete two shows this season.

 

Ika Musume

 

This was quite a fun series. Adorable and amusing, made more so by the fact some people I talk to online referred to the show as moethulu. The “plot” was only really there to give a chance to put a stranger into the human world and go through various episodes being surprised and scared/overjoyed by seemingly everyday things. However a look through my list of anime would suggest I don’t have a problem in which characters matter more then plot :p

 

Towards the end I was worried the usually upbeat and cheerful show was going to take a sad ending path, but I guess it all worked out in the end, restoring the status quo and most likely leading into a new series at some point. And if it’s as good as this series that won’t be a good thing.

 

Oh and I’ve had the opening stuck in my head for about a week straight now.

 

 

The second show I completed was Panty and stocking.

This was a bit odd as for most of the season I was only up to date with P&S and then fell behind. Again as with Ika Musume this wasn’t a show for which plot was of key importance. During the first six weeks or so it was my clear favourite of the season, with funny quirky if completely flawed characters, some amusing scenarios and quite a bit of fanservice even outside of the transformation scenes. However towards the end of the middle it did start to drag a tiny bit, but did have an interesting and crazy ending episode, even if it had been preceded by 9 minutes of recap in episode 12. Oh and the ending theme and transformation music for both P&S and S&K have been stuck in my head for quite a while now.

 

Scanty :teeth:

Another parcel of doom

Once more I fell into the trap of buying overpriced anime merchandise. Crappy photos within!

Behold the wall of weeabooism

Yes I’m bored :smug:

Truered’s top ten ending themes (no. 5-1)

Well after doing numbers 10-6 of my favourite anime endings, it would only make sense to do the top five as well, so here they are.

Truered’s top ten ending themes (10-6)

Woo, finally moderately new content. The bottom half of the top ten was the hardest to come up with, as the top five nearly wrote itself…

Yet another new box of goodies

Yes, and so another set of figures turned up to join my ever growing army of the plastic damned. Soon we will march upon the world!

A few more figures…

Well it turned out my intended hiatus from buying anime figures didn’t last a very long time. There’s just some many cute and cool ones out there! >w<

 

Shows for this season decided upon

Well I’ve finally got around to trying to decide what I want to watch this season. Decided on the following shows:

Soredemo machi wa mawatteiru

Bakuman

Shinryaku ika musume

Otome youkai zakuro

Sore no otoshimono forte

My little sister can’t be this cute

MM!

You are delicious (it has dinosaurs!)

Milky Holmes

Panty and stocking

Just need to finish off the previous season now /o\

200 reached!

200^th anime series/movie etc completed!

 

Well a few days ago I finally completed Highschool of the dead, and in doing completed my 200^th anime series/movie etc according to MAL. Anime planet had one or two missing or differently arranged. I had initially planned for Bakemonogatari to be my 200^th series, but it didn’t catch me as much as I thought, and given my viewing history surely T&A plus violence should be my 200^th choice? :p

 

(Also the rest of bakemonogatari was on my hard drive, which required effort to watch)

 

As I’ve said before, January 2007 is roughly when I consider myself to have become a proper anime fan. The previous summer I’d watched some of the Studio Ghibli films on Film4 and in January a combination of manga and AMVs led me into watching more anime. I’ve moved on from being the nerd with a few Ghibli films, pokemon and Excel saga to being a nerd with many more series, a lot more useless information, Hanyuu fanboyism and a lighter wallet.

 

As well as being a fun hobby pastime, given plenty of memorable moments, things to collect and panty shots beyond measure, anime has been good to me in other ways. The anime society at University allowed me to venture out (a little) more, and eventually led to finding a group of friends. And the last few years have allowed me to talk with two or three different groups online as well, initially united by anime but staying together as a community :3

 

Completed series Stats:

TV: 139

OVA: 28

Movies: 27

Specials: 5

ONA: 3

 

(since completing HSoTD I’ve finished two other shows)

 

 

Hauu~