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Ano Natsu de Matteru (Waiting for the Summer)

Cribbing heavily from Onegai Sensei and (apparently) AnoHana comes AnoNatsu, which begins with a spaceship landing on the head of our lead male and killing him. At least this time the resurrection process doesn't involve a gender swap...

Inu x Boku SS

Secret Service agents who seem more like butlers, demons, half-demons, and a bit of a war going on between the two. I certainly wasn't expecting that when I started watching this one...

Highschool DxD

Hopeless pervert high school boy is killed on his first date, when his girlfriend turns out to be a fallen angel, and is resurrected to serve the school demon. It is better than it sounds, surprisingly...

Lagrange -The Flower of Rin-ne-

Madoka's been hauled into an interstellar conflict, thank to her latent ability to pilot an Ovid - a mech with which she's uniquely bonded. Which is a revelation that could ruin most people's day - but not Madoka, who's far too genki for her own good...

Senki Zessho Symphogear

Sitting uneasily somewhere between being a mecha / powered suit show and a magical girl story, Senki Zessho Symphogear is that rare beast that ends up somehow managing to be less than the sum of its parts...

Nisemonogatari

Since Bakemonogatari bowled me over, it shouldn't be any surprise that this is right at the top of my "most anticipated shows" list for the season. And it doesn't disappoint.

Poyopoyo

Akitaro Daichi returns after what seems to have been a rather long absence with a series of 3-minutes shorts about a very fat cat. Funnier than it sounds, trust me...

Another

In the name of all that is holy, stop letting Ali Project do anime themes. Please. Their screeching aside, Another seems to be an intriguing addition to the series, although with this first episode it's not giving much away,,,

Brave 10

Back to the feudal age for another story based on the adventures of Sanada Yukimura and his contemporaries - which would normally be enough for me to switch off right there. This interpretation isn't entirely without charm, though...

Listen to Me, Girls! I'm Your Father!

Actually, no, Yuuta Segawa is the uncle in this one, which is pitched as a "family romantic comedy". But let's not let details like that bother us. As long as the romance doesn't turn out to be a romance between Yuuta and his 14-year-old, not-blood-related, Yuuta-obsessed niece...

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Hoshizora Kiseki

Digital
Written by maehara
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 12:07
Tweet Another of the one-off shorts that Sentai & Anime Network seem to be so taken by, Hoshizora Kiseki finds love blossoming between a young girl with an interest in astronomy, and a boy who may just have come from the stars... Add a comment
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Beelzebub (Episodes 27-52)

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Written by maehara
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 00:00
Tweet From the "I can't believe I'm still watching this" department, it's the second batch of Beelzebub episodes, which jumps around a bit in terms of style and what it seems to be trying to do. Normally, that would be a bad thing - but somehow, Beelzebub makes it work... Add a comment
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Tekken: Blood Vengeance

R2 DVD Reviews
Written by maehara
Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00
Tweet Much as I've loved the various incarnations of the Tekken games over the years, there's always a certain amount of trepidation when a game gets a movie adaptation: the record for these things isn't good. Tekken: Blood Vengeance at least manages to avoid the worst of the game-to-anime pitfalls... Add a comment
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Coffee Samurai

Digital
Written by maehara
Friday, 03 February 2012 11:52
Tweet When an ancient samurai wished for an "indestructible steel body", I'm sure he had something like armour in mind. The appearance of a coffee vending machine was probably not high up his list of ideas. At least his new girlfriend won't lack for caffeine... Add a comment
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Senki Zessho Symphogear - First Thoughts

Meanderings
Written by maehara
Thursday, 02 February 2012 16:02
Tweet Two years ago, signing idols Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amo, collectively known as ZweiWing, fought against an alien race known as Noise when the creatures attacked a concert they were giving. To protect a girl named Hibiki Tachibana, who had been severely wounded in the attack, Kanade sacrificed her life, leaving Tsubasa to carry on the fight against the Noise alone. Back to the present day, and Hibiki again finds herself once again caught up in a Noise attack - and when she's backed into a corner by the aliens, she finds that she now possesses the powers that Kanade once had... Unusually for a "First Thoughts" piece, I'm writing this with the first four episodes of the series under my belt, which perhaps gives me a more rounded view of it than I'd usually get. Although that really doesn't help it. With Tsubasa being the cold and aloof oneesan type, and Hibiki the reckless, just-wants-to-help newbie on the scene, there are no prizes for guessing that there ends up being a certain amount of conflict between the two leads - teamwork this isn't. Different from the usual magical girl formula, perhaps (and it is presented far more in the style of magical girls than a mecha / powered suit show, no matter what you might think from the screenshots), but far from appealing. In fact, the show that kept springing to mind as a point for comparison when I was watching this was Cyber Team in Akihabara - and that's not a good comparison. There's a lot about the way this is presented that just feels a bit off. The suits are powered by song, so the girls are often shown singing while they fight - except that the songs feel competely detached from the action. The alien Noise are disappointingly cheap looking. There's a whole conspiracy where the military base that Tsubasa works for is hidden beneath the girls' school, but it's criminally underused. And apart from one or two scenes deliberately placed to get a reaction (a young girl crying "I don't want to die!" as the aliens catch as kill her, for example), the whole thing feels strangely lifeless. THE GOOD: I'm struggling to think, to be honest. There are lots of elements here that should work together well, but they just aren't. THE BAD: Pretty much all of it. The whole of Sypmhogear is somehow less than the sum of its parts, if you know what I mean. Writing this up has kind of crystallised my feelings for the series, to be honest - I've been hum'ing and ha'ing for a few days about whether to bother with episode 5 whenever Nico Nico ever get around to posting it, but given what I've written above: it'll be going on the drop pile. There's just nothing here that's appealing. Add a comment

Natsume Yujinchou San

Digital
Written by maehara
Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:33
Tweet Natsume and his growing band of friends and youkai return for a third season of things supernatural, and this time around there's trouble of a more human variety on the horizon for him to deal with... Add a comment
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