Fall Season Ups and Downs

Good morning, noon, and night AAA! So first of all let’s begin with my regular rants. Running five 800s at a pace of three minutes per in 80 degree weather… thank god I’m a masochist. Moving on now that the summer season is wrapping up I bring you the list of the Fall anime, OVAs, and movies we can expect, along with the anime that I am looking forward to the most, so here we go! Disclaimer, these are the views of an overly tired, slightly insane, perverted, high school student. Have fun :)!

First will start with sequels that I’m watching. I enjoyed the first season of Shinraku! Ika Musume and so I will be tuning into the sequel Shinraku!? Ika Musume. However another sequel that I am planning on watching I feel like I might drop. Working!! Was an interesting and kind of cute anime, but never did I expect a sequel… well I expected wrong. Working’!! will be continuing the exact same story and I am not sure how it will pan out, for my viewing pleasure I cross my fingers.  Shakugana no Shana III finale yay! The second season kinda killed my soul but I have to finish it… And finally Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam, an original story set in the Last Exile universe with all new characters, definitely looking forward to this one.

There is only one prequel this season and that would be Fate/Zero. Truth be told I hated Fate/ Stay Night, absolutely hated it. Yet I will be fair and give Fate/Zero a chance to improve the position of its predecessor/future.

Now Hunter x Hunter, a remake from the beginning of series, holds a special place in my heart. Hunter x Hunter was the first manga and anime I ever indulged myself in. Therefore this remake is really important to me that it is done well, and so I will be following it very closely.

And finally those anime out there that you are stumbling into blind. Tamayura ~hitsose~ looks like a wonderful slice of life which will hopefully have some nice artwork as it is centered around a girl who loves photography but also has a father who just died. Pastel looks from Usagi Drop and Hourou Musukou would look amazing. Persona 4 the Animation is based of the game of the same name, and while I have never played the game the premise sounds interesting, my only fear is that it will be overdone action scenes or skimp on plot as it is based off of a videogame. UN-GO a mystery solving anime with a story based off the works of a post-World War II Japanese novelist and essayist sounds like it could be interesting and different mystery anime. Finally, two more I am shaky about. Mirai Nikki sounds interesting… but also sounds very basic shouneny, so we will watch carefully. Another one that falls into that trashy Shouneny category would be Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle which sounds like it “could” be interesting depending on where they go.

So that is my watch list until someone recommends new anime or the ones I chose are horrible. So now lets take a look at the trash I will avoid forever.

Maken- Ki!… just looking as the cover there are balloons in shirts (oh wait, those are breasts) and black sexy underwear, and I idiot boy. Harem anime trash die forever. Now I’m not hating on harem, after all visual novels turned into anime can be amazing (Clannad, Kanon, Air, Ef- A tale of Memories) but can also be trash. I will I guess sample these harem visual novels simply because they are what opened me up and changed my anime experience (more in Winter on that when I celebrate the 5h anniversary of watching Ef). Yet the two anime based off of visual novels look like trash. Just trash. There are also many light novel works that I would rather die than watch such as C3 or Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon. And finally those damn franchise anime like Cross Fight B-Dama, based off a marble shooting toy… please don’t make these anime, for the sake of those outsiders who see them and think us fans are freaks. I mean we already are freaks but make them think we are even freakier.

One more note, I have heard rumor of a Lupin the III anime remake and also of a Black Rock Shooter anime coming out this season. If these are true I will be drooling in anticipation.

Well that is my raving and ranting, can’t wait for the next season!

Sincerely and Trolly,

Folium

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