I managed to find enough time to watch a shitload of anime today, and so I decided to take a look at all of the shows this summer that I want to watch. I’ll give you actual impressions too. Basically, I’m grading out of three, with my grades ranging from poop to BAM.
Nurarihyon no Mago
Well, at first I believed this was going to be an awesome show about demons and half demons and all sorts of cool shit. The plot almost kind of reminded me of InuYasha. The animation reminded a bit of InuYasha. The fact that VIZ is involved reminded me of InuYasha. However, when I actually watched the first two shows, I was sadly disappointed to discover that this show was more similar to a demon infested version of Yu Gi Oh, a show that I will never watch, and is completely gay.
I know enough about Yu Gi Oh to know that the main character is a huge pussy who manages to transform on occasion into some sort of bad ass (except the show is about a card game, so how bad ass can he be?). This show is similar in that aspect, and to be honest, I’m really not that into it as of yet.
Impression: Poop
High School of the Dead
Holy shit. This show is awesome. I usually am not one for zombies, or zombie movies. They’re all the same, and imagining suddenly being forced to cave in the brains of family and friends doesn’t make me feel all that great. That being said, I love the manga Sankarea, I thought Zombieland was awesome. Shawn of the Dead kicked ass, and I’ve enjoyed every Resident Evil movie they’ve made. Maybe I just don’t know myself.
High School of the Dead is awesome for the following reasons, which should be obvious already:
- Lots and lots and lots (etc.) of blood. Blood blood blood blood blood. I LOVE it.
- The first episode kicked ass. All sorts of stuff happened as everything went to shit. As the main character, Takashi says:
“On the day everything came to an end, I killed my best friend, and held the girl I liked for the first time.” He also doesn’t mention that he killed said friend quite easily, and almost went out and tried to kill every zombie by hand. I expect him to bludgeon every zombie in Japan with a baseball bat by the end of the series. That would kick ass.
- Blood and more blood and awesome animation…..like….SUPERB animation. With blood.
- Klux likes it, and that’s to be expected, and therefore, the show must be good.
- BAD ASS OP
- Awesome kendo girl who doesn’t care if you’re a zombie or still alive. She will end you:
Best show of summer so far with ease
Impression: BAM
Ookami-san
See my official first impressions post here.
Mistudomoe
I finally forced myself to watch this show, which I fully expected to be a trash heap not worth my time nor energy. However, most people have been raving a bit about it, and have brought to my attention that Mitsudomoe has something that I always enjoy: nice, perverted humor.
Too bad all of it sucks. I think I chuckled once during the first episode briefly. The jokes aren’t that great. The only good character is the girl who always has porn. Honestly, this show better step it up, I’ll drop it in a second.
Also, I hope the teacher falls off a cliff, he’s an obvious pedophile.
Impression: Poop
Sengoku Basara 2
After playing Samurai Warriors all day, this show kicks ass again. Hideyoshi has made an appearance, but the only person I want to see is Ginchiyo Tachibana. Best person ever.
Impression: Average
Shiki
You should be sorry...sorry for having such a fuckin gay haircut.
At the beginning of the first episode, I noticed several things that made me angry:
- The Gothic stylings of Megumi.
- Megumi.
- Megumi.
However, overall, the initial episode was actually pretty good, and sets a stage for what, in my opinion, looks like one of the better shows of the year, filled with death, mystery, death, death, and death.
The animation looks pretty awesome too, I will admit.
Impression: BAM
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin
This show is indeed awesome so far. Not only was the animation up to par, but the main character, Maya, is a bad ass waiting to happen. She kicks ass. IE: She’ a synonym for this show.
Subtlety is this shows strong suit (that’s kind of an oxymoron if you think of it). The humor is subtle, but perfectly synonymous with the rest of the show. It’s pretty interesting, and if I could describe it in one word, it would be smooth. It kind of reminds me of Eden of the East to be honest. Especially the end scene of the first episode, where Maya meets what I presume to be the male lead, fully clad in absolutely nothing, his”johnny” exposed to the world (or in this case, her face).
Impression: BAM
Extra-Extra
These are not all of the shows that I plan to watch. I still want to watch Strike Witches, but I’m going to wait for it to complete. I will also be watching Cat Shit One, which I have been waiting for for a while now, but that deserves a first impressions post by itself, because it has such a cool concept of cute things blowing each other up. There are also other obvious choices, like the Black Lagoon OVAs, but I will wait on those too (hopefully).
I was also going to watch Legend of the Legendary Heroes, but now I don’t really feel like it. Should I watch it? You tell me.
I will be continuing to try and watch shows like Aria the Animation (I just finished episode 6, and it still sucks). I will hopefully be able to finish Tokko, the shittiest anime ever, and a few other shows at that. I’m planning on starting Cromartie High School, Golden Boy (well, it’s only 6 episodes) and Tenjou Tenge.
