Bakemonogatari: You Win The Award

What award am I referring to? Obviously the only award that Eye Sedso gives out:

The Awesome Award

Bakemonogatari

Well, chalk up yet another win for the brilliance that is the combination of Shaft and Akiyuki Shinbo, who not only is a great director, but has a really cool name (“Akiyuki”).

The animation in this first episode was among some of the best that I’ve seen, and I feel like I’ve been saying that a lot lately (which is in no way depressing). Do I emit a tremendous bias when it comes to all Shaft/Akiyuki Shinbo projects? Yes, but there’s a reason for that, they all kick ass (Maria + Holic excluded). I’m even enjoying Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase, and I thought that that would suck. Here, just look at a few screen shots that I took early on in this episode (take into account that these images were scaled down, and therefore the real zeal of them is slightly lost):

Wait, am I watching an anime series? I felt more like I was watching an animated theatrical release. I especially enjoyed the characters and the plot so far (although why would you not want to be a vampire? That would be cool, I’d think). Hitagi is the best character, on the count that she fights with writing materials and has a tsundere personality, although this so called tsundere personality seems to be a bit more psychotic than others (which makes it better than others).

All in all, I though that this was a good episode, and look like a great show. Maybe not top ten, but a great show none the less. Approved!

Hayate no Gotoku!! 14: A Bunch of Bull

Right off the bat there was some disappointing news:

Maria clearly deserved first, and ended up losing by over 2000 votes! Bullshit! I’m pretty sure you can guess who won, and even though I like her character, she’s not in the same league as Maria, who is awesome. On to the actual episode, which came out ages ago, which just goes to show how much anime I’ve been watching, since Hayate is usually the first thing on my list of things that I want to watch.

It started out with awesomeness right off the bat:

Let’s skip ahead a bit. During this episode, we’re introduced to Isumi’s family, and we learn one main thing about them:

They are all retarded.

This is probably the most brain dead group of people on the planet:

That's because you aren't.

Man, I thought Isumi was dumb. I should mention that these characters are, in my opinion, great. I love the dumb-ness that they have. Isumi is one of my favorite characters (what character isn’t good though in Hayate?). Basically, during th episode, Isumi has lost her powers and needs the blood of certain person to get them back. Isumi’s mom explains to Hayate that the peson must be strong, unlucky, must look good when dressed as a girl, and work as a butler (basicaly she gives a detailed description of Hayate).

The rest of this episode is classic Hayate no Gotoku humor, and I loved it. I really, honestly, don’t have much else to say about his episode, other then here is the greatest bit of voice acting I have ever witnessed:

I don’t know why, but to me this particular line stood out to me more than others (from al shows), and it was fucking awesome. If you don’t like it, then you can suck my huge cock, which will be covered in grease just for you. Goodbye to you now.

Btw, great-grandmother Isumi? Awesome.

Btw again, this has been the only piece of anime that I’ve watched during the past week. The new episode of Hayate already came out, I’m so far behind, but I really don’t care.