Xebek’s Blog

Well here it is, another anime season is upon us. As has been the case in the past this post isn’t to inform you of what shows are out there as possibilities to watch, but it is really my picks on what shows I will personally be watching and blogging and why. There are plenty of really good posts talking about all the series available out there that you can reference if you are still completely un-informed, but if you care what I’m watching, this is the post. I will be having Xeby-chan’s personal comments on the shows; she said she has to be a part of this too.

For the most part this season isn’t very impressive. In fact it is one of the most uninteresting seasons of anime I’ve seen since I started watching anime as it aired in Japan. Still there are a couple of series I’ll be blogging just because they are there pretty much, anyways here they are.

As was the case with last season I have decided to break up the shows I watch into normal posts and “Quick Posts” For quick pots I wont post on every episode, only on episodes that were particularly funny or did something interesting, or perhaps the series suddenly changed direction. They won’t have full screencaps and such like that but I’ll still give my initial and final impressions, as well as the occasional posts along the way on how the series is doing. I was a bit lax with this last season but I’ll try and do better with the new season and doing the occasional poss.

Normal Posts:

H20 Footprints in the Sand

H20 ROCKS YOUR SOUL! That’s all I should really have to say about this show. I laughed so hard after watching the promo for this that I could watch it over and over again and continually laugh when the narrator said H20 ROCKS YOUR SOUL. Aside form that though I’d still watch it. As I’ve said before I’m a huge fan of eroge adaptation anime. Not that I’m saying they are all good but I like watching them.

True Tears

If only ^

I am a bit disappointed I have to say. I was looking forward to this show for a long time because I’ve had a picture of the main girl form the game on my bulletin board. From the ad for the actual game so I was expecting the anime to be like a normal school comedy romance, even though those aren’t that unique I still like watching them. However this seems to be a lot different. Still, it seems like a romance anime and really there isn’t that much else.

Rosario + Vampire

This anime is obviously going to be full to the brim with ecchi type comedy. However that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think this show will be a great show to watch. Not all shows have to be super amazing and epic, something that has good ecchi comedy will be FUN to watch and this looks like a great one.

Quick Posts:

Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de

I’m a bit unsure of how this show will turn out. From just the premise it doesn’t seem like it will be a really stand up great show, it seems as if it will be a bit low brow but as I said with Rosario, that’s not bad.

Minami-ke: Okawari

This just seems odd. I have been watching and absolutely loving the first series and even though I’m not fully blogging it, I am quick post blogging it. For the most part it’s episodic and hard to say much meaningful in each post so that’s why this series is also only a quick one. Hopefully I’ll be able to say more about this series by just comparing it to the first one. I doubt this will be as good and I’m really unsure of what they are doing with the age swap with Kana and Chiaki. I don’t’ think they are doing that though – from the pictures Chiaki still is wearing an elementary school backpack, but we’ll see.

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For the most part I’m taking a rather light load. There are still several fall seasons that I am fully blogging that are ongoing so I’ll have more then just these to worry about. Also as I said there isn’t too terribly much that is that good.

There are two more shows that I will be watching and blogging about but they are a bit different from the other series so I’m listing them separately. The Kimi ga Nozomu Eien OVA and the Ah! My Goddess OVA. They have already aired at least one episode so it’s a bit unsure of if they are really in the “winter season” Plus, they are OVAs so their release schedule isn’t necessarily normal. I’m doing KGNE because I think it’s interesting to have an alternate ending be an entire OVA series, and AMG because I’m a fan.

I will say a quick thing about two shows I didn’t include, Aria and Gunslinger Girl. Oddly enough these two seem to be the most promising of the new season yet I’m not going to be watching them mainly because I haven’t really watched the other season of these. Yes I know I know, what am I thinking. I plan on watching them, they are downloaded and sitting on my hard drive by I literally have, no exaggeration, terabytes of anime unwatched sitting on external hard drives so I’ll get there eventually. Anyways, just my explanation for not picking those shows.