Eye Sedso 
you have seen more anime than I have (I have only seen the first episode of 4 anime so far) and that makes me realized how unhappy I was for the past couple of week. I hate my job sometimes >_>
There’s no lack of blood this season. I approved of that. Thanks to HOTD and Occult.
The blood is all over the place, making this season better than the spring season (for me).
Spring season is full of funnies though
“I finally forced myself to watch this show, which I fully expected to be a trash heap not worth my time nor energy.”
Seriously, who actually enjoys something if they expect to hate it before they even watch it?
The first section of the second episode was really just… disgusting and it should have been skipped (seems like a one-off anyway) but other than that it’s been more entertaining than Ookami-san at least.
Legendary Heroes/Denyuden: first episode average, second episode boring, third episode good. I have no idea whether or not it’s worth watching.
Cat Shit One: pretty awesome. The distinct lack of blood is a bit annoying though (and I generally don’t care). Kinda stands out when they just smoke and collapse when they get shot.
Amagami SS: much better than you’d expect of a ‘standard-looking’ romance. Lead character actually has a spine and can take the initiative. “More entertaining than Ookami-san at least.”
Seitokai Yakuindomo: pretty funny first episode with very good production. Probably won’t continue because it sounds like they chucked money at the first ep and left the following ones bland.
Kuroshitsuji II: first episode was pretty good. But after that it’s supposed to go back to the crappy main characters from the first season so dropped.
Rainbow is still by far the best show airing at the moment… yeah, better than HSotD (agreed, Zombieland is awesome). Giant Killing is also pretty good considering I don’t even like football/soccer.
Aria the Animation: same position as you. Watched like 5 or 6 episodes and wasn’t very impressed. Still plan on finishing it one day because it sounds like the later seasons are better.
I went into Working thinking the same thing, and then it turned out to kick ass. No such luck with Mitsudomoe though…yet.
I’ll wait till Legendary Heroes finishes, and then check it out if reviews tell me too. It’s not worth my time right now.
I always thought that girls with big boops die first in horror/slasher flick. To my delight, this is not the case for High School of the Dead 😛
I was hoping that was the case. Unfortunately, you chance of survival depends on the size of your tits.
I’m honestly surprised the nurse is still alive….I actually want her to die quickly, she angers me with her retardedness.
Yeah, you’re kinda out of luck there. I hate her too but for some reason the others think they should keep her alive.
its “further reading” not farther reading.
I’m POSITIVE that I changed it to “Extra-Extra” before I ever published this post. I blame the mistake on WordPress for not saving the edit when I clicked save, as it is no fault of my own. I have taken the liberty of correcting WordPress’s horrible yet expected mistake.
Yu-Gi-Oh was awesome before they started playing cards.
:<
The abridged series is better…probably…idk for sure, it’s the only version of the series I’ve actually watched.
Occult Academy, Highschool of the Dead and Sengoku Basara have been decent so far. I actually think that Occult Academy has the mix of stuff so far lol.
Aria isn’t for everyone. The second and third seasons are probably a little better though in terms of the story going somewhere.
Occult will be great. I’m not watching anything though until I finish up Durarara, aka a series that is fucking awesome.
sailor moon tag? you gay
hahahahahahaha
HotD is looking to be the best series so far. Occult Academy is not bad either.
Mistudomoe is ugly.
There is actually not much going on with HOTD but because of the amount of blood, we don’t really care if the plot phailed 😛
I will watch 3 episodes of Mitsudomoe.
If I still haven’t laughed by the end of the third episode, I will drop it. If I manage to laugh once, then I will finish the show.
haha man you never cease to crack me up, i was LOLing at that guy with his fucking gay haircut
Penis haircuts are not the way to go…the small Chinese girl thought of Al as someone with long hair, so by cutting his hair into the shape of a penis, he pretty much guaranteed himself no pussy.
I think Megumi is one of very few characters who improved greatly through dying, and not because it meant she was gone from the storyline.
I have yet to watch episode 3. (frowning face)
i just finished Mitsudomoe. in fact the first 2 capters i hated them (i almost droped it on the 2nd… all that piss sample breaking pissed me off… em?!) the friend who recomended it then said that it gets beter on later caps. since it is 13 caps i gave it second chace.
the third cap i liked it coz of all the panty jokes, unfortunatly the jokes became too much repetitive; if it lasted just 5 episodes all main jokes whould have been covered. special mentions to cap 9 and cap 11. favorite char hitoha “sanjou-san”.
looking backwards i finished it trying to avoid thinking on some troubles, under normal circunstances i whould have droped it since cap1 (wich in fact i did a week ago but re toke it yesterday); fortunatly it gave me good laugths.
I dropped that in a heart beat. I watched one episode and then decided it wasn’t funny at all.
In fact I only finished one of these shows so far.