So just how late is this review of the Summer anime line up that I'm watching? Very very very late yes very late. To be fair a lot of it has to deal with the very crappy summer that I've experienced so far this year, it has pretty much knocked my anime viewing trends straight on their ass. Moving, Dead HDDs and a constantly broken car along with all manner of other crap has pretty much limited my anime viewing time to catching up on older things on crunchyroll and for a very limited time a few episodes of the new anime series for the 2009 Summer season. Of course that really sucks since there seems to be a great deal of awesome shows this summer when typically summer is the worst time for new anime series.
Go figure right all the good stuff comes out when I can't see it. This is why anime fans who don't illegally watch fansubbs have such a hard time when they know there is kick ass stuff but they don't want to do something illegal and instead have to wait months and years in the hopes that they will be able to see it as well. It's freaking annoying as hell. But enough about my damn woes of late lets check out some of the cool stuff that I've found.
Bakemonogatari: Seems to be the break out hit of the season being a supernatural rom-com sort of thing. I got 3 episodes in and miss it so much that I'm almost driven to install BT software on the work computers just to get that series. It's an interesting talking series so far but the humor is just so out there that you don't mind the talking and it caries it's own action. The supernatural part is definitely an interesting twist but the art, music and just tone of the series just makes it a must watch series.
Canaan: Is probably second on the must watch anime list of mine. It's got girls, guns and a guy who likes getting shot with a soft air gun just a bit to much, if you know what I mean. I've been looking forward to this one ever since I heard about it many moons ago and it hasn't disappointed at all. Reminds me a lot about Ghost In the Shell, different mythos but the gun play and animation looks so familiar and just so spectacular.
Fight Ippatsu! Ju-den Chan: Just a fun little guilty pleasure for the summer. Lots of fanservice and lots of lost body fluids by the girls makes it just a bit weird but it's a fun little romp with girls from a different dimension charging up depressed humans only to find out one human can see them and not only that but he also likes to knock them out of the "ball park" with a baseball bat. It really is just so far a mindless turn off the brain and enjoy the bouncing goodness.
Needless: Not as much as a guilty pleasure as Fight Ippatsu! is there is still a great amount of fanservice, comedy and crazy outlandish fighting with insanely superpowered humans that I just haven't seen in a while so it's a fun to watch series even if there isn't a lot of substance to the series.
Princess Lover!: An eroge turned anime series it's a fanservice rich show just minus the good fanservice. Probably looking for clean up with the uncensored DVD sales of the title it was a good looking series I got all of one episode watched before everything went to hell so while I did enjoy the first episode I might as well just wait for someone to sub the DVD releases instead.
Sea Story: Yet another guilty pleasure series with how much fanservice it has in the two episodes that I've seen so that may taint the review just a bit but it's proven to be interesting enough to want to keep watching even if you discount the fanservice so that's something right. Actually this one might fall more on the back burner since it's been out more than the rest and I only watched two episodes.
Spice and Wolf II: One of the more highly anticipated releases of the summer for me was the continuation of the much loved Spice and Wolf series. Pretty much taking off from where we last saw them Horro and Lawrence are still on their journey to get to Horro's home land. Pretty much the same as the first season with new issues and bad guys.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2: OK who hasn't heard about the insanity that is the endless 8 by now. Even I have and I'm only at episode 6 of this new season so yeah it's just more Haruhi and gang doing their thing. And I'm still going to watch it regardless of that endless eight stuff.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: Talk about some bad timing. Shortly after this started airing Japan has been hit by several earthquakes thankfully nothing like on the scale of this anime though. I've only seen a couple episodes and I just have to say it's definitely not your typical run of the mill anime show but it is so far interesting and timely to say the least.
When Seagulls Cry: Last but not least the interesting murder mystery show makes an appearance yet again only a few episodes in and it's pretty good on the whole murder mystery part so it might just be rather entertaining and mind provoking which is how I like my murder mystery shows.
