Camarilla: 2009 Summer Overview
Alright, I found myself with so much to say on Azarius’s post that I decided I needed to make one myself, so here we go.
High Priority (From Highest to lowest in the High) |
| Spice and Wolf II |
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| I had to put this as my highest priority, I absolutely loved the first series and from what I can tell of 00 and 01 it looks like II will be more of the same. There is something about the relationship between the characters that I find very appealing, I love the medieval economic discussions as well. The studio animating it got changed, though the voice staff was kept. The change really isn’t noticeable. I am looking forward to this show each week more than any other. Also, Horo teasing Lawrence is just plain cute. |
| Umineko No Naku Koro Ni |
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| This one, I will be comparing to Higurashi constantly, so it probably won’t be good for me to watch it as it airs, but I will anyway. I am wondering with the completely different story lines I can make a judgment on which I like best in the end. In any case, the first episode was not nearly as good as ep 1 of Higurashi for the obvious reason, but episode 2 was easily better in Umineko. It should be interesting to see this show continue. |
| Aoi Hana |
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| Yeah yeah, I know putting a yuri anime on my high priority list is weird, but completely apart from the yuri overtones, this show is a very good romance. Probably better than I have seen in quite awhile. I feel in love with it from the first episode, very fun show to watch. |
| Taishou Yakyuu Musume |
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| I know I am going to get hell for saying this, but I think this show is atleast 10x better than cross game, I enoyed watching cross game, but I never felt like I needed to support the characters. Here is completely opposite, after I feel in love with the series from the tokyo song in the beginning of the first episode, I knew I would have to watch it, but the rest of that first episode really sold it for me, making me want to see the rest of the series, entirely because I want the girls to suceed |
Medium Priority, I will watch, but not too closely |
| NEEDLESS |
| This is the perfect action series. Also the ed is amazing. |
| Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 |
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| Awesome idea, but I’m not sure it will be implemented very well, stay tuned for this one, it has the potential to be very good or very bad. |
| Princess Lover! |
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| This one is so much better than I thought it would be. I will certainly watch it, but it can’t go with the high priority simply because it is a harem show. |
| Kanamemo |
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| This is an amazingly fun show to watch, I will watch it if only to break up the violence and destruction. |
Low Priority, may or may not watch |
| Bakemonogatari |
| Hmm… This one is a little creepy for my tastes (coming from someone who loved the violence of Higurashi season 1) but I may stick with it, it is an iffy one for now. |
| CANAAN |
| Neat girl assassin show (is my first impression, it may change), but it isn’t high on my list of things to watch, I may save it till all the episodes have aired. |
| Sora no ManiMani |
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| Not sure I want to fit this in, I enjoyed the first episode, but I am not sure I have enough time unfortunately, I will probably watch it anyway. |
Will never watch, due to first episode being terrible |
| I’ll just list these: Umi Monogatari and Fight Ippatsu!!! (WTF), |
Stuff from last season |
| Saki: I am still enjoying watching this one. |
| Shangri-La: Perhaps my favorite from last season, I want to know more about bear girl though. |
| FMA:B have to watch it, though it is supposed to be even longer than the first series. |
***Special note, Zan Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei is airing, I loved the first series, but I have not see the second, so will not be watching Zan.
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Bakemonogatari creepy? Really? Why can I not see this creepiness that everyone else sees inside of animes??? People are saying Umineko is creepy. So…a lot of blood everywhere with a torn face. I call that entertainment dammit! I want to see this creepiness people are talking about as I am utterly bored.
The only thing that is really creepy is a gay guy coming on to me. That could creep me out…
After I watch the first episode of everything else, I may want to yell at you… but I doubt I will care once I get to watching them all…
I bet you are expecting me to yell at you about that baseball anime right? RIGHT?? Well too bad. It isn’t fun if you expect it =P
Blood I couldn’t care less about. The whole food brain thing really creeped me out for some reason… Really love the ed of bakemonogatari, though.
I agree with the Tokyo Magnitude though. The girl is kind of annoying, but so is everyone else. I think it will work out though.
Wej, I think we just hope for too much when it comes to scary and creepy anime. I can say that the food brain in Bakemonogatari was definitely weird and I liked the effect.
I find the girl in Tokyo Magnitude only a little annoying…her parents also seem kinda annoying so I don’t blame her all that much since she has to live with them.
I understand why she was annoying on some parts. Her parents, and most other adults were even more annoying then her. But when 1 adult was nice to her, she was too annoyed to be thankful for it. That is what kindof annoyed me about her.
CANAAN = “girl assassin show”
You haven’t watched much (if any) of it, right? I thought it would be so at first glance – something like Phantom, which I dropped – but the first episode changed my mind entirely.
I have watched the first episode. Too much of the episode was that gun fight in the festival. In a show like CANAAN, I don’t care much about the gunfights, what I want to know more about is the political stuff. I was hoping they would focus more on the different groups(especially cat head people) unfortunately for me they didn’t do much of that, I will continue watching, and will probably change my mind, but for now all I can think of CANAAN as is that gunfight.
I’ve never been too big on gunfights… So CANAAN just isn’t the series for me.
I honestly don’t really like political stuff so it seems right up my alley.