Okay so like...I died. Yes. I totally died. And I didn't even do it intentionally. I dunno where all the time went. Buuuuuuut I noticed the other day that I haven't had a REAL post (not counting the giveaway winner and book announcement) since some spring impressions, so clearly I'm behind. Then I declared on Facebook that I'd revive this thing, and obviously that makes it official, so here I am!
The method of revival? Some fall impressions. I'm watching like eighteen things (maybe more if I manage to find them), so I'm splitting this into three parts with six each. I just really like evenness.
Here goes :)
Btooom!
Well that was a weird way for me to start off my fall anime season. Basically we start off with this in-denial NEET (he's already got a job he wants, he says, and he refuses to make himself useful in the meantime) who spends all his time playing this online game called Btooom!. He's awesome at it and has this ridiculous ego. Well....at least he does until he wakes up and happens to be in a real version of it. And I don't mean stuck in the game, I mean a REAL real version of it, because for some reason someone thought it would be a cool idea to take a bunch of people and leave them on an island with a bunch of bombs and let them all kill each other. Don't ask questions, just kill your fellow man (or woman, whatever). It definitely seems like it'll be pretty good though. Watching the main character transition from “video game” to “oh god I might ACTUALLY die” is hilarious in a really weird way.
Code:Breaker
Okay, so I was super-excited for this anime because the manga is by Akimine Kamijyo, who wrote Samurai Deeper Kyo, which I spent $200+ to collect all 38 volumes of because I love it THAT MUCH. Therefore I also love Kamijyo for being awesome enough to create it, and I figured this could be nothing less than awesome.
It's about this girl Sakura (who in one episode is already a million times cooler than the female lead in SDK), who looks out the window on a bus and there's this guy just....y'know....burning people alive with his bare hands. Totally normal. The next day he transfers into her class because dammit this is anime. The only downside I could possibly find in this first episode is that they killed a dog. Not. Cool. But OTHER than that it's awesome and I want to snuggle it. (So long as the dude doesn't burn me alive because that would also fall into the not cool category...)
Kamisama Hajimemashita
This girl Nanami gets kicked out of her home because her dad had all these gambling debts and...well, such is life. Except then she meets this weird guy in a park, who tells her she can take his place. The catch? (Which, by the way, he does not tell her.) He's kind of a god. And she kind of agreed to take over his job without knowing she was doing it. Yay! Or....not yay? Well the shrine she's now the god of has this guy named Tomoe living there, who was a familiar to the last guy. Uhm...they end up making a contract as well.
This series seems pretty average to me so far. I mean I like the “by the way you're a god now” spin...especially because she's still human and not Magically Powerful. But I do not like Tomoe. He seems like a tool, and he's completely unattractive. ….That's all I've got.
Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne
Thought #1: I will NEVER remember this full title. Ever. It just won't happen.
Thought #2: Why is Japan so obsessed with sisters being into their brothers? I mean seriously. It's everywhere. Off the top of my head I can think of like three others.
I mean all THIS one seems to be about is a girl going to live with her brother for the first time in six years, and she's already into him. She complains when he DOESN'T try to peek on her in the bath, and she wants to challenge all the other girls in the place, though at least THEY understand that it's not cool for a sister to want her brother.
I...I'm going to watch this, and see what it does, but suffice it to say my hopes are not high and Japan really needs to grow out of this phase. (Yeah, yeah, never gonna happen, I know.)
Shinsekai Yori
Honestly, even after two episodes, I had to go online and look up what the crap this is actually ABOUT. And....even after looking on MAL, I'm still not entirely sure. It's in the future and people are magical and psychic now. This I understand. And sometimes kids who aren't very good at it just mysteriously vanish. I can't stay I understand that (pretty sure it's a plot point and I'm not even supposed to get it yet) but I can accept it. It's just....what's the point? Two episodes in I'm still trying to figure out the plot. Maybe I'll get it eventually.
Hopefully.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Here we have the classic tale of a delinquent and the good girl and they become friends and fall in love in the span of two episodes. That's impressive, even for fiction. But hey, whatever. I didn't really like the first episode—it just seemed kind of annoying, especially the guy. Episode two though, that was a loooooot better. It seemed altogether funnier and the characters magically improved and there was another character introduced, which I think definitely helped, because you're really not going to be interesting if you've only got two people to work with. There's not really a plot here I don't think, but it doesn't seem like there's really supposed to be. It's fine.
And that's all for today.
Side note: I cannot write about anime while listening to My Shiny Teeth and Me. I will never try that again.
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