Now that I've written that all out holy hanna that is a lot of anime series that I picked up to watch for summer, of course I'm not even watching any of it at the moment. Interesting however that there is definitely a good deal more fanservice series, just a bit toned down from Queen's Blade levels thankfully, this season. Also this summer season just seemed packed with good stuff to watch and I hope I get my HDD fixed and up and running so that I can get my butt in gear and get some stuff watched. Thankfully a lot of these are rather short series but then I also have all that other anime from the previous season as well too. So much good anime to watch so little time.
Go figure right all the good stuff comes out when I can't see it. This is why anime fans who don't illegally watch fansubbs have such a hard time when they know there is kick ass stuff but they don't want to do something illegal and instead have to wait months and years in the hopes that they will be able to see it as well. It's freaking annoying as hell. But enough about my damn woes of late lets check out some of the cool stuff that I've found.
Bakemonogatari: Seems to be the break out hit of the season being a supernatural rom-com sort of thing. I got 3 episodes in and miss it so much that I'm almost driven to install BT software on the work computers just to get that series. It's an interesting talking series so far but the humor is just so out there that you don't mind the talking and it caries it's own action. The supernatural part is definitely an interesting twist but the art, music and just tone of the series just makes it a must watch series.
Canaan: Is probably second on the must watch anime list of mine. It's got girls, guns and a guy who likes getting shot with a soft air gun just a bit to much, if you know what I mean. I've been looking forward to this one ever since I heard about it many moons ago and it hasn't disappointed at all. Reminds me a lot about Ghost In the Shell, different mythos but the gun play and animation looks so familiar and just so spectacular.
Fight Ippatsu! Ju-den Chan: Just a fun little guilty pleasure for the summer. Lots of fanservice and lots of lost body fluids by the girls makes it just a bit weird but it's a fun little romp with girls from a different dimension charging up depressed humans only to find out one human can see them and not only that but he also likes to knock them out of the "ball park" with a baseball bat. It really is just so far a mindless turn off the brain and enjoy the bouncing goodness.
Needless: Not as much as a guilty pleasure as Fight Ippatsu! is there is still a great amount of fanservice, comedy and crazy outlandish fighting with insanely superpowered humans that I just haven't seen in a while so it's a fun to watch series even if there isn't a lot of substance to the series.
Princess Lover!: An eroge turned anime series it's a fanservice rich show just minus the good fanservice. Probably looking for clean up with the uncensored DVD sales of the title it was a good looking series I got all of one episode watched before everything went to hell so while I did enjoy the first episode I might as well just wait for someone to sub the DVD releases instead.
Sea Story: Yet another guilty pleasure series with how much fanservice it has in the two episodes that I've seen so that may taint the review just a bit but it's proven to be interesting enough to want to keep watching even if you discount the fanservice so that's something right. Actually this one might fall more on the back burner since it's been out more than the rest and I only watched two episodes.
Spice and Wolf II: One of the more highly anticipated releases of the summer for me was the continuation of the much loved Spice and Wolf series. Pretty much taking off from where we last saw them Horro and Lawrence are still on their journey to get to Horro's home land. Pretty much the same as the first season with new issues and bad guys.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2: OK who hasn't heard about the insanity that is the endless 8 by now. Even I have and I'm only at episode 6 of this new season so yeah it's just more Haruhi and gang doing their thing. And I'm still going to watch it regardless of that endless eight stuff.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: Talk about some bad timing. Shortly after this started airing Japan has been hit by several earthquakes thankfully nothing like on the scale of this anime though. I've only seen a couple episodes and I just have to say it's definitely not your typical run of the mill anime show but it is so far interesting and timely to say the least.
When Seagulls Cry: Last but not least the interesting murder mystery show makes an appearance yet again only a few episodes in and it's pretty good on the whole murder mystery part so it might just be rather entertaining and mind provoking which is how I like my murder mystery shows.
Now that I've written that all out holy hanna that is a lot of anime series that I picked up to watch for summer, of course I'm not even watching any of it at the moment. Interesting however that there is definitely a good deal more fanservice series, just a bit toned down from Queen's Blade levels thankfully, this season. Also this summer season just seemed packed with good stuff to watch and I hope I get my HDD fixed and up and running so that I can get my butt in gear and get some stuff watched. Thankfully a lot of these are rather short series but then I also have all that other anime from the previous season as well too. So much good anime to watch so little time.
