January 11, 2013

Quick notes for the season

Still alive! Been kept busy with vacation, with an old cutesy MMO, and with lots and lots of work (promotion good, insane OT not so good.)

Lately on the anime radar:

-Chuunibyou, still have a few eps to finish out. Much better than I anticipated from the concept. Probably helps if at one point you've had a rich internal fantasy life of your own, though hopefully one you didn't share with people to this degree.

-Maoyuu, ep 2 just hit Crunchy. I've liked it ever since I stumbled across one of the manga series a year ago. It's a send-up of the traditional fantasy genre, but at the same time gets into the details of medieval economics. Think Spice and Wolf meets Dragon Quest written by Milton Friedman. The demon "king" has a refreshing distrust of top-down solutions imposed by government!

-Polar Bear is Polar Bear. At this point you should know if the puns work for you or not...

-Watched some Pet Girl of Sakurasou with the girlfriend. Was worried that it was going to be pretty creepy; the entire hook is that the protagonist is caring for a girl who needs to be reminded to do things like dress and eat. But it comes off as sweet, partly because the girl isn't retarded, just detached, but still human for all that... and the creepy is drowned out by the wacky ensemble anyway.

-Tried an ep of Mangirl and it was kind of... eh. Inside baseball jokes for manga publishers. Maybe if you've got five minutes to kill...

-...and you already watched Senyu, another fantasy parody that's much more entertaining. Lotta RPG jokes in this one, it'll be interesting to see if it can retain the funny.

-Tried an ep of Ishida and Asakura, another short (Crunchy really got a load of them this season, huh?) Wasn't impressed. The Cromartie vibe just isn't there.

Still to watch from this season: Encouragement of Climb (gack, gotta love Japanese-translated titles), Vividread (you can't describe a show as "Strike Witches meets Nanoha" and not have me interested!), Tamako Market, more Shin Sekai Yori, more Magi.

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1 More like Strike Witches meets Nanoha meets GaoGaiGar, with a bit of Guily Crown for seasoning. (noting the character designer)


-G

Posted by: firemage at January 24, 2013 11:39 AM (eKigS)

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