All right, so I lost the first round of the Aniblog Tourney. I don't really mind though. It was a fun thing, but I have so much going for me right now that it wasn't high up on my list of concerns, y'know? I'm interviewing a voice actor next week for CC&C, which comes out in a little over a month, and I'm working on my Cosplay Testimonial project (did I ever talk about that here? I don't think I did...) and school, so life is busy but awesome for me right now.
Anyway, the point of this post is to talk about all the spring anime I haven't...well, talked about yet. That feels like such a given. If you missed the first two posts, feel free to backtrack here and here. We have like nine more to go, so let's get cracking, I say. Also that is the only time I have ever used the phrase “let's get cracking”.
Natsuiro Kiseki
This series seems to be about four high school girls who are basically best friends. It's an anime friendship though, so you know there have to be at least two of them who have to seem like they hate each other, even if only temporarily, and that's more or less what the first two episodes here were devoted to. There's also a giant rock in their town that they can make wishes on. Not alone though; the rock seems to run on friendship. Anzu (aka Tea) from Yu-Gi-Oh! would fit right in here). One of the girls is going to be moving soon, and by the way I really have no idea what the point of this anime is. I'm just watching it anyway.
Accel World
This anime features a pudgy short kid in high school who gets bullied a lot and likes to spend his time inside this computer-based world where he can be awesome instead. Even though he's still a pig in the computer place. It's like if those people who sit around playing WoW all day and think it's their real life (no offense meant to WoW fans). Anyway, he meets a girl in his high school who is very popular and uses it to, and she introduces him to a further special program in there where people can fight. So a fighting game edition. I don't really get it. Is it sad that I'm mostly watching because I really like the girl's wings in the computer world?
Sankarea
The main character in this anime is obsessed with zombies. Seriously, he says any girl he dates would have to be a zombie, and I really feel like that could make for an interesting crossover with Kore wa Zombie desu ka. This guy meets Ayumu and realizes that's the only zombie he'll ever get so he turns gay and...no? No. I would never support that. In any case, his cat dies and he makes it his goal to bring the cat back. I can't say I blame him, but he's still kinda creepy-obsessed with it. In the process he meets some girl who is seriously confined by a douchey father and as of the end of episode 2 I'm lost as to the actual point of the series, but whatever. Zombies.
Kuroko's Basketball
I may have mentioned before that I don't like sports. I don't find them interesting, I don't care to watch them, and unless Quidditch ever becomes plausible (with actual flying, not the version lots of college campuses have), I don't think that's ever going to change. But I kinda like sports anime, from what I've watched. This one isn't an exception. It's really just about two main people on a basketball team, one who seems like he sucks but he's actually really good, and one who is really good but isn't a master of it. Or something. I don't know. I just like teamwork.
Shining Hearts – Shiawase no Pan
I'll be honest. I haven't got a clue what this anime is about. It seems to take place in a world where people seriously love bread. Especially if this guy Rick baked it. I guess he's like magical when it comes to bread, because I've never loved bread as much as everyone here does. Seriously, they're so excited to get their bread it's ridiculous. And there's this douchey elf who wants to have no involvement with human bread, but his sister really likes it so it ends up in his house anyway. There's also this adorable thing called a sylph (pictured about) and that particular one is also a fan of the bread. Seriously, I won't be surprised if this series has no other purpose than to talk about bread. I'm expecting a recipe sometime before it ends.
Hiiro no Kakera
This series is just stupid. Like, I can't even express how stupid. So you have this girl, going to live with her grandma in this tiny middle of nowhere village. Anime makes me feel like half of Japan is middle of nowhere villages, to be honest. Anyway, she's going to her grandma's through the forest and she gets attacked by some spirits and saved by this random guy she's never met. She ends up being informed she's the something-or-other princess and that these five good looking guys are her guardians whether they want to be or not. I don't feel like there's really a plot, to be honest. Also the main girl is boring as hell. The only good things are that the guys don't just love her, they actually get really frustrated with her because she's an idiot....and that adorable fox spirit I pictured above. (That thing may or may not be the only thing keeping me from dropping this anime.)
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia
All right, this series isn't quite as awesome as I'd hoped it would be. I need to just never get my hopes up, ever...it doesn't work. I end up loving the anime I don't think I'll like and going “ehhhhhhh” about the ones I think I'll love and just...I dunno man. Anyway, this anime is about a ghost girl at this maze-like school who can't remember how she died and whatnot, and this guy who can see her and is going to help her. Or something like that. It feels like it should be creepy. But it's more like Creepy Then Loli and to be honest, the only series I feel pulls that off properly is Higurashi.
Acchi Kocchi
Freaking adorable. That's the only way I can describe this series. It revolves around these two classmates, a girl and a boy, who should clearly be dating, but they aren't. You also see a lot of their friends and just...god, it's so CUTE. There's a scene in the second episode where the girl tries to give the boy a gift, but she's shy and freaking out and she ends up flinging it at his face, like almost hurting him with it. I love this series. Love, love, love it.
Sakamichi no Apollon
Okay, this is another one I really like for the season. This kid starts at a new school and he's half-ostracized automatically because he's rich, and I guess we don't like rich people. He also seems to have some sort of anxiety disorder, and he wants to go to the roof. In the process he meets this hardcore delinquent. The delinquent doesn't give a damn who he is. So they sort of start becoming semi-friend-like and there's music involved, which clearly makes my life better and to be perfectly honest the two of them can be paired up so nicely that it's glorious. I really, REALLY like this anime.
And another reminder, the Scoodiegiveaway is yet ongoing. The last day to comment is tomorrow, and I'll be announcing a winner on Friday.
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